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The thesis attempts to describe the life and work of Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic through an analysis of his lifestyle, i.e. the way in which he organized, embellished and individualized his life. Karásek sought to shape his existence as an artwork, in accordance with the inspirational concepts of the contemporary and antecedent thinkers and artists (e.g. Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater and Maurice Maeterlinck). He accented its integrity and orientation towards beauty. In accord with his aesthetic vision (and his literary work) Karásek conditioned beauty with sadness and pain and attempted to emphasize melancholic beauty, unity in disunion. For that purpose he would accentuate particularly the disintegrative, critical elements, evoking the impression of unsuccessful, self-destructive endeavor to reach life's high ideal. This corresponded with his tragic concept of the artist immolating himself for his Art. I approach Karásek's lifestyle through the use of the terms youth and (eternal) boyhood, which Karásek himself employed as symbols of mournfully beautiful existence in his literary work. I define a youth - in accordance with the romantic and symbolist interpretation - as a person at odds with reality (contemporary truths, customs and rules), a solitary, unique being, trying to construct a new world - only...

Poète picard du début du XIIIe siècle, le Reclus de Molliens est l’auteur à de deux textes à teneur morale, religieuse et savante, qui circulent sous les titres de Miserere et Carité. Même si ces deux textes édifiants connaissent une diffusion considérable au Moyen Âge et qu’ils rencontrent une réception plus que favorable auprès de plusieurs générations de lecteurs et d’auteurs anciens, ils ont largement été délaissés, voire négligés par la critique moderne, qui ne leur a accordé aucune monographie depuis la fin du XIXe siècle (Van Hamel, 1885). Si la présente thèse vise en partie à combler cette lacune par le moyen d’une mise à jour des données de base quant à la diffusion et au legs littéraire du Reclus de Molliens, elle propose avant tout une réflexion d’ordre poétique, qui engage de façon active le statut de canon littéraire de l’œuvre. À titre de textes à succès – qui font acte de modèle et d’étalon poétique aux yeux d’un vaste public –, Miserere et Carité paraissent tout désignés pour servir de guide et de point de repère poétique permettant de repenser la vitalité et les codes de la poésie édifiante, à l’aune des critères de jugement et des pratiques de lecture concrètes du public médiéval. La documentation historique liée au Reclus de Molliens révèle que le système de versification adopté dans Miserere et Carité, soit la strophe d’Hélinand (8aabaabbbabba), joue un rôle primordial dans la réception de l’œuvre. Comme il faudra le montrer, les textes en strophe d’Hélinand répondent à une série de règles cohérentes, spécifiques et différenciées (partie I), si bien qu’ils s’apparentent à un système poétique à part entière, doté de son propre « horizon d’attente » et de ses propres conventions de lecture (partie II). Ces règles non écrites, qui semblent directement infléchir la réception de Miserere et Carité, participent également du procès du sens en ajoutant un impact dramatique au propos édifiant (partie III). Dès lors que l’analyse de Miserere et Carité sera ainsi imbriquée à celle de ce corpus formel, il deviendra possible de dégager une poétique du texte édifiant en strophe d’Hélinand, qui sera guidée et balisée par le parfait exemple d’un poète à succès. / The Reclus de Molliens, an early 13th century French poet, is the author of two moralizing, religious and didactic texts known as Miserere and Carité. Despite its wide circulation, as well as its significant influence over subsequent generations of authors and readers, this work has been largely neglected by modern critics: the most recent monograph on Miserere and Carité was indeed published over one hundred thirty years ago (Van Hamel, 1885). The following dissertation aims at filling this gap in research by updating the basic data regarding the circulation and literary legacy of this medieval best-seller. Moreover, it provides a reflection surrounding the poetics of this work, which draws on its status as a part of a forgotten literary canon. The fact that Miserere and Carité were so widely read, and therefore constituted models and poetic benchmarks for a wide audience, makes them ideal case studies to rethink the vitality and the codes of moralizing poetry, based on the actual criteria and reading practices of the medieval audience. The historical documentation pertaining to the Reclus de Molliens reveals that the versification system adopted in Miserere and Carité, known as the Helinandian stanza (8aabaabbbabba), plays a vital role in the reception of his works. As will be demonstrated, works that are composed using this type of verse follow a consistent set of poetic rules (part 1). This means that they constitute a legitimate poetic system, with its own “horizon of expectations” and reading conventions (part 2). These implicit rules, which seem to have impacted the reception of Miserere and Carité, also contribute to the construction of meaning by adding a dramatic impact to their moralizing content (part 3). Once the analysis of Miserere and Carité is thus imbricated in the analysis its “formal family”, it will then be possible to define a poetics of the moralizing text written in Helinandian stanza, guided and framed by this successful poet.

