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Charles, Alec. "James Joyce, modernism and postmodernism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284287.
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Ye, Qing. "Masculinity in Yu Hua's fiction from modernism to postmodernism." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66852.
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The Tiananmen Incident in 1989 triggered the process during which Chinese society evolved from so-called "high modernism" to vague "postmodernism". The purpose of this thesis is to examine and evaluate the gender representation in Chinese male intellectuals' writing when they face the aforementioned social evolution. The exemplary writer from the band of Chinese male intellectuals I have chosen is Yu Hua, one of the most important and successful novelists in China today. Coincidently, his writing career, spanning from the mid-1980s until present, parallels the Chinese intellectuals' pursuit of modernism and their acceptance of postmodernism. In my thesis, I re-visit four of his works in different eras, including One Kind of Reality (1988), Classical Love (1988), To Live (1992), and Brothers (2005), to explore the social, psychological, and aesthetical elements that formulate/reformulate male identity, male power and male/female relation in his fictional world. Inspired by those fictional male characters who are violent, anxious or even effeminized in his novels, one can perceive male intellectuals' complex feelings towards current Chinese society and culture. It is believed that this study will contribute to the literary and cultural investigation of the third-world intellectuals.<br>Les événements de la Place Tiananmen en 1989 a déclenché le processus durant lequel la société chinoise a évolué d'un soi-disant "haut modernisme" vers un vague "post-modernisme". Le but de cette thèse est d'examiner et d'évaluer la représentation des sexes dans l'écriture des intellectuels chinois mâles quand ils font face à l'évolution sociale mentionnée ci-dessus. L'auteur qui exemplifie bien le groupe d'intellectuels masculins chinois que j'ai choisi est Yu Hua, un des romanciers les plus importants et prolifiques de la Chine d'aujourd'hui. Bonne coïncidence, sa carrière d'écrivain qui couvre la période commençant au milieu des années 1980 jusqu'à maintenant, trace des parallèles entre la poursuite du modernisme des intellectuels chinois et leur acceptation de post-modernisme. Dans ma thèse, je revisite quatre de ses travaux dans des périodes différentes, y compris One Kind of Reality (1988), Classical Love (1988), To Live (1992) et Brothers (2005). Le but est d'explorer l'aspect social, les éléments psychologiques et esthétiques qui formulent/reformulent l'identité masculine, le pouvoir masculin et la relation homme/femme dans son monde fictif. Inspiré par ces personnages masculins fictifs qui sont violents, anxieux ou même effeminés dans ses romans, on peut percevoir les sentiments complexes des intellectuels masculins envers la société et la culture chinoise actuelle. Je crois que cette étude contribuera à l'enquête sur la littérature et la culture des intellectuels des pays du Tiers-Monde.
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Eyuboglu, Selim. "Four films : crossing the boundaries of modernism and postmodernism." Thesis, University of Kent, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305245.
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Wang, Fan. "Localities of global modernism : Fei Ming, Mu Dan and Wang Zengqi." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2020. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/760.
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This thesis seeks to map out the development of literary modernism in the 1930s and 1980s People's Republic of China (PRC). Despite the long temporal halt, these two periods are innately and historically related to each other. Much as Chinese literary modernism was a literary legacy of Western modernism, its decades-long development provided it with the conditions for a second life. When it reemerged in the 1980s, it bore unique national characteristics that, in turn, enriched the realm of global modernism. In short, the distinct historical and national context of the twentieth century China dictated that Chinese literary modernism could not be a mechanical reproduction of its Western counterpart. The importation and translation of Western modernist creative and critical works, together with the modernist practices of modern Chinese intellectuals, contributed to the formation and rise of modernist literature in the 1930s, as well as its revival in the 1980s PRC. Structurally, this thesis identifies three localities of global modernism in the works and literary theory of Fei Ming, Mu Dan, and Wang Zengqi. It argues that these writers' modernist practices and distinct writing styles not only represented the characteristics of Chinese literary modernism, but also added diversities to modernist literature in the global context. Methodologically, I pair the Chinese modernists with their Western counterparts, including Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot. This comparison helps to find similarities between modernist works across time and place, and to identify the unique features of Chinese literary modernism. In practice, when studying the three modernists' first encounters with literary modernism in Republican China, as well as their respective experience in the PRC, I seek to (i) present three modes of initiation of literary modernism at the beginning of the twentieth century; (ii) trace the development of literary modernism both in the republican era and its revival in the PRC; (iii) show the process of Chinese literary modernism growing its distinct characteristics and evidence its second life. In short, Chinese modernists' participation in the building of global modernism and their contributions to the enrichment of literary modernism in the global context are two foci of my thesis. In the final analysis, this thesis engages research on Chinese literary postmodernism. No matter the literary movement's status in the PRC, then and now, how and why it differs from the development of postmodernism in Western literature and culture are valuable research questions.
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Ma, Chun-laam, and 馬鎮嵐. "Characterization of detective figure as a site of negotiation of modernism and postmodernism in the 21st century." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47055376.
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Gubernatis, Catherine. "The epistolary form in twentieth-century fiction." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1184950116.
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Lyle, Messina. "Reviving the Subject: A Feminist Argument for Mimesis in Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2204.
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For centuries we have taken for granted Aristotle's assertion that fiction must encourage emotional identification by representing life realistically. With the development of a more pluralistic society, Postmodernist writiers have come to question that assumption. Having repudiated our ancestor's notions of identity, these writers create stories whose sole purpose is to comment on other stories. However, as some feminist critics have shown us, we must each have an identity in order to have the collaborative society that is the Postmodernist's goal. Therefore, the notion that a story must make a sensory impression on us and stand on its own as a story in itself is just as valid today as it was in the past.
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Travis, Molly Abel. "Subject on Trial: The Displacement of the Reader in Modern and Post-modern Fiction." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392805130.
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Duguid, Scott. "Narcissus revisited : Norman Mailer and the twentieth century avant-garde." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22981.
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This thesis examines the American novelist Norman Mailer’s relationship to the 20th century avant-garde. Mailer is often remembered as a pioneer in the new documentary modes of subjective non-fiction of the sixties. Looking beyond the decade’s themes of fact and fiction, this thesis opens up Mailer’s aesthetics in general to other areas of historical and theoretical enquiry, primarily art history and psychoanalysis. In doing so, it argues that Mailer’s work represents a thoroughgoing aesthetic and political response to modernism in the arts, a response that in turn fuels a critical opposition to postmodern aesthetics. Two key ideas are explored here. The first is narcissism. In the sixties, Mailer was an avatar of what Christopher Lasch called the “culture of narcissism”. The self-advertising non-fiction was related to an emerging postmodern self-consciousness in the novel. Yet the myth of Narcissus has a longer history in the story of modernist aesthetics. Starting with the concept’s early articulation by Freudian psychoanalysis, this thesis argues that narcissism was for Mailer central to human subjectivity in the 20th century. It was also a defining trait of technological modernity in the wake of the atom bomb and the Holocaust. Mailer, then, wasn’t just concerned with the aesthetics of narcissism: he was also deeply concerned with its ethics. Its logic is key to almost every major theme of his work: technology, war, fascist charisma, sexuality, masculinity, criminality, politics, art, media and fame. This thesis will also examine how narcissism was related for Mailer to themes of trauma, violence, facing and recognition. The second idea that informs this thesis is the theoretical question of “the real”. A later generation of postmodernists thought that Mailer’s initially radical work was excessively grounded in documentary and traditional literary realism. Yet while the question of realism was central for Mailer, he approached this question from a modernist standpoint. He identified with the modernist perspectivism of Picasso and his eclectic “attacks on reality”, and brought this modernist humanism to a critical analysis of postmodernism. The postwar (and ongoing) debates about postmodern and realism in the novel connect in Mailer, I argue, to what Hal Foster calls the “return of the real” in the 20th century avant-garde. This thesis also links Mailer to psychoanalytical views on trauma and violence; anti-idealist philosophy in Bataille and Adorno; and later postmodern art historical engagements with realism and simulation. Mailer’s view was that a hunger for the real was an effect of a desensitising (post)modernity. While the key decade is the sixties, the study begins in 1948 with Mailer’s first novel The Naked and the Dead, and ends at the height of the postmodern eighties. Drawing on a range of postmodern theory, this thesis argues that Mailer’s fiction sought to confront postmodern reality without ceding to the absurdity of the postmodern novel. The thesis also traces Mailer’s relationship to a range of contemporary art and visual culture, including Pop Art (and Warhol in particular), and avant-garde and postmodern cinema. This study also draws on a broad range of psychoanalytical, feminist and cultural theory to explore Mailer’s often troubled relationship to narcissism, masculinity and sexuality. The thesis engages a complex history of feminist perspectives on Mailer, and argues that while feminist critique remains necessary for a reading of his work, it is not sufficient to account for his restless exploration of masculinity as a subject. In chapter 7, the thesis also discusses Mailer’s much-criticised romantic fascination with black culture in the context of postcolonial politics.
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Sarasola, Santamaria Beñat. "El Segundo Modernismo. La dialéctica de la modernidad y la posmodernidad estética desde la Escuela de Frankfurt hasta la actualidad." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/131272.
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La discusión en torno a la modernidad y la posmodernidad estética se dio especialmente en los años 70 y 80 del siglo XX. Aquel fue lo que se conoció como el fin de la modernidad y el inicio de la posmodernidad. Sin embargo, en los primeros años del siglo XXI se ha dado un renovado interés en la modernidad y el modernismo estético. En esta tesis se analiza en profundidad la dialéctica entre la modernidad y la posmodernidad estética desde la teoría estética de la Escuela de Frankfurt hasta las últimas teorías estéticas, y se defiende que actualmente se vive en un nuevo modernismo, un segundo modernismo, que critica a la vez que continúa el legado modernista clásico de principios del siglo XX.
