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Farber, Michelle Ann. "Octavia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89056.

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Octavia is a 3D animated story based on experiences of Army divers in the waters of Southeast Asia. I built a strong core set of skills in end-to-end 3D animation throughout my time in the graduate program, and I wanted to incorporate them into a real story for this thesis. The myriad of stories I grew up with inspired the development of this 3D animation due to their uniqueness and their nature as a verbal history. This thesis is based on two objectives: technical excellence in the process of 3D animation, and sharing a previously verbal history to a larger audience. I achieved these goals using a variety of technical animation tools including ZBrush, Maya, Arnold, and Premier. Octavia itself is a modified story from my father's time diving in South Korea. The story details the interactions between an exceptionally curious octopus, Octavia, and a diver, taken from Octavia's perspective. The animation was well received during my defense for its technical difficulty and unique art styles. Octavia will be available online on my website.
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Campbell, James. "Variable Otherness in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-166051.

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This paper explores the Xenogenesis trilogy written by Octavia Bulter and how it presents Otherness as a concept. It provides several examples of otherness and additionally presents ideas of how it can be seen as something to be celebrated.

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Manis, Haley V. "Reconciling the Past in Octavia Butler's Kindred." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3173.

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This thesis uses the observations of Nancy J. Peterson on historical wounds as a springboard to discuss Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred and its use of both white and black characters to reexamine the origins of the historical wounds and why they are so difficult to deal with even today. Other scholarly works will be used to further investigate the importance of each character in the story and what they mean to the wound itself. Specifically, Dana is analyzed alongside the other main characters: Rufus, Alice, and Kevin. Though Dana’s relationships with these characters, Kindred’s version of the past can be examined in order to determine why the past is so difficult to overcome and what the novel does to come to an understanding or reconciliation with it. This, in turn, allows for the present to be compared to Butler’s representation of the past as a way of reexamining history.

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Jones, Cassandra L. "FutureBodies: Octavia Butler as a Post-Colonial Cyborg Theorist." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1368927282.

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Belle, Dixie-Ann. "Navigating the past, envisioning the future : Octavia Butler's heroines." FIU Digital Commons, 2004. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1484.

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In this thesis, I examined three novels by African American science fiction novelist Octavia Butler: Kindred (1979), Parable of the Sower (1994), Parable of the Talents (1998) and Dawn (1987). I analyzed Butler's belief that society has become too firmly attached to old customs and belief systems, initiating destructive, self-defeating cycles in our history. She looks to African American females to take up leadership roles and exact radical change to ensure society's continued survival as well as progress, acceptance and autonomy within our communities. I also established Butler's significant contributions to the African American literary canon as she examines the history of African Americans and speculates on their necessary roles of shaping the future of society.

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Bailey, Constance R. ""Give me that old time religion" reclaiming slave religion in the future /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5078.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on May 11, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.

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Graves, Robert Christopher Jason. "The art of heterotopian rhetoric a theory of science fiction as rhetorical discourse /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1245638686.

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Ölje, Elin. "Metodjämförelse mellan DiffMaster Octavia och CellaVision DM1200 avseende differentialräkning av leukocyter : en viktig analys inom vården." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kemi och biomedicin (KOB), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-56366.

