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Trendell, Elizabeth. "Living wages in society and literature." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/1422360.
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Rasbash, Joel Mark. "Disaster and society in early Icelandic literature." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401627.
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Bolland, Christopher J. "Reading Francoist Spain : literature and society, 1939-1966 /." Title page and contents only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arb691.pdf.
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Fowler, Adrian. "Distinct society: Cultural identity in twentieth-century Newfoundland literature." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28954.
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This thesis examines selected representations of Newfoundland cultural identity in twentieth century Newfoundland literature from Norman Duncan, E. J. Pratt and George Allan England to Bernice Morgan, Patrick Kavanagh and Wayne Johnston. The discussion is located within a broad context of popular and scholarly writings on the subject and a conceptual framework influenced by Benedict Anderson's book Imagined Communities and Seamus Heaney's essay "The Sense of Place." Nineteenth century attempts to maintain the distinctiveness of Newfoundland identity were politically motivated by advocates of home rule, civil liberties and sovereignty, and constituted part of the rhetoric and mobilization that resulted in responsible government and dominion status for the colony. In the twentieth century, a variety of writers addressed the subject, some from the perspective of visitors, others from the perspective of residents. Early in the century, this resulted in representations in the heroic mode that focussed upon the struggle of outport Newfoundlanders to wrest a living from the sea. At mid-century, this myth of heroic Newfoundland was supplanted by the romantic myth of the old outport in which the community life of Newfoundland coastal villages was recorded and extolled. By the 1970s, the outports had become symbolic of Newfoundland but by this time they were also beset by enormous changes brought about by the Second World War, Confederation with Canada, and government policies of industrialization and resettlement. Some writers responded by intensifying explorations of the cultural roots of the province in the traditional life, others addressed the challenges of the present, which included issues of neo-colonialism and economic imperialism as well as cultural dislocation. In all of this, Newfoundland writers contributed in significant ways to the imagining of their community and the survival of a country of the mind.
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Unnold, Yvonne Sabine. "Representing the unrepresentable : literature of trauma in Chile /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6648.
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Weimer, David E. "Protestant Institutionalism: Religion, Literature, and Society After the State Church." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493395.
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Even as the Church of England lost ground to political dissent and New England gradually disestablished its state churches early in the nineteenth century, writers on both sides of the debates about church establishments maintained their belief in religion’s role as a moral guide for individuals and the state. “Protestant Institutionalism” argues that writers—from Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe to George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell—imagined through literature the institutions that would produce a religiously sound society as established churches began to lose their authority. Drawing on novels and poems as well as sermons and tracts about how religion might exist apart from the state, I argue that these authors both understood society in terms of institutions and also used their literature to imagine the institutions—such as family, denomination, and nation—that would provide society with a stable foundation. This institutional thinking about society escapes any literary history that accepts Protestant individualism as a given. In fact, although the US and England maintained different relationships between church and state, British authors often looked to US authors for help imagining the society that new forms of religion might produce precisely in terms of these institutions. In the context of disestablishment we can see how the literature of the nineteenth century—and nineteenth-century novels in particular—was about more than the fate of the individual in society. In fact, to different degrees for each author, individual development actually relies on the proper understanding of the individual’s relationship to institutions and the role those institutions play in supporting society<br>English
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Goodson, Lori Ann Atkins. "Protagonists in young adult literature and their reflection of society /." Search for this dissertation online, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ksu/main.
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Berman, Whitney Elizabeth. "Archival Literature: Analysis of the Evolution of "American Archivist."." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/74.
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This paper is a content analysis of the "American Archivist," the journal of the "Society of American Archivists." Eight volumes of the journal were analyzed to review the decade by decade thematic and structural evolution of the journal from its foundation in 1938 to the present. Analysis was conducted to determine if the journal had fulfilled its initial requirement “to be as useful as possible to all members of the profession.”
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Souza, Renato de [UNESP]. "O ‘caso Ferréz’: um estudo sobre a nova literatura marginal." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94076.
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souza_r_me_assis.pdf: 639973 bytes, checksum: e719312b48d896ce4301d356e13ee3c5 (MD5)<br>Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)<br>Busca-se, neste trabalho, apresentar um estudo sobre as obras Capão Pecado, Manual prático do ódio, Amanhecer Esmeralda, e Ninguém é inocente em São Paulo, de Reginaldo Ferreira da Silva, o Ferréz, pelo aspecto que nos parece mais determinante em relação à sua composição: o registro de temas e de recursos formais da chamada “nova literatura marginal”, considerando-a inserida num estilo literário marcado pelo diálogo do discurso literário e de outros discursos originários de áreas de comunicação distintas, como a da atividade jornalística e da Sociologia, por exemplo; o estudo é ainda uma proposta de reflexão e de redefinição do conceito de literatura marginal, com base na produção de um estilo literário crítico das produções simbólicas hegemônicas na sociedade, localizado às margens de padrões estéticos (e ideológicos) da chamada literatura clássica ou tradicional<br>This work seeks to introduce a study on the literary works Capão Pecado, Manual prático do ódio, Amanhecer Esmeralda and Ninguém é inocente em São Paulo, by Reginaldo Ferreira da Silva, the Ferréz, for the aspect which seems determinant in relation to its composition: themes and formal resources record from the called “new marginal literature”, considering it inserted in a literary style featuring the dialog of literary discourse and other discourses from distinct communication areas, for instance the journalism and Sociology; the study still is a proposal of reflection and redefinition of the marginal literature concept, based on creating a critic literary style of the simbolic hegemonic productions in society, placed at the margins of aesthetic (and ideologic) patterns of the called classic or traditional literature
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Burnett, Mark Thornton. "Masters and servants in English literature and society, c. 1580-c. 1642." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361756.
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Benevenuto, Silvana José [UNESP]. "A escrita como arma: uma análise do pensamento social na literatura marginal." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/88760.
