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Este trabalho analisa a traduÃÃo do romance Vidas secas (1938), de Graciliano Ramos, para o cinema, por Nelson Pereira dos Santos, em 1963, com Ãnfase na construÃÃo da personagem sinha VitÃria. O objetivo principal à verificar as alternativas estÃticas do cineasta em relaÃÃo à personagem, levando em consideraÃÃo a sua tendÃncia em privilegiar e dar mais espaÃo a personagens femininas em seus filmes. Isso se reflete principalmente em adaptaÃÃes literÃrias realizadas pelo diretor, em que se percebe as suas intervenÃÃes, de modo a tornar as mulheres de suas obras mais fortes e ativas dentro do enredo. A fim de corroborar esta hipÃtese, fizemos uma comparaÃÃo com outras obras do cineasta, como, por exemplo, as adaptaÃÃes de contos de Machado de Assis. AtravÃs da anÃlise de excertos do livro e sequÃncias do filme, percebemos que, apesar de em ambos os textos sinha VitÃria ter grande importÃncia na narrativa, à no cinema que ela mais se destaca. Os resultados mostram que, no aspecto geral da produÃÃo, as opÃÃes estÃticas utilizadas por Nelson Pereira dos Santos para traduzir a obra escrita apresentam-se por meio de estratÃgias, tais como poucas linhas de diÃlogo e traduÃÃo criativa do fluxo de consciÃncia, atravÃs de mecanismos prÃprios do cinema, de modo a transmutar o universo literÃrio do livro para as telas. Os principais teÃricos utilizados para dar embasamento ao estudo sÃo: Stam (2008), Hutcheon (2011) e Lefevere (2007), para a abordagem de traduÃÃo e adaptaÃÃo; Salem (1996), Cousins (2013), Aumont (1995), Gay (2009) e Gomes (2005), para as questÃes de cinema; e Candido (2006), Bosi (1998), Moraes (2012), Brunacci (2008), Bakhtin (1990), Araujo (2008) e MagalhÃes (2000), como base para os assuntos de literatura.

This essay examines the love affair between the two main characters of Rut Hillarp’s novel Sindhia. It draws attention to the schism between the Surrealist version of love as an extatic-religious fusion of the sexes – that in a way marks the relationship – and the yet remarkable coolness between the two lovers.

With the theories of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, I will show how the man and the woman project their unrealistic individual fantasies on each other, thus rendering impossible the Surrealist Meeting, with its road to an absolute reality. The Surrealist "l’amour fou", I will argue, is trapped in the ritualized "l’amor interruptus"; a lacanian term for a certain kind of love that wishes to conceal the fact that desire will never find its object. It does so by pretending that the object would be found if only love had been consummated (thus the reason love is never consummated, since, as Lacan puts it, the object, or the Thing, is never to be found).

I will, in brief, argue that the love affair depicted in the novel in different ways tries to deal with the “lack-of-being” that marks the subject according to Lacan; the absolute distance to the desirable Thing.