This diploma thesis explores subjectivity in the domain of so-called digital writing, that is, in texts of largely experimental nature generated by computer algorithms (or with their assistance). In order to do so, the thesis briefly covers the history of digital writing, its mediatic specificities, poetics as well as various theoretical and philosophical conceptualizations. Most importantly, it undertakes an analysis of a post-lyrical subject, a concept devised by Janez Strehovec, that is common to all cases of generative writing under focus. For its comparative analysis, the thesis deals with the recent works from contemporary creators who approach algorithmic textuality from variegated perspectives, incl. Nick Montfort, Allison Parish, Stephanie Strickland, Li Zilles, and Jörg Piringer. Texts generated by programs are conceived of as expressing a new, parasitic and prosthetic, genus of cyber-textual subjectivity that defies the traditional lyric and expands its pool "by other means," as Marjorie Perloff would say. Such a tendency results in conceptually as well as formally complex literary corpus "infected" by - to further exploit the suggested metaphor - parasitic voices and prosthetic selves. Unlike in generic lyric, the post- lyrical subject surpasses the confines of poetry as genre; it is...

Världen är oupplösligt sammankopplad i sina relationer och förhållanden, ändå finner människan sätt att separera och låta skillnader hindra henne från att leva och samexistera i sin mångfald. Friedrich Nietzsche skriver ”Kanske uttrycker vårt ord ’människa’ (manas) ännu något av denna självkänsla: människan betecknade sig själv som det väsen som mäter värden, som värderar och mäter, som det ’värderande djuret i sig’.” I den här uppsatsen börjar jag i Nietzsches genealogi och filosofi som utgångspunkt för att förstå hur och när den europeiska filosofin började plocka isär sig själv inifrån och titta närmare på människans subjekt och hennes värden. Jag vill genom det se på den moderna filosofins sätt att skildra och förstå människan i världen. Vidare anser jag att filosofin måste öppna sig för en bredare kanon för att i det moderna samhället kunna vara en praktik som inkluderar alla levda erfarenheter. Min uppsats har även syftet att utforska en sådan möjlig brygga för var filosofin kan få en materiell och aktivistisk mening. Vägen jag tar för att föreslå en sådan brygga är som nämnt från Nietzsches genealogi. Sedan fortsätter analysen framåt genom Frantz Fanons avkolonialiserande tänkande som tar utgångspunkt i levd erfarenhet. Av särskild vikt är något jag här kallar för en teori om skillnad som ovärderlig, som utarbetas i närhet till Édouard Glissant framför allt, och som vilar på ett fokus på detaljen och hur den måste förstås på ett icke-hierarkiserande sätt för att ingå i Glissants tanke och term Relation. Skillnaden som ovärderlig öppnar i det dekoloniala tänkandet upp för kunskapen utanför den traditionellt överlägsna diskursen och leder oss in i Glissants filosofi och relationens tänkande. / In this paper I am asking the question about the European human values and their effect on philosophy and thought through three different philosophers. What I want to examine is how we can get past thinking human subjects as constituted by the hierarchical and often oppositional differences that were installed by means of a normalizing universal with colonial roots. The essay begins with Nietzsche’s geneological account of how and when European philosophy began to disassemble itself from within, focusing on his idea of the need for a new man. Then I turn to Frantz Fanon and the decolonization of European thought and power, as one based on violence and hiererachy. Édouard Glissants poetics of Relation is then essential for thinking man today in the entangled, constantly changing world that we live in.