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Leukocyter, vita blodkroppar, utgör en del av kroppens immunförsvar. De utmognar från hematopoetiska stamceller i benmärgen. Leukocyterna kan delas in i neutrofila granulocyter, lymfocyter, monocyter, eosinofila granulocyter och basofila granulocyter. För att bestämma antalet leukocyter i blodet analyseras leukocytpartikelkoncentration (B-LPK) med cellräknare. Om B-LPK är förhöjt eller sänkt utförs en differentialräkning av leukocyter (B-Diff) för att se i vilket cellsystem förändring föreligger. Den manuella analysen utförs på perifera blodutstryk färgade med cytokemisk färg, May-Grünwald Giemsa. Utstryket granskas i ett automatiskt mikroskopiskt system som räknar, fotograferar och förklassificerar leukocyter efter deras utseende. DiffMaster Octavia och CellaVision DM1200 är två varianter av ett sådant instrument från samma tillverkare (CellaVision AB, Lund, Sverige). Syftet med studien var att utföra en metodjämförelse mellan dessa instrument genom analys av 60 patientprov bestående av venöst blod taget i EDTA-rör. Proven samlades in slumpmässigt från patienter (32 män och 28 kvinnor) mellan 19-95 år. Resultaten visade enligt tvåsidigt parat t-test ingen signifikant skillnad avseende differentialräkning av neutrofila granulocyter, lymfocyter och monocyter. Korrelationen var 0,95, 0,91 respektive 0,68. Det fanns dock en signifikant skillnad mellan instrumenten avseende differentialräkning av eosinofila- och basofila granulocyter, korrelationen var 0,91 respektive 0,20. När endast 200 celler räknas kan ett resultat på 2 % skilja upp till 1-5 %. Därför blir skillnader på leukocyttyper som utgör enstaka procent i blodet normalt mycket stora. Metodjämförelsen visade att båda instrumenten ger samma resultat och anses därför likvärdiga vid analys av manuell B-Diff.
Leukocytes, white blood cells, are cells of the immune system. They are produced and derived from hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow. Leukocytes can be divided into neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils and basophils. To determine the numbers of leukocytes in blood the leukocyte particle concentration (B-LPK) can be analyzed by cell counters. When B-LPK is elevated or lowered a differential count of leukocytes (B-Diff) is performed to see in which cell systems the change exists. The manual analysis involves peripheral blood smears stained with a cytochemical color, May-Grünwald Giemsa. The smear examined in an automatic microscopically system that counts, photographs and pre-classify leukocytes by its appearance. DiffMaster Octavia and CellaVision DM1200 are two variants of such instruments from the same manufacturer (CellaVision AB, Lund, Sweden). The aim of the study was to do a comparison between these instruments by analyzing 60 samples consisting venous blood in EDTA-tubes. The samples were collected randomly from patients (32 men and 28 women) between 19-95 years old. The results from two-sided paired t-test showed no significant difference between the differential count of neutrophils, lymphocytes and monocytes. The correlation was 0,95, 0,91 and 0,68. However, there was a significant difference between the instruments differential count of eosinophils and basophils, the correlation was 0,91 and 0,20. When counting only 200 cells a profit of 2 % distinguish up to 1-5 %. Abnormalities in leukocytes which represents only a few percent in blood can therefore be very large. Method comparison showed that both instruments give the same results and are considered equivalent in analysis of manual B-Diff.

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Payne, Kimberly Ellen. "Examining the female leader in Octavia Butler's dawn and Fledgling." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2011. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/235.

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This study examines the prototypical female leader as constructed by Octavia Butler in her science fiction novels, Dawn and Fledgling. The premise of the study relates to the protagonists’ capacity to undergo arduous tasks in extraordinary circumstances so that they can ultimately lead their people into a revolutionized society. Overcoming enormous obstacles, including the rejection of the very people they must lead, proves that both protagonists, Lilith Ilypo, in Dawn, and Shori Matthews, in Fledgling, are the women of the future, created to lead human beings into a “brave new world.” The study further examines Butler’s portrayal of the “othemesses” that continue to plague societies, despite the societies’ “higher” evolution, and concludes that only through continuous compromise will the world become unified. Butler indicates that the onerous task of achieving this ultimate unification lies on the shoulders of women who will serve as, what I term, the future’s “female Adams.”

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Lehtosaari, E. (Eveliina). "Postapokalyptinen heeros:monomyytti ja sankaruuden toisintoistaminen Octavia E. Butlerin romaanissa Dawn." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201812183280.

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Hanslík, Radovan. "Odrazná plocha osobních automobilů." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-412967.

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This diploma thesis is aimed at radar cross section of passenger cars. Basic scattering parameters of simple targets are described. Selected numeric methods used for computing radar cross section are discussed. Shape and size of simplified vehicle models is investigated. Simulations are verified by computing RCS of objects with well-known characteristics. Radar cross section of Skoda Octavia was simulated using selected numeric methods. Results of all performed simulations are shown in included graphs. Experimental measurment of radar cross section of a vehicle was performed so the measured data can be compared with the simulations.

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Smith, Roslyn Nicole. "Medias Res, Temporal Double-Consciousness and Resistance in Octavia Butler's Kindred." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11242007-230409/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.
Title from file title page. Elizabeth West, committee chair; Layli Phillips, Kameelah Martin Samuel, committee members. Electronic text (52 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Jan. 30, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-52).

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Llewellyn, Jana Diemer. "Rape in feminist utopian and dystopian fiction Joanna Russ's The female man, Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale, and Octavia Butler's The parable of the sower and The parable of the talents /." Click here for download, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/villanova/fullcit?p1432523.

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Faust, Livia Octavia [Verfasser]. "Einfluss des präoperativen Stresses auf die Erektionsfähigkeit von Tumorpatienten / Livia Octavia Faust." Mainz : Universitätsbibliothek der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 2020. http://d-nb.info/122481021X/34.

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Wood, Sarah. "The outsider within : explorations of the science fiction of Octavia Estelle Butler." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248497.

