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Gray, Sophie. "Conjurer laureates : reading early modern magicians with Derrida." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2013. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/18193/.
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This thesis uses the philosophy of Jacques Derrida to propose a performative method of close reading, which it uses to explore the relationship between language and identity in early modern literary representations of magicians. It addresses the common assumptions we make about the authority and stability of language by exploring the tensions that arise as the magicians attempt to use performative language to realise impossible ambitions of absolute power, knowledge and self presence. The texts studied are a combination of prose and drama from 1512 to 1607. They are read in light of Derrida’s engagement with speech act theory in ‘Signature Event Context’ and ‘Limited Inc a b c . . .’ , and also other related work of his on the performative foundations of literature and the law, including ‘Before the Law’, ‘The Law of Genre’, and ‘Force of Law: The ‘Mystical Foundations’ of Authority’. The final chapter also takes in Aporias. The magicians’ trajectories are followed in three chapters. The first is on the founding violences of their authoritative identities. Working with Derrida’s accounts of the law, it begins by describing how the foundation of authority is self-authorizing and therefore performative. It then explores how performative pacts, deals and contracts with the devil are used to establish and authorize the magicians and their supernatural worlds. This metatextual authority is reflected in the magician’s own ambitions for the certainty and stability of absolute power and knowledge. Using the early modern sense of ‘perform’ as to complete, carry out or make something, the second chapter focuses upon materiality and embodiment as attempts to stabilise or fix performative utterances. Fake suicide notes and contracts written in blood are analysed to demonstrate the slip and drift equally at work in the structures of writing and signatures. In addition, Friar Bacon’s enormous brass head with its promise of ‘sound aphorisms’ is discussed as an alternative example of the misinformed urge to embody certainty. The final chapter addresses why almost all the stories of magicians, good and bad, end with their deaths. Following Derrida’s Aporias, death is represented as the ultimate opening limit, which undermines all attempts at certainty and self-presence. This leads to discussion of the other’s role in identity and, it follows, death. The magicians’ ends are compared, with particular focus on the sense of a coming event in the final scene of Doctor Faustus. The use of Derrida’s work to engage with early modern texts responds to a significant gap in the field. It offers original, contemporary insight into traditional themes of power, language and identity that are usually approached from a historicist perspective. The critical-creative close reading describes and carries out by the thesis suggests an exciting way to performatively respond to literature of the past, bearing witness to it but also transforming it into something new.
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Fenske, Claudia. "Muggles, monsters and magicians a literary analysis of the Harry Potter series." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2006. http://d-nb.info/989196925/04.
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Fenske, Claudia. "Muggles, monsters and magicians : a literary analysis of the Harry Potter series /." Frankfurt, M. ;Berlin ;Bern ;Bruxelles ;New York, NY ;Oxford ;Wien : Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/989196925/04.
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Tompkins, Matthew L. "Observations on invisibility : an investigation on the role of expectation and attentional set on visual awareness." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b6ff0e29-7a9d-4e27-a76c-a99290b0344d.
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This thesis is concerned with the psychology of magic and illusion. In particular it is focused on three illusions, which can be conceptualized as types of invisibility: (1) Illusions of omission - failures to see, (2) Illusions of commission - seeing things that are not really present, and (3) metacognitive illusions - people's false beliefs about their own cognitive and perceptual systems. The work presented in this thesis is set out to explore these illusions through behavioural visual experiments inspired by sleight-of-hand magic tricks. Across three distinct paradigms using stimuli ranging in complexity from static line drawings, to recorded videos, to live events, I demonstrate that manipulations of observers' expectations and attentional set can result in perceptions of visual events that are variously accurate representations, illusions of omission, or illusions of commission. I also demonstrate that these illusions are often associated with failures of visual metacognition, in that they are generally considered to be surprising and counterintuitive. In addition to these empirical elements of the project, I also consider historical and contemporary connections between experimental psychology and magic tricks. I show that, in some instances, magicians' misdirection techniques anticipated developments by experimental psychology by hundreds of years, and that the idea of investigating the mechanisms of magic tricks and illusions played a key role in the development of experimental psychology as a scientific discipline. Through this combination of historical analyses novel experiments, I show that the integration of magic and experimental psychology has a great potential to drive future research in human cognition and perception.
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Maksymiuk, Stephan Karl Alexander. "Knowledge, politics and magic : the figure of the court magician in medieval German literature /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9944.
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Reimer, Andy Melford. "Miracle-workers and magicians in the Acts of the Apostles and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3488/.
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The miracle-workers and magicians we meet in the Greco-Roman world and on the pages of Greco-Roman narratives are among the most difficult characters for modem scholars to understand. While Greco-Roman writers presume their readers will share their socio-cultural script and understand how one distinguishes between a legitimate miracle-worker and an illegitimate magician, this script is lost on modem scholars. Hindered first by absolute definitions for miracle and magic from social anthropology and then by relative definitions from the sociology of knowledge, this thesis calls for a re-engagement of the "historic imagination" with respect to these sorts of characters. In particular, this thesis suggests that a detailed investigation into the operation of characters labelled as performers of miracles or magic can reveal the criteria which distinguished the two in the minds of Greco-Roman Mediterraneans as well as revealing the practical outworking of the criteria themselves. Two narratives are chosen for this task-the canonical Acts of the Apostles, representing a Jewish- Christian angle, and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana, representing a pagan angle. Methodologically the study proceeds by converting these narratives into "narrative worlds" and then subjecting the narrative worlds to a social investigation using models suggested by the work of Mary Douglas and Peter Brown. Under the rubric of "gaining power, " "intersecting power, " and "defending power" the two narrative worlds projected by these texts are compared and contrasted with respect to the criteria being used to distinguish miracle-worker from magician. The conclusion reached is that in both texts legitimacy for a mediator of divine power is found especially in demonstrating power without appearing desirous of personal gains. A miracle-worker is successful in this regard; a magician is one who fails in this regard.
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Matthews, Michelle M. "MAGICIAN OR WITCH?: CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE'S DOCTOR FAUSTUS." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1143482826.
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Kimlat, Konstantin. "The role of magician and philosopher in society : the archetype of wonder and its cognitive implications in modern life." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1432.
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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.Bachelors
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Dillmann, François-Xavier. "Les magiciens dans l'Islande ancienne : études sur la représentation de la magie islandaise et de ses agents dans les sources littéraires norroises /." Uppsala : Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40172255d.
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Harders, Steven. "Staging The Illusion Director as Magician." VCU Scholars Compass, 1996. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4906.
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This thesis serves as an examination of the process I underwent to arrive at answers to those questions. Chapter I examines differences between Pierre Corneille's seventeenth century L'Illusion Comique and Kushner's modern-day adaptation. Chapter II takes a closer look at textual analysis specific to Kushner's adaptation. Chapter III documents pre-rehearsal and designer collaboration. Chapter IV follows the production process from casting to performances. This chapter also includes many of the problems encountered and solutions reached. Chapter V, the summary, includes an assessment of the entire process, including; rehearsals, production, and my role as director. A summary of audience evaluations also is included in this chapter. The appendixes follow with a transcription of the audience discussion, backward analysis, floor plan, photos, and the playbill.