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benevenuto_sj_me_mar.pdf: 906090 bytes, checksum: f20b6718fa3af4f6ff286185425db96f (MD5)<br>O presente trabalho analisa a coletânea Literatura marginal: talentos da escrita periférica (2005). Organizada por Ferréz, um dos mais importantes idealizadores deste projeto literário e responsável pela rubrica Literatura Marginal, que nomeia a obra, tem o peso de lançar em livro onze autores, incluindo o organizador, alguns deles completamente desconhecidos pelo público nacional. Interessa-nos discutir o que escreve e o que pensa este narrador que se autodefine “marginal” e, com isso, colocar em evidência sua visão de mundo, o que, segundo entendemos, pode ser apreendido não restritamente naquilo que discursam, mas sim a partir da análise da relação existente entre o conteúdo e a forma desta manifestação literária. Mais que os escritores, estamos propondo pensar a própria narrativa como expressão de um coletivo, de um grupo que em comum traz consigo a condição de ser morador de periferia e acreditar que as letras podem ser uma arma. Para combater o quê e a quem? É a pergunta que norteia esta nossa análise e que nos faz dedicar a uma discussão sobre o narrador desta literatura. Destaca-se a forma que a própria matéria literária assume quando, em alguns momentos, o narrador elabora um discurso “violento” em contrarresposta à violência sofrida, ou, ainda, quando deixa suscitar a noção de destino como explicação para uma situação ao qual se vê submetido. Para tanto, a literatura é pensada a partir de sua relação com a matéria social, particularmente a violência, discutindo a intersecção entre literatura e sociedade.<br>This work analyses the collections: Literatura marginal: talentos da escrita periférica (2005). Organized by Ferréz, one of the most important idealizer of this literary project and responsible for the rubric Marginal which nominates the work, it has the charge to release a book with eleven authors, including the organizer, some of them totally unknown by the national public. We are interested in discussing what is completely written and what this narrator that defines himself as “marginal” thinks. With that, we want to put in evidence his world‟s view, something that, according to our understanding, can be comprehended not only with what they argue, but also from the analysis of the connection between the content and the shape of this literary manifestation. We are proposing the thinking of the narrative as an expression of the group that brings the condition of living in the periphery and the believing that literature can be a gun. To fight against what and whom? These are the questions that guide our analysis and that make us dedicate ourselves to a discussion about the narrator of this literature. It is distinguished the way that the literary subject assume sometimes, when the narrator develops a “violent” speech answering back the violence he has suffered, or, when he gives rises to the notion of destiny as an explanation for a situation in which he is evolved. For that, the literature is thought from its relation with the social matter, particularly the violence, discussing the intersection between the literature and the society.
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Disque, J. Graham, and Mary R. Langenbrunner. "Children's Literature As A Resource for Enhancing Self-Concept." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1997. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/3506.
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Hope, Jacquie. "Green trends in East Germany : critiques of modern industrial society in GDR literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.357351.
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Constable, Philip. "From Bhakti to Buddhism : early Dalit literature and ideology, 1888-1956." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343511.
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Avis, Robert John Roy. "The social mythology of medieval Icelandic literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2837907c-57c8-4438-8380-d5c8ba574efd.
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This thesis argues that the corpus of Old Norse-Icelandic literature which pertains to Iceland contains an intertextual narrative of the formation of Icelandic identity. An analysis of this narrative provides an opportunity to examine the relationship between literature and identity, as well as the potency of the artistic use of the idea of the past. The thesis identifies three salient narratives of communal action which inform the development of a discrete Icelandic identity, and which are examined in turn in the first three chapters of the thesis. The first is the landnám, the process of settlement itself; the second, the origin and evolution of the law; and the third, the assimilation and adaptation of Christianity. Although the roots of these narratives are doubtless historical, the thesis argues that their primary roles in the literature are as social myths, narratives whose literal truth- value is immaterial, but whose cultural symbolism is of overriding importance. The fourth chapter examines the depiction of the Icelander abroad, and uses the idiom of the relationship between þáttr (‘tale’) and surrounding text in the compilation of sagas of Norwegian kings Morkinskinna to consider the wider implications of the relationship between Icelandic and Norwegian identities. Finally, the thesis concludes with an analysis of the role of Sturlunga saga within this intertextual narrative, and its function as a set of narratives mediating between an identity grounded in social autonomy and one grounded in literature. The Íslendingasögur or ‘family sagas’ constitute the core of the thesis’s primary sources, for their subject-matter is focussed on the literary depiction of the Icelandic society under scrutiny. In order to demonstrate a continuity of engagement with ideas of identity across genres, a sample of other Icelandic texts are examined which depict Iceland or Icelanders, especially when in interaction with non-Icelandic characters or polities.
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Thompson, Julian. "Anthony Trollope's critical perspective on society." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314458.
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Loewen, Arley. "The concept of jaw¢anmard¢i (manliness) in Persian literature and society." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ58630.pdf.
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Feng, Dongning. "Text, politics and society : literature as political philosophy in post-Mao China." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2216.
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The purpose of this study is to arrive at a critical overview of politics and literature in the Chinese context. The relationship has increasingly become a "field" of studies and theoretical inquiry that most scholars in either disciplines are wary to tread. This thesis tries to venture into this problematic field by a theoretical examination as well as an empirical critique of Chinese literature and politics, where the relationship seems even more paradoxical, but adds more insight into the argument. The Introduction and Chapter One set up a framework by asking some general but fundamental questions: what literature is, and how it is to be related to politics. Chapter Two examines the historical function of literature and Chinese writers in society to establish the basis of argument in the Chinese context. Chapter Three focuses the discussion on the relationship between politics and literature during the Mao era and after. Chapters Four analyses the literary works published during the post-Mao period to establish the argument that literature, as part of our perception of the world, is most concerned with human society and social amelioration and participates in the socio-political development by contributing to it through a discourse that is otherwise inaccessible. Chapter Five explores the argument further by extending it into the field of cinema, which basically comes from the same narrative tradition of prose literature, but offers a wider and different dimension to the argument pursued. Chapter Six and the Conclusion try to draw together the argument by examining literature as both form and content to argue how and why literature is related to politics and how it has functioned in a political manner in Chinese society. To summarise, Chinese literature in this period will b& shown to be involved In a process of political reform and development by way of bringing the reader to participate in a critical and philosophical dialogue with power, history and future. In the long run, it offers emancipating visions and possibilities revealed to the reader in ways that are historical, developmental, philosophical and comparative. This study focuses on the prose fiction published in this period, for it is the leading force in China's cultural development and constitutes the major trunk of the modern Chinese canon. In addition, the research also extends to drama and films, and the way they, together with prose fiction, make up the most popular perception and intellectual discovery of contemporary Chinese society and politics and best inform the argument of the study of politics and literature.
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Amaral, André Pereira do. "Manifesto pela escritura poética /." São Paulo, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/154508.
