My dissertation manuscript studies the democratic theories of three protagonists of European political, legal, and social thought in the first half of the 20th century: Max Weber (1864-1920), Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), and Hans Kelsen (1881-1973). It explores, contextualizes, and compares their respective accounts of how the advent of mass democracy transformed the theory and practice of representative government, in terms of both its overall legal framework (the State) and its internal institutional and political actors (Parliaments, parties, and leaders). At the same time, it places these three authors in the broader horizon of early 20th-century anxieties about the “changes” of liberal parliamentarism and the unprecedented challenges posed by mass politics, reconnecting their work to public and scholarly discussions among leading social scientists and intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s. Sitting at the crossroads of history and theory, the dissertation seeks to highlight the distinctiveness of each author’s normative account of democratic leadership – Weber’s agonistic, Schmitt’s plebiscitary, and Kelsen’s procedural vision – and the largely competing ways in which each of them made political parties foundational to such visions. Urging the readers to capture the enduring echo of these three visions in our present, the dissertation also alerts them to their potential for rethinking the relationship between parties and leaders in early 21st-century representative democracies.

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In this study I analyse the role of the heroine in the work of four New Zealand writers, Katherine Mansfield, Robin Hyde, Janet Frame and Keri Hulme, starting from the assumption that such a role is influenced by the notion of the fall and by the perception of the vertigo entailed in it. In order to prove this I turn to the texts of four New Zealand writers dedicating one chapter to each. In the first chapter a few of Katherine Mansfield's short stories are analysed from the vantage point of the fall, investigated both in the construction of the character's subjectivity and in the construction of the narration. In the second chapter a link is established between Katherine Mansfield and Robin Hyde. A particular emphasis is put on the notion of subjectivity in relationship developed by the two writers, highlighting the link between this kind of subjectivity and the notion of the fall. In the third chapter the focus is subsequently shifted to Robin Hyde's work, in particular one of her novels, Wednesday's Children, which is read in the context of Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the carnivalistic. In the fourth chapter the notion of the fall is analysed in the fiction of Janet Frame, which is related to the treatment of the notion of the fall present in Keri Hulme's The Bone People. The fifth chapter is dedicated to the analysis of The Bone People as in the novel the notion of the fall and the vertigo perception find their fullest expression, whilst in the sixth chapter a significant parallel is drawn between Janet Frame's Scented Gardens for the Blind and Keri Hulme's The Bone People and links are established with their predecessors. Finally in the seventh chapter the critical perspective is broadened to comprise those common elements in the writing of Katherine Mansfield, Robin Hyde, Janet Frame and Keri Hulme that have been neglected by focusing uniquely on the notion of the fall, and thus to contribute to a more complete overall picture of the comparison presented in this study.

In spite of the large amount of criticism written about T. S. Eliot, no attempt has been made to point out the great debt that Eliot owes to Dante Alighieri, and the pervasive influence of The Divine Comedy on Eliot's poetical works. This thesis endeavors to illustrate the extent of that debt and influence.

