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Collins, Joseph Christian. "The anthropology of faith following Romans 1-3." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1691485711&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Hoopert, Daniel A. "The genitive of [dikaiosynē theou] in Romans 3:21." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Price, Robert B. "Romans 3:1-8 and the righteousness of God." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Brown, John Robert. "The use of Romans 3:21-31 in the second century." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
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Hollis, Hilda. "The phrase "God is one" in the New Testament : a study of Romans 3:30, Galatians 3:20, and James 2:19." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63325.
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Yuan, Wei. "La traduction des romans français en Chine (1993-2017) :Champs, agents et paysages littéraires." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2020. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/314399/3/Contrat.pdf.
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Ce travail aborde la place de la littérature française en Chine en retraçant les parcours de traduction des romans français contemporains. Ce processus de traduction s’est vu transformé à partir de la fin 1992, lorsque la Chine a adhéré aux conventions internationales des droits d’auteur. Inspirée par l’approche sociologique de la traduction, cette thèse adopte les outils conceptuels de Pierre Bourdieu et propose une étude sur la base d’une recherche de terrain et de l’analyse quantitative des statistiques de première main. Il s’agit ainsi d’identifier les agents de la traduction d’œuvres romanesques françaises en Chine à travers un mécanisme façonné par la structure sociale, et de chercher à comprendre qui traduit et quoi dans ce processus conditionné. À travers une première partie qui retrace l’histoire de la traduction littéraire en Chine avec les outils bourdieusiens, nous constatons que peu importe qui domine la traduction – les écrivains, les traducteurs, l’État ou les académiques – la littérature traduite du français véhicule habituellement un riche capital symbolique en Chine. Nous argumentons dans une deuxième partie que l’introduction de la logique du marché depuis 1993 a refaçonné le rapport de force entre les différents agents, et a poussé l’éditeur à jouer un rôle relativement décisif – même si toujours sous contrôle de l’État. Par conséquent, la production commerciale est largement renforcée. Dans ce paysage, la situation des romans français semble en décalage. Nous dévoilons dans la troisième partie que sur le plan du processus, elle mobilise surtout des agents formés par le champ académique et qui ont pour vocation de se lancer plutôt dans la littérature de production restreinte que dans la littérature de grande production, comme l’étude du catalogue de l’éditeur le plus actif du domaine (Shanghai 99) en témoigne. Le panorama des auteurs contemporains traduits présenté dans la quatrième partie relativise la présomption que les œuvres françaises traduites sont concentrées dans le pôle de traduction restreinte :les best-sellers français sont également traduits, mais ils ne se vendent pas bien en Chine. Cependant, nous observons tout de même que les auteurs français au lectorat plus restreint ont pu trouver un éditeur chinois qui correspond à leur genre littéraire et faire traduire leurs œuvres systématiquement. En somme, nous argumentons qu’en Chine aujourd’hui, les romans français ne sont pas moins traduits, mais ils sont plutôt gérés par des agents qui se situent dans le sous-champ de production restreinte, dans un équilibre de force entre le champ académique et le champ économique.This work addresses the place of French literature in China by tracing the translation routes of contemporary French novels. The translation process was transformed at the end of 1992, when China signed two important international conventions of copyright. Inspired by the sociological approach of Translation Studies, this thesis adopts the conceptual tools of Pierre Bourdieu and proposes a study based on field research and quantitative analysis of first-hand statistics. The goal is thus to illustrate the translation mechanism shaped by the social structure, to identify the agents and to understand who translates what in this conditioned process. In the first section which traces the history of literary translation in China with Bourdieu's tools, we note that no matter who dominates the translation - writers, translators, the State or academics - the French literature conveys usually a rich symbolic capital in China. We argue in the second part that the introduction of a market economy in 1993 has reshaped the power relation between the various agents, and pushed the editors and publishers to play a relatively decisive role - even if still under state control. Therefore, commercial production is greatly enhanced. In this landscape, the situation of French novels seems out of step. We reveal in the third part that in terms of working process, French novels mobilize special agents trained by the academic field whose vocation lies in the literature of small-scale production rather than the large-scale production, and this observation is testified by analyzing the catalog of the most active publisher in the field (Shanghai 99). The fourth part presents a panorama of contemporary French authors who’s been translated, and realizes the presumption that French translated works are concentrated in the restricted pole: French bestsellers are also translated, but they do not sell well in China. However, we still observe that French authors with a limited readership have been able to find a Chinese publisher who corresponds to their literary genre and have their works translated systematically. In short, we argue that in China today, French novels are no less translated, but they are rather managed by agents who are located in the sub-field of small-scale production, in a balance of power between academic field and economic field.
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Olson, Robert Charles. "The gospel as the revelation of God’s righteousness : Paul’s use of Isaiah in Romans 1:1-3:26." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.716835.
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This thesis asserts that Paul’s primary scriptural source in Romans 1-4 (and the epistle as a whole) is the prophecy of Isaiah, specifically, the prophecy’s redemptive narrative centering in the “proclamation of good news.” Paul understands the content of this good news to be the revelation of God's righteousness in the sacrificial death of the messiah as the source of redemptive recreation from the power of sin and death, the basis of the everlasting (new) covenant. Isaiah’s good news, then, is the fulfillment of all previous covenant expressions. Paul, therefore, employs Isaiah, particularly its typology of Israel as both reiterating the fall and portraying the guilt and plight of humanity, to convey a covenantal and revelational continuity that climaxes in the gospel. This continuity, then, embraces the law, so that the law, like the gospel, proclaims both plight and promise and is brought to fulfillment in the justification granted through the sacrifice of the Servant of the Lord/Jesus Christ. The expansive sweep of this redemptive narrative in Isaiah stretches from its allusions to the fall, to the creation of the new heavens and new earth, as Israel and the nations are at last ushered back into the presence of the glory of God. This Isaianic redemptive narrative, therefore, through Paul’s extensive allusive and citational reference to the prophecy, forms the foundational and principle theological framework for the epistle. Other portions of scripture, to be sure, play a prominent role, yet their significance stands in supporting the more comprehensive theological narrative of Isaiah.
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Bailey, Daniel Peter. "Jesus as the Mercy Seat : the semantics and theology of Paul's use of Hilasterion in Romans 3:25." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251694.
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Paul's predication of the term 'hilasterion' of Jesus combined with his mention of Jesus' own blood leads modern interpreters to speculate that 'hilasterion' was a term that could denote a sacrificial victim-hence: "whom God put forward as a 'sacrifice of atonement' by his blood" (Rom 3:25, NRSV). But this is unsupported by the Greek sources. This dissertation examines all the known occurrences of 'hilasterion' outside biblical and Byzantine Christian sources, of which there are about eight-half of them new to this study. All can be glossed by "(sc. 'anathema) propitiatory gift or offering'" (LSJ). Since 'hilasterion' never designates a sacrificial victim, the NRSV lacks support. Its meaning would rather be expressed by 'hon prosenengken' (not: proetheto) 'ho theos hilasterion thusian' (cf. P. Fay. 337). The tendency to parallel Rom 3:25 and 4 Mace 17:22 (codex S) is also misguided. Obviously the phrase 'to hilasterion tou thanatou autwn' (referring to the martyrs) cannot mean "the victim of their death." The background is rather to be sought in the normal Greek practice of offering durable propitiatory gifts (not victims) to the deity-hence: "their death as a 'propitiatory votive offering'." Paul's use of 'hilasterion' is rooted not in the Greek but in the biblical world. Here 'hilasterion' refers most famously to the "mercy seat," the golden plate with the cherubim above Israel's ark of the covenant. Philo saw the mercy seat as "a symbol of the gracious power of God" (Mos. 2.96; cf. Fug. 100). Paul applies this symbolism to Jesus because it makes him the centre not only of 'atonement' for sin (Leviticus 16) but of the 'revelation' of God (Exod 25:22; Lev 16:2; Num 7:89). The terms 'dikaiow' and 'apolutrwsis' in Rom 3:24 pick up the language of the exodus (esp. Exod 15: 13) and enable Paul to present Jesus as the centre of the ideal sanctuary (cf. Exod 15: 17).
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Uddin, Mohan. "Paul and the Jews : causal agency in unbelief and the question of coherence (with special reference to 2 Corinthians 3-4 3-4 and Romans 9-11)." Thesis, London School of Theology, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.388751.
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Shealy, Brian Allen. "Paul's use of the Old Testament in Romans 3:10-18 a test case for "inspired sensus plenior application" /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Grosskopf, Otto Heinrich. "Implications of gifts in Romans 12:3-8 for gender roles in the church : a pastoral study / Otto Heinrich Grosskopf." Thesis, North-West University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/670.
