Toru Takemitsu (1930--96) composed several musical works which adopt as their titles quotations from James Joyce' s final and most revolutionary novel, Finnegans Wake. In this thesis I focus on one of these compositions, Far Calls. Coming, Far! (1981) for solo violin and orchestra. I explain the ways in which Takemitsu and Joyce possess similar philosophies and aesthetics, and examine their mutual interest in the phenomena of dreams. The Wake explores one night of a family's unconscious sleep activity and is heavily influenced by Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. I argue that Takemitsu composes Far Calls. Coming, Far! as a "dreamwork" modelled after Joyce's similar literary endeavour. Accordingly, I categorize the analogous dream structures between Takemitsu's music and Joyce's text. These are: The Dreamer, Language, Time and Water, which I discuss in turn.

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Zou, Meiyang. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-103). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / Abstract --- p.iv / 摘要 --- p.vi / Abbreviations --- p.viii / Chapter Chapter One: --- Introduction --- p.1 / Nation and nationalism: problems and dilemmas --- p.2 / James Joyce and Lu Xun --- p.10 / Critical / ironical nationalism? --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter Two: --- Negative Images of the Homeland --- p.21 / Haunting death and insanity --- p.22 / Problematic national identity and “backward´ح national character --- p.33 / Chapter Chapter Three: --- Doubts Towards the Foreign Powers --- p.39 / Criticizing the self-imposed inferiority --- p.42 / Failed intellectuals --- p.53 / Chapter Chapter Four: --- Rescuing the Nation Through Language --- p.63 / Disillusionment with political revolutions --- p.63 / Literary experimentations as alternative salvation --- p.76 / Chapter Chapter Five: --- Conclusion --- p.83 / After the short stories --- p.83 / Exile and role of the intellectual --- p.89 / Literature and politics --- p.96 / WORKS CITED --- p.99