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Na obra de Fernando Pessoa, é constante a presença de um “eu” fragmentado, sempre em busca de si, especialmente no que é atribuído ao heterônimo Álvaro de Campos. Igualmente, encontra-se, na obra romanesca de Clarice Lispector, um sujeito fragmentado, vivendo uma trajetória de errância. A problematização da identidade em Pessoa e em Lispector é, primeiramente, resultado de uma profunda ligação com a modernidade. O “eu” espelha a dinâmica da civilização moderna; por isso, essa fragmentação se revela dupla: ao mesmo tempo em que é resultado da modernidade, também busca ser sua cópia fiel, apresentando, em arte, uma experiência o mais próxima possível da realidade. A partir disso, objetiva-se explicitar como a identidade é problematizada nas obras desses autores e demonstrar que ambos compõem textos em que a intriga é a interpretação da identidade do sujeito. Para esse fim, faz-se uma análise crítica e comparativa dos textos a partir 1) da definição de Pessoa da arte como sonho e dos estudos de Lind (1970), Coelho (1980) e Ordoñes (1994) sobre a obra do poeta português, que permitiram a relação entre a concepção artística do poeta, seus programas estéticos e a criação heteronímia, de forma a demonstrar como o drama em gente tem como problema central a identidade; e 2) dos estudos de Nunes (1966, 1989), Martins (2007) e Álvares (2009) sobre os romances de Clarice Lispector, que permitiram demonstrar a relação entre a crescente perda das características do romance tradicional no decorrer de sua obra romanesca e a fixação da identidade como problema central desses textos. Para examinar essa problematização da identidade, este estudo apoia-se nos conceitos de identidade como mesmidade e como ipseidade e de identidade narrativa, de Ricoeur (1991), e de amadurecimento pessoal, de Winnicott (1978, 1982, 2001). No drama em gente pessoano e nos romances lispectorianos, o “eu” abre-se para o outro, revelando uma identidade como ipseidade, que se dá a conhecer por uma mediação interpretativa que o sujeito faz de si, por meio do uso de uma linguagem. / In the work of Fernando Pessoa, it is constant the presence of a fragmented self, always self-searching, especially in what is assigned to Álvaro de Campos. Equally, there is in the novelistic work of Clarice Lispector a fragmented subject, living a wandering path. The problematization of identity in Pessoa and in Lispector is, firstly, a result of a deep connection with modernity. The self reflects the dynamics of modern civilization; hence, that fragmentation reveals itself dual: at the same time it is a result of modernity, it also seeks to be its faithful copy, presenting, in art, an experience as close as possible to reality. From this, it is aimed to explicit how identity is problematised in the work of these authors and to demonstrate that both of them compose texts in which intrigue is the interpretation of the identity of subject. For this purpose, texts are analyzed in a critical and comparative way from 1) The definition of art as a dream by Pessoa and the studies of Lind (1970), Coelho (1980) and Ordoñes (1994) about the works of that Portuguese poet, which enabled the relation among the artistic conception of the poet, his aesthetic programs and the heteronym creation, in order to demonstrate how ‘drama in people’ has as its central issue identity; and 2) the studies of Nunes (1966, 1989), Martins (2007) and Álvares (2009) about the novels of Clarice Lispector, which enabled to demonstrate the relation between the increasing loss of features of traditional novel during her novelistic work and the establishment of identity as the central problem of those texts. To examine this problematization of identity, this study is based on the concepts of idem-identity, ipse-identity and narrative identity of Ricouer (1991), and of personal maturation of Winnicott (1978, 1982, 2001). In ‘drama in people’ of Pessoa and in the novels of Lispector, the self opens up to the other, revealing itself an ipse-identity, which can be known by an interpretative mediation that the subject does of itself through the use of language.

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar a existência de convergências mitológicas hebraicas e lusitanas em Mensagem, de Fernando Pessoa. A hipótese que nos guia é a de que é possível detectar ressonâncias de mitos hebraicos bíblicos na remitologizacão tal como proposta por Pessoa apontando, a partir daí, a presença de determinados arquétipos literários universais que constituem o arcabouço da obra. Pretendemos mostrar que, em Portugal, há uma necessidade e um anseio latentes da coletividade no sentido de resgatar ―o futuro do passado‖ português, isto é, procurar, de alguma forma, recuperar a atmosfera de apogeu imperialista que marcou a era dos descobrimentos que se acaba com o desaparecimento de D. Sebastião durante a Batalha de Alcácer Quibir e a perda da autonomia portuguesa com a submissão da nação ao reinado de Filipe II, da Espanha. Neste resgate, Pessoa, valendo-se do processo de recuperação de certos mitos e de mitificação de certos fatos históricos, consegue poeticamente, primeiro, fundir mito e história e, depois, romper com o tempo histórico e recriar o mito de Portugal. Consideramos o Sebastianismo e o V Império como mitos norteadores da composição desta obra; o primeiro deles enraizado no Messianismo hebraico profetizado por Isaías e outros profetas; e o último, o V Império, nascido de um sonho do rei Nabucodonosor e interpretado por Daniel. Os principais conceitos que embasam esta investigação são o de remitologização, proposto por Mielietinski (1987); de mito, objeto dos estudos de Mircea Eliade (1989; 1992; 2002; 2004); e de arquétipo, tal como foi definido por Jung (2000) e por Mielietinski (2002). Recorremos à história e/ou mitos dos judeus, sobretudo à Bíblia, e à história de Portugal, também, às obras em prosa de Fernando Pessoa a fim de defender a tese que buscamos comprovar: a de que tanto o povo judeu quanto o povo lusitano são povos escolhidos para acolher o Messias e fundar o V Império. A pesquisa conclui que o mito lusitano do Sebastianismo e do V Império são ―descendentes‖ da mitologia bíblica, ou seja, os arquétipos do inconsciente luso estão etnograficamente vinculados à profunda influência do povo judeu que esteve presente há pelo menos quatro mil anos divulgando a ideia de esperança messiânica na Península Ibérica. / Abstract: This research aims at investigating the existence of Hebraic and Portuguese mythological convergences in Message. The hypothesis that guides us is that it is possible to find echoes of biblical Hebraic myths in myths remythologyzed by Fernando Pessoa, and, as a consequence, to find certain universal literary archetypes which constitute the foundation of this literay composition. We intend to show that, mainly in Portugal, there may be seen a collective latent need and wish to rescue the Portuguese ―future of the past‖, searching to recreate the atmosphere of Imperial apogee that dominated Portugal at the time of the Maritime Discoveries, whose period of decadence starts with the disappearance D. Sebastião in Africa during the Alcácer Quibir Battle and the subsequent 60-year domination of Portugal by the Spanish administration, the Filipe II reign. To achive his poetic goal, Pessoa makes use of a process that recreates certain myhts as well as mystifies certain facts of the history of Portugal and, in consequence, promotes a rupture with the historical time and a recreation of the myth of Portugal. The Sebastianism and the Vth Empire are considered the guiding myths in Message. Sebastianism is rooted in the Messianism, as it has been foretold by Isaias (among other prophets) and the Vth Empire is rooted in Daniel‘s interpretation of Nabucodonosor‘s dream. The development of this study is grounded on Mielietinski‘s (1987) concept of remythologization, Eliade‘s studies (1989; 1992; 2002; 2004) on the myth and the sacred, as well as Jung‘s (2000) and Mielietinski (2002)‘s concept of archetype. We study the history of the Hebrews, especially the Bible, and the history of Portugal, and also the essays written by Pessoa, in which the Poet himself defends the idea of Jews and Portuguese as being the people elected to receive the Messiah and to set up theVth Empire. The research concluded that the Lusitanian myth of Sebastianism and the Vth Empire are ―descendant‖ of biblical mythology, that is, the archetypes of the Portuguese unconscious are ethnographically linked to the profound influence of the Jewish people in which it has been present for at least four thousand years, spreading out the idea of messianic hope in the Iberian Peninsula.