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Dillmann, François-Xavier. "Les Magiciens dans l'Islande ancienne études sur la représentation de la magie islandaise et de ses agents dans les sources littéraires norroises." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1987. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37597153m.
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Minnis-Lemley, Ashley M. "The Scholar Magician in English Renaissance Drama." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/838.
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In this paper, I will explore the rise and fall of the scholar magician or sorcerer, both as a popular dramatic subject and as an arc for individual characters, and the ways in which these figures tied into contemporary fears about the intersection of religion and developing scientific knowledge.
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Itakura, Genichiro. "The Magician's Apprenticeship : John Fowles and Quest For Authenticity." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/148252.
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Courtès, Noémie. "L'écriture de l'enchantement : magie et magiciens dans la littérature française du XVIIe siècle /." Paris : H. Champion, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb391876014.
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Hawkins, Sophie A. "The magician's rhetoric : or how India became a magical land." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441114.
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Gutierrez, Laffond Aurore. "Théâtre et magie dans la littérature dramatique du XVIIe siècle en France /." Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb377562237.
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Escobar, Vargas María Carolina. "Image and reality of the magician figure in twelfth century England." Thesis, University of Reading, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.553133.
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The attitudes of figures like John of Salisbury show concern about real magical practices and their practitioners in twelfth-century England, frivolous individuals who appear to have been present at court as real figures as well as being images available in literary sources. Considering the problems involved in using a priori definitions of magic for medieval practices, this study examines surviving twelfth-century sources in order to assess if coherent and appropriate historic definitions of magic and magicians occur. Three categories of evidence are considered for this purpose, and they are analysed through three different methodological approaches. First, literary textual analysis is used in order to examine the role of magic and magicians in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, an enormously fashionable and influential work, which depicted 'magic' as having played a major part in 'Ancient British' history. Second, historical analysis is used to provide an overview of the careers and interests of the individuals who brought putatively magical knowledge and skill into twelfth-century England. And finally, a detailed analysis of the concrete traces of this knowledge is produced via an examination of the manuscript context and the codicological features of surviving twelfth-century manuscripts. This thesis thus examines the perceptions and attitudes towards learned magical practices in the first half of the twelfth century in England by introducing an interdisciplinary approach using chronicles, 'scientific texts', and surviving twelfth-century manuscripts as evidence.
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Moisson, Patrick. "Dieux magiciens dans la Rgvedasamhita : approche comparative de structures mythiques indo-européennes." Lyon 3, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990LYO31005.
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Ce travail est une etude de mythologie comparee qui propose de degager les structures mythiques propres aux dieux magiciens dans le pantheon vedique, tel qu'il apparait dans les hymnes de la rgvedasamhita, l'un des principaux textes de l'inde ancienne qui constitue le panegyrique divin. Nous entendons par "dieux magiciens" les divinites qui gerent la part irrationnelle et inquietante du sacre ; ils peuvent etre identifies par leurs moyens d'action, leur personnalite, leurs attributs et leurs mythes. Cette etude s'efforcera de demontrer que les dieux magiciens partagent des structures mythiques bien definies qui permettent une analyse comparee dans le domaine indo-europeen : ils assurent un role de regulateur de l'irrationnel, ils s'inscrivent dans une dimension cosmique, ils sont en rapport etroit avec le monde des esprits, ils patronnent les confreries a caractere initiatiqueThis work is a survey of comparative mythology ; it constitutes a study of magician gods in relation to their mythical structures in the hymns of the rgvedasamhita, the oldest religious poem of ancient india as the divine panegyric of the vedic religion. The particular nature of the "magician gods" consists of the management of irrational and disturbing part of the religious feelings. They are recognizable by their own behaviour, attributes and myths. This study is intended to demonstrate that the magician gods share definite mythical structure ; therefore these structures allow a comparative analysis in the indo-european sphere : magician gods are the governors of irrational manifestations, they are inscribed in a cosmic size ; closely bound with the world of the spirits, they are protectors of the brotherhoods practising initiations
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Courtes, Noémie. "L'écriture de l'enchantement : magie et magiciens dans la littérature française du XVIIe siècle." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040073.
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En France au XVIIe siècle, la magie appartient à un lexique ambigu mais est une catégorie proprement littéraire car stylisée. Présente dans l'épopée et le roman, elle intervient surtout dans les arts du spectacle (pastorale, ballet, opéra). Le magicien est même un type, qui obéit à une rhétorique propre et occupe des fonctions spécifiques, en particulier ornementales : le personnage du magicien fait entrer dans un autre régime de vraisemblance qui rehausse le statut de ses opposants. Son "charme " est de servir de référence commune à un imaginaire qui engendre des allusions dans tous les domaines de l'écrit ; il peut en outre être parodié voire servir à dénoncer la superstition (dans la comédie). Issue du quotidien, la magie catharsise l'irrationnel du siècle. De 1581 à 1735 au moins, elle assure sa permanence en s'adaptant à toutes les situations et en étant compatible avec les autres merveilleux (mythologique et chrétien), comme le montrent les figures de Circé, Médée et ArmideIn XVIIth-century France, magic belongs to an ambiguous vocabulary but is a properly literary category since it is stylised. Besides epic and novel, it occurs mainly in theatrical arts (pastoral, ballet, opera). The magician is a type who complies with a proper rhetoric and holds specific positions, ornamental ones in particular. The character of the magician introduces to another order of verisimilitude which heightens the status of his opponents. His "charm" serves as a common reference of a fancy in all the fields of written works ; he can besides be parodied, and even serve to denounce superstition (in comedy). Stemming from everyday life, magic in fact serves as catharsis for the irrationality of the XVIIth-century. From 1581 to 1735 at least, it establishes its permanence by adapting itself to all situations and being compatible with the other types of marvellous (mythological and Christian ones), as is shown by the characters of Circea, Medea and Armide
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Haar, Stephen Charles. "Simon Magus : the first Gnostic ? /." Berlin : W. de Gruyter, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39299594j.
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Timtcheva, Viara. "L'image du magicien dans les contes méditerranéens et slaves." Bordeaux 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008BOR30093.
