Orientador: Maria Célia de Moraes Leonel / Banca: Júlio César Franceschet / Banca: Antônio Donizeti Pires / Resumo: O tema da pesquisa é a construção do conceito de justiça em contos de Sagarana e de Primeiras estórias de Guimarães Rosa. O objetivo principal é levantar e analisar os modos como, nas narrativas selecionadas, o escritor apresenta a questão da justiça. Interessa verificar também se o tratamento dessa matéria coaduna-se com o ambiente sócio-histórico representado nas composições. Para tanto, a dissertação ocupa-se com a análise de elementos narrativos, como a história, o narrador, as personagens e o espaço social. O corpus do trabalho é constituído pelas seguintes narrativas: "O burrinho pedrês", "Duelo", "São Marcos", "Corpo fechado", "Conversa de bois" e "A hora e vez de Augusto Matraga", de Sagarana, e "Os irmãos Dagobé" e "Fatalidade" de Primeiras estórias. Percebemos que a justiça construída nos contos tem, geralmente, duas formas de manifestação: a justiça humana, realizada pelas próprias mãos das personagens, tendo em vista que o Estado não está presente no sertão; e a justiça divina, chamada de providência de Deus, que rege muitos dos acontecimentos das histórias. O embasamento teórico da pesquisa é agrupado em três linhas: primeiramente, crítica sobre a produção rosiana em geral, como "De Sagarana a Grande sertão: veredas" de Benedito Nunes, em que o autor apresenta um panorama dos três primeiros livros de Guimarães Rosa, de certa maneira introduzindo-nos na compreensão do geral, e mais particularmente, a crítica sobre nosso corpus como, por exemplo, Fórmula e fábula de Willi Bolle, em que o crítico aponta como características das narrativas de Sagarana, o moralismo e o conservadorismo, de maneira que, sempre que um fato de valor considerado moralmente negativo ocorre na história, uma sanção é estabelecida (seja ela de justiça divina ou de mão própria); em segundo lugar, textos que tratam do tema da justiça abordado nos contos, como Estudos de... / Résumé: Le sujet de la recherche est la construction de la notion de justice dans les contes de Sagarana et Primeiras estórias de Guimarães Rosa. L'objectif principal est vérifier et analyser la façon dont, dans les récits sélectionnés, l'écrivain présente la question de la justice. Il est également important de vérifier que le traitement de cette question est compatible avec l'espace socio-historique représenté dans les compositions. Par conséquent, la thèse porte sur l'analyse des éléments narratifs, comme l'histoire, le narrateur, les personnages et l'espace social. Le corpus comprend les récits suivants: "O burrinho pedrês", "Duelo", "São Marcos", "Corpo fechado", "Conversa de bois" et "A hora e vez de Augusto Matraga" de Sagarana, et "Os irmãos Dagobé" et "Fatalidade" de Primeiras estórias. Nous nous rendons compte que la justice construite dans les histoires ont généralement deux formes de manifestation: la justice humaine, tenue par les mains des personnages, parce que l'État n'est pas présent dans le sertão; et de la justice divine, appelée de providence de Dieu, qui gouverne la plupart des événements des histoires. La base théorique de la recherche é regroupée en trois lignes: d'abord, critiques à propos de la production de Rosa en général, tels que "De Sagarana a Grande sertão: veredas" de Benedito Nunes, dans lequel l'auteur présente un aperçu des trois premiers livres de Guimarães Rosa, comme une compréhension du général et, plus particulièrement, la critique de notre corpus, par exemple, Fórmula e fábula de Willi Bolle, où l'écrivain expose que les caractéristiques des récits de Sagarana sont le moralisme et le conservatisme, de sorte que, chaque fois qu'un fait moralement négative est considéré dans l'histoire, une pénalité est établie (si la justice divine ou la humaine); deuxièmement, les textes traitant de la question de la justice abordées dans des histoires, telles que... / Mestre

