The present dissertation investigates similes and their importance in Eichendorff’s narrative work. The sources of the investigation consist of seven of Eichendorff’s narratives. Their 734 similes make up the corpus, which is presented in its entirety in the appendix. The context of the similes is partly included as well. Initially, I define the concept of “simile” more precisely, partly distancing myself from the definitions found in classical dictionaries of literary terms. After this, I describe my procedure for analysis in detail. This turned out to be necessary, since there was no similar study to be found on this topic in the extensive literature on Eichendorff. The search for models of types of similes brought me back to antique rhetoric as well as to Middle High German epic poems. In the first analysis, the types of similes occurring in the corpus are presented. The syntactic structures of image receivers and image givers are used as criteria. Four structures of similes occurred: a) classical similes and b) similes with image givers, which represent adverbial clauses and c) as / as if – clauses or are d) subject-related. The frequency and the development of frequency of types of similes are presented as well. In the second step of the thesis, I investigate whether similes tend to depict conditions/qualities or procedures/actions. It turned out that similes reflecting conditions/qualities, i.e. epic similes, dominated strongly. The high number of similes could possibly be explained by the functions carried out by epic similes in narrative texts. In the third part, I concern myself with the question whether the similes of the corpus are imaginative representations only and what kind of sensorial perceptions they express. Admittedly, the dominating percentage of the similes proved to be images, but more than fifteen per cent consist of sounds and other sensorial perceptions. Furthermore, imaginative similes, but also sounding similes express motion, so that they illustrate pictures in motion and sounding motion respectively. These come close to synaesthesia, whereas only five similes illustrate „pure“ synaesthesia. In contrast, subject-related similes are perceptions of different sensations and feelings, illustrating the inner life of a character not shared by any other character. Finally, the semantic content of the similes is investigated in order to determine the metamorphosis, i.e. the trope transfer from proprium to improprium. It turned out that only the classical simile originating in antique rhetoric is suitable for a semantic analysis. Above all, there is great variation in the trope transfer. The metamorphosis human being → nature dominates strongly, which makes the narrative text appear as a palimpsest, in which yet another world glimmer in front of the human being behind every character. However, the many trope transfers that convey reality → unreality could be interpreted as transitions and as a “magical code” of Eichendorff. Furthermore, the semantic analysis uncovers content and motives of classical similes. It becomes clear that pre-constructed – and only pre-constructed - content is imitated here. Consequently, it can be asserted that Eichendorff’s great number of similes constitute or at least contribute to the formulaic manner (according to Kohlschmidt) and the intertextuality (according to Nienhaus) in Eichendorff’s narrative work. Above all, the subject-related simile type turns out to be a typical representative of Romanticism because of its subjectivism. Together with its preformed semantic content, it constitutes the “romantic formula” of Eichendorff’s work.

Tradicinės x86 architektūros spartinimui artėjant prie galimybių ribos, kompanija Intel pradėjo kurti naują IA-64 architektūrą, paremtą EPIC – išreikštinai lygiagrečiai vykdomomis instrukcijomis vieno takto metu. Ši pagrindinė savybė leidžia vykdyti iki šešių instrukcijų per vieną taktą. Taipogi architektūra pasižymi tokiomis savybėmis, kurios leido efektyviai spręsti su kodo optimizavimu susijusias problemas tradicinėse architektūrose. Tačiau kompiliatorių optimizavimo algoritmai ilgą laiką buvo tobulinami tradicinėse architektūrose, todėl norint išnaudoti naująją architektūrą, reikia ieškoti būdų tobulinti esamus kompiliatorius. Vienas iš būdų – kompiliatoriaus vidinių parametrų atsakingų už optimizacijas reikšmių pritaikymas IA-64. Būtent toks yra šio darbo tikslas, kuriam pasiekti reikia išnagrinėti IA-64 savybes, jas vėliau eksperimentiškai taikyti realaus kodo pavyzdžiuose bei įvertinti jų įtaką kodo vykdymo spartai. Pagal gautus rezultatus nagrinėjami kompiliatoriaus vidiniai parametrai ir su specialia kompiliatorių testavimo programa randamas geriausias reikšmių rinkinys šiai architektūrai. Vėliau šis rinkinys išbandomas su taikomosiomis programomis. Gauto parametrų rinkinio reikšmės turėtų leisti generuoti efektyvesnį kodą IA-64 architektūrai. / After performance optimization of traditional architectures began to reach their limits, Intel corporation started to develop new architecture based on EPIC – Explicitly Parallel Instruction Counting. This main feature allowed up to six instructions to be executed in single CPU cycle. Also this architecture includes more features, which allowed efficient solution of traditional architectures code optimization problems. However for long time code optimization algorithms have been improved for traditional architectures only, as a result those algorithms should be adopted to new architecture. One of the ways to do that – exploration of internal compilers parameters, which are responsible for code optimizations. That is the primary target of this work and in order to reach it the features of the IA-64 architecture and impact to execution performance must be explored using real-life code examples. Tests results may be used later for internal parameters selection and further exploration of these parameters values by using special compiler performance testing benchmarks. The set of those new values could be tested with real life applications in order to prove efficiency of IA-64 architecture features.