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Orientador(a): Luiza Helena da Silva Christov<br>Banca: Ana Luiza Marcondes Garcia<br>Banca: Rita Luciana Berti Bredariolli<br>Resumo: A presente pesquisa-manifesto, escrita por um poeta-pesquisador, é dividida em capítulos pares (normativos) e capítulos ímpares (narrativos) que são sintetizados nos enunciados do manifesto. Estabelece o conceito de profanas escrituras como forma de resistir à gramática do poder e analisa o que fundamenta a escritura poética. Propõe o ensino do letramento poético e da alfabetização autoral no combate a sub-alfabetização e marca a importância da literatura ser lecionada como arte. Por fim, traz relatos de experiências educativas com diferentes grupos em equipamentos culturais da periferia de São Paulo<br>Resumen: La presente investigación-manifiesto, escrita por un poeta-investigador es dividida en capítulos pares (normativos) y capítulos impares (narrativos) que se sintetizan en los enunciados del manifiesto. Establece el concepto de profanas escrituras como forma de resistir a la gramática del poder y analiza lo que fundamenta la escritura poética. Propone la enseñanza del alfabetismo poético y de la alfabetización autoral en el combate a la sub-alfabetización y marca la importancia de la literatura ser enseñada como arte. Por fin, trae relatos de experiencias educativas con diferentes grupos en equipamientos culturales de la periferia de São Paulo<br>Mestre
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Salvi, Marcella. "Escenas en conflicto : un estudio de los márgenes del teatro barroco en España e Italia /." view abstract or download file of text, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3045093.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 206-227). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Bertram, Benjamin Glenn. "Skepticism and social struggle in early modern England /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9804020.
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Souza, Rosa Maria Laquimia de. "Similaridades e diferenças: o negro nos Estados Unidos da América e no Brasil segundo Alice Walker e Conceição Evaristo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-17082009-143956/.
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Os Estados Unidos da América e o Brasil são países que durante séculos fizeram uso intenso da mão-de-obra escrava, trazida de diferentes regiões da África. Após a Abolição da Escravidão os dois países adotaram políticas diferentes de relações raciais, com conseqüências devastadoras para os ex-escravos e seus descendentes. Alice Walker e Conceição Evaristo, autoras afro-americana e afro-brasileira, respectivamente, apresentam em seus romances uma análise das relações étnicas em seus países, apontando a origem dos problemas da população negra e propondo soluções para os mesmos. Através de uma análise comparativa dos dois romances The third life of Grange Copeland e Ponciá Vicêncio - sob a ótica da crítica literária marxista, este trabalho propõe-se a apresentar os pontos em comum e os pontos divergentes entre as duas sociedades. Norteada pela relação entre literatura, história e sociedade, a análise das duas obras vem demonstrar que, embora aparentemente antagônicos, os dois países são extremamente racistas, dominados por relações de opressão derivadas de um sistema econômico regido pelo consumo e pelo lucro, e de uma cultura que não aceita a diferença no caso dos Estados Unidos, declaradamente, e no caso do Brasil, mascarada pela imagem de paraíso racial. Como conseqüência, verifica-se que a cultura opressora dos dois países é tão arraigada que ambas as autoras não conseguem vislumbrar uma solução plausível para o problema, que consiga fugir dos conceitos sócio-políticos solidamente erigidos através dos séculos.<br>The United States of America and Brazil made use of African slave labour for centuries. After the end of the slavery system both countries adopted different racial policies, with devastating consequences both to ex-slaves and their descendents. Alice Walker and Conceição Evaristo, afro-American and afro-Brazilian writers, respectively, present in their novels an analysis of the ethnical relations in their countries, pointing out the origin of the Black community problems and proposing a way to solve them. Through the comparative analysis of both novels - The third life of Grange Copeland and Ponciá Vicêncio - under the Marxist literary criticism approach, this study aims at presenting both the common and the different aspects of the two societies. Centred on the relationship among literature, history and society, the analysis of both works demonstrates that, although apparently unlike, the two countries are extremely racist, permeated by oppressive relations derived from an economical system guided by consumerism and profit, and by a culture which does not accept difference openly in The United States of America, and, in Brazil, disguised under the image of racial paradise. As a consequence, it becomes clear that the oppressive culture of both countries is so deeply rooted that neither writer is able to find a plausible solution to the problem, one that could escape from the socio-political concepts solidly built through centuries.
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Zhou, Xiaoyi. "Beyond aestheticism : Oscar Wilde and consumer society." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335351.
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McKeown, Francis S. "Barnabe Googe : poetry and society in the 1560s." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286832.
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Souza, Renato de. "O 'caso Ferréz' : um estudo sobre a nova literatura marginal /." Assis : [s.n.], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94076.
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Orientador: Gilberto Figueiredo Martins<br>Banca: Luiz Roberto Velloso Cairo<br>Banca: Arnaldo Franco Júnior<br>Resumo: Busca-se, neste trabalho, apresentar um estudo sobre as obras Capão Pecado, Manual prático do ódio, Amanhecer Esmeralda, e Ninguém é inocente em São Paulo, de Reginaldo Ferreira da Silva, o Ferréz, pelo aspecto que nos parece mais determinante em relação à sua composição: o registro de temas e de recursos formais da chamada "nova literatura marginal", considerando-a inserida num estilo literário marcado pelo diálogo do discurso literário e de outros discursos originários de áreas de comunicação distintas, como a da atividade jornalística e da Sociologia, por exemplo; o estudo é ainda uma proposta de reflexão e de redefinição do conceito de literatura marginal, com base na produção de um estilo literário crítico das produções simbólicas hegemônicas na sociedade, localizado às margens de padrões estéticos (e ideológicos) da chamada literatura clássica ou tradicional<br>Abstract: This work seeks to introduce a study on the literary works Capão Pecado, Manual prático do ódio, Amanhecer Esmeralda and Ninguém é inocente em São Paulo, by Reginaldo Ferreira da Silva, the Ferréz, for the aspect which seems determinant in relation to its composition: themes and formal resources record from the called "new marginal literature", considering it inserted in a literary style featuring the dialog of literary discourse and other discourses from distinct communication areas, for instance the journalism and Sociology; the study still is a proposal of reflection and redefinition of the marginal literature concept, based on creating a critic literary style of the simbolic hegemonic productions in society, placed at the margins of aesthetic (and ideologic) patterns of the called classic or traditional literature<br>Mestre
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Santos, Elisângela da Silva [UNESP]. "Monteiro Lobato e suas seis personagens em busca da nação." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/96147.
