Dissertations / Theses: 'Secular literature'

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Horton, Ray. "American Literature's Secular Faith." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1491331157721026.

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Adriaanse, Jaco Hennig. "Alternative afterlives : secular expeditions to the undiscovered country." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20198.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates texts which are argued to construct secular imaginings of the afterlife. As such my argument is built around the way in which these texts engage with death, while simultaneously engaging with the religious concepts which have come to give shape to the afterlife in an increasingly secular West. The texts included are: Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (1907), Mark Twain’s unfinished reimagining of Christian salvation; Kneller’s Happy Campers (1998) by Etgar Keret, its filmic adaptation Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006), as well as the Norwegian film A Bothersome Man (2006), which all strip the afterlife of its traditional furnishings; Philip Pullman’s acclaimed His Dark Materials trilogy (1995, 1997, 2000) in which he wages a fictional war with the foundations of Western religious tradition; and finally William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984) and Feersum Endjinn (1994) by Iain M. Banks, two science fiction texts which speculate on the afterlife of the future. These texts are so chosen and arranged to create a logical progression of secular projects, each subsequent afterlife reflecting a more extensive and substantial distantiation from religious tradition. Twain’s text utilises a secularising satire of heaven, and draws attention to the irrational notions which pervade this concept. In the process, however, it embarks on the utopian endeavour of reconstructing and improving the Christian afterlife of salvation. In Chapter 3, the narratives under investigation discard the surface details of religious afterlives, and reimagine the hereafter against a contemporary backdrop. I argue that they conform, in several significant ways, to the mode of magical realism. Furthermore, despite their disinclination for evident religiosity, these texts nevertheless find problematic encounters when they break this mode and invoke higher authorities to intervene in the unfolding narratives. Chapter 4 focuses on Philip Pullman’s high fantasy trilogy, which enacts open war between the secular and religious and uses the afterlife as an integral part of the secularising agenda. With the literal battle lines drawn, this text depicts a clear distinction between what is included as secular, or renounced as religious. Finally, I turn to science fiction, where the notion of the virtual afterlife of the future has come to be depicted, with its foundations in human technologies instead of divine agencies. They rely on the ideology of posthumanism in a reimagining of the afterlife which constitutes a new apocalyptic tradition, a virtual kingdom of heaven populated by the virtual dead. Ultimately, I identify three broad, delineating aspects of secularity which become evident in these narratives and the meaningful distinctions they draw between religious and secular ideologies. I find further significance in the way in which these texts engage with the very foundations on which fictions of the afterlife have been constructed. Throughout these texts, I then find a secular approach to death as a developing alternative to that which has traditionally been propagated by religion.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis ondersoek tekste wat alternatiewe uitbeeldings van die hiernamaals bevat, wat dan geargumenteer word dien as voorbeelde van sekulêre konsepsies van die nadoodse toestand. My argument berus op die manier waarop hierdie tekste met die dood omgaan, asook die verskeie maniere waarop hul tot die religieë van die Westerse wêreld spreek. Die tekste wat ondersoek word sluit in: Mark Twain se Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (1907), sy onvoltooide satire van die Christelike hemel; Kneller’s Happy Campers deur Etgar Keret (1998), die verfilmde weergawe daarvan, Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006), asook die Noorweegse film A Bothersome Man (2006), waarin die hiernamaals uitgebeeld word as ‘n lewelose weergawe van kontemporêre samelewing; Philip Pullman se fantasie trilogie His Dark Materials (1995, 1998, 2000) waarin hy ‘n sekulêre oorlog teen die onderdrukkende magte van religie uitbeeld; en laastens die wetenskap-fiksie verhale Neuromancer (1984), deur William Gibson, en Feersum Endjinn (1994), deur Iain M. Banks, waarin die sekulêre, virtuele hiernamaals van die toekoms vervat word. Hierdie tekste is gekies en ook so gerangskik om ‘n duidelike sekulêre progressie te toon, met elke opeenvolgende teks wat in ‘n meer omvattende wyse die tradisioneel religieuse konvensies herdink of vervang met sekulêre alternatiewe. Twain se teks dryf die spot met die Christelike idee van die hemel en om aandag te trek na die irrasionele ideologieë wat daarin vervat is. In die proses poog Twain egter om te verbeter op die model en gevolglik ondervind die teks probleme wat met die utopiese literatuur gepaard gaan. In hoofstuk 3 word die hiernamaals gestroop van alle ooglopend religieuse verwysings en vervang met die ewigheid as ‘n kontemporêre landskap deurtrek met morbiede leweloosheid. Ek argumenteer dat hulle op verskeie belangrike manier ooreenstem met die genre van magiese realisme en dat, ten spyte van die pogings om religie te vermy, die tekste steeds probleme teëkom wanneer hoër outoriteite by die verhale betrokke raak. Hoofstuk 4 draai om Pullman se sekulêre oorlog wat daarop gemik is om die wêreld te sekulariseer. Die duidelikheid waarmee die tekste onderskeid tref tussen die magte van religie en die weerstand vanaf sekulariteit, maak dit insiggewend om te bepaal wat Pullman in ‘n sekulêre wêreldbeeld in-of uitsluit. Laastens ondersoek ek wetenskap-fiksie, waarin die hiernamaals omskep is in ‘n toestand wat bereik word deur menslike tegnologiese vooruitgang, in stede van religieuse toedoen. Hier word daar gesteun op die idees van posthumanisme, wat beteken dat hierdie uitbeeldings van die ewigheid ‘n oorspronklike verwerking van religieuse apokaliptiese verhale is, waar ‘n virtuele hemelse koninkryk geskep word vir die virtuele afgestorwenes. Uiteindelik identifiseer ek drie breë ideologiese trekke wat deurgaans in al die tekste opduik, en waarvolgens betekenisvolle onderskeid getref kan word om definisie te gee aan die begrip van sekulariteit. Verder vind ek dat die sekulêre hiernamaals in ‘n unieke wyse met die dood omgaan, en dat dit ‘n alternatiewe uitkyk gee op die fondasies waarop verhale van die hiernamaals oorspronklik geskep is. Derhalwe argumenteer ek dat ‘n sekulêre wêreldbeeld ‘n alternatiewe uitkyk op die dood ontwikkel, een wat die tradisies van religie terselfdertyd inkorporeer en verwerp.

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Traylor, Sarah Kay. "Sacred Journeys in a Secular Age: Pilgrimage in Contemporary German Literature." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1562757919972067.

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Thompson, Mary-Anne Carey. "Future tense : an analysis of science fiction as secular apocalyptic literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15880.

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Bibliography: leaves 208-219.
Religious apocalyptic literature appears to have been written in response to a situation of crisis in which the believers found themselves. It is the catalyst which provided the energy which the society needed in order to withstand that crisis, and it did this by radically inverting the dimensions which make up a worldview, that is the dimensions of time and space, and the classification of groups, so that it reflects the possibility of a new order, a new heaven and a new earth. Since the nineteenth century, the Western world has seen itself in a constant state of crisis in terms of the rapid secularisation, industrialisation and urbanisation, and it would seem that the notion of an apocalypse is still relevant. But religious visions of the apocalypse do not seem to have relevance to the largely secular society they would have been addressing. Something new, immediate and drastic was needed, which would supply the society with the energy to withstand the crisis of a secular world. Science fiction as a literary genre arose in the late nineteenth century, and it would seem as if the new social situation generated a new symbolic vocabulary for ancient apocalyptic themes, in other words, science fiction appeared as an imaginative literary genre of mythic, apocalyptic dimensions to address this situation. In the same way as religious visions of the apocalypse, science fiction inverts the components of a worldview so that a new social order, a new heaven and a new earth are seen as possible. In order to explore this theme, science fiction is examined in the light of radical inversion of accepted worldviews, and the genre is divided into three historical periods in order to understand the conditions under which it was written, as well as the content of the material involved. These periods are: 1. Apocalypses of Expectation and Hope. The late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century; the beginnings of the genre in the crisis of rapid industrialisation, secularisation and urbanisation, using the works of Jules Verne and H G Wells. 2. Apocalypses of Irony and Despair. The nineteen twenties to the end of the Second World War; the crises of the two World Wars on a complacent world, using the works of Aldous Huxley and George Orwell. 3. Apocalypses of Destruction and Redemption. The nineteen fifties to the present; the crisis of nuclear power and thinking machines, using the works of Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov. Also examined are the quasi-religious nature of science fiction, apocalypse as a cleansing agent of the universe, and the myths of noble survivors of post-apocalyptic literature and films. In the light of the above, it can be understood why science fiction can be seen as the functional equivalent to religious apocalyptic myth, but relevant to the largely secular Western world of the twentieth century.

