Esta tesis, titulada El sujeto y su doble: Asedios al héroe fantástico, tiene como objetivo principal analizar e interpretar la figura del doble en tres relatos fantásticos: William Wilson (Poe), El Horla (Maupassant), y El retrato de Dorian Gray (Wilde). A través de ellos se busca esclarecer las dimensiones, variaciones e incidencias que estos Doppelgänger tienen en relación con el héroe, quien es acosado como presencia fantasmal por el Otro creando un vínculo especular que deriva en su aniquilación. La función interna de la imaginación motiva interacciones “aparentes” entre los actores de la obra. Surge así la figura del Otro como alteridad radical.En los tres relatos, el doble cumple funciones distintas y constituye una representación del sujeto ante sí mismo, una proyección que evidencia su despersonalización y un cuestionamiento acerca de su propia constitución como tal, que se vuelve inestable. Lo anterior se lleva a cabo a partir de un análisis que contempla las teorías acerca de lo fantástico, la narratología y el psicoanálisis, principalmente.

Este trabalho revisita a teoria do escopo formulada por Katharina Reiß e Hans Vermeer em Grundlegung einer allgemeinen Translationstheorie (1984) a fim de investigar como os conceitos de “tradução comunicativa” e “tradução equivalente” podem ser aplicados a uma nova tradução do criptograma presente em “The Gold-Bug” (1843), de Edgar Allan Poe. Embora o conto tenha mais de vinte traduções diferentes para o português brasileiro, a necessidade de uma nova tradução justifica-se pela insuficiência de todas aquelas existentes no que diz respeito ao tratamento literário dos problemas especiais suscitados pelo criptograma e pela decifração deste no interior da narrativa. A importância da criptologia na gênese, na recepção e na posterior influência de “The Gold- Bug” é demonstrada através de exemplos e argumentos, e a seguir uma nova tradução do criptograma é proposta com o objetivo de produzir em português brasileiro um texto dotado das mesmas qualidades literárias e raciocinativas que resultaram na imensa popularidade do conto e na elevação de Poe ao status de gênio ainda no século XIX. / This paper presents a brief summary of the Skopostheorie proposed by Katharina Reiß and Hans Vermeer in Grundlegung einer allgemeinen Translationstheorie (1984) in order to assess the way in which the concepts of “communicative translation” and “equivalent translation” could be applied to a new translation of the cryptogram found in Edgar Allan Poe’s short-story, “The Gold-Bug” (1843). There are over twenty translations of the story into Brazilian Portuguese, but a new effort is nonetheless in order in view of the insufficiency of all existing translations with regard to the literary treatment of the special problems posed by the cipher and Legrand’s decipherment. The important role played by cryptology in the genesis, reception and later influence of “The Gold-Bug” is demonstrated by means of examples and arguments, and finally a new translation of the cryptogram is proposed with the aim of producing, in Brazilian Portuguese, a text with the same literary and ratiocinative qualities which eventually led to the tale’s immense popularity and Poe’s rise to the status of “genius” still in the 19th century.

The American Romantic writers laid a broad foundation for the historic and heroic Abraham Lincoln who has evolved as our national myth. The writers were attracted to Lincoln by his eloquent expression of the body of ideals and beliefs they shared with him, especially the ideal of individual liberty and the belief that achievement of the ideal would bring about an amelioration of the human condition. The time, place and conditions in which they lived enhanced the attraction, and Lincoln's able leadership during the Civil War strengthened their estimation of him. His martyrdom was the catalyst which enabled the Romantic writers to lay the foundation of the Lincoln myth which has made his name synonymous with individual freedom everywhere even today.