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This research attempts to determine how gifts of individual believers can enrich the
respective gender roles in church and society.
Some Pauline writings were studied, and in addition to Romans 123-8, exegesis is also
done on other passages (1 Corinthians 121-31 and Ephesians 4:4-16) dealing with the
'body of Christ" (gifts). An exegesis on passages concerning the role of women (gender) (1
Corinthians 11:3-16, Ephesians 521-33, 1 Corinthians 14:33b-35, I Timothy 28-15 and
Romans 1631-16) in church and marriage follows. By doing this, biblical guidelines are found
on how men and women should exercise their gifts in the church. Galatians 328 is found
to form the basis for all Pauline writings. Here Paul puts the given fact that "in Christ Jesus"
male and female 'are one" and therefore equal before God. There still remains a created
difference between male and female. Turning to gifts, men and women have equal access
to all gifts, but the way in which they exercise the gifts may have certain nuances.
This research attempts to correct the old practice by using Zerfass's method of putting the
basis theoretical perspectives into interaction with meta-theoretical perspectives, so that a
new practice is developed. This means that a study of other relevant sciences (i.e.
Psychology, Sociology, Law, Feminism I Feminist Theology) concerning gifts and gender
had to be done. Supplementing this with an empirical study, it is determined how gifts are
used among the genders in daily practice. In this way the real experiences of men and
women in church are reflected.
The research comes to a close when pastoral consequences are drawn, and a strategy for
churches is proposed.
The finding is that both men and women should take part in the offices of the church,
because they are on an equal footing with one another.Thesis (Ph.D. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.
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Domes, Ingeborg. "Darstellung der Africa : Typologie und Ikonographie einer römischen Provinzpersonifikation /." Rahden, Westf. : Leidorf, 2007. http://www.vml.de/d/detail.php?ISBN=978-3-89646-372-2.
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Middendorf, Michael Paul. "Paul's portrayal of Judaism St. Paul's critique of Judaism in Romans 3:19-31 and evidence from Judaism which validates his assessment /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
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Wiebe, Elden Mark. "The pre-existence of the Son of God in the Pauline literature an exegesis of Galatians 4:4 and Romans 8:3 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.
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Grover, William Lee. "Determining the referent in Paul's major passages on baptism Romans 6:3,4; Galatians 3:26,27; Colossians 2:11,12; 1 Corinthians 12:12,13 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Ntsoulamba, Jean-Paul. "Oralité et écriture romanesque : étude comparative axée sur trois romans congolais : 1° La Légende de Mpfoumou Ma Mazono, de Jean Malonga ; 2° La Palabre stérile, de Guy Menga ; 3° Le Pleurer-rire, de Henri Lopès." Paris 3, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA030050.
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Les litteratures nationales negro-africaines sont aujourd'hui l'objet d'une etude approfondie. De nombreux travaux : memoires de maitrise et de dea, theses de doctorat et essais attestent avec brio cette realite culturelle. Ils font emerger et restaurent l'image des litteratures jusqu'alors meconnues sur l'echiquier international. Ces travaux s'appuient en general sur la tradition orale et offrent une vision poetique et esthetique pour peu qu'ils mettent en valeur les traits saillants de l'oralite. L'etude que nous presentons ici, souligne les donnees formelles de l'oralite et ses interferences avec l'ecriture romanesque. L'oralite s'inscrit donc implicitement dans l'ecrit litteraire. Cette peinture que nous vous offrons est un reservoir de resonances de la litterature congolaise d'expression francaise. Mais, cette peinture glose avant tout les gisements profonds du roman congolais meme si nous evoquons parfois d'autres genres litteraires aussi pregnants et signifiantsNegro-african national litteratures are nowadays the object of a thorough study. Numerous works : master's degree and detailed studies diploma papers, doctoral thesis and essays attest brilliantly to this cultural reality. They rise up and restore the image of litteratures which have remained unrecognized for a long time. Those works are generally based on oral tradition and offer a poetic and esthetic vision of the world so far as they lay on the outstanding aspects of orality. The study we present here underlines the definite data of orality and its interferences qith novelistic works. Orality is implicity framed in literary written work the painting here presented has a wealth of literary resonances from the congo a french speaking country. But this painting glosses before all the deep deposits of the congolese novel even if we sometimes evoke other literary styles which are so stately and so significant
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Kretschme, Marek Thue. "Rewriting Roman history in the Middle Ages : the 'Historia Romana' and the Manuscript Bamberg, Hist. 3 /." Leiden : Brill, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb411011516.
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Theune, Claudia. "Germanen und Romanen in der Alamannia : Strukturveränderungen aufgrund der archäologischen Quellen vom 3. bis 7. Jahrhundert /." Berlin : W. de Gruyter, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39277661z.
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Roman, Katrina M. "Reproductive success of least terns and black skimmers in southeastern North Carolina." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-3/romank/katrinaroman.pdf.
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Miller, Rebecca Anne. "The Roman Odysseus." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467359.
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This dissertation investigates how Roman authors, especially of the Augustan period, comment on their literary relationship with their Greek literary predecessors through the complex character of Odysseus. It argues that Roman writers emphasize Odysseus’ deceptive qualities to distance themselves from the Greek literary tradition, and at the same time to underscore their own inheritance of and indebtedness to that tradition. Odysseus’ multi-faceted character and wide-ranging travels, I suggest, made him an ideal lens through which Roman authors, spanning from Livius Andronicus in the 3rd century BCE to Juvenal in the 1st century CE, could consider their own position as poets in a simultaneously Greek and Roman literary tradition.
The dissertation focuses on Odysseus as he is portrayed in extended scenes of Latin poetry and considers the evolution of Odysseus’ Roman character chronologically, beginning with Livius Andronicus’ translation of the Odyssey and the establishment of the Latin literary tradition. His next major appearance is in Plautus’ Bacchides, where he serves as an exemplum for the tricky slave as well as the playwright himself. Odysseus is later picked up in the comedic vein by Horace in Satire 2.5, in which the hero acts as a model for the duplicitous figure of the inheritance hunter. After Horace, Ovid employs Odysseus in two different works, first as the ideal Roman orator in Metamorphoses 13 and then later as a foil for the poet’s own trials and travails throughout his exile poetry. Lastly, there is a return to satire, where Odysseus is brought in by Juvenal as an antithesis to his own poetic authority in Satire 15.
All of these examples of Odysseus in Latin literature demonstrate how Roman authors use this particular Homeric epic hero to articulate issues that are temporally and culturally specific to Rome. Roman authors furthermore reimagine Odysseus in Roman terms and contexts in an effort to construct and tear down bridges between their own Roman culture and that of their Greek predecessors, which in turn renders Odysseus as a stand-in for the Latin literary tradition vis-à-vis the Greek literary tradition.Classics
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Mitthof, Fritz. "Annona militaris : die Heeresversorgung im spätantiken Ägypten : ein Beitrag zur Verwaltungs- und Heeresgeschichte des Römischen Reiches im 3. bis 6. Jh. n. Chr. /." Firenze : Ed. Gonnelli, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb388224136.
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Oliveira, Carlos Augusto Lima de. "Vergonha, SacrifÃcio e Testemunho: 3 Desmedidas para 3 Romances de J.M. Coetzee." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2016. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=16849.
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O presente estudo tem como ponto de partida uma articulaÃÃo entre o discurso literÃrio e o discurso testemunhal, a partir das proposiÃÃes de Giorgio Agamben a respeito da ideia do testemunho como um discurso de Auctor, aquele que à autorizado por outrem a relatar determinados eventos. Esta ideia de testemunho difere do senso comum, como algo que atesta com veracidade e objetividade os acontecimentos, mas està muito mais prÃxima do discurso de invenÃÃo, onde sua veracidade, e sua dimensÃo Ãtica, estÃo mais para aquilo que lhe falta ou mesmo excede, para lembrar a crÃtica portuguesa Silvina Rodrigues Lopes. Desta forma, interessa a este estudo analisar trÃs romances do escritor sul-africano J.M. Coetzee (à Espera dos BÃrbaros, A Idade do Ferro e Desonra) como recortes testemunhais das transformaÃÃes por que passam seus narradores, tanto dentro do contexto da Ãfrica do Sul, quanto em outras dimensÃes simbolizadas ali. Um testemunho onde resvala o peso da Vergonha, como potÃncia de manifestaÃÃo Ãtica, na medida em que aponta a falÃncia de modelos atà entÃo vigentes (colonialismo, Apartheid, o projeto de civilizaÃÃo ocidental), e de uma ordem sacrificial em que mergulham tais narradores-testemunhas. SacrifÃcio dos prÃprios corpos brancos, atà entÃo imunes, legalmente protegidos, sacralizados. SacrifÃcio como profanaÃÃo.