Esta pesquisa investiga a construção do texto dramatúrgico Virginias, sobre a vida da escritora inglesa Virginia Woolf, que utilizou como metodologia de escrita o procedimento de apropriação, em que a obra e os diários pessoais da escritora foram fraturados pelo recorte e pela posterior colagem destes intertextos na nova criação. O trabalho articula os estudos sobre citação e apropriação de Antoine Compagnon, Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna, Kenneth Goldsmith e Marjorie Perloff, percebendo o procedimento como uma prática que tem a pós-modernidade como influência. A pesquisa utiliza como aportes teóricos sobre a condição pós-moderna, os autores Jean-François Lyotard e Linda Hutcheon e Cecília Salles sobre a gênese criativa. / This research investigates the construction of the play Virginias, about the life of English writer Virginia Woolf, which used as writing methodology the procedure of appropriation. This procedure consisted in fracturing the writer’s work and diaries by cutting them out and then pasting the pieces of intertext together in a new creation. The work articulates the studies about quotation and appropriation of Antoine Compagnon, Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna, Kenneth Goldsmith and Marjorie Perloff, and perceives the procedure as a practice that has postmodernity as influence. The research has as theoretical background about the postmodern condition the authors Jean-François Lyotard and Linda Hutcheon and Cecília Salles about creative genesis.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-02-09Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:43:27Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 stafuzza_gb_dr_arafcl.pdf: 1081660 bytes, checksum: 63fe5dd74e31723b02eaf001ee75eb0e (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A análise do discurso da crítica literária universitária apresenta-se inédita em diversas áreas em que se trabalha com o texto literário, em especial na análise do discurso. Por isso a presente reflexão parte da interface entre a análise do discurso e algumas áreas do conhecimento humano que tratam com interesse do texto literário (ciências sociais, história, filosofia, teoria literária), com o intuito de analisar o discurso da crítica literária universitária mostrando a evolução tanto do gênero artigo crítico literário, de autoria de acadêmicos, publicados em uma revista especializada, quanto da recepção crítica do escritor James Joyce e de sua obra, ressaltando a sua entrada e lugar na universidade. Assim, optamos recortar como corpus de análise artigos críticos publicados na revista francesa literária La Revue des Lettres Modernes - Histoire des idées et des littératures (Revista de Letras Modernas - História das idéias e das literaturas), uma vez que essa revista contempla análises críticas francesas, inglesas, americanas e irlandesas, feitas especialmente por professores universitários sobre James Joyce e sua obra; sobretudo, Ulysses, por ter sido publicada em Paris, França, em 1922. Consideramos como referencial de análise, artigos que sejam representativos dos períodos de 1956-1965 e 1988-1994, com alguns recortes pertinentes ao estudo, devido a quantidade e complexidade do material a ser analisado nesta tese. Selecionamos dois (02) artigos crítico-literários para o estabelecimento de análises centradas a partir de um recorte de dezessete (17) artigos, no sentido de examinar o funcionamento da crítica literária universitária. São eles: Le mysticisme qui plaisait a Joyce - Note sur la source première d´Ulysse (1951), do professor W. B. Stanford, que filia seu discurso crítico-literário universitário à história literária... / Discourse Analysis in university literary criticism seems to be something inedited in several areas which work with literary texts. This thesis aims at reflecting on an interface between discourse analysis and other fields of human knowledge which deal with literary texts (Social Sciences, History, Philosophy and Literary Theory). Such study aims at analyzing the discourse of university literary criticism, showing an evolution of a genre called literary critic paper, written by academicians and published in specialized Reviews, focusing James Joyce's critic reception and the criticism on his pieces. Besides, it will be emphasized Joyce's acceptance and academic place in university studies. Thus, it was taken as corpus, critic papers published in a French Literary Review called La Revue des Lettres Modernes - Histoire des idées et des littératures. Such Review approaches French, English, American and Irish critic analysis, written, specially, by university professors on James Joyce and his pieces. It will be given special attention to criticism on Ulysses, which has been published in Paris, France, in 1922. It will be taken as reference for analysis, representative papers in the period of 1956-1965 and 1988-1994. Some restricted aspects were emphasized and selected for analysis, considering the great number of papers and their complexities. It was selected two (2) papers on literary criticism to establish analysis from a sample of seventeen (17) papers. Such choice aims at examining universitarian literary criticism working. They are: Le mysticisme qui plaisait a Joyce - Note sur la source première d´Ulysse (1951), by Professor W. B. Stanford, who inscribe his universitarian literary criticism in literary history, founding his theoretical framework in philological studies; and, 'Sirènes': l´expressivité nomade (1988), by Professor André Topia, who expresses... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

I will particularly examine the work of Virginia Woolf, the 20th century novelist and critic, principally because her work exposes a very rich and extensive evidence of her awareness of the dichotomy women/men, putting special emphasis on female psychology. Her conviction was that an artist should never pervade the writing with judgements based upon sex distinctions or opinions full of resentment. Hence, the author’s inclination for the androgynous was used as a writing fashion, which in turn gave room to discussions on the topic of phallocentrism, taking subsequently the form of an embryonic feminist mode. Just as one wave does not really reflect the completeness and beauty of the sea, neither a single person reflects the splendour of mankind. I focus my attention on The Waves, since this novel has plenty of data that encourages an autonomous way of looking at humans, their gender, and the relations between them. The objective of this paper is to associate the author’s considerations about human distinctiveness and gender in The Waves. For this purpose I shall determine the feminist features presented in the novel as well as I shall establish the importance of characterisation and symbolism; these aspects communicate strong ideas concerning the fragmentation of reality with no hierarchic allusions related to gender, which as a result, comes to be a ground-braking conceptual reaction against phallocentrism.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literatura, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, 2016. / Submitted by Fernanda Percia França (fernandafranca@bce.unb.br) on 2016-07-14T14:03:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_AnaFláviaRibeiroOtero.pdf: 791973 bytes, checksum: 99d36e58599d68569bed4676371b6a2d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana(raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2016-08-12T22:18:16Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_AnaFláviaRibeiroOtero.pdf: 791973 bytes, checksum: 99d36e58599d68569bed4676371b6a2d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-12T22:18:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_AnaFláviaRibeiroOtero.pdf: 791973 bytes, checksum: 99d36e58599d68569bed4676371b6a2d (MD5) / Esta dissertação aborda as questões que envolvem o sentido visual a partir de uma análise do texto de Ulysses. Dessa forma, busca-se observar essa obra a partir da linguagem articulada e de como esse movimento pode proporcionar um pensamento acerca desse sentido. Para tanto, será necessário debruçar-se sobre as questões que envolvem a linguagem e como esse romance pode se aproximar de elementos ligados à poesia. Assim, busca-se expandir a visão a partir das relações linguísticas construídas pelo texto joyceano. A partir disso, um diálogo com o pensamento derridiano será desencadeado, de maneira a repensar os vínculos articulados em Ulysses a partir de Derrida. Assim, esse diálogo permitirá que se reflita sobre algumas ideias do filósofo, tais como a cegueira, a escuridão, as lágrimas, a ética, o animal e a escritura. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / This dissertation intends to discuss the issues concerning to the visual sense from an examination of Ulysses’s text. Thus, it seeks to observe this work from the language articulation and how this movement can provide a thought about this sense. For this purpose, it will be necessary to study the issues that concern the linguistic constructions and how this novel can get closer to elements linked to poetry. So it seeks to extend the vision through the linguistic relations built from Joyce’s text. Then, a discussion with Derrida’s thought will be articulate in order to rethink the established links between Joyce and Derrida. Therefore, this dialogue will allow to think about some ideas of the philosopher such as blindness, darkness, tears, ethics, animal and writing.

