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Kneis, Philipp [Verfasser]. "(S)aged by Culture : Representations of Old Age in American Indian Literature and Culture / Philipp Kneis." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1045169188/34.
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Pretorius, Antoinette E. "‘To eke out the vocabulary of old age’ : literary representations of ageing in transitional and post-transitional South Africa." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45906.
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This thesis investigates the depiction of ageing and old age in several key works of South African literature of the transitional and post-transitional period. The study covers texts set both in the transitional period prior to the 1994 democratic elections and in the years following that historical watershed. I examine how the literary representation of the ageing individual operates within the rhetoric of transition and new beginnings that characterizes the contemporary political and ideological climate of South Africa. The study includes a close examination of two novels (Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee, and Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk), a collection of short stories (The Mistress’s Dog by David Medalie), and a volume of poetry (Body Bereft by Antjie Krog). My reading of these texts centres on exploring how the authors depict their ageing protagonists in relation to ideas of time, place and the body. Using Julia Kristeva’s theories on abjection, I analyse whether or not a degree of agency can be found in the abject depiction of older age. Similarly, I examine the ways in which reading older age through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of the grotesque allows for a liberation from reductive understandings of the embodiment of ageing individuals. Because both Agaat and Body Bereft are translated from Afrikaans, I also explore the ways in which translation intersects with the socio-political ideologies of the periods in which these texts are set, as well as how this may have an impact upon the representation of older age. Through examining the tension between the nostalgic, backward-looking perspective usually attributed to old age, and the progressive, forward-looking sentiment of modern South Africa, I investigate the ways in which these writers – Coetzee and Van Niekerk in particular – associate the ageing body with political concerns. I also show how, in their different ways, all four writers counteract stereotypes associated with senescence.Thesis (DLitt)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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Barush, Kathryn R. ""Every age is a Canterbury pilgrimage" : art and the sacred journey in Britain, c. 1790-1850." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:63e1545c-1362-4bc3-bbc3-b950eecf7c70.
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This thesis examines the intersections of the concept of pilgrimage and the visual imagination in Britain from the years 1790 to 1850. Historically, distinctions between understandings of pilgrimage as motif, metaphor, artistic process, and actual journey have been blurred to varying degrees, resulting in the creation of images that were at once narratives, memorials, and stimuli for contemplative journeys from pictorial space to imagination. In the first half of the nineteenth century, religious architecture, sacred landscapes, and the emblematic figure of the pilgrim with coat, hat, and scrip functioned as temporal reminders of a promised land to come, as mediated through artistic practice. Through a close analysis of a range of interrelated visual sources, I contend that pilgrimage, both in practice and as a form of mental contemplation, helped to shape the religious, literary, and artistic imagination of the period and beyond. This study draws out the various levels at which pilgrimage engaged the visual imagination. In doing so it offers a detailed perspective on the conjunction of content, form, meaning, and process for artists and theorists, as notions of the transfer of ‘spirit’ from sacred space to represented space re-emerged as a key aspect of the theological and artistic discourse of the period. Chapter 1 outlines the antiquarian dissemination of medieval pilgrimage texts and images. I suggest that an awareness of pilgrimage as embodying the real and imagined emerged with the recovery of allegorical texts, histories of actual pilgrimages, and an interest in pilgrimage souvenirs. The discussion moves on to intersections between pilgrimage and religious art in Chapters 2 - 4, including the idea of painting as pilgrimage, as demonstrated through specific case studies, and the refashioning of relics and religious ruins as contemporary sites of pilgrimage (Chapter 5).
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Moulière, Ludivine. "Le Poète tardif. Mélancolie, vieillesse et poétique du déclin dans l’œuvre de Philippe Jaccottet." Thesis, Pau, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PAUU1065/document.
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L’omniprésence du thème du vieillissement dans la poésie de Philippe Jaccottet a déjà été relevée par de nombreux critiques. Mais elle n’avait encore jamais fait l’objet d’une analyse spécifique. Cette thèse de Ludivine Moulière, rédigée sous la direction d’Isabelle Chol, au sein du laboratoire Arts-Langage / Transitions et Relations de l’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, et intitulée Le Poète tardif, mélancolie, vieillesse et poétique du déclin dans l’œuvre de Philippe Jaccottet, entreprend de combler cette lacune en analysant, dans l’œuvre poétique et critique, les représentations de la vieillesse. Pour ce faire, comme y invite la théorie humorale exposée dans Saturne et la mélancolie (Klibansky, Panofsky, Saxl), le vieillir a été mis en lien avec la mélancolie, comprise dans plusieurs de ses acceptions. Ordonnant d’abord l’imaginaire de l’œuvre à la lumière de l’iconologie mélancolique, sont exposés les liens qu’entretient la représentation des éléments avec celles des âges de la vie, des saisons et des tempéraments. Cela permet de dégager l’humeur mélancolique qui informe la perception du monde en une structure bipolaire ou antithétique. Cette approche iconologique et phénoménologique laisse ensuite la place à une approche plus historique et sociologique. L’analyse des représentations de l’urbain et du jardin montre que la nostalgie, en contredisant l’héritage des Lumières et son idéal progressiste, donne au mouvement de l’histoire la forme d’un déclin graduel, qui rapproche l’historiographie jaccottéenne de l’historiographie romantique. Enfin, le commentaire de la poétique ou de la « poéthique » (Pinson) de Philippe Jaccottet montre de quelle manière l’écriture est infléchie par l’expérience du temps et de la vieillesse. La figuration du poète en « grave vieillard falcifère » (Steinmetz) s’avère ainsi participer d’une conversion axiologique à la fois de la vieillesse et de la mélancolie, en en faisant d’une part la condition d’une aspiration vers l’infini et d’un retour vers la finitude, et d’autre part le principe d’élaboration de l’éthopée jaccottéenne aussi bien que l’aboutissement de la quête lyrique de son identitéMany critics have already noticed the omnipresence of the theme of old age in Philippe Jaccottet’s work, yet it has never been the object of a specific analysis. Ludivine Moulière’s thesis, entitled The Late Poet, Melancholy, Old Age and Poetic of Decline, written under the direction of Isabelle Chol at the laboratory Arts-Language / Transitions and Relationships of the University of Pau, fills this gap by analyzing the representations of old age within poetic and critical works. Ageing is linked to melancholy as understood in several of its meanings, along the lines of humoral theory as developed in Saturn and Melancholy (Klibansky, Panofsky, Saxl). Firstly, the work’s imaginative realm is organized through the melancholic iconology model in order to show relationships between the representation of the elements and the ages of life, seasons and temperaments. As a result, a melancholic mood is shown to shape perception into a bipolar or antithetic structure. This iconological and phenomenological approach is followed by a more historical and sociological one. The analysis of the representations of urbanity and gardens shows that nostalgia gives the form of a gradual decline to the movement of history, unlike the Enlightenment Legacy and its idea of progress, bringing Jaccottet’s historiography closer to romantic historiography. Finally, the commentary on Jaccottet’s poetic or « po-ethic » (Pinson) shows how his writing is tempered by experience of time and old age. The image of the poet as a « grave old man carrying a sickle » (Steinmetz) proves to fall within an axiological conversion of both old age and melancholy making it, on the one hand, the condition of an aspiration towards infinity and a return to finitude, and on the other hand the elaboration of the Jaccottean ethopoeia as well as the outcome of the lyrical quest for his identity
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Cavell, Megan Colleen. "Representations of weaving and binding in Old English poetry." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610453.
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Ching, Yi-yan, and 程爾欣. "Depression of older adults: a literature review of challenges." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48422976.
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Background: Depression is the leading cause of premature death and disability worldwide. The globally aging population with increasing burdens of chronic diseases is certain to face increasing problems. Elderly people in whom physical and mental co-morbidities are common represent a group that is highly susceptible to the harm of depression. Worse still, the reduced accessibility of elderly to healthcare implies that the public health burden of depression seen in the healthcare sector is only tip of the clinical iceberg.
Objectives: This review aims to synthesize the current evidence of public health burden of geriatric depression, and the public health challenges in tackling this growing threat in the context of under-detection, social disparities and population ageing, and to summarize its current situation in Hong Kong and compare with other
Methods: A literature search was conducted in databases PubMed, Medline and Cochrane (January 2002-June 2012) using the keywords “depression, depressive episode, epidemiology, prevalence, incidence, elderly”. A total of 1285full-text articles were obtained, out of which 52 articles were potentially relevant. Critical appraisal was performed on articles after a priori specified inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied. After removing the duplicates and examining the contents, 15 articles were adopted for review.
Results: Depression brings along heavy disease burden which highly associated with mortality and morbidity. Late-life depression accounts for 17-37% in primary care settings, while around 3% in the community. The ongoing problems of under-detection, under-treatment and the progressive population ageing increase the challenges and complexity of matter. Gender difference is identified, while social support, social relationships and socioeconomic status were shown to be highly correlated with elderly depression in both the East and the West.
Conclusions: Elderly depression is a global threat causing increasing public health burden to healthcare systems and societies worldwide. Over the decades, public health sector is facing numerous challenges intackling it, including the practice-related challenges complicated by characteristics of elderly, policy-related challenges explained by the clinical iceberg concept, and societal related challenges. By understanding the older population and challenges in the community control of depression, it is the time to action and turn public health over a new leaf.published_or_final_version
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Polyakov, Maxim. "The power of time : old age and old men in ancient Greek drama." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2d238e6d-e040-479a-ae8f-dcf5ecd7e838.
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The study of old age in the humanities has developed significantly in the last few decades, but there is still much scope for progress. This thesis, therefore, seeks to contribute to the growing academic discourse in this area by considering ageing as it is represented in ancient Greek theatre. At the same time, it seeks to take its place within Classical Studies by developing new readings of the plays. To develop a context for its analysis, this study begins with consideration of the contemporary demographics, social position, and stage portrayal of old age, and following this dedicates a chapter to each of the four surviving fifth century dramatists. In Aiskhylos’ Agamemnon, old age emerges as a crucial element in choral self-identity, and an important component of the authority that they display. Following this, the thesis considers the chorus of Euripides’ Herakles, in particular its use of metadramatic language, and the impact this has on plot-development and the representation of their age. The next chapter, on Oidipous Koloneus, shifts to consideration of the protagonist. The old age of Oidipous emerges as a powerful driver of his mental and spiritual power, and forms a striking background to the exploration of his character. The final chapter of the thesis examines how mechanisms of renewal that old men undergo in Aristophanes’ comedies (Knights, Akharnians, Peace, Wasps, Birds) differ across the dramas, and the impact this difference has on their interpretations. Such reassessments of ancient dramatic texts through the lens of old age can provide significant insight into the complexity of old men’s characterisations and of their involvement in the dramas. At the same time (from a gerontological perspective), this thesis’ analysis contributes to the developing discussion of the history of ageing, and highlights the differences between the ancient and modern worlds in this respect.
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Rodosthenous, Marina. "Youth and old age : a thematic approach to selected works of Cretan Renaissance literature." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614293.
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Chivers, Sally. "The literary potential of old age in Simone de Beauvoir, The stone angel, and new Canadian narratives /." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36564.
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In an interdisciplinary study, I argue that narrative fiction centred around old women, through its appeal to readers' imaginations, can challenge the ageism which currently governs how old women are scripted and depicted.Chapter one situates media broadcasts amidst other discourses, such as academic theory, medical language, gerontology, and popular feminism, which confront---or avoid confronting---old women. To counter common, negative cultural depictions, chapter two examines Margaret Lock and Simone de Beauvoir's engagements with narratives of aging. I combine de Beauvoir's constructivist La Vieillesse and midlife fiction with Jean-Paul Sartre's What is Literature?, Martha Nussbaum's Poetic Justice, and Mieke Bal's Narratology to articulate how narrative fiction can compel what I call a committed reader to reimagine social possibilities for old women.
