Thesis (MPhil (Ancient Studies)--Stellenbosch University, 2008. / Chapter 1 begins by giving the 21st century reader of the Aeneid insights into the innovative socio-cultural environment of the Augustan Age. Following this is an investigation into the societal and cultural importance placed on the Four Cardinal Values in Augustan Age society. Virgil’s attitude to war has been a perennial topic of debate amongst Virgilian scholars. The focus of chapter 1 becomes more specific as it examines Virgil’s personal history, the socio-cultural environment of his childhood and the influence this may have had on his adult opinion of war and the way it is expressed in the Aeneid. An aspect of Virgil’s personal history that is fundamental to understanding his social context, is his relationship with Emperor Augustus. To conclude chapter 1, this is investigated with specific reference to two episodes in the Aeneid. In chapter 2, attention is given to particular aspects of Virgil’s portrayal of Aeneas’ heroic nature. The chapter opens with an examination of Virgil’s representation of Aeneas’ imperfect heroism, then suggests possible reasons behind the inclusion of ambiguity in this characterization. In addition to this, the question of Homeric characteristics in Virgil’s Roman hero is investigated. Chapter 2 then examines the more positive aspects of Virgil’s depiction of Aeneas’ heroism, concluding with a discussion on the favourable interpretation by Augustan Age Romans of Virgil’s demonstration of Aeneas’ heroic nature. Chapter 3 is devoted to a discussion of the manner in which Virgil’s environment influenced his presentation of Aeneas’ personal interactions. Prior to addressing the actual relationships, the chapter explores the question of Virgil’s characterization of Aeneas as somewhat uncommunicative in the epic. This chapter then concentrates on two main facets of Virgil’s portrayal of Aeneas’ personal relationships, i.e. those with family members and those with relevant non-family members that illustrate the extent to which Virgil’s social context influenced his composition of this poem. In conclusion, this study summarises the importance of viewing the Aeneid in its correct context. A bibliography is appended.

<p>Abstract</p><p>Title: When book becomes film... – a comparative analysis of the book and film Catch me if you can (När bok blir till film…En jämförande analys av boken och filmen Catch me if you can)</p><p>Number of pages: 46</p><p>Author: Majlinda Juniku</p><p>Tutor: Amelie Hössjer</p><p>Course: Media and Communication Studies C</p><p>Period: Autumn term 2007</p><p>University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala University.</p><p>Purpose/Aim: To study what model of dramaturgy belongs to the film Catch me if you can and to see what has been crossed out, altered and added from the book so the narrative will fit this model.</p><p>Material/Method: The film Catch me if you can and the book with the same name has been used to analyze the differences between them. I have divided the differences into three categories: Crossed out, Altered and Added. In the analysis section these have been presented in each section of the film.</p><p>Main results: Catch me if you can is definetly a film made with the design of the Anglosaxon model, mostly because of its timestructure and that it portrays an action and not just a condition which is normal in the epic-lyric model. Big parts of the story have been crossed out, altered and added to make the film more acceptabel to the audience. Most of the changeshad been done to make the story shorter to fit the timeframe of a film. Events had been joinedtogether to save time but not miss anything. A character, Hanratty, has been reinforced to create a cat-and-mouse story and add excitement to the film. Other changes have been made to make the main character seem more likeable to the audience.</p><p>Keywords: book, film, dramaturgy, Catch me if you can, anglo-saxon, epic-lyric</p>

This investigation undertakes to re-centre the figure of the film star and their film appearances in the field of star study. To this end it uses Charlton Heston as its focus in a re-appraisal of existing methods of accounting for the star phenomenon in cinema. It also concomitantly re-assesses existing accounts of the significance of Charlton Heston as a film star. This thesis posits a robust method for identifying the specificities of the star’s contribution to a film’s meanings and effects across the body of their work by drawing on Andrew Britton’s understanding of the ‘star enactment’. Present approaches through which to engage with the details of a star’s performance are considered in detail and the weaknesses of those that seek to impose external schemas onto such discussions are highlighted. The difficulties with approaches that attempt to account for the star as a signifying phenomenon through the concepts of acting and performance are also considered. Existing methods which may allow for a fruitful investigation into the significance of the star enactment, such as the commutation test, are re- formulated in this study and their benefits are demonstrated through their application to key Heston star enactments. These new understandings are also made possible through the application of an ‘ekphrastic’ method of rendering film moments. Previous readings of Heston’s star figure are also re- appraised, and their conclusions questioned, through closer reference to the evidence of details from films. The fruitfulness of this method for analysing and commenting on film is thus demonstrated and Heston’s relationship to genre and its effect on performance style is also considered in order to be able to confidently assert the specific features of the Heston aesthetic.