Qualifying work has interdisciplinary charakter. This work is concentrate on knowledge of history and culture of age last members of Přemysl´s dynasty and the first members of Luxembourg´s dynasty. The primary aim of work is to identify the conditions under which there is courtly literature and minnesing on the courts of these rulers. Next aim is using the comparative method to define the basic topics in prose and poetry. The secondary aim is recognizing influence of German and Latin literature domestic and foreign on literature written in Czech. The work ?Minnesing and court literature at the court of last members of Přemysl's dynasty and the first members of Luxembourg's dynasty? deals with years 1283?1306 and 1310?1333 taking into account also past years.

Notion dramaturgique majeure au vu de la récurrence de son emploi dans les traités d’esthétique, la crise souffre toutefois d’un déficit théorique : ignorée par Aristote dans La Poétique, par Corneille dans ses Discours sur la tragédie ou encore par Hegel dans son Cours d’esthétique, la crise est une notion encore à construire. C’est à partir du XIXe siècle qu’est développée une interprétation de la tragédie classique comme crise : il s’agit alors de penser en quoi la représentation de dérèglements tant intimes que politiques participe d’une remise en cause de la conception classique du monde fondée sur un principe d’ordre et d’harmonie. Résolument, la crise se donne à penser, à partir de la tragédie classique, comme mise en crise. Une telle conception se trouve toutefois contestée dans le drame bourgeois qui conçoit la crise comme état de crise : dans le prolongement de l’esthétique du tableau que développe Diderot, il s’agit en effet de dépeindre sur scène des situations critiques qui ne menacent en aucun cas la conception bourgeoise du monde.C’est dans une hésitation face à ces deux définitions concurrentes de la crise que trouvent à s’inventer, aux XXe et XXIe siècles, des poétiques de la mise en crise et des poétiques de l’état de crise qui prétendent expliquer le monde ou simplement l’explorer, l’élucider ou simplement l’étudier. Pour Bertolt Brecht, Peter Weiss ou encore Edward Bond qui ont une approche processuelle de la crise, il s’agit en effet de susciter chez le spectateur un ébranlement qui lui permettra d’envisager à nouveaux frais la réalité et de déterminer comment agir pour pouvoir la transformer. À l’inverse, pour Ödön von Horváth, Michel Vinaver ou encore Martin Crimp qui ont une approche contextuelle de la crise, il s’agit d’inventer une situation à partir de laquelle il devient possible d’explorer de manière inédite la relation de l’homme à lui-même, aux autres et au monde, d’explorer la « condition de l’homme moderne », pour reprendre la formule d’Hannah Arendt. Dès lors, l’étude de ces poétiques de la mise en crise et de l’état de crise se révèle déterminante en ceci qu’elles sont fondatrices de deux traditions dramatiques qui structurent intégralement l’histoire du théâtre occidental : celles du théâtre critique et du théâtre clinique. / The dramaturgic notion of crisis recurrently appears in aesthetic treatises, which attests its importance in the frame of theatre theory. Nevertheless, a definition of this notion is still missing : crisis is not even mentionned in Aristotle's Poetics, in the Discourses on tragedy by Corneille, or in Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics. Theatrical crisis therefore needs to be thoroughly examined and defined. From the 19th century, French neoclassical tragedy has been read as a theatre of crisis : attention was then drawn to the way the disorders depicted on stage – on intimate as well as political level – put into question a classical conception of a world based on order and harmony. From this startpoint, theoricians resolutely use the notion of crisis to think this undermining questioning of the world. However, this definition of crisis is not relevant to the 18th century drame bourgeois, in which crisis is only used as a dramatic plot device : in line with the tableau in his Aesthetics, Diderot calls for a theatre of critical situations, which do not however threaten a bourgeois conception of the world. The gap between these two definitions of theatrical crisis has left a space for invention in the 20th and 21th centuries : dramatists have used crisis in various ways to explain the world, or simply explore it, to decifer it, or simply reflect upon it. Bertold Brecht, Peter Weiss and Edward Bond have shaped crisis as a process of involvement of the audience : they aim to shake spectators to make them consider real life with new eyes, and to ask themselves how they can transform it. On the opposite, Ödön von Horvath, Michel Vinaver and Martin Crimp have used crisis as a contextual device : they invent a situation which allows them to explore in a totally new way how man behaves towards himself, towards the others, and towards the world, that is, to explore the modern « Human Condition » according to the words of Hannah Arendt. The study of these two different poetics of crisis is therefore decisive, inasmuch as they have given birth to two different dramatic traditions which structure the whole history of Western theatre : on the one hand, the critical theatre, on the other, the clinical theatre.

