Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2008. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The first section of this thesis aims at creating a reading strategy for the analysis of poetry thematically concerned with habitation and the space of the house. Selected Afrikaans poems, forming part of a newer house-poetry that breaks away from the idyllic, genial representation of the house in earlier Afrikaans poetry, are examined. The theoretical equipment utilised in this examination is the habitation philosophies of Martin Heidegger, Otto Friedrich Bollnow and Gustav Bachelard. Various related insights in the work of these philosophers are developed into a three-tiered model for the interpretation of house poetry. Supplementing the abovementioned framework is the socio-historical work of Joseph Rykwert and Ton Lemaire. Both these theorists explore the close connection between the space of the house and the realisation of mortality and transience. The application of the philosophical model facilitates, on the micro level of image and word choice, a fresh understanding of the selected poems, as well as a wider philosophical contextualisation of their thematic content. The reading strategy and the application thereof could also provide the means with which a new philosophical scrutiny of Afrikaans house-poetry can be achieved. The abovementioned formal essay is presented as coupled with a collection of original Afrikaans poems, entitled Vierluik, the creative section of this thesis. Vierluik examines, among other things, aspects of habitation in city, town and countryside, and reflects on descent, rootedness, displacement and the interconnection of space and identity. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die eerste gedeelte van hierdie tesis het as doel die daarstelling van ’n leesstrategie waarmee poësie wat tematies oor die huisruimte en bewoning handel, ondersoek kan word. Geselekteerde Afrikaanse gedigte, wat deel vorm van ’n nuwer huispoësie wat sedert die sestigerjare wegbreek van die idilliese, gemoedelike uitbeelding van die huis in vroeër Afrikaanse gedigte, word ondersoek. Die teoretiese apparatuur wat in hierdie ondersoek aangewend word, is die bewoningsfilosofieë van Martin Heidegger, Otto Friedrich Bollnow en Gustav Bachelard. Verskeie verbandhoudende insigte in die werk van hierdie denkers word ontwikkel tot ’n drieledige interpretasiemodel vir huispoësie. Hierby dien as aanvulling die kultuur-historiese werk van Joseph Rykwert en Ton Lemaire, waarin die noue band tussen die huisruimte en die doods- of verganklikheidsbesef uitgewerk word. Die toepassing van hierdie filosofiese begripsapparatuur fasiliteer op die mikrovlak van beelde en woordkeuse ’n vars verstaan van die vyf geselekteerde gedigte, asook ’n breër filosofiese kontekstualisering van hulle tematiese inhoud. Die leesstrategie en toepassings sou ook ’n filosofiese oopdek van die huispoësie in Afrikaans kon bemiddel. Hierdie akademiese gedeelte dien verder as ’n verbandhoudende oefening by die kreatiewe gedeelte van die tesis, naamlik ’n digbundel, Vierluik. Die bundel ondersoek, onder andere, aspekte van bewoning in stad, dorp en platteland, en bied ’n besinning aan oor herkoms, geworteldheid, verplasing en die verweefdheid van ruimte en identiteit.

