O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar alguns dos momentos decisivos do processo de formação da poesia norte-americana, marcados pelas quatro primeiras edições (1855, 1856, 1861,1867) de Leaves of Grass, de Walt Whitman. A escolha desses momentos sublinha o caráter engajado do projeto poético de Whitman, que não visava à mera aclimatação da poesia européia no Novo Mundo, mas sim à constituição formal de uma poesia norte-americana adequada à realidade social de seu país. Nesse sentido, a leitura das quatro primeiras edições de Leaves of Grass pressupõe dois movimentos complementares: o entendimento dessa poesia enquanto resposta aos inúmeros conflitos que perpassam as décadas de 1850 e 1860 norte-americanas, quando a modernização, encabeçada pela industrialização e pelo trabalho livre, entra em choque definitivo com estruturas sociais de origem colonial, baseadas tanto na exploração do trabalho escravo como na própria constituição descentralizada da república; e a configuração literária desses problemas, em que veremos elementos constitutivos da poesia romântica européia em relação dialética com formas locais de expressão, muitas vezes estranhas ao quadro literário do Velho Mundo, mas reforçadas pela pretensão de se fazer valer (não sem contradições) uma literatura de caráter nacional. Para tanto, nossa análise toma não apenas a longa tradição de estudos hitmanianos, que atualmente têm se dedicado à revisão histórica de Leaves of Grass centrada quase que exclusivamente na experiência social norte-americana, mas a própria tradição crítica brasileira, na qual se consolidou um importante corpo de conceitos e debates acerca da posição periférica das literaturas do Novo Mundo em relação à Europa, o que nos permite tanto colocar a literatura de Whitman em um quadro mais abrangente de formação literária como observar ali algumas questões comuns às experiências brasileira e norte- americana para a consolidação de seu sistema literário, tais como o caráter empenhado da elite literária; a busca de novas formas; a representação e afirmação, na lírica, do indivíduo e da natureza do país; as questões éticas e econômicas ligadas ao problema da escravidão; e a relação ambígua e contraditória com os movimentos literários europeus. / The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze some of the decisive moments in the making of North American poetry, determined by the development, from 1855 to 1867, of the four initial editions of Walt Whitman\'s Leaves of Grass. The choice of these remarkable moments serves to underline the engaged feature of Whitman´s poetical accomplishment, which implied not the mere transposition of European literary thought into the New World, but mainly the formal constitution of a national poetry fit for the social environment of the United States. In this sense, the analysis of these four Leaves of Grass´ editions (1855, 1856, 1861, 1867) presupposes two complementary ways: firstly the acknowledgment of Whitman´s poetry as a response to the social tensions in North American midnineteenth century, when modernity, led by free labor and industrialization, collides with colonial and pre-modern social structures, based upon slavery and the very descentralized commercial Republic constitution; secondly the literary configuration of these tensions, in which we observe elements of the literary Romanticism dialetically linked to local forms of expression, some of them alien to the literary achievements of the Old World, but reinforced by the founding project of a national literature. To attend these questions, this dissertation recovers the long tradition of Walt Whitman studies - dedicated in the present time to the historical revisioning of the poet´s works centered almost exclusively in the North American social experience - by the light of the Brazilian critical tradition, in which very important concepts and debates over the periferical position of New World literatures were consolidated. This theoretical perpective allows us not only to place Leaves of Grass in a wider perspective of New World literatures but also to build a indirect comparative view that rests upon some important questions to the North American and Brazilian literary traditions, as the engaged ethos of their literary elites; the search for new literary forms; the lyrical affirmative representation of national individuals; the economical and ethical responses to slavery; and the ambiguous and contradictory relation with European literary movements.