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Dodd, Alexandra Jane. "Secular séance: Post-Victorian embodiment in contemporary South African art." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12814.

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In this thesis I explore selected bodies of work by five contemporary South African artists that resuscitate nineteenth - century aesthetic tropes in ways that productively reimagine South Africa’s traumatic colonial inheritance. I investigate the aesthetic strategies and thematic concerns employed by Mary Sibande, Nicholas Hlobo, Mwenya Kabwe, Kathryn Smith and Santu Mofokeng, and argue that the common tactic of engagement is a focus on the body as the prime site of cognition and "the aesthetic as a form of embodiment, mode of being-in-the-world" (Merleau - Ponty). It is by means of the body that the divisive colonial fictions around race and gender were intimately inscribed and it is by means of the body, in all its performative and sensual capacities, that they are currently being symbolically undone and re-scripted. In my introduction, I develop a syncretic, interdisciplinary discourse to enable my close critical readings of these post - Victorian artworks. My question concerns the mode with which these artists have reached into the past to resurrect the nineteenth - century aesthetic trope or fragment, and what their acts of symbolic retrieval achieve in the public realm of the present. What is specific to these artists mode of "counter - archival" (Merewether ) engagement with the colonial past? I argue that these works perform a similar function to the nineteenth - century séance and to African ancestral rites and dialogue, putting viewers in touch with the most haunting aspects of our shared and separate histories as South Africans and as humans. In this sense, they might be understood both as recuperations of currently repressed forms of cultural hybridity and embodied visual conversations with the unfinished identity struggles of the artists’ ancestors. The excessive, uncanny or burlesque formal qualities of these works insist on the incapacity of mimetic, social documentary forms to contain the sustained ferocious absurdity of subjective experience in a "post - traumatic", "post - colonial", "post - apartheid" culture. The "post" in these terms does not denote a concession to sequential logic or linear temporality, but rather what Achille Mbembe terms an "interlocking of presents, pasts and futures". This "interlocking" is made manifest by the current transmission of these works, which visually, physically embody a sense of subjectivity as temporality. If the body and the senses are the means though which we not only apprehend the world in the present, but through which the past is objectively an d subjectively enshrined, then it is by means of the ossified archive of that same sensory body that the damage of the past can be released and knowledge/history re - imagined. Without erasing or denying South Africa’s well - documented history of violent categorisation, the hypothetical tenor of these works instantiates an alternate culture of love , intimacy, desire and inter - connectedness that once was and still can be.

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Gonçalves, Dircilene Fernandes. "O tradutor imaginário: pseudotradução, um encontro secular entre tradução e literatura." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-15012016-125933/.

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A definição básica de pseudotradução é: um texto apresentado como tradução, mas que, na verdade, é um texto original. Nela, um tradutor imaginário afirma estar traduzindo uma obra inexistente: tanto tradutor como obra são produtos de ficção. Um recurso utilizado há muitos séculos de diversas maneiras e com diferentes motivações, ela é, muitas vezes, considerada farsa, fraude, falsificação ou mesmo mero gracejo narrativo sem grandes consequências. Entretanto, ao contrário do que essa visão simplória pode sugerir, ela tem estado presente em momentos importantes da história ocidental. Em sua relação com a literatura, a pseudotradução tem sido utilizada ao longo dos séculos como um poderoso recurso narrativo na composição de obras que concorreram para a transformação de sistemas culturais e literários. A partir da perspectiva do potencial criador e transformador da pseudotradução, este trabalho apresenta cinco obras produzidas em diferentes épocas da história ocidental, as quais, de alguma maneira, contribuíram para a dinâmica dos sistemas literários de suas épocas. Em todas elas, o fato de terem sido concebidas como pseudotraduções foi elemento fundamental e decisivo para seus efeitos. Cada uma dessas obras, distribuídas em períodos pontuais entre os séculos XII e XX, utilizou o recurso da pseudotradução de maneira diferente; todavia, todas elas promoveram transformações de paradigmas literários e questionamentos sobre questões humanas e sobre a própria ficção. São elas: The History of the Kings of Britain, de Geoffrey of Monmouth, século XII; Don Quijote de la Mancha, de Miguel de Cervantes, século XVII; O castelo de Otranto, de Horace Walpole, século XVIII; O nome da rosa, de Umberto Eco, e o conto Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, de Jorge Luis Borges, ambas produções do século XX. A observação dessas obras desde a perspectiva do uso da pseudotradução permite considerar a tradução além do processo de versão de uma língua para outra, como processo de escritura per se.
The basic definition of pseudotranslation is: a text introduced as a translation, but that is actually an original text. In this process, an imaginary translator claims to be translating a work that does not exist: both translator and work are products of fiction. A resource used for centuries in different ways and for various reasons, it has been frequently considered as sham, fraud, fakery, or even sheer witticism without serious consequences. However, instead of what this naïve view may suggest, it has been present in important moments of western history. As far as its connection to literature is concerned, pseudotranslation has been used along the centuries as a powerful narrative resource in the composition of works that contributed to the transformation of cultural and literary systems. From the perspective of the creative and transformative potential of pseudotranslation, this study introduces five works written in different periods of western history, which somehow contributed to the dynamics of the literary systems of their ages. In all of them, the fact of having been conceived as pseudotranslations was fundamental and decisive for their effects. Each of them, set on determinate periods between the 12th and the 20th centuries, applied the resource of pseudotranslation in a different way; even though, all of them fostered transformations in literary paradigms and questionings around human issues and around fiction itself. Such works are: The History of the Kings of Britain, by Geoffrey of Monmouth, 12th century; Don Quijote de la Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes, 17th century; The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole, 18th century; The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco, and the short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, by Jorge Luis Borges, both written in the 20th century. Pondering these works from the perspective of their use of pseudotranslation makes it possible to consider translation beyond the process of turning texts from one language into another, as a creative writing process in itself.

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Wistreich, Richard. "Giulio Cesare Brancaccio and secular solo bass singing in sixteenth century Italy." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274462.

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Jaffer, Sadaf. "Ismat Chughtai, Progressive Literature and Formations of the Indo-Muslim Secular, 1911-1991." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:23845441.

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This dissertation examines the life, work, and contexts of noted Urdu writer and Indian cultural critic Ismat Chughtai (1911-1991). By engaging in readings of Chughtai’s texts and contexts, this dissertation presents the first study of its kind, examining Indian secular thought through the lens of an Urdu literary figure. As such, this dissertation offers new perspectives on intersections between popular culture and political and religious thought in modern India through the lens of a celebrated literary figure whose legacy continues to be invoked. I argue that, at its core, Chughtai’s critique of society hinged upon the equality (barābarī) of all Indians. The primacy of “humanity” (insāniyat) over other identities was the keystone of her formation of the secular, and has roots in a tradition that can be termed Islamicate humanism. In the first chapter, “Sacred Duty: Ismat Chughtai’s Cosmopolitan Justice between Islam and the Secular,” I argue that, by rejecting the inferior status of women within Muslim legal codes, Chughtai pursued what she saw as moral equality to a more radical degree than the postcolonial Indian state, which enshrined separate codes of personal law based on religious community. Ultimately, the secular ideals of equality, autonomy and human dignity were the mainstays of her thought, without regard to whether these were pursued through “Islamic” means. In the next chapter, “The Personal is Political: Economic and Sexual Progress in Modern India,” I argue that Chughtai, unlike other members of the Progressive Writers’ Movement, emphasized the link between hierarchical economic injustice and limitations on autonomous sexual choice. In the third chapter, “Reform, Education, and Woman as Subject,” I argue that in her writing, particularly the novel Ṭeṛhī Lakīr, Chughtai deployed narratives of education as foundational to the formation of an emancipated girl, one who liberates herself by rejecting the “old rules” (purānī qānūn). The fourth chapter, “The Many Lives of Urdu: Language, Progressive Literature and Nostalgia,” explores the fate of the Urdu language and Chughtai’s legacy in independent India. Ultimately, this project calls into question assumptions regarding what types of textual and human subjects are considered representatives of “Indo-Muslim Culture” in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Zandstra, Robert. "The Nature of the Secular: Religious Orientations and Environmental Thought in Nineteenth-Century American Literature." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23099.