Chapter three foregrounds old age as a new category of analysis for Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel, sifting through her metaphors of decrepitude to set up a model for studying three potential, late life, female social roles.
Chapter four connects Joan Barfoot's Duet for Three with Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms, which both depart from the previous age-as-decrepitude convention, to propose that the role of grandmother offers old women opportunities to give freely and benefit from non-possessive love, in a family context. In chapter five, I examine how gerontological nursing textbooks theorize institutional care to illuminate how Edna Alford's A Sleep Full of Dreams and Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night facilitate an intergenerational bond within nursing homes. Caregivers' communicative strategies in each text exemplify how readers' imaginative engagement could begin to counter negative cultural attitudes. In chapter six, I explore how female friendship, as depicted in Barfoot's Charlotte and Claudia Keeping in Touch and Cynthia Scott's The Company of Strangers, offers old women an interdependence which enables the self sufficiency they often (are considered to) lack, eschewing a old age versus youth binary opposition.
I conclude that narrative fiction provides opportunities to shift cultural meanings of the conventionally negative term old, so that committed reading can transform imagined possibilities and lead to new perceptions of old women.
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Waters, Claire. "Act your age : reading and performing Shakespeare's ageing women." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c649607e-96f3-4476-a4eb-13e7ecd2db02.
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This thesis provides the first study of the representation, performance, and reception of Shakespeare’s ageing women in early modern and present-day England. It contributes an exposition of the physiology and theory of early modern ageing, drawing on this original material to make an argument for the ageing woman as a source of anxiety within the plays as they were originally staged, and as they are performed and received today. It finds the old and ageing woman in Shakespeare’s drama to be represented as physically and verbally excessive; the thesis also identifies a corresponding urge in the plays and in their reception towards the ageing woman’s containment and control. This containment is exercised in the text, the rehearsal room, the theatre, and the public space of performance reviews. My introduction determines my methodology and establishes the terms of reference for the project. The first chapter defines early modern old age and delivers a study of the early modern literature and theory of the ageing body. Each of the four subsequent chapters explores an ageing female character or characters through the lens of a theme: magic, motherhood, sexuality, and memory. The characters studied are drawn from The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Coriolanus, King John, All’s Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, and Richard III. Some brief concluding remarks complete the thesis. The larger project of the thesis is a cultural study. Throughout, I am keen to learn how characters are talked about as well as written and performed. My effort to understand the work which Shakespeare’s older women are asked to carry out in the present day defines my methodology: I draw on prompt books, production recordings, reviews, costume, photographs, programmes, and interviews with actors and directors to aid my investigation, juxtaposing these with close study of the written plays and the early modern culture and knowledge which underpins them. The word count, exclusive of bibliography but inclusive of all footnotes and an appendix, is approximately 92,000.
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Hamilton, Valerie. "Moll Flanders and the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street : projects of a projecting age." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/58044/.
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A novel and an organization would generally be regarded as polar opposites: one deals in fiction, the other in economic realities. This thesis explores the proposition that the novel and the organization share fundamental characteristics of form, function and technique: they work in the same way. The proposition is explored by comparing the emergence of an early English novel, Moll Flanders (1722), and an early English modern organization, the Bank of England (1694). Moll is recognised as significant in the process of the beginning of the form of the English novel; I argue that the Bank can be approached as a primary model of the form of the organization. Building upon Timothy Clark’s exploration of the nature of inspiration1, the thesis argues that ‘the space of composition’, the period from which they emerged, sometimes called the Age of Projects (1680-1720), is inherent in, and inherited by the form of the novel and the organization respectively. They are projects of a projecting age. The metaphor of the project is taken from Defoe’s Essay Upon Projects (1697) and is used as an interdisciplinary lens through which to reconstitute an intimate relationship between the novel and the organization. The thesis is itself understood as a project bringing a reflexive and experiential dimension to the narrative.
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Davis, G. Todd. ""The age of oddities" Byronism and the fictional representations of Byron /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1070042896.
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Gordon, Sharon Rosamunde. "Representations of feminist and lesbian consciousness and the use of subversive strategies in selected poetry of Isabella Jane Blagden (1817-1873)." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2016. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/453489.
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The purpose of this study is to recover and revise the contribution made to women's writing by the English minor novelist and poet, Isabella Jane Blagden (1817-1873), who was the centrifugal force of an influential literary and artistic milieu in Italy, in the mid-nineteenth-century. Key figures in the group were the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning and the American writer, Henry James. This study is a revisionist critique which questions the prevailing masculine discourse and conventions which oppressed women in terms of their sexual, political and economicfreedom. This, therefore, fits into the Victorian phenomenon of women poets finding their own space and expression against patriarchal norms. My focus on Blagden's poetry, with its scope for liminal/subliminal suggestiveness, enables an explorationof her subversive and transgressive feminist-lesbian poetics. Recent contributions from feminist and lesbian theorists and critics, are examined in order to establish a feminist-lesbian interpretation of gender, sexuality, subversion and transgression. A secondary consideration is Blagden's role in the aesthetic consciousness of others and her apparent inspirational position at the centre of the creative groups of intellectual emigrės in her circle. While most of her friends and acquaintances had a public persona, Blagden did not, and her work has received little discussion anddebate. In order to ensure her significance as a feminist-lesbian poet and Muse, this study will focus on her contribution to nineteenth-century women's poetry. As a contribution to literary scholarship my aim is to bring Blagden in from the margins asa poet of non-canonical status, to one whose status is placed firmly within the continuous literary tradition of radical feminist-lesbian women writers in the nineteenth century.
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Smith, Helen Frances. "Disability, impairment and embodied difference in late-medieval drama : constructions, representations, and the spectrum of signification." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31033.
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This thesis explores the spectrum of signification of disability, impairment and embodied difference in medieval drama. Drama is an important medium in which to explore what the body is used to signify as it provides an extra dimension in the physical embodiment and performance of these physical and spiritual conditions. Despite the value of medieval drama in understanding the significations of physical and psychological affliction, it remains a neglected area of scholarly research. In order to understand the meaning of dramatic representations of disability and impairment, it is necessary to explore the spectrum of signification attached to these conditions, since they could elicit such unstable and ambivalent responses. In this endeavour, this thesis consults medical, historical and cultural sources in addition to play-texts and performance evidence in order to understand the construction and representation of specific types of physical and psychological affliction in medieval drama, and what these conditions are used to signify through the body. Over the four chapters of this thesis I examine the ageing body (chapter 1); the unconverted Jewish body (chapter 2); the disease of leprosy (chapter 3); and wounds, mutilation and dismemberment (chapter 4). The play-texts I use deliberately draw upon a wide range of characters and personified abstractions, from the moral and the sacred to the immoral and the profane, from biblical drama to morality plays. These diverse conditions and identities allow an overarching insight into their use and meanings in medieval drama. Similarly, the diverse range of characters allows me to consider how the body is used to reflect the moral and spiritual condition of a character through the embodied mode of dramatic performance. For each of my chapters, the conditions I discuss possess ambivalence in their contrasting meanings, which binds the thesis together as a whole in acknowledging the changing and contrasting significations of disability, impairment and embodied difference according to the context.
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Meadows, Rita Emily. "The portrayal of older adults in basal reading textbooks of the 1960s and 1980s." Gainesville, FL, 1986. http://www.archive.org/details/portrayalofolder00mead.
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Hill, Christopher Austin. "“We've All To Grow Old”: Representations of Agingas Reflections of Cultural Change on the Celtic Tiger Irish Stage." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365780726.
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Paula, Débora Campos de. "O espelho quebrado: perspectivas sobre o envelhecimento, o velho e a velhice." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2005. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=7627.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorO fio condutor deste trabalho é a abordagem das representações do velho, da velhice e do envelhecimento, tendo como material de análise matérias da revista Veja, de 1968 a 2003. O estudo foi centrado nas imagens, sentidos e significados destas três categorias, destacandose a preponderância, permanência ou o desaparecimento de algumas representações observadas ao longo dos anos analisados. Sobressaiu das análises o crescimento da visibilidade do tema nas revistas, bem como a utilização do discurso de especialistas corroborando as visões prevalentes, conferindo legitimidade a padrões de saúde, de comportamento e de estética. Lidando com as imagens disponíveis nas publicações, margeando as representações-chave para um dado momento, foi possível observar outras tantas, as quais flexibilizaram uma primeira leitura do material que, a princípio, conferia ao mesmo menor variabilidade de representações do que aquela que, de fato, foi observada.
The conducting thread of this work is the social representations of the elderly, of old age and aging, according to the material published by Veja magazine (from 1968 to 2003). The study was based on the images, meanings and significances of these three categories, giving special attention to the preponderance, the permanence or the disappearance of some of the representations observed along the analyzed years. The analysis highlighted the growing visibility of the subject in the magazines, as well the use of specialists to corroborate the prevalent visions, inferring legitimacy to health, behavior and esthetics patterns. Examining the images available in the different issues, it was possible to observe that, besides the key representations of a certain time, there were many others that made the reading of the material more flexible, contradicting the first idea that there were fewer varieties of representations than those that had really been observed.
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Ferreira, Annemari. "The politics of performance in Viking Age skaldic poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1aa55225-8e44-4fea-a9ff-55f72209e590.
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This thesis examines the political functions of the performance of skaldic poetry during the Viking Age. It aims to establish the vital role that skaldic verse plays in the establishment and maintenance of power, as well as the importance of skaldic performance in the negotiation of that power in the inter-community relations between various courts both within and outside of Viking Age Scandinavia. The first chapter provides a contextual understanding of Viking Age power structures by considering the central ideological constructs surrounding the concept of óðal (ancestral property). Óðal-derived power, it will be shown, is based on ruler-presence (which extends to ancestral presence) in the landscape, which is perceived as a crucial element in the legitimisation of authority and power. My second chapter will consider the political significance of skaldic performance within the context of ruler itinerancy, which develops in response to political practices based on the importance of óðal-derived legitimacy. Of particular importance in this respect, will be the use of 'presencing' proper- and praise-names in skaldic poetry that effect both spatial and temporal itinerancies in a highly distributable format. My third chapter will establish the representational features of skaldic performance and elaborate on the definition of Performance not only as action (in the Austinian sense), but also as a type of action that is defined by its artifice, its temporal continuity and its emergent dialogism. This will provide the theoretical context for my fourth and final chapter which will aim to examine the employment of skaldic Performance in Viking Age diplomatic praxes. Here the phenomenologically perceived 'binding' of the Self through the dialogic rhythmicity that arises out of skaldic ambiguity and crypticism will be of central importance.
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Goeres, Erin Michelle. "The King is dead, long live the King : commemoration in skaldic verse of the Viking age." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:134a7129-12ba-4a9d-8176-fe89967d893d.