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This study was focused in the work Vidas Secas (2006), and the object of our research is the character Sinha Vitória. Our proposal seeks, in a way, supply in the fortune criticism of the novel, the absence of studies that bring into focus the feminine character in greater depth, to open a new perspective on reflexive Sinha Vitória and her transforming function in the course of the narrative. For that, we starting with these questions: how can we say that Sinha Vitória is the one who lives the internal world of the other characters, leading and giving force to them? In what way her projective look and her progressive language acquisition (starting at guttural sounds to a real articulated speech) are the responsables for her capacity in lead all the family? What is the real meaning of this feminine character in Vidas Secas? So, our hypothesis is that Sinha Vitória is structured under a principle in which their dialogical self awareness is defined by otherness, dialog with its own conscience and the other characters, especially with Fabiano; and that is she who provides in the work a liberating action of the cycle of drought, by means of self awareness founded on two pillars: the eye projective-imaginative and speech, whose transformation of guttural sounds until the speech articulated. This feminine character is, in our point of view, the strengh who moves this research, whose purpose is to understand the roots of a character built under the principle dialogical that is founded on the "look" and the "say". The theoretical foundations focused on several conceptions about the look contained in the work O Olhar (1998), organized by Adauto Novaes, and in Bakhtin´s theories about the dialogism and indirect free speech, specially in his works Marxismo e Filosofia da Linguagem (1999) and Questões de Literatura e de Estética (1998). This study presents Sinha Vitória´s projective look, whose strengh is able to make, in the speech, other new dialogical spaces
O estudo realizado centrou-se na obra Vidas Secas (2006), tendo por objeto de investigação a personagem Sinha Vitória. Nossa proposta busca, em parte, suprir na fortuna crítica do romance, a ausência de estudos que foquem a personagem feminina com maior profundidade, de modo a abrir uma nova perspectiva reflexiva sobre Sinha Vitória e sua função transformadora no decorrer da narrativa. Para isso, nos pautamos nos questionamentos: em que medida Sinha Vitória pode ser vista como aquela que habita o mundo interior das outras personagens e como força impulsionadora? De que modo seu olhar projetivo e a progressão de sua linguagem (que vai dos sons guturais à fala articulada) são os responsáveis pelo preenchimento dos espaços invisíveis e a tornam o guia do núcleo familiar? Qual é o significado profundo dessa personagem feminina em Vidas Secas? Como hipótese temos que: - a personagem Sinha Vitória está estruturada sob um princípio dialógico no qual sua autoconsciência se define pela alteridade, pelo diálogo com sua própria consciência e a das demais personagens, especialmente com a de Fabiano; é ela que confere a Visas Secas uma ação libertadora do ciclo da seca por meio da autoconsciência alicerçada em dois pilares: o do olhar projetivo-imaginativo e o do discurso, cuja transformação se faz dos grunhidos inarticulados até a fala articulada. Esta figura feminina é, portanto, a força que move essa pesquisa cuja finalidade é compreender as raízes de uma personagem edificada sob o princípio dialógico que se funda sobre o olhar e o dizer . Os fundamentos teóricos se centraram em diversas concepções sobre o olhar contidas no livro O Olhar (1998), organizado por Adauto Novaes e nas teorias bakhtinianas sobre o dialogismo e o discurso indireto livre, abordadas nas diversas obras do autor, sobretudo nos livros Marxismo e Filosofia da Linguagem (1999) e Questões de Literatura e de Estética (1998). A análise aponta, portanto, o olhar projetivo de Sinha Vitória, cuja força simbólica é capaz de criar, no discurso, novos espaços dialógicos

For a literary critic preparing a scholarly edition of a text like this within an epistème that disparages the theory underpinning it for being tainted with the gestural idealism of 1968 and the neon-glare of 1980s high postmodernism, the crucial question is how to reconcile the commitment to authenticity ingrained in historicist textual studies (perhaps the critic’s only viable disciplinary inheritance) with the author’s implicit antagonism to any such quietist approach. The encounter inevitably becomes a battle of wills. In the course of the current project, this theoretical struggle escalates exponentially as doubts concerning the authenticity (and indeed the existence) of both writer and manuscript are multiplied. If a thesis can be retrospectively extrapolated from this project, it is the argument that fiction is demonstrably a tractable forum for research in the Arts and Social Sciences: all the more tractable for its anti-authenticity. The critic’s loss is the novelist’s gain. Specifically, in this case, the faithful historian of late twentieth century literatures, languages and cultures can solve the key dilemma of the subject by working under the auspices of Creative Writing. Only in this way can justice be done to the most cogent intellectual trend of the posmodern period (perhaps its defining feature): one that revelled in its own pluralities, ambiguities and contradictions, and resisted all the unifying, teleological models of ‘history’ that had been implicated in the century’s terrible ‘final solutions’. In other words, only fiction can tell the history of a culture that rejects that history. If this means condoning forgery… so be it.