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A study of Octavia Butler has long been overdue. My aim is to rectify the paucity of critical commentary on her work, and to take into consideration the specificity of the African American woman. Examining how Butler's fiction interrogates the dual narratives of oppression that are an integral feature of black women's lives, I focus on six areas of Butler's fiction. Butler uses the conventions of science fiction to interrogate religious and secular mythologies that aim to limit and circumscribe the black woman; I explore how she amalgamates science fiction with other narrative modes such as fantasy, the historical novel, and the slave narrative. Linked to a consideration of Butler's use of science fiction is an exploration of the spaces she creates. I examine the categorisation of her work as either utopian or dystopian suggesting that Butler complicates this enterprise by questioning and extending its format. Her work rejects the hope and consolation offered by utopias; instead her fiction opens onto heterotopia, revelling in contradiction, difference, and change. Butler's fiction is preoccupied with the treatment of the black woman's bodily, material existence. She uses strategies of transformation to elude white patriarchal control, presenting us with grotesque figures and cyborg monsters that provide a parodic reversal of the images that have been apportioned to black men and women. Relations of self to its others are a fundamental aspect of Butler's work. However, rather than simply dramatising hierarchical, binary thinking and its subsequent deconstruction, her work offers alternative formations of self and other in which each term is able to recognise its other in their full subjectivity. Butler makes use of a linguistic heritage that is 'double-voiced'. The polyphonic construction of her texts, her use of Signifying, and the repetition and displacement that she enacts is indicative of much African American literature. Butler's reliance on religion in her work suggests a fundamental interrogation of Christianity. Her novels explore the complicated relationship that African Americans maintain toward the Judeo-Christian tradition; devices such as the introduction of African belief systems and the creation of an entirely new religion work to disrupt this. Articulating the view from the margins, Butler's fiction talks back to narratives of originary identity that posit the black woman as other, as inferior, and therefore, as subjugated to a white, male ideal.

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Davis, Ben Jr. "History, Race and Gender in the Science Fiction of Octavia Estelle Butler." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392045358.

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Egbert, Teresa M. K. "Self through remembrance : identity construction and memory in the novels of Octavia E. Butler." Thesis, Bangor University, 2016. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/self-through-remembrance(370d2dc4-e0b2-4000-a0b8-aa696469142e).html.

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This thesis focuses on the roles of memory and identity in Octavia E. Butler’s novels: Kindred, Lilith’s Brood, Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and Fledgling. By using material from such diverse disciplines as philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and sociology, I have treated the characters in Butler’s novels as individual selves; selves narrated by a living Butler. In current identity studies, the thought is that the self is constructed through narrative; therefore, what better way to analyze individual characters and communities than through the narrative provided by Butler. These selves are, of course, fictional, but how often are the selves we present, even temporarily, to the world in a given situation a fictional construction. We use many different critical tools to interpret and understand the world around us. While it is important to acknowledge the insightful implications of Butler’s work in regard to African American, gender, and feminist studies, there are unexplored approaches to her writing that can contribute to understanding the intricacies of Butler’s writing. This look at Butler’s texts shows that by opening up the ways we traditionally look at certain texts we can gain a more multi-faceted view of those texts, which are sometimes viewed through a type of tunnel vision. My discussion begins with a look at the theories used in the analyses of Butler’s novels. First, I look at Kindred and a discussion of individual identities and how they are deeply connected to group affiliations, as well as history. Then I move on to how group identities are created and influenced by collective memories in Lilith’s Brood. The Parable novels are the focus of my discussion on the construction of self through narrative. I end my analyses with a look at neuroscience and memory pathology through the amnestic protagonist of Fledgling.

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Williams, Algie Vincent. "Patterns in the Parables: Black Female Agency and Octavia Butler's Construction of Black Womanhood." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/126489.

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This project argues that Octavia's Butler's construction of the black woman characters is unique within the pantheon of late eighties African-American writers primarily through Butler's celebration of black female physicality and the agency the black body provides. The project is divided into five sections beginning with an intensive examination of Butler's ur-character, Anyanwu. This character is vitally important in discussing Butler's canon because she embodies the attributes and thematic issues that run throughout the author's work, specifically, the author's argument that black woman are provided opportunity through their bodies. Chapter two addresses the way black women's femininity is judged: their sexual activity. In this chapter, I explore one facet of Octavia Butler's narrative examination of sexual co-option and her subsequent implied challenge to definitions of feminine morality through the character Lilith who appears throughout Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy. Specifically, I explore this subject using Harriet Jacobs' seminal autobiography and slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl as the prism in which I historically focus the conversation. In chapter three, I move the discussion into an exploration of black motherhood. Much like the aforementioned challenge to femininity vis-à-vis sexual morality, Octavia Butler often challenges and interrogates the traditional definition of motherhood, specifically, the relationship between mother and daughter. I will focus on different aspects of that mother/daughter relationship in two series, the Patternist sequence, which includes, in chronological order, Wild Seed, Mind of my Mind and Patternmaster. Chapter four discusses Butler's final novel, Fledgling, and how the novel's protagonist, Shori not only fits into the matrix of Butler characters but represents the culmination of the privileging of black female physicality that I observe in the author's entire canon. Specifically, while earlier characters are shown to create opportunities and venues of agency through their bodies, in Shori, Butler posits a character whose existence is predicated on its blackness and discusses how that purposeful racial construction leads to freedom.
Temple University--Theses

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Lewis, Noelle Elizabeth. "Situating Octavia Butler's Kindred as a Response to the Black Power and Black Studies Movements." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1629717405113431.