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This thesis examines the function of commemorative skaldic verse at the Viking-age court. The first chapter demonstrates that the commemoration of past kings could provide a prestigious genealogical record that was used to legitimize both pagan and early Christian rulers. In the ninth and early tenth centuries, poets crafted competing genealogies to assert the primacy of their patrons and of their patrons’ religions. The second chapter looks at the work of tenth-century poets who depict their rulers’ entrances into the afterlife. Such poets interrogate the role public speech and poetic discourse play in the commemoration of the king, especially during the political turmoil that follows his death. A discussion follows of the relationship between poets and their patrons in the tenth and eleventh centuries: although this relationship is often praised as one of mutual trust and reliance, the financial aspects of the relationship were often juxtaposed uneasily with expressions of emotional attachment. The death of the patron caused a crisis in these seemingly contradictory bonds between poet and patron. The final chapter demonstrates the dramatic development in the eleventh century of deeply emotional commemorative verse as poets become adopted into their patrons’ families through such Christian ceremonies as baptism and marriage. In these verses poets express their grief after the death of the king and record the performances of public mourning on the part of the kings’ followers. As the petty warlords of the Viking age adapted to medieval models of Christian kingship, the role of the skald changed too. Formerly serving as a propagandist and retainer in the king’s service, a skald documenting the lives of kings at the end of the Viking age could occupy an almost infinite number of roles, from kinsman and friend to advisor and hagiographer.
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Bimbato, Angélica Maria Jabur. "A representação de velhice entre os profissionais que atuam nos Núcleos de Saúde da Família." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/17/17139/tde-27102009-113625/.
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BIMBATO, A. M. J. A representação de velhice entre os profissionais que atuam nos Núcleos de Saúde da Família. 2008. 91 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 2008. Diversas mudanças têm ocorrido no perfil demográfico do Brasil, passando o envelhecimento populacional a ser uma realidade e não mais uma expectativa. Muitos são os mitos, conceitos e concepções sobre idoso, velhice e envelhecimento existentes em nossa sociedade, assim como meios legais que regem sobre os direitos e deveres da pessoa idosa (Programa Nacional de Saúde do Idoso, Estatuto do Idoso e Pacto pela Vida 2006). Objetivando analisar as representações de velhice presentes entre os profissionais que atuam nos Núcleos de Saúde da Família I, III, IV e V do Centro de Saúde Escola da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto - Universidade de São Paulo (CSE FMRP/USP) e as possíveis implicações para o serviço de saúde, realizamos este estudo, utilizando-se da abordagem qualitativa por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, com dezenove profissionais que atuam nesses Núcleos (agentes comunitários de saúde, auxiliares de enfermagem, enfermeiras, médicos e dentistas). As concepções de velhice variaram em função da formação, idade e experiência de vida dos entrevistados, sendo apresentadas como: fase de sabedoria e experiência de vida; evolução natural do corpo humano; estado de espírito; fase que se assemelha ao mundo infantil; fase de decadência ou solidão; e melhor idade. Há a compreensão por parte dos profissionais entrevistados, de que a velhice é um conjunto bio-psico-social-espiritual, sendo manifestadas pelos mesmos as dificuldades encontradas em prestar uma assistência de qualidade neste cenário tão complexo. Demonstraram também, os seus sentimentos, medo e ansiedade frente ao próprio processo de envelhecimento, como conseqüência da cultura e da sociedade em que vivem, onde ser idoso é visto de forma negativa. As concepções sobre idoso, velhice e envelhecimento, apresentadas pelos entrevistados, indicam a dimensão do quanto esses profissionais encontram-se despreparados para enfrentar o grande desafio de melhorar o atendimento oferecido pelo serviço de saúde, principalmente, em se levando em consideração o aumento acentuado do número de idosos neste país.BIMBATO, A. M. J. The representation of old among the professionals who actuate in the Nucleus of Health of Family. 2008. 91 f. Dissertação (Mestrado) Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto SP, 2008. Several alterations (changes) have accured in the demographic profile (side view) of Brazil, passing the populational aging to be a reality (a fact) and not else an expectation. There are a lot of myths (fables), concepts and conceptions about old people, old age and aging in our society, in the same way that legal ways that rule about the rights and obligations of old person (National Programe of Health of old people, Statute of old people and Pact for life 2006). Objectifying analyze the representations of old age present among the professionals who actuate in the Nucleus of Health of Family I, III, IV, and V in the Center of School Health of the Medical Scholl of Ribeirão Preto SP and University of São Paulo (CSE FMRP/USP) and the possible implications for the health service, we have realized this study, through the qualitative contacts by semi organized interviews with nineteen professionals who actuate in these Nucleus (communitarian of health agents, auxiliary of nursing, nurses, doctors and dentists). The conceptions of the old age have changed in function of the formation, age and experience of life of the interviewers, being showed as phase of knowledge (wisdom) and experience of life; natural evolution of the human body; condition of the spirit; phase like to the infantile world; phase of decadence and loneliness (desolation) and better age. There is the understanding (the comprehension) in part of the interviewed professionals that the old age is a biko-psycho-social-spiritual body (assemblage), being manifested (declared) by these; the difficulties found in giving a good care in this so complex decor (setting). They have also demonstrated their feelings (fear and anxiety) before their own process of aging as consequence of the education of the society they live, where who is old is seen in a negative form. The conceptions about old people, old age and aging expressed by the interviewed show a good dimension of how these professionals are unprepared to face (to confront) the great challenge to improve the work offered by the health service, mainly, when we take into consideration the accentuated growth of the number of the old people in this country.
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Crewe, Jonathon R. "Another London : a novel and critical commentary investigating representations of the white working class in media, politics and literature in an age of multiculturalism." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2017. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/813208/.
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This project consists of a creative component in the form of a novel and a critical commentary that investigates white working-class representation in mainstream media, politics and literature, and its links to socio-economic and political inequality in a purportedly democratic society. The creative component of this thesis, Another London, is a novel in six parts of approximately 91,000 words. It is set on a council estate in East London between 1991 and 2011 and follows the social and psychological development of a white working-class boy into adulthood as he lives through fictionalised parallels of real-life events, such as the London terrorist attacks in 2005. At the age of eleven he witnesses a racially-motivated murder that affects his relationships with his friends, family and local community. Unable to find a job, he turns to a violent gang for work. Influenced by far-right political party rhetoric, the gang begins to perpetrate hate crimes, which forces the protagonist to confront his own ethnic and class identity. The critical component uses a series of case studies and close readings of political speeches to analyse how media and political elites use the white working class as scapegoats for socio-economic inequality and systemic racism. Using Fredric Jameson’s theory of the ideologeme it traces representations of working- and white working-class characters from the Victorian era through to contemporary literary texts and shows how they have been influenced by, and fed back into, mainstream representations of the (white) working class. The thesis then examines the use of free indirect discourse in literary texts and how it feeds back into stereotyped representations of the (white) working class. The creative component, by juxtaposing free-indirect discourse and first person narration, exposes the ideologemes of white working-class literary representation by providing a space in the public arena for white working-class voices to be heard, and therefore challenging the stereotypical representations of the white working class as espoused by media and political elites.
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Oliveira, Marina João Bernardes de. "Entre o azedo e o doce : a personagem feminina idosa em contos de Clarice Lispector e Flávia Savary /." Assis : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94132.
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Orientador: Cleide Antônia RapucciBanca: Altamir Botoso
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Resumo: Este trabalho enfoca a mulher idosa nos contos "Feliz aniversário", de Clarice Lispector; e "Ataviada pra festa" e "Doce de Teresa", de Flávia Savary. As personagens desses textos são oprimidas e manipuladas por um grupo dominante. Por essa razão, esta dissertação pretende analisar como essas mulheres se comportam diante de tal dominação. Além disso, visa estudálas em relação à "zona selvagem". Esta, de acordo com os antropólogos de Oxford, Shirley e Edwin Ardener, é um espaço onde as mulheres expressam o que lhes é reprimido pelo grupo dominante. Diante disso, a crítica feminista usa quatro enfoques sobre os textos produzidos por mulheres. São eles: o biológico, o lingüístico, o psicanalítico e o cultural. Este último será utilizado neste trabalho porque, segundo a crítica norte-americana Elaine Showalter, é mais completo, pois aborda questões sobre o corpo, a linguagem e a psique das mulheres e como isso é interpretado em relação ao contexto social em que tudo ocorre. Tal dissertação também é importante para os estudos da ginocrítica. Isso se deve ao fato de que a ginocrítica é caracterizada por ser um discurso crítico e especializado sobre os textos de mulheres. Além disso, serão abordadas as três fases que a literatura feminina apresenta, apontadas por Showalter: a fase feminina, feminista e mulher. De acordo com esses aspectos, o trabalho em questão tem o objetivo de enfocar um momento específico da mulher (a velhice) no qual os preconceitos e os problemas são mais intensos, além de mostrar o papel da mulher idosa nos textos produzidos por mulheres.
Abstract: This study is about elderly women in the short stories "Feliz aniversário", by Clarice Lispector; and "Doce de Teresa" and "Ataviada pra festa", by Flávia Savary. The characters of these short stories are oppressed and manipulated by a dominant group. For that reason, this research intends to emphasize their response to the domination and it shows that these elderly women are related to the wilderness. According to the anthropologists of Oxford, Shirley and Edwin Ardener, wilderness is a space where women express what has been repressed by the dominant group. Due to this fact, the feminist criticism uses four models of difference about texts written by women. These four models are: biological, linguistic, psychoanalytic and cultural. Then, the last one is present in this work because, according to Elaine Showalter, it illustrates ideas about the body, language and psyche of woman which are interpreted in relation to the social context where they occur. Furthermore, this work is important to the gynocritical studies, too. It happens because the gynocriticism is a critical and specialized speech about women's texts. Besides, this work will discuss the three phases that women's literature presents. They are: feminine phase, feminist phase and female phase which will be used in this work. Based on these aspects, this work intends to portray a specific phase of women's life (the old age) in which the prejudices and the problems are stronger and it also shows the elderly woman's role in the texts written by women.