This study has as its starting point an articulation between literary discourse and testimonial speech, from the propositions of Giorgio Agamben about the idea of testimony as an Auctor speech, one who is authorized by others to report certain events. This idea of testimony differs from common sense, as something that testifies truthfully and objectively the events, but is much closer to the speech of the invention, where its veracity, and its ethical dimension, achieve what it lacks or even exceeds, reminding the Portuguese critic Silvina Rodrigues Lopes. Thus, this study is interested in analyzing three novels of the South African writer J.M. Coetzee (Waiting for the Barbarians, The Iron Age and Disgrace) as testimonials clippings of changes that spend their narrators, both inside the South African context as in other dimensions symbolized there. A testimony where slips the burden of Shame, such as an ethical manifestationâ power, in that it points out the failure of models so far established (colonialism, Apartheid, the Western civilization project), and a sacrificial order where such narrators-witnesses dive. Sacrifice of white bodies, hitherto immune, legally protected, sacralized. Sacrifice as profanation.
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Rohner, Isabel Dohm Hedwig. "In litteris veritas : Hedwig Dohm und die Problematik der fiktiven Biografie /." Berlin : trafo, 2008. http://www.trafoberlin.de/978-3-89626-715-3.htm.
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Oliveira, Carlos Augusto Lima de. "Vergonha, sacrifício e testemunho: 3 desmedidas para 3 romances de J. M. Coetzee." www.teses.ufc.br, 2016. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/16673.
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OLIVEIRA, Carlos Augusto Lima de. Vergonha, sacrifício e testemunho: 3 desmedidas para 3 romances de J. M. Coetzee. 2016. 183f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Fortaleza, 2016.Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-05-06T11:15:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_tese_caloliveira.pdf: 1076791 bytes, checksum: 6c5e30ac839ffa07f4836d90a7419858 (MD5)
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This study has as its starting point an articulation between literary discourse and testimonial speech, from the propositions of Giorgio Agamben about the idea of testimony as an Auctor speech, one who is authorized by others to report certain events. This idea of testimony differs from common sense, as something that testifies truthfully and objectively the events, but is much closer to the speech of the invention, where its veracity, and its ethical dimension, achieve what it lacks or even exceeds, reminding the Portuguese critic Silvina Rodrigues Lopes. Thus, this study is interested in analyzing three novels of the South African writer J.M. Coetzee (Waiting for the Barbarians, The Iron Age and Disgrace) as testimonials clippings of changes that spend their narrators, both inside the South African context as in other dimensions symbolized there. A testimony where slips the burden of Shame, such as an ethical manifestation’ power, in that it points out the failure of models so far established (colonialism, Apartheid, the Western civilization project), and a sacrificial order where such narrators-witnesses dive. Sacrifice of white bodies, hitherto immune, legally protected, sacralized. Sacrifice as profanation.
O presente estudo tem como ponto de partida uma articulação entre o discurso literário e o discurso testemunhal, a partir das proposições de Giorgio Agamben a respeito da ideia do testemunho como um discurso de Auctor, aquele que é autorizado por outrem a relatar determinados eventos. Esta ideia de testemunho difere do senso comum, como algo que atesta com veracidade e objetividade os acontecimentos, mas está muito mais próxima do discurso de invenção, onde sua veracidade, e sua dimensão ética, estão mais para aquilo que lhe falta ou mesmo excede, para lembrar a crítica portuguesa Silvina Rodrigues Lopes. Desta forma, interessa a este estudo analisar três romances do escritor sul-africano J.M. Coetzee (À Espera dos Bárbaros, A Idade do Ferro e Desonra) como recortes testemunhais das transformações por que passam seus narradores, tanto dentro do contexto da África do Sul, quanto em outras dimensões simbolizadas ali. Um testemunho onde resvala o peso da Vergonha, como potência de manifestação ética, na medida em que aponta a falência de modelos até então vigentes (colonialismo, Apartheid, o projeto de civilização ocidental), e de uma ordem sacrificial em que mergulham tais narradores-testemunhas. Sacrifício dos próprios corpos brancos, até então imunes, legalmente protegidos, sacralizados. Sacrifício como profanação.
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Gacia, Emilie. "Enseignement apprentissage en intercompréhension intégrée au Cycle 3 : enjeux, fonctionnement et compétences." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BORD0371/document.
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L’école a longtemps ignoré les langues et cultures maternelles des élèves.Une exploration des apports de la recherche en didactique d’apprentissage des langues, avec notamment les approches plurielles, montre comment la didactisation du contact de langue permet de construire une réflexion métalinguistique favorisant de nouveaux apprentissages en langue vivante étrangère ou dans la langue de scolarisation. Une étude de l’évolution historique des programmes scolaires français laisse enfin entrevoir la perspective d’ouvrir l’école au plurilinguisme, en adéquation avec les préconisations des Institutions Européennes. L’intercompréhension entre langues apparentées, apparaît comme une modalité d’apprentissage favorisant la compréhension et le fonctionnement de plusieurs langues, d’autant plus si l’apprentissage organise l’intégration des langues entre elles. Nous décrirons le fonctionnement et les enjeux de l’intercompréhension intégrée en langues romanes.Une expérimentation fut menée sur deux classes de CM1-CM2 lors des apprentissages scientifiques en intercompréhension intégrée à l’aide du manuel Euromania. Dans une classe, cette expérimentation était couplée à l’approche interculturelle Comparons nos langues. Il s’agissait d’observer de quelle manière cette expérimentation contribuait à l’évolution des représentations linguistiques des élèves, au développement de compétences linguistiques ainsi qu’à l’élaboration de stratégies de compréhension. Nous observerons les bénéfices apportés par l’intercompréhension intégrée et les approches interculturelles, aux apprentissages linguistiques et discipinaires, au plurilinguisme, à une meilleure réussite et à un plus grand épanouissement des élèvesFor a long time, primary education has overlooked the students' languages and cultures of origin. An exploration of the conclusions of research in the field of language didactics, and more specifically pluralistic approaches establishes that the didactisation of language interaction/language contact helps in building a metalinguistic reflection that can facilitate fresh learning in a foreign language or in the language in which the child is being educated. At last, a study of the evolution ofFrench school curricula can show us the way for opening schools to multilingualism, in conformity with European Union directives. Intercomprehension between related languages is shown to be a modality of learning that facilitates the comprehension and the way different languages work, especially if the learning process organizes the integration of these languages. We will describe the methodology and the stakes of integrated intercomprehension in romance languages. An experiment has been conducted with two classes of CM1-CM2/last grades of Middle School during science classes, using integrated intercomprehension with the help of the schoolbook Euromania, as well as, in one of the classes, the intercultural-approach based Comparons nos langues. The goal was to observe to which direction this experiment contributed to the evolution of the students' linguistic representations, to the development of linguistic competence and to the invention of strategies of understanding. We will present the benefits of integrated intercomprehension and intercultural approaches to language learning and to learning in other subjects, to multilingualism, and to the well-being of learners, conducive to more successfullearning
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Duttler, Sabine-Michaela. "Die filmische Umsetzung der Harry-Potter-Romane /." Hamburg : Dr Kovač, 2007. http://www.verlagdrkovac.de/978-3-8300-3314-1.htm.
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Katz, Rebecca Aileen. "Arma virumque: The Significance of Spoils in Roman Culture." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493290.
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This dissertation explores the significance of spoils and the practice of spoils-taking in Roman culture. Working from the premise that spoils in the classical sense (Latin spolia, exuviae) are items singled out for their symbolic value and accordingly subjected to different treatment than other war booty (Latin praeda, manubiae), I begin by examining arma, one of the primary targets of despoliation, in order to show how this symbolic value is generated based on the identity of the spoils’ original owners. From there I show that the value of spoils depends directly upon the virtus (i.e. “manliness” as demonstrated primarily through courage or prowess in combat) of the parties involved in taking and giving them, as shown by cases involving male figures who lack this quality or female figures who exhibit it. In the following two chapters I propose a model of “inheritance by conquest”: that spoils are earned through successful acts of virtus and can thereafter be deployed as handles by which to manipulate the identity of their original owners. In order to demonstrate this model at work, I trace several case studies that highlight the role of spoils as symbolic capital in the context of aristocratic competition, as well as the transformation of two spoils traditions (the laurel-wreath and the spolia opima) during the transition from Republic to Empire. Finally, I look to related phenomena, including headhunting and other human trophy collecting, relic culture, and architectural spolia, to help illuminate the dual nature of spoils as both proofs and remembrances of victory and victim.Classics
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Nickerson, Erika Lawren. "The Measure of All Things: Natural Hierarchy in Roman Republican Thought." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467310.