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Le conte populaire, longtemps mésestimé, est de nos jours réhabilité par les chercheurs et considéré comme une expression de l’inconscient collectif, ou tout au moins comme une source de sagesse profonde. Le magicien, bénéfique ou maléfique, même si rarement protagoniste, est indubitablement l’un de ses personnages-clés. Notre première partie porte sur la place de la magie et du magicien dans le paganisme antique grec et romain et les croyances des anciennes tribus slaves et arabes, ainsi que dans les trois grandes religions monothéistes (judaïsme, christianisme et islam). La seconde partie analyse l’image du magicien dans un corpus de plus de 200 contes de 25 pays différents : portrait physique, position sociale, caractère, savoir, fonction. La troisième partie, consacrée au magicien en tant qu’archétype et symbole universel, est traitée sur le double plan de la littérature et de la psychologie. Elle concerne les interactions du magicien dans le conte, les concepts-clés de la magie, et les racines profondes de ce personnage mystérieux et éternel. Au-delà des différences venant des religions et des cultures, l’image du magicien est peinte dans ce qu’elle a de commun, d’atemporel, d’inhérent à l’humanité entière. Bien qu’ayant choisi le support des contes populaires pour étudier le magicien, notre étude dépasse leur cadre pour poursuivre un objectif plus large : retracer ses origines, faire le compte-rendu de son évolution, découvrir sa signification. Le sujet est traité au croisement des champs d’application de la littérature, de l’ethnographie, de l’étude des croyances et des religions, de la sociologie, de la psychologieThe fairy tale, underrated for a long time, has been rehabilitated by researchers and is now considered to be an expression of the collective unconscious, or at the very least, a source of profound wisdom. Good or evil magicians, although they are seldom protagonists, are undoubtedly key figures. First I deal with the place of magic and magicians in ancient Greek and Roman systems of belief, among the ancient Slavonic and Arab tribes, and in the three monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Then I analyse the figure of the magician (physical portrait, social position, character, knowledge, function) in a corpus of more than 200 fairy tales from 25 different countries. Finally, I focus on the magician as archetype and universal symbol seen from both the literary and the psychological angles. I examine the correlations between magicians in fairy tales, the keys-concepts of magic, and the roots of this mysterious and immortal figure. Beyond the religious and cultural differences, the figure of the magician is seen as atemporel, from the point of view of what it has common with the whole of humanity. Although I have chosen to restrict my corpus to fairy tales, my analysis has a broader objective and scope. I attempt to outline the origins of the figure, to show how it has changed and to understand its significance. My study is at the crossroads of Literature, Ethnography, Religion, Sociology, and Psychology
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Ingram, Helen. "Dragging down heaven : Jesus as magician and manipulator of spirits in the gospels." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.446336.
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Gorgus, Nina Coadou Marie-Anne. "Le magicien des vitrines : le muséologue Georges Henri Rivière /." Paris : Éd. de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39230530w.
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Wilson, Dominique Beth. "Shaman, Sage, Priest, Prophet and Magician: Exploring the Architecture of the Religious Wise Man." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10119.
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Little attention has been given to the archetype of the wise old man, both by Carl G. Jung and by contemporary scholars indebted to his methodology. This is especially relevant when compared to other common Jungian archetypes such as the ‘hero’, the ‘mother’ and the ‘trickster.’ As such, the wise man can be viewed as a neglected or overlooked figure whose image is so familiar and recognisable that his purpose and representations have not currently received the depth of analysis and explanation that has been given to other archetypal images. This thesis identifies the religious wise man as an important figure within the contexts of culture and religion. Its aim is to not only to explore the ‘archetype’ of the wise man, but to go beyond that rather superficial – and indeed, academically problematic – notion, and determine what I term the ‘architecture’ of the wise man. This architecture consists of the structural elements (social, institutional, historical) and identifiers (costume, calling, education), that separate the wise man, and in particular the religious wise man, from other male ‘archetypal’ figures. In using the term ‘architecture’ I aim to identify the arrangement of concrete elements and characteristics - rather than psychological or inner ‘essences’ - which are significant in the construction and maintenance of the religious wise man figure in specific cultural contexts. The dissertation presents five possible categories of the religious wise man - the shaman, sage, priest, prophet and magician – identifying common elements and distinguishing features that may then be redesigned and adapted in different and unique forms appropriate to each manifestation of the religious wise man. Once these key characteristics are identified, they create a schema that can be employed to classify a range of religious wise man figures into the appropriate category.
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Bondavalli, Simona. "The buffoon and the magician : poetry, spectacle and critical discourse in the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6629.
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Billot, Bertrand. "Le Christ thaumaturge et magicien : les miracles dans l'art paléochrétien (IIIe - VIème siècle)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA01H028.
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Cette thèse propose une nouvelle approche des images des miracles du Christ, entre le IIIe et le VIe siècle, basée sur un corpus aspirant à l'exhaustivité. Les images sont dans un premier temps étudiées de manière analytique et structurale : chacun des trente-quatre miracles de Jésus fait l'objet d'une analyse détaillée en ce qui concerne le texte biblique, les représentations paléochrétiennes et les commentaires patristiques contemporains. Les images sont ensuite replacées dans leur contexte historique, social, spatial et théologique, dans une perspective sérielle et statistique, dans le but de reconsidérer leurs fonctions diversifiées. Enfin, un essai d'interprétation synthétique explore au moyen du corpus des miracles la question, très discutée dans l'historiographie, du rapport entre l'activité thaumaturgique du Christ et celle des magiciens et faiseurs de prodiges dans l'Antiquité tardiveThis thesis proposes a new approach of the images of Christ as a miracle worker, between the 3rd and the 6th century, based on a corpus which aims for exhaustivity. In a first time, images are both analyzed in an analytical and structural way : each of the thirty-four miracles of Jesus is the subject of a detailed analysis of the biblical tex t; early Christian representations and contemporary patristic commentaries. Images are then replaced in their historical, social, spatial and theological context, from a serial and statistical perspective, in order to reconsider their diversified functions. Finally, this work explores, through the corpus of miracles, the question often debated in historiography, of the relationships between the thaumaturgical activity of Christ and that of magicians and prodigies makers in Late Antiquity
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Martin, Michaël. "Pankratès le magicien : la magie et ses praticiens dans le monde gréco-romain." Amiens, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003AMIE0011.
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Mitchell, Clio. "#Secrets de l'art magique surrealiste' : magic and the myth of the artist-magician in surrealist aesthetic theory and practice." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.294528.
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Marling, Thomas Oliver. "The magician of reason, the plaything of enlightenment: grotesque fantasy and tabloid speculative fiction, 1900-1911 /Marling Thomas Oliver." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/375.
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The final decade of the Qing Dynasty, 1901-1911, witnessed a proliferation of works of fiction that incorporated, to a large extent for the first time, themes and images relating to material and technological progress. These "science fantasies" of global and interplanetary peregrination and travel across epochal time have typically been situated along various degrees of confederacy with the values and ideology of modernising China at large. This study however addresses the complex and oft-obfuscated relationship between much of this speculative fiction and the late-Qing tabloid press, which is more closely associated with the satirical, grotesque, narcotic and libidinal. By investigating the subverting and distorting of nominally positivist images like imagined futures, space travel and utopia, the dissertation explicates the possibility for these works of fiction to express a cynical and critical subjectivity toward the ideology of "modern China" that was taking shape at this time. The study incorporates new perspectives on oft-encountered novels, like Wu Jianren's New Story of the Stone, alongside more marginal texts, like the popular sequels to the classics authored by Lu Shi'e, and several unattributed pseudonymous works of short experimental fiction. Through close analysis of these texts, I argue that the arena of "tabloid speculative fiction" was thematically united at the level of their "grotesque fantasies," in which the images of fantasy and the values of modernity were subverted by sexuality, lassitude and boredom. In highlighting this critical grotesquery, the study stresses the internal discontinuities that undergird the superficial homogeneity often attributed to late-Qing speculative fiction.