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Campbell, Andrea Kate. "Narrating other natures a third wave ecocritical approach to Toni Morrison, Ruth Ozeki, and Octavia Butler /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2010/a_campbell_042110.pdf.

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Kracht, Octavia Natascha Verfasser], Robert [Gutachter] [Kourist, and Simon [Gutachter] Ebbinghaus. "Biokatalytische Diversität der Terpenbildung in Pflanzen und Bakterien / Octavia Natascha Kracht ; Gutachter: Robert Kourist, Simon Ebbinghaus." Bochum : Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1144614546/34.

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Junge, Rebekka. "Nicholas Trevet und die Octavia Praetexta : editio princeps des mittelalterlichen Kommentars und Untersuchungen zum pseudosenecanischen Drama /." Paderborn : F. Schöningh, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb389981301.

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Texte remanié de: Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät--Bonn--Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, 1998.
Contient des textes en latin tirés de l' "Expositio Octaviae" de Nicolas Trevet. Bibliogr. p. 287-293. Notes bibliogr. Index.

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Sautman, Matthew B. "Queering a Black Temporality in Octavia Butler's Kindred | Ruminations on a Black-Oriented Understanding of Time." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10974012.

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This study interrogates the resonances of queer utopianism in Octavia Butler’s presentation of time in Kindred in order to address the lack of existing scholarship on the novel’s relationship with queer temporality. To conduct this interrogation, I utilize the work of queer optimists like Muñoz, Berlant, and Ahmed to deconstruct the text phenomenologically in conjunction with queer pessimists like Halberstam and Edelman to nuance this analysis. To prevent this analysis from being overtaken by a white gaze, I also make use of Black scholars like Morrison, Sharpe, Cooper, Gates, and Collins. In my analysis, I divide Butler’s presentation of time into present, past, and future- whereas the present refers to the American Bicentennial and the cultural disconnect the protagonist Dana experiences in her relationship with her white husband, the past signals the pull of Antebellum era white supremacist patriarchy and Dana’s need to engage in archival work to reconstitute the history that has been denied to her, and the future implies a nebulousness that blurs both eras together and instills the novel’s ending with an ambiguity that lends itself to both pessimistic and optimistic readings. I emphasize how Butler positions Black temporality as a queer temporality in the novel that challenge readers’ own relationship with the dominant white patriarchal culture.

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Kracht, Octavia Natascha [Verfasser], Robert [Gutachter] Kourist, and Simon [Gutachter] Ebbinghaus. "Biokatalytische Diversität der Terpenbildung in Pflanzen und Bakterien / Octavia Natascha Kracht ; Gutachter: Robert Kourist, Simon Ebbinghaus." Bochum : Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1144614546/34.

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Lange, Bianca. "Beyond Human Displacement(s) : Spacetime Stories of Agency in Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177210.

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In this thesis project, the aim is to explore displacements beyond the familiar usage in migration studies associated with ’human’ by using a new materialist/s understanding ofontology and agency. This approach opens the possibility to move beyond the understanding of displacements as referring only to human agency. The fictionalised story, Parable of theSower, is used in the thesis as the real-world ontological world-building storytelling and the questions that flow from the aim of this thesis is used as a guiding navigator within the mainstory to see what other stories emerges; The Earthseed Story, The More-Than-Human Storiesand The Human Stories. Displacement(s) beyond human agency from a new materialist outlook show the complexity and challenges of being interconnected and codependent in a world containing multiple stories that move in and out of spacetime refuturing. This occursboth as dystopia and utopia, as agency is in-the-making and ongoing reshaping of territorialization and deterritorialization making all-the-flesh moving boundaries of being displaced and in-place in a belongings-non-belongings continuum. For future research,multispecies displacement(s) is discussed as ongoing processes of both; dystopian and utopian storytelling, and the possibilities for refuturing shared worlds.