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santos_es_me_mar.pdf: 671842 bytes, checksum: 08c3997f5e79910a8236b5772e594bab (MD5)<br>Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)<br>A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo perceber qual seria o “projeto” de nação – compreende-se nação como um projeto político social – na obra destinada ao público infantil de Monteiro Lobato (1882-1948), conhecida também como uma literatura pedagógica. Neste sentido, acreditamos na possibilidade de o autor ser visto como integrante da galeria dos nossos pensadores sociais, pois nossa hipótese é que em seu gênero literário infantil ressoa uma visão de país, um diagnóstico e um projeto de futuro para o Brasil. Desta forma, colocamos em discussão a possibilidade de tomar esta literatura como um elemento de compreensão da realidade social brasileira a partir da qual foi composta (nos anos 20 e 30 do século passado). Assim, pretendemos ver na obra de Lobato uma crítica à sociedade em que vivia, enquanto escritor que além de estar preocupado com as questões estéticas e lingüísticas do seu tempo, sempre esteve atento também em formular críticas à nossa “parasitia intelectual”, aos intelectuais e a elite que, segundo ele, assistia de braços cruzados aos diversos problemas de ordem social política e econômica, sem propor alternativas de mudanças.<br>This research aims to discern what would be the project of nation - we understand nation as a social political project - in the work dedicated to Monteiro Lobato's young public ( 1882- 1948 ), also known as a pedagogic literature. Therein, we believe in the possibility of the author be seen as a member of our social thinkers group, since our hypothesis is that in his juvenile literary gender there is a country vision, a diagnostic and a future project to Brazil. Therefore, we take in discussing the possibility of considering this literature as an element to understand the Brazilian social reality that was constituted in the twenties and thirties years of the last century. We intend to see in Monteiro Lobato's work, one critic of the society that he lived, like a writer that besides being worried about the esthetics and linguistics questions of his time was also always ready to formulate critics, to the intellectuals and to the elite that, according to him, were just observing the social, economical and political problems without proposing any changing alternatives.
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Santos, Elisângela da Silva. "Monteiro Lobato e suas seis personagens em busca da nação /." Marília : [s.n.], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/96147.
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Orientador: Célia Aparecida Ferreira Tolentino<br>Banca: Odair da Cruz Paiva<br>Banca: elide Rugai Bastos<br>Resumo: A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo perceber qual seria o "projeto" de nação - compreende-se nação como um projeto político social - na obra destinada ao público infantil de Monteiro Lobato (1882-1948), conhecida também como uma literatura pedagógica. Neste sentido, acreditamos na possibilidade de o autor ser visto como integrante da galeria dos nossos pensadores sociais, pois nossa hipótese é que em seu gênero literário infantil ressoa uma visão de país, um diagnóstico e um projeto de futuro para o Brasil. Desta forma, colocamos em discussão a possibilidade de tomar esta literatura como um elemento de compreensão da realidade social brasileira a partir da qual foi composta (nos anos 20 e 30 do século passado). Assim, pretendemos ver na obra de Lobato uma crítica à sociedade em que vivia, enquanto escritor que além de estar preocupado com as questões estéticas e lingüísticas do seu tempo, sempre esteve atento também em formular críticas à nossa "parasitia intelectual", aos intelectuais e a elite que, segundo ele, assistia de braços cruzados aos diversos problemas de ordem social política e econômica, sem propor alternativas de mudanças.<br>Abstract: This research aims to discern what would be the "project" of nation - we understand nation as a social political project - in the work dedicated to Monteiro Lobato's young public ( 1882- 1948 ), also known as a pedagogic literature. Therein, we believe in the possibility of the author be seen as a member of our social thinkers group, since our hypothesis is that in his juvenile literary gender there is a country vision, a diagnostic and a future project to Brazil. Therefore, we take in discussing the possibility of considering this literature as an element to understand the Brazilian social reality that was constituted in the twenties and thirties years of the last century. We intend to see in Monteiro Lobato's work, one critic of the society that he lived, like a writer that besides being worried about the esthetics and linguistics questions of his time was also always ready to formulate critics, to the intellectuals and to the elite that, according to him, were just observing the social, economical and political problems without proposing any changing alternatives.<br>Mestre
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Hallim, Robyn. "Marie Corelli science, society and the best seller /." University of Sydney. English, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/521.
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Issues which faced Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries include the effects of new scientific theories on traditional religious belief, the impact of technological innovation, the implications of mass literacy and the changing role of women. This thesis records how such issues are reflected in contemporary literature, focusing on the emergence of popular culture and the best seller, a term which conflates author and novel. The first English best seller was Marie Corelli and, by way of introduction, Part I offers a summary of her life and her novels and a critical overview of her work. Part II of the thesis examines how the theory of evolution undermined traditional religious belief and prompted the search for a new creed able to defy materialism and reconcile science and religion. Contemporary literature mirrors the consequent interest in spiritualism during the 1890s and the period immediately following the Great War, and critical readings of Corelli�s A Romance of Two Worlds and The Life Everlasting demonstrate that these novels - which form the nucleus of her personal theology, the Electric Creed - are based on selections from the New Testament, occultism and, in particular, science and spiritualism. Part III of the thesis looks at the emergence of �the woman question�, the corresponding backlash by conservatives and the ways in which these conflicting views are explored in the popular literature of the time. A critical examination of the novella, My Wonderful Wife, reveals how Corelli uses social Darwinism in an ambivalent critique of the New Woman. Several of Corelli�s essays are discussed, showing that her views about the role of women were complex. A critical analysis of The Secret Power engages with Corelli�s peculiar kind of feminism, which would deny women the vote but envisages female scientists inventing and operating airships in order to secure the future of the human race. Interest in Marie Corelli has re-emerged recently, particularly in occult and feminist circles. Corelli�s immense popularity also makes her an important figure in cultural studies. This thesis adds to the body of knowledge about Corelli in that it consciously endeavours to avoid spiritualist or feminist ideological frameworks, instead using contemporary science as a context for examining her work.
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Chakravorty, Swapan Kumar. "Society and politics in the plays of Thomas Middleton." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315762.
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Khulpateea, Veda Laxmi. "State of the union cross cultural marriages in nineteenth century literature and society /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.
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Harper, Stephen. "The subject of madness : insanity, individuals and society in late-medieval English literature." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1997. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3152/.
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Chapter Three discusses the dream vision of Book I of the Vox Clamantis; it shows how Gower repeats the commonplaces of medieval didactic writers, regarding the peasant insurrection of 1381 as an outbreak of demonic derangement. It is seen that Gower makes use of the 'organic analogy' of society to show this madness as an infection of the entire social body. The sufferings of the nobility at the hands of the rioting mobs are described sympathetically in terms of 'grief-madness'. Thus Gower presents two very different, class-based, attitudes towards insanity. The discussion of Chaucer's Miller's and Summoner's tales in the following chapter continues the investigation of the link between madness and social class. Here it is seen how Chaucer undermines the traditional theological interpretation of madness as a punishment for sin by encouraging comparison and contrast of the many allegations of insanity in the texts. A rather different approach is taken in Chapter Five, which examines the major works of the civil servant Thomas Hoccleve. Far from regarding madness as essentially spectacular, the apparently insane narrator of Hoccleve's major poems stresses that insanity is a hidden and undetectable affliction. This conclusion, it is argued, contradicts the standard view of psychiatric history regarding madness in the Middle Ages. The relationship between madness, expressions of interiority and medieval autobiography is considered. The final chapter explores the association of madness, female unruliness and mystical rapture in The Book of Margery Kempe. It argues that the Book displays two contradictory attitudes towards madness. Kempe is eager to present madness as a moral abomination and she frequently invokes ecclesiastical authority to do so. Nevertheless, she herself is held mad by many of her contemporaries on account of her controversial devotional behaviour; this explains why madness is presented positively elsewhere in the Book, as a blessed condition of increased spiritual insight. In this sense the Book contains a craftily double-edged attempt by Kempe to vindicate her conduct.