La tesis está dividida en tres partes. La primera caracteriza la modernidad estética, basada en la Escuela de Frankfurt y su mayor contribución a la cuestión, la Teoría Estética de Adorno. Además de Adorno, también se examinan las teorías de Marcuse y Benjamin. La modernidad estética aquí elaborada contempla un arte que sea capaz de socavar lo que Adorno llama "mundo administrado" y la lógica instrumental. El arte, desde su autonomía, debe poner en evidencia la miseria de la sociedad capitalista y ser resistente frente a su capacidad de asimilar toda fuerza opositora. En esta parte se analizan también tres debates fundamentales que se desarrollaron en el contexto moderno pero que ofrecen claves importantes para entender la relación con la posmodernidad: el debate sobre el expresionismo, el kitsch, y la vanguardia. En la segunda parte se estudian las estéticas de la cooptación. Dichas estéticas se originaron en la misma modernidad y la crítica de Adorno a la industria cultural, pero fueron desarrolladas a lo largo de la teoría situacionista -especialmente Debord- hasta las estéticas posmodernas, las cuales son la culminación de la teoría de la cooptación. Esta teoría argumenta que en las sociedades postindustriales, con el triunfo del capitalismo y la industria cultural, ninguna forma artística puede ser realmente crítica y resistente ya. El arte se convierte así, a lo sumo, en un pasatiempo, y es incapaz de incidir de manera alguna en la sociedad. Dentro de esta problemática general se estudia asimismo el problema del fin del arte, problema muy presente en las estéticas posmodernas y esencial para entender el desafío que suponen estas estéticas a la modernidad. La tercera parte examina las aportaciones más recientes al tema, las teorías de principios del siglo XXI; en particular, las ideas de Hal Foster, Andreas Huyssen y Nicolas Bourriaud. Todos ellos matizan tanto la idea tradicional de principios del siglo XX de modernidad estética como las derivas más afirmativas de la posmodernidad, y proclaman, cada uno a su manera, un cierto retorno al modernismo.
La concepción del arte defendida en la tesis, la idea de un segundo modernismo, está fundamentada, por tanto, en una idea de arte crítico, en un arte resistente. Sin embargo, critica la idea euro y anglo-centrista de arte moderno, investigando y persiguiendo la modernidad en espacios poscoloniales y en las periferias. Así, esta nueva forma de modernidad estética solicita nuevas narrativas que den cuenta tanto del arte contemporáneo como su relación con el mundo actual. Más que elaborar estas narrativas, que sería un trabajo de los historiadores y críticos del arte y la literatura, la presente tesis articula el humus teórico-crítico que puede ser el sostén de estas nuevas narrativas, ofreciendo unas herramientas teóricas y un espacio crítico a todas ellas.<br>The debate about aesthetics modernism and postmodernism was developed specially in the 70's and the 80's of the XXth century. This was the era of the supposed end of the modernism and the beginning of the so-called postmodernism. Nevertheless, in the very first years of the XXIth century, a renewed interest on the aesthetic modernity and the modernism has appeared. In this dissertation is analyzed the dialectics of the aesthetic modernism and postmodernism in depth, from the aesthetic theory of the Frankfurt's School to the latter contemporary aesthetic theories. The dissertation defends that these days we can find a second modernism, that criticizes and follows at the same time the legacy of the classic modernism of the beginning of the XXth century.
The dissertation is divided into three parts. In the first part explains the aesthetic modernity, based on the Frankfurt School and his major contribution on the topic, Adorno's Aesthetic Theory. Besides Adorno, Marcuse and Benjamin's theories are examined as well. In this part are considered too three fundamental debates within the modern art: the debate about the expressionism, the kitsch, and the avant-garde. ln the second part are analyzed the aesthetics of the cooption. These aesthetics are originated in a sense in the modernity and Adorno's critique of the culture industry, but are developed through the situationist theory (specially Debord) to the postmodern aesthetics, which are the culmination of the co-option theory. In the third part are examined the most recent theories about the issue, particularly, the ideas of Hal Foster, Andreas Huyssen and Nicolas Bourriaud.
The conception of art defended in the dissertation, the idea of the second modernism, is based on a critical idea of art, on an art embodied on resistance. Nonetheless, it criticizes the euro and anglo-centrist modern idea of art, and seeks the modernity in postcolonial spaces and the periphery. Hence, this new form of aesthetic modernity urges new narratives that explain contemporary art and its links with the contemporary world.
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Cooke, Simon. "Encyclopaedic fiction, cultural value, and the discourse of the great divide : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English Literature /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1312.
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Linde, Camilla. "Från a till b via d h och ö : Det ickelinjära berättandet i modern tid." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-14765.
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How do we perceive literature? In our times computer games and Internet have made us grow more comfortable to the usage of non linear storylines. But how does this apply to printed literature? In this essay, called “From a to b through d h and o. Non linear storytelling in our time” I have focused on nonlinear literature from different time periods and I have studied novels such as James Joyce’s Ulysses as well as works by William S. Burroughs, Italo Calvino, Laurence Stern and Julio Cortázar. What they all have in common is the ambition to explore the structure of literary language and the way it can be transformed. The area is vast and I will concentrate on only a few authors. These writers will show the diversity of my subject when I explore different styles and techniques such as the cup-up technique used by Burroughs and the interpretation of pictures as a foundation of telling a story, explored by Calvino. In order to do this, I have also studied modernism and postmodernism and the ways authors back then experimented with the written language. Finally I take a look at how the use of Internet and computers may affect the way books are written today and I try to answer the question whether nonlinear literature has a future in our highly technological times. After going through this literature I hope I will have offered a good picture of what nonlinear literature is and how I have applied its techniques to my own text “If dogs could speak”.
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Guzman-Medrano, Gael. "Post-Revolutionary Post-Modernism: Central American Detective Fiction by the Turn of the 21st Century." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/917.
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Contemporary Central American fiction has become a vital project of revision of the tragic events and the social conditions in the recent history of the countries from which they emerge. The literary projects of Sergio Ramirez (Nicaragua), Dante Liano (Guatemala), Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador), and Ramon Fonseca Mora (Panama), are representative of the latest trends in Central American narrative. These trends conform to a new literary paradigm that consists of an amalgam of styles and discourses, which combine the testimonial, the historical, and the political with the mystery and suspense of noir thrillers. Contemporary Central American noir narrative depicts the persistent war against social injustice, violence, criminal activities, as well as the new technological advances and economic challenges of the post-war neo-liberal order that still prevails throughout the region.
Drawing on postmodernism theory proposed by Ihab Hassan, Linda Hutcheon and Brian MacHale, I argued that the new Central American literary paradigm exemplified by Sergio Ramirez’s El cielo llora por mí, Dante Liano’s El hombre de Montserrat, Horacio Castellanos Moya’s El arma en el hombre and La diabla en el espejo, and Ramon Fonseca Mora’s El desenterrador, are highly structured novels that display the characteristic marks of postmodern cultural expression through their ambivalence, which results from the coexistence of multiple styles and conflicting ideologies and narrative trends. The novels analyzed in this dissertation make use of a noir sensitivity in which corruption, decay and disillusionment are at their core to portray the events that shaped the modern history of the countries from which they emerge. The revolutionary armed struggle, the state of terror imposed by military regimes and the fight against drug trafficking and organized crime, are among the major themes of these contemporary works of fiction, which I have categorized as perfect examples of the post-revolutionary post-modernism Central American detective fiction at the turn of the 21st century.
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Mete, Baris. "Reconceptualisation Of Realism In British Postwar Fiction: The Cases Of Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark And John Fowles." Phd thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613417/index.pdf.
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This study is about British postwar fiction and its canonical reception according to a special categorisation of the novelists who were publishing in Britain during the two decades after the end of the Second World War. The study emphasises that mainstream literary criticism of 1950s and &rsquo<br>60s Britain tended to catalogue the novelists of this period according to a well-established dichotomy between tradition and innovation in which the traditional realist novels, the neorealist works of C. P. Snow, Angus Wilson and Kingsley Amis, were privileged over any other fictional work having modernist innovative characteristics. Therefore, the first published novels of Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark and John Fowles, novelists belonging to today&rsquo<br>s postmodern canon, were first critically recognised as social realist works in Britain. One of the objects of this study is to demonstrate the shortcomings of this classification. Moreover, the main argument of the study is that none of these three novelists should have been classified as a traditional realist novelist. All of these three British postwar novelists were reconceptualising traditional realism by self-reflexively including the problem of representation as part of their conventional subject matters in their formal realist novels.
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Moses, Geoffrey. "THE LACK OF A FUTURE:UTOPIAN ABSENCE AND LONGING IN TWENTIETH- AND TWENTY-FIRST- CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1365784335.
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Ballardini, Anny. "Ghost Dance in 31 Movements." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/826.
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A kind of poetry that tries to understand contemporary social and philosophical issues as much as behaviors by rewriting in a poetic language the video artwork of some of the main representatives of modernism and postmodernism. Such poetry is deprived of confessional hues, any personal reference has to be ascribed to a mirroring effect by which the single person empathically absorbs and projects what is conveyed, be it stemming directly from the historical time of the artwork's making and inherited, or alive at the time of its actual viewing. By following a restructuring process started at the beginning of the twentieth century, the writing analyzes possible ways to outline developments or to underline breaking points. Poetry is seen as an active medium within the formation of societies characterized as it is by its highly introspective power, not restricted to the individual but open to all beings perceived as members of one entity.
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Moffett, Joe. "The search for origins in the twentieth-century long poem : Sumerian, Homeric, Anglo-Saxon /." Morgantown, W. Va. : West Virginia University Press, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015671691&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Dreyer, Nicolas D. "'Post-Soviet neo-modernism' : an approach to 'postmodernism' and humour in the post-Soviet Russian fiction of Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov and Aleksandr Khurgin." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1917.
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The present work analyses the fiction of the post-Soviet Russian writers, Vladimir Sorokin, Vladimir Tuchkov and Aleksandr Khurgin against the background of the notion of post-Soviet Russian postmodernism. In doing so, it investigates the usefulness and accuracy of this very notion, proposing that of ‘post-Soviet neo-modernism’ instead. Common critical approaches to post-Soviet Russian literature as being postmodern are questioned through an examination of the concept of postmodernism in its interrelated historical, social, and philosophical dimensions, and of its utility and adequacy in the Russian cultural context. In addition, it is proposed that the humorous and grotesque nature of certain post-Soviet works can be viewed as a creatively critical engagement with both the past, i.e. Soviet ideology, and the present, the socially tumultuous post-Soviet years. Russian modernism, while sharing typologically and literary-historically a number of key characteristics with Western modernism, was particularly motivated by a turning to the cultural repository of Russia’s past, and a metaphysical yearning for universal meaning transcending the perceived fragmentation of the tangible modern world. Continuing the older Russian tradition of resisting rationalism, and impressed by the sense of realist aesthetics failing the writer in the task of representing a world that eluded rational comprehension, modernists tended to subordinate artistic concerns to their esoteric convictions. Without appreciation of this spiritual dimension, semantic intention in Russian modernist fiction may escape a reader used to the conventions of realist fiction. It is suggested that contemporary Russian fiction as embodied in certain works by Sorokin, Tuchkov and Khurgin, while stylistically exhibiting a number of features commonly regarded as postmodern, such as parody, pastiche, playfulness, carnivalisation, the grotesque, intertextuality and self-consciousness, seems to resume modernism’s tendency to seek meaning and value for human existence in the transcendent realm, as well as in the cultural, in particular literary, treasures of the past. The closeness of such segments of post-Soviet fiction and modernism in this regard is, it is argued, ultimately contrary to the spirit of postmodernism and its relativistic and particularistic worldview. Hence the suggested conceptualisation of post-Soviet Russian fiction as ‘neo-modernist’.