During the presidential contest of 1884, Republicans used singing as a campaign tactic at rallies, meetings, and parades. Their songs may be divided into several categories, such as rally songs, songs of praise for the party and its candidate, "bloody shirt" songs, mudslinging songs, and issue-based songs. Songs provide a perspective on the overall tenor of the campaign, while a lack of songs on certain topics, such as temperance, reflects the party's reluctance to alienate voters by taking a strong stand on controversial issues. Although the campaign has often been called one of the dirtiest in American history, this negativity is not reflected in the majority of the songs.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:27:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JAIRO DE SOUSA MELO.pdf: 52195 bytes, checksum: fa611b6f5aac9f7b6b06a3f55339ee20 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-23 / Basically, this work is about the origins of the Theory of Relativity. However, most importantly, it intends to interpret how and in which ways the Michelson´s experiment may have contributed or not to ideas that led Einstein in developing his seminal theory. Most specifically, this work leans over a text of 1949, by philosopher Gaston Bachelard in which he, in according with common sense of his age, declare that the experiment made by Michelson in 1881 is the starting point of the development of Theory of Relativity. At last, this paper made a comparative analysis of Einstein s own statements and a demonstration that, although the experiment had been crucial to resolve the ether problem, it, that is, its result, doesn t bear any significant value in the theories developed by the physicist, and, beyond that, contrary to what was postulated, the theory explains the failure of the experiment, its null result; and this result didn t lead, in its age, to any postulation about the subjacent principle to Theory of Relativity / Basicamente este trabalho versa sobre as origens da Teoria da relatividade. Mas, sobretudo, busca interpretar como e de que forma o experimento de Michelson pode ter contribuído ou não para as idéias que conduziram Einstein no desenvolvimento de sua teoria seminal. Mais especificamente, o trabalho debruça-se sobre um texto de 1949, do filósofo Gaston Bachelard no qual o mesmo, em concordância com o senso comum de sua época, afirma ter sido o experimento realizado por Michelson em 1881 o ponto de partida para o desenvolvimento da Relatividade. Finaliza este trabalho, uma analise comparativa das declarações do próprio Einstein e uma demonstração de que, embora o experimento tenha sido crucial para o fechamento do problema do éter, ele, ou melhor, seu resultado não tem peso significativo nas teorias desenvolvidas pelo físico, e, muito mais, ao contrário do que se postulava, a teoria explica o insucesso do experimento, seu resultado nulo; e o resultado nulo do experimento não remeteu, em sua época, a nenhuma postulação sobre os princípios subjacentes à Teoria da Relatividade

Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a importância social das formas estéticas abordadas pelos romances modernos de autoria dos artistas que formaram o grupo Orpheu, responsável pelo primeiro modernismo em Portugal. O corpus de análise é formado pelas obras A engomadeira, publicada em 1917, por José de Almada Negreiros; A confissão de Lúcio, publicada em 1914, por Mário de Sá-Carneiro; e Livro do desassossego, publicação póstuma com autoria de Fernando Pessoa. Para isso, são adotadas diversas teorias que vinculam o romance à sociedade, com uma atenção maior para Ascensão do romance, de Ian Watt. De acordo com ele, os elementos que caracterizaram o romance tradicional nos séculos XVIII e XIX são signos materiais que respondem ao processo de consolidação da classe burguesa. Dessa maneira, os textos analisados procuram a ruptura dos elementos apontados por Watt, o que revela uma atitude política de subversão dos signos burgueses no momento em que eles passam a estar em declínio no contexto europeu, com exceção de Portugal. Configura-se, portanto, como uma intervenção política a atitude desses três artistas. / This paper aims to analyze the social importance of aesthetic forms approached in modern novels by artists who formed the Orpheu group, which was responsible for the first modernism movement in Portugal. The corpus of analysis of this work is composed by the literary works The ironing girl (A engomadeira), published in 1917 by José de Almada Negreiros; Lucio’s confession (A confissão de Lúcio), published in 1914 by Mário de Sá-Carneiro; and The book of disquiet (Livro do desassossego), a posthumous publication authored by Fernando Pessoa. For this purpose, several theories that link novel to society are adopted, giving greater attention to The rise of the novel, by Ian Watt. According to this author, the elements that characterized the traditional novel in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries are material signs that respond to the process of consolidation of the bourgeois class. Therefore, the analyzed texts seek to break the elements mentioned by Watt, which reveal an attitude of subversion of bourgeois signs when they start to decline in the European context, with the exception of Portugal. Thus, the novels of these three artists are characterized as a political intervention.