<p>This thesis examines how the poetics of George Elliott Clarke, Dionne Brand and Wayde Compton articulate unique aesthetic voices that are representative of a range of ethnic communities that collectively make-up blackness in Canada. Despite the different backgrounds, geographies, and ethnicities of these authors, blackness in Canada is regularly viewed as a homogeneous community that is most closely tied to the cultural histories of the American South and the Atlantic slave trade. Black Canadians have historically been excluded from the official narratives of the nation, disassociating blackness from Canadian-ness. Epithets such as “African-Canadian” are indicative of the way race distances citizenship and belonging. Each of these authors expresses an aesthetic through their poetics that is representative of the unique combination of social, political, cultural, and ethnic interactions that can be collectively described as racial formation. While each of these authors orients her or his own ethnic community in relation to the nation in different ways, their focus on collapsing the distance between citizenship and belonging can be read as a base for forming community from which collective resistance to the racial violence of exclusion can be grounded.</p> / Master of English

Ce mémoire de maîtrise propose l’amorce d’une étude poétique et narratologique de la forme textuelle communément désignée par la périphrase « roman dont vous êtes le héros », qui enjoint à ses lecteur·ice·s d’incarner le·la protagoniste de son univers diégétique et à participer à la constitution du récit au fur et à mesure qu’il est lu. Comment la narration y parvient-elle à devenir le lieu d’une multiplicité unifiée de récits, phénomène pour le moins oxymorique, dont les virtualités s’en remettent aux décisions d’un·e lecteur·ice-personnage afin d’être actualisées ? Comment caractériser la poétique singulière de ces textes par le prisme de cette pluralité fondamentale ? Il s’agit, dans un premier temps, d’établir des assises méthodologiques qui puissent fournir une manière de taxonomie de la fiction interactive. L’approche cybertextuelle d’Espen Aarseth constitue cette base principale et permet notamment la mise en relation du roman-dont-vous-êtes-le-héros avec la forme numérique de l’hyperfiction, genre auquel il est souvent comparé en raison d’un fonctionnement hypertextuel commun. Le genre est ensuite examiné à l’aune du concept narratif de multiversalité, ce qui révèle que, si les romans-dont-vous-êtes-le-héros ne constituent pas des exemples parfaits de narration multiverselle, la pluralité des réalités possibles y est souvent thématisée ou poétisée au point où il est possible de parler d’effets de multiversalité ou, du moins, d’une téléologie multiverselle. Dans un second temps, il s’agit d’étudier chacune des trois œuvres du corpus, La nuit je suis Buffy Summers (2007) de Chloé Delaume, Nils Jacket contre l’Agent X (2007) de JFM et La Salamandre (2000) d’Emmanuel Aquin, et sa manière propre d’investir la multiversalité et le concept de réalités possibles ou virtuelles. Ce mémoire est ainsi l’amorce narratologique d’une étude poétique plus approfondie d’un genre liminaire, ni tout à fait récit ni tout à fait jeu, n’ayant joui d’aucun examen systématique. Ce faisant, il vise, de plus, à remettre en question l’application fréquente aux romans-dont-vous-êtes-le-héros, souvent hâtive ou rudimentaire, de cadres théoriques élaborés pour des formes fictionnelles plus consacrées, qui s’avèrent donc inaptes à représenter toute l’étendue poétique du genre. / This master’s thesis is the first step in a poetic and narratological study of the textual form commonly referred to as “choose-your-own-adventure books”, which invites readers to identify with its diegetic universe’s protagonist and to engage in the building of the narrative as it is read. How does narration become the site of a unified multiplicity of narratives––an oxymoron, to say the least––whose virtualities depend on the decisions of a reader-character in order to be actualized? How can we characterize the singular poetics of these texts through the prism of this fundamental plurality? The first part of the thesis is dedicated to the establishing of methodological foundations that can provide a manner of taxonomy for interactive fiction. Espen Aarseth's cybertextual approach constitutes this main basis and allows for the relation of choose-your-own-adventure books with the digital form of hyperfiction, to which it is often compared due to a common hypertextual functioning. The choose-your-own-adventure genre is then examined in the light of the narrative concept of multiversality, revealing that while choose-your-own-adventure books are not perfect examples of multiversal narrative, their thematisation or poetisation of the plurality of possible realities reaches a point where it is possible to speak of multiversal effects or, at least, of a multiversal teleology. The second part of the thesis examines each of the three works making up the main corpus, La nuit je suis Buffy Summers (2007) by Chloé Delaume, Nils Jacket contre l’Agent X (2007) by JFM and La Salamandre (2000) by Emmanuel Aquin, and each’s specific way of exploiting multiversality and the concept of possible or virtual realities. This thesis is thus intended as a narratological entry into a more in-depth poetic study of a liminal genre, neither quite narrative nor quite game, that has not yet been the object of any systematic examination. In so doing, it also aims to challenge the often hasty or rudimentary application to choose-your-own-adventure books of theoretical frameworks developed for more established fictional forms, which then prove unfit to represent the full poetic range of the genre.