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Frabetti, Anna. ""Le magicien italien " : Pirandello et le théâtre français dans les années vingt et trente." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040159.
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Au début des années vingt, la France découvre le théâtre de Luigi Pirandello. Son traducteur, Benjamin Crémieux, se charge de la médiation de cette dramaturgie. Sa lecture critique de Pirandello contribue d'une manière décisive à sa réception. Également importante est la “lecture” régistique de Georges Pitoëff : sa création des Six personnages en quête d'auteur en 1923 ouvre une nouvelle saison du théâtre italien en France. Il s'agit pour l'auteur italien d'une rencontre qui marque aussi un tournant dans sa réflexion sur la pratique du théâtre. S'il avait toujours refusé d'accorder une valeur artistique à la mise en scène, cela était dû à son expérience d'auteur et au retard du théâtre italien dans ce domaine. La rencontre avec le monde du théâtre français, avec Pitoëff notamment, aide Pirandello à se rapprocher des théories de la régie et à devenir à son tour metteur en scène de 1925 à 1928 à la tête de son Teatro d'Arte. La gloire française de Pirandello s'estompe rapidement : depuis 1924, les relations politiques entre l'Italie et la France sont devenues plus difficiles, ce qui n'est pas sans conséquences sur les échanges culturels. Après 1925, le succès de Pirandello en France fera place à un sentiment de lassitude à son égard, nourri par des accusations de cérébralisme, relayées par la critique et la presse de l'époque. Son théâtre continue d'être représenté, mais ce ne sera qu'en 1934, après l'attribution du Prix Nobel, que Pirandello renouera avec le triomphe. Le succès de la mise en scène de Ce soir on improvise (dans l'adaptation de Pirandello, Crémieux et Pitoëff), en 1935, marque la dernière étape du parcours français du dramaturge, de son vivantAt the beginning of the 1920s, France discovered the theatre of Luigi Pirandello. His translator, Benjamin Crémieux, had taken on the task of promoting his work. Crémieux's critical readings of Pirandello would contribute decisively toward its acceptance. Equally important was the stage direction of Georges Pitoëff : his premiere of Six personnages en quête d'auteur in 1923 would open a new era of Italian theatre in France. For the Italian author, it was a juncture which would mark a turning point in his thinking with respect to the practice of theatre. If he had heretofore refused to recognize the artistic value of stage direction, it was due to his own experience as an author and to the backwardness of Italian theatre in this domain. His encounter with the realm of French theatre, and especially with Pitoëff, would help Pirandello to reconcile himself with the theories of stage direction and, in turn, to become director from 1925 to 1928 at the helm of his own Teatro d'Arte. Pirandello's fame in France soon faded: from 1924 on, Italy and France entered a difficult period in their political relations, not without adverse consequences for cultural exchange. After 1925, Pirandello's success in France would be replaced by a certain weariness, resulting from accusations of intellectualism fomented by the critics and press of the time. His theatre continued to be performed, but it would only be in 1934, after receiving the Nobel Prize, that Pirandello's early triumph would be renewed. The success of the performance of Ce soir on improvise (in the adaptation of Pirandello, Crémieux and Pitoëff), in 1935, marked the final stage of the playwright's French career
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Uritescu, Ramona Maria. "The magician's modern avatars : a study of the artist figure in the works of Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka /." kostenfrei, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq30830.pdf.
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Uritescu, Ramona M. "The magician's modern avatars a study of the artist figure in the works of Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq30830.pdf.
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Dillmann, François-Xavier. "Les Magiciens dans l'Islande ancienne : études sur la représentation de la magie islandaise et de ses agents dans les sources littéraires norroises." Caen, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986CAEN1005.
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Apres une premiere partie de synthese traitant du phenomene magique dans l'islande ancienne, cette these etudie les caracteristiques anthropologiques des magiciens islandais (traits physiques et psychiques) et discute la question de la presence du chamanisme dans les sources litteraires norroises (deuxieme partie). La troisieme partie est constituee par une description sociologique des magiciens: situation juridique, economique et sociale (avec discussion de la question d'une profession de magicien), origines ethniques et geographiques, modes d'habitat, vie familiale et comportement sexuel, relations socialesAfter dealing with the magical phenomenon in the old icelandic commonwealth (first part, this doctoral thesis studies the anthropological (physical and psychical) characteristics of the icelandic magicians and wizards, and discusses the question about the existence of chamanism in the old norse literary sources (second part). The third part is composed of a sociological description of the icelandic magicians: juridical, economical and social (with a discussion about the profession of magician) situation, ethnical geographical origins, dwelling forms, family life and sexual behaviour, and social relationship
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Février-Vincent, Burkhardt Marie. "Monde de la magie, magie du monde : aspect, rôle et symbolisme de l'univers de la magie dans quelques oeuvres d'Heroic Fantasy L'enchanteur de René Barjavel, The Mists of Avalon de Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Belgariad et The Malloreon de David Eddings, Le secret de Ji de Pierre Grimbert, The Lord of the Rings de J.R.R.Tolkien." Grenoble 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002GRE39001.
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La magie dans les oeuvres d'Heroic Fantasy constitue un monde à part et ne peut se dissocier de l'univers dans lequel elle prend place. Dans un premier temps, les géographies fictives, riches de symboles, lui offrent un écrin, en présentant des enfers, des limbes et des paradis. La magie naît dans certains lieux, se découvre dans d'autres, s'éprouve ailleurs. La création de tels mondes répond à une interrogation des auteurs : en créant des cosmogonies, ils recherchent le temps du mythe, en perpétuel mouvement cyclique, et finissent par placer leurs aventures dans un merveilleux médiéval. La seconde partie étudie ce point, tandis que la troisième prend la magie comme objet. Elle s'interroge sur les moyens, les effets, mais aussi les limites de la magie. Elle laisse une grande place aux objets magiques, en particulier aux épées ou aux objets de la quête. La quatrième partie s'attache à étudier les particularités des magiciens et sorciers pour redécouvrir en eux un visage de Prométhée.
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LIMA, ALBERTINO DA SILVA. "DESCONSTRUINDO O “MAGO” EM SIMÃO: O ESTUDO DA MAGIA NO CRISTIANISMO PRIMITIVO, UMA ANÁLISE A PARTIR DOS ATOS DE PEDRO." Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo, 2017. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1712.