This thesis is a study of representations of disability in a selection of Anglophone Indian literature written between 1981 and 2006. In this thesis, I argue that, in fiction by Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Indra Sinha, and Firdaus Kanga, disability often takes on positive symbolic value as it represents the potential for the postcolonial polis to survive and thrive, but that the ultimate death or medical normalisation of disabled characters in many of these narratives is tied to a loss of political optimism. While these texts in many instances disturb norms surrounding able-bodiedness and disability, they often ultimately narrate a pessimistic conformity to scripts of normalization, and in so doing, map the unjust triumph of a prescriptive national or international politics onto a prescriptive politics of the body. As disability is eliminated, so is the potential for resistance to latent colonial or hegemonic forms. On the other hand, those fictions that narrate a sustainable disabled presence suggest the potential for the community or nation to emerge from oppressive social structures unscathed. I focus on applying literary disability scholarship to Indian novels which demand scrutiny through a disability studies lens, given their dependence upon the disabled body as a metaphoric object and the continuities in their disability representation and the representation of history. While the focus of my work is upon the nuances of disability representation as it is used to parallel the rise (and sometimes fall) of political optimism in these examples of Anglophone Indian literature, I also read toward an understanding of how the postcolonial perspective of these fictions may inflect and complicate disability representations, and investigate Western notions of normalcy as they are represented as intruding upon this literature and as disciplining the body in these texts. This disciplining is further explored through an ancillary reading of how medical apparatus and infrastructure, such as hospitals, ambulances, and especially doctors, are represented in this group of novels, as it is often in conjunction with the medical establishment that disabled characters are subjected to (neo) colonial violence. In the first chapter, which takes the form of a critical introduction, I discuss the terms of my argument within the development of disability studies, and position myself within the debates and concerns of literary disability studies in particular. I consider the antecedents and development of what is now called the cultural model of disability, and discuss how literary disability scholarship, which began its development with a focus on Western texts and contexts, has begun to extend its range of inquiry to become global in scope. I consider examples of the interplay of contemporary Indian history with biopolitical ideals and the paradigm of normalcy as it has been articulated by Lennard Davis and his intellectual predecessors including Canguillheim and Foucault. In the second chapter, which is entitled "The Medical and the Monstrous: Disability in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Shame, and The Moor's Last Sigh," I consider how the disabled body is created as an object of competition in an ideological agon between a violent, globalized modernity and a sometimes-idealized fictive past. While Rushdie often represents the disabled body in a very simplified and rather bigoted register, he also to some extent engages with the more complex potentialities of disability to represent the failure of the state. The normalizing perpetration of a Westernized medical apparatus against disabled people becomes the proof and of political disintegration and the dissolution of hope for the emergent nation, whether in Rushdie's fictional version of India or Pakistan. In the third chapter, "Disability and the Realization of Metaphor in Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long Journey and A Fine Balance," I consider Rohinton Mistry's disability representations in relation to his engagement with the tradition of European realism. While Mistry attempts to re-locate the normal type articulated by the European novel, and subverts the conventions of European fiction even as he employs them, he still depends upon a largely uncontested tradition of disability representation. While he re-locates the norm in many demographic respects, he does not fully manage to rescue disability from an ancillary and symbolic role in the fiction. Mistry uses disabled characters symbolically to imagine political upheaval from a disadvantaged and sometimes from a subaltern position, creating in disabled characters their symbolic correlates. In my fourth chapter, "Collective Disability and the Dis-located Norm in Indra Sinha's Animal's People," I consider the ways in which this novel effaces paradigms of normalcy by imagining an environment in which disability is the unifying commonality of community life. While Mistry and Rushdie ultimately write disability as narrative anomaly in the ways described by Mitchell and Snyder, Sinha inverts the paradigm of the anomalous body in his fictional representation of the Bhopal disaster. The failure of the Indian state to protect its citizenry results in collective disability identification, while those able-bodied individuals who might be treated as normal in another fiction become suspicious outsiders. In my fifth chapter, "Unaccommodating Fictions: Disability, Authorship, and the Politics of Failure in Firdaus Kanga's Trying to Grow," I consider the ways in which gay, disabled, Parsi writer Firdaus Kanga represents failure and dependency as character weakness. Kanga validates neoliberal competition by re-imagining the potential for economic and social attainment as properties of mind at the exclusion of the body, and, in so doing, inaugurates an adaption of paradigms of normalcy. Kanga's imaginary valorises the economically competitive individual, but simply removes the constraint of bodily normalcy from this ideal marketable man. For Kanga, economic freedom from parental, societal, or governmental intervention is edifying, as masculinity is achieved through uninhibited competition. In my conclusion, "Good Doctors and Bad Doctors in Rushdie, Mistry, Sinha, and Kanga," I consider the representation of the clinic and of physicians in addition to the representation of disabled people in the novels included in this thesis. Doctors and medical apparatus become symbolic correlates for different political impositions and political strategies, often representing the abuses and failures of government or of public policy. I will frame my discussion within Foucault's concept of the clinic, and will consider the ways in which traditional and Western medicine take on symbolic meaning in these fictions of India.