[ES] Hoy en día es posible observar una difusión global del color blanco en el panorama de la arquitectura contemporánea. Las cuestiones vinculadas al empleo de este particular color penetran con profundas raíces en los tiempos antiguos, en la cultura, en la historia. Para buscar las razones tras el uso del blanco, la presente investigación propone un punto de vista holístico, analizando el mito, la poética y la ciencia del blanco en arquitectura. Estas tres claves de lectura del fenómeno del blanco conducen a diferentes razones para explicar su empleo. Claves de lectura que se separan exclusivamente para obtener un estudio más ordenado del tema, pero que en la complejidad de la arquitectura actúan de forma inseparable. La tesis estudia y analiza el escenario de la arquitectura contemporánea a partir del color, pero teniendo conciencia que este representa solo un parámetro entre los muchos que realizan la forma y el espacio de la arquitectura. De las obras del pasado, de los tratados y de las teorías, hoy llega una narración llena de alternancias - de épocas de revival, pero también de renacimientos y vanguardias -, un verdadero mito en el que el color blanco, a pesar de todo, resiste con constancia hasta establecerse en la memoria actual. Al acercarse a la época hodierna, los contornos de ese mito se vuelven más nítidos y precisos, y las cuestiones históricas y culturales se unen con las innovadas necesidades de la práctica arquitectónica contemporánea. Varios arquitectos emplean el blanco para sus obras y para lograr determinadas y distintas ideas. Se define entonces una poética del blanco, es decir, una forma esencialmente subjetiva de pensar y construir arquitectura. Para investigar estas instancias individuales y específicas, al análisis de obras de arquitectura se une una serie de diálogos sobre el blanco que enriquecen el tema con las experiencias directas de los arquitectos. Aunque el color sea un fenómeno por su naturaleza muy subjetivo, el empleo del blanco en arquitectura es soportado por la ciencia y, en particular, por algunas ventajas físicas y químicas. La construcción del blanco es posible gracias a varias técnicas que amplían y extienden su larga tradición constructiva gracias a la innovada eficacia de métodos antiguos, pero también con nuevas tecnologías y materiales. El estudio se enfoca en particular en el análisis de la cultura arquitectónica española, portuguesa e italiana; la investigación no se limita a estos ámbitos geográficos, extendiéndose a considerar un horizonte global para la arquitectura blanca. El análisis de las obras de arquitectura blanca publicadas en revistas científicas de relevancia internacional proporciona un dato estadístico y objetivo de la condición global de la cuestión. La definición de la tendencia contemporánea al empleo del blanco, se remonta a la segunda mitad del siglo XX, cuando algunas obras acogen los valores del mito y los renuevan de una forma actual. No obstante, la difusión global del blanco en arquitectura se debe a su capacidad de representar ideales diferentes y múltiples. Se deduce, entonces, que el blanco no es el color de una homogeneización, sino que representa un factor común a muchas experiencias de la contemporaneidad. / [CA] Hui en dia és possible observar una difusió global del color blanc en el panorama de l'arquitectura contemporània. Les qüestions vinculades a l'ús d'aquest particular color, penetren amb profundes arrels en l'antiguitat, en la cultura, en la història. Per a cercar les raons de l'ús del blanc, la present investigació proposa un punt de vista holístic, analitzant el mite, la poètica i la ciència del blanc en arquitectura. Aquestes tres claus de lectura del fenòmen del blanc conduïxen a diferents raons per explicar el seu ús. Claus de lectura que se separen exclusivament per a obtindre un estudi més ordenat del tema, però que en la complexitat de l'arquitectura actuen de forma inseparable. La tesi estudia i analitza l'escenari de l'arquitectura contemporània a partir del color, però tenint consciència que aquest representa només un paràmetre entre els molts que realitzen la forma i l'espai de l'arquitectura. De les obres del passat, dels tractats i de les teories, hui arriba una narració plena d'alternances - d'èpoques de revival, però també de renaixements i avantguardes -, un vertader mite en què el color blanc, malgrat tot, resisteix amb constància fins a establir-se en la memòria actual. A l'acostar-se a l'època hodierna, els contorns d'eixe mite es tornen més nítids i precisos, i les qüestions històriques i culturals s'uneixen amb les innovades necessitats de la pràctica arquitectònica contemporània. Diversos arquitectes empren el blanc per a les seues obres i per a aconseguir determinades i distintes idees. Es defineix llavors una poètica del blanc, és a dir, una forma