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This work explores how writers of the late Roman Republic use the concept of nature rhetorically, in order to talk about and either reinforce or challenge social inequality. Comparisons between humans and animals receive special attention, since writers of that time often equate social status with natural status by assimilating certain classes of person to certain classes of animal. It is the aim of this study to clarify the ideology which supported the conflation of natural and social hierarchy, by explicating the role that nature was thought to play in creating and maintaining the inequality both between man and man, and between man and animal. In investigating this issue, this study also addresses the question of whether the Romans took a teleological view of human society, as they did of nature, and ultimately concludes that they did not. It proposes, rather, that the conceptual mechanism which naturalized social inequality, and which drove the assimilation of human to animal, was the belief that there is one, natural measure of worth and status for all creatures: utility to the human community.
Chapter 1 identifies some pertinent beliefs, commonly found in Republican texts, about nature, animals, humans, and the relationship of all three to each other. Chapter 2 considers whether these beliefs have a philosophical provenance, by discussing Aristotle’s theory of natural slavery and Stoic views on the institution of slavery, and their possible relation to the ideas expressed in Roman sources. Chapter 3 returns to Republican texts, including popular oratory, and examines comparisons between domestic animals and humans in the treatment of slavery and wage-earning. Chapter 4 examines comparisons between wild animals and humans in discussions about violence and primitive peoples, and in political invective.Classics
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Ochsenmeier, Erwin. "Mal, souffrance et justice de Dieu selon Romains 1 - 3 : étude exégétique et théologique /." Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2998740&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Castonguay, Vincent. "Comportement du till de Romaine 3 soumis à des sollicitations cycliques." Thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2014/30648/30648.pdf.
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La résistance du till de la Romaine 3 a été étudiée sous sollicitations cycliques grâce à un nouvel appareil de cisaillement simple cyclique. Les essais ont été effectués à différentes teneurs en eau de compactage (côté sec et côté humide de l’optimum Proctor) et à différentes contraintes de cisaillement cyclique. Il a été démontré que les échantillons compactés du côté sec de l’optimum Proctor ont nécessité environ dix fois plus de cycles de cisaillement pour atteindre la rupture que les échantillons compactés du côté humide. Les essais effectués à faible ratio de cisaillement ont aussi nécessité l’application de dix fois plus de cycles de cisaillement que ceux effectués à ratio de cisaillement élevé avant d’atteindre la rupture. Le projet de recherche présenté s’inscrit dans le cadre de la chaire de recherche industrielle CRSNG – Hydro-Québec sur l’optimisation du cycle de vie des barrages en remblai.The resistance of Romaine 3 till was studied under cyclic loading using a new cyclic simple shear apparatus. The tests were carried out at different compaction water contents (dry and wet sides of Proctor optimum) and at different cyclic shear stress levels. It was found that ten times more cycles were needed for samples compacted on the dry side of optimum to reach failure than for samples compacted on the wet side of optimum. It was also found that the tests carried out at low cyclic stress ratio took ten times more cycles to reach failure then tests carried out at high cyclic stress ratios. The presented research project is part of the NSERC – Hydro-Québec Industrial Research Chair in life cycle optimisation for embankment dams.
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Gonzalez, Goretti Teresa. "Translating Spanishness: Courtiers, Pícaros, and Gypsies at the Crossroads of Spain and Italy Ca 1528-1622." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493302.
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"Translating Spanishness: Courtiers, Pícaros, and Gypsies at the Crossroads of Spain and Italy ca 1528-1622” examines the role of printing and translation in the formation and transformation of early modern Spanish national identities and two of its principal literary forms: the early Comedia and the inchoate Picaresque. The Spanish cortegiano’s uniformed costuming is crucial to the construction of national identities, the shape shifting pícaro undermines projected national and class hierarchies, and the Gypsy, by definition, is always transforming and translating. Within this Spanishness, the texts examined suggest a steady progress from the vision of the Spanish cortegiano to the pícaro and the Gypsy. Each in its own way is a kind of “limit case,” a test case for the project of fashioning coherent national identities.Romance Languages and Literatures
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Arraiza, Rivera Antonio José. ""Impresas ansias": poéticas de la escritura en Villamediana, Sor Juana y Melo." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493306.
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This dissertation analyzes the depictions of writing that appear in the poetry of Juan de Tassis, Count of Villamediana (1582-1622), Francisco Manuel de Melo (1608-1666), and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695). The questions it seeks to answer are the following: Why are images allusive to writing frequently incorporated in texts belonging to specific verse modalities such as love, panegyric, epistolary and philosophical poetry? What are the thematic and social implications of a series of self-referential gestures included in verses that feature an enunciating subject who expresses individual emotion? How do these scriptural images relate to issues concerning poetic vocation and the distribution of literary material? In order to assess the fundamental importance of this motif, I investigate Melo's volume of self-edited poetry Obras Métricas, Villamediana's sonnets and his Fábula de Faetón, as well as Sor Juana's romances, the Enigmas, and the Epinicio gratulatorio. The results of my enquiry show that to write about writing in poetry foregrounds issues concerning creative autonomy, social relationships between writers, adherence to and self-perpetuation in an established literary canon in the Early Modern Iberian Peninsula, and the preservation of art. Despite having been produced in different times and locations, Villamediana's, Melo's and Sor Juana's works are indebted to Luis de Góngora y Argote's groundbreaking explorations of poetic language and display a constant meditation whose linguistic and thematic features define the burgeoning genre of lyric poetry.Romance Languages and Literatures
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Wilkinson, Ryan Hayes. "The Last Horizons of Roman Gaul: Communication, Community, and Power at the End of Antiquity." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467211.
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In the fifth and sixth centuries CE, the Roman Empire fragmented, along with its network of political, cultural, and socio-economic connections. How did that network’s collapse reshape the social and mental horizons of communities in one part of the Roman world, now eastern France? Did new political frontiers between barbarian kingdoms redirect those communities’ external connections, and if so, how? To address these questions, this dissertation focuses on the cities of two Gallo-Roman tribal groups. The Aeduans and Lingons inhabited a strategic crossroads region in what is now Burgundy and Champagne, and between ca. 460-534 passed from Roman to barbarian rule – first under the Burgundians and then under the Merovingian Franks.
Close prosopographical study of the written sources and distribution-analysis of material sources – coins and ceramics – illuminate the region’s experience of the end of Empire. An unprecedented study of the distribution of Burgundian coins found in France revises the consensus model for the movement of gold coins across the post-Roman West. The dissertation’s multiple independent types of evidence reveal and mutually corroborate previously unrecognized communication patterns in late antique eastern Gaul. During the fifth and sixth centuries, Aeduan and Lingon communication horizons contracted sharply but unevenly. To the northwest, where Burgundians and Franks faced off across a sometimes-tense border, traditional socio-economic ties withered almost completely, only to resume after the Frankish conquests of the 530s. To the south, however, throughout the fifth and sixth centuries, Aeduans and Lingons more easily forged long-range connections across a different but also frequently hostile political border, with the Goths.
The struggles of violent kings, then, could decisively reshape communication networks, but did not always do so. To explain the importance of politics relative to other influences – social, economic, and environmental – the dissertation turns to social gravity and network analysis theories. The study culminates in a multi-scalar model for the complex and dynamic communications of late antique Gaul. That interdisciplinary approach models new methodological possibilities for explaining pre-modern communication history.History
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Hoklotubbe, Thomas Christopher. "The Rhetoric of PIETAS: The Pastoral Epistles and Claims to Piety in the Roman Empire." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:15821958.
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This dissertation reads the Pastoral Epistles alongside imperial propaganda, monumental inscriptions, and philosophical writings of the Roman period to determine how claims to piety (Greek: εὐσέβεια, Latin: pietas) advanced socio-political aims and reinforced cultural values and ideological assumptions among its audiences. Coins celebrating the pietas of the imperial households of Trajan and Hadrian, the honorary inscription of Salutaris in Ephesus, and the writings of Philo and Plutarch evidence that appeals to piety functioned rhetorically to naturalize hierarchies of power and social orders, recognize the honorable status of citizens, signal expertise in knowledge about the divine, and delineate insiders from outsiders. Moreover, the prevalence of appeals to piety indicates the virtue’s broad cultural currency and prestige, which was traded upon for legitimating authority. This dissertation argues that the author of the Pastorals strategically deploys piety in his attempt to negotiate an imperial situation marked by prejudicial perceptions of Christians as a foreign and seditious superstitio, to reinforce (gendered) social values, to intervene in Christian debates over the status and authority of benefactors in the ekklēsia, to build confidence in and solidarity around the legitimacy of his vision of the ideal ekklēsia, and to denigrate the beliefs and practices of rival teachers.