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Ross, Charlotte. "Representations of science, literature, technology and society in the works of Primo Levi." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2004. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1220/.
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The thesis tackles two main issues. Part I explores Levi's engagements with the `two cultures' debate concerning the relationship between literature and `science' in postwar culture. Building on existing scholarship, I provide a more comprehensive view of his project to combat the two cultures divide. I contextualize the literature-science debate in Anglophone and Italophone culture, and then investigate dialogues between Levi and his contemporaries (for example, the writer Italo Calvino; the physicist Tullio Regge). Among other theoretical frameworks, I draw on critical approaches to the literature-science relationship and Bahktinian dialogics. Part II analyzes Levi's portrayals and critiques of science and technology as they impact on human life and freedoms, especially his problematizations of relationships between humans and machines in a post-industrial society. This aspect of Levi's work, particularly his representations of bodies and embodiment in a technologized age, has received little critical attention to date. I evaluate Levi's engagements with such issues, focussing also on gender dynamics in his writing about technologically-mediated embodiment. Given the absence of sustained Italophone critical reflection on these questions, I analyze Levi's work in light of recent Anglopone theorizing on posthumanism. I also refer to psychoanalytic approaches to the self. Considering Levi's approach to a series of perceived cultural dialectics-the relationships between science and literature, science and society, human subjects and machines-I argue that his work is characterized by contradiction. He asserts the need to break down cultural and disciplinary boundaries while simultaneously revealing his personal tendency to conceptualize literary and scientific activities, for example, as distinct practices. I conclude that by embracing such contradictions his work highlights areas of difficulty, and, without attempting to offer falsely universal solutions, reminds us of our capacity to maintain-or reclaim-corporeal and epistemological sovereignty of ourselves and our society.
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Raudnitz, Sophie. "Tracing the establishment of political society : remembering and forgetting in ancient Greek literature." Thesis, Open University, 2018. http://oro.open.ac.uk/53658/.
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This thesis explores the connection between memory and the formation of political society in ancient Greek literature. It is grounded in the notion that memory is a political process: its narratives are shaped by the social and political groups to which we belong. In turn, what and how we remember plays a role in shaping and reshaping those same groups. The thesis examines three ‘memory texts’: the Odyssey, which contains a moment in which forgetting is tied explicitly to political progress; the Trojan Women, a play driven by the urge to remember and memorialise as a way of trying to retain political identity; and the Theaetetus, which not only contains the first known attempt to create a model of memory but also ‘remembers’ the Apology. The texts are also united by the theme of the law court which runs through all three in the form of a metaphor, an agōn and an actual law court trial. This provides an opportunity to examine testimony as the communication of memory in a political context. The thesis proposes that an approach informed by the theory of cultural, collective and traumatic memory opens new avenues not only for the analysis of these classical texts but also for considering their cultural and political impact at the time of their creation or performance. It also suggests that such an analysis offers a productive alternative to the traditional, individual-focused study of trauma in literature. It finds that while, in certain ways, memory supports the texts’ dominant or normative narratives, it also provides ways to challenge them. This process of watching or reading with memory is constitutive of skills relating to citizenship and is provocative of debate about the norms and values of society.
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Ruiz, Melissa Salinas. "O trabalho feminino na atualidade: perspectivas a partir do conto Sorte teve a Sandra, de Luiz Ruffato." Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná, 2018. http://tede.unioeste.br/handle/tede/3651.
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Previous issue date: 2018-03-02<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES<br>The literary work integrates culture, relates to the social environment and can be used to question aspects of society. Therefore, this study analyses the tale Sandra was lucky, by Luiz Ruffato, intending to discuss contemporary female workers. The objective of this work is, through the literary analysis, to evidence some of the difficulties faced by women when trying to enter the labor market. To accomplished that, pursues the dialogue between literature, culture, language and society, according to theorist such as Antonio Candido, Mary del Priori and Leyla Perroné-Moisés. Regarding the theme of gender and work, this study follows research by Michelle Perrot, Christina Bruschini, among others. Finally, the literary analyses and resulting problematizations concerning fictional and real aspects of female work are guided by authors Regina Dalcastagnè, Domício Proença Filho and Antoine Compagnon. Concludes that literary representativity of the female worker benefits both literature and society, because allows to problematize and emphasize several society issues.<br>A obra literária, ao integrar a cultura, se vincula à realidade social onde está inserida e pode ser utilizada para problematizar aspectos da sociedade. Desta forma, o estudo contempla o conto Sorte teve a Sandra, de Luiz Ruffato, a fim de discorrer sobre a mulher trabalhadora contemporânea. O objetivo desta proposta é, a partir da obra literária, discutir algumas das dificuldades enfrentadas pelas mulheres na tentativa de se inserir no mercado de trabalho formal. Para tanto, busca o diálogo entre literatura, cultura, linguagem e sociedade a partir dos estudos como os de Antonio Candido, Mary del Priori e Leyla Perroné-Moisés. No que concerne ao tema de trabalho e gênero, orienta-se nas pesquisas de Michelle Perrot, Cristina Bruschini, entre outros. Finalmente, para a análise literária e consequente reflexão sobre a relação entre problemáticas ficcionais e sociais, recorre a Regina Dalcastagnè, Domício Proença Filho e Antoine Compagnon. Conclui que a representatividade literária da mulher trabalhadora é benéfica para a literatura e para a sociedade, já que permite problematizar e evidenciar inúmeras questões reais.
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Singer, Amy Elisabeth. "Under the radar : the subversive work of American children's books, 1930-1980 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8873.
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Woode, Edward Winston Babatunde. "Alterity and hybridity in Anglophone postcolonial literatuare : Ngugi, Achebe, p'Bitek and Nwapa /." Full-text version available from OU Domain via ProQuest Digital Dissertations, 2001.
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Grimes, Jodi Elisabeth Upchurch Robert K. "Rhetorical transformations of trees in medieval England from material culture to literary representation /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12130.
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Smith, Cynthia Alicia. "Sentimental Sailors: Rescue and Conversion in Antebellum U.S. Literature." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1563961982289284.
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Peavy, Michael Ann, Clara Gerhardt, Celeste Hill, and Kristie Chandler. "Through the Eyes of a Child: Resilience and Children’s Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/secfr-conf/2018/schedule/17.
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This student presentation explores resilience on two levels; in the first instance it is the subject of a self published children’s book written by a student group. On a second level, resilience is observed on a meta-cognitive level, as a quality that the student publishers have to display to complete their task and reach a successful outcome, namely publication. Publication is a task none of them had undertaken before. Achieving professional publication is not guaranteed and the possibility of rejection of the manuscript is a distinct possibility. Resilience is defined as the capacity for positive adaptation, mastery and management of challenging situations and experiences. This presentation explores aspects of resilience through the journey of a fictional animal character, paralleled by the journey of the student authors who created the character and conceived the story. Resilience stems from countless variables including family, environmental factors, current events, and genetic predispositions. Ways to support resilience in children include responsive relationships, strengthening core life skills, and reducing sources of stress in the lives of children and families. In real life, resilience promoting behavior aims to prevent lasting harm to children and families. A stable environment, exposure to education or skill sets, and a support system are crucial factors in enhancing coping skills. To address some of these themes in a child-friendly manner, the student group in the parenting class wrote a children’s book, describing the resilience displayed by a young Giraffe, as he initially gets lost and ultimately finds a home. The steps the lead animal character goes through demonstrate resilience and can serve as a model in seeking out appropriate outcomes. The students hoped that the book contained lessons-to-be-learned for young school-aged readers, as it explored problem solving in difficult situations such as getting lost and seeking best outcomes. In producing the book, the lead student author (and also the presenter of this paper) had to stretch her own comfort zone. Just like the lead character in the children’s book she produced, the presenter had to overcome obstacles in the path towards ultimate professional publication and distribution, acquire appropriate skill sets, and seek and utilize support from significant persons who could mentor and guide her along the way. Similar to the lead character in the book, it was a journey that contained numerous obstacles, and situations that were daunting. Reflecting on the publication process, there were parallels with situations that may require resilient behavior, while also encouraging the student to reflect on her own role in reaching an acceptable outcome by not giving up, seeking appropriate support and utilizing new skill sets.
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Oduko, Olusegun A. "Television drama in a developing society : the case of Nigeria." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34604.
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Benevenuto, Silvana José. "A escrita como arma : uma análise do pensamento social na literatura marginal /." Marília : [s.n.], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/88760.
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Orientador: Célia Aparecida Ferreira Tolentino<br>Banca: Fátima Aparecida Cabral<br>Banca: Sylvia Helena Telarolli de Almeida Leite<br>Resumo: O presente trabalho analisa a coletânea Literatura marginal: talentos da escrita periférica (2005). Organizada por Ferréz, um dos mais importantes idealizadores deste projeto literário e responsável pela rubrica Literatura Marginal, que nomeia a obra, tem o peso de lançar em livro onze autores, incluindo o organizador, alguns deles completamente desconhecidos pelo público nacional. Interessa-nos discutir o que escreve e o que pensa este narrador que se autodefine "marginal" e, com isso, colocar em evidência sua visão de mundo, o que, segundo entendemos, pode ser apreendido não restritamente naquilo que discursam, mas sim a partir da análise da relação existente entre o conteúdo e a forma desta manifestação literária. Mais que os escritores, estamos propondo pensar a própria narrativa como expressão de um coletivo, de um grupo que em comum traz consigo a condição de ser morador de periferia e acreditar que as letras podem ser uma arma. Para combater o quê e a quem? É a pergunta que norteia esta nossa análise e que nos faz dedicar a uma discussão sobre o narrador desta literatura. Destaca-se a forma que a própria matéria literária assume quando, em alguns momentos, o narrador elabora um discurso "violento" em contrarresposta à violência sofrida, ou, ainda, quando deixa suscitar a noção de destino como explicação para uma situação ao qual se vê submetido. Para tanto, a literatura é pensada a partir de sua relação com a matéria social, particularmente a violência, discutindo a intersecção entre literatura e sociedade.<br>Abstract: This work analyses the collections: Literatura marginal: talentos da escrita periférica (2005). Organized by Ferréz, one of the most important idealizer of this literary project and responsible for the rubric Marginal which nominates the work, it has the charge to release a book with eleven authors, including the organizer, some of them totally unknown by the national public. We are interested in discussing what is completely written and what this narrator that defines himself as "marginal" thinks. With that, we want to put in evidence his world‟s view, something that, according to our understanding, can be comprehended not only with what they argue, but also from the analysis of the connection between the content and the shape of this literary manifestation. We are proposing the thinking of the narrative as an expression of the group that brings the condition of living in the periphery and the believing that literature can be a gun. To fight against what and whom? These are the questions that guide our analysis and that make us dedicate ourselves to a discussion about the narrator of this literature. It is distinguished the way that the literary subject assume sometimes, when the narrator develops a "violent" speech answering back the violence he has suffered, or, when he gives rises to the notion of destiny as an explanation for a situation in which he is evolved. For that, the literature is thought from its relation with the social matter, particularly the violence, discussing the intersection between the literature and the society.<br>Mestre
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Wilkinson, Stephen. "Detective fiction in Cuban society and culture." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2000. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1671.
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The object of this thesis is to reach towards an understanding of Cuban society through a study of its detective fiction and more particularly contemporary Cuban society through the novels of the author and critic, Leonardo Padura Fuentes. The method has been to trace the development of Cuban detective writing and to read Padura Fuentes in the light of the work of twentieth century Western European literary critics and philosophers including Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, Terry Eagleton, Roland Barthes, Jean Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Jean François Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard in order to gain a better understanding of the social and historical context from which this genre emerged. By concentrating on the literary texts, I have explored readings which lead out into an analysis of the broader philosophical, political and historical issues raised by the Cuban revolution. Since it deals primarily with modes of deviance and notions of legality and justice within the context of the modern state, detective fiction is particularly well suited to this type of investigation. The intention is to show how this is as valid in the Cuban context as it is in advanced capitalist societies where such research has already been carried out with some success. The thesis comprises an introduction, ten chapters and a conclusion. The chapters are divided into three sections. Chapters 1 to 3 attempt a broad theoretical, historical and socio-political analysis of the cultural reality within which the Cuban revolutionary detective genre emerged. Chapters 4 to 6 analyse the Cuban detective narrative from its inception in the early part of the twentieth century until the emergence of Leonardo Padura Fuentes as the foremost exponent of the genre in Cuba after 1991. Chapters 7- 10 concentrate upon the work of Leonardo Padura Fuentes, offering a reading of his detective tetralogy informed by the preceding discussion. The contribution made by the thesis to knowledge of the subject is to build upon the work of Seymour Menton and Amelia S. Simpson on the development of the Cuban detective novel and to provide analyses of the pre-Revolutionary Cuban detective narrative and the work of Leonardo Padura Fuentes for the first time in the English language. The thesis concludes that the study of this popular genre in Cuba is of crucial importance to the scholar who wishes to reach as full an understanding of the social dynamics within that society as possible. In particular, it proves that Cuban detective fiction provides a useful barometer of social change which records the shifts in the Cuban Zeitgeist that have taken place over the past century.