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My dissertation argues that changes in the structures and orientations of religious thought, changes commonly understood as secularization, have provided the intellectual underpinnings for the modern exploitation and ongoing destruction of the non-human world, which extend to the underwriting the devaluing and dehumanization of marginalized groups such as Native Americans. My work makes visible the secular assumptions of ecocriticism, which tends to blame Christianity for environmental problems. It also unwittingly relies on state-legitimating constructions of religion, simplistic religious-secular binaries, and outdated, false narratives of secularization. I theorize an ecocriticism “with/out the secular” to analyze secularity in both “secular” and “religious” settings, using the category of “religious orientation,” a tacit, pre-theoretical commitment that directs ultimate trust, structures meaning as it coheres in everyday life, and shapes ontological, epistemological, ethical, and other theories. I examine how certain nineteenth-century authors, including Henry Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and Pequot minister William Apess, resisted this secularization within contemporaneous American culture and Christianity because of its epistemic devaluing of the natural world. Each of these authors has been read as an exemplar of secularization, but such interpretations reveal more about the secular commitments of literary critics than about the authors and their contexts. I show instead how modern religious constructions do not necessarily correlate with the deeper religious orientation of an author or the secularity or non-secularity of his or her arguments. Dickinson’s poetry and Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers challenge dogmatic conceptions of heaven and Sabbath that are structured dualistically so as to devalue everyday earthly life. Yet they do so in non-dualistic ways that accord with a biblically rooted religious orientation of creation-fall-redemption-consummation. Their struggles against the church were against the church’s acceptance of dominant secularist ideologies that are ultimately at odds with Christianity and sustainable lifeways. Similarly, William Apess’ environmental justice work as a Native Christian against institutions dominated by white nationalist ideology demonstrate the how dualistic structures of secularity legitimate racism in conjunction with an anthropocentric that devalue the natural world.

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Chelioti, Eleni. "The secular angel in contemporary children's literature : David Almond, Philip Pullman, and Cliff McNish." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4277/.

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This thesis explores the representation of the contemporary secular angel in children’s literature, focusing on the works of three authors: David Almond, Philip Pullman, and Cliff McNish. In the works in question, the secular angel has been removed from all religious frameworks, including its traditional allegiance and obedience to a God or Devil figure. This absence, however, does not negate the existence of a moral compass, nor the importance of free will, which is bestowed upon and used by angelic and human characters alike. Transformation, one of the thesis’s key themes, becomes significant as I argue that the angelic figures bring about a transformation in the novels’ protagonists. Intertextuality forms an integral part of the analysis as the works of John Milton and William Blake are key reference points. The Introduction traces the angel’s trajectory from its scriptural tradition in the Middle Ages, to its progressive secularisation in the 20th century, and a chapter on each author follows. The thesis concludes by arguing that these angels’ role in children’s literature is to challenge and complicate notions of religion, innocence and experience, and science vs. faith, as they become representatives of a contemporary, secular philosophy, while retaining and embracing the spiritual.

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Campbell, Kyle Joseph. "Walking With A Ghost: Sodomy, Sanity and the Secular." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2016. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/538.

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In the last twenty-five years there has been a boom in scholarship on Charles Brockden Brown that connects his work to social developments that occurred in the early American republic. Brown scholars often read him as a man ahead of his time as his writing addresses, hints at, or even inverts social mores. The scholarship around Brown's novel Edgar Huntly has concentrated on how the narrative addresses westward expansion and white settlers' relationship with Native Americans or the ways in which Edgar Huntly connects to Revolutionary society. Kate Ward Sugar engages with this narrative in a different way, exploring the dynamic of sleepwalking as a way to address male homosocial bonds. Scholars though continue to side step the eroticism within this narrative and the implications of somnambulism's status as a mental illness being tied to an unnamed desire. My thesis will therefore address this gap in the scholarship by integrating a queer and historicist reading of Edgar Huntly to suggest that Brown's use of sleepwalking is done to reflect a social fear of the homoerotic. It is the goal of my thesis to explore Edgar Huntly as a narrative that weaves the danger of sodomy to sleepwalking, suggesting an implicit relationship between madness, illness, and same-sex desire. In order to fulfill this goal this thesis will employ a queer historicist approach, which aims to engage with the ambiguity of Brown's work to reveal insights into the early American republic. After all as Brown wrote in Edgar Huntly, "There are two modes of drawing forth the secrets of another, by open and direct means and by circuitous and indirect" (4). To develop this paper's argument, I will need to explore the casual relationship between the loss of Waldegrave's letters and Edgar's emotional distress as the cause of his sleepwalking. Brown himself described this as, "...a supposition not to be endured. Yet ominous terrors haunted me", as Edgar's dread is fixated upon the potential of an unauthorized reader seeing these texts (91). Furthermore, close readings of Brown's description of Edgar's fixation on Clithero will highlight his unspeakable desire. This relationship will also allow us to later compare their fates as Clithero becomes, "a madman whose liberty is dangerous, and who requires to be fettered and imprisoned as the most atrocious criminal," while Edgar leaves for Europe with his fiancé (193). Finally, drawing upon medical and legal texts from this period will show how Edgar Huntly suggests a pathologization of sexuality within the time period, in particular the developing figure of a secularized sodomite. This reading of Edgar Huntly not only expands the scholarship on sexuality in Brown's writing, but also the history of sexuality, pointing towards a social development currently unexplored by scholars of the early American republic.

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Fields, Lauren Ann. "Out of the Best Books: Mormon Assimilation and Exceptionalism Through Secular Reading." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5973.

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This thesis seeks to explore the relationship between Mormon assimilation, exceptionalism, and their endeavors in secular reading by analyzing Out of the Best Books (OOBB), a 1964–71 five-volume reading guide and reading program on secular reading established by the Mormon Church for its women’s organization, the Relief Society. Examining the approaches to secular literature in the OOBB program suggests that Mormons can respond to their competing desires to separate and assimilate by making efforts that fulfill both aspirations simultaneously rather than moving exclusively in one direction. Yet OOBB’s efforts to achieve both objectives did not amount to an entirely seamless navigation of this paradox. The program’s attempts to incorporate texts that might challenge Mormon notions of morality as well as their efforts to introduce world literature and fully address their female audience raised additional tensions particularly relevant to contemporary Mormonism, suggesting the complexity of Mormons navigating this identity paradox both within the context of the OOBB program and today. Furthermore, this examination of OOBB offers a venture at fleshing out the history of Mormon reading, confirming Mormons’ relationship to literature as central to their conception and expression of identity and situating Mormon reading endeavors in the broader context of American reading practices.

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Krajewski, Eileen Theresa. "Secular Messianism and the Nationalist Idea in the Plays of Adam Mickiewicz and William Butler Yeats." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1381402042.

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Vvon, Benecke Gerda. "Authenticity and the transformation of the Camino : an analysis of secular pilgrimage in contemporary academic literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20133.

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This thesis is an analysis and critique of contemporary research on secular pilgrimage. A trend of dedifferentiation between religious pilgrimage, secular pilgrimage and tourism is identified whereby contemporary academic literature is arguing for a broadening of the definition of pilgrimage to incorporate many disparate forms of travel and the multiple motivations that initiate these journeys. In this this thesis, I acknowledge and elaborate on the development that has occurred by which pilgrimage has expanded and fragmented into various forms, termed the "turn inward". What I am disagreeing with and critiquing is the paradigm shift towards dedifferentiation in contemporary academic research on secular pilgrimage. I use Jonathan Z. Smith to critique the comparativism evident in contemporary pilgrimage literature that focuses on similarities and neglects difference. In this thesis, I argue for a differentiation between religious pilgrimage, secular pilgrimage and tourism, as well as the validity of the concept secular pilgrimage, by looking at the foundational differences between the various phenomena. In order to support this argument, I explore various foundational differences between medieval religious pilgrimage and contemporary secular pilgrimage, while using theorists José Casanova and Charles Taylor and their theories of secularisation in order to bring in a philosophical account of meaning and access deep ontological differences in order to support my argument for the distinction between religious pilgrimage, secular pilgrimage and tourism. In order to focus the study, I use the Camino to Santiago as case study because of its Christian medieval origins as well as its current popularity amongst secular pilgrims.

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Cox, Elizabeth. "Discerning women : unravelling enclosed female identities in secular texts 900-1300." Thesis, Swansea University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.678281.

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Cowling, Jane. "An edition of the records of drama, ceremony and secular music in Winchester City and college 1556-1642." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239368.

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Wright, Michelle. "Time, consciousness and narrative play in late medieval secular dream poetry and framed narratives." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2017. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/time-consciousness-and-narrative-play-in-late-medieval-secular-dream-poetry-and-framed-narratives(7cbf5e12-c655-4177-84f8-1445f1ffef85).html.