Virginia Woolf in Mrs Dalloway, through Clarissa Dalloway’s and other parallel stories, presents us with the situation of Septimus Warren Smith, a war hero who suffers shell-shock and that due to his apparent madness is victim of constant threats from two physicians who want to put him away because of his mental crises. He, in an attempt to preserve his soul from the terrible embrace of human nature, decides to kill himself before he is arrested. Taking into account this information, the topic of this thesis will be the treatment of madness in Mrs Dalloway, understanding the figure of the mad person as a literary archetype which is repeated with some consistency in English Literature, from classical to contemporary texts. The main focus will be the development of the figure of Septimus as a visionary poet, a modernist figure analogous to William Blake who, with his visionary poetic/pictorial work, drew the paths to the following romantic company. A comparison will be drawn between the two poets taking into account the evolution of the visionary poet from its pre-romantic sphere to the modernist shadow of a mad person, showing that madness suffers transformations from the ancient Greece to modernist times. One of the sub-topics will be the conception of nature in contrast to human nature, and how they seem to be components of a dichotomy that cannot be dissolved. My intention is to work on madness as a literary archetype, along with an examination of the mad person within the context of a modernist novel where it is manifest in the figure of the visionary poet. I will try to see how this has changed from the Platonic perspective of divine madness to the segregation and punishment of the Classic Epoch, and finally to our modern(ist) sensibility. Tentatively, the social apprehension towards the mad person would affect its characterisation in Mrs Dalloway, in which a post-war fragmented society is presented.

Esta pesquisa investiga a construção do texto dramatúrgico Virginias, sobre a vida da escritora inglesa Virginia Woolf, que utilizou como metodologia de escrita o procedimento de apropriação, em que a obra e os diários pessoais da escritora foram fraturados pelo recorte e pela posterior colagem destes intertextos na nova criação. O trabalho articula os estudos sobre citação e apropriação de Antoine Compagnon, Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna, Kenneth Goldsmith e Marjorie Perloff, percebendo o procedimento como uma prática que tem a pós-modernidade como influência. A pesquisa utiliza como aportes teóricos sobre a condição pós-moderna, os autores Jean-François Lyotard e Linda Hutcheon e Cecília Salles sobre a gênese criativa. / This research investigates the construction of the play Virginias, about the life of English writer Virginia Woolf, which used as writing methodology the procedure of appropriation. This procedure consisted in fracturing the writer’s work and diaries by cutting them out and then pasting the pieces of intertext together in a new creation. The work articulates the studies about quotation and appropriation of Antoine Compagnon, Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna, Kenneth Goldsmith and Marjorie Perloff, and perceives the procedure as a practice that has postmodernity as influence. The research has as theoretical background about the postmodern condition the authors Jean-François Lyotard and Linda Hutcheon and Cecília Salles about creative genesis.