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Collett, Rachel Joan. "Turning back : continuity and difference in modernist and postmodernist reflexivity." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4256.
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Thesis (MA VA (Visual Arts))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The primary function of paintings and novels in Western culture has historically been considered the depiction or description of reality. Over the course of the last century, however, the inherent reflexivity of both art and literature has become progressively more insistent and programmatic, in such a way as challenges the relationship between form and the world. A re-thinking of the role of representation is thus central to both modernism and postmodernism.
This thesis is an investigation into the relationship between modern and postmodern reflexivity. Through the close examination of four artists who serve as case studies, I argue that literary and artistic modernism‟s emphasis on form and subjectivity, as well as the tendency of postmodern art and writing to flaunt its own status as rhetoric/fiction, are different facets of a continuous response to a rapidly changing world. Using the insights of post-structuralist theory, I suggest that whereas modernism‟s reflexive drive is directed towards truth and self-knowledge, postmodern reflexivity is centrally concerned with the elusive, continually shifting nature of meaning. What emerges in the light of the practice of individual artist and authors, however, is that the modern and postmodern reflexive modes are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but can co-exist, producing a vital and necessary tension.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Beskrywing en uitbeelding van die werklikheid word geskiedkundig as die kernfunksies van skilderye en die roman in die Westerse kultuur beskou. Gedurende die laaste eeu het die inherente refleksiwiteit van beide kuns en letterkunde toenemend meer programmaties en sistematies geword. Dit het geskied op „n wyse wat die verhouding tussen vorm en die wêreld uitdaag. „n Herbesinning van die rol van uitbeelding of representasie is gevolglik van sentrale belang vir beide modernisme en postmodernisme.
Hierdie tesis is „n ondersoek na die verwantskap tussen moderne en postmoderne refleksiwiteit. Deur „n noukerige ondersoek van vier kunstenaars se werk, stel ek voor dat die letterkundige en artistieke klem van modernisme op vorm en subjektiwiteit, sowel as die gebruiklike kenmerk van retoriek/fiksie, verskillende aspekte is van „n voortdurende weerkaatsing op „n vinnig veranderende wêreld is. Deur die teoretiese perspektiewe van post-stukturalisme toe te pas, stel ek voor dat modernistiese refleksiwiteit neig na die waarheid en selfkennis, terwyl postmoderne refleksiwiteit fokus op die onbepaalde en veranderlike aard van betekenis. Nietemin, uit my kritiese beskouing van die kreatiewe praktyk van afsonderlike kunstenaars en skrywers blyk dit dat die modernistiese en postmodernistiese refleksiewe benaderinge nie noodwendig mekaar uitsluit nie, maar saam kan bestaan en „n dinamiese en noodsaaklike spanning skep.
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Conesa, Frank. "Nathanael West, notre contemporain : esthétique de la rupture et figurations du chaos." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012AIXM3077.
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Nathanael West (1903-1940) a écrit un nouveau chapitre de la littérature américaine, avant de disparaître brutalement en 1940. La publication de ses œuvres complètes en 1957 a suscité l'engouement de la scène littéraire américaine qui a vu en lui un précurseur de l'humour noir et de la critique consumériste, ainsi qu'un maître de la parodie et du comique-apocalyptique, alors en vogue dans les années 60. Cependant, il reste un auteur de la marge. Dans un article intitulé « Some Notes on Violence », publié plus tôt en 1932, West prenait ses distances avec le naturalisme et le réalisme social, affirmant qu'en Amérique la violence était « idiomatique » et que le romancier devait adapter son art à une réalité chaque jour plus fulgurante encore. Dans cette étude, nous voulons montrer dans quelle mesure ce regard décalé sur la réalité a fait de West un « contemporain » de son temps. En effet, pour le philosophe italien Giorgio Agamben, celui « qui appartient vraiment à son temps, le vrai contemporain, est celui qui ne coïncide pas avec lui ni n'adhère à ses prétentions, et se définit, en ce sens, comme inactuel ; mais précisément pour cette raison, précisément par cet écart et cet anachronisme, il est plus apte que les autres à percevoir et à saisir son temps ». Au contact de la brutalité et de la vélocité chaotique de sa fiction, à mesure que les plans s'enchaînent, que le récit accélère et que l'espace-temps se contracte jusqu'au point de rupture, nous voyons se dessiner les contours familiers de notre propre réalité<br>American novelist Nathanael West (1903-1940) wrote a new chapter of American literature before he brutally disappeared in 1940. In the wake of the publication of The Complete Works of Nathanael West in 1957, literary critics hailed him as the precursor of black humor, as the critic of consumerism and mass culture, as the master of parody whose comic-apocalyptic tone was in fashion during the 1960s. In an article entitled “Some Notes on Violence” published in 1932, he rejected both naturalism and social realism as being unfit to represent the “idiomatic” violence of American society. According to West, the American writer needed to adapt his art of writing and find more appropriate ways to “handle” the ever-increasing, violent pace of reality. This study examines to what extent West's untimely response to a present reality has made him a true “contemporary.” Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben argues that “[those] who are truly contemporary, who truly belong to their time, are those who neither perfectly coincide with it nor adjust themselves to its demands. […] But precisely because of this condition, precisely through this disconnection and this anachronism, they are more capable than others of perceiving and grasping their own time.” The chaotic brutality of West's figurations, the velocity of his narrative, and the sequential editing of the scenes accelerating to the point of rupture, all mirror our own reality
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Williams, Eleanor. "The Divine and Miss Johanna." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1145555978.
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Weber, Raquel. "Pós-modernismo e regionalidade no romance Glaucha." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2009. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/407.
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Este estudo tem como objetivo investigar aspectos do fenômeno pós-modernista na literatura por meio da análise do romance Glaucha, de Paulo Ribeiro. Discute-se o contexto que permitiu o surgimento dessa tendência contemporânea, explorando sua condição de continuidade e ruptura em relação ao movimento que a antecedeu, o modernismo. Juntamente com a análise do romance, são exploradas as características atribuídas à tendência pós-modernista, ressaltando-se a forte presença da intertextualidade e da paródia. Estuda-se, também, sua relação com conceitos de cultura e de identidade regional, propondo-se a presença da regionalidade como característica constituidora do discurso pós-modernista.<br>Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-28T16:34:28Z
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Dissertacao Raquel Weber.pdf: 4682234 bytes, checksum: 8377ceda95fbe0e25229a74622ffaf41 (MD5)<br>This study intents to investigate the postmodernist phenomenon´s aspects in literature through the analysis of the novel Glaucha, by Paulo Ribeiro. It is argued the context that allowed the appearing of this contemporary trend, exploring its condition of continuity and rupture in relation to the movement that preceded it, modernism. The characteristics attributed to the postmodernist trend are explored with the analysis of the novel, standing out the strong presence of the intertextuality and the parody. It is studied also its relation with culture and regional identity concepts, considering the presence of the regionality as a constitutive characteristic of the postmodernist speech.
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Harrison, Pauline Cecelia. "Textual play and authority in postmodernist metafiction." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21161562.
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Fajardo, Tiffany L. "The World in Singing Made: David Markson's "Wittgenstein's Mistress"." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1861.
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In line with Wittgenstein's axiom that "what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest," this thesis aims to demonstrate how the gulf between analytic and continental philosophy can best be bridged through the mediation of art. The present thesis brings attention to Markson's work, lauded in the tradition of Faulkner, Joyce, and Lowry, as exemplary of the shift from modernity to postmodernity, wherein the human heart is not only in conflict with itself, but with the language out of which it is necessarily constituted. Markson limns the paradoxical condition of the subject severed from intersubjectivity, and affected not only by the grief of bereavement, which can be defined in Heideggarian terms as anxiety for the ontic negation of a being (i.e., death), but by loss, which I assert is the ontological ground for how Dasein encounters the nothing in anxiety proper.
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Mouw, Ted. "Gravity's Rainbow: Modernist Discourse Vineland: Postmodernist Discourse." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1397142953.
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Turcot, Marie-Pierre. "Le récit au fondement d'un moi entre modernité et postmodernité /." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79812.
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This thesis intends to describe the contemporary self as drawn by literary theory and writing practice. This objective implies defining the human being considering its history as well as studying its representation in narratives.<br>In order to circumscribe today's self, we undoubtedly have to study its historical evolution. Exploring the diametrically opposed conceptions suggested by modernity and postmodernity will lead us to a better understanding of the hybrid composition of the contemporary self, which is characterized by a search for coherence and meaning to a multidimensional and constantly evolving individual.<br>This definition, so far theoretical, will have to be confronted with the representations of the self found in autobiographies. The study of such self-narratives will provide the opportunity to observe in concrete terms the conception of the human being today.<br>The essential role of narratives will be identified beforehand. Narrative form certainly allows the representation of the self, but moreover it enters in the constitution and definition of the being itself. Self-narrative permits to establish the coherence of the self, hence it clearly appears at the basis of the identity. Overall, the narrative constitutes the foundation of the contemporary self amidst modernity and postmodernity.
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Deiser, Andrew J. "Barcelones/as : from dictatorship to democracy, from modernity to postmodernity /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3202895.
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Embry, Jason Michael. ""Nam-Shub versus the Big Other: Revising the Language that Binds Us in Philip K. Dick, Neal Stephenson, Samuel R. Delany, and Chuck Palahniuk"." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/46.
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Within the science fiction genre, utopian as well as dystopian experiments have found equal representation. This balanced treatment of two diametrically opposed social constructs results from a focus on the future for which this particular genre is well known. Philip K. Dick’s VALIS, Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, Samuel R. Delany’s Babel-17, and Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby, more aptly characterized as speculative fiction because of its use of magic against scientific social subjugation, each tackle dystopian qualities of contemporary society by analyzing the power that language possesses in the formation of the self and propagation of ideology. The utopian goals of these texts advocate for a return to the modernist metanarrative and a revision of postmodern cynicism because the authors look to the future for hopeful solutions to the social and ideological problems of today. Using Slavoj Žižek’s readings of Jacques Lacan and Theodor Adorno’s readings of Karl Marx for critical insight, I argue these four novels imagine language as the key to personal empowerment and social change. While not all of the novels achieve their utopian goals, they each evince a belief that the attempt belies a return to the modernist metanarrative and a rejection of postmodern helplessness. Thus, each novel imagines the revision of Žižek’s big Other through the remainders of Adorno’s inevitably failed revolutions, injecting hope in a literary period that had long since lost it.