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Hausmann, Hannah Lea Octavia [Verfasser], Udo [Akademischer Betreuer] Kamps, and Erhard [Akademischer Betreuer] Cramer. "Konzentrationsmessung und Lorenzkurven - Darstellung, Analyse und Modellierung im Mathematikunterricht / Hannah Lea Octavia Hausmann ; Udo Kamps, Erhard Cramer." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1162629657/34.

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LaFaver, Zakary H. "Back to the Future: Taking a Trip Back in Order to Move Forward in Octavia Butler’s Kindred." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/215.

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Slavery is something that cannot be taken lightly. Even Butler says no matter how harsh the slavery in her novel is, it does not compare to how gruesome actual slavery was: “As a matter of fact, one of the things I realized when I was reading the slave narrative…was that I was not going to be able to come anywhere near presenting slavery as it was. I was going to have to do a some-what cleaned-up version of slavery, or no one would be willing to read it” (qtd. in Kenan 497). Octavia Butler knew that if she presented slavery directly and in a way that called people, most likely white males, that there would not be an audience for the novel. Instead she had to present slavery as something society shaped, rather than a specific group of individuals. An analysis of Octavia Butler’s Kindred reveals that societal expectations alter the dynamics of such interracial relationships as those between Dana and Kevin, Dana and Rufus, and Rufus and Alice, determining their success or failure without regard to the foundations upon which these relationships were initially built.

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Grewal, Harsimrat Kaur. "The creation of artistic space and literary possibility through speculative fiction in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred and Fledgling." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/460587554/viewonline.

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Boulter, Amanda. "Speculative feminisms : the significance of feminist theory in the science fiction of Joanna Russ, James Tiptree Jr, and Octavia Butler." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296179.

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Vargas, Melissa. "Confronting environmental and social crises : Octavia E. Butler's critique of the spiritual roots of environmental injustice in her Parable novels /." [Boise, Idaho] : Boise State University, 2009. http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/18/.

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Adolfsson, Linnea. "Genom våra ögon : En komparativ litteraturanalys av Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid’s Tale och Octavia E. Butlers Kindred, utifrån forskningsfältet kulturella minnesstudier." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Litteraturvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-37492.

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This essay’s primarily focus is on the common discourse about the persisting effects of the past in the present in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale(1985)and Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (1979).These novels are the testimonies of the protagonists Offred and Dana who shares their experience of traumatic violence and oppression. Dana, with her ability to time travel, will see her present time in clearer light as she experiences the life of a slave on an antebellum plantation. Offred, the Handmaiden owned by the totalitarian regime Gilead, portrays her contemporary life in parallel to remembering her former and thus describing Gilead’s increasing authority. Based on different theorists and concepts in the field of cultural memory studies, this essay examines the tension between memory and history, the distantness towards the past and the problematics with representations of traumatic events. As I argue that the voices of Dana and Offred calls attention to the importance of perspective and of sharing stories, they are also an act of hope, therapy and resistance; an act that also make possible a critique of the processes of the production of historical knowledge.

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Kraft, Stephan. "Geschlossenheit und Offenheit der "Römischen Octavia" von Herzog Anton Ulrich : "der roman macht ahn die ewigkeit gedencken, den er nimbt kein endt. /." Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41100609j.

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Melkner, Moser Linda. "Character Narrators, the Implied Author, and the Authorial Audience: A Rhetorical and Ethical Reading of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-49262.

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This essay considers the interplay between character narrators, the implied author, and the authorial audience in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Talents. The aim of the study was to investigate how narrators, the implied author, and readers position themselves in relation to each other and in relation to the novel’s ethical dimensions. The theoretical framework is based on James Phelan’s theories on the rhetorical and ethical aspects of fiction. The essay argues that the implied author’s communication to the authorial audience is one of the reasons that the novel, like its prequel Parable of the Sower, often succeeds to function as warnings to the audience of dangers ahead. This is especially true regarding one of the implied author’s most consistent messages to the audience throughout the Parable novels: every choice has consequences, and those consequences need to be considered when we decide how to act and react in different circumstances, both as individuals and as a society.

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Sellitti, Alicia Dawn. "Re-membering the normative black female body a critical investigation of race, gender and disability in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Toni Morrison's Sula /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/463441904/viewonline.

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James, Lisa. "“To shape God, Shape Self”: The Political Manipulation of the Human Body and Reclamation of Space in Octavia E. Butler’s The Parable of the Sower." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23673.