Cette thèse se propose d'offrir un commentaire linguistique, philologique, rhétorique des vers 49-396 [ = 1-348 Petsch.] du livre V, qui est le livre de la bataille d’Antonia Castra, et une analyse de l'œuvre, qui montre in primis son importance littéraire. Le cœur de ma thèse est l'édition du texte latin présenté selon une nouvelle numérotation et avec quelques différences par rapport au texte de Diggle-Goodyear (Cambridge 1970). Une importante découverte philologique nous a permis d'établir le véritable incipit du livre V de la Iohannis, jusqu’à présent reconnu traditionnellement dans en un endroit déterminé par une conjecture de G. Loewe, accueillie par l'édition Petschenig et après Diggle-Goodyear. Dans une riche introduction divisée en deux sections et qui précède le commentaire, on parle de la tradition du texte et on encadre historiquement l'activité du poète. Après, nous décrivons les formes d'écriture épique du livre V de la Iohannis, livre par excellence de la Bataille, entre histoire et clichés littéraires (furor bellicus comme Erinys, cohortationes des généraux aristiai, similitudes conduisent à la même idée de guerre sainte, dans une lignée héroïque et mythologique). / Subject of this thesis is the commentary to Coripp. Ioh 5*,49-396 [=5,1-348 Petsch.], that is the description of Antonia Castra’s battle. My intention is to offer a study on Corippus’ work, where first is clear its literary importance. The heart of my thesis is the edition of the Latin text that is based on a new numbering of the verses and with some differences compared with the Diggle-Goodyear’s edition (Cambridge 1970). A very important philological discovery has allowed us to establish the real beginning of Iohannis’ book V, traditionally recognized until Diggle-Goodyear in a point determined by a G. Loewe's conjecture. In a rich introduction, divided into two sections and which precedes the commentary, we talk about the tradition of the Iohannis, through the Trivultianus 686, the only surviving manuscript, and we introduce the poet's historical background. After that, we describe the epic shapes of the book V, the very book of the Battle, between concrete history and literary stereotypes (furor bellicus like Erinys, generals’ cohortationes, aristiai, similies lead us to the same idea of “crusade” ante litteram, following an heroic and mythologic line).

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo analisar a peça do dramaturgo britânico John Arden Serjeant Musgraves Dance (1959). Para tanto, empreende inicialmente uma contextualização da Grã-Bretanha do período pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial e, em seguida, acerca do teatro do período que ganhou novo fôlego, sobretudo a partir de 1956. Aborda também o teatro épico, que se consolidou em solo britânico na década de 1950. Por fim, situa brevemente a biografia do dramaturgo, destacando suas principais peças. Em um segundo momento, procede-se à análise da peça de John Arden, na qual são considerados seus principais aspectos e temáticas, como a questão da guerra, do messianismo e da possibilidade de ação política dos indivíduos. No terceiro capítulo, esta dissertação contrasta a peça de Arden com a obra de Bertolt Brecht Mãe Coragem e Seus Filhos (1939). A partir de um prisma comparativo, os temas e elementos formais das peças são analisados com vistas a apontar a potencialidade de reflexão política que o teatro épico brechtiano constituiu na cena teatral da Grã-Bretanha do pós-Guerra, no teatro de John Arden. / This work aims to analyse the play Serjeant Musgraves Dance (1959) by John Arden. To accomplish this, a contextualization of the post-Second World war period is made and subsequently a summary of the theatre in this period which established a new moment especially after 1956. The study also covers how the Epic Theatre was consolidated in Britain in the 1950s. Finally, a brief biography of the playwright is stated, highlighting his most important plays. In a second moment, an analysis of the play by John Arden considering its main formal and thematic aspects such as the war, messianism and the possibility of political agency by the individuals is presented. In the third chapter, the dissertation draws a contrast between Ardens play and the play Mother Courage and Her Children (1939) by Bertolt Brecht. From a comparative perspective, the political potential of Brechtian Epic Theatre as it was constituted in Ardens work and in Post-War Britain Theatre is pointed out.