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Schmuhl, Yvonne. "Römische Siegesmonumente republikanischer Zeit : Untersuchungen zu Ursprüngen, Erscheinungsformen und Denkmalpolitik /." Hamburg : Kovač, 2008. http://www.verlagdrkovac.de/978-3-8300-3425-4.htm.
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Yorukan, Gunes. "A Study On Celtic/galatian Impacts On The Settlement Pattern In Anatolia Before The Roman Era." Phd thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610539/index.pdf.
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Anatolia has been the cradle of many different cultures throughout history. One of these was the Celts who migrated from Europe to Anatolia in the 3rd century BC and had various impacts on the settlement pattern of the region called Galatia after their arrival. Therefore in Anatolia urbanization history we know them as Galatians.
The main statement of this thesis is that, cultural identity is not a static, inherent quality, but a dynamic and contigent aspect of the existence of people. Therefore cultural identity should be regarded as a pattern continuum. In thisd study, in order to predict the Galatian settlement pattern until thr Roman dominance in the late 1st century BC in Anatolia, European Celtic settlement pattern has been reviewed as well as archaeolgical evidence and the Celtic language. The Hallstatt and the following La Tene periods in European history have been investigated since La Tene period is isochronic with Galatians in Anatolia. From the archaeological evidence in Europe, it is clear that the Celts established defended settlements, mastered the art of iron working and mining, and traded with the classical world.
In previous literature, Anatolia Celts/Galatians have been regarded as nomads who were involved mostly in warfare. However, the location of their forts and village-like settlements along the ancient trade routes implies that they were settled people who were engaged in production and trading activities as well, similar to La Tene in Europe.
Settlement types and their distribution pattern, linguistic and archaeological evidence investigated in this thesis verify that Celtic cultural identity in the history of Europe and Anatolia should be regarded as a pattern continuum.
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Rivero-Navarro, Sergio. "Epifanía, trance, arrebato y otras iluminaciones: manifestaciones extáticas en la cultura Ibero-Americana contemporánea." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467239.
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What do Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca, Val del Omar, Alejandro Jodorowski, Néstor Perlongher, Clarice Lispector, and Octavio Paz have in common? To the naked eye, they seem to feature more differences than similarities: besides the fact that all of them are Ibero-American artists, filmmakers and writers, their birthplaces, origins, generations, styles, and artistic disciplines are quite dissimilar. But there is at least one thing they share: their output was a perfect vehicle to reflect how they were all enthralled by ecstasy, epiphany, illumination, rapture, grace.
In Psychology, these events are categorized as “Modified States of Consciousness”, a melting pot that comprises heteroclite mental states like medium trances, ritual possessions, REM states, effects of hallucinogenic substances, orgasm, and so on. The common factor is that in all those cases subjects experience a new way to perceive the world and their self, far away from the one provided by the ordinary state of consciousness. Also, most of them seem to take place in a dimension where rationality is mostly an obstacle. Friedrich Nietzsche certainly believed so, as he associated these irrational events with Dionysus, the god of wine and ritual madness in the classic Greek civilization. The Dionysian cult involved rupturing the bounds of the participants’ self and the collective communion between them as well as with the cosmos. On the other hand, one criterion to distinguish between the experiences that are confusedly grouped in that psychological miscellany is to examine where does it drive us to. There are events that can potentially change our ordinary state of conscience into another that could be described as an illuminated state and could be associated to perceptions of happiness, harmony, and mindfulness. These positive sensations would help explain why, since the dawn of civilization, human beings have used various techniques (such as yoga, ritual dance, the use of narcotics, etc.) in an attempt to recreate the mystical manifestations they previously had lived solely as spontaneous experiences.
It must be recognized, though, that ecstatic experiences can be associated not only to a positive dimension, but also to a negative one. Following Nietzschean thesis, Néstor Perlongher (an Argentinean writer who is central to my dissertation) points out that Dionysian experiences can be self-destructive and dangerous, as well as illuminating and liberating. Nietzsche, and Perlongher, contemplate art as the necessary complement of ecstasy, a discipline which can help avoid the negative consequences of these experiences.
Salvador Dalí and Octavio Paz (another two authors studied in my dissertation) also link art to ecstasy. Dalí believes in the power of pictorial images to provoke the non-ordinary mental state associated with ecstasy. Nevertheless, Octavio Paz considers poetics one of the best artistic vehicles to express the “instant”, through which a poem breaks the linearity of time while it also creates an “eternal present”.
What I exposed above could be considered a sample of what I am doing in my dissertation. I aim to establish a dialogue between diverse “texts” (in the wide sense) and authors in order to delimitate the meaning of the ecstatic phenomenon, as well as their characteristics and particularities.Romance Languages and Literatures
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Roth, Adam David. "Reciprocal influences between rhetoric and medicine in ancient Greece." Diss., University of Iowa, 2008. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3.
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Dannemann, Karen. "Der blutig-obszön-banale 3-Groschen-Roman namens "Geschichte" Gesellschafts- und Zivilisationskritik in den Romanen Reinhard Jirgls." Würzburg Königshausen & Neumann, 2008. http://d-nb.info/992300312/04.
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Aresu, Francesco Marco. "The Author as Scribe. Materiality and Textuality in the Trecento." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467386.
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In my dissertation, I explore the relationship between the material aspects of an editorial artifact and their literary implications for the texts it contains. I show how the interpretation of a text needs to be accompanied by an inquiry into the material conditions of its production, circulation and reception. This study is intended as both an investigation of the material foundations of institutions of literary study and a reflection on some often neglected sides of contemporary theorizations concerning textuality, writing, and media. My purpose is to show a paradigmatic example of the basic coincidence of textual datum and material unit, content and medium, verbal-visual message and physical support.
The dissertation is articulated in a theoretical chapter followed by three case studies. In the theoretical introduction, I provide critical reflection on and expressive response to the complex, non-deterministic interplay between cultural constructs and the media within which they are formalized and by which they are formed in the context of medieval Italian literature. First, I briefly outline the theoretical coordinates within which to consider the materiality of textual supports (óstraka, papyry, codices) as a key element for the adequate interpretation of the texts that they preserve. Next, I offer examples of the interdependence between the strictly textual and material characteristics of a literary product. I sketch out the interpretive implications of these connections from the points of view of composition, circulation, and reception. I purposely draw the examples from different textual cultures, mainly classical (Greek and Latin) and medieval (Occitanic and Italian), in order to test the general plausibility of my methodology of inquiry.
The first case study is conceived as a thematological inquiry. It offers a catalogue raisonné of the metaphors of the book and book production in the Dantean corpus. It studies, therefore, the description of the materiality of the book at the level of the enunciation. Books are a recursive figure in Dante’s macrotext. The reference to the “libro della mente” in the early canzone “E m’incresce di me sì duramente” prefigures the “libro della memoria” in the incipit of the Vita nova. Moreover, the book is the metaphor for the revelation of the cosmos held together by bond of love (“legato con amore in un volume”) at the climax of Dante’s mystical vision in Paradiso 33. Dante’s entire literary production is inscribed within the metaphorics of the book, which is disseminated in poetically and hermeneutically significant places. In this chapter, I begin by charting Dante’s images of and references to books in his corpus. Basing my analysis on Ernst Robert Curtius’ historical study of the book as symbol, and Hans Blumenberg’s gnoseological articulation of the metaphor of the legibility of the world, I then outline the various semantic realms that the metaphorics of the book entails. On one hand, the hints at the book structure serve as meta-textual elements that guide interpretation, since they convey information on the book format, the typology of expected readership, and the expository order of the text. In sum, these metaphors of books and book production are chiefly concerned with the text’s dramatizing its own problematic creation. For instance, the material elements implied in the address to the reader in Paradiso 10, 22 (“Or ti riman, lettor, sovra ’l tuo banco”) underscore a precise choice of book format (the “libro da banco universitario”) and a specific readership (scholars). On the other hand, the metaphorology of the book (and of the Commedia qua book) entails a more radical cognitive experience, since it signifies the reductio ad unum of scattered entities due to its nature as all-compassing semiotic vehicle. The final step of my analysis is to compare the interpretive indications inferred from references to the materiality of the book embedded in the text with actual renditions of some early witnesses of the Vita nova and Commedia.