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This paper considers the role of the human body in Octavia E. Butler’s The Parable of theSower and the way it interacts with defined space to stage expressive forms of politicalopposition. Understanding the relationship between physical or metaphorical space and thecontradictions of the societies they encompass is crucial to deciphering Butler’s near-futuredystopia; a world where the problems of real-life Los Angeles and Southern California aredistorted into a gross carnivalesque of gender stereotypes, sociopolitical tensions, and vigilante warfare. This paper places a special emphasis on the areas of social and political stagnation found in Butler’s vision of near-future L.A., and analyses the dangers of clinging to archaic, patriarchal systems that no longer resonate with contemporary audiences. Focus is also placed on potential methods of resistance against oppressive social institutions, particularly exploring the limitations met by protagonist, Lauren Oya Olamina, in her attempts to voice concerns in a society where language is so nuanced by “traditional” gendered qualities that the female voice carries no political value. This papers also questions theories which promote violent confrontation as a means to social reform, disregarding collateral damage and victims of war in favour of insurgency. By exploring the movement of the human body away from defined space, this paper supports Butler’s notion of alternative prosocial action which celebrates the margins of society, positing a nurturing, constructive means to resist political opposition.

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Ivey, Adriane Louise. "Rewriting Christianity : African American women writers and the Bible /." view abstract or download file of text, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9987234.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2000.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-216). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Prokšová, Lucie. "Vnitřní akustika osobního automobilu." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-318703.

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The thesis is focused on the analysis of the acoustic properties of the interior of the passenger car by using the finite element method. Part of the work is an analysis of the excitation effects of individual vibration sources and the evaluation of the response in the interior of the cabin with a focus on the passengers of the vehicle and also solving the problem of the design of structural modifications in order to reduce the noise inside the cabin.

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Zavadil, Martin. "Přestavba brzdového systému vozidla." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta strojního inženýrství, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-378636.

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This diploma thesis is focused on conversion of Skoda Octavia RS mark I brake system. This vehicle will be used for race use. The aim of the thesis is to design adequate components of the brake system to achieve good brake deceleration and so that the design will be correspond to hard conditions on the race track. Thesis contains complete design of hydraulic system including control and brake forces, pressures, options of brake forces management and evaluate of brake stability. Followed by the design of brake caliper adapters and the static structural analysis by FEM. The thesis contains picture and assembly drawing attachment too.

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Jones, Esther L. "Traveling discourses subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women's speculative fictions in the Americas /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155665383.

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Smith, Jeffrey Wayne. "George MacDonald and Victorian society." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2013. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/7e0872ad-8765-4fd9-9942-53ff0b6c25e3.

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This thesis approaches the ways George MacDonald viewed and represented Victorian society in his novels by analysing select social issues which he felt compelled to address. Chapter One introduces the thesis. It contains a review of critical commentary on MacDonald’s work, as well as discussions on his non-fictional texts and essays, industrialism, and the great rural-urban divide of the nineteenth century. Chapter Two concentrates on MacDonald’s representations of the city in Robert Falconer (1868), The Vicar’s Daughter (1872), and Weighed and Wanting (1882) by underscoring parallels between Octavia Hill’s housing and environmental schemes and situations which he experienced firsthand. Chapter Three examines the influence of Nature on MacDonald’s theology and social views. Special emphasis is placed on Wordsworth and the development of MacDonald’s unique pantheism in his texts, such as the short story, ‘A Journey Rejourneyed’ (1865-6), Guild Court (1868), Wilfrid Cumbermede (1872), What’s Mine’s Mine (1886), and Home Again (1887). Chapter Four uncovers MacDonald’s involvement with the animal welfare movement during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Discussions on vivisection, vegetarianism, hunting, animal abuse, evolution, and degeneration are provided with a wide range of MacDonald’s texts, such as Alec Forbes of Howglen (1865), Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879), The Marquis of Lossie (1877), A Rough Shaking (1890), and Heather and Snow (1893). Chapter Five offers a short summation of the thesis. It affirms that MacDonald was deeply troubled by certain social issues that were raised within his society and would use his fiction to express his concerns. The conclusion also offers a few suggestive topics for ongoing research in the field of this thesis.

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Pecha, Michal. "Systém sběru dat z palubní sběrnice vozidla." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-217837.

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The thesis contains complete design of complex system for acquisition of data from bus of a vehicle. It resolves problems of connection of a new node to CAN bus of a vehicle, communication protocol NMEA 0183 of GPS receivers, logging of caught CAN frames into database system MySQL, and proposes algorithms of application for operation of the system. It includes also process of complete installation based on established concept and test results of the system in real situations.

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Graves, Robert Christopher. "The Art of Heterotopian Rhetoric: A Theory of Science Fiction as Rhetorical Discourse." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1245638686.

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Lesevic, Cecilia. "Una lectura transtextual de los cuadernos de Bryce Echenique." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/103097.

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Karlsson, Josefine. "Counteracting racist attitudes and prejudices in the EFL-classroom: : An investigation on the effects of the social environment around the white character Rufus Weylin in the Antebellum South as depicted in Octavia E. Butler’s novel Kindred." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-72016.