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This thesis considers time and narrative play in dream poems and framed narratives. It begins with a chapter on the history of time perceptions and time-telling, and explores how ideas about time influenced medieval writers. It also surveys some modern views on the history of time-measurement a nd its influences on culture and the collective consciousness. Chapter two, after analysing the treatment of time in the Roman de la Rose, surveys some of the ways in which modern criticism has evaluated and conceived the genre of secular dream literature that developed from the Roman de la Rose. Chapter three examines the innovative use of the convention of beginning a poem with a seasonal opening and theorises that this becomes a `language' open to adaptation and variation. Chapter four looks in detail at Froissart's L`Orloge amoureus and discusses the clock as a new object which, contrary to the views of cultural historians, was embraced by medieval writers, religious and secular, to symbolise a range of virtues, qualities and ideas. I argue that the clock inspired creativity rather than heralding a rationalisation of the mind that would stifle imaginative responses to this new technology. Chapter five explores metafictional and self-reflexive devices in Froissart's Joli Buisson de Jonece and Chaucer's House of Fame. I consider how these texts play with narrative time and sequence by writing the genesis of the text into the poem. Finally, chapter six examines ideas of closure in medieval dream poetry and looks specifically at the reciprocity and inconclusiveness of the Judgement poems of Guillaume de Machaut. Because the second poem reverses the decision of the first poem, it brings into question the authority of the text and the unity of the authorial voice.

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Renshaw, Alison Eleanor. "Penitential romance : penitential schemata as keys to readings and readers of secular prose romance of the late fifteenth century." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271131.

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Reiff, Marija. "The syncretic stage: religion and popular drama during the fin de siècle." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6254.

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This dissertation examines the popular theatre of the late-nineteenth century and focuses on the most commercially successful and popular playwrights of the era: Henry Arthur Jones, Arthur Wing Pinero, and Oscar Wilde. Looking at the major popular playwrights reveals that the commercial stage had different concerns than the avant-garde theatre of Ibsen and Shaw. Foremost among these concerns was religion, and starting with Jones’s 1884 play Saints and Sinners, a massive change swept through the commercial stage as religious prejudice and official censorship fell by the wayside. In its place, religion started to become a topic that was once again seen as acceptable, and the fin de siècle stage was awash with syncretic religious views. This syncretism was aided by the publication of scripts and the religious pluralism of the day. Though publication aided the literary and religious quality of the texts, they were crafted as staged works, complete with the shared, collective experiences and emotions of the audience, a collective affect that mimics the collective emotional experience of a congregation in a church, and the stage thus became one of the largest venues for ecumenical religion during the late-Victorian era. The alacrity with which this happened challenges not only the common conception of the secularization of the late-Victorian stage, but also of the larger culture

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Hedenmo, Adam. "A Journey to the Inner World : A Hermeneutic Analysis of Matsuo Bashō’s Prose from a Transcendent-Immanent Perspective." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Religionshistoria, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-411295.

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The following study investigates the impact of the secular processes present in Early Modern Japan on Matsuo Bashō's prose. The theoretical basis for exploring this development is found in Durkheim’s distinction between the transcendent and the immanent, as well as the theoretical framework for secularism. The exploration of Bashō's writings is conducted through several key themes: self-presentation, people, religious concepts, nature and aestheticisms. From these categories a complex pattern emerges. It illustrates the enduring nature of the contemporary world-views through numerous references to and descriptions of existing systems of thought. Bashō's response to the dynamic societal changes of his time is an outright rejection of the new developments; instead he turns to nature and romanticism steeped in existing tradition.

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Butterfield, Margaret R. "Redemption from Darkness: A Study of Form and Function, Sacred and Secular, within the Genre of Apocalypse." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2016. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/939.

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The genre of apocalypse has an irresistible draw. The concepts of beginning and end to humankind as well as the cosmos situate themselves in our daily stories, microcosmic narratives that repeat through time, placing the footprint of humankind a little more firmly into the earth, a place we have called our home from beginning and, naturally, to the end. In a world that constantly pushes forward to the next piece of technological equipment, reducing mass pandemics to mere over the counter solutions, and extending its hand into the abyss of the unknown universe, humanity craves the elusive next chapter in the novel of the world. But what is to be attained when we reach the climax? When we are situated in the denouement? And finally, what happens when all is at an end? There is a universal truth of birth, and a universal truth of death (despite our advances to elude it). By that logic there must exist a macrocosmic version, a global scale birth, termed creation by many, and thus a large scale death. But since death of the individual remains a complete mystery, many diverse factions exist. This extends to the global picture then, not only seeking inquiry into what happens after we (as in the individual) but when the entire world ceases to exist. This thesis is an attempt to explore the genre of apocalypse for a deeper understanding of these questions and notions. With various systems in place, such as those put forth by John J. Collins and other apocalypse scholars, there exists a possibility to examine various iterations of apocalypses. By examining paradigm traits and tiers and the complications that arise with systemization, this thesis develops a methodology in which to include the functional take on various case studies of apocalypse. Generally reserved for examinations of sacred text, the expanded methodology presented here will seek to not only look at an example of said text, but also a secular text, two examples of ‘sacred function’, and one ideological example of a secular function. This study is not about changing the makeup of the paradigm, nor is it an effort to disprove criteria, nor tack on additional items. The goal is to use the paradigm to identify a more well-rounded view of the genre, and then see what can be gleaned from those categories and their prototypes. In doing so, the definition of the apocalypse genre will be more comprehensive, and thus beneficial for any avenue of study to which it is applied.

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Theurer, Devin Morgan. "An Annunciation for a Secular Age: The Struggle for Faith in Mary Szybist's Incarnadine." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6729.

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Mary Szybist's 2013 collection, Incarnadine, uses the Annunciation as a foundational narrative through which to examine the implications of faith and having a relationship with God. Transforming this pivotal Biblical event through metaphor, intertextuality, and different points of view, Szybist showcases what Charles Taylor terms "fragilization" of faith, or the contestable and dubious position of believing among plurality of belief and nonbelief. By repeatedly shifting the framing of the Annunciation, Szybist creates several different visions of who God is. Rather than reinterpreting the Annunciation with a new dictum on exactly who God is and what it means to believe in Him, she plays with her own definition of God, allowing readers to do the same, and thus work through "fragilization" and find a faith that fits them.

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Smith, Cynthia Anne Miller. "Walter M. Miller, Jr.'s A canticle for Leibowitz a study of apocalyptic cycles, religion and science, religious ethics and secular ethics, sin and redemption, and myth and preternatural innocence /." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04272006-144149/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.
Title from title screen. Reiner Smolinski, committee chair; Victor A. Kramer, Christopher Kocela, committee members. Electronic text (79 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May 9, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-79).

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Bhattacharjee, Shuhita. "The ‘crisis’ cornucopia: anxieties of religion and ‘secularism’ in Victorian fiction of colony and gender, 1880-1900." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6370.

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My thesis problematizes the simplistically and widely accepted idea of a Victorian ‘crisis of faith’ or religious ‘decline.’ Most historical and critical narratives of nineteenth-century Britain portray the Victorian Age as a period marked by a crisis of faith and a gradual secularization through (Darwinian) scientific developments. My work questions this by examining the late-Victorian novels of colonial India and the British New Woman novels. My first chapter deals with Victorian popular fiction that presents the invasion of Victorian London by colonial idols. The idols, overdetermined as both Hindu and Theosophist in inspiration, force the British legal system to recognize the limits of its own materialist perceptions of reality, so that it finally arrives at a deeper understanding of spirituality. My second chapter deals with Victorian New Woman novels where I study how the British New Woman as a literary figure, despite apparent unbelief and disempowerment, embodies a deep-seated religious power that can be assumed only by a woman and that helps challenge the assumption of declining faith. My final chapter examines the shift of scene to India, where once again the English men and women inadvertently express their fears of British secularization in the context of their encounter with Oriental faiths, but ultimately arrive at a richer appreciation of the religious ‘impossible’ through this encounter with colonial ‘otherness.’

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Holznienkemper, Alex. "Philosophie und Literatur im post-sakularen Zeitalter - religiose Gewalt im zeitgenossischen Roman." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1388494870.

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Wagner, Tsipi. "Secular Understanding and Shattering the Myth of the American Dream: A Chronological Analysis of Changing Attitudes and Depictions of Murder within the Twentieth-Century American Literary Canon." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/72.

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Extreme violence, which often results in murder, is a prominent theme in the American literary canon; therefore, it deserves a wider and more focused lens in the study of Twentieth-Century American literature. Murder and entertainment seldom coexist in canonical literature, but the very nature of the murder, foreign to many readers, consequently piques one’s curiosity, and demands special attention. The literary texts I have chosen to discuss are four novels and three plays. They all belong to the genre known in literature as ‘a crime novel or play.’ The murderers are easily identified, and their criminal acts have been carried out successfully, often with much forethought and detail. My focus has been to conduct a psychological study to highlight the impetus for the crime. Three basic themes have captured my attention: 1- Is the murder a sin or a crime? What is the role of religion in the lives of the accused? 2- Is it right to blame society for such horrendous acts? 3- How is the American Dream portrayed in these works? The closer we get to the end of the Twentieth-Century, the harder it is to detect an affirmative ending in the works of literature I have explored. The insatiable appetite for material consumption overshadows the pursuit of happiness, or, maybe happiness is defined by material wealth. The critical question is: can American society read the warning written on the wall?