Esta tese tem como objetivo analisar a representação da história na peça A Bright Room Called Day, de Tony Kushner, observando seus aspectos utópicos e distópicos em sua relação dialética entre conteúdo e forma. Além disso, a presente análise ressalta como elemento relevante da peça o fato de que o contexto em que ela é lançada, marcado por uma cultura ferozmente capitalista e uma indústria midiática do porte da dos Estados Unidos, apresenta concretamente nichos de trabalho épico na dramaturgia. Nesse sentido, esta pesquisa busca também entender como o autor faz uso das realidades históricas da Alemanha da ascensão do Terceiro Reich e dos Estados Unidos da era Reagan como material constitutivo na urdidura da dramaturgia analisada. Fredric Jameson (1991, p. 284) observa que a Historicidade não é uma representação do passado nem do futuro (embora faça uso de várias formas dessas representações): pode acima de tudo ser definida como uma percepção do presente como história. Tendo isso em consideração, a representação dos acontecimentos da dramaturgia kushneriana na Alemanha, Berlim, de 1932 e 1933, deve ser lida criticamente como apontamento para o presente. / This dissertation aims at analyzing the representation of history in the play A Bright Room Called Day, by Tony Kushner, observing the utopian and dystopian aspects in its dialect relationship between content and form. Our analysis also highlights as a relevant feature of the play the fact that the context in which it was released, marked by a fierce capitalist culture and a media industry such as the one of the United States, concretely bears a niche area of epic theatre. In this sense, this research also tries to understand how the playwright uses the history of both Germany in the Rise of the Third Reich and of the USA in the Reagan era as the constitutive material in the composition of the studied dramaturgy. Fredric Jameson (1991, p. 284) states that Historicity is, in fact, neither a representation of the past nor a representation of the future (although its various forms use such representations): it can first and foremost be defined as a perception of the present as history. Taking that into consideration, the representation of the events in Kushners dramaturgy in Germany, Berlin, from 1932 to 1933, must be read critically as a remark for the present.

L’« énergétique comparée » propose de considérer les textes comme des dispositifs à la fois économiques, sémiotiques et praxéonomiques (dont l’utilisation produit des types de subjectivations, des modes de pensée et des domaines idéologiques). Afin de comprendre la nature du roman et de l’épopée, nous confrontons, dans chacune de ces trois dimensions, l’analyse de ces genres littéraires. L’économie du dispositif est à la fois une théorie de la production et de la consommation ; la sémiotique se décompose en rhétorique et en noétique ; la praxéonomie en politique et en éthique.L’énergétique se veut ainsi une nouvelle approche de la littérature, nourrie autant par l’anthropologie culturelle que par la narratologie, par la métaphysique de Hegel que par la pragmatique d’Austin. Enfin, dans chaque partie, un « contrepoint » permet d’aiguiser, transversalement, les instruments d’analyse sur des oeuvres particulières qui semblent a priori échapper à la distinction entre roman et épopée (du roman populaire chinois au roman postcolonial) ou qui prétendent donner à la modernité son épopée (de la poésie épique à l’épopée humanitaire). Ces « contrepoints » se font également le lieu d’un débat de l’énergétique comparée avec les poétiques « indigènes » de leurs auteurs ou de leurs contemporains.L’énergétique, s’opposant à la « poétique des traits génériques » comme à l’« esthétique des registres » permet ainsi de fournir une définition comparée de l’effort de l’épopée (dispositif politique de subjectivation collective par mobilisation de la tradition dans la cérémonie de la reconnaissance) et de celui du roman (dispositif éthique de subjectivation individuelle par valorisation de l’originalité dans la performance d’émancipation), ainsi que la mise en évidence des conditions de possibilité d’une épopée contemporaine. / This dissertation attempts to understand what it is exactly that makes an epic and a novel. Through a "comparative energetics" we propose to consider literature as a set of ‘economical’, ‘semiotical’ and ‘praxeonomical’ dispositions the use of which contributes to specific types of subjective rendering, ways of thinking and ideological domains. These three categories constitute the framework of the current endeavor: Textual economics is a theory of both production and consumption; semiotics decomposes into rhetorics and noetical analysis; praxeonomy into politics and ethics.Energetics consists in a new approach to literature, influenced by cultural anthropology, narratology, Hegel’s metaphysics and Austin’s pragmatics. Each section of the dissertation includes a “counterpoint" bringing up a transversal approach to works outside the main corpus considered, that either seem to escape the distinction between the established genres of novel and epic, e.g. popular Chinese novels, postcolonial novels, or purport to give its proper epic (epic poetry, humanitarian epic, etc) to modernity. These "counterpoints" also allow a comparison between the energetic approach and the “indigenous” poetics of the authors considered or their contemporaries.Energetics, both objecting to the "poetics of features" and to the "aesthetics of registers," provides a comparative definition of the epic (political disposition of collective subjectification by mobilizing tradition in the ceremony of recognition) and of the novel (ethical dispositif of individual subjectifive rendering by valuing originality in the performance of emancipation). It also sets the conditions for a possible modern epic.