Abstract The empirical material for studying children's creative writing was collected in Taivalkoski, Lapland (a basic education course at Päätalo Institute, ten girls), and Oulu, Northern Finland (a creative writing project in a hospital school, two girls and two boys), in spring 2000. I was the instructor at the courses as well as the researcher. The children were 8–13 years in age. The subject of my study consists of the stories written by the children: what sort of stories they write and how creative writing suits hospital and school environments. I also look into bibliotherapy conducted among children and young people. In my study I describe, analyse and interpret by means of qualitative research the courses in creative writing offered by Päätalo Institute and the hospital school. As case studies, these two are stand-alone studies independent of each other. By qualitative approach in this work I mean that I describe how I build my interpretation as a researcher. The stories written by children provide material externalised from the subconscious as stories and writings which it is possible to interpret from a depth-psychological point of view. Sigmund Freud's understanding of dreams as manifestations of subconscious fears and hopes acquires a new form in the horror stories children write. The child works his or her activated energy charge through manipulating the dream-like and violent elements in stories in a controlled manner: by writing. In bibliotherapy, one studies one's own feelings, thoughts and memories and compares them to the experiences of others. This sort of work on feelings, thoughts and memories seemed to take place especially in the writer projects of the hospital school children: they worked on emotional processes while writing. On the basis of my study, creative writing and bibliotherapy offer a child or a young person a means for working out, at both conscious and subconscious levels, matters relating to the present stage of his or her development and current life condition. While writing, the child deals with his or her relations to friends, parents and the self. He or she treats hobbies and other topics of interest but problems as well. Studies already provide information as to the positive effects of bibliotherapy – reading and writing both have therapeutic effects – but more in-depth research is required. My dissertation shows that groups using bibliotherapy can function in the field of paediatric and adolescent psychiatry in homes for children and adolescents. They can also function in the environment of youth clubs and schools with bibliotherapy as a creative literary art activity to deter problems and foster growth and development. The method I developed, the Fantasy Treasure Chest (Fantasian aarrearkku), is one that can be taken in more general use for both instructing creative writing and collecting research material. / Tiivistelmä Lasten luovan kirjoittamisen tutkimuksen empiirinen aineisto kerättiin keväällä 2000 Taivalkoskella (Päätalo-instituutin sanataiteen perusopetuksen jakso, 10 tyttöä) ja Oulussa (sairaalakoulun luovan kirjoittamisen projekti, 2 tyttöä, 2 poikaa). Toimin itse sekä tutkijana että kurssien ohjaajana. Lapset olivat 8–13-vuotiaita. Tutkimuskohteina olivat lasten kirjoittamat tarinat: millaisia tarinoita he kirjoittavat, ja miten luova kirjoittaminen sopii sairaala- ja koulukontekstiin. Tein myös katsauksen lasten ja nuorten parissa toteutettuun kirjallisuusterapiaan. Tutkimuksessani kuvaan, analysoin ja tulkitsen laadullisen tutkimuksen keinoin Päätalo-instituutin ja sairaalakoulun luovan kirjoittamisen kursseja. Nämä ovat tutkimustapauksina itsenäisiä, toisistaan riippumattomia kokonaisuuksia. Laadullinen lähestymistapa työssäni on sitä, että kuvaan, miten tutkijana rakennan tulkintaani. Lasten kirjoittamista tarinoista löytyy tiedostamattoman materiaalia ulkoistuneina tarinoiksi ja kirjoituksiksi, jotka avautuvat syvyyspsykologisesta näkökulmasta tulkittuina. Sigmund Freudin käsitykset unista pelkojen ja toiveiden tiedostamattoman ilmentyminä saavat uudenlaisen muotonsa esimerkiksi lasten kirjoittamissa kauhukertomuksissa. Tarinoiden unenomaisten ja väkivaltaisten elementtien kautta lapsi käsittelee aktivoitunutta energialataustaan hallitussa muodossa: kirjoittamalla. Kirjallisuusterapiassa tutkitaan omia tunteita, ajatuksia ja muistoja, ja näitä verrataan toisten kokemuksiin. Tätä tunteiden, ajatusten ja muistojen käsittelyä näytti tapahtuvan etenkin sairaalakoulun lasten kirjoittajaprojektissa: lapset työstivät kirjoittamisen ohessa psyykkisiä prosessejaan. Tutkimukseni perusteella lasten luova kirjoittaminen ja kirjallisuusterapia tarjoavat lapselle ja nuorelle väylän työstää meneillään olevaan kehitysvaiheeseen ja elämäntilanteeseen liittyviä asioita sekä tietoisella että tiedostamattomalla tasolla. Lapsi käsittelee kirjoittaessaan suhdettaan kavereihin, vanhempiinsa ja itseensä. Hän käsittelee kirjoittamalla harrastuksiaan ja mielenkiinnonkohteitaan mutta myös ongelmiaan. Tutkimukset kertovat kirjallisuusterapian myönteisistä vaikutuksista – lukemisella ja kirjoittamisella on terapeuttinen vaikutus – mutta tarvitaan vielä perusteellisempia tutkimuksia. Väitöskirjani osoittaa, että kirjallisuusterapeuttisia ryhmiä voi toimia lasten- ja nuorisopsykiatriassa ja lasten- ja nuorisokodeissa sekä sanataidetoimintana ennaltaehkäisevänä, kasvua ja kehitystä tukevana ryhmätoimintana kerhoissa ja kouluissa. Kehittelemäni Fantasian aarrearkku -menetelmä on yksi keino käyttöön otettavaksi niin luovan kirjoittamisen ohjaukseen kuin tutkimusmateriaalin keräämiseenkin.