Le manuscrit Aix-en-Provence, bibliothèque municipale, 428/(306) contient deux ensembles de textes. Le premier, La Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin, est un poème épique rimé retraçant la vie de Bertrand du Guesclin (1320-1380), modeste chevalier breton qui s'illustre lors de la première partie de la Guerre de Cent Ans et devient connétable de France. Cette biographie a été composée par un certain Cuvelier entre 1380 et 1385, peu après la mort du guerrier. Le second est un ensemble de sept pièces lyriques écrites en mémoire de Bertrand, dont certaines sont attribuées à Eustache Deschamps. La première œuvre, à la fois récit historique, épopée, éloge posthume, biographie et poème, tient une place de choix dans la production littéraire de l'époque, puisqu'elle est considérée comme étant la dernière chanson de geste à avoir été rédigée en français. Les poèmes à la gloire du connétable sont pleinement en adéquation avec le renouveau lyrique de la fin du Moyen Age. A travers notre travail, nous souhaitons faire découvrir ou redécouvrir ces textes mal connus. Nous fournissons, avec la transcription de tous les textes originaux du manuscrit, la description des autres témoins, une étude littéraire incluant une analyse du contexte ainsi que de nouvelles informations sur l'auteur, une analyse linguistique du texte, des notes critiques, un glossaire, un index des noms propres, la liste des proverbes et une bibliographie sélective. / The manuscript Aix-en-Provence, municipal library, 428(306) contains two different texts. The first, La Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin, is a rimed epic poem telling the life of Bertrand du Guesclin (1320-1380), a Britain knight from a modest background who took part of the One Hundred Years War, and would become the constable of France. This biography has been written by a certain Cuvelier between 1380 and 1385, right after Bertrand's death. The second is a set of seven lyric poems written in memory of Bertrand, three of which were written by Eustache Deschamps. The first text, at the same time historical, epic, a tribute, biographie and poem, has a considerable importance in the literary production of the day as the last chanson de geste to be written in French. The poems celebrating the constable are fully in line with the lyric revival of the end of the 14th century. Through our study, we like to discover or rediscover this underrated work ; we will provide original text of the manuscript, descriptions of the other manuscripts, a literary review including a study of the context and new information about the author, a linguistic study, critical notes, a glossary, an index, a list of proverbs, and a comprehensive bibliography.