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Oliveira, Ana Maria Dantas Cunha de Miranda. "As imagens da identidade portuguesa entre milenios, em tres ficcionistas atuais." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270769.
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Previous issue date: 2008<br>Resumo: Este trabalho, colocado no âmbito das relações entre literatura e cultura, analisa as imagens e representações da identidade portuguesa entre milênios (final do século XX e início do XXI). A partir do estudo de textos de Lídia Jorge, João Aguiar e Maria João Lehning, procura colocar em relevo a tensão entre resistência e deslocamento. Verifica que o texto da primeira autora põe em evidência todo o imaginário nacional, que dos tempos proto-históricos ao fim do século XX formou as configurações culturais de Portugal e do homem português, numa perspectiva desconstrutiva e dinâmica, em que o passado, que não é um destino, se apresenta como ponto de partida para uma construção do futuro. Em João Aguiar é o contexto da globalização e da União Européia que passam para primeiro lugar, em que mitos, imagens e valores que faziam o imaginário português já só pertencem à memória. Nele a resistência maior ou menor, dependendo dos textos, à perda da identidade se configura dentro de um quadro de morte e/ou de ressurreição. Já em Maria João Lehning é o fim da imigração européia e o regresso que são tematizados, e com eles as mudanças nas últimas décadas na fisionomia portuguesa proporcionadas pelos efeitos da globalização e do multiculturalismo. Nos vários textos a história e a memória são elementos fundamentais de recuperação do passado, mas dentro da condição pós-moderna de fim da história, vista principalmente como ¿histórias¿, como entrelaçamento de história e ficção. A organização do trabalho contempla no Capítulo I uma reflexão sobre as noções envolvidas na discussão e a revisão bibliográfica do imaginário nacional, a partir do olhar de alguns dos mais conceituados pensadores da cultura portuguesa no século XX. O Capítulo II ocupa-se da análise dos textos literários tendo em vista a apreensão das imagens identitárias na atualidade. O Capítulo III é uma interpretação da forma do imaginário proposto nas obras de ficção, a partir do olhar da pós-modernidade na perspectiva de Gianni Vattimo<br>Abstract: The present work was carried out in the scope of the relations between literature and culture, and analyzes the images and representations of the Portuguese identity between millennia (final of 20th. century and beginning of the 21th.) Based on the study of Lidia Jorge, João Aguiar and Maria João Lehning texts, it is intended to highlight the tension between resistance and displacement. The text of the first author intends to show that the national imaginary, since the proto - historical times till to the to the end of 20th. century, formed the cultural configurations of Portugal and the Portuguese man, in a negative and dynamic perspective, where the past, which is not a destination, represents a starting point
for the construction of the future. In João Aguiar the context of globalization and European Union takes the first place, where myths, images and values which made the Portuguese imaginary belong to the past memory. To this author, depending on the texts, the degree of resistance to the loss of the identity is configured within a death and/or resurrection frame. To Maria João Lehning it is the end of the immigration to Europe and the return home which are the thematic subjects, and with them the changes, in the last few decades, in the Portuguese physiognomy caused by the globalization and the multicultural effects. In the above authors texts, history and memory are the basic elements to recover the past, as an end of history from a post-modern condition, and seen mainly as ¿stories¿, of an interlacement of history and fiction. The organization of the work includes in Chapter I a reflection on the basic concepts involved in the discussion and bibliographical revision on the national imaginary, from the point of view of some of the most appraised thinkers of the 20th. century Portuguese culture. Chapter II is dedicated to the analysis of the literary texts in view of the apprehension of the identity images at the present times. Chapter III is an interpretation of the considered form of the imaginary in the fiction workmanships, from the look of postmodernity in the perspective of Gianni Vattimo<br>Doutorado<br>Literatura Portuguesa<br>Doutor em Linguística
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Oliveira, Deise de. "Um mundo fora dos eixos: a literatura russa contemporânea através do Russian Booker Prize." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8155/tde-16082012-122739/.
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Nosso projeto consiste na discussão sobre a literatura e cultura contemporânea na Rússia, especialmente a questão do Pós-modernismo, por um recorte específico: a análise das obras ganhadoras do concurso Russian Booker Prize com enfoque no processo de classificação adotado pelos júris , bem como um apanhado geral da premiação na Rússia. Para tal, analisaremos, em um primeiro momento, os pensadores e críticos mais representativos dessa prosa alternativa ou pós-moderna, sempre com um embasamento histórico. Entender o indivíduo pós-soviético será de fundamental importância para lidar com os temas e personagens dos romances vencedores. Em um segundo momento, nosso trabalho será o de investigar os critérios utilizados pela banca, a fim de tentar encontrar (se houver) algum ponto comum entre algumas das obras ganhadoras. Pensar em tais pontos será de suma importância para compreender os sistemas de valores dos críticos envolvidos nesse processo de premiação, além de colaborar para o enriquecimento de uma nova abordagem analítica da nova literatura russa e de alguns de seus nomes mais prolíficos.<br>Our project consists in the discussion of contemporary literature and culture in Russia, especially the question of post-modernism, by a specific focus: the analysis of the winning works of the Russian Booker Prize contest focusing on the process of classification adopted by the judges as well as a overview of the awards in Russia. To this end, we will analyze, at first, critical thinkers and most representative of this \"prose alternative\" or post-modern, always with a historical foundation. Understanding the individual post-Soviet is of fundamental importance to deal with the issues and characters of novels winners. In a second step, our work is to investigate the criteria used by banks in order to try to find (if any) a common point among some of the winning works. Think about these points will be extremely important to understand the value systems of the critics involved in the awards process, and contribute to the enrichment of a new analytical approach of the new Russian literature and some of its most prolific names.
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Copenhaver, Bonny Ball. "A portrayal of gender and a description of gender roles in selected American modern and postmodern plays." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2002. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0212102-095131/unrestricted/copenhaverb.pdf.
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Ferrari, Bruno. "Sobre seleções e apagamentos: história, memória e política de identidade em Caramelo de Sandra Asneros e Memory Mambo de Achy Obejas." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2006. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=136.
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O objetivo desta dissertação é investigar o papel da memória como forma de desnaturalização da história tradicional e como instrumento importante na articulação de uma política de identidade em Caramelo, da chicana Sandra Cisneros, e em Memory Mambo, da cubana-americana Achy Obejas. O trabalho focaliza as estratégias narrativas e temas utilizados pelas escritoras a fim de subverter a história tradicional. Em Caramelo, através do uso da polifonia e de elementos paratextuais e metaficcionais na narrativa, Cisneros cruza a fronteira entre o público e o privado, entrelaçando história e memória. Partindo das recordações pessoais que a personagem Soledad compartilha com sua neta Lala, Cisneros acaba por narrar a história do povo chicano, conferindo-lhe um caráter memorialista. Em Memory Mambo, Obejas também cruza a fronteira entre o público e o privado através do entrelaçamento das memórias contraditórias da família de imigrantes/ exilados Casas y Molina com eventos da história cubana. Ao problematizar a memória no exílio, Obejas rompe com uma tradição na literatura de exílio cubana de produzir representações históricas nostálgicas em relação a um passado idílico. Assim, ambas as escritoras questionam o status de verdade absoluta da história, enfatizando seu caráter artificial e contraditório, ao mesmo tempo em que ressaltam a natureza construída dos modos de representação.<br>The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the role of memory in the de-naturalization of history and in the articulation of an identity politics in Caramelo by Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros and in Memory Mambo by Cuban-American writer Achy Obejas. This work focuses on the narrative strategies and themes used by the authors in order to subvert traditional history. In Caramelo, through the use of poliphony and of paratextual and metafictional elements in the narrative, Cisneros crosses the boundary between the public and the private, interweaving history and memory. Starting from the personal recollections, which Mexican Soledad passes on to her granddaughter Lala, Cisneros narrates the history of chicanos, giving it a memorial character. In Memory Mambo, Obejas also crosses the boundary between the public and the private through the interlacement of the contradictory memories of the Casas y Molina a family of immigrants/exiles and the history of Cuba. As Obejas problematizes memory in exile, she breaks up with a tradition in the Cuban literature of exile of producing nostalgic historical representations, fixed on an idyllic past. Thus, both writers question historys status of absolute truth, emphasizing its contradictory and artificial nature and highlighting, at the same time, the constructed nature of the modes of representation.
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Pinto, Marcela de Araujo. "Rememoração e renembrança : a revisão de perspectivas históricas em Beloved (1987), de Toni Morrison, e Desmundo (1996), de Ana Miranda /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99138.
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Orientador: Giséle Manganelli Fernandes<br>Banca: Manuel Fernando Medina<br>Banca: Norma Wimmer<br>Resumo: Os conceitos de rememoração e renembrança são apresentados e definidos nos romances Beloved (1987), da autora norte-americana Toni Morrison, e Desmundo (1996), da autora brasileira Ana Miranda, respectivamente, como processos pertencentes ao fenômeno mnemônico, incorporados ao espaço ficcional para revisar perspectivas históricas nacionais oficiais. Ambos os romances foram elaborados a partir de fatos ocorridos em momentos históricos cruciais da grande narrativa de formação nacional dos Estados Unidos e do Brasil. Beloved resgata o crime cometido pela escrava foragida Margaret Garner, poucos anos antes da Guerra Civil (1861-1865), quando matou a própria filha na tentativa de evitar que suas crianças voltassem para a fazenda onde seriam escravizadas. Desmundo retoma a vivência de uma das órfãs enviadas pelo rei de Portugal à colônia Brasil, no século XVI, para servirem como esposas, a pedido dos padres que esperavam extinguir os hábitos dos colonos de se relacionarem com as índias. A confluência entre memória, história e literatura acontece nesses romances por meio da rememoração e da renembrança que se configuram, ao mesmo tempo, como processos mnemônicos realizados pelas personagens e como estruturas narrativas. A rememoração é definida como a imagem que permanece (individualmente e no mundo) quando algo deixa de existir; a renembrança é originada a partir de experiências singulares e possui relações com um mundo fantasioso. Ambas compartilham características ligadas ao enigma da representação que retoma eventos do passado, tais como a construção paradoxal de ausências e distâncias. Porém, a rememoração possibilita a memória coletiva, enquanto a renembrança ocasiona a memória individual. As estratégias narrativas de cada romance acompanham a caracterização de cada um desses processos, distinguindo-se na constituição da memória... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)<br>Abstract: The concepts of rememory and renembrança are presented and defined in Toni Morrison‟s Beloved (1987) and Ana Miranda‟s Desmundo (1996), respectively, as mnemonic processes incorporated into the fictional space in order to revise official national historical perspectives. The American and the Brazilian novels were both based on facts that took place in crucial historical moments of the master narrative concerning the national formation of each country. Beloved revisits the crime committed by Margaret Garner, a fugitive slave, during the pre-Civil War years, when she killed her own daughter in an attempt to save her children from returning to slavery. Desmundo recollects the experiences of one of the Portuguese orphan girls sent to sixteenth-century colonial Brazil to serve as wives, by orders of the king and by the request of the priests who wanted to put an end to the sexual relations among Portuguese colonialists and natives. Rememory and Renembrança set the interrelations between memory, history and literature because they are the mnemonic processes engendered by the characters and, at the same time, they form the structure of the novels. Rememory is defined as the image that lasts (individually and in the world) when something no longer exists; renembrança originates from singular experiences and establishes relations with a fantasy world. The two processes share features related to the enigma of representation that recaptures past events, such as paradoxical constructions of absences and distances. However, rememory triggers collective memory whereas renembrança belongs to individual memory. The narrative strategies of each novel follow the characteristics of each process, distinguishing themselves in the creation of characters‟ memory and experiences. These differences, though, converge to a common objective of preventing the erasure of the past not only through... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)<br>Mestre
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Agildo, João Rodrigo Lima. "A crise da esquerda norte-americana em \'The Book of Daniel\', de E.L. Doctorow." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-08112007-154057/.