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The presente dissertation aims to foster a centralized study on the character Simon, stigmatizated as magician by Early Christian Literature. To do that we will highlight the character introduced at chapter 8 from the Apostle´s Acts and will take a look at him, above all from the Apocryphal Acts of Peter due to the fact that this texts offers a more comprehensive picture about Simon, his spells and his duels with Peter. For this, we will use as a method, the Carlo Ginsburg´s indoctrination paradigm. With the aim of proposing clarification on the subject, this research is divided in three parts: in the first moment, we will work on the historical aspects of magic, and their sociological and anthropological concepts. In the second moment, we will discuss the presence of magic in the Greco-Roman world and and it´s practices among the Early Christians. Lastly, in the third and final moment, we will present our research on Simon within Early Christian Literature and historiography. However, we will focus in analysis in the Acts Apocryphal of Peter. Our intent is to show a new image from Simon. Not of a simple magician, but the image of a threatening leader of Christian hierarchical structures who has public acclaimed and used it to present himself as a new proposal for the Christian Community. We intend with this research to contribute with, a new perspective on the character Simon who is as important for Christian historiography as the other apostles.
A presente dissertação tem como proposta fomentar um estudo centralizado no personagem Simão estigmatizado como mago pela literatura cristã primitiva. Para isto, destacaremos o personagem apresentado no capítulo 8 de Atos dos Apóstolos e lançaremos um olhar sobre ele a partir dos Atos Apócrifos de Pedro, devido ao fato que este texto oferece uma imagem mais abrangente acerca de Simão, suas magias e seus duelos com Pedro e, para isto, utilizaremos como método o paradigma indiciário de Carlos Ginzburg. Com o intuito de propor um esclarecimento maior sobre o tema, esta pesquisa é dividida em três momentos. No primeiro momento, trabalharemos os aspectos históricos sobre a magia e os seus conceitos entre sociólogos e antropólogos. No segundo momento, dissertaremos sobre a presença da magia no mundo greco-romano e suas práticas entre os primeiros cristãos. Por fim, no terceiro e último momento apresentaremos a nossa pesquisa sobre Simão dentro da historiografia e da literatura cristã primitiva. No entanto, faremos o nosso foco final sobre os Atos Apócrifos de Pedro. Nosso objetivo será mostrar uma outra imagem de Simão, não de um mago pejorativamente, mas de um líder ameaçador das estruturas hierárquicas cristãs que possui uma aclamação pública e usa dela para apresentar-se como uma nova proposta para a comunidade cristã. Pretendemos com essa pesquisa contribuir com uma nova perspectiva sobre o personagem Simão que é tão importante para a historiografia cristã quanto os demais apóstolos.
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Kohoutek, Tomáš. "Experimentální aplikace robotické paže využívající průmyslové komunikační protokoly." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-413080.
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This diploma thesis is focused on the analysis of the most well-known industrial protocols and acquaintance with the Dobot Magician robotic arm. The main goal of this thesis is to create an industrial loop, which consists of communication – client and server. The individual components of the industrial loop consist of three robotic arms (including peripherals), their control units (in our case Raspberry PI 3B +), switch, and a server. The control units communicate with the server using two selected industrial protocols, namely Modbus TCP and EtherNET/IP. The result of the work is an endless loop, which tries to resemble the real operation of the assembly and disassembly of the box equipped with dierent items.
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Brun, André. "Magiciens, militants et prophètes de favela : la négociation symbolique de la Toute-Puissance, du pouvoir et de la dépendance à Pirambu, bidonville de Fortaleza (Brésil)." Paris, EHESS, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990EHES0055.
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Le propos: apprehender comme un tout et dans leur immediatete vecue les diverses strategies ideologiques affrontees au sein d'un bidonville bresilien. Ces strategies vont des diverses variantes de la religiosite jusqu'aux jeux politiques autour de la defense communautaire, des interventions humanitaires etrangeres, des mobilisations par la theologie de la liberation. 9 personnages charismatiques ont ete systematiquement interviewes. Ils sont en apre concurrence tout en s'entendant fort bien, ils ont ete suivis de mois en mois et relances a propos de la foi des uns et des autres comme des evenements au jour le jour dans la favela. Adaptes au francais, les entretiens sont presentes et ordonnes; ils se repondent les uns aux autres, enchaines avec les presentations et commentaires par l'auteur. En ressortent de facon directe, souvent violente et bariolee, la vie de la favela et ses enjeux de pouvoir sur le fond de la misere et du clientelisme. La these met l'accent sur les densites de sens traversant cette vie, la grammaire inconsciente qui synthetise les logiques monotheiste et polytheiste etant prise comme argument d'analyse central. Un glossaire d'une centaine de termes, soit non-traduisibles soit a connotations specifiques, reprend, pour les expliciter, une serie de problemes ethnologiques, particulierement en ce qui concerne le langage de la possessionThe intention: understand as a whole, and in their everyday reality, the various ideological strategies confronted inside a brasilian slum. These strategies run from the various forms of religionship to political games around communitarian defense, humanitarian foreign interventions, mobilizations by theology of liberation. 9 charismatic individuals have been systematically interviewed. They compete together harshly although they still live in neighbourly terms, they have been followed month by month and questionned about their faith as well as the faiths of the others and as about everyday events in the favela. Adapted in french, the interviews are presented and organized, they all answer each other, linked by the author's presentations and commentaries. Thus directly emerge, often in a violent and coloured way, the life in the favela and its stakes in power, on a fondation of poverty and clientelism. The thesis emphazises the densities of sense organizing this life, the inconscient grammar which synthetizes monotheist and polytheist logics being used as central argument of the analysis. A glossary of a hundred words, either untranslatable terms or terms witl specific connotations, details a series of proper ethnological problems. This is especially the case concerning the language of possession
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Jouette, Jean-Cyril. "Magie bénéfique, magie maléfique et divination dans le monde byzantin : VIIIe-XIIe siècles." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0169/document.