Vissa forskare påstår att det finns ett samband mellan underhållning och immersion. Den episka teatern ville att publiken skulle uppleva reflektion och underhållning men samtidigt vara distanserade från pjäsen. Studien ämnar utifrån detta undersöka hur underhållande och immersivt ett spel utformat efter episka teaterprinciper upplevs. Respondenterna fick efter att de spelat ett sådant spel antingen besvara en enkät eller delta i en intervju gällande sin upplevelse. De upplevde i genomsnitt hög eller medelhög immersion och underhållning. Stora variationer mellan individerna fanns dock. Intresset för temat eller liknande spel verkar ha påverkat respondenternas upplevelse. Immersion och underhållning delar flertalet komponenter vilket verkar göra dem svåra att avgränsa i praktiken. I framtiden finns ett värde att forska vidare inom området för att förstå immersion, underhållning och reflektion och hur dessa påverkar varandra bättre eftersom det kan bidra både till mer samhällskritiskt tänkande samt kunskap bland befolkningen. / Some scientists claim that there's a connection between entertainment and immersion. The epic theatre wanted to distance the audience but at the same time encourage them to reflect and be entertained. The study intended to examine how entertaining and immersive the participants experienced a game designed after epic theatre principles. After playing such a game, the participants either answered a questionnaire or took part in an interview. In general, they experienced high or mid-high immersion and entertainment. However, there were large differences between different individuals. The experience might have been affected by an interest in the theme or similar games. Immersion and entertainment share some components that seem to make the concepts difficult to separate in practice. There's a value in further research to understand immersion, entertainment and reflection better, and also how these affect each other. This might lead to more critical thinking and knowledge amongst the population.

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar e comparar as peças Death of a Salesman [Morte dum caixeiro viajante] (1949), do dramaturgo americano Arthur Miller (1915-2005), e Rasga Coração (1974), do dramaturgo brasileiro Oduvaldo Vianna Filho (Vianinha) (1936-1974), especialmente em relação aos elementos épicos presentes nelas. Ambas as obras possuem uma estrutura formal que apresenta passado e presente simultaneamente no palco. Uma vez que uma peça dramática pressupõe sempre o tempo presente exposto cenicamente, o fato de o passado ser parte estrutural de Death of a Salesman e Rasga Coração já o transforma num primeiro importante traço épico das duas obras. A partir daí, vários outros elementos épicos serão apontados e examinados durante o trabalho sendo que estes elementos são importantes na representação dos conflitos sócio-históricos presentes nos Estados Unidos dos anos 40 e no Brasil nas primeiras sete dé-cadas do século XX. Outro aspecto que as duas peças apresentam em comum é o fato de analisarem um conflito geracional entre pai e filho(s), que representa, ao mesmo tempo, o conflito entre forças sociais e históricas maiores. Estudar quais são estas forças sociais representadas é também objetivo da pesquisa. Isto fará com que semelhanças e diferen-ças entre as obras e seus contextos apareçam e sejam discutidas. / The objective of this research is to analyze and compare the plays Death of a Salesman (1949), by the American playwright Arthur Miller (1915-2005), and Rasga Coração, by the Brazilian playwright Oduvaldo Vianna Filho (Vianinha) (1936-1974), especially concerning their use of epic elements. Both plays have a formal structure that presents past and present simultaneously on stage. Since a dramatic work always presupposes the scenic exposure of the present as a central characteristic, the fact that the past is part of the structure of Death of a Salesman and Rasga Coração transforms it into the most important epic element in both plays. Other epic elements of importance for the repre-sentation of social and historical conflicts of the United States in the forties and of Bra-zil in the first seven decades of the XX century will be examined as well. Another char-acteristic shared by these two plays is the fact that they discuss the generation conflict between father and son(s) in a way that combines the representation of private family affairs to the one of bigger social and historical forces. To study the nature of these so-cial forces represented in the two plays is another objective of this research, which will discuss and point out similarities and differences between them and their respective so-cial contexts.

Esta pesquisa pretende discutir a forma com que Dioniso foi transformado em herói épico nas Dionisíacas de Nono de Panópolis, uma epopeia em quarenta e oito cantos sobre o ciclo de Dioniso, desde a fundação de Tebas e o estabelecimento de seus antepassados à apoteose olímpica do deus. A análise será baseada nas características de Dioniso no campo de batalha e em oposição aos três principais adversários no poema, Licurgo, Deríades e Penteu. Para uma melhor compreensão da construção de Dioniso como herói, é necessária uma análise sobre o contexto social e cultural em que Nono compõe sua obra, assim como a relação do poeta com Homero, o principal poeta épico grego. Em anexo encontram-se os cantos XXXIX e XL das Dionisíacas em original grego e na tradução feita por mim. / This research intend to discuss the way Dionysus was transformed into epic hero in Nonnus Dionysiaca, an epic in forty-eight chants concerning the Dionysian Cycle, from the foundation of Thebes and the establishment of their ancestors to the Olympic apotheosis of the god. The analysis will be based on Dionysos features on the battlefield in opposition to the three main opponents in the poem, Lycurgus, Deríades and Pentheus. For a better understanding of the construction of Dionysus as a hero, an analysis is needed on the social and cultural context in which Nono composes his poem, as well as the poet\'s relationship with Homer, the Greek main epic poet. Attached are the chants XXXIX and XL of Dionysiaca in original greek and the translation made by me.