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The multicultural classroom is becoming more prominent in Sweden. Students from different cultures and ethnicities meet to learn in the same environment. In a changing society, the need to develop acceptance towards others is more important than ever. Thus, in this essay, post-colonial and social influence theories have been applied to the analysis of Octavia E. Butler’s novel Kindred. This essay argues that by integrating post-colonial literature in the EFL- classroom, students can gain deeper intercultural knowledge and learn to understand the power of the social environment concerning its influential effects on people’s racial attitudes and prejudices.

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Ullrich-Ferguson, Loretta N. "The beauty of her survival : being Black and female in Meridian, The salt eaters, Kindred, and The bluest eye /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131464907.pdf.

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Lambert, Hervé-Pierre. "Octavio Paz et l'Orient." Paris 10, 2005. https://acces.bibliotheque-diderot.fr/login?url=https://doi.org/10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-3111-1.

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Ce travail a pour objet d'étudier les relations entre Paz et l'Orient. La première partie du travail étudie les réactions de l'auteur face à Inde, le choc culturel causé par l'impression d'excès, de démesure, d'irréalité. La deuxième partie est consacrée au monde fantasmatique féminin que l'auteur associe à l'Orient. La troisième partie étudie la relation de l'auteur au bouddhisme, le thème de l'illusion du moi, celui de la négation et de la négation de la négation, celui de la signification de la signification, du sens et de l'absence de sens, de la vacuité, la sculpture érotique bouddhiste. La quatrième partie a pour objet l'étude de la rencontre entre l'"obsession" de l'union des contraires et son équivalent oriental dans la pensée de l'alternance rythmique du yin yang, dans le Yi King et le tantrisme, dans l'absence de principe de contradiction. La septième partie est consacrée à la présence de l'islam dans l'oeuvre pazienne, sous sa forme arabo-musulmane et indienne. La huitième partie étudie les relations de Paz avec la culture japonaise. La conclusion montre l'importante corrélation entre les éléments de l'imaginaire pazien et des éléments de la pensée orientale
This thesis studies the relations between Paz ant the East. The first part studies the reactions of the author in front of India's reality, the cultural shock caused by impression of excess, disproportion and irreality. The second part is dedicated to the fantasmatic female world associated by the author to the East. The third part studies the relation to buddhism, the themes of illusion of the ego, negation and negation of negation, the subject of signification of signification, of sense and absence of sense, emptiness and the celebration of erotic buddhist sculptures. The forth part is dedicated to the study of the meeting of "the obsession" of union of opposites and the oriental equivalence in the thought of rhythmic alternation of yin yang, in the thought of "this and that", of identity of opposites in the YI king ant tantrism. The seventh part is dedicated to the presence of Islam in Paz's work, in the arabo-Moslem form and the indian one. The last one studies the relations between Paz and japanese culture. The conclusion shows the important correlation between elements of Paz's imaginary and elements of Eastern thought

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Perez, Jeannina. "Matrilineal memories : revisionist histories in three contemporary Afro-American women's novels." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1127.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.
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Jones, Esther. "Traveling discourses: subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women’s speculative fictions in the Americas." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1155665383.

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Capitanini, Haroldo Luiz Belloni [UNESP]. "Vozes do tempo em Octavio Paz." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/91564.