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Abarca, Mazzini Diego. "Impacto de los nuevos medios en la manipulada “sociedad del espectáculo” o “industrias de la estupidez”: la transformación del arte de la literatura en industria cultural (cultura best-seller)." Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/344112.
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Trabajo ganador durante en el Curso Taller de Periodismo Literario 2014-2, Facultad de Comunicación y Periodismo, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas - UPC. Lima, Perú<br>Huele tanto a la mejor sensación que puede transmitir un aroma natural, como a sensualidad en su clímax, e incluso como a la más inmunda putrefacción. Huele también a todos esos aromas combinados. Incluso puede tener sabor ¿pasta? ¿Comida criolla? ¿Vino? ¿Whisky? ¿Vómito? Todas son válidas. Puede incluso ser percibida por el tacto como algo muy frío, muy caliente, áspero; o por sentidos del espacio que pueden hacer sentir ligero, suave, inestable, incómodo, asfixiado o aplastado a aquel que goce de ella. Puede hacer muchísimas cosas. Pero si hay algo que jamás debe hacer, es oler a nada, saber a normal, hacer sentir bien y superficialmente cómodo.
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Tingey, Carol. "Nepalese pancai baja music : an auspicious ensemble in a changing society." Thesis, University of London, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.309612.
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Freire, Manoel. "Revolta e melancolia : uma leitura da obra de Lima Barreto." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269910.
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Previous issue date: 2009<br>Resumo: Elaborada sob o signo do inconformismo e orientada pelo ideal de uma literatura militante, a obra de Lima Barreto expõe ao mesmo tempo as agudas contradições da sociedade brasileira dos primeiros anos da república e as agruras da vida íntima do escritor, cuja biografia é o sintoma vivo daquelas mesmas contradições que alimentam os seus textos. Se os diários revelam a dimensão mais íntima e pessoal de Lima Barreto, oferecendo um roteiro biográfico para a leitura de sua ficção, os escritos circunstanciais constituem uma espécie de roteiro ideológico em que o Autor, por meio de textos militantes, denuncia as iniqüidades da sociedade brasileira do seu tempo. Assim, alimentada pelas injunções históricas imediatas e pelas circunstâncias biográficas do romancista, a escrita de Lima Barreto dá voz ao protesto mudo dos vencidos, modulada pela revolta do injustiçado e a melancolia do fracassado.<br>Abstract: Elaborated on the sign of nonconformism and driven by the ideal of a militant literature, Lima Barreto's work depicts at the same time the acute contradictions of Brazilian society in the first years of republic and the adversities of personal life of this author whose biography is a living symptom of those same contradictions that comprise his texts. If diaries reveal a most personal dimension of Lima Barreto offering a biographical outline to a reading of his fiction, circumstantial pieces of writing is seen as a kind of ideological outline in which the author by means of militant texts points the finger at inequalities of Brazilian society at his time. In this way, comprised by immediate historical determinations e by biographical circumstances, Lima Barreto's writing give voice to silent protest of underdogs, modulated by revolt of injustice and by melancholy of unsuccessfulness.<br>Doutorado<br>Literatura Brasileira<br>Doutor em Teoria e História Literária
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Ask, Celia Cristina de Azevedo. "Sparkianas texto adentro : narrativa e relações humanas nos contos de Muriel Spark (1918-2006) /." Assis [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103660.
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Orientador: Cleide Antonia Rapucci<br>Banca: Susana Borneo Funck<br>Banca: Ivan Marcos Ribeiro<br>Banca: Maira A. Pandolfi<br>Banca: Márcio Roberto Pereira<br>Resumo: Este trabalho tem por objetivo realizar uma leitura dos contos da autora escocesa Muriel Spark, nos quais a importância das práticas narrarativas se manifesta como a característica mais evidente: a estrutura narrativa e as construções significativas agem em favor da expressão de um modo de estar no mundo e, mais regularmente, representam também o grande desafio que a leitura poderá abrigar ao tratar das personagens, em especial as femininas. No entanto, é necessária a identificação das referências que constituem os mundos ficcionais, geralmente atreladas à realidade e à proposição de novas formas de inteligibilidade. Em geral, estas formas estão implícitas no texto e cabe às leitoras e aos leitores acessá-las; para que isto ocorra, devemos reconhecer que estrutura narrativa e caracterização de personagens encontram-se intrinsecamente relacionadas. Por meio dos contos sparkianos, é possível ter uma ampla visão da obra da autora e, ao mesmo tempo, das práticas e experiências das mulheres historicamente situadas. Assim, a tese que defendemos é a de que os contos de Muriel Spark, com base nas construções significativas presentes no texto, permitem um diálogo entre o texto e a realidade sob o enfoque da personagem feminina. Servindo-se das referências adequadas, a leitura dos contos sparkianos pode contribuir para a compreensão das formas de interação das mulheres em seu próprio grupo e com o grupo dos homens<br>Abstract: This study aims to perform a reading of the short stories of Scottish author Muriel Spark, in which the importance of the narrative practices manifests itself as their most evident feature: the narrative structure and the building of significances may favor the expression of a mode of being in the world and, more regularly, they also represent the great challenge that reading can accommodate concerning the characters, especially the female ones. However, it is necessary to identify the references that constitute the fictional worlds, usually tied to reality and proposing new forms of intelligibility. In general, these forms are implicit in the text and it is a readers' task to access them; for this to occur, we must recognize that narrative structure and characterization are intrinsically linked. Through the sparkian characters it is possible to get a broad overview of the work of the author and, at the same time, the practices and experiences of women historically situated. Thus, the thesis we defend is that the stories written by Muriel Spark, based on significant buildings in the text, enable a dialogue between text and reality from the perspective of female characters. With the appropriate references, the reading of those sparkian short stories can contribute to the understanding of the ways by which women interact within their own group and with the male group<br>Doutor
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Pissa-ard, Isaraporn. "Depictions of Thailand in Australian and Thai writings:Reflections of the Self and Other." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6409.