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A problemática do narrador na teoria do romance aumenta à medida que as relações humanas se tornam mais complexas e abrangentes. Daí a importância de mostrar ao público o escritor norte-americano E.L. Doctorow e seu romance The Book of Daniel de 1971, uma vez que através da figura do narrador, neste romance, tem-se acesso às suas diferentes visões da História norte-americana. O sujeito no pós-modernismo (período em que o romance está inserido) perde a sua capacidade de organizar a narrativa de maneira homogênea, e esta assume, mais do que nunca, o caráter de narrativa fragmentária e de difícil vinculação com o tempo. Só resta, então, ter acesso a esta \"realidade\" histórica por meio de imagens e estereótipos proporcionados pelo narrador da história, daí o nosso interesse em mostrar como estas diferentes vozes da narração veiculam o conteúdo histórico pungente da narrativa, isto é, o comunismo dos anos 30 e 40 e a sua versão mais radical nos anos 60 e como isto pode contribuir para a discussão da relação entre narração e História.<br>The question of the narrator in the theory of the novel develops into a central issue as human relations become broader and more complex. Hence the importance of introducing to the readers the North-American writer E. L. Doctorow and his novel The Book of Daniel, written in 1971, in which, through the narrator, one is presented with his different views on the North American History. The subject in post-modernism (when the book was written) is no longer able to organize the narrative homogeneously, which becomes fragmentary and time problematic. Thus, this \"historical reality\" is only available through the images and stereotypes provided by the narrator, and our aim in this study is to show how these different voices (of the narrator) convey the historical content of the narrative, i.e, the comunism of the 30s and 40s, and its later radical version of the 60s, and how this analysis contributes to the discussion of the relationship between narration and History.
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Rüsche, Ana. "Utopia, feminismo e resignação em The left hand of darkness e The handmaid\'s tale." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-09092015-164853/.
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Os romances norte-americanos The left Hand of Darkness de Usula Le Guin (1969) e The Handmaids Tale de Margaret Atwood (1985) traduzem os anseios dos ideários políticos e feministas em seus momentos de publicação. As obras são consideradas, respectivamente, u m romance utópico do gênero ficção científica e um romance distópico que se tornou best seller. The left Hand of Darkness coloca, em fragmentos, a questão do planeta Gethen, que se vê diante de uma ginada histórica: ingressar ou não, figurando como uma nação periférica, no Ekumen, uma liga interplanetária. O planeta é habitado por seres ambissexuais e recebe a visita do Enviado, um homem, o incumbindo em trazer esta questão. The Handmaids Tale traz relatos da Aia Offred, residente de Gilead, nação que seria um fantasmagórico duplo dos Estados Unidos dos anos de 1980, onde se instituiu um governo teocrático, abolindo os direitos mais básicos de todas as mulheres, embora restem mantidas a propriedade privada e a produção capitalista. Offred é uma Aia, o seu útero é tutelado por este Estado e seus relatos foram reconstituídos por dois professores em um simpósio acadêmico no ano de 2195. No trabalho, discute-se a impossibilidade da configuração da utopia nos romances, observando-se as teorias feministas e estudos de gênero na segunda metade do século XX; as formas literárias dentro da noção do que seria o romance no pós - modernismo; a crítica da representação e suas funções ideológicas e a emergência de impulsos utópicos em produtos da cultura de massa, tendo em vista a medologia desenvolvida pela crítica materialista, com ênfase nas análises de Fredric Jameson na obra Archaeologies of the future: the desire called utopia and other science fictions.<br>The North American novels The Left Hand of Darkness by Usula Le Guin (1969) and The Handmaid\'s Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985) reflect the political and feminist aspirations at the time they were each published. They are considered, respectively, a science-fiction utopian novel and a best-seller dystopian novel. The Left Hand of Darkness presents, in a fragmented way, the question faced by the planet Gethen at a turning point in its history: to join or not, as a peripheral nation, the interplanetary league known as Ekumen. The planet is inhabited by \"ambisexuals\" beings and receives a visit from the Envoy\", a male, who is tasked with presenting this choice to Gethen. The Handmaid\'s Tale tells the story of the handmaid Offred, a resident of Gilead, a nation that represents a phantasmagoric version of the United States in the 1980s, where a theocratic government was stablished, suppresing the most basic rights of all women, while mantaining capitalism and private property. Offred is a handmaid, which uterus is managed by this state and her story is reconstituted by two professors in an academic symposium in the year 2195. In this paper, I discuss the impossibility of the utopia in these novels, taking in account feminist theo ry and gender studies in the second half of the twentieth century; literary forms and the idea of what would constitute the postmodern novel; the critique of representation and its ideological functions and the emergence of utopic impulses in the products of mass culture, having in mind the to metodology developed by the materialist critique, with emphasis in Fredric Jameson and his work Archaeologies of the future: the desire called utopia and other science fictions.
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Ribeiro, Rejane de Almeida. "O pós-moderno e a relação entre literatura e história em "Running dog", de Don Delillo /." São José do Rio Preto : [s.n.], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99113.
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Orientador: Giséle Manganelli Fernandes<br>Banca: Paulo Sérgio Nolasco dos Santos<br>Banca: Álvaro Luiz Hattnher<br>Resumo: A partir de teorias sobre o pós-moderno e sobre as relações entre Literatura e História, realiza-se a análise da obra Running Dog (1978), do autor norte-americano Don DeLillo, a fim de verificar quais elementos históricos, culturais, sociais e políticos estão presentes na narrativa. Aborda-se também como esses aspectos são estruturados de maneira estética, ou seja, qual é o projeto ficcional do autor. O romance traz uma busca por um filme supostamente pornográfico que teria Hitler como uma de suas personagens. Na verdade, quando o filme é encontrado, vemos o líder nazista frágil, debilitado, imitando Charlie Chaplin em O Grande Ditador (1940), revelando, assim, uma outra imagem do Führer. O trabalho apresenta uma discussão sobre a postura crítica do autor frente à História oficial, bem como à cultura contemporânea.<br>Abstract: This thesis presents an analysis of the novel Running Dog (1978), by Don DeLillo, based on theories that focus on postmodern issues, Literature and History, in order to verify which historical, social and political elements are aproached in the book. It is discussed how these aspects are aesthetically structured, that is, what the author's fictional project is. The narrative shows the search for an alleged pornographic film that would have Hitler as one of its characters. In fact, when the film is found, we see a debilitated, fragile Nazi leader, imitating Charles Chaplin in The Great Dictator (1940). Thus, the author discloses another image of the Führer. This study also addresses DeLillo's criticism towards official History and contemporary culture.<br>Mestre
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Jappe, Rodrigo. "A postmodernist myth in Gilfriend in a Coma." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/33258.
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A investigação do romance Girlfriend in a Coma permitiu perceber alguns elementos centrais que estruturam a obra como mito e paródia. O mundo ficcional é caracterizado por uma sociedade à beira de um colapso devido a sua incapacidade de mudar seu comportamento e sequer consegue perceber o que está errado. Na narrativa são utilizados recursos estéticos identificados com o realismo maravilhoso, pois, juntamente com a descrição de eventos coerentes com a racionalidade humana, há eventos sobrenaturais realizados pelo divino. Nesta narrativa, a ideologia do trabalho árduo como estruturador da vida em uma sociedade democrática e capitalista é esfacelado em vista dos terríveis efeitos sentidos pelos personagens: trabalho extenuante, drogadição, anorexia e individualismo. Com o uso de teoria da narrativa e pós-modernista, argumenta-se que este romance é um ‗mito do novo mundo‘ ao fazer uso da paródia como forma de contestar meta-narrativas, e ao propor novas cosmogonias baseadas na experiência pós-colonial Canadense.<br>The investigation of the novel Girlfriend in a Coma revealed some central elements that structure this work as myth and parody. The fictional world is characterized by a society incapable of changing its behavior or even realizing what is wrong with it. In the narrative some aesthetic resources are used which are related to magic realism because, along with the description of events coherent with human rationality, there are supernatural events performed by the divine. In this narrative, the ideology of hard work as the main structure of life in a democratic capitalist society is unveiled, taking into account some terrible effects felt by the characters, such as: overworking, drug addiction, anorexia and individualism. With the use of narrative theory and postmodernist theory, it is argued that this novel is a ‗new world myth‘ because it makes use of parody as a way to refute masternarratives and to suggest new cosmogonies based on the Canadian post-colonial experience.
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Amsberg, de Almeida Aline 1983. "A carne que resta : manifestações do híbrido na literatura de ficção científica contemporânea." [s.n.], 2015. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270053.
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Potkalitsky, Nicolas J. "Refracted Realism and the Ethical Dominant in Contemporary American Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563283222402333.
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Sandbacka, K. (Kasimir). "Utopia derailed:Rosa Liksom's retrospection of the modern project." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2017. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526216027.