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Tiévant, Pascale. "Regards sur l'altérité : le corps et la norme dans les enluminures, en France, aux XIVe et XVe siècles." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOU20008.

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Notre recherche utilise comme source les enluminures des manuscrits de la littérature profane produites aux XIVe et XVe siècles dans les ateliers de France. Elle s’intéresse plus particulièrement aux représentations des êtres étranges qui foisonnent dans la littérature du Moyen âge, qu’elle soit proprement médiévale, le roman arthurien par exemple, ou qu’elle tire son inspiration de l’Antiquité pour les contes mythologiques ou les récits de voyage. Ces personnages s’ils appartiennent à des catégories diverses, comportent un degré d’humanité et d’imaginaire très variable, et mettent en évidence toute l’ambivalence de la nature humaine. Au travers de l’analyse d’un corpus extensif de ces images, nous souhaitons poser la question de la figuration du corps dès lors qu’il sort des normes : normes de mensuration (les géants et les nains), normes morphologiques (anomalies de parties du corps), hybridations et métamorphoses. Que représentent dans l’imaginaire médiéval ces êtres qui transgressent les règles par leur apparence et par l’ambiguïté de leur rapport au règne animal ?Notre recherche s’appuie nécessairement sur les textes des manuscrits et le rapport à l’image, en raison de leur évidente relation de réciprocité. Elle s’appuie également sur les conditions de production des enluminures et le public auquel elles s’adressent. Par cette approche nous tentons de repérer les fonctions de ces images de l’altérité, ainsi que leurs évolutions significatives ou les impasses auxquelles elles peuvent aboutir dans les modes de figuration, tout au long de la période étudiée
Our research is based on the illumination of manuscripts from the secular literature produced in French workshops in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It focuses more precisely on the representation of strange beings, which abound in literature in the Middle Ages, whether it is strictly medieval like the Arthurian novel for example, or whether it derives its inspiration from Antiquity in mythological tales or travel stories. Although these characters belong to different categories, they present a very variable degree of humanity and fantasy and point out all the ambivalence of the human nature. Through the analysis of an extensive corpus of those pictures, we wish to raise the question of the figuration of the body from the moment it differs from the norm : norms of size (giants and dwarves), morphological norms (abnormal parts of the body), hybridizations and metamorphoses. What do these beings that transgress rules by their appearance and by the ambiguity of their relation to the animal kingdom represent in the medieval cultural imagination?Our research is necessarily based on the texts of the manuscripts and the relation to the picture on account of their obvious relation of reciprocity. It also based on the conditions of production of illuminations and on the people they were addressed to. By this socio-cultural approach, we try to determine the functions of those pictures of alterity as well as their significant evolutions or the stalemates they can reach in the figurative modes, all along the period under study

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Smith, Cynthia M. "Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz: A Study of Apocalyptic Cycles, Religion and Science, Religious Ethics and Secular Ethics, Sin and Redemption, and Myth and Preternatural Innocence." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/10.

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Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a timeless story about apocalyptic cycles, conflicts and similarities between religion and science, religious ethics and secular ethics, sin and redemption, myth and preternatural innocence. Canticle is a very religious story about a monastery dedicated to preserving scientific knowledge from the time before nuclear war which devastated the world and reduced humanity to a pre-technological civilization. The Catholic Church and this monastery are portrayed as a bastion of civilization amidst barbarians and a light of faith amidst atheism. Unfortunately, humanity destroys the Earth once again, but Miller ends with two beacons of hope: a starship headed for the unknown to help humanity begin again and the preternaturally innocent Rachel who portends a future for similarly innocent human beings repopulating the Earth. Thus, faith ultimately triumphs over atheism even in the midst of almost total catastrophe.

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Beltran, Carlos José Beltrán. "“O CRISTO AFOGADO: UMA NÃO-CRISTOLOGIA” RELIGIÃO, LITERATURA E PÓS-COLONIALISMO." Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo, 2015. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1571.

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This dissertation seeks to deepen a crisis within theological liberation perspectives starting from postcolonial discourse. Liberation theology had promoted a profound revolution in third world theological studies since 1970. To continue this revolution we will read Gabriel Garcia Marquez “El ahogado más hermoso del mundo” (1968), analizing and assessing its cultural and political strategies. In order to accomplish this task we need to go beyond the secular/religious binary vision that divides the world into religious and non religious ideas/practices. We need a unified vision that comprehends the worldliness of those realities categorized as “religious” as well as those categorized as “non-religious”. Theology and Religious Studies, as the scientific discourse dealing with the economy of the exchange within world visions, practices and consciousness marked by a certain inherent mystery, have a fundamental roll in comprehending, evidencing, articulating and making available these cultural forces. The perception of existing symbols related to Jesus-Christ within this story gave us a path for the analyses, although we were not caught up within the disciplinary constraints implied in christological thinking. At the same time, there were no possibility of leaving untouched the imperial/colonial relation inherent to images and discourses on Jesus-Christ. We therefore build up a theoretical structure that could explicit the values, gestures and worldly horizons of GarcíaMárquez’s literary writing, being Christological or non Christological. We looked forward the destabilization of traditional frameworks of Theology and Religious Studies; destabilization of GarcíaMárquez writing as literature; and destabilization of the colonial/imperial geography which postulates the fictional realism of territories such us “Latin America”. We opened up a theoretical space that reads the story as a “non-christology”, displacing the disciplinary and classificatory imprisonment of the elements involved in the analysis. Critical works of Edward Said, Homi Bhabha and GayatrySpivak, as well as the critical works of Asian, African and Latin American feminist theologians shall enunciate the political emancipatory scenario that we will denominate theological secular criticism.
O objetivo dessa tese é aprofundar, a partir do discurso pós-colonial, uma crise na perspectiva teológica da libertação. Esta promoveu, na década de 1970, uma reviravolta nos estudos teológicos no terceiro mundo. Para tanto, leremos um conto de Gabriel García Márquez chamado “El ahogado más hermosodel mundo” (1968) analizando e avaliando as estratégias políticas e culturais ali inscritas. Para levar a frente tal avaliação é preciso ampliar o escopo de uma visão que divide o mundo em secular/religioso, ou em ideias/práticas religiosas e não religiosas, para dar passo a uma visão unificada que compreende a mundanalidade, tanto do que é catalogado como ‘religioso’ quanto do que se pretende ‘não religioso’. A teologia/ciências da religião, como discurso científico sobre a economia das trocas que lidam com visões, compreensões e práticas de mundo marcadas pelo reconhecimento do mistério que lhes é inerente, possuem um papel fundamental na compreensão, explicitação, articulação e disponibilização de tais forças culturais. A percepção de existirem elementos no conto que se relacionam com os símbolos sobre Jesus/Cristo nos ofereceu um vetor de análise; entretanto, não nos deixamos limitar pelos grilhões disciplinares que essa simbologia implica. Ao mesmo tempo, esse vínculo, compreendido desde a relação imperial/colonial inerente aos discursos e imagens sobre Jesus-Cristo, embora sem centralizar a análise, não poderia ficar intocado. Partimos para a construção de uma estrutura teórica que explicitasse os valores, gestos, e horizontes mundanos do conto, cristológicos e não-cristológicos, contribuindo assim para uma desestabilização dos quadros tradicionais a partir dos quais se concebem a teologia e as ciências da religião, a obra de García Márquez como literatura, e a geografia imperial/colonial que postula o realismo ficcional de territórios como “América Latina”. Abrimos, assim, um espaço de significação que lê o conto como uma “não-cristologia”, deslocando o aprisionamento disciplinar e classificatório dos elementos envolvidos na análise. O discurso crítico de Edward Said, Homi Bhabha e GayatriSpivak soma-se à prática teórica de teólogas críticas feministas da Ásia, da África e da América Latina para formular o cenário político emancipatório que denominaremos teologia crítica secular.

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Menardi, Ana Paula Seco. "A educação na literatura de viagem e na literatura jesuitica - seculos XVI e XVII." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/251657.