Este trabalho visa, inspirado na obra-prima de Antonio Candido, Formação da literatura brasileira: momentos decisivos, 1750-1880, a traçar um arco da formação da canção popular urbana no Brasil, sempre considerando as instâncias do autor, do público e da obra como indícios de um sistema cancional. Escolhi como balizas, para investigar a existência e a força desses indícios, as obras de quatro importantes cancionistas, quais sejam, Catulo da Paixão Cearense, Donga, Sinhô e Noel Rosa. Para tal, reuni dados de seus contextos, para compreender como se comportava da noção de autor no campo da canção popular, perscrutei as formas de divulgação e as tecnologias existentes à época, para mensurar a quantidade de público que estaria no horizonte de suas criações, e, por meio do modelo de análise e das proposições de Luiz Tatit, examinei se a linguagem da canção popular urbana já estava estabilizada e poderia servir de moeda comum e liame entre autores e público.
This work aims, inspired by the Antonio Candido’s masterpiece, Formação da literatura brasileira: momentos decisivos, 1750-1880, to drawn an arc of urban popular song formation in Brazil, always considering the instances of author, audience and work of art as evidences of an urban song system. I´ve chose as landmarks, to investigate the existence and the power of these evidences, the works of four important songwriters, namely, Catulo da Paixão Cearense, Donga, Sinhô and Noel Rosa. For this, I´ve studied their contexts to comprehend how the authorship notion behaved in the popular song field, I´ve inquired about the ways of divulgation and technologies existents at that time to measure how much audience they could count for their creations and, by the Luiz Tatit’s analysis model and propositions, I´ve examined if the popular song language was stabilized and may be used how currency exchanged and bond between authors and audience.

Edward Whittemore (1933-1995) is a now almost unknown American writer. This project seeks to bring Edward Whittemore to light. Though he has a simple voice and a subtle but vast knowledge of history, he writes with a fantastic imagination and dramatizes a timely but tragic message. In “Part One” of Sinai Tapestry, Whittemore explores the complex relationship between Chaos and Order through the extravagant lives of his major characters, Plantagenet Strongbow and Skanderbeg Wallenstein. Through a biography of Whittemore’s life and a close analysis of Strongbow’s and Wallenstein’s relationship, I will highlight Whittemore’s depth as an author and thinker, make evident his availability to literary analysis and critical theory, and argue the presence of Whittemore’s own ideology regarding the systems that govern human experience.

Investigação da identidade cultural na peça teatral Sinhá Moça chorou (1940-1953), do escritor sul-riograndense Ernani Fornari. Discussão da função político-ideológica do texto teatral, demonstrando a relação simbólica entre a Revolução Farroupilha (1835-1845) e o Estado Novo (1937-1945). Trata-se de uma pesquisa interdisciplinar que transita entre a Literatura, a História e a Sociologia, e que se insere no contexto dos estudos de cultura regional.
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Investigation of the cultural identity in the theatrical play Sinhá Moça chorou (1940-1953) by Ernani Fornari, writer from Rio Grande do Sul. Discussion of the ideology and the political function of the theatrical text, demonstrating the symbolic relation between the Farroupilha Revolution (1835-1845) and the Estado Novo (1937-1945). Interdisciplinary discussion which covers Literature, History and Sociology, and which is inserted in the context of the studies of regional culture.