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Cette étude a pour but de montrer le rôle et l’importance que pouvaient avoir les différentes formes de magie et de divination dans le monde mésobyzantin du premier iconoclasme à la quatrième croisade de 1204. Elle s’articule autour de deux grands thèmes de recherches complémentaires mais qui proposent toutefois une lecture différente des sources faisant état de ces pratiques à Byzance. Une lecture objective des sources normatives et narratives, complétée par des témoignages archéologiques, nous permet de considérer la place qu’occupaient la magie bénéfique, la magie maléfique et la divination dans la vie quotidienne des Byzantins, et cela en fonction de leurs besoins : popularité des phylactères et des soins magiques, services indécents et immoraux que la magie maléfique proposait, goût prononcé des Byzantins pour un vaste ensemble de divinations. Le deuxième axe de recherche met en exergue l’utilisation de la figure du magicien ou du devin dans des discours de propagande politico-religieuse, aussi bien dans la littérature hagiographique que dans les œuvres historiographiques. La réflexion se concentre d’abord sur le rôle alloué aux sorciers et aux devins dans le travail d’écriture des hagiographes, puis, d’un point de vue plus général, sur la diabolisation dont furent victimes différents hérésiarques qui étaient jugés un peu trop populaires. Enfin ces mêmes mécanismes ont été mis en évidence avec une attention toute particulière à propos de la question de l’iconoclasme, depuis l’histoire officielle iconodoule où les patriarches et empereurs hétérodoxes, victimes d’une violente damnatio memoriae, concentraient sur eux les accusations de sorcellerieThis study aims at showing the role and the importance of different kinds of magical and divinatory arts in the middle Byzantine era, from the first iconoclasm up to 1204. It focuses on two main approaches, based on two different readings of the literary evidence.First, using the evidence of normative and narrative sources, along with archaeological artefacts, this work shows the importance, in response to specific needs, of beneficent and maleficent magic and divinatory arts in the everyday life of the Byzantines. The popularity of phylacteries and magical treatments is examined along with the conflicted nature of the relationship which existed between these practices and Byzantine orthodoxy. The different forms of maleficent magic are then explored and the services that they alone could offer. This section concludes with a discussion of Byzantines’ fascination for a great number of unorthodox divinatory arts which, in spite of their illicit nature, continued to be practiced.Second, this study emphasises the role of magicians and soothsayers in the political and religious propaganda. An attempt is first made to demonstrate how some hagiographers employed these useful opponents of saints as tools in their writings. Then, this work seeks to show how some heresiarchs, perhaps deemed too popular, were demonized, in an attempt to put an end to disruptive religious movements. Finally, particular attention is paid to iconoclasm, showing how heterodox emperors such as Leo III and his son Constantine V, and patriarchs such as John the Grammarian, were subjected to a violent damnatio memoriae by iconophile authors, something which could involve accusations of witchcraft
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Mavinga, Lake Lukau. "De l'enfant sorcier à l'enfant martyr : anthropologie psychanalytique des figures du n'doki et du nganga dans la société bakongo." Paris 7, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA070098.
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A travers notre recherche et nos travaux cliniques, nous avons observé deux phénomènes du traitement de la douleur parmi les populations bakongos d'Afrique Centrale. Le premier tient à l'insistance du symptôme (et à sa "vérité"), qui que les Bakongos ne croient plus au "pouvoir" du thérapeute traditionnel, le nganga (guérisseur-magicien) et préfèrent tourner maintenant vers la prière, le prêtre, le pasteur, dans une sorte "d'appel au père" inscrit dans un mouvement de christianisation de ces sociétés. Le deuxième phénomène est une inscription de l'enfant dans une position de ndoki, sorcier à pouvoir maléfique. Il s'ag donc d'apercevoir dans ces sociétés une structure inversée de la culpabilité où c'est l'enfant qui est inculpé d'une culpabilité familiale. Cet enfant africain, "cause" du malheur de la famille, devient aussi la source de sa rédemption. Notre travail a consisté à tenter de montrer de quelle manière s'effectue un virage de l'enfant ndoki (sorcier maléfique) l'enfant martyr dans ces sociétés africainesThrough our research and clinical work we observed two phenomena concerning of pain treatment, among the Central African bakongo populations. The first one is the symptom insistance (and its "truth"), that causes the bakongos no longer to believe in the traditional power of the nganga (healer magician) but to prefer now to turn to prayer, the priest or the pastor, in a kind of "call to the father" made as part of the movement Christianization of this society. The second observable phenomenon is the child being cast in the role of ndoki (evil power wizard). What should be notced in these African societies is an invented guilt structure where it is the child who bears the family guilt. This African child "cause" of the family misfortune thus becomes the origin of its redemption. In these studies, our work consisted of an attempt to show how the ndoki child (evil power wizard) is transformed into the child martyr, in these African societies
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Camp, Bryan. "Where the Dead Remain." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1250.
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Where the Dead Remain is a murder mystery set in a Post-Katrina New Orleans where the gods, magic and monsters of various world mythologies actually exist. The story follows a week in the life of Jude Duboisson, a once magician who is struggling with the loss of his magic and the life he had known in the wake of the storm, as he is pulled out of his torpor and into the affairs of the mighty once again. He is tasked with discovering who murdered Dodge Renaud, the fortune god of New Orleans. What he discovers, though, are some surprising truths about the fundamental nature of things: about loss, about New Orleans, and about himself.
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Robert, Maryse. "Tyran et magicien? : Représentation de la figure de l'empereur Julien dans les sources littéraires grecques, latines et syriaques de l'Antiquité tardive." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/26901.
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Même si les Humanistes et les Lumières tentèrent de réhabiliter le personnage de Julien l'Apostat, leurs tentatives furent somme toute vaines. En effet, encore au début du siècle dernier on parlait de l'Apostat sans même qu'il soit nécessaire de nommer Julien. Systématiquement, il était qualifié de suppôt de Satan, de magicien, d'impie pratiquant des sacrifices humains. Le présent travail se propose d'analyser l'évolution de la figure de l'empereur Julien durant les deux siècles qui suivirent sa mort, en 363, et se divise en trois chapitres. Le premier se concentre sur les faits historiquement attestés dans les différentes sources (épigraphiques, numismatiques, littéraires) au sujet de l'homme et traite des épisodes principaux de sa vie - sa naissance, son césarat, sa proclamation - sous la forme d'une analyse historique. Le deuxième étudie l'évolution de son image à travers les sources littéraires païennes et chrétiennes du IVe au VIe siècle, en analysant, dans un premier lieu, le portrait-bilan que les auteurs ont peint (portrait de Julien par lui-même ; portrait physique ; portrait psychologique). Le troisième chapitre est consacré au Roman syriaque de Julien l'Apostat et à l'étude du personnage désormais légendaire, où des extraits illustrant les thèmes du deuxième chapitre sont analysés. Le mémoire sert principalement à mettre en place le contexte des siècles précédant la mise par écrit du Roman.
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ALMEIDA, ROBSON LUIZ DOMINGUES DE. "MAGIA E MILAGRE: Duelos mágicos no Cristianismo Primitivo." Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo, 2017. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1716.