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Doctor of Philosophy(PhD)<br>This thesis offers both an examination of the depiction of Thailand in Australian novels, short stories and poems written in the 1980s and after, and an analysis of modern Thai novels and short stories that reflect similar themes to those covered in the Australian literature. One Australian film is also examined as the film provides an important framework for the analysis of some of the short stories and novels under consideration. The thesis establishes a dialogue between Thai and Australian literatures and demonstrates that the comparison of Australian representations of Thailand with Thai representations challenges constructively certain dominant political and social ideologies that enhance conservatism and the status quo in Thailand. The author acknowledges that the discussion of the representations of Thailand in contemporary Australian novels and short stories needs to take into account the colonial legacy and the discourse of Orientalism that tends to posit the ‘East’ as the ‘West’’s ‘Other’. Textual analysis is thus informed by post-colonial and cross-cultural theories, starting from Edward Said’s powerful and controversial critique of Western representation of the East in Orientalism. The first part of the thesis examines Australian crime stories and shows how certain Orientalist images and perceptions persist and help reinforce the image of the East and its people as the antithesis of the West. From Chapters Three through Six, however, more literary works by Australian authors are examined. The important finding is that most of the Australian authors under consideration attempt, though not always successfully, to resist and challenge the Eurocentric stereotypes of Asia and Asians that dominated Australian literature in earlier periods. This difference between contemporary Australian authors and their predecessors seems to reflect modern Australia’s endeavor to distinguish itself from the rest of the Western world and to redefine its relationship with Asia. As literary representations cannot be separated from socio-political contexts, the thesis also includes discussion of the Thai social and political history and, where appropriate, shows how colonialism and neo-colonialism exert their impact on modern Thailand.
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Howard, Darren Phillip. "Imperial animals romanticism and the politicized animal /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1495946181&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Cheyette, Bryan. "An overwhelming question : Jewish stereotyping in English fiction and society, 1875-1914." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1986. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2948/.
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This thesis sets out to examine the nature of modern Jewish stereotyping in English society with reference to a wide range of English fiction which, for the most part, has been previously undocumented in these terms. Instead of a purely literary analysis of the fictional Jewish stereotype, this thesis places the Jewish stereotype in a specific ideological and historical context which is then related to a given writer-or group of writers—and their fiction. Two chapters, moreover, demonstrate the material results of Jewish stereotyping in English society with reference to the internalisation and institutionalisation of Jewish stereotyping by British Jewry and the AngloJewish novel. The variety and impact of Jewish stereotyping is shown to encompass the ideologies of liberalism, social Darwinism, Imperialism, antisemitism, proto-Zionism, Socialism and mainstream versions of sexuality. The concluding chapter relates the modern Jewish stereotype, which was formed after the 1870s, to a more general ahistorical mythic view of the Jew. In particular, this chapter refers to the links between modern Jewish stereotyping and the traditional Christian view of the Jew. With reference to a wide range of writers, more general questions are raised in this chapter concerning the continuity of Jewish stereotyping and the choice of a given stereotype by a particular social or literary group.
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Gambarotto, Bruno. "Walt Whitman e a formação da poesia norte-americana (1855-1867)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-21052007-145634/.
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O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar alguns dos momentos decisivos do processo de formação da poesia norte-americana, marcados pelas quatro primeiras edições (1855, 1856, 1861,1867) de Leaves of Grass, de Walt Whitman. A escolha desses momentos sublinha o caráter engajado do projeto poético de Whitman, que não visava à mera aclimatação da poesia européia no Novo Mundo, mas sim à constituição formal de uma poesia norte-americana adequada à realidade social de seu país. Nesse sentido, a leitura das quatro primeiras edições de Leaves of Grass pressupõe dois movimentos complementares: o entendimento dessa poesia enquanto resposta aos inúmeros conflitos que perpassam as décadas de 1850 e 1860 norte-americanas, quando a modernização, encabeçada pela industrialização e pelo trabalho livre, entra em choque definitivo com estruturas sociais de origem colonial, baseadas tanto na exploração do trabalho escravo como na própria constituição descentralizada da república; e a configuração literária desses problemas, em que veremos elementos constitutivos da poesia romântica européia em relação dialética com formas locais de expressão, muitas vezes estranhas ao quadro literário do Velho Mundo, mas reforçadas pela pretensão de se fazer valer (não sem contradições) uma literatura de caráter nacional. Para tanto, nossa análise toma não apenas a longa tradição de estudos hitmanianos, que atualmente têm se dedicado à revisão histórica de Leaves of Grass centrada quase que exclusivamente na experiência social norte-americana, mas a própria tradição crítica brasileira, na qual se consolidou um importante corpo de conceitos e debates acerca da posição periférica das literaturas do Novo Mundo em relação à Europa, o que nos permite tanto colocar a literatura de Whitman em um quadro mais abrangente de formação literária como observar ali algumas questões comuns às experiências brasileira e norte- americana para a consolidação de seu sistema literário, tais como o caráter empenhado da elite literária; a busca de novas formas; a representação e afirmação, na lírica, do indivíduo e da natureza do país; as questões éticas e econômicas ligadas ao problema da escravidão; e a relação ambígua e contraditória com os movimentos literários europeus.<br>The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze some of the decisive moments in the making of North American poetry, determined by the development, from 1855 to 1867, of the four initial editions of Walt Whitman\'s Leaves of Grass. The choice of these remarkable moments serves to underline the engaged feature of Whitman´s poetical accomplishment, which implied not the mere transposition of European literary thought into the New World, but mainly the formal constitution of a national poetry fit for the social environment of the United States. In this sense, the analysis of these four Leaves of Grass´ editions (1855, 1856, 1861, 1867) presupposes two complementary ways: firstly the acknowledgment of Whitman´s poetry as a response to the social tensions in North American midnineteenth century, when modernity, led by free labor and industrialization, collides with colonial and pre-modern social structures, based upon slavery and the very descentralized commercial Republic constitution; secondly the literary configuration of these tensions, in which we observe elements of the literary Romanticism dialetically linked to local forms of expression, some of them alien to the literary achievements of the Old World, but reinforced by the founding project of a national literature. To attend these questions, this dissertation recovers the long tradition of Walt Whitman studies - dedicated in the present time to the historical revisioning of the poet´s works centered almost exclusively in the North American social experience - by the light of the Brazilian critical tradition, in which very important concepts and debates over the periferical position of New World literatures were consolidated. This theoretical perpective allows us not only to place Leaves of Grass in a wider perspective of New World literatures but also to build a indirect comparative view that rests upon some important questions to the North American and Brazilian literary traditions, as the engaged ethos of their literary elites; the search for new literary forms; the lyrical affirmative representation of national individuals; the economical and ethical responses to slavery; and the ambiguous and contradictory relation with European literary movements.