Famine and destitution stemming from the Second World War had spread across the European continent and parts of Asia by mid-1945. Recognizing the need for recovery and survival in those regions, President Harry S. Truman at the recommendation of several Cabinet members, summoned ex-President Herbert Hoover for advice on how the United States should proceed in offering aid beyond the earlier efforts of the United Nations Rehabilitation and Relief Administration and other relief sources. After an absence from the White House and official government participation for many years, Hoover readily provided crucial advice on addressing famine relief in Europe and Asia based on his previous humanitarian leadership during and after the First World War. Recognizing that further action needed to be taken, Truman asked Hoover, as Honorary Chairman of the Famine Emergency Committee (FEC), to go to Europe and Asia to personally assess the famine relief needs. Hoover and several colleagues travelled 50,000 miles to thirty-eight different nations from March and into June 1946 to witness and evaluate famine needs in the afflicted nations, or arrange for food supply resources from various other countries; making a second trip to a struggling Germany and Austria in 1947. This thesis initially examines the narrative of the period between Hoover's reentry into public service, as requested by Truman, and the chronicle of the FEC missions. At the same time, it considers the purposes of the FEC missions, from both Hoover's and Truman's perspectives, and despite differing political viewpoints, the efforts of the two leaders to merge their activities into a common goal. The aim, amid early Cold War challenges, was to encourage both freedom and democracy in Europe and elsewhere, while sustaining free market economies and guarding against the spread of communism. As Hoover focused his efforts on American based humanitarian aid through the mechanism of food relief to promote economic prosperity, stability, and political freedoms, Truman endeavored to protect democracy as expressed in the Truman Doctrine. Both standpoints coalesced in a synthesis of anti-communism, global stability, and U.S. geopolitical interests. This thesis also will analyze the friendship that developed between Hoover and Truman during the FEC missions. This helped lead to further collaboration between the two leaders, as the President asked the ex-President to assist in the creation of the First Hoover Commission, leading to a Second Hoover Commission under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Despite ongoing political dissimilarities and occasional disagreements, the friendship of Hoover and Truman strengthened and endured for the remainder of the lives.

L'influence du président de la commission du Sénat américain sur les Relations extérieures (Senate Foreign Relations Committee ou CSRE) a-t-elle inéluctablement diminué depuis 1945? Le président de la CSRE joue-t-il toujours un rôle déterminant dans la formulation et la conduite de la politique étrangère américaine? Ces questions animent plusieurs experts du Congrès des États-Unis et guident notre thèse. Décrivant l'expérience de quatre sénateurs qui ont occupé la tête de la CSRE depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, soit Arthur Vandenberg (1947-1949), J. William Fulbright (1959-1975), Jesse Helms (1995-2001) et Joe Biden (2007-présent), nous recourons à une approche récente de la politique intérieure américaine - l'étude du développement politique américain (American Political Development) - pour formuler trois conclusions à propos de l'influence du président de la CSRE sur la politique étrangère américaine après 1945. D'abord, les experts du Congrès ont tort d'affirmer que l'impact du président de la CSRE sur la politique étrangère n'a cessé de diminuer depuis 1945. Non seulement ces experts n'offrent-ils pas d'indicateurs précis pour mesurer le déclin du président de la CSRE, mais nos propres indicateurs et observations contredisent leur thèse linéaire et simpliste. Vandenberg, Fulbright, Helms et Biden se sont effectivement démarqués par rapport aux autres sénateurs qui ont occupé la tête de la CSRE depuis 1945, ce qui mine l'argument voulant que l'influence du président de la CSRE a décru de manière inéluctable. Ensuite, à l'aide d'une approche à trois niveaux d'analyse, nous utilisons les cas de Vandenberg, Fulbright, Helms et Biden pour développer une théorie de l'influence du président de la CSRE. À notre avis, les expériences de ces quatre sénateurs sont comparables et démontrent que les présidents de la CSRE qui marquent le plus l'histoire possèdent les trois caractéristiques suivantes, sans exception: a) ils dirigent la CSRE lors d'une période cruciale de la politique étrangère américaine, c'est-à-dire lorsqu'un