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Orientador: Jose Claudinei Lombardi
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Resumo: O presente trabalho trata sobre a educação na Literatura de Viagem e na Literatura Jesuítica, buscando trazer à tona o seu caráter ideológico. Entendemos por Literatura de Viagem o conjunto de obras, sejam elas escritas por colonizadores, aventureiros, comerciantes, naturalistas ou exploradores, que trazem informações e imagens que deram à Europa uma visão do Novo Mundo através de uma experiência própria proporcionada pela viagem. E por Literatura Jesuítica, os muitos escritos deixados pelos membros da Companhia de Jesus em diferentes formatos: cartas, sermões, narrativas, relatórios, tratados, informativos. Os relatos produzidos pelos viajantes e jesuítas estrangeiros que estiveram no Brasil ao longo dos séculos XVI e XVII são testemunhos fundamentais das viagens e dos contatos estabelecidos com os habitantes do Novo Mundo, sendo uma parte integrante do próprio quadro do processo de conquistas e colonização. Os europeus foram os primeiros a construírem um conhecimento referente à educação no Brasil, entendida tanto no sentido amplo: enquanto conhecimento e observação dos costumes e da vida social, civilidade, polidez, cortesia, cultura socialização e sociabilidade, como também no sentido mais restrito: como meio de adquirir formação e desenvolvimento físico, intelectual, religioso e moral, na sua forma institucionalizada, no sentido mesmo de instrução, de ensino, escolarização. A forma como viajantes e jesuítas estrangeiros, mais especificadamente europeus, observaram, interpretaram, registraram e construíram um conhecimento acerca da educação estão ligadas, direta e indiretamente, a uma visão de mundo socialmente condicionada, representando, portanto, a visão de mundo do branco ocidental civilizado e cristão. Os relatos dos viajantes e jesuítas estrangeiros são expressões ideológicas que refletem as concepções de colonização, sociedade e educação de seu tempo, servindo tanto aos propósitos da Coroa portuguesa como também da Igreja reformada. A questão que se colocou para este trabalho foi justamente como alguns viajantes e jesuítas que estiveram no Brasil nos séculos XVI e XVII e observaram a sociedade colonial brasileira construíram imagens, forjaram interpretaram a sociedade brasileira, articularam informações, fatos e idéias, elaboraram teorias, de forma a expressar uma concepção ideológica de sociedade, religião e educação. Ou seja, como construíram e reproduziram um conhecimento a respeito da educação no Brasil, através de suas obras, buscando desvendar o caráter ideológico desses escritos resultantes das viagens.
Abstract: The present work regards the Education in Travel Writing and Jesuit Literature, seeking to bring out its ideological nature. Travel Writing is all works written by colonizers, adventurers, traders, naturalists and explorers who have information and images that gave Europe a vision of the New World through an experience provided by the trip. And Jesuit literature, the many writings left by members of the Society of Jesus in different formats: letters, sermons, narratives, reports, treaties, information. The reports produced by the Jesuits and foreign travelers who visited Brazil during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are evidence of the fundamental travel and contacts established with the inhabitants of the New World, and is part of the very framework of the conquest and colonization. The Europeans were the first to build a knowledge related to education in Brazil, as understood in the broad sense: as knowledge and observation of manners and social life, civility, politeness, courtesy, culture, socialization and sociability, but also in the narrower sense: as a means to gain training and physical, intellectual, religious and moral, in its institutionalized form, in the same sense learning and acquisition of knowledge. The way that travelers and foreign Jesuits, more specifically the Europeans ones, observed, interpreted, recorded and built a knowledge of education are linked, directly and indirectly, to a worldview socially conditioned, and thus become the world view of Western White civilized and Christian. The accounts of foreign travelers and Jesuits are ideological expressions that reflect the views of colonization, society and education of his time, serving both the purposes of the Portuguese crown, but also of the Reformed Church. The question asked for this work was just as some travelers and missionaries who came to Brazil in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and found the Brazilian colonial society constructed images, forged interpreted the Brazilian society, articulated information, facts and ideas, developed theories of order to express an ideological conception of society, religion and education. That is, as constructed and reproduced knowledge about education in Brazil, through his works, trying to uncover the ideology of these writings of journeys.
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Alexander, Patrick Elliot. "Black Man Kneeling, Black Man Standing: Exploring the Interplay Between Secular and Sacred Spaces in Representations of Black Masculinity in Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine, James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, and Ernest J Gaines's A Lesso." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1146345025.

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Silliman, Daniel [Verfasser], and Jan [Akademischer Betreuer] Stievermann. "Fictions of Belief: Reading Evangelical Novels in a Secular Age / Daniel Silliman ; Betreuer: Jan Stievermann." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1198405988/34.

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Allouche-Chemla, Marie-Rose. "Etude de la réception de la littérature hébraïque en France : nature et enjeux culturels, économiques et politiques des œuvres de fiction en prose traduites en français depuis l'an 2000." Thesis, Paris 8, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA080046/document.

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Les traductions en français de la littérature israélienne ont nettement augmenté au cours des dernières décennies. Ce phénomène s'inscrit dans le cadre général de l'augmentation des échanges littéraires internationaux mais tient également à des raisons politiques, commerciales ou culturelles. Notre étude recense les œuvres de fiction en prose traduites en français entre 2000 et 2012 et établit des statistiques sur leur nombre, les auteurs les plus traduits, les maisons d’édition et les traducteurs impliqués dans cette importation. Elle précise le rôle des principaux acteurs de cette exportation/ importation : institutions gouvernementales israéliennes et françaises, agents littéraires, éditeurs et traducteurs et en analyse les enjeux politiques, économiques et culturels. Notre étude tente enfin de cerner la nature de la réception de ces œuvres dans les médias et le grand public. Nos conclusions s’appuient d’une part sur un large corpus d’œuvres littéraires israéliennes et d’articles de presse et d’autre part sur des entretiens ou réponses écrites d’écrivains, agents littéraires, éditeurs, traducteurs, directeurs de bibliothèques et lecteurs. Elles soulignent non seulement un changement quantitatif de cette réception de la littérature israélienne en France mais aussi une évolution en termes de choix de traduction qui tiennent à l’évolution de la littérature israélienne elle-Même et à la volonté de quelques personnes fortement impliquées dans cette exportation / importation. Si l’approche des médias français reste aujourd’hui, quoique dans une moindre mesure, orientée politiquement, le public de lecteurs est principalement sensible à ses qualités littéraires
There are been a significant increase in French translations of Israeli literature in recent decades. This phenomenon fits into the general framework of increased international literary exchange, but also due to political, commercial or cultural reasons. Our study identifies the works of prose fiction of Israeli literature translated into French between 2000 and 2012, and provides statistical data on the number of translations to Hebrew, on the most translated authors and on the publishers and translators involved in the import into France.It clarifies the role of the main actors involved in such export / import: Israeli and French governmental institutions, literary agents, editors and translators, and it analyses for each of them the importance of political, cultural and commercial issues.Lastly, our study attempts to understand how these works were accepted into France by the media and by the general public.Our conclusions are based on the one hand on a broad corpus of Israeli literary works and press articles and on the other hand on interviews or written responses of writers, literary agents, editors, translators, library directors and readers. They highlight not only a quantitative change in the acceptance of Israeli literature in France, but also a change in terms of choice of translation that reflect evolution of Israeli literature itself and the individual will of a few people much involved in such export / import. If the approach of the French media remains today, although to a lesser extent, politically oriented, the public of readers is primarily sensitive to its literary qualities

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Souza, Diógenes Marques Frazão de. "Horácio e os jogos seculares: tradição, religião e política no Carmen Saeculare." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2013. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/6245.

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This study consists in analyzing Horace s Carmen Saeculare, public poem created to become the official hymn of the Ludi Saeculares. The purpose of this work is to show how the Carmen Saeculare, poem with the status de religious hymn, can be, at same time, a political propaganda of Augustus, through cultural, mythical and religious aspects of roman society. We propose to analyze the poem, regarding theories that approaches, mainly, literature and its influence in Rome. In order to achieve a better comprehension of the text, we present an operational translation of the whole original text.
Neste trabalho realizo um estudo do Carmen Saeculare de Horácio, poema público criado para ser hino oficial dos Ludi Saeculares. O objetivo é mostrar como o Carmen Saeculare, poema que se encontra na categoria de hino religioso, se configura, ao mesmo tempo, em uma propaganda política de Júlio César Otaviano Augusto, através de elementos culturais, míticos e religiosos da sociedade romana. Propomos analisar o poema, considerando teorias que abordem, principalmente, literatura e sua influência na política de Roma. Para melhor entendimento do texto, apresentamos uma tradução operacional do texto original.

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Quadros, Jussara Menezes. "Estereotipias : literatura e edição no Brasil na primeira metade do seculo XIX (1837-18864)." [s.n.], 1993. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269167.

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Abstract: Not informed.
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Rodrigues, Eni Neves da Silva. "Impressões em preto e branco : historia da leitura em Mato Grosso na segunda metde do seculo XIX." [s.n.], 2008. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270039.