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Erasmus, Alecia. "Verweerde skrif: ʼn tematiese ondersoek na ouderdom, verganklikheid, aftakeling en sterflikheid in die vroeë Griekse digkuns." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86693.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: With the discovery of the so-called “New Sappho” in 2004, there has been a revival in the research about Sappho, Greek lyric and old age in Greek literature. In this short fragment, Sappho writes about the symptoms of old age. She interweaves this with mythological references to Eos and Tithonus. It was especially this remarkable find that has focused my attention on the themes of old age, caducity, bodily decay and mortality in Greek literature. In my opinion the discovery of a new fragment of Greek poetry justifies research on this genre as well as the themes that occur in it. This thesis explores the following research question: What is the view of old age that is brought to the fore in a thematic examination of early Greek poetry? My discussion includes works by Sappho, Anacreon, Ibycus, Mimnermus, Tyrtaeus of Sparta, Solon of Athens, Theognis, Archilochus and Semonides of Amorgos. This thesis found that the view of old age in early Greek poetry is predominantly negative. The thesis proves the hypothesis that the view of old age, caducity, bodily decay and mortality that is brought to the fore in a thematic examination of early Greek poetry agrees with the negative view of these aspects as appears from the other literary genres from the Greek canon. In most cases there is a strong relationship between old age and eroticism and how old age obstructs eroticism. In these fragments we often find a human revolt on a universal scale against old age and the loss of love. The aged body is no longer seen as an erotic object. This also has serious implications for the social circumstances of the aged. The use of the first person voice stresses both the raw, personal experience of old age and the universal experience thereof. The first person plural in some cases underlines the collective attitude and experiences of the ageing person. Early Greek poets describe old age as πόλιος (grey), ὀδυνηρός (painful), ἀργαλέος (baneful), κακός (evil), ἄμορφος (ugly), οὐλόμενος (accursed) and ἄζηλος (unenviable). The epithets and adjectival clauses which are identified in the discussed poetry form a conceptual nexus of old age which is almost uniformly negative. Except for Tyrtaeus and maybe Solon, most poets have a disapproving, reproachful, despising and repulsive attitude towards old age. In these fragments, old age is described as the threshold to death. Old age in itself is a type of death, a living death.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Met die ontdekking van die sogenaamde “Nuwe Sappho” in 2004 het daar weer opflikkering gekom in die navorsing oor Sappho, die Griekse liriek en die ouderdom in Griekse letterkunde. In hierdie kort fragment skryf Sappho oor die simptome van die ouderdom en verweef sy dit ook met mitologiese verwysings na Eos en Tithonos. Dit is juis hierdie merkwaardige vonds wat my aandag gefokus het op die temas van ouderdom, verganklikheid, aftakeling en sterflikheid in die Griekse letterkunde. Die ontdekking van ʼn nuwe fragment Griekse poësie regverdig na myns insiens navorsing oor hierdie genre en dus ook die temas wat daarin voorkom. In hierdie tesis word die volgende navorsingsprobleem ondersoek: Wat is die siening van ouderdom, verganklikheid, aftakeling en sterflikheid wat na vore kom in ʼn tematiese ondersoek van die vroeë Griekse digkuns? My bespreking sluit werke deur Sappho, Anakreon, Ibukos, Mimnermos, Turtaios van Sparta, Solon van Athene, Theognis, Archilochos en Semonides van Amorgos in. In hierdie tesis is daar bevind dat die siening van die ouderdom in die vroeë Griekse digkuns oorwegend negatief is. Die tesis bewys die hipotese dat die siening van ouderdom, verganklikheid, aftakeling en sterflikheid wat na vore kom in ʼn tematiese ondersoek van die vroeë Griekse digkuns ooreenstem met die negatiewe siening oor hierdie aspekte wat in ander letterkundige genres van die Griekse kanon blyk. Daar is in die meeste gevalle ʼn sterk verbintenis tussen die ouderdom en die erotiek en hoe eersgenoemde die tweede kortwiek. Dikwels tref ons op ʼn universele vlak ʼn uiting van die menslike verset teen die ouderdom en die verlies van liefde in die fragmente aan. Die bejaarde liggaam word nie meer as ʼn erotiese voorwerp gesien nie. Dit het ook ernstige implikasies vir die sosiale omstandighede van die bejaardes. Die gebruik van die eerstepersoonspreker in die vroeë Griekse digkuns onderstreep tegelyk die rou, persoonlike belewenis van die ouderdom sowel as die universele ervaring daarvan. Die eerstepersoonsmeervoud in sekere gevalle beklemtoon die kollektiewe houding en ervaring van die ouerwordende mens. Die ouderdom word deur die vroeë Griekse digters as πόλιος (gryskop; grou), ὀδυνηρός (pynlik), ἀργαλέος (verderflik), κακός (boos), ἄμορφος (lelik), οὐλόμενος (vervloek) en ἄζηλος (onbenydenswaardig) uitgekryt. Die epiteta en byvoeglike bepalings wat in die bespreekte kortpoësie aangetref word, vorm ʼn konseptuele neksus van die ouderdom wat amper gelykmatig negatief is. Behalwe vir die uitsondering van Turtaios en miskien Solon, is die meeste digters se houding teenoor die ouderdom en bejaardes daardie van afkeer, verwyt, veragting en ongeneentheid. In dié fragmente word die ouderdom geskets as die drumpel tot die dood. Ouderdom is op sigself ʼn soort dood, ʼn lewende dood.
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Oliveira, Marina João Bernardes de [UNESP]. "Entre o azedo e o doce: a personagem feminina idosa em contos de Clarice Lispector e Flávia Savary." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/94132.
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oliveira_mjb_me_assis.pdf: 646311 bytes, checksum: cf4c9a5708b8fc5ba19c68f599c8576f (MD5)Este trabalho enfoca a mulher idosa nos contos “Feliz aniversário”, de Clarice Lispector; e “Ataviada pra festa” e “Doce de Teresa”, de Flávia Savary. As personagens desses textos são oprimidas e manipuladas por um grupo dominante. Por essa razão, esta dissertação pretende analisar como essas mulheres se comportam diante de tal dominação. Além disso, visa estudálas em relação à “zona selvagem”. Esta, de acordo com os antropólogos de Oxford, Shirley e Edwin Ardener, é um espaço onde as mulheres expressam o que lhes é reprimido pelo grupo dominante. Diante disso, a crítica feminista usa quatro enfoques sobre os textos produzidos por mulheres. São eles: o biológico, o lingüístico, o psicanalítico e o cultural. Este último será utilizado neste trabalho porque, segundo a crítica norte-americana Elaine Showalter, é mais completo, pois aborda questões sobre o corpo, a linguagem e a psique das mulheres e como isso é interpretado em relação ao contexto social em que tudo ocorre. Tal dissertação também é importante para os estudos da ginocrítica. Isso se deve ao fato de que a ginocrítica é caracterizada por ser um discurso crítico e especializado sobre os textos de mulheres. Além disso, serão abordadas as três fases que a literatura feminina apresenta, apontadas por Showalter: a fase feminina, feminista e mulher. De acordo com esses aspectos, o trabalho em questão tem o objetivo de enfocar um momento específico da mulher (a velhice) no qual os preconceitos e os problemas são mais intensos, além de mostrar o papel da mulher idosa nos textos produzidos por mulheres.
This study is about elderly women in the short stories “Feliz aniversário”, by Clarice Lispector; and “Doce de Teresa” and “Ataviada pra festa”, by Flávia Savary. The characters of these short stories are oppressed and manipulated by a dominant group. For that reason, this research intends to emphasize their response to the domination and it shows that these elderly women are related to the wilderness. According to the anthropologists of Oxford, Shirley and Edwin Ardener, wilderness is a space where women express what has been repressed by the dominant group. Due to this fact, the feminist criticism uses four models of difference about texts written by women. These four models are: biological, linguistic, psychoanalytic and cultural. Then, the last one is present in this work because, according to Elaine Showalter, it illustrates ideas about the body, language and psyche of woman which are interpreted in relation to the social context where they occur. Furthermore, this work is important to the gynocritical studies, too. It happens because the gynocriticism is a critical and specialized speech about women’s texts. Besides, this work will discuss the three phases that women’s literature presents. They are: feminine phase, feminist phase and female phase which will be used in this work. Based on these aspects, this work intends to portray a specific phase of women’s life (the old age) in which the prejudices and the problems are stronger and it also shows the elderly woman’s role in the texts written by women.
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Locatelli, Patrícia Augusta Pospichil Chaves. "As representações sociais sobre a velhice e os reflexos nos processos de gestão de pessoas de uma instituição de longa permanência de Porto Alegre." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/49412.
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Nas últimas décadas, o envelhecimento da população brasileira tem demandado atenção, principalmente, no que tange ao cuidado para com o público idoso. Apesar de a legislação brasileira estabelecer que o principal responsável pelo cuidado ao idoso é a família, a dinamicidade do contexto social e a atual fluidez dos relacionamentos familiares tem reconfigurado essa prerrogativa. Neste contexto, com a finalidade de suprir essa demanda oferecendo ao público longevo serviços de assistência social e à saúde, principalmente, em casos em que o idoso não possui família ou esta não apresenta condições para assumir a responsabilidade pelo seu cuidado, surgem as denominadas Instituições de Longa Permanência para Idosos – ILPIs, objeto deste estudo. Partindo-se do entendimento de que a forma como os funcionários de uma ILPI são geridos e a prestação de serviços conduzida está diretamente relacionada às representações sociais de gestores, funcionários e dos próprios idosos sobre a velhice, este estudo objetivou identificar e analisar como as representações sociais sobre a velhice na ótica dos usuários e daqueles que trabalham em uma instituição de longa permanência para idosos se refletem nos processos de movimentação e desenvolvimento de pessoas dessa instituição. Para isso, esta pesquisa, de abordagem qualitativa e natureza exploratório-descritiva, adotou como estratégia o estudo de caso e como técnicas de coleta de dados: observação simples e participante, realizadas de setembro de 2011 a fevereiro de 2012; entrevistas semiestruturadas com 18 indivíduos, sendo quatro gerentes, nove funcionários e cinco idosos; classificação de fotos; pesquisa documental. Os resultados deste estudo apontaram para a heterogeneidade das representações sociais de gestores, funcionários e usuários da instituição pesquisada a respeito da velhice, que perpassaram não apenas o contexto de institucionalização, mas também os dois modelos predominantes de velhice, um com foco nas perdas e outro com foco nos ganhos. A análise dessas representações sociais permitiu ainda o desvelamento de questões pertinentes à dinâmica organizacional como as relacionadas a gênero, relações de poder, mecanismos de controle da velhice e mecanismos de resistência. Quanto aos processos de movimentação e desenvolvimento de pessoas, identificouse que as representações sociais a respeito da velhice influenciam na condução das ações relacionadas aos processos de captação, internalização e desenvolvimento de pessoas, se desdobrando na filosofia de atendimento da ILPI pesquisada e no comportamento de seus gestores e funcionários.In recent decades, the aging of the Brazilian population has been attracting more and more attention, mainly in what regards elderly care. Despite Brazilian legislation provisioning that it its mainly the family's role to take care of their elderly, the dynamics of the social context and the present fluidity of family relations has reshaped this claim. Therefore, the Long Term Care Institutions for Elders – LCIF, the focus of this study, appear in order to meet this demand, by offering social welfare and health services to this long-living public – mainly when the elder has no family or they do not offer the conditions to take on the responsibility for such care. Assuming that the way LCIF employees are managed and the services they provide are directly connected with the social representation perceived by managers, employees and the very elders in regards to old age, this study aimed at identifying and analyzing how such social representations, as perceived by the users of and those who work at these institutions, impact on their movement and development processes. In order to accomplish that, this qualitative and exploratory-descriptive research employed the strategy of case study; for acquiring data, it employed the following procedures: simple and engaged observations, taken place over the period of September, 2011, through February, 2012; semi-structured interviews with 18 individuals (four managers, nine employees, and five elders); classification of photographs; and document research. Results revealed a heterogeneity in the social representations perceived by managers, employees and users of the institution studied in regards to old age. These perceptions involved not only the institutionalization context, but ranged between two predominant models, one focusing on loss, and the other on gain. The analysis of these social representations also allowed for the unveiling of issues regarding the organizational dynamics, such as those related to gender, power relations, mechanisms of old age control, and resistance mechanisms. Concerning the processes of movement and development of people, there could be identified that the social representations on old age influence the decisions related to the processes of reception, internalization and development of people, unfolding into the philosophy of service at the LCIF studied here, as well as in its managers' and employees' behavior.
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Martinez, Yêda Lenir Henriques das Neves. "A visão do jovem manauense do ensino médio sobre a velhice e o envelhecimento." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2007. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12517.