événement international d'envergure les incite à s'imposer dans les débats à Washington (niveau international); b) ils oeuvrent dans un environnement institutionnel et sociétal qui favorise leur réussite (niveau national); et c) ils ont les intérêts, les aptitudes et les convictions nécessaires pour exercer un fort leadership au Congrès et face au président américain (niveau individuel). À notre avis, l'histoire se souvient moins des autres présidents de la CSRE parce qu'ils ne répondaient pas à un ou à plusieurs de ces critères. Qui plus est, notre thèse porte à croire que les présidents de la CSRE qui risquent le plus de marquer la politique étrangère à l'avenir sont également ceux qui rempliront ces trois conditions. Enfin, faisant la distinction entre les actions législatives (introduction de projets de loi et d'amendements, adoption des budgets, votes législatifs, etc.) et non législatives (apparitions télévisuelles, lettres au président américain, conférences publiques, etc.) du président de la CSRE, nous démontrons que les experts du Congrès ont tort de croire que l'influence législative des sénateurs est plus importante que leur influence non législative. Certes, l'influence législative permet au président de la CSRE d'exercer un poids plus significatif et direct sur la politique étrangère que les apparitions télévisuelles, sites Internet ou encore discours au Sénat. Or, les présidents de la CSRE n'ont pas le choix de recourir aux outils non législatifs pour garantir l'adoption de leurs projets de loi. L'influence non législative est donc un préalable à l'influence législative. À ce titre, Fulbright, Helms et Biden ont marqué l'histoire parce qu'ils ont su faire preuve d'innovation: ils ont créé de nouveaux outils non législatifs qui, comme les apparitions télévisuelles, les manoeuvres dilatoires et les apparitions sur Internet, ont permis au président de la CSRE de continuer à s'imposer dans les débats à Washington malgré l'avènement de la « présidence impériale » et l'évolution du contexte socio-politique américain. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Congrès des États-Unis, Sénat des États-Unis, Commission du Sénat sur les Relations extérieures, Politique étrangère des États-Unis, Politique intérieure des États-Unis, Arthur Vandenberg, J. William Fulbright, Jesse Helms, Joe Biden.

Автор представляемого исследования изучает одно из самых значимых произведений Вилла-Лобоса – 16 Cirandas (Сирандас). Он предлагает анализ и различные интерпретационные концепции каждой музыкальной пьесы цикла. При поиске принципов, которые лежат в основе семантики и синтаксиса музыкального произведения, автор опирался в своем анализе на выдающиеся работы Б. Асафьева «Теория интонации» и «Музыкальная форма как процесс», критически представленные в этом исследовании в контексте других созданных в 20 веке музыкальных теорий. В анализе каждой из музыкальных пьес, называемом в работе «Интонационный анализ», как единый комплекс рассматривались следующие элементы: структурирование музыкального материала; звуковой поток в единицу времени в свете теории энергетики искусства Асафьева, импульсы музыкального движения, музыкальное движение, функции синхронных и последовательных звуковых элементов и их сочетаний; присущие музыкальной структуре семантические и синтаксические аспекты; пианистический язык Вилла-Лобоса; такие вопросы исполнительского искусства как аппликатура, туше, движения рук и плеч. Музыкальное исполнение, с точки зрения «Теории интонации», понимается как интонирование музыкального произведения, таким образом, звуковое воплощение происходит в руках и голосе интерпретатора, который передает свое психологическое/ интеллектуальное/эмоциональное/смысловое состояние в данном историческом и культурном контексте. В соответствии с пониманием Б. Асафьева, музыка – это «искусство интонируемого смысла». Вилла-Лобос, будучи неотъемлемой частью своего времени, интонирует в Сирандас культурные универсалии через исторически кристаллизованные интонации бразильского социального сознания. / Este trabalho investiga parte significativa da obra para piano de Villa-Lobos, as 16 Cirandas, com objetivo de apresentar concepções analíticas e interpretativas para a execução de cada uma das peças. Partindo da busca por um conhecimento que abordasse as questões semânticas e sintáticas, expressas no ato da execução musical, foram adotados, para as análises, os trabalhos de B. Asafiev, Teoria da Entonação e Forma Musical como Processo apresentados e contextualizados frente às teorias analíticas do século XX. Em cada concepção analítica das peças, neste trabalho, com o título de análises entonacionais, os itens a seguir foram tratados: a estruturação do material musical; o fluxo sonoro no tempo manifestado por intermédio dos conceitos “asafianos” de energia, impulso ao