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Abstract Rosa Liksom is one of the most internationally recognized contemporary Finnish authors and leading Finnish postmodernists. Indeed, the postmodernist aesthetics of her works have received most of the academic attention: features such as irony, dark humor, intertextuality, and parody have been convincingly studied. Liksom’s singular public image has been connected to these aesthetics, but although her cosmopolitanism is often mentioned, her postmodern nonconformity has usually been read in a local and a national context. Liksom’s engagement with modernity has been only implicitly and insufficiently explicated. This dissertation focuses on Liksom’s works and public image in the broader historical context of the modern project in its 20th century legacy. The study of Liksom’s engagement with the utopianism of the modern project is paramount to a deeper understanding of the politico-ethical underpinnings of Liksom’s works and image. To examine Liksom’s retrospection of the modern project, this dissertation makes use of a broad range of theoretical approaches, which can be collectively summarized as contextual close reading. The central theoretical framework is Fredric Jameson’s theory of postmodernism. Other important theories are Linda Hutcehon’s theories of postmodernism and irony, Svetlana Boym’s typology of nostalgia, as well as Krishan Kumar’s theory of utopia. This study elucidates the complexity of Liksom’s engagement with the modern project and bestows new importance on the positive, constructive elements of Liksom’s works that have hitherto gained less attention. Liksom’s works try to salvage something from the history of the modern project instead of merely lingering in the negative attempt to deconstruct historical truths and dismantle the very possibility of such truths. Below the irony and criticism of utopianism in Liksom’s artistic ethos runs a mournful undercurrent that broods over the lack of agency and political choices we seem to face in our present historical condition, and a nostalgia that reflects upon the lost utopian potentialities of the past. Liksom’s works suggest this process of mourning may result in a tentative prospect of communion between people and cultures based on an understanding of their shared situatedness in a postmodern, uncertain world<br>Tiivistelmä Rosa Liksom on kansainvälisesti tunnetuimpia suomalaisia nykykirjailijoita ja keskeisiä postmodernisteja. Akateeminen kiinnostus onkin keskittynyt ensisijaisesti hänen teostensa postmoderniin estetiikkaan: teosten ironiaa, musta huumoria, intertekstuaalisuutta ja parodiaa on tutkittu ansiokkaasti. Liksomin ainutlaatuinen taiteilijakuva on kytketty tähän estetiikkaan, mutta vaikka hänen kosmopoliittisuutensa usein mainitaankin, hänen postmodernia epäsovinnaisuuttaan on yleensä tulkittu lokaalissa ja kansallisessa viitekehyksessä. Toistaiseksi Liksomin suhdetta modernin ajan ihanteisiin on pohdittu vain välillisesti ja riittämättömästi. Tässä väitöskirjassa Liksomin teoksia ja julkisuuskuvaa käsitellään laajemmassa viitekehyksessä, nimittäin modernin projektin ja sen 1900-luvun perinnön kontekstissa. Ymmärtääksemme Liksomin teosten ja julkisuuskuvan poliittis-eettisiä perustuksia syvällisemmin on välttämätöntä tarkastella hänen suhdettaan moderniin utooppisuuteen. Tässä väitöskirjassa selvitetään monipuolisen teoreettisen välineistön avulla, kuinka Liksom retrospektiivisesti tarkastelee modernin projektia. Teoreettista lähestymistapaa voidaan kutsua kontekstuaaliseksi lähiluvuksi. Keskeinen teoreettinen viitekehys on Fredric Jamesonin postmodernismin teoria. Muita keskeisiä teorioita ovat Linda Hutcheonin teoria postmodernismista ja ironiasta, Svetlana Boymin nostalgian typologia, sekä Krishan Kumarin ja utopia-teoria. Liksomin taiteellisen eetoksen ironisuuden ja utopiakritiikin alla kulkee surumielinen pohjavire, joka pohtii nykyisessä historiallisessa tilanteessa kohtamaamme toimijuuden ja poliittisten vaihtoehtojen puutetta, ja nostalginen pohjavire, joka mietiskelee menetettyjä utooppisia mahdollisuuksia. Liksomin teoksiset antavat ymmärtää, että tämän suruprosessin tuloksena voi olla mahdollisuus löytää ihmisten ja kulttuurien välinen yhteys, joka perustuu ymmärrykseen siitä, että me kaikki paikannumme postmoderniin, epävarmaan maailmaan
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Gatteli, Vanessa Hack. "Rumos épicos : a arquitetura intertextual de Uma viagem à Índia, de Gonçalo M. Tavares." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/150305.
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Essa dissertação trata da intertextualidade na obra Uma Viagem à Índia (2010), de Gonçalo M. Tavares, com narrativas e personagens épicos da Literatura Universal, desde Homero até a contemporaneidade. O objetivo é descobrir como a epopeia, um gênero literário em desuso, funciona no século XXI. Também investigo o protagonista do poema narrativo não consegue se libertar de seu passado e o de sua pátria, mesmo buscando tanto por “sabedoria e esquecimento”. Diferente da metaficção historiográfica, termo cunhado por Linda Hutcheon para apontar uma tendência da literatura pós-modernista, a epopeia de Tavares não consegue se redimir do seu passado. Por meio de uma pesquisa teórica da epopeia, a dissertação analisa o gênero épico a partir de autores como Hansen (2008) e Staiger (1997). As definições teóricas são cruzadas com obras de diferentes épocas, como a Ilíada (2011), a Odisseia (2014), Os Lusíadas (2002), Ulysses (2000), dentre outros, sempre tendo em vista o diálogo com a obra Uma Viagem à Índia. O paralelo com a arquitetura também é uma constante, já que teóricos como Hutcheon (1988) e Jameson (1997) usaram-na para teorizar sobre o pós-modernismo. Uma Viagem à Índia, sendo uma obra pós-modernista, aqui é comparada à arquitetura de motéis de algumas cidades brasileiras, cujo visual – deslocado na geografia e no tempo – não é apenas anacrônico, mas também artificial, assim como a epopeia no século XXI. O episódio da “Ilha dos Amores” é analisado em uma leitura mais próxima ao texto, feita com embasamento na obra O Erotismo (2013), de Bataille, e permeada por diferentes intertextos. Por fim, após todo esse cruzamento de intertextos, o conceito de pós-humanismo de Sloterdijk (2010) se mostra como chave para uma possível compreensão do porquê a obra de Tavares não tenta “reescrever” o passado como a metaficção historiográfica: em um mundo pós-humanista, onde já se sabe que o próprio homem também é culpado das atrocidades que lhe acometem, resgatar vozes silenciadas por meio de obras metaficcionais talvez não faça mais sentido.<br>This study addresses intertextuality in the work Uma Viagem à Índia [A Trip to India] (2010), by Gonçalo M. Tavares, with epic narratives and characters of Universal Literature, from Homer to contemporary times. The objective is to find out how epic, a literary genre that fell into disuse, works in the 21st century. I also investigate the protagonist of the narrative poem, who is not able to break free from his past and the past of his homeland, despite his extensive search for "wisdom and oblivion". Unlike historiographic metafiction, term coined by Linda Hutcheon to point to a trend of postmodern literature, Tavares' epic is not able to redeem itself from its past. Through a theoretical research of epic, the paper analyzes this genre from authors such as Hansen (2008) and Staiger (1997). The theoretical definitions are contrasted with works from different periods, such as the Iliad (2011), the Odyssey (2014), The Lusiads (2002), and Ulysses (2000), among others, always considering the dialogue with the work Uma Viagem à Índia. The parallel with architecture is also constant, since theorists such as Hutcheon (1988) and Jameson (1997) used it to theorize about postmodernism. Considering that it is a postmodern work, here Uma Viagem à Índia is compared to traits of epic in texts of the 21st century and to the architecture of love hotels of some Brazilian cities, whose aspect, geographically and chronologically displaced, is not only anachronistic but also artificial. The episode named "Ilha dos Amores" [Island of Loves] is analyzed with a reading that is closer to the text, based in the work Eroticism (2013), by Bataille, and permeated by different intertexts. Finally, after all this intersection of intertexts, Sloterdijk's (2010) concept of posthumanism is featured as key to a possible understanding of why Tavares' work does not try to "rewrite" the past as historiographic metafiction: in a posthumanist world, where humans themselves are known to also be guilty of the atrocities that affect them, rescuing voices that are silenced through metafictional works may not make much sense anymore.
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Ligairi, Rachel Mae. "The Familiar Foreign Country: Reading Mexico in Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/935.
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My thesis examines the discourse of Mexico in the works of three twentieth-century American authors-Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac, and Katherine Anne Porter-in order to analyze representations of Otherness in modernism and postmodernism. I seek to destabilize the dividing line between these periods as well as to show how representation in postmodernity has become more problematic due in large part to the proliferation of consumer culture. Though the Mexico that McCarthy employs in Blood Meridian and the Border Trilogy (All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain) escapes many stereotypes, his Mexico is merely a staging ground that he uses to examine postmodern questions of philosophy while deconstructing myths such as the Old West and Manifest Destiny and reflecting on the ramifications of World War II. Therefore, McCarthy elides Mexico by using its Otherness as a mirror that enables reflection on the Self. Kerouac too is interested in using Mexico to solve U.S. problems. In On the Road, Kerouac's fictional counterpart, Sal Paradise, searches for the authenticity missing from middle-class American life by ultimately turning to the "authentic" Mexico. Though he is able to distinguish between simulations and reality in his own cultural context, once south of the border Sal misrecognizes what is a hypperreal Mexico for supreme authenticity. By contrast, when Katherine Anne Porter crosses the border, she is quick to identify corruption and revolutionary failure in Mexico. When pieces such as "Xochimilco" and "María Concepción" are placed alongside that of the work of Diego Rivera, a leader in the Mexican muralist movement, it becomes clear that Porter essentializes her Mexican subjects with the specific political goal in mind of furthering the revolution. Additionally, by crossing the generic lines separating fiction and non-fiction, Porter approximates what could be called a postmodern form of ethnography. Yet all of her representational strategies are tempered, especially in her last Mexican story, Hacienda, by an awareness that representations of Other cannot be other than flawed.
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Nydahl, Margareta. "Från Potebnja till Barthes - den tidiga formalismens materialisering : Återproblematiseringar av Viktor Šklovskijs metodimmanenta princip." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för slaviska och baltiska språk, finska, nederländska och tyska, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-194025.