Notre travail se propose d'analyser les formes et les fonctions que peut revêtir le paysage dans un corpus de textes épiques posthomériques. Les Argonautiques d'Apollonios de Rhodes et leur réécriture tardive anonyme, les Argonautiques Orphiques, les Posthomériques de Quintus de Smyrne, la Prise d'Ilion de Triphiodore et les Dionysiaques de Nonnos de Panopolis nous offrent un champ d’investigation fructueux pour analyser les représentations littéraires du paysage de manière transhistorique. Nos textes opèrent une première transformation du paysage épique archaïque qui est d'abord l'image du monde avec laquelle il se confond (adéquation posée entre bouclier, île et monde) en détachant de cette équation le paysage pour lui conférer une plus grande autonomie. Le monde devient une mosaïque de paysages autonomes qui gagnent en épaisseur du fait qu'ils se chargent d'une dimension identitaire. La polymorphie du paysage donne alors sa texture mouvante au monde des Grecs : c'est la dimension plastique et artiste que le texte de poésie épique emprunte pour mettre en mots ces images du monde qui révèle les formes du paysage épique. Une diversité de schèmes paysagers émergent et ouvre l'intertexte littéraire à l'hétérogénéité des formes artistiques. De cette fusion de processus et de formes naît une singularité bien antique de perception et de traduction du paysage : la merveille. Paysage et merveille s'entremêlent étroitement au point de se substituer l'un à l'autre : c'est là une définition possible du paysage antique à partir de la période hellénistique. Mais le paysage ainsi identifié et construit appartient aussi au monde dont il contribue à imager la forme. Il est clairement localisé d'un point de vue géographique : image vivante d'une partie du monde il lui offre son identité par ses caractéristiques topiques singulières. Il est une forme d'identification régionale et confine au vernaculaire. Le paysage devient un instrument de promotion intellectuelle et culturelle. Entre diversité formelle et singularité locale, le paysage voyage entre fiction et réel : ses modalités de construction empruntent au littéraire et à l'artistique et s'étendent ensuite grandeur nature. Le genre épique, marqué par l'intertextualité innovante, fait du paysage l'image même du processus de transposition et d'adaptation. Manifestation de l'exercice d'une subjectivité antique singulière puis collective, instrument de mesure du travail de l'imaginaire à l’œuvre dans les processus complexes de réception littéraire et culturelle, le paysage antique entre transmission et invention, s'ouvre à l'expérience quotidienne et sociale. Son existence antique est effective. / The undertaking of this work is to analyze the forms and functions that the landscape can take in a corpus of posthomeric epic texts. The Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes and its late anonymous rewriting The Orphic Argonautica, the Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus, the Ilioupersis of Triphiodorus, and The Dionysiaca of Nonnus Panopolitanus provide us with a fruitful field of investigation for the analysis of the literary representations of the landscape as transhistorical. Firstly, our texts operate one transformation of the archaic epic landscape that is first the image of the world with which it merges (the conformity placed between shield, island, and world) by separating the landscape from this equation and giving it greater autonomy. The world is a mosaic of autonomous landscapes that gain texture as they take on a dimension of identity. The polymorphism of the landscape then gives its moving texture to the world of the ancient Greeks : the plastic and artist dimension is borrowed by the Epic text to put into words the images of the world, which reveal epic landforms. A variety of landscape patterns emerges and opens the literary intertext to the heterogeneity of artistic forms. From this fusion of process and forms, a singularity arises, a singularity particularly antique of the perception and the translation of the landscape : wonder. Landscape and wonder mingle so narrowly as to substitute one for the other : this is a possible definition of the ancient landscape from the Hellenistic period. But the landscape as thus identified and constructed also belongs to the world the image of which it contributes to form. It is clearly localized in a geographical perspective : the landscape becomes a vivid picture of the world and the former offers the latter its identity by its unique topical characteristics. It is a form of regional identification and it is sometimes confined to the vernacular. The landscape becomes an instrument for intellectual and cultural promotion. Between formal diversity and local singularity, the landscape travels between fiction and reality : its construction methods borrow from the literary and artistic and then extend to nature. The epic genre, characterised by innovative intertextuality, makes the landscape the image of the process of transposition and adaptation. As a manifestation of the exercise of a singular and then a collective ancient subjectivity, the landscape is an instrument for measuring the unfolding of the imagination at work in the complex process of literary reception and cultural transmission ; the ancient landscape between transmission and invention, opens itself up to the everyday and social experience. Its ancient existence is effective.

