Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T12:23:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 999763 bytes, checksum: 709496aded1d09fb0e40be5200a42c69 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-04-27 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The study has as objective to discuss the representations of history, time and memory produced in João Guimarães Rosas‟ literature. The research examined how these three elements appear in the stories of Primeiras Estórias e Tutaméia-Terceiras Estórias. We also analyzed his interviews, as well as letters exchanged with friends, relatives and family, and notes recorded in diaries, notebooks and studies for the work. This research aims to demonstrate that the historical culture of an individual is not formed only by the school or academic knowledge, but by a wide range of knowledge and interests that lie beyond the historiography and history itself. This dissertation considers that there is, in Guimarães Rosa´s work, a constant need of evasion of time. The author criticizes the history in that it favors the study on momentary and deeply desecrated events. Memory becomes, in his work as a literary resource whose purpose is to restore the sacred dimension to events. This study is linked to the research line "History Teaching and Historical Knowledge" of Paraíba Federal University Post Graduation Program, with a major in History and Historical Culture , and intends to analyze the readings and experiences that guided the statements made by Guimarães Rosa, throughout life, "against the story." / O objetivo deste trabalho é discutir as representações sobre história, tempo e memória presentes na literatura de João Guimarães Rosa. A pesquisa examinou o modo como estes três elementos aparecem nos contos de Primeiras Estórias e Tutaméia Terceiras Estórias. Também foram analisadas as entrevistas concedidas pelo escritor mineiro, assim como as cartas trocadas com amigos, parentes e familiares, e as anotações feitas em diários, cadernos e estudos para a obra. Esta pesquisa pretendeu demonstrar que a cultura histórica de um indivíduo não é formada apenas pelo conhecimento escolar ou acadêmico, mas por uma ampla gama de saberes e interesses que se situam além da historiografia e da própria ciência histórica. A presente dissertação considera que há, na obra de Guimarães Rosa, uma constante necessidade de evasão do tempo. O autor critica a história na medida em que ela privilegia o estudo sobre eventos passageiros e profundamente dessacralizados. A memória se transforma, em sua obra, em recurso literário cujo objetivo é restituir a dimensão sagrada aos acontecimentos. Este estudo se vincula à linha de pesquisa Ensino de História e Saberes Históricos do Programa de Pós- Graduação em História da Universidade Federal da Paraíba, com área de concentração em História e Cultura Histórica , e pretendeu perscrutar as leituras e experiências que nortearam as declarações que Guimarães Rosa fez, ao longo da vida, contra a história .

Orientador: Sérgio Augusto Queiroz Norte / Banca: Gabriel Giannattasio / Banca: Jozimar Paes de Almeida / Resumo: Este trabalho dissertativo tem como objetivo apresentar e discutir as contribuições no campo da História e da Filosofia empreendidas pelo escritor Oswald de Andrade (1890-1954), nos anos de 1945 a 1954, período este da fase madura do autor. Para tanto, utilizaremos como fontes teses que Oswald produziu, bem como suas contribuições jornalísticas, romances e memórias. Passaremos pela fortuna crítica, bem como artigos e livros sobre o romancista e sua obra. Situaremos o mesmo como ator político, como homem do seu tempo e escritor preocupado em tomar partido dos assuntos do Brasil, tendo a utopia como elemento perene em sua biografia e bibliografia. / Abstract: This dissertation has as objective to present and to argue the contributions in the field of History and Philosophy undertaken by the writer Oswald de Andrade (1890-1954), in the years of 1945 the 1954, period of his mature phase. For that, we will use as sources the philosophical essays that Oswald produced, as well his journalistic contributions, romances and memories. We will deal with the criticism on his works, as well the articles and books on the novelist and his workmanship. We will point out his political role, as a man of his time and a writer worried about the brazilian problems and focusing utopia as a everlasting issue in his biography and bibliography. / Mestre

