Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1992. / Title from title page screen, viewed January 31, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Janice Neuleib (chair), Rodger L. Tarr, Ray Lewis White. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-230) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (D.S.M.)--Northland Baptist Bible College, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 200-205).

Thesis--Utrecht.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 354-372).

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 164).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2005. / Supervisor: Phillip Barrish. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-29T14:11:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_7686_João Paulo Tozetti.pdf: 1201915 bytes, checksum: f425b39d95b21dc9dcfd87a76570b6d5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-13 / Em fins da década de 1960, estudiosos como Michel Foucault e Roland Barthes ajudaram a modificar a atuação da crítica literária francesa, ainda muito apegada às perspectivas biografistas. Embora com propostas diversas, os referidos pesquisadores são considerados alguns dos maiores responsáveis pelo redimensionamento do papel que cabe ao autor na literatura e na interpretação literária. Uma década depois, Italo Calvino publica o romance Se um viajante numa noite de inverno, no qual, em meio à ficção, apresenta e discute diversos tópicos das teorias literárias então em voga, em especial a tese da morte do autor defendida por Barthes. A obra do escritor italiano é considerada por muitos críticos como sectária das ideias do semiólogo francês, porém essa premissa não é totalmente aceita. O romance critica a concepção superestimada de autor, mas, ao mesmo tempo, desconfia da proposta teórica que busca eliminá-lo. O objetivo desta dissertação é discutir a noção de autor e a questão da autoria literária por meio da obra de Italo Calvino aqui assumida como objeto de análise. A pesquisa teve como foco dois pontos distintos e interligados: apresentar a polêmica acerca da figura do autor sua pertinência ou não para a interpretação, sua ausência ou presença no texto , discutindo essencialmente a noção de intenção e a morte barthesiana; e ainda relacionar essa crítica, que diminuía a importância do autor, com o pensamento teórico de Italo Calvino para, assim, averiguar de que modo a querela envolvendo a figura do autor é discutida no romance. Dentre os norteadores da discussão, utilizamos o pensamento de Roland Barthes e de Michel Foucault, bem como as considerações do próprio Calvino expostas em diversos de seus ensaios.

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Over the past decade, an interest in collaboration has been coming to the fore in composition studies. Whereas once we were primarily interested in investigating the cognitive processes of the individual, we now seek to understand more about the social dynamics of writing in groups to improve our teaching of composition in the classroom. To that end, this dissertation looks at the real world collaborative activities of business proposal writers within a high technology company. Writing in the workplace is often undertaken in groups, and my work at Cerebellum, Inc. with computer professionals (who wrote as part of their jobs) reveals complexities hitherto unsuspected in the social writing process. The importance of a detailed understanding of collaboration has been called for in the literature by, for example, Ede and Lunsford (1990). My dissertation surveys current literature in composition, including a review of investigations into collaboration during business writing as a salient behaviour of such a discourse community. In order to accomplish my research, I used a video camera to record the activities which embodied the writing process at Cerebellum Inc. I found that the use of the video camera in an ethnographic manner not only helped me to gather detailed data, both verbal and nonverbal, in the continuous and comprehensive detail so vital to communication research, but also assisted in initiating better understanding within the business community of the aims and approaches of academic research. Video technology gave me a chance to participate in as well as observe situations, and also opened the door to conversation concerning my methods and my findings with both researchers and informants. I propose a model of the varying levels of engagement undertaken by the writers of a business proposal. I then suggest the educational value of the representation with a discussion of implications for the teaching of writing in the workplace and in more traditional school settings. Detailed research into collaboration offers us a window on the social processes which constitute writing for our students now and in their futures in the workplace. Such work is vitally important to ensuring superior levels of advanced literacy which will be in continuing demand now and in the next century. / Education, Faculty of / Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of / Graduate