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This written work aims to addres the theme of Magic in the Mediterranean World at the period of Early Christianity. The Magic, wich, by its supernatural caracther, arouses interest and show the ways of relationship between human and sacred, at the same time that reveals several tensions and comprehensions about the popular religion´s practice. So, we construe the relationship between Magic and Miracle as so as the relationship of Magic and Religion. For this, we approach texts of Magic duels at canonical narratives, like Acts Of The Apostles 8. 4-25, that show common elements with the imagination of Early Christianity wich increase the tensions beteween Magicians and Apostles and enrich the presence and importance of the themeof Magic in the Mediterranean culture at the first centuries of the Christian Era. Especially in the face of this rivarly between thaumaturges, we can see the danger that Magic represented to the nascent Christianity and its identity in formation and the stratchs that the Magic bring for the teaching of the Apostles. So, after to broach the Magic elements at different narratives, we turn our attention to the Acts of Apostles, looking for the understanding of the importance of Luke´s narrative for the community of Early Christianity, especially in relation to the stricking and historical figure of Simon, The Magician. Simon was identified, historically, like the prototype heretic, Gnosticism´s father and Christianity´s corrupter, having borrowed his identity to represent all the way of corruptions of the apostolic teatching and ethical and moral deviations in the course of ecclesiastical history
Este trabalho tem como objetivo abordar o tema da magia no mundo mediterrâneo no período do Cristianismo Primitivo. A magia que, por seu caráter sobrenatural, desperta interesse e apresenta as formas de relação entre o humano e o sagrado, ao mesmo tempo em que revela diversas tensões e compreensões a respeito da prática da religiosidade popular. Deste modo, analisamos a relação entre magia e milagre e, também, sua relação com a religião. Para isso, abordamos textos de duelos mágicos tanto em narrativas canônicas, como Atos dos Apóstolos 8.4-25, quanto apócrifas, como Atos de Pedro, que apresentam elementos comuns ao imaginário cristão primitivo reforçando a tensão entre magos e apóstolos, e valorizando a presença e importância do tema na cultura do Mediterrâneo nos primeiros séculos da era cristã. Especialmente, diante dessa rivalidade entre taumaturgos, observamos o perigo que a magia representava em relação ao cristianismo nascente, para sua identidade em formação e o risco que esta oferecia para o ensino dos apóstolos. Assim, após abordar os elementos mágicos em diversas narrativas, voltamos nossa atenção ao texto canônico de Atos dos Apóstolos buscando compreender a importância da narrativa lucana para a comunidade do cristianismo nascente, especialmente em relação à figura marcante e histórica de Simão, o Mago. Simão, historicamente, foi identificado como o protótipo do herege, pai do gnosticismo e corruptor do cristianismo, tendo sua identidade “emprestada” para representar toda forma de corrupção dos ensinamentos apostólicos e desvios éticos e morais no decorrer da história eclesiástica.
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Palermiti, Rosalba. "Les anaphores dans le dialogue homme-machine en langue naturelle écrite : données recueillies par le Magicien d'Oz dans une situation de recherche documentaire." Université Pierre Mendès France (Grenoble ; 1990-2015), 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992GRE21032.
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Dans le dialogue homme-machine, les anaphores traitees traditionnellement sont les anaphores pronominales. Or, dans ce travail, il s'agit d'etudier l'ensemble des phenomenes anaphoriques dans un corpus de dialogues homme-machine recueillis par une technique de simulation dite du magicien d'oz, dont on relate le protocole experimental et ou l'on precise le contexte d'application : la recherche documentaire par le grand public ; sont passes en revue les modes de consultation des bases de donnees bibliographiques. Puis, en exploitant ce corpus d'un point de vue documentaire (typologie des requetes, strategies de recherches. . . . ) et d'un point de vue linguistique (structure de surface des enonces, anaphores, coherences, reference,. . . ), on remet en cause l'usage de la langue naturelle pour certaines situations et l'on emet l'hypothese d'une nouvelle phraselogie de la communication propre au dialogue homme-machine. Du point de vue traitement automatique, sont explicitees les differentes connaissances necessaires a la conduite du dialogue et a la resolution automatique des anaphores (modele de dialogue, modele de la tache, deroulement du dialogue,. . . Etc. ), en s'appuyant d'une part sur les differentes approches linguistiques des phenomenes anaphoriques, et d'autre part sur des travaux effectues en t. A. L. En se placant dans le cadre de l'analyse automatique de langue telle qu'elle est envisagee au centre de recherche en informatique appliquee aux sciences sociales de grenoble (criss), sont degagees des regles de reconnaissance des unites anaphoriquesThe anaphora traditionally handled in man-machine dialogues are pronominal anaphora. In this thesis, however, the aim is to study the entires set of anaphorical phenomena that can be found in man-machine dialogues. For this, we use a corpus collected using the so-called "wizard of oz" simulation technique. We explain the experimental protocol used and detail the application context : an information retrieval system for everyman's use in a library. We also survey different existing retrieval modes for bibliographical data bases. Next, having exploited the corpus on the retrieval level (query typology, search strategies,. . . ) and on the linguistic level (suraces structures), anaphora, reference and coherence,. . . ), we express our doubts about the usability of natural language in certain situations and we also state the hypothesis of the need for a new "phraseology" for man-machine communication. Concerning natural language processing (nlp, we explain the different types of knowledge necessary for dialogue management and anaphora resolution (dialogue modeling, task modeling, dialogue dynamics,. . . ), on the basis of different linguistic approaches of anaphorical phenomena and existing work in nlp. Within the framework of the nlp work done at criss (centre for research in informatics applied to the social sciences), we then derive some rules for identifying anaphoric units
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Meyering, Sharon. "A discussion of the elements of fantasy and children's literature applied to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and The Magician's Nephew, to conclude whether or not they are good children's literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7913.
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Bibliography: leaves 64-66.Using the principles of previous studies of children's literature and the psychological development of children, this work examines the literary texts, Hany Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia, to determine whether or not they succeed as good fantasy literature for children.
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Fouquet, Yannick. "Modélisation des attentes en dialogue oral." Phd thesis, Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble), 2004. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00095971.
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Cette thèse porte sur la modélisation des attentes du locuteur en dialogue humain et en dialogue homme-machine. Les attentes du locuteur sont vues comme les résultats espérés de ses actes, selon l'hypothèse qu'un individu en situation de dialogue finalisé (oral ou non, humain ou homme-machine) aura certaines attentes vis-à-vis de son allocutaire suite à son énoncé. La théorie développée puise ses sources dans la philosophie analytique et sa logique dialogique dérivée des actes de langage, dans l'éthnométhodologie et la théorie des faces, dans les cognisciences et la théorie de la pertinence, et enfin dans la linguistique. Une notation en actes de dialogue a été établie pour représenter les connaissances, les rôles et les actes de langage des interactants. La modélisation considère des règles d'association acte-attentes assorties de probabilités, les stratégies employées et les buts dialogiques.
Pour évaluer les règles et les probabilités, deux corpus ont été collectés : l'un en dialogue humain (dans un cadre de traduction de parole), l'autre en dialogue homme-machine (pour développer un assistant d'entreprise virtuel). Pour la collecte du deuxième, une plate-forme à base de magicien d'Oz a été réalisée afin de simuler le système final. Les corpus recueillis ont été transcrits, annotés et analysés en vue de montrer l'intérêt de considérer les attentes plutôt que de faire de la simple prédiction d'acte.
Les résultats sont intéressants pour le dialogue humain et pour le dialogue homme-machine : la prise en compte des attentes améliore l'identification des actes de dialogue des interlocuteurs, et le contrôle du dialogue.
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Iglesias, Janelle Ann. "FACTS OF THE IMAGINATION (FROM THE INSIDE OUT)." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1148.