[pt] Corpo em ruínas: a escrita entre arquivos e o testemunho da literatura. A tese busca investigar o lugar instável da literatura do século XX através de reflexões no entorno de arquivos literários ou através de escritas que exploram o arquivo, assim como documentos, testemunhos e outros vestígios do tempo tomados como artifícios de construção textual, tendo como propósito delinear e problematizar a presença e a ascensão do arquivo na literatura do último século, propondo, por fim, que tal presença se constituirá justamente através de um ambiente literário esboçado ainda em meados do século XIX e aprofundado ao correr do século XX, em direção ao nosso século, ambiente este em que se poderá apontar, diante da falência dos modelos estanques da literatura da Modernidade, a necessidade intrínseca de se buscar, através da escrita literária, um lugar outro para a literatura, através do gesto e do esforço da escrita, trilhando-se, para tal propósito, em três conceitos, mito, melancolia e impropriedade, e um quarto, a utopia, tomada a partir da noção de não-lugar. Para tais objetivos, a pesquisa atravessa por diferentes abordagens os acervos de arquivo e as obras literárias de Fernando Pessoa, de W.G. Sebald e de Pedro Nava, além de obras de Valêncio Xavier, entre outros autores. Como temáticas complementares, a tese encontra a filologia e a crítica textual, a memória e o memorialismo, a escrita de testemunho e a literatura do trauma, a crise da representação e o desvio do realismo ao índice afetivo. / [en] Body in ruins: writing among archives and the testimony of literature. The thesis investigates the unstable place of twentieth-century literature through reflections on literature archives or through writings that explore archives, as well as documents, testimonies and other vestiges of time taken as devices for textual compositions, with the purpose of outlining and discussing the presence and the rise of the archive in the literature of the last century, proposing, finally, that such presence will be constituted precisely through a literary environment established in the mid-nineteenth century and deepened in the course of the twentieth century, toward ours, such an environment in which one may point out, before the failure of stationary models of modern literature, the intrinsic necessity of searching, through literary writing, a other place for literature, through the gesture and the effort of writing, following, for such purpose, three concepts, myth, melancholy and impropriety, and a fourth one, utopia, seen from the perspective of non-place. For these objectives, the research goes through, by different approaches, the archive collections and literary works of Fernando Pessoa, W.G. Sebald and Pedro Nava, and works of Valêncio Xavier, among other writers. As complementary topics, the thesis finds philology and textual criticism, memory and memorialism, testimony writing and the literature of trauma, the crisis of representation and a deviation of realism towards an affective index.

O presente trabalho analisa o tema das famílias desajustadas no sistema ficcional norte-americano. Os corpora estudados são os contos sobre a família Glass, de J. D. Salinger, e o roteiro do filme The Royal Tenenbaums, escrito por Wes Anderson e Owen Wilson. O enfoque comparatista aqui desenvolvido é duplo: de um lado, o diálogo temático entre a obra dos diferentes autores, de outro lado, a investigação sobre os modos em que os contos de Salinger e o filme dialogam com as demais artes. Desta forma, a leitura crítica aqui efetuada rastreia as estratégias intertextuais e inter-artísticas presentes nos corpora. A análise temática é desenvolvida a partir da definição de um conceito de desajuste. A inadaptação pode ser vista como uma inadequação ou reação do indivíduo ao grupo ou comunidade a que pertence, aos pensamentos, valores e modos de agir desta. Tanto os Glass quanto os Tenenbaums são irmãos que, quando crianças, foram destacadamente brilhantes em atividades comumente desempenhadas por adultos. Ao amadurecer tornaram-se pessoas problemáticas com dificuldades de relacionamento pessoal. Para chegar à síntese da leitura comparativa visualizamos três elementos comuns em ambos os corpora: o conflito do indivíduo com o mundo; a dificuldade da comunicação pessoal (além de discorrermos sobre as estratégias da comunicação ficcional) e a dificuldade em lidar com a instabilidade. Ao final, examino como tais problemas são superados pelos personagens. Além disso, também tentamos descrever como tais obras inserem-se na tradição ficcional norte-americana de produção obras cujo tema principal são as problemáticas relações familiares. / The present work analyses the theme of maladjusted families in the American fictional system. The corpora consists of the short stories about the Glass family, by J. D. Salinger, and the screenplay for The Royal Tenenbaums, written by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson. The comparative approach here developed is twofold: on the one hand, a thematic dialogue between the different authors' works, on the other hand, a research about the ways in which Salinger's stories and the film dialogue with another arts. Thus, the critical reading searches the intertextual and interartistic strategies present in the corpora. The thematic analysis is developed from a definition of a concept of maladjustment. Maladjustment can be seen as an individual's inadequacy or reaction to the group or community to which he/she belongs, to the thoughts, to the values and ways of behaviour. Both Glass and Tenenbaums are siblings which, when children, were outstandingly brilliant in activities mainly fullfilled by adults. Coming of age they become problematical with difficulties in personal relationship. To summarize the comparative reading we highlight three elements in common to both corpora: the individual's conflict with the world; the difficult of the personal communication (besides the strategies of fictional communication) and the difficulty in deal with instability. Finally, I examine how such problems are overcome by the characters. Besides this, I also try to describe how such works are inserted in the American fictional tradition of producing works whose main theme is the problematic family relationship.