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Previous issue date: 2007-05-24This study investigates the social representations of the youth manauense, student of the medium teaching, on the old and the old age, establishing relationship between the historical data and the construction of the social thought on the theme, being looked for to identify the way those representations is expressed in the social relationships and the influence of the education process in its formation. It is believed that the education could serve as extenuating to reduce the dissonance of values and ideas that cause tension among the different generations, and to know the aging process would be to make possible the youth an education returned for the reality, contributing to the change of paradigms and for to revert the social process of the seniors' depreciation in the Brazilian culture. Leaving of the analysis of the speech of the subjects, its settled down a dialogue between the empiric data and the theoretical base, inside of a partner-historical and cultural perspective. The interpretative analysis, leaning in the hermenêutica-dialectics, its made data that corroborate the permanence to emerge, at the present time, of stereotypes related to the aging process, as well as the gap left by the education relatively to the theme in the youths' formation
Este estudo investiga as representações sociais do jovem manauense, estudante do ensino médio, sobre o velho e a velhice, estabelecendo relação entre os dados históricos e a construção do pensamento social sobre o tema, buscando-se identificar a maneira essas representações se expressam nas relações sociais e a influência do processo educacional na sua formação. Acredita-se que a educação poderia servir como atenuante para reduzir a dissonância de valores e idéias que causam tensão entre as diferentes gerações, e conhecer o processo de envelhecimento seria possibilitar ao jovem uma educação voltada para a realidade, contribuindo para a mudança de paradigmas e para reverter o processo social de desvalorização dos idosos na cultura brasileira. Partindo da análise do discurso dos sujeitos, estabeleceu-se um diálogo entre os dados empíricos e a base teórica, dentro de uma perspectiva sócio-histórica e cultural. A análise interpretativa, apoiada na hermenêutica-dialética, fez emergir dados que corroboram a permanência, na atualidade, de estereótipos relacionados ao processo de envelhecimento, assim como a lacuna deixada pela educação relativamente ao tema na formação dos jovens
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Kautzmann, Maryline. "Vieillir : le point de vue du cinéma américain contemporain (2000-2010)." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018STRAC010.
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La première décennie du XXIe siècle est une période charnière dans l’histoire des représentations du vieillir et de l’être vieux. Durant les années 2000, le cinéma hollywoodien offre de nouvelles images du vieillir, moins alarmistes, moins stéréotypées, en somme plus positives. Non plus systématiquement relégué au second plan, le personnage âgé se fait une place parmi les héros hollywoodiens. Le vieillir n’est alors plus dissimulé, mais mis à l’honneur, dans ces films portés par un héros âgé. Par leur présence et leur visibilité dans ce cinéma hautement commercial, ces nouveaux personnages vieillissants signalent un phénomène majeur : durant les années 2000, le vieillir devient commercialement profitable, notamment car se reconnaît dans ces films une génération exceptionnelle par de nombreux aspects, celle des baby-boomers. Par ailleurs, au travers de ces nouvelles représentations du vieillir se fait jour une transformation sociétale plus large avec l’avènement d’un nouveau rapport à la vieillesse, le « vieillir nouveau », qui substitue aux clichés âgistes et à l’idée du vieillir comme déclin un discours positif sur la vieillesse. Cette étude, circonscrite aux films hollywoodiens à succès de la période 2000-2010, propose de mettre en lumière ces nouvelles représentations hollywoodiennes du vieillir et la façon dont le cinéma s’est fait ainsi l’écho de discours innovants sur la question tout en tentant d’offrir sa propre version d’un vieillir nouveauThe first decade of the 21st century marks a transition in the history of the representations ofaging and old age. In the 2000s, Hollywood started offering new images of aging : less alarmist, less stereotypical, they are, all in all, more positive. As he is no longer pushed in the background,the aging character finds his way amid Hollywood heroes. In those films, which are carried by an old hero, aging is no longer concealed, but it is put in the spotlight. By their mere presence and visibility in such commercial cinema, these new aging characters signal a major shift : in the2000s, aging has become bankable, especially since its new portrayals speak to a generation which stands out on many different levels, the baby boomers. Besides, a wider social transformation shows through these innovative representations of aging, that of a new relationship to aging. “New aging” thus discards ageist clichés and the idea that aging isdeclining, and supplants these conceptions with a positive discourse on aging. This study revolves around popular Hollywood movies released between 2000 and 2010. It offers to shed a light on these new Hollywood representations of aging and on the way cinema has thus echoed innovative discourses on the matter, while attempting to offer its own version of a new outlook on aging
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Veloso, Laura de Sousa Gomes. "Representações sociais da depressão construídas por idosos e suas relações com a capacidade funcional." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2017. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/9447.
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Current researches indicate that, every year, around 650,000 people over 60 are entering Brazilian society, most of them with chronic diseases and functional limitations. Among the chronic pathologies, depression stands out, further increasing the cycle of fragility and progressive deterioration of functional capacity. Therefore, the present study aims to verify the social representations built by the elders on depression in old age and its relation with functional capacity, as well as to investigate the association between depressive symptoms and functional capacity. This is an exploratory study, with mixed approach, and secondary database, which included 234 people over 60 years old, of both sexes, assisted by the health teams of the Family Health Strategy Grotão I, II and III, and the Maria de Nazaré Community, in the municipality of João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. The data were collected in the respective health units, through a semi-structured interview, composed by three parts, the first being the Free Word Association Test (TALP), with the inductor term
Las investigaciones actuales indican que, cada año, cerca de 650 mil personas de más de 60 años ingresan a la sociedad brasileña, siendo la mayor parte con enfermedades crónicas y limitaciones funcionales. Entre las patologías crónicas, se destaca la depresión, elevando aún más el ciclo de fragilidad y de deterioro progresivo de la capacidad funcional. Ante el expuesto, el presente estudio tiene por objetivo verificar las representaciones sociales construidas por ancianos sobre la depresión en la vejez y sus relaciones con la capacidad funcional, así como investigar la asociación entre los síntomas depresivos y la capacidad funcional. Se trata, por lo tanto, de un estudio exploratorio, de enfoque mixto, y de base de datos secundaria, que incluyó a 234 personas de más de 60 años, de ambos sexos, asistidas por los equipos de salud de la Estrategia Salud de la Familia Grotão I, II y III, y la Comunidad María de Nazaret, en el municipio de João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil. Los datos fueron recolectados en las respectivas unidades de salud, a través de una entrevista semiestructurada, compuesta por tres partes, siendo la primera la Prueba de Asociación Libre de Palabras (TALP), con el término inductor
Pesquisas atuais indicam que a cada ano, cerca de 650 mil de pessoas com mais de 60 anos ingressam na sociedade brasileira, sendo a maior parte com doenças crônicas e limitações funcionais. Entre as patologias crônicas, destaca-se a depressão, elevando ainda mais o ciclo de fragilidade e de deterioração progressiva da capacidade funcional. Diante do exposto, o presente estudo tem por objetivos verificar as representações sociais construídas por idosos sobre a depressão na velhice e suas relações com a capacidade funcional, bem como investigar a associação entre os sintomas depressivos e a capacidade funcional. Trata-se, portanto, de um estudo exploratório, de abordagem mista, e de base de dados secundária, que incluiu 234 pessoas com mais de 60 anos, de ambos os sexos, assistidos pelas equipes de saúde da Estratégia Saúde da Família Grotão I, II e III, e a Comunidade Maria de Nazaré, no município de João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil. Os dados foram coletados nas respectivas unidades de saúde, através de uma entrevista semiestruturada, composta por três partes, sendo a primeira o Teste de Associação Livre de Palavras (TALP), com o termo indutor
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Burkowski, Jane M. C. "The symbolism and rhetoric of hair in Latin elegy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:44e36b32-8c44-4dd0-8241-3206e40e67f9.
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This thesis examines the hair imagery that runs through the works of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid. Comparative analysis of the elegists’ approaches to the motif, with particular emphasis on determining where and how each deviates from the cultural assumptions and literary tradition attached to each image, sheds light on the character and purposes of elegy as a genre, as well as on the individual aims and innovations of each poet. The Introduction provides some background on sociological approaches to the study of hair, and considers the reasons why hair imagery should have such a prominent presence in elegy. Chapter 1 focuses on the elegists’ engagement with the idea of cultus (‘cultivation’), and their manipulation of the connotations traditionally attached to elaborate hairstyles, of sophistication on the one hand, and immorality on the other, to suit an elegiac context. Chapter 2 looks at how the complexities of the power relationship between the lover and his mistress play out in references to violent hair-pulling. Chapter 3 focuses on the sometimes positively and sometimes negatively spun image of grey-haired lovers, as a reflection of the lover-poet’s own contradictory wishes for his relationship with his mistress; it also considers grey hair as a symbol of physical mortality, as contrasted with poetic immortality. Chapter 4 examines the use of images of loose hair (especially images of dishevelled mourning) to suggest connotations ranging from the erotic to the pathetic, and focuses on the effects the elegists achieve by using a single image to communicate multiple implications. The Conclusion considers the ‘afterlife’ of elegiac hair imagery: the influence that their approaches had on later authors’ handling of similar images.
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Lacerda, Simone Magalhães. "Universidade Aberta à Terceira Idade: representações da velhice." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12576.
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Previous issue date: 2009-05-22This paper brings a reflection that questions representations of old age, issue brought up by the coordinators and students of UNIFAL (Universidade Aberta à Terceira Idade, Universidade Federal de Alfenas-MG/ University Open to Seniors, - the Federal University of Alfenas- Minas Gerais). One of its main objectives was not only to examine the universe of this program in Alfenas centered on the elderly, but to address conceptions related to the aging process and old age itself, which provided subsidies to this program as well as to others of this nature. Accordingly, I explore, on the one hand, how notions of health, education and quality of life are mobilized and articulated to justify the opening of the university to seniors : movement which enabled me to look into representations of old age beyond the health /sickness polarity, axis articulator of organicist discourse. I, therefore, discuss the appearance of the expression seniors and its relationship to old and elderly, pointing out that the notion it refers to is linked to a renewed conception of health (which includes the complex issue concerning human welfare. ) On the other hand, I turn my attention to the history of the constitution of open universities (in Brazil and the rest of the world). In this enterprise, I identify the importance of university extension in the materialization of this program centered on seniors and the two-way avenue that is at issue in this projection outside the university walls : the university opens up to teach but it learns from the elderly. In line with this, I bring to discussion the pair teach / learn in the university realm open to seniors. Finally, I bring to light the result of data analysis, gathered in semi-structured interviews, carried out by the coordinators and students of UnATI-UNIFAL. I make use of the methodological tool used by Lefévre & Lefévre (2000) o Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo (DSC)/ Discourse of the Collective Subject in whose conceptual basis the notion of social representation lies (Moscovici, 1961; Jodelet, 1989). I try to demonstrate that , if there is the possibility of identification of general themes- among them, health/sickness/ teach/learn, losses/gains, life/death, activity/idleness - which are inscribed in the discourse of those interviewed, their unique marks should be acknowledged. Such marks very often subvert socially-crystallized discourses on the aging process and old age
Este trabalho traz uma reflexão que coloca em questão representações da velhice mobilizadas por idealizadores e alunos da UnATI-UNIFAL (Universidade Aberta à Terceira Idade, Universidade Federal de Alfenas-MG). Um dos seus objetivos centrais era investigar não apenas o universo deste programa de atenção ao idoso em Alfenas, mas abordar concepções relativas ao processo de envelhecimento e a velhice que o subsidiaram e tem subsidiado outros programas dessa natureza. Assim, exploro, de um lado, o modo como as noções de saúde, educação e qualidade de vida são mobilizadas e articuladas para fundamentar a abertura da universidade aos mais velhos: movimento que me permitiu investigar representações da velhice para além da polaridade saúde/doença, eixo articulador conceitual do discurso organicista. Discuto, então, o surgimento da expressão terceira idade e sua relação com os termos velho e idoso , assinalando que a noção a que ela se refere tem vínculo com uma concepção redimensionada de saúde (que inclui a complexa questão relativa ao bem/mal-estar humano). De outro lado, volto minha atenção para a história de constituição das universidades abertas (no Brasil e no mundo). Identifico, nesse empreendimento, a importância da extensão universitária na concretização deste programa de atenção ao idoso e a via de mão dupla que está em causa nesta projeção extra-muros : a universidade se abre para ensinar ... mas aprende com os velhos. Nessa linha, coloco em causa o par ensinar/aprender no âmbito da universidade aberta à terceira idade. Finalmente, trago à luz o resultado de uma análise de dados, coletados em entrevistas semi-estruturadas, realizadas com idealizadores e alunos da UnATI-UNIFAL. Lanço mão do dispositivo metodológico idealizado por Lefévre & Lefévre (2000) o Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo (DSC) em cuja base conceitual está a noção de representação social (Moscovici, 1961; Jodelet, 1989). Procuro mostrar que, se há a possibilidade de se identificar temas gerais - entre eles, saúde/doença; ensinar/apreender; perdas/ganhos; vida/morte; atividade/ociosidade - que se inscreve nos discursos dos entrevistados, há que se reconhecer suas marcas singulares. Marcas que, muitas vezes, subvertem discursos socialmente cristalizados sobre o processo de envelhecimento e a velhice
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Vandenberg, Vincent. "L'affamé, le marginal et le sauvage: pratiques et représentations de l'anthropophagie en Occident entre Antiquité et Moyen Age." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210162.