In the second case study, I explore the editorial and intertextual relations between Giovanni Boccaccio’s autograph of the Teseida and two exemplars of the poem (a manuscript and an incunabulum, both produced in Ferrara in the 1470s and kept at Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA). First, I delineate the complex system of authorial personae that Boccaccio impersonates in the manuscript. Then, I describe how visual and verbal elements in the autograph cooperate to engage the reader in a multi-sensorial aesthetic experience. Next, I investigate to what extent the material configuration of the Ferrara exemplars comply with the hermeneutic guidelines materially embedded by Boccaccio into his autograph as a means of managing the reception and controlling the interpretation of the poem. I outline how these two exemplars reveal the importance of Boccaccio’s editorial project in successfully inscribing his literary production within the canon of authoritative texts. In fact, the rich paratextual apparatus with which Boccaccio furnishes his autograph is the foundation upon which the Teseida grew into a classic and sprouted the proliferation of comments and accretions that surrounded the text of the poem.
The third case study focuses on Francesco Petrarca’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta. Petrarca’s songbook has been a privileged object of analysis for material philology since the publication of the fac-simile of the manuscript that preserves the autograph of the collection (ms. Vat. lat. 3195). The study of the autograph shows Petrarca’s editorial project of associating the poet’s activity with the scribe’s in an ideal coincidence of literary expression and script, text and book, composition and folio. Basing my inquiry on the fac-simile, I argue that the autograph should be considered as an organized form of visual poetry. In fact, this exemplar can be thought of as an entity that systematically conjugates a linguistic/verbal message with an iconic formation. The two are not simply juxtaposed, but rather they coexist in a sort of hypostasis, in which the iconic element affects the linguistic substance. On one hand, the verbal text brings about meanings that are of a linguistic type. On the other hand, it is structured as a medium that conveys meanings that are generally portrayed by the other order of representation (the visual). Therefore, the autograph delineates a project of integration between graphical and linguistic elements, in compliance with the classical and medieval tradition of visual poetry (from Simias’ taechnopagnia and Optatianus’ carmina figurata to the calligraphic production of the Schola Palatina). In the case of Petrarca’s songbook, the iconic element does not imply an apparatus of images, given the extreme essentialism of his editorial endeavors. Instead, it is chiefly limited to the graphic execution of the linguistic sign: its system of majuscules and minuscules, its layout, the regulation of written lines and blank spaces, and the relation between verse and line. I will therefore indicate how the iconic character of the autograph can be interpreted as a series of logical relations between the poetic language and its graphic rendition through writing. My purpose is to show that this series of relations conveys a specific set of visual guidelines that lead the reader through the decoding and interpretation of the text.Romance Languages and Literatures
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El, Khoury Mona N. "Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Fracture: The Struggle With Postcolonial Minority Identity in Contemporary Francophone Literature." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493357.
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This dissertation examines colonial legacies and transnational identities in the works of four francophone writers from Algeria: Hélène Cixous, Zahia Rahmani, Nina Bouraoui, and Boualem Sansal. Their autobiographical and fictional texts focus respectively on the history and memory of a particular minority identity singled out by French colonialism: the Jews of Algeria, the Harkis (indigenous Algerians who fought in the French Army during the War of Independence), the “métis” (mixed-race) individuals, and the “pieds-noirs” (European settlers). The memory of these historical minorities still continue to shape identities in contemporary Algerian and French societies, beset by “wars of memory” about the colonial past and the War of Independence. The writers’ texts confront the official memory and national narratives of both France and Algeria. By employing literature as a tribunal for history and by constructing a memorial discourse dissonant with official historical narratives, these writers not only disrupt the public understanding of Franco-Algerian history, but also blame the French and Algerian governments for their personal or collective tragedies. The political charge is carried within the texts’ particular stories of exile and loss. The four narrators in their respective texts are like orphans of Algeria displaced in France mourning the double loss of the Algerian land and their father, who embodies the country of origin.Romance Languages and Literatures
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Shojaedin, Mohammadmahdi. "Propriétés mécaniques des matériaux du filtre et de transition du barrage Romaine-3." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/30437.
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Les matériaux granulaires contenant des particules grossières sont largement utilisés dans les grands travaux de géotechniques, comme les remblais et les barrages. L'étude du comportement mécanique de ces matériaux nécessite des appareils d'essai à grande échelle, ce qui entraîne des programmes de test coûteux et difficiles à réaliser. Par conséquent, dans la plupart des projets en cours, des échantillons contenant des matériaux à grains fins avec granulométries parallèles et des caractéristiques physiques similaires aux matériaux d'origine sont préparés et les résultats obtenus sont directement utilisés lors de l’analyse et la conception des structures. Cependant, des études récentes ont confirmé que l'effet de la taille des particules provoqué par l'utilisation de cette technique devrait être considéré. Pour améliorer la compréhension de cet effet, dans la première partie de cette étude, l'influence de la taille des particules sur les propriétés mécaniques des matériaux du filtre du barrage Romaine-3 est étudiée à l'aide d'une série d'essais triaxiaux de compression monotone dans des conditions drainées et non drainées ainsi que des essais triaxiaux à chargement répété (RLT). Les résultats des tests drainés et non drainés ont montré qu'il n'y a pas de changement dans la pente des CSL dans l'espace p’-q. Les résultats du test RLT indiquent également que le module chargement-déchargement augmente avec l'augmentation de la taille des particules. De plus, la forme des particules a été identifiée comme l'un des paramètres les plus importants affectant le comportement des matériaux grossiers. Ainsi, la deuxième partie de ce mémoire consiste en des essais triaxiaux drainés et non drainés et des essais RLT sur des matériaux du filtre et de transition, caractérise respectivement avec des particules arrondies et angulaires de différentes tailles, afin d'examiner l'effet de la forme des particules. Les résultats triaxiaux montrent que le rapport de contrainte maximale augmente avec l'augmentation de l'angularité, alors que la comparaison des résultats RLT entre les matériaux arrondis et angulaires ne montre aucune tendance claire345092\u Granular materials containing coarse particles are widely used in the large geotechnical works, such as embankments and dams. The investigation of the mechanical behavior of these materials requires large scale testing apparatus, resulting in costly and difficult testing programs. Therefore, in most of the current projects, the specimens with finer-grained materials having parallel grading and similar physical characteristics to original materials are prepared and the results directly used in the analysis and design of the structures. However, recent studies confirmed that the role of the particle size effect caused by using this technique should be considered. To improve understanding of this effect, in the first part of this study, the influence of particle size on the mechanical properties of filter materials of Romaine-3 dam is investigated through a series of the monotonic compression triaxial tests in the drained and undrained conditions as well as repeated-load triaxial (RLT) tests. The drained and undrained tests results showed that there is no change in the slope of CSLs in q-p’ space. The RLT test results also indicate that the load-unload modulus increases with increasing in particle size. Moreover, the shape of a particle has been identified as one of the most important parameters affecting the behavior of coarse materials. Thus, the second part consists of drained and undrained triaxial and RLT tests on filter and transition materials, having rounded and angular materials respectively, with different sizes in order to examine particle shape effect. The triaxial results show that the maximum stress ratio increases with increasing in the angularity, whereas the comparison of RLT results between the rounded and angular materials does not show any clear trend.
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Bergk, Pinto Nicole. "Étude et édition critique du Tournoiement Antecrist de Huon de Mery: "Dit" allégorique du XIIIe siècle." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2019. https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/286418/3/Table.pdf.