essencialment subjectiva de pensar i construir arquitectura. Per a investigar estes instàncies individuals i específiques, a l'anàlisi d'obres d'arquitectura s'unix una sèrie de diàlegs sobre el blanc que enriquixen el tema amb les experiències directes dels arquitectes. Encara que el color siga un fenòmen per la seua naturalesa molt subjectiu, l'ús del blanc en arquitectura és recolzat per la ciència i, en particular, per alguns avantatges físics i químics. La construcció del blanc és possible gràcies a diverses tècniques que amplien i estenen la seua llarga tradició constructiva gràcies a la innovada eficàcia de métodes antics, però també amb noves tecnologies i materials. L'estudi s'enfoca en particular en l'anàlisi de la cultura arquitectònica espanyola, portuguesa i italiana; la investigació no es limita a aquestos àmbits geogràfics, estenent-se a considerar un horitzó global per a l'arquitectura blanca. L'anàlisi de les obres d'arquitectura blanca publicades en revistes científiques de rellevància internacional proporciona una dada estadística i un objectiu de la condició global de la qüestió. La definició de la tendència contemporània a l'ús del blanc, es remunta a la Segona meitat del segle XX, quan algunes obres acullen els valors del mite i els renoven d'una forma actual. No obstant això, la difusió global del blanc en arquitectura es deu a la seua capacitat de representar ideals diferents i múltiples. Es dedueix, llavors, que el blanc no és el color d'una homogeneïtzació, sinó que representa un factor comú a moltes experiències de la contemporaneïtat. / [EN] Today it is possible to observe a global diffusion of white color in the panorama of contemporary architecture. The issues linked to the use of this particular color, penetrate with deep roots in ancient times, in culture, in history. To find the reasons for the use of white, this research proposes a holistic point of view, analyzing the myth, the poetics and the science of white in architecture. The three keys to reading the phenomenon of white lead to different reasons to explain its use. Reading keys that are separated exclusively to obtain a more orderly study of the theme, but that in the complexity of architecture act in an inseparable way. The thesis studies and analyzes the scenario of contemporary architecture starting from color, being aware that this represents only one parameter among the many that realize the shape and space of architecture. From the works of the past, from the treatises and from the theories, today arrives a narration of continuous alternations - of epochs of revival, but also of rebirths and vanguards -, a true myth in which the white color, In spite of everything, it endures with constancy until it is established in the present memory. As we approach today's times, the outlines of this myth become clearer and more precise, and historical and cultural issues are combined with the innovated needs of contemporary architectural practice. Various architects use white for their works and to materialize certain and different ideas. This defines a poetics of white, or in other words, an essentially subjective form of thinking and building architecture. To analyze these individual and specific instances, the analysis of architectural works is accompanied by a series of dialogues on white that enrich the theme with the direct experience of architects. Although color is a very subjective phenomenon by its nature, the use of white in architecture is supported by science and, in particular, by some physical and chemical advantages. The construction of white is possible thanks to various techniques that expand and extend its long construction tradition thanks to the renewed efficiency of ancient methods, but also with new technologies and materials. The study focuses in particular on the analysis of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian architectural culture, but the research is not limited to these geographical areas, extending in considering a global horizon for white architecture. The analysis of works of white architecture published in scientific journals of international importance, provides a statistical and objective data of the global condition of the issue. The definition of the contemporary tendency to use white dates back to the second half of the twentieth century, when some works embrace the values of myth and renew it in a contemporary way. Despite this, the global diffusion of white in architecture is due to its capacity to represent different and multiple ideals. It is therefore deduced that white is not the color of homogenization, but on the contrary it is a common factor in many contemporary experiences. / Marco, PD. (2020). Arquitectura blanca. Mito, poética, ciencia. El color blanco en la arquitectura contemporánea [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/160488