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Cette thèse de doctorat est consacrée à l’étude de l’un des tabous majeurs des sociétés humaines :la consommation par un individu de la chair ou de toute autre substance issue de ses semblables, autrement dit l’anthropophagie (ou cannibalisme). Selon une approche inédite, la problématique a été abordée dans toute la diversité de ses manifestations, au travers d’une documentation très variée, tant textuelle qu’iconographique, dans le cadre de l’Antiquité grecque et latine et au sein du Moyen Age occidental (latin surtout). L’objectif de la recherche était de mettre en évidence les pratiques, les discours et l’imaginaire d’un comportement alimentaire radicalement étranger aux normes culturelles des périodes et des lieux envisagés.Le plan de la thèse est conçu comme un parcours débutant et s’achevant aux confins du monde (le cannibalisme de « l’Autre »), tandis que le cœur du travail est consacré au cannibalisme de « l’intérieur », celui des affamés et des marginaux surtout. Tout naturellement, l’attention se focalise d’abord sur Homère et la confrontation d’Ulysse avec le Cyclope, qui installe dans la tradition l’imaginaire du pasteur des confins du monde, grand amateur de chair humaine. Hérodote, quant à lui, construit l’image d’un monde connu dont les frontières sont occupées par des peuples qui apprécient bien souvent la chair humaine. Là encore, le pasteur nomade est synonyme de sauvagerie. Une telle tradition perdure chez les auteurs latins antiques et médiévaux, qui reprennent à leur compte les anciens anthropophages en les déplaçant parfois, en les multipliant éventuellement. Mappae mundi médiévales, récits de voyage et descriptions du monde maintiennent dans les siècles qui suivent les mangeurs de chair humaine aux marges du monde, là où Colomb s’attendra plus tard à les trouver.
Le rôle du cannibalisme en tant que marqueur d’altérité trouve un écho très fort dans la marginalisation de certains groupes ou individus au sein même des sociétés antiques ou médiévales. A notamment été développé le cas des accusations de cet ordre portées contre les premiers Chrétiens. Le danger représenté par le franchissement de la norme fait naître par inversion des pratiques ou des croyances qui visent à exploiter les potentialités curatives ou « magiques » de la consommation de substances humaines :en témoignent le controversé cannibalisme médical ainsi que le matériel offert par les pénitentiels médiévaux. Un bref chapitre s’attache à un autre genre de comportements en marge :des scènes de cannibalisme censées avoir constitué le point culminant d’épisodes de violence collective.
Une grande attention a été accordée au cannibalisme de survie, le recours à la chair humaine comme nourriture de substitution en période de famine. Le passage de l’incompréhension antique face à un comportement indigne de l’homme à l’assimilation par la pensée chrétienne de ce type de cannibalisme à un fléau divin a été largement traité. La longue tradition médiévale des récits, issus de Flavius Josèphe, relatant la consommation d’un enfant par sa mère au cours du siège de Jérusalem a permis de démontrer la force de la présence du thème du cannibalisme dans l’imaginaire médiéval en tant que sanction divine. Une ample documentation a pu être réévaluée à la lumière de ce constat, ce qui a notamment permis de montrer de quelle façon l’évocation du cannibalisme pouvait être instrumentalisée afin de signifier la présence d’une sanction divine.
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Spedalieri, Francesca. "Seeing the Unseen, Staging the Unspoken: The Gender Politics and Political Language of Emma Dante’s Theatre in the Berlusconi Era (1994-2011)." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1480594504188268.
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Alves, Cristiane da Silva. "Novos tempos, vozes antigas : os narradores velhos na narrativa ficcional brasileira do século XXI : ou de como ficou difícil ouvir os velhos ou de como a ficção enfrenta o tabu da velhice." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/148946.
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Esta pesquisa busca examinar a presença de protagonistas-narradores em idade avançada e sua atuação nas narrativas ficcionais brasileiras publicadas na primeira década do século XXI. O objetivo é investigar a narrativa ficcional brasileira contemporânea que dá voz ao velho, permitindo que atue como sujeito e narrador da história, revelando a sua trajetória, o seu envelhecimento e o seu olhar sobre a sociedade. Para tanto, toma-se como corpus principal os livros Heranças, de Silviano Santiago, Leite Derramado, de Chico Buarque, Órfãos do Eldorado, de Milton Hatoum e O arroz de Palma, de Francisco Azevedo, cujo mote é uma espécie de autobiografia da personagem ficcional que, velha e experiente, faz um balanço da própria vida, apresentando ao leitor a sua história, ao mesmo tempo em que permite entrever certas passagens da história nacional. Pretende-se verificar as semelhanças, aproximações e diferenças que tais obras guardam entre si, bem como a possível relação com outras narrativas. Também será examinado o romance Milamor, de Livia Garcia-Roza que, diferente dos demais, traz uma personagem-narradora feminina, em vias de tornar-se idosa. A partir da análise do corpus, intenta-se averiguar em que medida a voz dos velhos está presente, bem como as questões relacionadas à velhice e/ou ao envelhecimento, ao lado de temas e fatos concernentes ao percurso histórico do país e a inserção (ou exclusão) dos velhos no cenário atual. Apesar do crescimento demográfico de indivíduos velhos no Brasil e em outras partes do mundo, sua voz não se faz ouvir de modo satisfatório; impera ainda o silenciamento das e sobre as pessoas velhas. A presença de diferentes obras trazendo à tona narradores velhos, todavia, acena como um indício de novas perspectivas no que se refere à compreensão e representação do envelhecimento e da velhice.This research seeks to examine the presence of protagonist-narrators in old age and his performance in Brazilian fictional narratives published in the first decade of this century. The aim is to investigate the contemporary Brazilian fictional narrative that gives voice to the old people, allowing them to act as main character and narrator of the story, revealing their path, their aging and their gaze on society. To this end, we take as the main corpus the books Heranças, by Silviano Santiago, Leite Derramado, by Chico Buarque, Órfãos do Eldorado, by Milton Hatoum and O arroz de Palma, by Francisco Azevedo, whose subject is a kind of autobiography of the fictional character that, old and experienced, takes stock of his life, showing to the reader his history, while allowing a glimpse of certain passages of national history. It is intended to verify the similarities, approximations and differences that such works have among themselves as well as possible links with other narratives. It will also be examined the novel Milamor, by Livia Garcia-Roza, that, unlike others, brings a character-female narrator, in the process of becoming old. From the corpus of analysis, an attempt is made to ascertain to what extent the voice of the old is present, as well as issues related to aging, along with themes and facts concerning the historical development of the country and the inclusion ( or exclusion) of the old people in the current scenario. Despite the population growth of older individuals in Brazil and other parts of the world, your voice is heard not satisfactorily; still rules their silencing. The presence of different works bringing up old narrators, however, looks an indication of new prospects with regard to the understanding and representation of aging and old age.
Esta investigación busca estudiar la presencia de protagonistas-narradores en edad avanzada y su actuación en las narrativas de ficción brasileñas publicadas en la primera década de este siglo. El objetivo es investigar la narrativa de ficción brasileña contemporánea que les da voz a los viejos, permitiendo que actúen como sujeto y narrador de la historia, revelando su trayectoria, su envejecimiento y su mirada sobre la sociedad. Para eso, tomamos como corpus principal los libros Heranças, de Silviano Santiago, Leite Derramado, de Chico Buarque, Órfãos do Eldorado, de Milton Hatoum y O arroz de Palma, de Francisco Azevedo, cuyo tema es un tipo de autobiografía del personaje de ficción que, viejo y experimentado, hace un balance de su propia vida, presentando al lector su historia, al mismo tiempo que nos permite vislumbrar algunos momentos de la historia nacional. Se pretende verificar las similitudes, diferencias y aproximaciones que dichas obras tienen entre sí, como también la posible relación con otras narraciones. También se examinará la novela Milamor, de Livia Garcia-Roza, que a diferencia de las otras tiene un personaje-narrador femenino, en camino de convertirse en vieja. A partir del análisis del corpus, se intenta determinar en qué medida la voz del anciano está presente, como las cuestiones relacionadas con la vejez y/o el envejecimiento, junto a los temas y los hechos relacionados con la evolución histórica del país y la inclusión (o exclusión) de personas viejas en el escenario actual. A pesar del crecimiento demográfico de individuos viejos en Brasil y en otras partes del mundo, su voz no se hace oír de modo satisfactorio. Sin embargo, la presencia de diferentes obras que sacan a la luz a los narradores ancianos se muestra como una señal de nuevas perspectivas en cuanto a la comprensión y la representación del envejecimiento y la vejez.
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Auger, Fanny. "L'aménagement de l'habitat chez des couples de nouveaux retraités Baby-Boomers : vivre le présent, anticiper l'avenir ?" Thesis, Lille 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LIL30032/document.
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Cette thèse de sociologie qualitative porte sur les pratiques et les significations des aménagements de l’habitat chez des couples d’individus nouvellement retraités et issus du « Baby-Boom ». Elle rend compte des dynamiques - socio-historiques, identitaires et corporelles, relationnelles et de mode de vie - qui modèlent l’expérience du « vieillir » et de l’ « habiter » de ces individus, et ce, dans une double temporalité : dans le temps présent, à travers les aménagements réalisés et/ou projetés à court terme ; dans l’avenir, à travers les aménagements réalisés par anticipation des risques liés à la vieillesse et/ou projetés à long terme. Les résultats de cette thèse montrent, d’une part, que les aménagements de l’habitat et leurs pratiques afférentes constituent les « supports » d’une transition dans le parcours de vie, pour des « êtres vieillissants sans être vieux » qui arrivent à la retraite et en même temps, au dernier tiers de leur vie. Dans le même mouvement, ils montrent comment les liens et les activités diverses de « pivots générationnels » nouvellement retraités façonnent leur habitat et leur façon d’habiter en début de retraite. D’autre part, les résultats de cette thèse donnent à voir une approche « endogène » de l’adaptation de l’habitat, à l’heure où cette question constitue un enjeu essentiel pour les pouvoirs publics et pour les individus. Cette recherche montre sur ce point comment des Baby-Boomers font preuve, via l’aménagement de leur habitat, d’un empowerment notable au sujet de leur vieillissement présent et à venir, afin de vivre et de vieillir « bien » et si possible, chez eux. Les résultats exposés donnent aussi à penser le potentiel du « confort » pour accompagner les individus issus des générations du Baby-Boom dans la prévention des risques de l’avenir et la préparation de leur vieux jours. En même temps, cette recherche invite à réfléchir à certains freins liés aujourd’hui (encore) à ces questions, tels qu’un imaginaire de la vieillesse profondément négatif, que certaines images et messages véhiculés continuent de nourrirThis thesis of qualitative sociology is about practices and meanings of home’s adaptations made by newly retired couples of Baby Boomers. It reports various dynamics – sociological, historical, physical or of identity, relationship and lifestyle - that shape the experience of "ageing" and the "housing" of these individuals, and this in two different time frames : in the present, through realized and /or short-term planned developments; in the future, through the developments made by anticipation of risks linked to the ageing and/or long-term projection. The results of this thesis show, first of all, that the adaptation of housing and related practices constitute some "supports" for this transition in the life course, and for "ageing but not old yet” people coming to retirement and entering the “last third of their life”. In the same time, they show how the relationships and the various activities of newly retired "generational pillars" shape their habitat and way of living in the early retirement period. On the other hand, the results of this thesis give to see an "endogenous" approach to adaptation of housing, at a time when this issue is a major challenge for governments and individuals. Regarding this point of view, this research demonstrates how Baby Boomers show, through the development of their habitat, a significant empowerment about their present and future ageing in order to live and age "good" and if possible, at home. The exposed results also suggest the potential of "comfort" in order to help Baby Boomers in the process of risk’s prevention, for the future and the preparation of their old years. At the same time, this research encourages to think about the obstacles that still exist on these questions, such as the deep negative perception of aging, that certain popular images and messages continue to feed
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Shen, Yiwen. "The Female Body, Motherhood, and Old Age: Representations of Women in Hell in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Japan." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-eb4v-jh61.
