Diploma work abstract I based my work on the research of messianic topic in holy texts of Abrahamaic religions, what means an research on TNK (Old Testament), New Testament and Quran (including the early islamic tradition). I tried to bring a frame of a possible common dialogue based on the shared religious expectation towards common world ethos.

Title: Image of Austrian Society in the time of National Socialism: a Thematic Analysis of the Novel All our Games by Erika Mitterer Abstract: This diploma thesis deals with the work of the Austrian author Erika Mitterer and her experience with the ideology of the Third Reich. In the first part, I present the life and activities of the author, while putting a special emphasis on the period of National Socialism. The second part deals with the general characteristics of Mitterer's literary production. The main part of the thesis is the analysis of the novel All our Games, in which Mitterer tries to achieve a qualitative image of Austrian society during the Nazi regime. This picture is drawn by the Author using the example of a life of a fictive family. A general picture of the novel's time is constructed on the basis of the motives that are found in the book. Keywords: Erika Mitterer, All our Games, National Socialism, coming to terms with the past

This work issue from individual polostandardized interviews of gays and lesbians which were obtain to this work by method of Snowball Sampling and searching on the web-nets. Their family histories (stories) and biography were noted on dictaphone and written down to the letter. Mains objectives of this work are two and has theme about family. Objectives are: "Maping of relationships of lesbians and gays in family neighbourhood (primary family)" and "Relationship of lesbians and gay to their secondary family". Author gets in this way individual own view of gays and lesbians on these problems. To this work is added one interview of bisexual too who lived a long time lesbian's life style and currently she is a few years married.

The focus of this work is to bring the idea of mindfulness closer, in terms of connection with other personality traits. Additionally it highlights the use of mindfulness in psychotherapy practice, specifically in regard to homosexually orientated clients. The study summarizes the main findings on the mindfulness phenomenon, highlighting the important aspects of adopting a new identity within this demographic. The study also monitors the connection of coming out process with particular aspects of mindfulness. In the empirical section the results of the FFMQ questionnaire, in which participated 294 persons of both male and female gender and of both heterosexual and homosexual orientation are compared using quantitative methods. By means of statistical analysis of variance (ANOVA) it was determined that the homosexually orientated do not differ significantly from those of heterosexual orientation. Furthermore there was no significant statistical difference in mindfulness between genders within the research sample. Keywords: mindfulness, psychotherapy, mindfulness definitions, Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, sexual orientation, coming out, homosexual identity, personality

The collapse of the communist regimes came at the time of the overall decline of the Left, both in the West and the East. In the Eastern Bloc, much of the Left's language was disqualified as a result of its association with the former communist regime, the rejection of which formed the basis of post-communist democratic identities. Although the post-communist situation was generally seen as unfavourable for leftist thought, it nevertheless represented a liberation from a regime which, in many respects, supressed leftist criticism. Social changes in 1989, guided by mass peoples' movements, enabled the Left to understand these changes through their own conceptual apparatus and integrate them with their own expectations. The defensive position of the Left and the "liberal consensus" of the nineties led the alternative leftist thought to profile itself as a leftist criticism of liberal democracy. However marginal their political position was, left-wing oriented authors tried to advocate alternative economic and social structures to those of capitalism, rejecting current pro-capitalist values and practices (consumerism, neoliberalism) and rethinking the changes in private ownership, redistribution of wealth and common values. Key words: Left, liberal consensus, 1989, democratic socialism, post-communism

The purpose of this study was to explore the concerns of parents upon learning about their children’s gay or lesbian sexual orientation from the conceptual framework of attachment theory. Personal and contextual factors such as parents’ attachment anxiety and avoidance, parent and child gender, length of time since disclosure, and parents’ prior interpersonal contact with gay and lesbian person(s) were examined to see how they influence parents’ concerns. Members of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) support groups were electronically surveyed using the Experiences in Close Relationships - Short Form (ECR-S; Wei, Russell, Mallinckrodt & Vogel, 2007) and the Concerns of Parents of Lesbians (COPLAG; Conley, 2011b). A total of 296 parents met the criteria to be considered participants. The results of this study indicated that parental concerns are correlated with attachment anxiety, but not attachment avoidance. There were significant differences in concern levels between parents who reported high levels of interpersonal contact with gay or lesbian people and those who reported low levels. Parents’ concerns were significantly higher for gay sons than for lesbian daughters. Amount of time since disclosure was not found to be a significant factor in parental concerns; however, attachment anxiety and amount of time since disclosure were negatively correlated. Additionally, parents who were aware of their child’s sexual orientation for more than five years reported lower levels of attachment anxiety than parents who were aware of their child’s gay or lesbian sexual orientation for less than five years. Although parent gender was a variable in this study, too few fathers participated, precluding analyses using parent gender. Overall, the results indicate that parents’ concerns about having gay and lesbian children are influenced by both intrapsychic and contextual factors.