O presente trabalho analisa o tema das famílias desajustadas no sistema ficcional norte-americano. Os corpora estudados são os contos sobre a família Glass, de J. D. Salinger, e o roteiro do filme The Royal Tenenbaums, escrito por Wes Anderson e Owen Wilson. O enfoque comparatista aqui desenvolvido é duplo: de um lado, o diálogo temático entre a obra dos diferentes autores, de outro lado, a investigação sobre os modos em que os contos de Salinger e o filme dialogam com as demais artes. Desta forma, a leitura crítica aqui efetuada rastreia as estratégias intertextuais e inter-artísticas presentes nos corpora. A análise temática é desenvolvida a partir da definição de um conceito de desajuste. A inadaptação pode ser vista como uma inadequação ou reação do indivíduo ao grupo ou comunidade a que pertence, aos pensamentos, valores e modos de agir desta. Tanto os Glass quanto os Tenenbaums são irmãos que, quando crianças, foram destacadamente brilhantes em atividades comumente desempenhadas por adultos. Ao amadurecer tornaram-se pessoas problemáticas com dificuldades de relacionamento pessoal. Para chegar à síntese da leitura comparativa visualizamos três elementos comuns em ambos os corpora: o conflito do indivíduo com o mundo; a dificuldade da comunicação pessoal (além de discorrermos sobre as estratégias da comunicação ficcional) e a dificuldade em lidar com a instabilidade. Ao final, examino como tais problemas são superados pelos personagens. Além disso, também tentamos descrever como tais obras inserem-se na tradição ficcional norte-americana de produção obras cujo tema principal são as problemáticas relações familiares. / The present work analyses the theme of maladjusted families in the American fictional system. The corpora consists of the short stories about the Glass family, by J. D. Salinger, and the screenplay for The Royal Tenenbaums, written by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson. The comparative approach here developed is twofold: on the one hand, a thematic dialogue between the different authors' works, on the other hand, a research about the ways in which Salinger's stories and the film dialogue with another arts. Thus, the critical reading searches the intertextual and interartistic strategies present in the corpora. The thematic analysis is developed from a definition of a concept of maladjustment. Maladjustment can be seen as an individual's inadequacy or reaction to the group or community to which he/she belongs, to the thoughts, to the values and ways of behaviour. Both Glass and Tenenbaums are siblings which, when children, were outstandingly brilliant in activities mainly fullfilled by adults. Coming of age they become problematical with difficulties in personal relationship. To summarize the comparative reading we highlight three elements in common to both corpora: the individual's conflict with the world; the difficult of the personal communication (besides the strategies of fictional communication) and the difficulty in deal with instability. Finally, I examine how such problems are overcome by the characters. Besides this, I also try to describe how such works are inserted in the American fictional tradition of producing works whose main theme is the problematic family relationship.