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Nous avons consacré notre thèse de doctorat au Tournoiement Antecrist, "dit" allégorique, composé probablement autour de 1236 par un clerc prénommé Huon de Mery. Nos recherches ont mené à la réalisation d’une nouvelle édition critique complète, destinée à remplacer les éditions antérieures défectueuses. Nous avons également produit une étude littéraire et philologique approfondie de cette œuvre d’une importance capitale dans la naissance de la littérature allégorique française.La thèse s’ouvre sur une introduction philologique et littéraire. Ce premier chapitre est destiné à situer l’œuvre à l’intérieur du corpus médiéval. Nous présentons d’abord les informations concernant la date de composition, l’auteur, son origine et sa condition. Suivent un ensemble d’études littéraires, divisées en deux grandes parties. La première, intitulée « Situer la composition du Tournoiement Antecrist », est consacrée à l’étude de la complexité générique de l’œuvre, en lien avec ses sources. Notre étude est la première à justifier la cohésion du texte à travers une étude détaillée des influences littéraires et du processus d’intégration des sources à l’ensemble allégorique. L’œuvre se trouve véritablement au carrefour de plusieurs genres, tout en présentant une cohérence répondant à un projet littéraire et idéologique précis. La deuxième partie est dédiée à l’étude de la réception médiévale et moderne de l’œuvre, et envisage cinq axes d’analyse. D’abord, l’étude des contextes manuscrits du poème à l’intérieur des recueils qui le contiennent montre l’ambivalence du texte, qui peut s’intégrer à des ensembles plutôt savants (œuvres théologiques, latines, etc.) ou à des codex dédiés à la culture profane et courtoise. L’étude des remaniements propose une interprétation des versions O et S, qui présentent l’une et l’autre près de 1000 vers supplémentaires. Une troisième étude est consacrée à deux œuvres, Renart le Nouvel et le Roman de Fauvel, qui empruntent tous deux des vers et des épisodes à notre texte. Nous consacrons une brève section à la réception du Tournoiement chez les juristes lettrés de la Renaissance (notamment Claude Fauchet). Enfin, nous offrons un rapide commentaire sur les illustrations qui accompagnent l’œuvre dans certains manuscrits. Cette introduction littéraire permet de cerner l’œuvre et son histoire, tant d’un point de vue esthétique et littéraire qu’intellectuel et idéologique.Tous les autres chapitres sont consacrés aux aspects proprement philologiques et à l’édition. Le deuxième chapitre contient une évaluation des éditions antérieures. Le troisième chapitre est dédié à une analyse détaillée de la tradition manuscrite :par un examen de l’ensemble de la documentation ancienne, nous avons pu déterminer précisément les liens de parenté entre les différents témoins de l’œuvre. Sur base de ces analyses, nous avons entrepris de reconstruire le texte de l’archétype, en procédant à une critique systématique de l’ensemble des variantes pour chaque vers. C’est le sujet du quatrième chapitre, qui présente nos principes d’édition, à travers une introduction méthodologique et une typologie de nos critères d’intervention. Le cinquième chapitre contient une étude des aspects linguistiques et stylistiques ayant une implication sur l’établissement du texte, en particulier les aspects lexicaux et la versification. Enfin, nous exposons les principes de la toilette du texte.Le texte établi est accompagné d’un apparat complet, enregistrant l’ensemble des leçons rejetées d’une part, et les variantes propres à chaque manuscrit, d’autre part. Les justifications aux quelques 400 interventions ont été consignées soigneusement dans un ensemble de notes critiques, contenant également nombre de commentaires linguistiques, littéraires, philologiques, etc. Après les notes apparaissent le glossaire, indispensable à la compréhension de cette œuvre difficile, et l’index nominum.Nos recherches ont consisté en une étude philologique globale de l’œuvre, au sens large du terme, envisageant tant les aspects proprement philologiques, que littéraires et historiques.Doctorat en Langues, lettres et traductologie
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Nader-Esfahani, Sanam. "Knowledge and Representation through Baroque Eyes: Literature and Optics in France and Italy ca. 1600-1640." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493303.
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The scientific discoveries and inventions of the early seventeenth century, which include Johannes Kepler’s inverted retinal image, the refinement of lenses, and the invention of the telescope, transformed the status of vision in the acquisition of knowledge, thus modifying the nature of what is known and even challenging how things are known. Rather than focus on philosophical oppositions between seeing and looking, or on artistic practices such as linear perspective or anamorphosis in literature’s engagement with vision, this study privileges instead a dialogue with early modern optics. Deriving a theoretical framework from the scientific debates about vision and its instruments, which brings attention to the historically charged concepts of mediated perception, the visible and the invisible, and natural and mechanical sight, I examine how French and Italian authors in the early seventeenth century engaged with ocular and optical motifs to question the sense of sight and its authority.
My corpus describes vision as indispensable to the observation and knowledge of the world, although the texts also expose the vulnerability of the sense of sight to error because of natural limitations or an inability to recognize the true form behind deceitful appearances. As such, they elucidate a crisis of knowledge and representation that characterizes the earlier decades of the seventeenth century. Based on the dynamics between the eye and visual aids as they appear in the scientific community, I identify two distinct visual modes in the literary texts, which correspond to the natural eye and the instrumentalized one, assisted and enhanced by a lens. The authors considered here, which include Béroalde de Verville, Traiano Boccalini, Agrippa d’Aubigné, and the writers involved in the polemics around Giambattista Marino’s L’Adone and Pierre Corneille’s Le Cid, present the two visual modes as existing in tension, which I define as “baroque vision.” The analyses of the literary texts demonstrate how the integration of lenses, be it through explicit references to optical devices or through more abstract portrayals that parallel the operations of the eye and the instrument, becomes emblematic of other concerns, from debates regarding discontent about dissimulation to discussions of poetic practice.Romance Languages and Literatures
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Korta, Jeremie Charles. "The Aesthetics of Discovery: Text, Image, and the Performance of Knowledge in the Early-Modern Book." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467521.
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How does the book-object in early modernity participate in the representation of scientific knowledge? How was the reader meant to approach the book and to comprehend its contents? This project starts from the contention that scientific knowledge is not a product simply to be deposited into unmarked containers and transmitted unproblematically. On the contrary, the book, whether literary or scientific, actively shapes and invents objects of scientific knowledge. Sensory, affective and cognitive ways in which the reader is expected to approach the book and its contents are implicit in its formatting of text and image, not to mention margins, presentational material and indices.
This project draws from literary and natural scientific traditions of the French and Italian Renaissance in order to study how the early-modern book forms and performs scientific knowledge in various ways. Compelling the reader to interrupt his or her reading and to explore the book’s text and images as if they were objects in their own right, the book-object strives to imitate the experience and method of scientific discovery for the early-modern reader. To this end, touch, appetition, and bodily awareness become as important as sight and critical reasoning in a procedural approach and apprehension of knowledge in and of the book-object. An “aesthetics of discovery”, formed by the book and performed by the reader, is implicit in the book’s careful articulations of text and image.Romance Languages and Literatures
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ARANTES, JÚNIOR Edson. "Regime de memória romano: imagens do herói Héracles nos escritos de Luciano de Samósata (século II d.C.)." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2008. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2349.
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Previous issue date: 2008-02-28Based on literature and on the analysis of texts by Lucian of Samosata, who was a Syrian author from the second century of the Christian era, the present essay aims to pose a few questions about a very influent historiographic construct: the idealization of the antonine era. To elucidate the problem, we have elaborated the concept of memory regime, which seeks to encompass the metanarrative limits that are necessary for the construction of the discourses. For such, we debated the ways in which the elite of the Roman Empire built an imperial culture, based on dialogue with the dominated cultures hence this paper debates the notion of Romanization. We have also pointed out the ways in which the discourses are validated by historical agents and some processes that involved the art of memory, a knowledge deeply rooted in the heart of roman aristocracy. We blended similar theoretical constructions with one clear example: the myth of Heracles and its diverse representations in Lucian of Samosata s writings, a mythical element whose analysis is fundamental, since the imperial propaganda of the antonine era is permeated with it. Therefore, this paper strives to show how this golden era of roman history presents conflicts even if they are in the form of representation
Com base na leitura e na análise dos textos de Luciano de Samósata, autor sírio do segundo século da era cristã, objetiva-se na presente dissertação objetiva encaminhar alguns questionamentos sobre um construto historiográfico muito influente: a idealização do século dos antoninos. Para elucidar o problema, elaboramos o conceito de regime de memória, que visa compreender os limites metanarrativos necessários para a construção dos discursos. Para tal, debatemos as maneiras como a elite do Império Romano construiu uma cultura imperial, a partir do diálogo com as populações dominadas por isso o trabalho debate a noção de romanização. Salientamos também as maneiras como os discursos são validados pelos agentes históricos e alguns processos que envolviam a arte da memória, um saber fortemente arraigado no seio da aristocracia romana. Matizamos semelhantes construções teóricas com um exemplo claro: o mito do herói Héracles e suas mais diversas representações nos escritos de Luciano de Samósata, um elemento mítico cuja análise é fundamental, já que a propaganda imperial do período dos antoninos está permeada por ele. Por conseguinte, este trabalho enseja mostrar como esta era áurea da história romana apresenta conflitos mesmo que esteja na ordem das representações
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Aguiar, Mariana Alves de. "Etiam specie inanium validus (Anais, XIII, 8, 3): o papel de Agrícola e Corbulão na narrativa de Tácito." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFOP, 2013. http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/4149.