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Este trabalho procura examinar o problema do tempo na obra de Octavio Paz, questão chave nesse autor, uma vez que diversos aspectos deste tema — por ele exaustivamente examinado — estão presentes como reflexão, imagem ou valor nos alicerces de sua palavra, seja esta a do ensaísta, a do poeta, seja a palavra da resposta de um homem a seu tempo. Tempo que responde ao tempo: em resumo, sua vida e obra. Paz concebe o tempo complexamente, ou antes, elabora a consistência dessa complexidade ao discriminar naturezas distintas de tempo e as comportar em uma dinâmica de signos, em outras palavras, em uma concepção arquetípica do tempo. Esta concepção se encaminha para ser uma proposta de ato e de ação: este tempo está no cerne do ato solitário da criação; este tempo está no lastro da ação da participação no mundo. Figurado profusamente, em duas palavras é o agora, o instante pleno. Em um nome não indicado pelo Autor — Kairós — esta dissertação viu correspondências à concepção de Paz. Pode-se mesmo considerar que o tempo em Octavio Paz é um tempo-kairós, e que sua obra contribui com o alicerce na construção de um determinado conceito de tempo, um tempo que articula o ideal e o real, o instante da encarnação de Aion em Cronos. Tema amplo e obra vasta, aqui ficamos restritos principalmente, mas não exclusivamente, a alguns poemas reunidos em Libertad bajo palabra e aos ensaios de O arco e a lira.
Ce travail cherche examiner le problème du temps dans l’oeuvre d’Octavio Paz, question clé chez cet auteur vu que plusieurs aspects de ce thème — il l’a, lui, exhaustivement examiné — sont présents comme réflexion, image ou valeur dans les fondements de sa parole, soit-elle celle de l’essayiste, celle du poète, soit-elle la parole de la réponse d’un homme à son temps. Temps qui répond au temps: en bref, sa vie et son oeuvre. Paz conçoit le temps de manière complexe, ou plutôt, il élabore la consistance de cette complexité quand il discrimine des natures distinctes de temps et quand il les comporte dans une dynamique de signes, en d’autres termes, dans une conception archétype du temps. Cette conception-ci s’achemine pour être une proposition d’acte et d’action: ce temps est dans le coeur de l’acte solitaire de la creátion; ce temps est dans la base solide de l’action de la participation dans le monde. Figuré profusément, en un mot c’est le maintenant, l’instant plein. Dans un nom qui n’est pas indiqué par l’auteur — Kairós — cette dissertation a vu des rapports à la conception de Paz. On peut même considérer que le temps chez Octavio Paz est un temps-Kairós, et que son oeuvre contribue au fondement dans la construction d’un certain concept de temps, un temps qui articule l’idéal et le réel, l’instant de l’incarnation d’Aion dans Khrônos. Thème ample et oeuvre vaste, on reste ici restreints principalement, mais pas exclusivement, à quelques recueils de poèmes dans Libertad bajo palabra et aux essais dans O arco e a lira.

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Capitanini, Haroldo Luiz Belloni. "Vozes do tempo em Octavio Paz /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/91564.

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Orientador: Guacira marcondes Machado Leite
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Banca: Maria Adélia Menegazzo
Resumo: Este trabalho procura examinar o problema do tempo na obra de Octavio Paz, questão chave nesse autor, uma vez que diversos aspectos deste tema - por ele exaustivamente examinado - estão presentes como reflexão, imagem ou valor nos alicerces de sua palavra, seja esta a do ensaísta, a do poeta, seja a palavra da resposta de um homem a seu tempo. Tempo que responde ao tempo: em resumo, sua vida e obra. Paz concebe o tempo complexamente, ou antes, elabora a consistência dessa complexidade ao discriminar naturezas distintas de tempo e as comportar em uma dinâmica de signos, em outras palavras, em uma concepção arquetípica do tempo. Esta concepção se encaminha para ser uma proposta de ato e de ação: este tempo está no cerne do ato solitário da criação; este tempo está no lastro da ação da participação no mundo. Figurado profusamente, em duas palavras é o agora, o instante pleno. Em um nome não indicado pelo Autor - Kairós - esta dissertação viu correspondências à concepção de Paz. Pode-se mesmo considerar que o tempo em Octavio Paz é um tempo-kairós, e que sua obra contribui com o alicerce na construção de um determinado conceito de tempo, um tempo que articula o ideal e o real, o instante da encarnação de Aion em Cronos. Tema amplo e obra vasta, aqui ficamos restritos principalmente, mas não exclusivamente, a alguns poemas reunidos em Libertad bajo palabra e aos ensaios de O arco e a lira.
Résumé: Ce travail cherche examiner le problème du temps dans l'oeuvre d'Octavio Paz, question clé chez cet auteur vu que plusieurs aspects de ce thème - il l'a, lui, exhaustivement examiné - sont présents comme réflexion, image ou valeur dans les fondements de sa parole, soit-elle celle de l'essayiste, celle du poète, soit-elle la parole de la réponse d'un homme à son temps. Temps qui répond au temps: en bref, sa vie et son oeuvre. Paz conçoit le temps de manière complexe, ou plutôt, il élabore la consistance de cette complexité quand il discrimine des natures distinctes de temps et quand il les comporte dans une dynamique de signes, en d'autres termes, dans une conception archétype du temps. Cette conception-ci s'achemine pour être une proposition d'acte et d'action: ce temps est dans le coeur de l'acte solitaire de la creátion; ce temps est dans la base solide de l'action de la participation dans le monde. Figuré profusément, en un mot c'est le maintenant, l'instant plein. Dans un nom qui n'est pas indiqué par l'auteur - Kairós - cette dissertation a vu des rapports à la conception de Paz. On peut même considérer que le temps chez Octavio Paz est un temps-Kairós, et que son oeuvre contribue au fondement dans la construction d'un certain concept de temps, un temps qui articule l'idéal et le réel, l'instant de l'incarnation d'Aion dans Khrônos. Thème ample et oeuvre vaste, on reste ici restreints principalement, mais pas exclusivement, à quelques recueils de poèmes dans Libertad bajo palabra et aux essais dans O arco e a lira.
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