Kersti Ståbi Performing poems from the Poetic Edda I am a folk singer and oral storyteller. In my Masters project I have made a series of concerts performing the poem Vǫluspá from the Poetic Edda in its original Old Norse. Building on the musical elements in the Eddic poems, I’ve been searching the borderlands between speech and singing, using melodic material in the modern Swedish and Norwegian languages. As a method I have imitated singers in different living epic singing traditions from around the world, basing the creative process on mimicry and improvisation. This was a fast route to performances of great diversity: the Manas singer from Kyrgyzstan gradually enters a trancelike state, while Pansori from Korea made me think "unmelodic folk opera" and the Indian Pandvani is all-or-nothing storytelling with music serving as an engine. One specific perspective I have researched is the concept of a ”First Listener” - a representative of the audience on stage that can, but doesn’t necessarily have to, contribute musically. Traditionally the First Listener in Pandvani is very active; singing, shouting and challenging the teller, while the Pansori First Listener is a supporting commenting percussionist. As a storyteller and lead singer I found the presence of a First Listener highly fruitful in the process leading up to the performances. As a stage concept it offers forceful dynamics between the singer, the listeners and the poem. The poems of the Poetic Edda were created and performed in an oral tradition, but survived to modern times only via written text. I regard myself a performer formed in a literate culture but in an oral music tradition. With that in mind I have explored performance of this epic material and its metres. Translation has become a keyword with many facets.

The presented master's thesis deals with the Epic of Zimrī-Lîm, a text from the ancient city of Mari from the beginning of the 18th century BC. The text of the epic is included in transliteration (based on the edition by Michaël Guichard from 2014) and in English translation. The epic has also been published online as the first entry of NERE (Near Eastern Royal Epics) project on ORACC (Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus). In addition to the text itself, the thesis includes a broader historical-cultural commentary. There, selected elements of the ancient text are portraited as well-set within the lived cultural-political environment of the ancient Near East, with particular attention to the time of Zimrī-Lîm. Most of the space is devoted to the religious aspect of the work, especially the role of the deities. Last but not least, the composition is discussed within the context of other royal epics of the ancient Near East. Key Words Zimrī-Lîm, Mari, TellHariri, epic, royal epics, Akkadian literature, narrative, royal ideology, religion, ancient Syria, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Near East, Middle Bronze Age

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Cette thèse s’intéresse avant tout aux essais et aux récits poétiques de Pierre Perrault de manière à saisir les dynamiques qui seraient tributaires d’un certain regard rhétorique. Elle cherche ainsi les différents types de traces du cours classique qui se trouvent dans l’une des parties écrites de l’œuvre afin d’interroger ensuite les documentaires. Elle pose comme hypothèse de départ que la posture de rejet qu’il adopte face aux référents classiques n’empêche pas ces derniers d’être reconduits dans son œuvre participant alors à sa propre inventio. Ainsi, même en dénigrant toute érudition, il construit une œuvre écrite qui est soumise aux impératifs de cette étape. Cette apparente contradiction se transforme ainsi en un défi qui semble vouloir déboucher sur une série d’apories au sens platonicien du terme. Ces apories modulent un certain agencement du texte qui mobilise les composantes d’une autre étape du discours : la dispositio. De fait, la posture en elle-même constitue le moteur d’une tension essentielle à l’acte créateur chez Perrault. Sans elle, sans sa compréhension, l’œuvre peut être prisonnière d’une lecture folklorisante à laquelle on a souvent essayé de la réduire. Saisir les mouvements aporétiques de cette œuvre est donc apparu rapidement comme une façon d’en dégager l’originalité et la force et d’en expliquer la réception favorable. Ils forcent l’adoption de ce « regard » qui oblige les lecteurs et les spectateurs à réintégrer certains « classiques » pour mieux saisir les mouvements internes de l’œuvre. / This thesis primarily focuses on the essays and poetic narratives of Pierre Perrault in order to grasp the dynamics influenced by a rhetorical gaze. It seeks to identify the various traces of classical influences within the written aspects of the work, intending to subsequently examine the cinematographic works. The initial hypothesis posits that Perrault's rejecting stance toward classical references does not prevent them from being reintegrated into his work, thus contributing to his own inventio. Therefore, even while disparaging erudition, he constructs a written work subject to the imperatives of this stage. This apparent contradiction transforms into a challenge that seems to lead to a series of aporias in their Platonic sense. These aporias shape a certain structure of the text that engages the components of another stage of discourse: dispositio. Indeed, the posture itself constitutes the driving force of an essential tension in Perrault's creative act. Without it, without its understanding, the work may be confined to a folkloric interpretation, a reduction attempted all too often. Grasping the aporetic movements of this work has quickly emerged to extract its originality and strength and to explain its favorable reception. They compel the adoption of a "perspective" that forces readers and viewers to reintegrate certain "classics" to better comprehend the internal movements of the work.