OLIVEIRA, Ailton Monteiro de. A construção da personagem sinha Vitória na tradução de Vidas secas para as telas. 2013. 114f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Fortaleza (CE), 2013.
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Este trabalho analisa a tradução do romance Vidas secas (1938), de Graciliano Ramos, para o cinema, por Nelson Pereira dos Santos, em 1963, com ênfase na construção da personagem sinha Vitória. O objetivo principal é verificar as alternativas estéticas do cineasta em relação à personagem, levando em consideração a sua tendência em privilegiar e dar mais espaço a personagens femininas em seus filmes. Isso se reflete principalmente em adaptações literárias realizadas pelo diretor, em que se percebe as suas intervenções, de modo a tornar as mulheres de suas obras mais fortes e ativas dentro do enredo. A fim de corroborar esta hipótese, fizemos uma comparação com outras obras do cineasta, como, por exemplo, as adaptações de contos de Machado de Assis. Através da análise de excertos do livro e sequências do filme, percebemos que, apesar de em ambos os textos sinha Vitória ter grande importância na narrativa, é no cinema que ela mais se destaca. Os resultados mostram que, no aspecto geral da produção, as opções estéticas utilizadas por Nelson Pereira dos Santos para traduzir a obra escrita apresentam-se por meio de estratégias, tais como poucas linhas de diálogo e tradução criativa do fluxo de consciência, através de mecanismos próprios do cinema, de modo a transmutar o universo literário do livro para as telas. Os principais teóricos utilizados para dar embasamento ao estudo são: Stam (2008), Hutcheon (2011) e Lefevere (2007), para a abordagem de tradução e adaptação; Salem (1996), Cousins (2013), Aumont (1995), Gay (2009) e Gomes (2005), para as questões de cinema; e Candido (2006), Bosi (1998), Moraes (2012), Brunacci (2008), Bakhtin (1990), Araujo (2008) e Magalhães (2000), como base para os assuntos de literatura.

I investigate the spoken dialogue of four Indian novels in English: Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable (1935), Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan (1956), Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayan's The World of Nagaraj (1990), and Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters (2002). Roger Fowler has said that literature, as a form of discourse, articulates ideology; it is through linguistic criticism (combination of literary criticism and linguistic analyses) that the ideologies in a literary text are uncovered. Shobhana Chelliah in her study of Indian novels in English concludes that the authors use Indian English (IndE) as a device to characterize buffoons and villains. Drawing upon Fowler's and Chelliah's framework, my investigation employs linguistic criticism of the four novels to expose the ideologies reflected in the use of fictionalized English in the Indian context. A quantitative inquiry based on thirty-five IndE features reveals that the authors appropriate these features, either to a greater or lesser degree, to almost all their characters, suggesting that IndE functions as the mainstream variety in these novels and creating an illusion that the authors are merely representing the characters' unique Indian worldviews. But within this dialect range, the appropriation of higher percentages of IndE features to specific characters or groups of characters reveal the authors' manipulation of IndE as a counter-realist and ideological device to portray deviant and defective characters. This subordinating of IndE as a substandard variety of English functions as the dominant ideology in my investigation of the four novels. Nevertheless, I also uncover the appropriation of a higher percentage of IndE features to foreground the masculinity of specific characters and to heighten the quintessentially traditional values of the older Brahmin generation, which justifies a contesting ideology about IndE that elevates it as the prestigious variety, not an aberration. Using an approach which combines literary criticism with linguistic analysis, I map and recommend a multidisciplinary methodology, which allows for a reevaluation of fictionalized IndE speech that goes beyond impressionistic analyses.

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of German and Slavic Languages, 2004.
"August 2004." Title taken from PDF title screen (viewed September 11, 2007). Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-163).

This work is concerned with the word berith (covenant) in the historical and wisdom books of the Old Testament, and continues research done in previous articles on berith in the Pentateuch and the prophetic literature. The main aim is to discuss in some detail the texts containing the word berith in the historical and wisdom books of the Old Testament and to examine the meaning and use of the word in these writings. The interrelationships between berith and other words in the contexts in which they appear are explored and explained. Finally, berith in the historical and wisdom books usually refers to one of the covenants of the Pentateuch, and which of these is applicable in each case will also be discussed.
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M.Th. (Old Testament)