Through two books and a series of video documentations of live performances Mette Ingvartsen makes choreography into a territory of physical, artistic and social experimentation. The Artificial Nature Series focusses on how relations between human and non-human agency can be explored and reconfigured through choreography. By investigating and creating a ‘nonhuman theater’ questions regarding material agency, ecology, natural disasters, the Anthropocene and non-subjective performativity are posed. The resulting reflections are closely related to the poetic principles utilized to create the performances, while also drawing connections to territories outside theater. By contrast, 69 positions inscribes itself into a history of human performance with afocus on nudity, sexuality and how the body historically has been a site for political struggles. By creating a guided tour through sexual performances – from the naked protest actions of the 1960’s, through an archive ofpersonal performances into a reflection on contemporary sexual practice – this solo work rethinks audience participation and proposes a notion of soft and social choreography. The contrasting performative strategiesarticulate a twofold notion of expanded choreography: on the one hand movement is extended beyond the human body by including the agency of nonhuman performers, and on the other hand, movement is expanded into animaginary and virtual space thanks to ‘language choreography’. / <p>LINKS</p><p>https://vimeo.com/164552586</p><p>https://vimeo.com/164558381</p>

La présente étude analyse les représentations de la ville dans la série policière d’Ian Rankin dont l’inspecteur John Rebus est le protagoniste. La polarité étant l’un des principes organisateurs de l’écriture rankinienne, notre analyse s’articule autour de plusieurs couples de notions antinomiques. Nous remettons d’abord en cause la légitimité de l’antinomie qui oppose la littérature à la « littérature de masse », dans laquelle est souvent classé le roman policier. Cela nous conduit à redéfinir le roman policier, et mettre en perspective la série dans le contexte du monde littéraire et artistique écossais contemporain. Puis nous étudions l’articulation entre topographie réelle et lieu imaginaire dans l’Edimbourg de Rankin. Toute une géographie urbaine se dessine dans les romans ; l’arpentage incessant de l’espace par le protagoniste fournit l’occasion de références très spécifiques à la topographie et à la toponymie, et la sérialité tisse peu à peu un dense réseau de points nodaux ainsi qu’une multiplicité de trajets potentiels que nous avons représentés par des cartes fournies en annexe. Mais dans d’autres cas, l’espace se fait générique, se réfère plus à des conventions cinématographiques qu’à la carte de la ville. Nous envisageons enfin la ville d’Edimbourg comme un personnage ambivalent dans la lignée des personnages du roman gothique. La filiation gothique est perceptible dans l’esthétique de la ville, et la surface de la carte est compartimentée suivant un ensemble d’axes polarisants. Toutefois, cette carte se déploie elle-même par-dessus un double souterrain et non cartographiable d’Edimbourg, à la fois mémoire et inconscient de la ville. / The aim of the present study is to analyse the representations of the city to be found in Ian Rankin’s crime fiction series of which Inspector Rebus is the protagonist. Polarization being one of the structuring principles of the author’s writing, our work focuses on several pairs of antagonist notions in turn.The first one is the opposition between “high” and “low” (or “popular”) literature, the latter category being often associated with crime fiction. New categorizations of contemporary Scottish crime fiction are thus put to the test so as to assess its role and place within the landscape of Scottish literary and artistic life.Next the way Rankin’s novels map Edinburgh as a topography both real and imaginary is explored. As John Rebus endlessly paces the streets of the city, a literary geography gradually emerges and takes shape from one novel to the next, thus determining a network of focal points and potential trajectories which are depicted in the maps to be found in the annexes. This does not preclude the use of a more urban-generic type of space, which seems to have been modelled on representations of the city deriving from movies.In time, Rebus’ Edinburgh can be seen as a character in its own right, one fraught with ambiguities stemming from the Gothic novel tradition. This Gothic filiation is visible in the aesthetic of the city, while the polarity between surface representations and subterranean depths, full of twists and turns, calls into question the very possibility of mapping the city as it gradually discloses its past and unconscious memories.