movimento musical, movimento musical e seu término, funções dos elementos e conjuntos sonoros simultâneos e sucessivos; os aspectos semânticos e sintáticos, imanentes e emanantes das estruturas musicais; a linguagem pianística de Villa-Lobos; aspectos do processo de execução, como dedilhados, movimentos de dedos, mãos e braços. Integrada à Teoria da Entonação, a execução musical é entendida como entonação de uma obra musical, ou seja, manifestação sonora originada das mãos e voz dos intérpretes, que comunica seu estado psicológico intelectual/emocional/semântico em um contexto cultural e histórico. Por sua vez, a música é entendida por Asafiev como “a arte do sentido entonado”. Conectado à sua contemporaneidade, Villa-Lobos entoa, nas Cirandas, um universo cultural por meio de entonações historicamente cristalizadas no consciente social brasileiro. / This work investigates a substantial part of Villa-Lobos’ work for piano, the 16 Cirandas. It proposes analytical and interpretive conceptions to the performance of each musical piece. Searching for principles that would encompass the semantics and syntax expressed in the act of musical performance, B. Asafiev’s Intonation Theory and Musical Form as Process was used as the basis for analysis, being presented and contextualized with the analytical theories of the 20th century. In each analytical conception of the pieces, entitled here as intonation analyses, the following items were treated as a complex: structuring of the musical material; sound flow within time manifested through the Asafie’s concepts of energy, impulse to the musical movement, musical movement and its conclusion; functions of simultaneous and successive sound elements and sets; semantic and syntactic aspects immanent and emanating of musical structures; pianistic language of Villa-Lobos; aspects of the performing process such as fingering, finger, hand and arm movements. Musical performance, integrated to the Theory of Intonation, is understood as intonation of a work of music, thus, manifestation of sound originated in the hands and voice of the interpreters, which communicates their psychological/intellectual/emotional/semantic state in a historical and cultural context. According to Asafiev’s understanding, music is the “art of intoned meaning”. Villa-Lobos, in touch with his contemporaneity, intones in his Cirandas a cultural universe through historically crystallized intonations of the Brazilian social consciousness.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a importância social das formas estéticas abordadas pelos romances modernos de autoria dos artistas que formaram o grupo Orpheu, responsável pelo primeiro modernismo em Portugal. O corpus de análise é formado pelas obras A engomadeira, publicada em 1917, por José de Almada Negreiros; A confissão de Lúcio, publicada em 1914, por Mário de Sá-Carneiro; e Livro do desassossego, publicação póstuma com autoria de Fernando Pessoa. Para isso, são adotadas diversas teorias que vinculam o romance à sociedade, com uma atenção maior para Ascensão do romance, de Ian Watt. De acordo com ele, os elementos que caracterizaram o romance tradicional nos séculos XVIII e XIX são signos materiais que respondem ao processo de consolidação da classe burguesa. Dessa maneira, os textos analisados procuram a ruptura dos elementos apontados por Watt, o que revela uma atitude política de subversão dos signos burgueses no momento em que eles passam a estar em declínio no contexto europeu, com exceção de Portugal. Configura-se, portanto, como uma intervenção política a atitude desses três artistas. / This paper aims to analyze the social importance of aesthetic forms approached in modern novels by artists who formed the Orpheu group, which was responsible for the first modernism movement in Portugal. The corpus of analysis of this work is composed by the literary works The ironing girl (A engomadeira), published in 1917 by José de Almada Negreiros; Lucio’s confession (A confissão de Lúcio), published in 1914 by Mário de Sá-Carneiro; and The book of disquiet (Livro do desassossego), a posthumous publication authored by Fernando Pessoa. For this purpose, several theories that link novel to society are adopted, giving greater attention to The rise of the novel, by Ian Watt. According to this author, the elements that characterized the traditional novel in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries are material signs that respond to the process of consolidation of the bourgeois class. Therefore, the analyzed texts seek to break the elements mentioned by Watt, which reveal an attitude of subversion of bourgeois signs when they start to decline in the European context, with the exception of Portugal. Thus, the novels of these three artists are characterized as a political intervention.