Esta dissertação se propõe a analisar a trajetória dos romances ingleses no Rio de Janeiro nas três primeiras décadas do século XIX. Para tanto, utilizamos os documentos de requisição de liberação de livros da Mesa do Desembargo do Paço com a finalidade de apontar os responsáveis pela importação dessas obras literárias, bem como indicar quais romances ingleses tinham maior circulação. Visando esboçar o percurso dos romances, examinamos os anúncios de compra, venda, aluguel e leilão de dois periódicos importantes: a Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro (1808 1821) e o Diário do Rio de Janeiro (1821 1831). / The purpose of this dissertation is to analyse the circulation of English novels in Rio de Janeiro in the first three decades of the nineteenth century. The documents of the Mesa do Desembargo do Paço (the institution responsible for the censorship and liberation of books) in Rio de Janeiro will be used in order to bring light to the booksellers who were responsible for the importation of English novels as well as to highlight which of these novels were bestsellers. For an overview of the trade of English novels in Rio de Janeiro, the advertisements of two of the most important newspapers of the beginning of the nineteenth century will be taken into account: the Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro (1808 1821) and the Diário do Rio de Janeiro (1821 1831)

No description available.

L’objet de cette thèse est d’étudier la morale des histoires tragiques, du milieu du XVIe siècle au début du XVIIe siècle, à partir de la notion d’exemplarité. Cette notion nous permet de dépasser l’opposition entre l’histoire tragique conçue comme « histoire de loi » ou comme une littérature à sensation et de trouver une voie médiane entre le moralisme de l’une et immoralité de l’autre. La morale des histoires tragiques est avant tout une morale de l’exemple. Nous montrons que l’idée que l’exemplarité traverse une crise à la Renaissance doit être largement relativisée et que le mode d’énonciation de la nouvelle favorise son fonctionnement exemplaire. Nous analysons ensuite comment l’exemplarité morale permet de comprendre le positionnement générique des histoires tragiques et explique en grande partie son rapprochement avec l’histoire et la tragédie, conçues comme des genres moraux. Enfin, nous étudions la nature et les problèmes de cette exemplarité qui repose sur la force des mauvais exemples et sur des cas extraordinaires qui semblent aller à contre-courant des prescriptions morales. Les histoires tragiques tentent de mettre sur pied un nouveau type d’exemplarité qui s’appuie sur le cas singulier et non plus sur la répétition d’exemples semblables. / This thesis aims to show how exemplarity allows for a fresh analysis of the morality of tragic short stories, known as “histoires tragiques”, between the second half of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th. The ”histoires tragiques” are neither just “histoires de loi” nor sensationalistic stories, and exemplarity helps us find a middle way between the former’s moralism and the later’s immorality. The morality of the “histoires tragiques” essentially works through examples: on this basis, we first put into perspective the crisis that exemplarity is thought to be going through during the Early modern period. We then argue that, through moral exemplarity, we can understand how the “histoires tragiques” take after the two moral “genres” of history and tragedy. Lastly, we study the limits of this exemplarity, which mainly proceeds from the seduction of bad examples and extraordinary cases that seem to be in contrast with commun moral. As the “histoires tragiques” don’t rely anymore on the repetition of similar exemples, this singularity of cases can be seen as a mean to renew exemplarity.

This dissertation is a study of the religious and ethical influences on the lives of three American Jewish women: Anzia Yezierska (ca. 1880-1970), immigrant-born author from the Lower East Side who gave poignant voice in her fiction to immigrant Jewish women's lives; Rose Pastor Stokes (1879-1933), immigrant-born political activist and an early member of the American Communist party; and Maud Nathan (1862-1946), an upper-class, American-born Jew who fought for female enfranchisement and better working conditions for store clerks and sweatshop women. In a thematic approach drawing comparisons among the three women, this study explores the role and impact of Jewish religion and values on their personal and professional life choices. Related to this main question are the following secondary questions: As deviant women--women who did not fulfill traditional gender and religious prescriptions for home-bound domesticity--how did these women negotiate their deviance within the Jewish and larger American communities? In their autobiographies, how did they present their lives, and to what extent did they reveal any awareness of the impact of their Jewish birthright upon their life choices? And how did their relations with the significant people in their lives--friends, families, and mentors--influence both their gender and Jewish consciousness? Through close reading of their writings, especially their autobiographies, augmented by selected theoretical work in the presentation of self, I examine how they each defined their Jewishness in ways consonant with their personal and professional aspirations, and how they all drew on their cultural, religious, and class values to play an active public role in their time.