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My dissertation, The Female Body, Motherhood, and Old Age: Representations of Women in Hell in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Japan, examines the literary and visual representations of women in hell in late medieval and early modern Japan, with particular attention to the female body, motherhood, and old age. My focus is the late Muromachi and early Edo periods, when a constellation of new hells began to be conceptualized that had serious ramifications for representation of women. I examine a group of otogizōshi texts and hell paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, which were disseminated widely through different media (picture scrolls, screen paintings, and narrative texts) and which generated a set of motifs representing women in the afterlife. I relate the emergence of these motifs to the larger history of the discursive construction of the female body and the evolution of representations of hell in premodern Japan.
I argue that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, representations of women in hell in these texts and paintings shifted in their focus to domestic relationships, specifically mother-child and wife-husband relationships. This change is best exemplified by the late medieval set of gendered hells (The Hell of Barren Women, The Hell of Two Wives, and Children’s Limbo), which represent the body of the woman from three perspectives: 1) as infertile (as in the Hell of Barren Women), 2) as related to animals (such as the serpentine queen in Daibutsu no go-engi (The Venerable Origins of the Great Buddha) and the serpent-women in the Hell of Two Wives), and 3) as stigmatized or punished for excess desire/attachment in their mother-child and wife-husband relationships (as in the Hell of Two Wives).
This dissertation also analyzes woman as erotic object, as mother, and as aging body from a comparative Japan-China perspective. By comparing similar motifs that emerged at approximately the same historical moments—the snake queen falling into hell in Daibutsu no go-engi with the snake queen in “Empress Xi turning into a python,” and Datsueba (Clothes-snatching Hag) with Meng Po (Lady of Forgetfulness)—I am able to highlight distinctive features of these new hells for women as well as compare the differing functions of hell shown by these Japanese and Chinese examples.
In Chapter 1, “Women Falling Into Hell in Early Medieval Japan,” I analyze three early medieval tales of women journeying to and from Tateyama hell in the eleventh-century Dai Nihonkoku Hokkekyō genki and twelfth-century Konjaku monogatari shū in order to provide background for my later discussion on the new concerns for women that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I show how the salvation of the deceased female protagonists depended on the proper rituals being performed by family members and I make clear the significance that motherhood was accorded in early medieval Buddhist tales of women in hell.
I then examine how representations of women evolved and became more complex in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with the emergence of the Hell of Barren Women, where childless women are punished, and the Hell of Two Wives, in which two serpent women coil their bodies around a man with whom they had become involved in a triangular relationship. In Chapter 2, “Barren Women Hells and Daibutsu no go-engi (The Venerable Origins of the Great Buddha),” I show how the Hell of Barren Women stresses the reproductive responsibilities of women. The representations of the Hell of Barren Women, reflecting a growing female audience in the late Muromachi and early Edo periods, are clear evidence of a belief that it is motherhood that is a woman’s passport to salvation.
In Chapter 3, I examine “The Serpentine Queen and the Chinese Tale of Empress Xi Hui Turning Into a Python.” A comparison with Daibutsu no go-engi shows that the Chinese stories about Empress Xi focus more on the feelings and observations of the living, while Daibutsu no go-engi stresses the accumulation and elimination of negative karma.
Chapter 4, “The Hell of Two Wives: Transformed Women and the Jealousy of Joint-Wives,” examines the motif of the “transformed woman” found in the Lotus Sutra, the eleventh-century Hokke genki, and the mid-sixteenth century Dōjōji engi, showing how a negative connection between women and the dragon-serpent body was established, and how the animalized female body relates to the question of desire. The entwined threesome in the Hell of Two Wives not only exemplifies a domestic narrative of betrayal and resentment; it also shows a transition from a general stigmatization of the female body towards a more specific condemnation of lust, jealousy, and resentment—which are all gendered female. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, women’s roles evolved to reflect a desire to maintain the stability of family. At the same time, these representations began focusing more on situations in which women’s efforts to control body or mind met with failure.
Chapter 5, “Old Women as Keepers of the Borders: Datsueba and Meng Po,” analyzes two figures of hags in hell: Datsueba in Japan and Meng Po in China. While Datsueba watches over the dead as they descend to the depths of hell to receive judgment, Meng Po cares for them as they make their way out of hell to achieve reincarnation. I argue that both Datsueba and Meng Po reinforce the border of hell by depriving the deceased of their social identities, but while Datsueba punishes and purifies the deceased, Meng Po focuses on the transitional stage between death and the next life, and her memory-erasing function shows that, paradoxically, in Chinese hell deceased souls are not liberated from the basic Confucian relationships that are so important to the living.
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"From mane to tail: Representations of the lion in Old French literature." Tulane University, 2002.
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This dissertation examines representations of the lion in Old French literature by focusing on four literary discourses in which the 'king of beasts' reigns supreme: religious, socio-political, chivalric and courtly. The first chapter examines two influential sources of medieval animal lore: the Bible and the bestiaries. In the second chapter, lions in the hagiographic tradition are examined. In these texts, lions are non-carnivorous, a trait shared with the holy men and women they encounter. In depriving the lion of one of its most fundamental identities, that of predator, these texts transform its character into a more symbiotic relationship with saints. The third chapter, deals with 'beast literature'---specifically, fables and the 'beast epic.' In these genres, the lion has evolved into a human in a lion's skin. Indeed, it is the anthropomorphized lion-figure which suffers the greatest at the hands of its authorial creators. The more medieval authors shape the lion in man's image, twisting the animal into a 'manimal,' the more violent the affronts on its bestiality and its very body. In the last two chapters, the notion of 'motif transfer' as it applies to the lion in Old French romances will be studied, notably in Yvain and Floire et Blancheflor. Yvain provides the motif of a lion fighting a serpent, which is consequently reconfigured in the Queste del Saint Graal and other texts. While Chretien takes pains to subvert any religious implications in his representation of the scene, the author of the Queste deliberately emphasizes the religious symbolism of the two animals. Whereas the progression from Yvain to the Queste is from secular to ecclesiastical, the motif transfer that occurs within the surviving manuscript versions of Floire et Blancheflor is from Biblical to profane. The Old Testament story of Daniel provides the original motif that is recycled in the young pagan lover's humorous encounter with two lions. The motifs in these chapters are changed and subverted, a process which embodies the medieval concept of authorship, a pairing of imitatio and inventioacase@tulane.edu
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"Literary representations of the medieval tournament in Old French works: 1150 to 1226." Tulane University, 1992.
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The tournament was one of the great social phenomena of medieval civilization. It became such a standard chivalric event that it was assimilated as a widespread theme into literature. The purpose of this study is to discuss the representation of the tournament as it appears in a select corpus of medieval French texts from 1150 to 1226. The choice of works allows for a comparison of the representation of the tournament in both fictional and biographical verse narratives, from which salient conclusions can be drawn, such as to what extent, if any, genre influenced the way in which the tournament was treated. The work that provides the largest number of tournaments for study is the anonymous Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal. Among the remaining works are romances by Chretien de Troyes and Hue de Rotelande, and lais by Marie de France Existing scholarly contributions concerning the sport concentrate on its technical and regulatory aspects, whereas this study focuses on a limited set of elements that make up its literary re-creation. The study opens with brief background information on the tournament and its supposed origins, plus a short discussion of the bans against it. The remaining chapters treat the preparations and opening and closing practices; the waiting period, the announcement, and heraldry; the participants; the involvement of women; the location and duration; the gains, prizes, and victors; the casualties; and the weapons and techniques. This research further proposes to clarify the problematic nature of the early term for the sport (e.g., tornoi versus ahatine, an apparent synonym), and investigates the function of the tournament in the works This dissertation ultimately shows that fictional representations of the tournament are sometimes more realistic than 'historical' ones, that there is a certain rhetoric applicable to the depiction of the tournament regardless of the genre in which the medieval author chose to work, and, that the question of genre cannot be separated from that of the intended audience The study includes six pages of charts, schematically illustrating eight of the outlined elements with their corresponding works and line numbersacase@tulane.edu
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Boston, Julie Leigh. "An age-old debate comparing representations of aging in Mrs. Dalloway and The hours /." 2004. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/boston%5Fjulie%5Fl%5F200405%5Fma.
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Patterson, Charles P. "A fruitful bough : the Old Testament story of Joseph in medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/18454.
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The Old Testament story of Joseph is common to the Christians, Muslims, and Jews of medieval Spain, and each group drew upon its own and other exegetical traditions to produce literary versions of the biblical tale. After the expulsion of the latter two groups, several Hispanic playwrights, including such notable figures as Lope de Vega, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, continued to produce theatrical versions of the Josephine legend throughout the Golden Age. Most of these plays attained a great deal of popularity. In spite of the importance of these works in early Spanish culture, recent scholarship has paid comparatively little attention to them. The present study is meant to remedy that situation. By drawing upon the theoretical concepts of Edward Said, Amin Maalouf, Jonathan Z. Smith, and others regarding identity and Otherness, I demonstrate how each adaptation of the story constructs or evaluates religious and national identity. Medieval prose and poetic adaptations written by representatives of each of the three monotheistic faiths reveal an attempt to maintain the boundaries of religious identity within a multicultural context. Sixteenth-century theatrical versions deal with the post-expulsion identity crisis by proposing a more inclusive attitude towards New Christians. Finally, under the Baroque influence of the late seventeenth century, adaptations of the Joseph story become increasingly metatheatrical. This literary self-reflection serves to interrogate the nature of identity and reveal its constructedness. Given the importance of identity issues in current scholarship, this analysis suggests the need for increased critical attention to be paid to the Spanish Josephine tradition.text
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Nieto, Cuebas Glenda Yael. "“How can you be a witch? You are not old”: Women, society and spectacle in the Spanish Golden Age theater." 2012. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3498363.