The thesis is that contrary to the received popular wisdom, the combination of David Hume's sceptical enquiry and Charles Darwin's provision of an alternative theoretical framework to the then current paradigm of natural theology did not succeed in defeating the design argument. I argue that William Paley's work best represented the status quo in the philosophy of biology circa 1800 and that with the logical mechanisms provided us by William Dembski in his seminal work on probability, there is a strong argument for thr work of Michael Behe to stand in a similar position today to that of Paley two centuries ago. The argument runs as follows: In Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter 1 I introduce the issues. In Section 3 I argue that William Paley's exposition of the design argument was archetypical of the natural theology school and that given Hume's already published criticism of the argument, Paley for one did not feel the design argument to be done for. I further argue in Section 4 that Hume in fact did no such thing and that neither did he see himself as having done so, but that the design argument was weak rather than fallacious. In Section 5 I outline the demise of natural theology as the dominant school of thought in the philosophy of biology, ascribing this to the rise of Darwinism and subsequently neo-Darwinism. I argue that design arguments were again not defeated but went into abeyance with the rise of a new paradigm associated with Darwinism, namely methodological naturalism. In Chapter 2 I advance the project by a discussion of William Dembski's formulation of design inferences, demonstrating their value in both everyday and technical usage. This is stated in Section 1. In Sections 2 and 3 I discuss Dembski's treatment of probability, whilst in Section 4 I examine Dembski's tying of different levels of probability to different mechanisms of explanation used in explicating the world. Section 5 is my analysis of the logic of the formal statement of the design argument according to Dembski. In Section 6 I encapsulate objections to Dembski. I conclude the chapter (with Section 7) by claiming that Dembski forwards a coherent model of design inferences that can be used in demonstrating that there is little difference between the way that Paley came to his conclusions two centuries ago and how modem philosophers of biology (such as I take Michael Behe to be, albeit that by profession he is a scientist) come to theirs when offering design explanations. Inference to the best explanation is demonstrated as lying at the crux of design arguments. In Chapter 3 I draw together the work of Michael Behe and Paley, showing through the mechanism of Dembski's work that they are closely related in many respects and that neither position is to be lightly dismissed. Section 1 introduces this. In Section 2 I introduce Behe's concept of irreducible complexity in the light of (functional) explanation. Section 3 is a detailed analysis of irreducible complexity. Section 4 raises and covers objections to Behe with the general theme being that (neo-) Darwinians beg the question against him. In Section 4 I apply the Dembskian mechanic directly to Behe's work. I argue that Behe does not quite meet the Dembskian criteria he needs to in order for his argument to stand as anything other than defeasible. However, in Section 5 I conclude by arguing that this is exactly what we are to expect from Behe's and similar theories, even within competing paradigms, in the philosophy of biology, given that inference to the best explanation is the logical lever therein at work. / KMBT_363 / Adobe Acrobat 9.54 Paper Capture Plug-in

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the history in English literature of the relationship between King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, in order to show how various authors have enriched the legend by developing the psychological potential of the chief characters, and by projecting the standards of their respective ages into their versions of the story. Special emphasis has been placed on the work of Sir Thomas Malory, Alfred Tennyson, E.A. Robinson, and T.H. White. The Arthurian legend is particularly appropriate for such a comparative study. It has received the attention of English writers for eight centuries, and, for the past hundred years, of writers in America as well. In the fifteenth century Malory used the legend to argue for a strong monarchy, and to remind his aristocratic countrymen of the neglected ideals of chivalry; in the nineteenth century Tennyson hoped that the re-telling of the story for its elements of moral and spiritual allegory would inspire the Victorians to rise above the materialism and sensuality which to him were signs of the times; early in the twentieth century Edwin Arlington Robinson suggested a comparison between the disintegration of Camelot and the disruption of European society after World War I, and he questioned the traditionally accepted greatness of Arthur and his kingdom; in the last decade Terence Hanbury White has seen that the problem facing King Arthur also confronts the strife-torn twentieth century how can the energies of men be harnessed for constructive rather than destructive action? The adultery between Guinevere and Lancelot has been made the focal point of this study because it involves the three best-known characters of the legend, and because it has attracted the interest of writers more than has any other element of the Arthuriad, particularly in the past one hundred years. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

“Missing Homes” examines three nineteenth-century authors whose experiences of displacement from home, professions and/or class influenced their literary innovations. Displacement is not a new theme to scholars of nineteenth-century literature, who have established it as a defining experience of an era characterized by financial crises, industrial development, migration and empire. However, scholarship on displacement has often focused on how novels train readers to manage the experience of displacement and has depicted the emotions like nostalgia that arise from it as potentially compensatory or reconciliatory to the dynamics of capitalism. “Missing Homes” departs from these narratives to explore authors who found displacement anything but manageable or liberating and whose works illustrate a more unstable spectrum of emotional responses to displacement and its dire long-term consequences. Attention to these authors, I argue, offers a parallel theory of nostalgia in which the unsettled longing for a place to call home registers political discontent with the relationship between the individual and the collective rather than reconciles the individual to displacement. Departing from critics who have focused primarily on the work performed by metaphors and figures of the domestic, “Missing Homes” engages in biographical readings of the lives, economic circumstances and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, Charlotte Brontë and Charles Dickens to show how they pursued fantasies of securing homes that could remove them from undesirable personal, economic and political conditions. The failures of these fantasies reveal how conventional narratives describing how individuals might attain security often fail in the face of collective economic conditions in which attaining objects like a home is both economically challenging and often emotionally unfulfilling. Although the variables of their lives were different, I suggest that these authors’ stories of displacement fail to perform therapeutic or intervening work, because the problem of displacement is rooted in material conditions that narrative innovation alone cannot resolve. Instead, readers should derive from these texts and their failures the need for more collective forms of security.