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A presente dissertação trata da análise do papel de dois generais presentes na narrativa de Tácito, Agrícola e Corbulão. O primeiro general encontra-se em uma biografia, Vida de Agrícola, e o segundo em uma narrativa histórica, os Anais de Tácito. Tácito nos apresenta esses generais como uma forma de exemplo de conduta aristocrática imperial. Pensamos que o intuito de Tácito, ao buscar evidenciar, em sua narrativa, as virtudes de Agrícola e Corbulão, é denunciar os vícios da aristocracia imperial romana e de seus governantes. Dessa forma, o relato sobre os dois generais contribui para pensarmos a respeito da conduta aristocrática romana e, ao mesmo tempo, como Tácito percebia a aristocracia e os imperadores romanos. Tentaremos perceber a relação da aristocracia militar romana com o imperador: no caso de Agrícola temos Domiciano como imperador, e, na análise de Corbulão, o período em que Nero fora imperador. Podemos perceber, pelo relato sobre Agrícola e Corbulão, que a aristocracia militar romana passou por algumas mudanças em relação à questão da glória militar e do triunfo com a ascensão do império. Tácito insere os dois generais como modelo de uma nova conduta que se deveria possuir para sobreviver ao novo modelo político de governo. A narrativa de Tácito nos auxilia a compreender não apenas as relações da aristocracia militar com o imperador, mas também como se estabeleciam as relações no interior da aristocracia e quais permanências e rupturas ocorreram com o evento do Principado romano. ______________________________________________________________________________________________
ABSTRACT: This dissertation deals with the analysis of the role of two generals present in the narrative of Tacitus, Agricola and Corbulo. The first general lies in a biography, Life of Agricola, the second in a historical narrative, Tacitus’ Annals. Tacitus presents these generals as examples of imperial aristocratic behavior. We think that Tacitus’ intention, when seeking to point in his narrative the virtues of Agricola and Corbulo, is to denounce the vices of Roman imperial aristocracy and their rulers. Thus, the account of the two generals contributes to think about the Roman aristocratic behavior, and at the same time, as Tacitus perceived the aristocracy and the Roman emperors. We will try to understand the relationship of the Roman military aristocracy with the emperor: Agricola acted under Domitian and Corbulo when Nero was emperor. We can see, from the report on Agricola and Corbulo, that the Roman military aristocracy underwent some changes due to the issue of military glory and triumph with the rise of the Empire. Tacitus inserts the two generals as a model of a new behavior that generals should have to survive in the new political model of government. The narrative of Tacitus helps us to understand not only the relationship of the military aristocracy with the emperor, but also how relationships were established within the aristocracy among themselves, as well as the continuities and ruptures that took place with the Rroman Principate.
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Axelrod, Sarah Luehrman. "Umorismo and critical reading in Boccaccio's vernacular and Latin opere 'minori'." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467358.
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Umorismo as Luigi Pirandello defines it is distinct from the general body of literary material meant to invoke laughter. It consciously turns rhetorical convention on its head: it creates unexpected oppositions through conscious and careful use of certain types of language in contexts where it is not expected. The aim of my study is to offer readers new ways to approach Giovanni Boccaccio’s lesser-known works as fundamentally humorous texts, among other things, and to observe how they are crafted and what sets them apart from other works to which one might compare them. I argue that Boccaccio created the Amorosa visione, the Teseida delle nozze di Emilia, the Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta, and the De mulieribus claris with a sense of umorismo, that is to say, by playing with the conventions that each book’s respective genre invokes and then subverting expectations set up by those conventions. I examine each of these four works in its own chapter, with special attention to authorial voice, fictionality, narrative strategies, and intertextual practices. I rely chiefly on close readings of the texts themselves, in the original language first and foremost, and I attempt to draw out the humor that I see in the way they have been composed, often a result of play between their content and their structure and style. Ultimately, the umorismo in these works is, as Pirandello would agree it should be, not immediately evident: it takes patience and close reading to uncover. Boccaccio is staunchly in favor of critical and persistent reading as a necessary value that all poetry and fiction should require. His treatise in the Genealogia deorum gentilium on how readers should interact with books explicitly promotes the sort of reading required to perceive and parse the umorismo within his texts.Romance Languages and Literatures
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Gelinas-Lemaire, Vincent. "La représentation de l'espace dans le récit." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:23845474.
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Cette thèse doctorale vise à définir les aspects sous lesquels le récit peut saisir un espace afin de le représenter aux lecteurs. Pour ce faire, nous avons choisi une approche poétique, laquelle est soutenue par des études théoriques et critiques contemporaines tirées, notamment, des champs de la phénoménologie, de l’anthropologie, de la géographie, de la géocritique et de la théorie théâtrale. Notre recherche nous aura permis de dresser une typologie générale composée de cinq modes de représentation : les aspects géométrique (qui aborde un espace selon ses mesures, formes et proportions), localisé (qui capte son passage vers les caractéristiques stables du lieu), allégorique (consacré à son développement parallèle à un autre objet), dynamique (d’un espace qui entre en relation directe avec un personnage) et technique (où il est médié par un savoir spécialisé). Chaque chapitre s’ouvre sur un état présent des recherches essentielles à l’établissement de notre aspect, offre une définition détaillée de celui-ci, puis explore les facettes de notre définition au moyen d’études de cas. Ces études sont basées sur un corpus littéraire ouvert, ce qui nous a permis d’offrir des démonstrations précises et claires de la variété de manifestations de nos aspects. La majorité de ces textes appartient à la littérature de langue française du vingtième siècle.
Au moyen de cette thèse, nous cherchons à offrir des supports fondamentaux pour l’étude de l’espace dans tout récit, qu’il soit littéraire ou non, ainsi qu’à créer un vocabulaire qui pourra être utilisé par les divers champs d’étude de l’espace narratif. Nous voulons ainsi faciliter les échanges entre ces domaines et l’inclusion de leurs recherches dans la critique générale des textes, permettant d’y souligner la pleine densité poétique de l’espace et de ses rôles dans le développement du récit.
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This doctoral dissertation aims to define the aspects under which narratives can grasp a space in order to represent it to the reader. To achieve that aim, we have chosen a poetic approach, which is supported by contemporary theoretical and critical studies from fields including phenomenology, anthropology, geography, geocriticism, and the theory of theater. Our research has allowed us to design a general typology comprising five modes of representation: a geometrical aspect (that grasps a space through its measurements, shapes, and proportions), a localized aspect (that focuses on its translation towards the stable characteristics of a place), an allegorical aspect (in which space unfolds in parallel to the representation of another object), a dynamical aspect (of a space that gets into direct contact with a character), and a technical aspect (in which it is mediated by specialized knowledge). Each chapter begins by a survey of the fields necessary to our aspect, then proceeds to its detailed definition, and then explores the facets of that definition through case studies. These case studies are based on an open literary corpus, which has allowed us to offer clear and precise demonstrations of various manifestations of our aspects. A majority of these texts come from French language literature of the twentieth century.
With this dissertation, we aim to offer fundamental tools for the study of space in any narrative, literary or otherwise, and to create a vocabulary that can be manipulated by the various fields of study devoted to narrative space. Thus, we want to facilitate exchanges between such domains and the inclusion of their research in the general criticism of texts, in order to underline the full density of the poetics of space and its roles in the unfolding of a narrative.Romance Languages and Literatures
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Ramirez-Nieves, Emmanuel. "Repenting Roguery: Penance in the Spanish Picaresque Novel and the Arabic and Hebrew Maqama." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467380.
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Repenting Roguery: Penance in the Spanish Picaresque Novel and the Arabic and Hebrew Maqāma, investigates the significance of conversion narratives and penitential elements in the Spanish picaresque novels Vida de Guzmán de Alfarache (1599 and 1604) by Mateo Alemán and El guitón Onofre (circa 1606) by Gregorio González as well as Juan Ruiz’s Libro de buen amor (1330 and 1343) and El lazarillo de Tormes (1554), the Arabic maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī of Basra (circa 1100), and Ibn al-Ashtarkūwī al-Saraqusṭī (1126-1138), and the Hebrew maqāmāt of Yehudah al-Ḥarizi (circa 1220) and Isaac Ibn Sahula (1281-1284). In exploring the ways in which Christian, Muslim, and Jewish authors from medieval and early modern Iberia represent the repentance of a rogue, my study not only sheds light on the important commonalities that these religious and literary traditions share, but also illuminates the particular questions that these picaresque and proto-picaresque texts raise within their respective religious, political and cultural milieux. The ambiguity that characterizes the conversion narrative of a seemingly irredeemable rogue, I argue, provides these medieval and early modern writers with an ideal framework to address pressing problems such as controversies regarding free will and predestination, the legitimacy of claims to religious and political authority, and the understanding of social and religious marginality.Comparative Literature