Orientador(a): Benedito Antunes / Banca: Alcmeno Bastos / Banca: Luiz Gonzaga Marchezan / Banca: Marcio Roberto Pereira / Banca: João Luís Cardoso Tápias Ceccantini / Resumo: Esta pesquisa aborda o aspecto performático de narradores e personagens concernentes à ficção do final do século XX e início deste século XXI. O cenário da era da imagem é o instigador desta investigação que pretende, por meio de teóricos como Debord, Baudrillard, Gabler e Llosa, apresentar uma leitura de alguns contos contemporâneos, especialmente de Rubem Fonseca, seguido de Sérgio Sant'Anna e Luiz Vilela e, para finalizar, de Marcelino Freire, cuja vida e obra se baralham na agitação cultural e na busca pela visibilidade midiática. À luz da civilização do espetáculo, deseja-se comprovar que muitos dos seres ficcionais percebidos nos contos desses autores como marginalizados, rejeitados e subjugados apreenderam as estratégias de sedução dos meios de comunicação de massa e as utilizam para metamorfosearem-se em seres capazes e decididos. Para tanto, a prioridade será observar mais as ações e dissimulações dos personagens e narradores frente à indústria do consumo que propriamente explorar o apelo sedutor dos meios de comunicação de massa com os quais mantêm uma estreita relação. Para o corpus foram selecionados os contos "Feliz ano novo" (1975), "O Cobrador" (1979) e "Hildete" (2002), de Rubem Fonseca, "Um discurso sobre o método" (1989) e "O embrulho da carne" (2003), de Sérgio Sant'Anna, "O suicida" (1970) e "A cabeça" (2002), de Luiz Vilela, e "A ponte, o horizonte" (2003) e "Socorrinho" (2005), de Marcelino Freire, porque agrupam aspectos da sociedade do espetáculo aos ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / The present research introduces the performative aspect of narrators and characters concerning to fiction of the late twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first century. The scenery of the image age is the instigator of this investigation that aims, through theoretical as Debord, Baudrillard, Gabler and Llosa, to present a reading of some contemporary tales, especially of Rubem Fonseca, followed by Sérgio Sant'Anna and Luiz Vilela and, finally, by Marcelino Freire, whose life and work are shuffled in the cultural upheaval and search for media visibility. Based on the spectacle civilization, it is wanted to prove that many of the fictional beings perceived in the stories of these authors as marginalized, rejected and subjugated, seized the seduction strategies of the mass media and use them to metamorphose themselves into beings capable and determined. Therefore, the priority will be to watch over the actions and dissimulations of the characters and narrators before the industry of consumption, in order to properly exploring the seductive appeal of the mass media with which they have a close relationship. For the corpus were selected the tales "Feliz ano novo" (1975), "O Cobrador" (1979) and "Hildete" (2002), by Rubem Fonseca, "Um discurso sobre o método" (1989) and "O embrulho da carne" (2003), by Sergio Sant'Anna, "O suicida" (1970) and "A cabeça" (2002), by Luiz Vilela, and "A ponte, o horizonte" (2003) and "Socorrinho" (2005), by Marcelino Freire, because they group aspects ... (Complete abstract electronic access below) / Doutor

Protagonist Curtis Dorgan was sitting on his front porch when a Sunset City mail truck delivered a letter from the Idea Salesman that would literally change his life. Suddenly thrust into an existence that never quite feels like his own, he finds himself playing the role of husband and father, and assumes a high-paying position at a downtown capping company. Disoriented and with very little knowledge of himself or the people around him he embraces his newfound life, is promoted at work, and finds himself quickly falling in love with his wife and children. But when an unknown villain invades Sunset City seeking the destruction of the Idea Salesman and begins wreaking havoc across town, with the help of a few hard-nosed detectives and some close friends, he slowly comes to learn the true reason behind his new life. Curtis Dorgan has been revised, and he has been called upon by the elusive Idea Salesman to live out his destiny and save the town from its newest and most dangerous threat. / by Daniel Kennard. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web. FboU

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the reasons why readers choose to read detective fiction. Taking Thomas De Quincey's satirical identification of the aesthetic quality of murder, I look at Edgar Allan Poe's detective fiction to find a non-satiric version of the same argument that emphasises the balancing quality of the ethical to the aesthetic. W.H. Auden's essay “The Guilty Vicarage” offers an argument concerning the reader's position in relation to these opposite components. I explore the ways in which Auden's arguments build into Freud's understanding of guilt, daydreams, the moral conscience, jokes, the uncanny and the death drive, and how these can be applied to the genre to help illustrate the reader's experience. Concurrent to this I offer an analysis of how the parallel developments in literary theory, particularly those of Barthes and Shklovsky, can be incorporated to enrich the understanding of these Freudian positions within the modern reader's experience. It is my intention to open up a field of study within the genre that differs from the traditional Marxist approach. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of the experience of pleasure found when moments of commonality between the aesthetic and the ethical are reached– how these are often unsatisfactory– necessitating a repetition of the literary experience. It is my argument that such an approach to the reader's position within the genre has not been explored in such a detailed fashion, centring as it does upon the active role of guilt in pleasure felt by the reader as the motivation to repeat. To illustrate that this is an argument that is applicable to different historical phases of detective fiction the study undertakes analysis of the following authors: Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene and John Fowles.

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In a world that devours one technological advance after another, the simple human questions persist. They endure despite the increased speed of the personal computer or the decreased size of the cellular phone. In a time ruled by measurements they remain elusive and undefined. The longing for love, the crisis of past versus present, the nagging hunger for meaning in the face of constant change--these questions manage to be both small and huge, both slow and fast, all at once. They are the inheritance of every generation; they are written on the very lining of our hearts. These stories are, then, simply a short list of questions. Whether it be a story like "Bones, 11 where love and time intersect, or one like "There is A., 11 where moral strength is at issue, each asks a question. Each attempts by a different angle to flush some answers from the brush. What does it mean to love? When does hope become foolishness? When lost, is it always better to stay put? These are some of the concerns taken up in this collection. In the end, the answers remain just out of reach, having only just rounded the corner at our arrival. The reader is left to either the tremulous bravado of the boy in the second story, who asks, "What do I care about wolves in the night anyway?" or the paltry rebellion of the man in "Making for the Phoenix" who is reduced finally to throwing rocks at the windows in his office building.

Short stories examining interpersonal relationships, familial relationships and legacies, self-examination. These stories were written in an attempt to understand what it is to come of age in a damaged family, to explore the feelings and events associated with finding oneself.

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Cauterizing Tide is a collection of short fiction. The stories feature characters struggling with managing or creating healthy relationships. Characters wrestle with their feelings about family, love, anger, longing, and addiction. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

All My Sins is a collection of short fiction. The stories feature characters from Florida struggling with family, sexuality, masculinity, ethics, and themselves. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection