The purpose of this essay is to analyse the problem of the rational justification of value judgments. To a large extent, I have used Taylor's account of the technique of justification (verification, validation, vindication, and rational choice of a way of life), as this is presented in his book, Normative Discourse. To a lesser extent, I have also used Baier's account of the technique of validation, as it is presented in his book, The Moral Point of View. I have attempted to show that it is possible to justify value judgments, despite the logical dichotomy between factual statements and evaluative statements. 'Justification' is taken as proof of correctness: that is, a statement is said to be justified if it is proven to be correct. On Taylor's technique, justification is possible, although only incompletely so. It is possible to prove that a value judgment is the correct one to make from within the perspective provided by a given way of life. Justification cannot be complete since the adoption of the perspective cannot be justified. On Baier's technique of validation, complete justification can be achieved: once it has been shown that an evaluatum meets the criteria in terms of which it was judged, and that these criteria are relevant (valid) for judging that object since the object must meet these criteria in order effectively to realize its purpose, nothing more needs to be shown. Although Baier's account allows for complete justification while Taylor's allows for only incomplete justification, Baier's account cannot be used to replace that of Taylor. They are appropriate in different contexts. While Baier's account of validation is appropriate for judgments of use-value, Taylor's account is appropriate for value judgments other than those of use-value. Accordingly, justification is possible using either technique, although complete justification may be possible only in the context of judgments of use-value. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

[pt] As séries de ficção estão entre as principais fontes de entretenimento nos últimos anos, fazendo parte do dia a dia e dos diálogos travados por um grande número de pessoas. O aumento de opções de plataformas para o consumo deste tipo de conteúdo e a tecnologia de video on demand (VOD) foram alguns dos principais fatores que permitiram a oferta de mais títulos de séries simultaneamente, com a possibilidade de acessá-los em um banco de dados, inclusive de alcance mais global. O estudo da ficção seriada é um campo de aumento de interesse acadêmico, mas ainda aquém em pesquisa, perante a relevância do tema, até para um melhor desenvolvimento do mercado brasileiro. O foco deste trabalho está no estudo da ficção seriada que entrelaça diferentes pontos de vista. As narrativas que apresentam múltiplas perspectivas chamam atenção para a relatividade da verdade e para o fato de que a realidade é construída. Serão analisadas séries de ficção que trabalham nessa lógica de perspectivas múltiplas, seja em um mesmo episódio, como a série norte-americana The Affair; seja na mistura entre episódios e temporadas, como em Thirteen Reasons Why; ou a partir da serialização por diferentes plataformas, como a websérie transmídia The Lizzie Bennet Diaries; ou a série norueguesa Skam, que além de ser transmídia muda de protagonista, entre os alunos de uma mesma escola, a cada temporada. / [en] Fictional series are among the main entertainment activities in recent years, being part of the daily life and social debate of a number of people. The increase in platform offer for the consumption of this type of content and the video on demand technology (VOD) were some of the main factors that allowed the offer of more serial titles simultaneously, with the possibility of accessing them in a databank, including a higher global reach. The study of serial fiction is gaining academic interest, but it is still small given the relevance of the theme, even for a better development of the national market. The focus of this work is the study of serial fiction that combines different points of view. Narratives that present multiple perspectives call attention to the relativity of truth and the fact that reality is created. Fictional series that operate on this logic of multiple perspectives will be analyzed, whether in the same episode, such as the North American series The Affair; or in a mix of episodes and seasons, as in Thirteen Reasons Why; or from serialization in different platforms, such as the transmedia web series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries; or the Norwegian series Skam, that besides being transmedia, changes each season its protagonist, among students of the same school.

In real life we each experience the world separately through our individual bodies, which necessitates what Kenneth Burke calls "identification." In this paper, I assert that as artistic media have structured our aesthetic experience in a way that increasingly resembles our lived, embodied experiences, our identification with fictional characters requires less imaginative effort and is more automatic and powerful. I will show this by analyzing how we inhabit characters through sensory engagement, point of view, and narrative form in literature, film, and video games (specifically action/adventure games, RPGs, and MMORPGs). I will then build off of Burke's foundational theory to articulate a clearly defined spectrum of identification as it occurs in art, emphasizing that identification through video games is the most immediate and powerful. To conclude, I'll consider how video games—a young and stigmatized art form—can formulate our identities and increase our ability to identify with others in real life, where we cannot inhabit each other's bodies.

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<p>This thesis deals with the polyphonic and argumentative functions of the French negation marker, ne, in editorial texts from the daily press. The concept ‘polyphony’ relates to the presence of multiple voices within one and the same utterance. According to this view, negation triggers a subdivision of an utterance in two points of view. Thus the sentence Sweden will not be a part of the monetary union can be divided in two points of view, the underlying ‘Sweden will be a part of the monetary union’, and the explicit ‘Sweden will not be a part of the monetary union’.</p><p>First, I study the polyphonic structure of negative utterances, notably their division in two points of view, by taking into account their specific linguistic features. This is done so as to identify the relevant linguistic criteria that determine the polyphonic interpretation of the negation. The study demonstrates that contextual elements, including pragmatic connectors, presuppositions contrastive elements, and several other devices constitute the primary source of polyphonic markers.</p><p>Negation is furthermore approached from a textual perspective. I explore how the two opposite points of view that are associated with negation form polyphonic sequences with other points of view carrying the same semantic content, and how these dynamic points of view are associated to the different discourse beings that are found in the newspaper article. I found that these sequences often embrace the central polemic theme of the article and, also, that the polyphonic function is not restricted to the negative utterance but constitutes an element that ensures textual and argumentative coherence. These two analyses are carried out within Jean-Claude Anscombre’s and Oswald Ducrot’s Theory of Structural Argumentation, which has recently been formalised by Kjersti Fløttum, Coco Norén and Henning Nølke.</p><p>Finally in this thesis, I analyse the relation between the discourse beings associated with the negative utterance and real beings that exist outside the text, and then consider what rhetorical implications that correspondence or no correspondence has on the polyphonic interpretation of the negation. I also examine whether polyphonic negation can be considered to be a feature of newspaper editorials that identifies these texts as a genre. This study shows that the locuteur, the discourse being responsible for the enunciation of the negative utterance on a textual level, links to the real being, the editorial writer, who then refutes points of view associated to other discourse beings, often by use of nominalizations that refer to community voices. The locuteur also intrudes into an argument or claim, and refutes it in the name of a community or an authority.</p><p>By defining genre, as does the media researcher Patrick Charaudeau, as a correspondence between the constraints imposed by the discursive situation and the constraints imposed by the discursive features, and by considering that one of the editorial’s constraints is to persuade its readers, this study shows that the phrasal negation ne in its polyphonic function, constitutes a distinguishing feature in the genre of editorials. The refutations that are made by an editor constitute a distinctive argumentative strategy since it permits the editorial writer to present external points of view in order to refute them and thereby impose his or her own, subjective point of view.</p>

This thesis is a contribution to the ongoing debate over standards of criticism for the novel in Africa. After reviewing the three main approaches, the 'Afro-centric', the 'Euro-centric ' and the 'syncretic', and highlighting their shortcomings, I hope to demonstrate that if the devices of point of view ' are used properly they may provide a valuable tool for a useful reading of the novels. Point of view is seen as a holistic device and not, as Lubbock and others suggest, a question of 'the relationship of the narrator to the story'. The views of Boris Uspensky, Gerard Genette and Susan Lanser on this subject are modified to suit the eclectic and comparative designs of the study. Point of view is thus seen as the means through which a given device operates in a specific context, what it reveals, and how it relates to other textual elements. Four main categories are proposed, namely the dramatized, the inward, the multiple and the communal perspectives. These categories demonstrate the flexibility of method which point of view allows and they show how novels from different backgrounds may be examined under one 'convention' without depriving such novels of their originality. Twenty novels by British, American and African novelists are subsequently divided into these four categories and each of the novels is described, allowing them to define one another. The communal perspective is found to be a unique feature of the five African novels examined in the last three chapters. These novels require the reader to modify his opinions about point of view, for the novelists seem to speak on behalf of their communities. The communal pose thus becomes a literary device. It is a device which manifests itself in the case of the novels of Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah and Gabriel Okara through the skilful use of character, language and setting. The reader who comes to the novels with the conviction that character is a paradigm of traits will need to bear in mind that traits in these novels are what are normally known as characters in other novels and that in the novels, therefore, characterisation is largely transferred from the individual person to the communal personality. This is the contribution these African novelists have made to world fiction. It is nevertheless shown that this distinct feature need not deny a common ground from which the critic of the African novel can define the novels' themes and methods and that ultimately the isolation which the three main approaches seem to recommend is neither desirable, nor is it helpful as a way of making the reader aware of the form and content of the novels.