This dissertation assesses rage and its utility for fictional Black girls and adolescents in asserting their humanity, accessing their voices, and developing strategies of resistance that contribute to their identity formation. Through analyses of six novels: 1) God Bless the Child, 2) Breath, Eyes, Memory, 3) The Hate U Give, 4) The Bluest Eye, 5) Daddy Was a Number Runner, and 6) The Poet X, this research presents rage as a canonical theme in Black women’s coming-of-age narratives and presents connections between rage, rights, and resistance. The connections, revealed through stimuli and adaptations associated with rage, frame an argument for North Americas as an arbiter of anger. The novels construct an “arc of anger” that places them in conversation about Black girl rage and presents a tradition of Black women crafting Black girl protagonists who are conduits for counternarratives of rage. This dissertation also examines how history, memory, and culture contribute to Black girls’ frustrations and knowledge bases. By looking to works published between the angry decade (the 1960s) and the age of rage (the 2010s), the research presents ways Black women novelists and their characters return to rage to combat social institutions and critique social constructions of Black girlhood and womanhood.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T11:07:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GABRIELA BENTO COELHO.pdf: 3121484 bytes, checksum: 240304715fa87b6f2886ad0e764b1329 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-15 / The main objectives of this work are the theoretical construction of the demonic esthetic and the identification of this proposal in modern and contemporary art. The research was based mainly on contemporary approaches of Jean Baudrillard (1991), Zygmunt Bauman (2001) and Goerges Bataille (1987). From the phenomenological perspective of Mikel Dufrenne (2008), the demonic esthetic is the aesthetic experience awakened by the horror and the grotesque. The demonic is historically, the rupture with the traditional sense of beauty and the moral. The demoniac would be a transgression of the dominant social order and the esthetic expression that reveals the transgressive and heretical of human nature. The Apollonian and rational reality is unmasked by the revelation of the Dionysian impulse that results in the return of man to himself, to obscurity, to unknown, to infernal and nefarious. In the contact with hell, the man overcomes himself and becomes what it is. The state of for coming and the between place are part of demonic expression as new spaces of contestation and transformation. The demonic esthetics is present in modern and contemporary art. For this are analyzed: the art works of Farnese de Andrade and the artistic discourse in the romance, The Tense Passage of the Bodies, written by Carlos de Brito Mello. / Os objetivos principais desta pesquisa são: a construção teórica da concepção da estética demoníaca e a identificação desta proposta na arte moderna e contemporânea. A pesquisa é fundamentada principalmente, nas abordagens contemporâneas de Jean Baudrillard (1991), Zygmunt Bauman (2001) e Goerges Bataille (1987). Com base na fenomenologia, a estética demoníaca consiste na experiência estética despertada em contato com o horror e o grotesco. O demoníaco se identifica historicamente como a ação de ruptura com o belo e com a moral. O demoníaco consiste em transgredir a ordem social dominante. É a expressão estética que revela a porção maléfica e herética da natureza humana. A realidade apolínea e racional é desmascarada para revelar a pulsão dionisíaca que resulta no retorno do homem a si mesmo, a obscuridade, ao desconhecido, ao infernal e ao nefasto. O estado de devir e o entrelugar são espaços não perspectivos de contestação e transformação, que compõem a expressão demoníaca. A estética demoníaca está presente na arte moderna e contemporânea. Nesta pesquisa, são analisadas: as obras do artista plástico Farnese de Andrade e o discurso artístico no romance A Passagem Tensa dos Corpos, escrito por Carlos de Brito e Mello.

The Master's Thesis deals with the theme of coming-of-age in American literature. The aim of the theoretical part is to provide theoretical framework and the subsequent examination of common narrative strategies and themes characteristic of this specific genre. We will focus more closely on the three key themes of identity, sexuality and death. In the practical part of this thesis these main themes and their use will be examined in selected novels of American literature; Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides.

The aim of this thesis is to study representations of identity and (in)visibility in Swedish lesbian novels written in the 1930s, and to provide a summary of Swedish lesbian literature up to the early 21st century. This study has been done through a close reading primarily of Charlie by Margareta Suber (1932), Fröknarna von Pahlen by Agnes von Krusenstjerna (1930–1935) and Kris by Karin Boye (1934). Lesbian literature is discussed as a loose category, a construction which can be used as an analytical tool in a conscious and reflexive way, with its basis in the categories of author, text and reader. In short, I define lesbian literature as novels written by women, about lesbian figures and/or relationships, and for lesbian readers in the sense that the literature depicts lesbians from an insider’s perspective. As regards the period before 1930, the focus is on romantic friendship and the excitement zone when the romantic friendship becomes a sexual one, as seen in the fictitious case of Sin fars dotter (1920) by Lydia Wahlström. Sexological theories, the image of “the new woman” and changes to the law all colour the first half of the 20th century. This is seen in Charlie by Margareta Suber, where the author makes use of many such explanations in her creation of a lesbian figure. A reading of Fröknarna von Pahlen by Agnes von Krusenstjerna shows an intricate pattern of relationships at its heart. My analysis charts several same-sex couples, a lesbian single woman and two collectives; that is to say, the female collective and the male homosexual collective. The relationships between women are many-faceted and include everything from romantic friendship, kinship and sensualism to eroticism and shared parenthood. In my analysis of Kris by Karin Boye, I focus on Malin, the main character, and the development of her sense of identity, in which the struggle between the language of the world around her and her own emotional experience of love for a woman is a central theme. After the 1930s, the historical context changed in terms of everything from decriminalisation in 1944 via the homophobic panic of the 1950s to the impact of queer theory in the 1990s. Swedish lesbian literature addresses everything from crime of passion (murder) to the coming out process of young women. There exists in all novels from the 1930s an interplay that is (in)visible: the characters or lesbian relationships depicted are both visible and invisible at the same time. The characters are more or less aware of the potential risks attached to being visible as a lesbian, and often they do not notice themselves when this occurs. During the course of the 20th century, (in)visibility becomes replaced by openness and secrecy, and the visibility of the lesbian characters is politicised. / The abstract is translated by Janet French.