CAPES / No presente trabalho serão analisadas representações de feminilidades em dois periódicos distintos: as Melindrosas na revista Para Todos... e a coluna Garotas na revista O Cruzeiro. Os recortes compreendem os anos de 1922 a 1930 para as Melindrosas e de 1938 a 1946 para as Garotas, privilegiando uma sequência entre décadas subsequentes, de modo a entender como as representações de feminilidades se modificaram ou se mantiveram. Interessa também investigar de que maneira o humor e a visualidade contribuíram para normatizar papéis e relações entre gênero, em conjunto com políticas públicas. As revistas visavam trazer a identificação com discursos hierarquizantes, atuando como pedagogia de gênero. Contudo, percebe-se que o humor buscou, nas fissuras das representações, a dupla moral, na qual as mulheres negociavam espaços de atuação e liberdade. Tanto Melindrosas quanto Garotas possuíam táticas de convencimento e de sedução que as levaram a realizar desejos e a conquistar alguns de seus objetivos. Elas questionaram e enfatizaram as contradições e tensões das respectivas décadas. Por vezes, indicavam pretextos para pensar nas mudanças sociais, de comportamentos e no modo como os homens se colocavam neste quadro. / In the present work femininity representations will be analyzed in two separate journals: the Flappers in the magazine Para Todos... and the Garotas column in the magazine O Cruzeiro. The cuts include the period from 1922 to 1930 for the Flappers and 1938-1946 for Garotas, favoring to a sequence of subsequent decades, in order to understand how representations of femininity have changed or remained. We also want to investigate how the mood and visuality contributed to standardize roles and relationships between gender, together with public policy. Magazines aimed to bring identification with hierarchized speeches, acting as gender pedagogy. However, we notice that humor sought in the fissures of the representations, the double standard, in which women were negotiated spaces of action and freedom. Both the Flappers and the Garotas used tactics to convince and seduction that led them to grant wishes and achieve some of their goals. They questioned and emphasized the contradictions and tensions of their respective decades. Sometimes indicated pretexts to think about the social changes of behavior and how men were placed in this board.

CAPES / No presente trabalho serão analisadas representações de feminilidades em dois periódicos distintos: as Melindrosas na revista Para Todos... e a coluna Garotas na revista O Cruzeiro. Os recortes compreendem os anos de 1922 a 1930 para as Melindrosas e de 1938 a 1946 para as Garotas, privilegiando uma sequência entre décadas subsequentes, de modo a entender como as representações de feminilidades se modificaram ou se mantiveram. Interessa também investigar de que maneira o humor e a visualidade contribuíram para normatizar papéis e relações entre gênero, em conjunto com políticas públicas. As revistas visavam trazer a identificação com discursos hierarquizantes, atuando como pedagogia de gênero. Contudo, percebe-se que o humor buscou, nas fissuras das representações, a dupla moral, na qual as mulheres negociavam espaços de atuação e liberdade. Tanto Melindrosas quanto Garotas possuíam táticas de convencimento e de sedução que as levaram a realizar desejos e a conquistar alguns de seus objetivos. Elas questionaram e enfatizaram as contradições e tensões das respectivas décadas. Por vezes, indicavam pretextos para pensar nas mudanças sociais, de comportamentos e no modo como os homens se colocavam neste quadro. / In the present work femininity representations will be analyzed in two separate journals: the Flappers in the magazine Para Todos... and the Garotas column in the magazine O Cruzeiro. The cuts include the period from 1922 to 1930 for the Flappers and 1938-1946 for Garotas, favoring to a sequence of subsequent decades, in order to understand how representations of femininity have changed or remained. We also want to investigate how the mood and visuality contributed to standardize roles and relationships between gender, together with public policy. Magazines aimed to bring identification with hierarchized speeches, acting as gender pedagogy. However, we notice that humor sought in the fissures of the representations, the double standard, in which women were negotiated spaces of action and freedom. Both the Flappers and the Garotas used tactics to convince and seduction that led them to grant wishes and achieve some of their goals. They questioned and emphasized the contradictions and tensions of their respective decades. Sometimes indicated pretexts to think about the social changes of behavior and how men were placed in this board.