This study aims to examine the representation of male and female authors and how they are described in three literature textbooks used in Swedish upper secondary school. The theoretical framework consists of gender theory with focus on the stereotyped images that have existed, and still exists, about what is characteristically masculine and feminine. The authors have been counted quantitatively and the descriptions of the authors have been analyzed qualitatively through close reading from a gender perspective. The result shows that male authors are overrepresented in all three textbooks but that female authors are overrepresented in pictures in one of the textbooks. The textbooks do not reach quantitative equality in author representation in text but do so in author representation in pictures. The result also shows that the descriptions of authors are contributing to the maintenance of a male norm and to stereotyped images of men and women. A result which is not in agreement with the Swedish curriculum values concerning equality between men and women.

"This study has been undertaken to determine if the World Landmark Books are of the high quality claimed by the publishing house and if therefore they are worthy of inclusion in the libraries serving the twelve-to-fourteen-year-old groups. Since it is planned as a companion study to U. S. Landmarks, An Analysis and Evaluation, a paper done in 1957 by Mrs. Ethel Mestayer Huff, the same general outline and procedure will be followed. This will make possible the comparison and future unification of these two studies, should it seem desirable"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts." / Advisor: Agnes Gregory, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-59).

Magister Philosophiae - MPhil / The Arabic language is a means by which the culture, beliefs and myths of Arabic speaking communities in the world can be understood. The ability to communicate, read and write in the Arabic language, can be used to research, read and write about the customs, traditions, folklore, habits, poetry, music, history and literature of the people where Arabic is considered the mother tongue The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (act 200 of 1993) states that 11 every person shall have the right to use the language and to participate in the cultural life of his or her choice" (p 16 (31)). The Constitution further states that " no person shall be unfairly discriminated against, directly or indirectly, and, without derogating from the The existence, respect and promotion of the Arabic language has been enshrined in the South African Constitution. Arabic is recognised as a language used by communities in South Africa even though it is mainly used for religious and ceremonial functions at this point in time. In 1993 I started teaching at Cravenby Secondary School, (Sub. A to Std. 10). During that year I did not teach the Arabic language. I, however, enquired from teachers regarding their teaching approach of the Arabic language. I also questioned the pupils about their opinion towards the language and the approach used by teachers. The overwhelming response by the pupils was that they had to learn the meaning of words in isolation and out of context.

The Swedish school system is based on basic, democratic values. A fairly new addition to the value system is that the education should provide attention to equal rights between men and women. A way of doing this can be to use fiction in the Swedish language classroom. It can allow students to reflect on other’s living conditions and develop their critical thinking. But fiction has an uncertain future in the language classroom. Studies show that working specifically with the value system is often not prioritized by teachers. Instead, the education focuses on qualities that can be measured. This kind of priority makes fiction lose its potential to provide an opportunity for students to have meaningful conversations about human society. The aim for the study is to explore the didactic potential of the gothic literature, a genre know for its hidden critique towards society. Two gothic short stories from the 1800s are analyzed based on how the characters engage with each other regarding gender power and gender relations. This is conducted through a two part analysis. The first part is a close reading of the short stories based on a gender perspective and the other from a sociohistorical perspective. The analysis show that the characters from both stories uphold gender norms from when the stories were written. The stories’ potential is that they encourage discussions about the interaction between fiction and the living conditions during the 1800s. To further explore the didactic potential of the gothic literature, studies should be conducted where either the students’ experiences of the literature is examined or swedish teachers viewon the gothic literature.