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In the course of this thesis, decisive problematizations, in the Foucauldian sense, around Viktor Šklovskij’s early Russian Formalism shall be the object of re-problematizations. More precisely, a careful look will be taken at re-problematizations around theoretical aspects regarding Šklovskij’s paradigmatic reductionist model, primarily as it is introduced in his article Art as device (1917), described most notably by Aage Hansen-Löve and Wolf Schmid in Der Russische Formalismus (1978) and Slavische Erzähltheorie (2010), Elemente der Narratologie (2014) as well as Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Erzählen (2018) respectively. The thesis will distinguish four main problematizations divided into two parts, taking the Marxist-Leninist debate on Formalism stirred by People’s Commissar Trotsky and the Nietzschean Dionysian-Apollonian dichotomy characteristic of Russian Modernism as its starting points, encompassing the problematizations as a whole. The initial part of the thesis will address re-problematizations around Šklovskij’s formalist polemics with and misinterpretation of Alexandr Potebnja’s Humboldtian theories, as they appear chiefly in the monograph Thought and Language (1862), in order to illustrate how Šklovskij’s frames a continuum with Potebnja descending from the teachings of Wilhelm von Humboldt. The re-problematizations shall be underpinned by Victor Erlich in Russian Formalism. History – Doctrine (1980), Jacqueline Fontaine in La « innere Form » : de Potebnja aux formalistes (2006) and Serge Tchougounnikov in The formal method in Germany and Russia: the beginnings of European psycholinguistics (2018). The second part of the thesis will foreground the (French) (post)structuralist discourse which, according to this thesis, shapes the formation of problematizations around Šklovskij’s immanent reductionism against the backdrop of Boris Tomaševskij’s interpretation of Formalism in Teorija literatury. Poetika (1925) and also the ideological exchange of the 1920s, assuming this backdrop as part of a definitive understanding and materialist critique of Šklovskij’s reductionist terminology, the homogeneity of its outcome, and what Wolf Schmid calls its anti-substantialism particularly in regards to the binary concept fabula and sjužet. The re-problematizations evolve around what is taken as a materialist solution to these problematizations, which annulls the Aristotelian significance of sjužet as energeia by replacing it with ergon. The discussion will take its point of departure in Göran Sonesson’s article Semiotics of art, life, and thought: Three scenarios for (post)modernity (2011) and search the basis for Sonesson’s argument in Roland Barthes’ article Ecrivains et écrivants (1960). By highlighting Šklovskij’s early Formalism as a mode of experiencing Art on its own terms, this thesis aims to revive its aesthetic principle and the question whether it can enlighten modern literary science.
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Thue-Tun, Marie-Carmen. "Vernon Lee (Violet Paget,1856-1935) : une odyssée scripturale entre romantisme et modernité." Phd thesis, Université de la Réunion, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00671392.
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Vernon Lee est une femme de lettres d'origine britannique, dont l'œuvre éclectique est située dans le contexte historique et socio-culturel de l'Angleterre victorienne de la fin-de-siècle dite "décadente" (1880-1914). La problématique de cette thèse est axée autour de deux fils conducteurs : d'une part, le regard que Vernon Lee porte sur la société de son époque, et d'autre part, son intérêt pour les récentes découvertes dans le domaine des Sciences humaines. Les années 1890 représentent une ère de transition entre le Romantisme et le Modernisme. On peut donc parler d'héritage romantique en ce qui concerne l'inspiration et l'imaginaire des écrivains victoriens de la fin du XIXème siècle. La littérature de la Décadence privilégie les thèmes mythiques, en particulier le mythe de la Femme fatale. L'esthétisme et l'éthique sont au cœur de l'œuvre de Vernon Lee. Écrivain et témoin de son époque, elle utilise son écriture pour défendre la condition féminine. C'est avant tout une écriture avant-gardiste, orientée vers le Modernisme. En effet, les récentes découvertes scientifiques (notamment la linguistique, la psychologie et la psychanalyse) influencent son écriture, lui permettant d'accéder au mieux à l'intériorité de ses personnages.
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Ribeiro, Rejane de Almeida [UNESP]. "O pós-moderno e a relação entre literatura e história em Running dog, de Don Delillo." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99113.
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Pinto, Marcela de Araujo [UNESP]. "Rememoração e renembrança: a revisão de perspectivas históricas em Beloved (1987), de Toni Morrison, e Desmundo (1996), de Ana Miranda." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99138.
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pinto_ma_me_sjrp.pdf: 746600 bytes, checksum: 0e3b007b8cfb91086d80f31f409204a7 (MD5)<br>Os conceitos de rememoração e renembrança são apresentados e definidos nos romances Beloved (1987), da autora norte-americana Toni Morrison, e Desmundo (1996), da autora brasileira Ana Miranda, respectivamente, como processos pertencentes ao fenômeno mnemônico, incorporados ao espaço ficcional para revisar perspectivas históricas nacionais oficiais. Ambos os romances foram elaborados a partir de fatos ocorridos em momentos históricos cruciais da grande narrativa de formação nacional dos Estados Unidos e do Brasil. Beloved resgata o crime cometido pela escrava foragida Margaret Garner, poucos anos antes da Guerra Civil (1861-1865), quando matou a própria filha na tentativa de evitar que suas crianças voltassem para a fazenda onde seriam escravizadas. Desmundo retoma a vivência de uma das órfãs enviadas pelo rei de Portugal à colônia Brasil, no século XVI, para servirem como esposas, a pedido dos padres que esperavam extinguir os hábitos dos colonos de se relacionarem com as índias. A confluência entre memória, história e literatura acontece nesses romances por meio da rememoração e da renembrança que se configuram, ao mesmo tempo, como processos mnemônicos realizados pelas personagens e como estruturas narrativas. A rememoração é definida como a imagem que permanece (individualmente e no mundo) quando algo deixa de existir; a renembrança é originada a partir de experiências singulares e possui relações com um mundo fantasioso. Ambas compartilham características ligadas ao enigma da representação que retoma eventos do passado, tais como a construção paradoxal de ausências e distâncias. Porém, a rememoração possibilita a memória coletiva, enquanto a renembrança ocasiona a memória individual. As estratégias narrativas de cada romance acompanham a caracterização de cada um desses processos, distinguindo-se na constituição da memória...<br>The concepts of rememory and renembrança are presented and defined in Toni Morrison‟s Beloved (1987) and Ana Miranda‟s Desmundo (1996), respectively, as mnemonic processes incorporated into the fictional space in order to revise official national historical perspectives. The American and the Brazilian novels were both based on facts that took place in crucial historical moments of the master narrative concerning the national formation of each country. Beloved revisits the crime committed by Margaret Garner, a fugitive slave, during the pre-Civil War years, when she killed her own daughter in an attempt to save her children from returning to slavery. Desmundo recollects the experiences of one of the Portuguese orphan girls sent to sixteenth-century colonial Brazil to serve as wives, by orders of the king and by the request of the priests who wanted to put an end to the sexual relations among Portuguese colonialists and natives. Rememory and Renembrança set the interrelations between memory, history and literature because they are the mnemonic processes engendered by the characters and, at the same time, they form the structure of the novels. Rememory is defined as the image that lasts (individually and in the world) when something no longer exists; renembrança originates from singular experiences and establishes relations with a fantasy world. The two processes share features related to the enigma of representation that recaptures past events, such as paradoxical constructions of absences and distances. However, rememory triggers collective memory whereas renembrança belongs to individual memory. The narrative strategies of each novel follow the characteristics of each process, distinguishing themselves in the creation of characters‟ memory and experiences. These differences, though, converge to a common objective of preventing the erasure of the past not only through... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Domingues, Maria Izabel Velazquez. "Alasdair Gray's Lanark in the scottish contemporary scene : a matter of postmodern identity." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/134290.
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Esta é uma leitura crítica de Lanark: a Life in Four Books do escritor escocês Alasdair Gray (1934), cujos talento e estilo se constituem exemplo da literatura contemporânea da Escócia. Esta investigação tem por objetivo determinar o papel exercido pela produção do autor nas esferas literária, cultural e sociopolítica da Escócia de hoje. Ao transitar entre ficção e meta-ficção, arte e autobiografia, Gray encara os paradoxos envolvidos ao tentar revitalizar traços da identidade nacional. O trabalho de Gray não pode ser considerado sem o reconhecimento de que a sua literatura é, simultaneamente, local e universal. Ela pertence ao cosmos escocês o qual é destacado por lutas culturais assim como é também dominante por ser escrita em Inglês e, com isso, alcançar leitores de todas as partes do mundo dentro das fronteiras transpostas pela Língua Inglesa. Essa é uma das razões pelas quais esta pesquisa busca lançar luz sobre a cena literária contemporânea escocesa, empenhando-se em preencher uma lacuna existente no currículo acadêmico brasileiro de nossos cursos de graduação e pós-graduação no que tange o tratamento e a abordagem das outras Literaturas produzidas em Língua Inglesa. Para tanto, a tese está dividida em três partes. A primeira considera a literatura escocesa em relação à formação, ratificação e reavaliação do significado de senso de identidade nacional, como observado diacronicamente através do período entre 1940 e 1970. A segunda parte focaliza os novos olhares no cenário cultural da Escócia por um grupo de escritores repleto de estilo, história e visão, os New Scottish Writers. As estratégias de Gray para lidar com ficção e biografia em Lanark assim como sua reflexão sobre a natureza do mundo são de grande importância para este trabalho. Com embasamento teórico no entendimento de Linda Hutcheon sobre meta-ficção historiográfica, intertextualidade, parodia e ironia no pós- modernismo, eu tento enquadrar, no Capitulo Três, as manobra literárias desempenhadas pelo autor ao usar tais recursos textuais no romance. Espero que o resultado desta tese de doutorado possa ser útil como reflexão sobre o presente estado de discussões sobre a literatura Escocesa pós-moderna e, ao mesmo tempo, como um meio de tornar os leitores acadêmicos brasileiros mais familiarizados com a obra de Alasdair Gray.<br>This is a critical reading of Lanark: a Life in Four Books, a novel by the Scottish writer Alasdair Gray (b. 1934), whose talent and style provide a fitting example of Scotland’s contemporary literature. The aim of this investigation is to determine the role played by Gray’s production in the literary, cultural and sociopolitical spheres of present-day Scottish life. In his blending of fiction and metafiction, of art and autobiography, the author faces the paradoxes involved in the attempt to stress the marks of a national identity. Gray’s work cannot be considered without recognizing that his literature is both local and universal. It belongs to the Scottish cosmos which is highlighted by cultural struggles as well as it is dominant, once it is carried out in English reaching readers all over the world from within the limits and format determined by the English Language. That is one of the reasons why this research aims to shed light on the current Scottish literary scene, attempting to fill an existing gap in the Brazilian academic curriculum respecting the treatment and approach of Literatures produced in English in our undergraduate and graduate courses. The dissertation is divided into three parts. The first contextualizes Gray in Scotland’s literature in its relation to the formation, ratification and revaluation of the concept of a sense of national identity as observed diachronically, throughout the period between 1940s and 1970s. The second section focuses on the new looks at Scotland’s cultural scenario by a distinguished group of writers burst with style, history and post-devolution vision, the New Scottish Writers. Gray’s strategies to deal with a fictional and biographical context in Lanark and his reflection upon world’s nature and worth are of great importance for this work. By the reading of Linda Hutcheon’s understanding on historiographic metafiction, intertextuality, parody and irony in postmodernism, I attempt to frame in Chapter Three the literary maneuvers Gray makes in using such textual resources in his novel. I hope that the result of this doctoral thesis may be useful both as a reflection upon the present state of the discussion about Scotland’s postmodern literature, and as a means of making the Brazilian academic readers more familiar with the work of Alasdair Gray.