This dissertation comprises two parts: Part I, which discusses use of second person pronoun in contemporary American poetry; and Part II, The Museum of Coming Apart, which is a collection of poems. As confessional verse became a dominant mode in American poetry in the late 1950s and early 60s, so too did the use of the first-person pronoun. Due in part to the excesses of later confessionalism, however, many contemporary poets hesitate to use first person for fear that their work might be read as autobiography. The poetry of the 1990s and early 2000s has thus been characterized by distance, dissociation, and fracture as poets attempt to remove themselves from the overtly emotional and intimate style of the confessionals. However, other contemporary poets have sought to straddle the line between the earnestness and linearity of confessionalism and the intellectually playful yet emotionally detached poetry of the moment. One method for striking this balance is to employ the second person pronoun. Because "you" in English is ambiguous, it allows the poet to toy with the level of distance in a poem and create evolving relationships between the speaker and reader. Through the analysis of poems by C. Dale Young, Paul Guest, Richard Hugo, Nick Flynn, Carrie St. George Comer, and Moira Egan, this essay examines five common ways second person is employed in contemporary American poetry-the use of "you" in reference to a specific individual, the epistolary form, the direct address to the reader, the imperative voice, and the use of "you" as a substitute for "I"-and the ways that the second-person pronoun allows these poems to take the best of both the confessional and dissociative modes.

This thesis will study the Italian literary phenomenon Gomorra, viaggi nell'impero economico e nel sogno di dominio della Camorra. First, the focus will be on the text's hybrid nature and implications and also on its literary and intellectual inspirations (such as Truman Capote, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Leonardo Sciascia). Secondly, we will take a closer look at the structure of the novel's narrative and its literary details, in order to reveal the different processes used by Roberto Saviano to convince the reader. Interwoven in this book's central plot, we will find a main obsession: the need to understand. Lastly, we will discuss the question of the great power treated in this novel, the one of a criminal organisation transformed by the revelations made throughout the story. These revelations will allow us to draw interesting comparisons between organized crime and merchant capitalism. For this part, we will refer to Guy Debord's La société du spectacle, and to Hannah Arendt's work on the question of totalitarianism. All of these elements will allow us to discuss the different perspectives within the narrative's framework, and more precisely, the figure of the narrator/author/character that gives Saviano's novel anthropological qualities, in the form of an ethnofiction (Augé). / Ce Mémoire cherchera a étudier le phénomène littéraire italien Gomorra, viaggio nell’impero economico e nel sogno di dominio della Camorra. Au fil de l’analyse il sera évoqué autant son caractère hybride et les implications que cela représente que les influences littéraires et intellectuelles, auquel un tel texte fait écho ( Truman Capote, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Leonardo Sciascia…). Par la suite nous nous attacherons aux structures narratives et aux particularités littéraires du roman, afin de faire ressortir les différents procédés utilisés par Roberto Saviano dans son intention de convaincre. Une obsession qui s’inscrit dans la dynamique centrale du livre, celle de comprendre. Enfin, il sera question de la grande force qui entoure ce roman, celle d’un crime organisé rendu différent de par les révélations faites au sein du roman. De cela nous tirerons une étude comparative entre le crime organisé et le capitalisme marchand, faisant appel autant à Guy Debord et son œuvre La société du spectacle, qu’à Hannah Arendt pour ses nombreux travaux entourant la problématique du totalitarisme. Tous ces éléments nous permettront de conclure sur la particularité des points de vue, notamment avec la figure du narrateur/auteur/personnage qui nous permettra de rapprocher le roman de Roberto Saviano au travail anthropologique, dans la dynamique d’une forme d’ethno- fiction (Augé)