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Growing up in a bicultural household, navigating the F train as well as mountain creeks, studying culture and then participating in its production, these are some of the idiosyncrasies that I bring to my work. My investigations are rooted in combining a rediscovery of the sensuousness of the natural world and an investigation of the poetics of everyday life. Choosing materials and situations within the realm of the everyday, I'm interested in a transformation that suggests the infinite potential and worth in all things. The resulting objects have identities as complex as my own. They are ridiculous and serious, normal and magical, and confident in their awkwardness. This document was created in Microsoft Word X for mac.
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Underwood, Michael. "Motives, Allusions, and Eclecticism: A Panametric Analysis of the First Movement of Christian Lindberg's Mandrake in the Corner Based on the Method of Jan LaRue." Thesis, Lecture recital, recorded Apr. 18, 2006, in digital collections. Access restricted to the University of North Texas campus. connect to online resource, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3603.
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Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of North Texas, 2007.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Accompanied by 4 recitals, recorded Mar. 22, 1999, Feb. 21, 2000, Apr. 21, 2003, and Apr. 18, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-60).
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Chapelier, Laurent. "Dialogue d'assistance dans une interface homme-machine multimodale." Nancy 1, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996NAN10117.
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Les interfaces homme-machine destinées au grand public demeurent souvent d'une approche difficile malgré leur caractère attrayant et leurs nombreuses fonctionnalités. Un utilisateur peu expérimenté doit ainsi fournir un effort d'apprentissage et de compréhension important. Dans cette thèse, nous défendons notre point de vue sur le dialogue d'assistance à l'utilisateur dans le cadre de son interaction avec une interface multimodale intelligente. Pour cela, nous avons adopté une démarche empirique basée sur une expérience du type Magicien d'Oz. L'étude psycho- sociale du corpus obtenu a permis d'identifier et de formaliser des schémas de dialogue propres à différents type d'aide. A partir de ces résultats, nous proposons un modèle d'architecture multi-agents d'interface multimodale intelligente. Nous présentons une maquette du système de dialogue d'assistance montrant la mise en oeuvre des schémas de dialogue dans un système multi-agentsMan-machine interfaces for a wide range of users still remain difficult to use in spite of their attractive aspect and their many fonctionalities. Thus, a novice user has to learn how to use the interface. In this thesis, we present our results on the assistance dialogue with a user in interaction with a multimodal intelligent interface. We conducted an experimental study using the Wizard of Oz paradigm to observe the behaviour of the users in front of such a system. The psycho-social study of the corpus permitted to identify and formalise dialogue schemes corresponding to different types of help. From these results we propose a model of a multi-agents architecture of a multimodal intelligent interface. We present a prototype of the assistance dialogue system which shows the use of the dialogue schemes in a multi-agents system
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Vlavianos, Stéphanie. "La figure magique à Byzance de Jean Damascène à Michel Psellos (VIIIe-XIe siècle)." Paris, EHESS, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008EHES0113.
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Qui évoque la magie, c'est-à-dire l'ensemble des pratiques qui visent à perturber l'ordre naturel des choses à bien ou à mal, ne peut manquer de faire référence au praticien. Les sources byzantines issues des rangs chrétiens, normatifs, s'opposent par principe au mage, être démoniaque. Elles ne lui donnent pas la parole et elles ont mis en place ce que l'on pourrait appeler « la figure magique », c'est-à-dire une représentation du praticien. Les incarnations de cette figure sont diverses, bien que les traits en soient constants. De même, l'utilisation des figures varie aussi bien d'une source à l'autre que d'un contexte à un autre. La période qui s'étend du VIIIe à la fin du XIe siècle recèle beaucoup de ces figures, surtout pendant l'iconoclasme. Les activités du mage sont variées, issues de la vision des origines angéliques de la magie elle-même. Ses savoirs sont un don, transmissible voire contaminant. Les figures magiques sont aussi celles du pouvoir compromis et souillé. La remise en ordre du monde bouleversé par le mage passe par l'intervention d'une autre figure atypique, le saint. Se convertir ou mourir, telles sont les deux issues possibles pour la figure magique, forcément vaincueMagic, that is practices whose aim is to disturb the natural order and the balance of the world in a good or evil purpose, refers unquestionably to the magician himself. Born into a Christian environment, the-Byzantine sources from the VIIIth till the end of the XIth century clash, on the principle, with the practitioner, seen as a diabolical being. The sources have set up what can be called a "magical figure", a representation of who practices magic. The incarnations of this figure are different, even if the general features are constantly the same. The way they are used is various from one source to another and from one context to another as weil. The Iconoclasm is particularly riddled with magical figures. The large range of activities attributed to the magician cornes from the vision of the angelical origins of magic. The magical knowledge is a gift the magician receives and passes on to others, contaminating them. The figures of that time are also those of an imperial compromised, polluted power. The saint is another particular figure putting in order aIl the magical and diabolical disorders. Converting or death are the exits for the magician, inevitably defeated
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Serrano, Marcos. "Interaction multimodale en entrée : conception et prototypage." Phd thesis, Grenoble, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010GRENM033.
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NOS travaux ont trait à la conception de systèmes interactifs. En particulier nous nous intéressons aux systèmes multimodaux, systèmes informatiques mettant en jeu plusieurs modalités d'interaction. Nos travaux visent à définir des méthodes et des outils pour la conception de tels systèmes interactifs. En particulier, nous visons le prototypage d'interfaces multimodales en entrée, une étape importante dans la conception de systèmes interactifs. Nous présentons ainsi une approche à composants pour la conception et le prototypage fonctionnel ou non fonctionnel d'interfaces multimodales en entrée. Cette approche est basée sur un modèle de la multimodalité. Nos contributions sont donc conceptuelles et logicielles. Notre contribution conceptuelle consiste en un espace de caractérisation de composants logiciels pour la multimodalité. Cet espace permet de caractériser les composants logiciels au sein d'un assemblage de composants visant à décrire une interaction multimodale. Il offre au concepteur un cadre conceptuel afin de lui permettre de décrire précisément des alternatives de conception. Notre contribution logicielle consiste en un outil de prototypage basé sur une approche à composants qui implémente notre espace de caractérisation (notre contribution conceptuelle). Nous avons implémenté plusieurs prototypes multimodaux à l'aide de cet outil, qu'ils soient fonctionnels ou en partie simulés par un compère humain selon une approche Magicien d'OzLn this work, we focus on the design of interactive systems. We are specificaly interested in multimodal systems, systems that use several interaction modalities. Our work aims at defining methods and tools for the design of those interactive systems. We aim specially the prototyping phase of the conception of multimodal interface. We present a component-based approach for designing and prototyping input multimodal interfaces, both functional or simulated. This approach is based on our conceptual compone nt mode!. Our contribution is both a conceptual model and a software too!. Our conceptual model is based on a characterization space for software components. This space hels interaction designers describing the component assembly and considering different design alternatives. Our sorftware tool is a component-based prototyping tool that implements the characterization space (our conceptual model). We have implemented several multimodal prototypes using this tools, both functional or simulated bya human using a Wizard Of Oz approach