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Gillier, Baptiste. "Punto de Vista (1978-2008) : politique d'une critique." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH092.
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En mars 2008 a paru le 90ème et dernier numéro de la revue culturelle argentine Punto de Vista (1978-2008). Beatriz Sarlo – directrice officielle de la publication depuis 1981 – signe personnellement le dernier éditorial dans lequel elle souligne que la revue fut une « manière d’écrire sur la littérature et la politique ». En accordant une attention toute particulière à la matérialité et à la singularité de l’objet revue, cette recherche se propose de rendre compte de cette « manière d’écrire », c’est-à-dire de la critique de Punto de Vista. Dans une perspective socio-historique, cette étude retrace dans un premier temps la trajectoire du collectif éditorial au travers de ses interventions dans le champ politique et intellectuel argentin. Apparue en pleine dictature militaire, la revue devient à partir de la transition démocratique un référent important du champ intellectuel argentin, avant de s’inscrire de manière plus périphérique dans une fin-de-siècle marquée par la crise sociale et par l’essoufflement du modernisme. Dans un second temps, ce travail de recherche interroge le projet critique de la revue qui repose sur une reconfiguration des relations entre la culture et la politique à la lumière du nouveau paradigme démocratique. À travers une réinvention de la tradition et une mise à jour de la critique, la revue va construire une perspective singulière à la fois sur le présent et sur la passé marquée par le paradigme moderne. Enfin, par le biais d’un « retour critique », cette étude se propose de renverser sa propre perspective et de rendre compte, à travers la politique de la littérature, des emprunts de la critique<br>In March, 2008, the Argentine cultural journal Punto de Vista publishes its ninetieth and final issue. Beatriz Sarlo –the journal’s editor since 1981– personally signs the last editorial, in which she points out that the journal was a « way of writing about literature and politics ». Underscoring the materiality and uniqueness of the journal object, this study aims to account for this « way of writing », that is, of Punto de Vista’s critique. From a socio-historical perspective, this research reconstructs, in the first place, the trajectory of the editorial collective through its interventions in the Argentine political and intellectual field. Born in the midst of the military dictatorship, the journal becomes an important model in the Argentine cultural field and registers itself, peripherally, at the end of the century marked by the social crisis and the exhaustion of modernism. Second, this research examines the journal’s critical project, which is based on a reconfiguration of the relations between culture and politics in the light of the new democratic paradigm. Through a reinvention of the tradition, as well as an update of the critique, the journal builds a singular perspective on the present and the past, marked by the modern paradigm. Finally, by means of a « critical return », this study proposes to invert its own perspective and to account, through the politics of literature, for the contributions of the critique<br>En marzo de 2008 aparece el nonagésimo y último número de la revista cultural argentina Punto de Vista. Beatriz Sarlo –directora oficial de la revista desde 1981– firma el último editorial, en el cual señala que la revista fue una « manera de escribir sobre literatura y política ». Subrayando la materialidad y la singularidad del objeto revista, este estudio se propone dar cuenta de esta « manera de escribir », esto es, de la crítica de Punto de Vista. A partir de una perspectiva socio-histórica, esta investigación reconstruye, en primer lugar, la trayectoria del colectivo editorial a través de sus intervenciones en el campo político e intelectual argentino. Nacida en plena dictadura militar, la revista se vuelve un referente importante del campo cultural argentino y se inscribe, de manera periférica, en un fin de siglo marcado por la crisis social y el agotamiento del modernismo. Por otra parte, este trabajo de investigación interroga el proyecto crítico de la revista, que se fundamenta en una reconfiguración de las relaciones entre cultura y política a la luz del nuevo paradigma democrático. A través de una reinvención de la tradición, así como de una puesta al día de la crítica, la revista va construyendo una perspectiva singular sobre el presente y el pasado, marcada por el paradigma moderno. Finalmente, mediante un « retorno crítico », este estudio se propone invertir su propia perspectiva y dar cuenta, a través de la política de la literatura, de los préstamos de la crítica
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Causo, Roberto de Sousa. "Ondas nas Praias de um Mundo Sombrio: New Wave e Cyberpunk no Brasil." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-12032014-123051/.
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O objetivo deste estudo é fornecer uma análise dos dois principais movimentos dentro da ficção científica em língua inglesa vinculados ao pós-modernismo, a New Wave da década de 1960 e o Movimento Cyberpunk da década de 1980, estabelecendo comparações com a produção de ficção científica do mesmo período, dentro das Primeira e Segunda Ondas da Ficção Científica Brasileira. Questões de política literária serão sempre evocadas, como maneira de relativizar o peso teórico das discussões, tentando estabelecer que intenções, procedimentos e programas literários existem inseridos em contextos pessoais, sociais e mesmo nacionais. Essa abordagem é amparada pelo conceito do Campo de Poder, do sociólogo francês Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002), e de diversos intérpretes de suas idéias. A partir dos trabalhos de críticos e teóricos como Clive Bloom, Scott McCracken, Ken Gelder, Michel de Certeau e Robert Scholes, este trabalho propõe que a ficção científica, como gênero literário de raízes populares, é capaz de exercer o papel de uma literatura que faz a crítica da modernidade, sem recorrer necessariamente aos aspectos formais associados à literatura pós-modernista, incluindo o texto fragmentário, a mistura de gêneros e códigos literários. A pesquisa conduz a uma reflexão a respeito da situação da ficção de gênero vis-à-vis a predileção da ficção pós-modernista pela metaficção e pelo experimentalismo.<br>The objective of this study is to provide an analysis of the two main literary movements in English-written science fiction associated to postmodernism, the New Wave of the 1960s and the Cyberpunk Movement of the 1980s, establishing comparisons with science fictional production of the same periods in the First and Second Waves of Brazilian science fiction. Issues of literary politics will be constantly considered, as a way to relativize the theoretical charge of the arguments, trying to establish that intentions, proceedings, and literary programs exist inserted in personal, social, and even national contexts. This approach is supported by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieus concept of Field of Power, and also by a number of readers of his ideas. Taking from the works of critics and theoreticians such as Clive Bloom, Scott McCracken, Ken Gelder, Michel de Certeau, and Robert Scholes, this work claims that science fiction as a literary genre of popular roots can play out the role of a literature that performs a criticism of modernity without relying on those formal aspects associated with postmodernist literature, including fragmentary prose and the mixing of genres and literary codes. The research leads to a reflection concerning the situation of genre fiction vis-à-vis postmodernist fictions propensity for metafiction and experimentalism.
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Fidalgo, Larissa Moreira. "Poéticas da ruína: um estudo das relações entre história, ficção e teoria nas obras de Bernardo Carvalho." Niterói, 2017. https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/3748.
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Dissertação - Larissa Fidalgo pdf.pdf: 819929 bytes, checksum: 3d8c1c57dfe491dbe4d14971553b361b (MD5)<br>Segundo Paul Ricoeur (2010a), há, entre a atividade de narrar uma história e o caráter
temporal da experiência humana, uma correlação que não é puramente acidental, mas
apresenta uma forma de necessidade transcultural. Se considerarmos, portanto, que o
tempo torna-se humano na medida em que está articulado de modo narrativo,
produzindo a continuidade e a unidade de nossa consciência, perceberemos que ao
longo da história várias foram as tentativas de se compreender seus mecanismos de
funcionamento. Tais tentativas, por sua vez, reduziam-se ao estabelecimento de um
padrão regular e homogêneo na relação passado/presente responsável por guiar nossas
experiências do mundo. Entretanto, reconhecendo os procedimentos de controle e
exclusão de todo discurso que se pretende verdadeiro e a impossibilidade de
conhecermos o passado em sua totalidade, a ficção pós-moderna sugere que mudemos
nosso horizonte de análise, direcionando nossa atenção para os sistemas de signos
narrativizados que conferem forma à nossa experiência temporal. E é justamente nesse
contexto metaficcionalmente autoconsciente, lembrando as considerações da teórica
canadense Linda Hutcheon (1991), que o presente trabalho encontra-se inserido. Afinal,
se o pós-modernismo pode ser entendido não apenas como dúvida aos fundamentos do
conhecimento, mas como dúvida sobre a relação entre duas ou mais partes, verificamos
que o retorno ao passado histórico operado pela metaficção historiográfica configura-se
como uma abertura de possibilidade a diferentes orientações textuais sobre o passado,
colocando em jogo não apenas a forma como conhecemos o passado histórico, como
também a tradicional fronteira que separava os discursos histórico e ficcional. Dessa
forma, questionando a maneira pela qual conhecemos o tempo passado e suas
implicações no tempo presente, veremos de que forma a literatura contemporânea
desconstrói a noção de centro, de uma imagem transitiva de “verdade”, abrindo espaço
para novas marcas temporais e identitárias.
A partir dessa perspectiva, analisaremos os romances Nove noites e O filho da mãe,
ambos do brasileiro Bernardo Carvalho<br>According to Paul Ricoeur (2010a), there is between the activity of telling a story and
the temporal character of human experience, a correlation which is not purely
accidental, but presents a form of transcultural need. Therefore, if we consider that the
human experience of time is represented by the narrative, we will notice that throughout
history there have been many attempts to understand how narrative works to organize
the aspects of our “being and time”. Such attempts, in turn, were confined to the
establishment of a regular pattern concerning the relation past/present responsible for
guiding our experiences in the world. However, post-modern fiction suggests that we
must change our horizon of analysis, directing our attention to the systems of signs that
confer form to our temporal experience. In other words, in fiction this means that it is
usually metafiction that is equated with the postmodern (HUTCHEON, 1991). The
postmodern relationship between fiction and history is an even more complex one of
interaction and mutual implication. Historiographic metafiction works to situate itself
within historical discourse without surrendering its autonomy as fiction. This
interactions can be considered as an a possibility to different textual guidance about the
past, putting into play not only the way we know the historical past , as well as the
traditional border separating the historical and fictional discourse. Questioning the
manner by which we know the past time and its implications in the present time,
contemporary literature deconstructs the notion of what we call “transitive causality”,
opening space for new temporal dimensions. From this perspective, this dissertation
aims to analyze the novels Nine nights and O filho da mãe, both written by Bernardo
Carvalho