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The trials of the Basque witches conducted during the 16th and early 17th centuries had a significant effect on the development of Golden Age Spanish Literature. Taunts and jests alluding to the punishment and humiliation of witches abound throughout many texts, as do scenes where characters are questioned about family histories that include connections to witchcraft; all this at a time when state and church authorities took the matter very seriously. In spite of this, many characters in the Spanish literature of the period were directly associated to magic. The most famous and imitated of these is la Celestina, who helped shape many subsequent female characters that exhibited magical abilities. Although magical characters are fairly abundant in the literature, witches per se, who would be portrayed as characters that violate Christian dogma or renege on their faith and engage in a pact with the devil, were not often seen in Golden Age Theater. This project will study a number of plays known today that feature witches; among them, Entremés famoso de las brujas (1675) by Agustín Moreto, Las brujas fingidas y berza en boca (late 17th century), an anonymous work, and Amazona en las Indias (1635) by Tirso de Molina. A fourth play will also be studied, Entremés de las brujas (1742) by Francisco de Castro. Although this fourth play was published in the 18th century, it makes use of the aquelarre as a narrative element, as seen in the work of Moreto and in Las brujas fingidas. Having selected these works, this project will focus on the socio-historical context under which they existed in order to determine if the witches they portray violate established social norms or if, on the contrary, they help preserve and strengthen them. We also seek to determine whether they uphold or challenge the perceived need to eliminate and/or punish social disorder. To answer these and other questions, we will study how beliefs and myths about witches are incorporated into these plays, how witches and witch-like characters interact with other dramatic personae, and how given social norms are inverted, especially when practices forbidden or regulated by the Spanish Inquisition are concerned. Lastly, this dissertation analyzes the social paradox that emerges from the portrayal of female characters associated with witchcraft in these four theatrical works. These characters are framed as contradictory figures that correspond, in one way or another, with the contrasting cultural forces of the era. Their presence on stage communicates the crisis of the baroque, under which the plot aligns with the mechanisms of control of patriarchal culture. To this end, we analyze the representation of witches not only as sources of divergent discourse, but also as a means of disseminating mainstream discourse and propaganda; since the portrayal of these women highlights their identity as “the other” to an audience that at the same time applauds them.
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Lawler, Brynn Heintz. "Evaluation of the effect of a literature-based unit designed to enhance the attitudes of primary grade children toward the elderly /." 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/8390.
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Rawsky, Elaine. "Falls in the elderly a review of the literature : a report submitted in partial fulfillment ... for the degree of Master of Science, Gerontological Nursing ... /." 1996. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/68799625.html.
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Lamb, Erin Gentry. "The Age of Obsolescence: Senescence and Scientific Rejuvenation in Twentieth Century America." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/922.
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Growing "old" in contemporary American society often means being seen as a problem: you threaten the stability of Social Security and Medicare; cutting-edge science seeks a cure for what ages you; cosmetic companies and health magazines sell you products and strategies for holding on to your youth as long as possible. The Age of Obsolescence: Senescence and Scientific Rejuvenation in Twentieth Century America traces the emergence of these attitudes toward old age back to the turn of the twentieth century when a publicly shared conception of aging was emerging in relation to advances in science and medicine, industrialized labor practices, a slowly developing welfare state, demographic observations of increased life expectancy, changing gender roles and expressions of national identity. During that time, the quest for the fountain of youth shifted from the stuff of legend to a driving motivation behind modern science.
In the four chapters of this dissertation, I bring literary critical methods to bear on literary and scientific texts, public health tracts, journalistic accounts, advertisements and public records. Through this survey of science, government and popular culture, I document the formation of several cultural narratives of aging--or, formulaic ways of addressing aging produced by repeated metaphors, imagery and story lines--that circulated with reciprocal influence through all of these spheres, determining attitudes toward, and experiences of, aging at that moment and into the present. After briefly exploring our contemporary "anti-aging" culture, the four chapters of The Age of Obsolescence address the framing of a moral responsibility for aging individuals to "take care of themselves" as a duty to their nation; the association of aging with obsolescence and its influence on worker's experiences and industrial practices; the scientific and cultural construction of aging as a disease in need of professional intervention; and the proposed "cure" for this problem of aging: scientific rejuvenation, particularly the glandular rejuvenation fad of the 1920s. My conclusion traces this fervor for scientific rejuvenation into the present, showing how the turn-of-the-century cultural logic of aging has become a taken-for-granted framework of American popular culture today. In illuminating the historical moment when the "problem" of aging was located in the bodies of aged individuals, I point toward solutions that may arise not from scientific discovery, but from rewriting these cultural narratives of aging and old age and restructuring the national practices that stem from them.
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Zajac, Linda Patricia. "Old age and the transmission of knowledge in the 1334 Mamluk illustrated manuscript of al-Hariri's Maqamat." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2467.
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This thesis examines ideas about old age in four anecdotes and their illustrations from the 1334 illustrated Mamluk volume of al-Hariri's (1054-1122) Maqamat in the context of early (1250-1382) Mamluk society. The Maqamat contains fifty short anecdotes with a common plot format and two main characters. In each anecdote, the narrator al-Harith relates an adventure of the hero Abu Zayd, an elderly beggar who travels throughout the medieval Islamic Middle East. Using his talent as an orator, Abu Zayd draws people together in a public place, performs an eloquent speech, and is rewarded with money and goods. Ideas about the status of old age in Muslim society originate in the Qur 'an and hadith. Attitudes about the elderly are expressed in other selected texts and in painting (frescoes and manuscript illustration). In the 1334 Mamluk volume, Maqamat illustrations either enhance the text or function independently of the text. Images portray old age as a vehicle for the transmission of knowledge and authority in the social roles of literary scholar, judge, religious leader, and teacher.
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Cholant, Gonçalo Piolti. "Since Why is Difficult: The Representation of Violence and Trauma in African-American and Afro-Caribbean Literature by Women: Autobiography, Fiction, and Subjectivity in the Bildungsroman." Doctoral thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/87533.
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Tese de Doutoramento em Línguas Modernas: Culturas, Literaturas, Tradução, no ramo de Culturas e Literaturas, apresentada ao Departamento de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de CoimbraThe present work deals with the representation of trauma and violence in coming-of-age stories written by African-American and Afro-Caribbean women authors in the United States. The kinds of violence explored in this work are related to the post-colonial condition the women protagonists experience, in which racism, sexism, classism, among other kinds of discrimination, are co-created in an intersectional experience of oppression. The titles analyzed in this work are: Lucy (1990), written by Jamaica Kincaid; Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), written by Edwidge Danticat; Bone Black – Memories of Girlhood (1996), written by bell hooks; and God Help the Child (2015), written by Toni Morrison. The Bildungsroman genre serves as the form with which the authors are able to display the different forms of violence experienced during the the process of growing up female and black in the United States, and also in the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Haiti, in the cases of Kincaid and Danticat respectively. The coming-of-age stories written by women, and more specifically by African-American and Afro-Caribbean women, tend to showcase narratives in which the tensions between the protagonists’ self-determination and the influence of social and cultural factors in their development opportunities are negotiated. The genre is adapted and subverted by the authors, deviating from its canonical European origins, becoming a site in which the authors are able to represent different kinds of violence, and the subsequent traumatic consequences caused by it. Through the perspective of the Sociology of Absences (Santos), the analisys focuses on bringing to the fore types of violence that have previously been made invisible by colonialism, as creative work may more clearly see beyond the abysmal line, serving as a form of analysing realities that are often not perceived in their entirety. Literature turns out to be a space of resistance, in which the representation of violence and trauma, to some extent, becomes possible, serving as a tool for the denounciation of violence and trauma, in addition to becoming a tool for the overcoming of trauma.
O presente trabalho lida com a representação do trauma e da violência em narrativas de formação escritas por autoras Afro-Americanas e Afro-Caribenhas nos Estados Unidos. Os tipos de violência explorados pelas neste trabalho estão relacionados com a condição pós-colonial vividas pelas protagonistas, na qual racismo, sexismo, classismo, dentre outras formas de discriminação são co-formadas em uma experiência interserccional de opressão. Os títulos analizados neste trabalho são: Lucy (1990), escrito por Jamaica Kincaid; Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), escrito por Edwidge Danticat; Bone Black – Memories of Girlhood (1996), escrito por bell hooks; e God Help the Child (2015), escrito por Toni Morrison. O gênero literário Bildungsroman serve como a forma com a qual as autoras são capazes de demonstrar as differentes formas de violência vividas pelas protagonistas durante o processo de crescimento como mulheres e negras nos Estados Unidos, e também nas ilhas Caribenhas de Antígua e Haiti, nos casos de Kincaid e de Danticat respectivamente. As narrativas de fomação escritas por mulheres, e mais especificamente por mulheres afro-americanas e afro-caribenhas, tendem a demonstrar percursos em que as tensões entre a autodeterminação das protagonistas e as influências sociais e culturais que incidem sobre as suas oportunidades de desenvolvimento são negociadas. O gênero literário em questão é adaptado e subvertido pelas autoras, desviando-se de sua forma canônica europeia, tornando-se um espaço em que as autoras são capazes de representar diferentes formas de violência e as subsequentes consequências traumáticas causadas pela mesma. Através da perspectiva da Sociologia das Ausências (Santos), a análise concentra-se em trazer para o primeiro plano tipos de violência que foram previamente construídos como invisívies pelo colonialismo, já que a escrita de cariz criativo é capaz de mais claramente ver além da linha abissal, servindo como uma forma de análise de realidades que frequentemente não são inteiramente percebidas. A literatura acaba por ser uma espaço de resistência, no qual a representação da violência e do trauma, até algum ponto, torna-se possível, servindo como ferramenta para a denúncia da violência e do trauma, além de tornar-se uma ferramenta no processo de superação do trauma.
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VRZALOVÁ, Monika. "Role sestry ve screeningu deprese u seniorů." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-260905.
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The diploma thesis deals with problems of depression in older people. Mainly the work is focused on identifying and analyzing the role of nurses in screening for depression in older people in primary care, acute care, long-term care and home care. This thesis was focused on theoretical direction and was used the method of design and demonstration. In this thesis was set one main goals with five research questions. The main goal was to identify and analyze the role of nurses in screening for depression in the elderly. RQ 1: What is the role of the nurse in screening for depression in the elderly? RQ 2: What is the role of the nurse in the primary care in screening for depression in the elderly? RQ 3: What is the role of the nurse in screening for depression in hospitalized patients in acute care? RQ 4: What is the role of the nurse in screening for depression in seniors in long-term and home care? RQ 5: What rating scales and methods are used in screening for depression in the elderly? The thesis introduce the concept of depression. The following are specified the causes of and the important factors that affect depression in the elderly. It also deals the differences in the clinical symptomatology of depression in old age. It explains possibilities and various barriers in the diagnosis of depression. Another chapter introduces complete geriatric examination, diagnostic classification systems, possible screening methods and scales for detection of depression in the elderly population. It also deals methods of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment and its possible complications associated with older age. By reason of increased suicide rate caused by depressive disorder the issue of suicidal behavior in the elderly is introduced. The next chapter deals with the nursing process, which is used by nurses in practice. It consists of the evaluation of the patient's health condition, making nursing diagnosis, creating nursing plan and subsequent implementation and evaluation. The nursing process is also needy for providing quality care. The nursing process in the stage of nursing diagnosis, introduces possible nursing diagnosis for a patient suffering from depression, which are based on the latest classification. Finally is described the role of nurses in screening for depression in the elderly in different health facilities and their contribution to the timely evaluation of depression in the elderly. This chapter introduces the role of nurses, nursing screening and collaboration with a physician. The role of nurses in screening for depression in different medical facilities is based on the first phase of the nursing process of assessment. On the basis of objective and subjective information, the nurse will assess the overall health and mental condition of the patient. Primarily, it was investigated what is the role of the nurse in screening for depression. On the basis of content analysis and synthesis it was necessary to used and processed domestic and foreign literature. A number of relevant sources are the results of various studies and Meta-analyzes, mostly from abroad, but also from the Czech Republic. The thesis can serve as a basis for nurses. The result of this thesis is to create e-learning material available for students in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice in the tutorial called Moodle.