O presente trabalho analisa o tema das famílias desajustadas no sistema ficcional norte-americano. Os corpora estudados são os contos sobre a família Glass, de J. D. Salinger, e o roteiro do filme The Royal Tenenbaums, escrito por Wes Anderson e Owen Wilson. O enfoque comparatista aqui desenvolvido é duplo: de um lado, o diálogo temático entre a obra dos diferentes autores, de outro lado, a investigação sobre os modos em que os contos de Salinger e o filme dialogam com as demais artes. Desta forma, a leitura crítica aqui efetuada rastreia as estratégias intertextuais e inter-artísticas presentes nos corpora. A análise temática é desenvolvida a partir da definição de um conceito de desajuste. A inadaptação pode ser vista como uma inadequação ou reação do indivíduo ao grupo ou comunidade a que pertence, aos pensamentos, valores e modos de agir desta. Tanto os Glass quanto os Tenenbaums são irmãos que, quando crianças, foram destacadamente brilhantes em atividades comumente desempenhadas por adultos. Ao amadurecer tornaram-se pessoas problemáticas com dificuldades de relacionamento pessoal. Para chegar à síntese da leitura comparativa visualizamos três elementos comuns em ambos os corpora: o conflito do indivíduo com o mundo; a dificuldade da comunicação pessoal (além de discorrermos sobre as estratégias da comunicação ficcional) e a dificuldade em lidar com a instabilidade. Ao final, examino como tais problemas são superados pelos personagens. Além disso, também tentamos descrever como tais obras inserem-se na tradição ficcional norte-americana de produção obras cujo tema principal são as problemáticas relações familiares. / The present work analyses the theme of maladjusted families in the American fictional system. The corpora consists of the short stories about the Glass family, by J. D. Salinger, and the screenplay for The Royal Tenenbaums, written by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson. The comparative approach here developed is twofold: on the one hand, a thematic dialogue between the different authors' works, on the other hand, a research about the ways in which Salinger's stories and the film dialogue with another arts. Thus, the critical reading searches the intertextual and interartistic strategies present in the corpora. The thematic analysis is developed from a definition of a concept of maladjustment. Maladjustment can be seen as an individual's inadequacy or reaction to the group or community to which he/she belongs, to the thoughts, to the values and ways of behaviour. Both Glass and Tenenbaums are siblings which, when children, were outstandingly brilliant in activities mainly fullfilled by adults. Coming of age they become problematical with difficulties in personal relationship. To summarize the comparative reading we highlight three elements in common to both corpora: the individual's conflict with the world; the difficult of the personal communication (besides the strategies of fictional communication) and the difficulty in deal with instability. Finally, I examine how such problems are overcome by the characters. Besides this, I also try to describe how such works are inserted in the American fictional tradition of producing works whose main theme is the problematic family relationship.

This dissertation is a report on a study about autobiography as genre, focusing on the voice of the white, Afrikaans-speaking woman. The point of departure for this study was a survey of the number of autobiographies written in Afrikaans by these women. With the focus on the limited number of such autobiographies three autobiographies were studied, namely, Met die Boere in die veld (Sarah Raal), My beskeie deel (M.E.R.) and 'n Wonderlike geweld (Elsa Joubert). Within the framework of the complexity systems theory the role of the observer (author/reader) was studied to determine the possibility of demonstrating that when reading/writing an autobiography, some epistemological changes may occur, manifesting as conceptual changes in the mind of the observer. It could be demonstrated that because of women's sensitivity to interpersonal relationships they are capable of acting as unique registers of the complexity of individual existence, while remaining aware of the constant influence, effect and needs of the other. / AFRIKAANS & THEORY OF LIT / MA (AFRIKAANS)

This dissertation is a report on a study about autobiography as genre, focusing on the voice of the white, Afrikaans-speaking woman. The point of departure for this study was a survey of the number of autobiographies written in Afrikaans by these women. With the focus on the limited number of such autobiographies three autobiographies were studied, namely, Met die Boere in die veld (Sarah Raal), My beskeie deel (M.E.R.) and 'n Wonderlike geweld (Elsa Joubert). Within the framework of the complexity systems theory the role of the observer (author/reader) was studied to determine the possibility of demonstrating that when reading/writing an autobiography, some epistemological changes may occur, manifesting as conceptual changes in the mind of the observer. It could be demonstrated that because of women's sensitivity to interpersonal relationships they are capable of acting as unique registers of the complexity of individual existence, while remaining aware of the constant influence, effect and needs of the other. / AFRIKAANS and THEORY OF LIT / MA (AFRIKAANS)

1 Leo Vaniš: Abstrakt dizertace (EN): The dissertation theses "ART EDUCATION - LITERARY EDUCATION: The subjects of" higher "culture in aesthetic education on the example of geometric art" is based primarily on the field of educational sciences, focusing on two areas of the educational process: art and literary education. Two equivalent school subjects matters (which the very graphic concept of the name by capital letters suggests, as well as the intentional duplication of the word education) is based on the study of culture, which is conceived on two levels - "higher" and "lower," possibly simple, unprofessional, but not necessarily of lower quality. The intentional introduction of the word "higher" in quotation marks already in itself suggests that it will be a problem of defining what such a culture means, what it can look like and how it can be understood in an educational context. collection of so-called canonically anchored works, in the field of verbal and artistic creation, while cross-sectionally focusing on one researched aspect - geometry. Whith the concept of dual geometry (often referred to in the theses as the "phenomenon of simple and artistic geometrization") the author tries to show the projection of already established great artistic values into contemporary educational reality, defining...