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Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: O Mato Grosso, a partir de 1870, iniciou um ciclo de grandes transformações nas áreas política, econômica, social e cultural motivadas, principalmente, pela abertura da navegação pelo rio Paraguai, colocando a província em conexão direta com as repúblicas platinas e com o litoral brasileiro. O presente estudo teve como intuito o rastreamento desta transformação cultural, especialmente no que se refere ao universo da leitura, ocorrida nos arredores dos anos 70 do século XIX. Tendo os jornais mato-grossenses daquela época como ponto de partida, foi constatada a presença de notícias sobre a existência de uma rede de associações culturais ligadas ao teatro e à literatura/leitura, de informações sobre a comercialização de livros em livrarias e sobre a atuação de casas-editoras nacionais e estrangeiras do Rio de Janeiro presentes em Mato Grosso. Foram encontrados também vários textos sobre teoria e crítica literárias, com especial atenção para duas obras de Visconde de Taunay: Inocência e Histórias brasileiras. A análise do material levantado resultou na escrita de parte relevante da história da leitura em Mato Grosso na segunda metade do século XIX
Abstract: The Mato Grosso, since 1870, has started a cycle of big changes in politics, economics, social and cultural areas, especially due to the opening of navigation through the Paraguay River, with direct connection with the Plate Republics and the coast of Brazil. The aim of this study is to find the register of these cultural modifications, especially about the reading universe, which has happened around 1870. It has been checked, based on ¿mato ¿grossenses¿ newspapers from that period of time, news about the existence of cultural associations connected to the theater and to literature/reading, as well as information about commercialization of books, at bookstores, and the action of Brazilian and foreigner publisher houses from Rio de Janeiro in Mato Grosso. Several texts about literary theory and criticism, especially Taunay¿s two books, Inocência and Histórias brasileiras, have been found. The analysis of this material resulted in the presentation of part of reading history in Mato Grosso, of the second part of the XIX century
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Guimarães, Helio de Seixas. "Os leitores de Machado de Assis : o romance machadino e o publico de literatura do seculo 19." [s.n.], 2001. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269923.

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Orientador: Berta Waldman
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Resumo: A interpelação do leitor é uma constante no romance machadiano. Figurado como entidade ficcional, o leitor ganha novos papéis e funções, softendo um processo de ftagmentação e dissolução no desenrolar da obra. Isso ocorre em simultaneidade com modificações profundas na percepção que os escritores oitocentistas tinham dos públicos leitores, o que se deve a mudanças no processo de produção e difusão cultural e também na disponibilização de informações mais precisas sobre o leitorado brasileiro e sobre o papel do romance na construção da nacionalidade. Essas modificações estão indicadas por dados empiricos e também por depoimentos dos principais escritores brasileiros oitocentistas, em que as noções positiva ou negativamente idealizadas a respeito do público de literatura cedem lugar à configuração do leitor e da comunicação literária como problema real e concreto. A partir da leitura e análise dos nove romances, examinados pelo ângulo específico da figuração do leitor, procura-se estabelecer conexões entre os binômios Machado de Assis/público e narradorlleitor e mostrar que, de recurso retórico importado de romances românticos europeus, a interpelação direta do leitor toma-se um recurso de composição. A tese mostra como o conhecimento do público contemporâneo à produção da obra de Machado de Assis - com suas limitações, gostos arraigados, hábitos de leitura etc.- serve como chave para se compreender a transformação do escritor dos primeiros romances no autor de Dom Casmurro e Memorial de Aires, entre outros
Abstract: The narrator's addressing the reader is a constant in Machado de Assis' novels. As a fictional entity, the reader acquires new roles and functions and undergoes a process of fragmentation and dissolution over the course of bis work. These transformations coincide with how writers of the 1800s radically changed their perception of the reading public, which was due to changes in the production process and cultural dissemination as well as the availability of more specific information on Brazilian readership and on the novel's role in the construction of nationality. These changes are shown by empirical data and by statements made by the major Brazilian writers of the 1800s, in which the positively or negatively idealized notions regarding the reading public give way to the formation of the reader and literary communication as a real and concrete problem. Through the reading and analysis of Machado's nine novels, examined from the specific angle of how the reader is shaped, this work aims to establish connections between the binomials Machado de Assis/reading public and narrator/reader and to show that the narrator's addressing the reader directly, a rhetorical device imported from the European Romantic novels, becomes a device for composing novels. The dissertation demonstrates how knowledge of the contemporary reading public of Machado de Assis' work with its limitations, deep-rooted tastes, reading habits etc. is key to understanding the transformation from the writer ofthe first novels into the master of Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and Dom Casmurro, among others
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Lopes, Silvana Fernandes. "A formação feminina na sociedade brasileira do seculo XIX : um exame de modelos veiculados pela literatura de ficção." [s.n.], 1997. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/253342.

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Orientador: Maria Elizabete Sampaio Prado Xavier
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo: Este trabalho procurou desvendar aspectos e características da concepção e da educação da mulher na sociedade brasileira no século XIX. Nosso estudo delimitou-se às últimas décadas do Império pois é nesse período que começam a ocorrer mudanças estruturais, que apontam para a modernização da sociedade brasileira. Novos valores ligados ao mercado passam a conviver com os valores mais tradicionais, em uma fase de avanço do capitalismo no país. Isso permite que apreendamos, a um só tempo, os antigos valores e costumes de uma sociedade do tipo "patriarcal", e aqueles que representariam, ainda que de forma limitada, a sua superação "moderna". Nesse mesmo período, no âmbito mais específico da História da Educação, a instituição escola começa a se organizar, desenvolvendo um perfil básico, elitista e dualista, que manteria pelo século XX. A partir da análise de alguns romances expressivos no século XIX, procuramos demonstrar que a literatura é fonte reveladora de concepções sociais predominantes sobre a mulher e que, ao mesmo tempo, desempenhava papel "pedagógico", entre as elites instruídas, como difusora de um modelo feminino
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Mestre em Educação

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Santana, Débora Betânia de. "Ironia: O tempero da crônica (estudo de textos cronísticos de Luís Fernando Verissimo)." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2006. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14795.

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The purpose of this research was to study the use of the chronicle in the history of Brazilian literature and also the different facets of irony in the chronicles of Luís Fernando Verissimo. The origin of chronicle and the theory about it as a literary genre is also studied. Besides, we discuss the opinion of some literature critics - Portella, Antonio Candido and Arrigucci - on this genre, showing how adpated it is to Brazil. We remark the hybrid form and irony in the chronicle as its main features. We referred to Socrates and some theorists such as Mucke and Hutcheon to understand the origins and the evolution of the use of irony in literature. Luís Fernando Veríssimo s chronicles were used in this study because he is a contemporary chronicist who makes use of ironic language to portray modern society with its ambiguity and indetermination
O objetivo deste trabalho foi estudar a função da crônica na história da literatura brasileira e também as diferentes faces da ironia presentes nos textos cronísticos de Luís Fernando Verissimo. Estudamos a origem e a teorização do gênero crônica. Exploramos, ainda, a opinião de alguns críticos literários Portella, Antonio Candido, Arrigucci sobre este gênero, mostrando como ele está bem adaptado ao Brasil. Ressaltamos a hibridização e a ironia como suas principais características. Recorremos a Sócrates e alguns teóricos, como Mucke, Hutcheon, para entender as origens e a evolução do uso da ironia na literatura. O escritor Luís Fernando Verissimo serviu de corpus para a pesquisa por ser um cronista contemporâneo, que utiliza uma linguagem irônica para retratar a sociedade moderna com suas ambigüidades e indeterminações

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Morato, Fernando. "Um mestre na periferia da Arcadia: a obra poetica de Manuel Inacio da Silva Alvarenga no contexto do Imperio portugues do seculo XVIII." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1562628156649824.

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Martínez, Sánchez José. "Francisco de Sales como escritor secular. Alcance de una lectura de la edición princeps de la Introducción a la vida devota desde la filosofía del diálogo." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/50026.

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Pereira, Leonardo Affonso de Miranda 1968. "O carnaval das letras : os literatos e as historias da folia carioca nas ultimas decadas do seculo XIX." [s.n.], 1993. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/281191.

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Orientador : Maria Clementina Pereira Cunha
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Sales, Mariana Osue Ide. "Imagens do mar a partir dos textos galego-portugueses : seculos XIII a XV." [s.n.], 2003. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279174.

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Orientador: Paulo Celso Miceli
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Resumo: Nesta pesquisa buscamos explorar algumas imagens do mar em textos galego-portugueses entre os séculos XIII e XV, especificamente em algumas cantigas d'amigo - as barcarolas ou marinhas -e em textos de caráter hagiográfico e moralizante. Pretendemos confrontar essas imagens socialmente compartilhadas com parte considerável da bistoriografia sobre a Era dos Descobrimentos portugueses que afmna que Portugal, desde a Idade Média, manifestava uma "vocação" marítima. Nossa intenção, com isso, foi questionar e desnaturalizar a idéia do destino marítimo
Abstract: We tried to study some images of the sea in galician-portugueses textes between the XIIIth and XVth centuries; some cantigas d'amigo, the barcarolas or marinhas and a few textes of moral sense and hagiographal caracter. Our aim was to confront those images socially shared with considerable part of the bistoriography about the portuguese Age of Discoveries that assures that Portugal, since Middle Ages, has manifest a maritime "vocation". Our intention was to question the idea of the maritime destiny
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Silva, Rosane Cordeiro da. "A Poesia como arma politica: o satirico na Desterro do seculo XIX." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1995. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/76225.

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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão
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Este estudo objetiva efetuar o resgate de três poemas satíricos do século passado na antiga Desterro: Assembléia das Aves, Pomada Taunay (Boletim-Retrato), Montenegreida. Anterior ao resgate, apresentam-se fatos relacionados à história, à imprensa e à literatura da época, bem como caricaturas, que ilustram o texto e situam o leitor nesse período, coletadas dos jornais Matraca e O Moleque. O resgate partiu da atualização do poema Assembléia das Aves, publicado em 1847 e reimpresso em edição fac similar em 1921. Pomada Taunay e Montenegreida foram transcritos e atualizados do jornal A Regeneração (1884-1885).

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Bassi, Cristina Mantovani. "Joaquim Manoel de Macedo : o leitor e a leitura no seculo XIX." [s.n.], 1993. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269667.

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Orientador: Marisa Lajolo
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Não tem resumo na obra impressa. Base IEL resumo: A partir da pesquisa de textos críticos e histórias da literatura a respeito de Joaquim Manoel de Macedo, este trabalho procura delinear um possível perfil do leitor do século XIX. Capítulo I - papel, função e posição do escritor brasileiro em meados do séc. XIX a partir de trechos dos discursos proferidos por Macedo Instituto Histórico e Geográfico; Capítulo II - levantamento do que dizem as histórias da literatura sobre o autor; Capítulo III - configuração das estratégias de leitura sugeridas pelos romances e Capítulo IV - Estudo comparativo de A Moreninha e Rosa.
Abstract: Not informed.
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Lima, Alexandre. "A literatura e o corpo na obra de Araripe Junior : um estudo sobre a relação entre insanidade e a atividade literaria no final do seculo XIX." [s.n.], 2004. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269994.

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Orientador: Francisco Foot Hardman
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Harris-Birtill, Rosemary. "Mitchell's mandalas : mapping David Mitchell's textual universe." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12255.

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This study uses the Tibetan mandala, a Buddhist meditation aid and sacred artform, as a secular critical model by which to analyse the complete fictions of author David Mitchell. Discussing his novels, short stories and libretti, this study maps the author's fictions as an interconnected world-system whose re-evaluation of secular belief in galvanising compassionate ethical action is revealed by a critical comparison with the mandala's methods of world-building. Using the mandala as an interpretive tool to critique the author's Buddhist influences, this thesis reads the mandala as a metaphysical map, a fitting medium for mapping the author's ethical worldview. The introduction evaluates critical structures already suggested to describe the author's worlds, and introduces the mandala as an alternative which more fully addresses Mitchell's fictional terrain. Chapter I investigates the mandala's cartographic properties, mapping Mitchell's short stories as integral islandic narratives within his fictional world which, combined, re-evaluate the role of secular belief in galvanising positive ethical action. Chapter II discusses the Tibetan sand mandala in diaspora as a form of performance when created for unfamiliar audiences, reading its cross-cultural deployment in parallel with the regenerative approaches to tragedy in the author's libretti Wake and Sunken Garden. Chapter III identifies Mitchell's use of reincarnation as a form of non-linear temporality that advocates future-facing ethical action in the face of humanitarian crises, reading the reincarnated Marinus as a form of secular bodhisattva. Chapter IV deconstructs the mandala to address its theoretical limitations, identifying the panopticon as its sinister counterpart, and analysing its effects in number9dream. Chapter V shifts this study's use of the mandala from interpretive tool to emerging category, identifying the transferrable traits that form the emerging category of mandalic literature within other post-secular contemporary fictions, discussing works by Michael Ondaatje, Ali Smith, Yann Martel, Will Self, and Margaret Atwood.

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Sousa, Antonio Marcos Cabral. "Alencar: A Nação em Cartas." http://www.teses.ufc.br:, 2010. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/3433.

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SOUSA, Antonio Marcos Cabral. Alencar: a nação em cartas. 2010. 124f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Literatura, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, Fortaleza-CE, 2010.
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This study makes a reading of critical studies of theory and literary criticism that José de Alencar wrote especially about for his work of fiction, with the following purposes: to demonstrate the technical-literary knowlegde of the Ceara writer on the construction of his fiction as a realization of a project of literary nationalism and examine the relationship between his writings about literature and his own work of literary creation. To this end we established a cut on the studies literary writings by Alencar, and was chosen the following texts corpus for this research: Cartas à Confederação dos Tamoios, Cartas de Erasmo, “Como e porque sou romancista”, “Bênção paterna” and “Carta ao Dr. Jaguaribe”. The analysis of this corpus allowed us to evaluate the literary knowlegde of the author and his nationalist ideas, as well as possible to prove the intimate relationship between the texts that make up the corpus and the work of creation alencariana alluded to.
Esta pesquisa efetua uma leitura de textos críticos que José de Alencar escreveu, sobretudo, em relação a sua obra de ficção, com os objetivos de demonstrar os conhecimentos técnico-literários do escritor cearense sobre a construção de sua obra ficcional como realização de um projeto de criação literária da nação e de analisar a relação desses escritos com sua própria obra de ficção literária. Para esse fim foi estabelecido um recorte no conjunto de textos críticos escritos por Alencar, tendo sido escolhidos os seguintes textos que se constituem como cartas abertas e paratextos: Cartas à Confederação dos Tamoios, Cartas de Erasmo, Como e porque sou romancista, “Bênção paterna”, “Carta ao Dr. Jaguaribe”. A análise desse corpus permitiu avaliar o conhecimento literário do autor e seu ideário nacionalista, assim como possibilitou comprovar a íntima relação existente entre os textos que compõem o corpus e a obra de criação alencariana.

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Sanchez, Edney Christian Thome. "Revista do Instituto Historico e Geografico Brasileiro : um periodico na cidade letrada brasileira do seculo XIX." [s.n.], 2003. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270124.

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Orientador: Marisa Philbert Lajolo, Nelson Schapochnik
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

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Schreiner, Michelle. "Jules Michelet e a historia que ressuscita e da vida aos homens : uma leitura da emergencia do ¿povo¿ no cenario historiografico frances da primeira metade do seculo XIX." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/279872.

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Orientador: Maria Stella Martins Bresciani
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: Para Jules Michelet, alguns literatos, como Honoré de Balzac, Eugène Sue e George Sand, caracterizam o ¿povo¿ de forma degradante, diferindo de uma literatura anterior, de fins do século XVIII e início do XIX, que devia se afirmar como veículo de instrução moral ou de ¿pedagogia¿ do cidadão. Nesse sentido, busco recuperar o propósito do historiador ao publicar Le Peuple, em 1846, e Histoire de la Révolution française, de 1847 a 1853, como contraponto à literatura do período que, segundo ele, oferecia uma falsa imagem da nação francesa ao enfatizar sobretudo os defeitos e torpezas de seu povo. A propósito da questão da emergência do ¿povo¿ no cenário historiográfico francês da primeira metade do século XIX, levanto a hipótese de que a criação das obras de Michelet em contraposição à literatura em voga no seu tempo, insere-se num contexto maior de extensão da função ¿pedagógica¿ de formação do povo, atribuída até então à Literatura, para o âmbito da História
Abstract: For Jules Michelet, some literary writers, just as Honoré de Balzac, Eugène Sue and George Sand, characterize ¿the people¿ in a degraded way, unlike a previous literature (at the turn of the 18th and in early 19th century) that was understood as an instrument of education of the people. In such case, I search to recover the purpose of the historian when he publishes Le Peuple, in 1846, and Histoire de la Révolution française, from 1847 to 1853, to oppose the literature of the period that, according to him, used to offer a false image of the French nation when it emphasizes all of faults and bad habits of its people. About the emergency of ¿people¿ in the French historical scenery in the first half of the nineteenth century, I defend that the Michelet¿s works creation, in opposition to the literary writers of the period, is inserted in a larger context of extension of the ¿pedagogic¿ function of people's formation, attributed until then to the Literature for the ambit of the History
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Politica, Memoria e Cidade
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