Studien handlar om hur tittare och producenter upplever intervjusekvenser i 360°-video i en VR-miljö och syftet är att synliggöra tittares upplevelser av produktion för att skapa bättre förutsättningar för journalistiska 360°- produktioner. Studien fokuserar på tittarens upplevelser av 360°-video i olikheter i gestaltningsval, utifrån gestaltningskomponenterna: point-of-view, distans till intervjupersonen, intervjupersonens blickriktning och hur reporter används i 360°-video, samt på vilka olika sätt man som producent kan gestalta intervjusekvenser i journalistisk 360°-video och hur det skiljer sig cinematografiskt och berättartekniskt från traditionell videoproduktion. Studien har utgått från ett egenproducerat testmaterial bestående av sex olika 360°-videor. Detta material har använts i en tittarstudie där testpersonerna har tittat på materialet i VR-headset, tänkt högt enligt thinking aloud-metoden och medverkat i en simulated recall-intervju med kortsortering. För att få ett producentperspektiv har även yrkesverksamma 360°-producenter intervjuats. Testpersonernas upplevelser har analyserats utifrån hur vi traditionellt gestaltar intervjuer i rörliga medier. Studien visar hur individuellt tittare upplever grundläggande parametrar i gestaltningsval i intervjusekvenserna, att tittarna vill känna sig delaktiga och uppleva ett förstahandsperspektiv med stabilitet och kameran placerad i ett för dem normalt perspektiv i höjdled, vara nära intervjusituationen men inte för nära och känna sig bekräftade av blickar från samtliga medverkande. Samtidigt påverkar närhet till intervjuperson och dennes blickriktning hur villig tittaren är att utforska miljön. En synlig reporter kan upplevas som en konkurrent om uppmärksamheten eller fungera som en bra guide. Studien visar också hur all 360°-produktion i möjligaste mån bör efterlikna verkligheten och hur en intervjusituation också bör efterlikna en verklig situation där tittaren upplever illusionen av att vara delaktig. Intervjusituationen i 360°- video konkurrerar många gånger om tittarens uppmärksamhet med den rena miljöupplevelsen och intervjupersoner blir väldigt utlämnade i 360°-formatet. Det är därför av stor vikt att man har en överenskommelse om produktionens stil innan inspelningen.

A obra literária de F. Scott Fitzgerald pode ser entendida como um enfrentamento do paradoxo da narração apontado por Theodor Adorno, decorrente da desintegração do sentido da experiência e da consequente impossibilidade de sua articulação objetiva por parte de quem a experiencia. A figuração que Fitzgerald faz da sociedade norte-americana da década de 1920 é formalizada em O Grande Gatsby (1925) e Suave É a Noite (1934) por meio da incorporação da tradição literária que antecede sua obra, bem como de técnicas do cinema mudo e sonoro e do modernismo europeu. Com isso, Fitzgerald visa evidenciar, em ambos os romances, a falsidade da ideologia do sonho americano. Uma vez que O Grande Gatsby e Suave É a Noite foram publicados antes e depois da crise econômica de 1929, respectivamente, o autor figura sob dois pontos de vista distintos a década de 1920, a fim de mostrar que tal crise revela que o empreendimento individual não é o meio para alcançar o sonho americano, mas apenas uma engrenagem no funcionamento contraditório do capitalismo. / F. Scott Fitzgeralds novels may be read as a confrontation of the paradox that defines the position of the narrator, as theorized by Theodor Adorno, resulted from the disintegration of the sense of experience and the consequent impossibility of its objective articulation on the part of those who experience it. Fitzgeralds figuration of the American society of the 1920s is formalized in The Great Gatsby (1925) and in Tender Is the Night (1934) via the incorporation of the literary tradition that precedes his work, as well as silent and sound film and modernist techniques. Thereby, Fitzgerald aims to expose in both of these novels the falseness of the ideology of the American dream. Since The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night were published before and after the economic crisis of 1929 respectively, Fitzgerald represents the 1920s from two distinct points of view in order to highlight the fact that such crisis reveals that the individual enterprise is not the means to achieve the American dream but only a part in the contradictory operation of the machinery of capitalism