The rise of the middle class to power and influence in European culture and politics in the nineteenth century created the conditions of modern life which to many European intellectuals were distasteful and ominous. They viewed urbanization, commercialization, industrialization and the qualities of life that they engendered, such as anxiety, limitation of freedom, and pervasive mediocrity in cultural expression, as being inimical to the traditional and more reliable values of European civilization or, in some instances, as being incapable of providing the bases for a free and humane existence. This study focuses on the attack on bourgeois society in Europe in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries in an attempt to expand the definition of “cultural despair,” a term to which it is related. Although others have discussed this general topic, cultural despair, the present study takes for its starting point the limited outlines offered in Fritz Stern’s The Politics of Cultural Despair. This is undertaken for the dual purpose of exposing to historical scrutiny a background theme of European intellectual activity of the former and present centuries, and to help construct a historiographical tool with which the historian can seek to understand more readily the impact of the rise of the middle class and its consequences on the mind of Europe. To reinforce the understanding of the topic of cultural despair, the essay offers four illustrations of cultural despair from traditions of the European intellectual milieu. These are the revolutionary, represented by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and the critique of bourgeois economics; the literary, represented by T. S. Eliot and the critique of modern culture; the Catholic, represented by Emmanuel Mounier and his critique of bourgeois life; and the existentialist, represented by Jean-Paul Sartre and the redefinition of freedom in modern life. Finally, this effort concludes with an attempt to synthesize the attitudes of these four men in their relation to the general subject.

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La tesis estudia aspectos poco conocidos de algunos movimientos insurgentes que se desarrollaron en la jurisdicción de la intendencia de Arequipa, durante los años de 1809 a 1815. Fue necesario describir el contexto temporal y geográfico de dicha intendencia (1784-1825), lo que nos permitió ubicarnos, identificar y situar a un mayor número de autoridades civiles y eclesiásticas. Si bien es cierto que, Arequipa cumplió un rol fundamental defendiendo los intereses reales; en su interior, es decir, subdelegaciones o partidos, y pese a los esfuerzos de sus autoridades, se desencadenaron una serie intermitente de conspiraciones, sediciones y levantamientos favorables a los denominados movimientos patriotas. Por lo tanto, el objetivo principal es estudiar el desempeño de las autoridades arequipeñas, de mayor y menor rango, en esta coyuntura y conocer su postura frente a lo acontecido en la península y posteriormente a su enfrentamiento contra las Juntas de Gobierno Altoperuanas y Bonaerense. La hipótesis es que durante 1809-1815 y pese a que las autoridades de turno impusieron una serie de medidas para evitar que la revolución afectara su territorio, se produjeron un número importante de movimientos, conspiraciones y sediciones. Por lo tanto, los mecanismos adoptados por estas autoridades fueron insuficientes, porque su jurisdicción fue proclive a la filtración y/o aceptación de propaganda escrita y de emisarios insurgentes. La metodología de trabajo conducente a alcanzar los objetivos se estructura en la base de un análisis cualitativo de un heterogéneo grupo de fuentes primeras inéditas e impresas provenientes básicamente de archivos nacionales e internacionales. Entre los documentos manuscritos consultados se encuentran expedientes criminales, civiles y eclesiásticos, correspondencia, libros de actas, libros copiadores y documentación oficial (actas, bandos y proclamas). Dicha documentación nos permitió identificar a nuevos actores, autoridades y permitió conocer su postura frente a los problemas expuestos. Se conoce más acerca de Arequipa defensora y aliada de los intereses monárquicos. Y, es una idea común y hasta aceptada que Arequipa fue un centro realista. Sin embargo, la documentación consultada nos permite señalar que, paralelamente a lo señalado, no pocos arequipeños se vieron influenciados, compartieron y difundieron ideas patriotas, esto los llevo a enfrentarse a la autoridad real en más de una oportunidad, prueba de ellos son los movimientos insurgentes que se han podido identificar / Tesis