This dissertation examines the discourses surrounding women and writing in the rapidly commercialized publishing industry and media in early 20th-century Japan. While Japan has a rich history of women's writing from the 10th century onwards, it was in the 1910s that the journalistic category of "women's literature" (joryû bungaku) emerged within the dominant literary mode of Naturalism, as the field of literature itself achieved a respectable cultural status after the end of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5). Through a close textual analysis of fictional works, literary journals, and newspapers from the turn of the century to the 1930s, I explore how various women embraced, subverted, and negotiated the gendered identity of the "woman writer" (joryû sakka) while creating their own spheres of literary production through women's literary journals. Central to this investigation are issues of media, translation, canonization, and the creation of literary histories as Japanese literature became institutionalized within the new cosmopolitan notion of world literature. The first chapter explores how the image of the woman writer formed around the key figure of Tamura Toshiko (1884-1945) within the interrelated discourses of Naturalism, the New Woman, and decadence in the 1910s. As the New Woman became a social phenomenon alongside ongoing debates about women's issues, feminist women inaugurated the journal Seitô (Bluestocking, 1911-16) as a venue for women's literature. While this category renders their writings marginal to mainstream literature, it was a progressive, political position that marked their place within the literary world. I examine Toshiko's ambivalent position within this feminist project, and the instability of the media image of the New Woman that was always on the verge of slipping into the decadent figure of femme fatale. The second chapter examines the canonization of the late 19th-century prominent writer Higuchi Ichiyô (1872-96) at the turn of the century as a model woman writer and an embodiment of Japan's past tradition, which cast a threatening shadow on the women of Seitô. Tamura Toshiko's rejection of the New Woman identity and increasing association with aesthetic decadence also came to be at odds with their feminist mission. Seitô women's rejection of both Ichiyô and Toshiko was thus a necessary act in self-proclaiming the birth of the New Woman. As the number of women writers gradually increased in the late 1910s, various types of literary expression emerged beyond gendered expectations, paving the way for the mass expansion of women's writing in the 1920s. As the notion of world literature formed alongside various national literatures during the vast expansion of the publishing industry and translation culture in the 1920s, women began to envision their own alternative genealogy alongside dominant literary histories. The third chapter explores the envisioning of women's literary history by the Seitô writer Ikuta Hanayo (1888-1970) and the British modernist Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), whose feminist imaginations came together through the canonization of the English translation of The Tale of Genji, originally an 11th-century work written by a woman. As the growth of translations created a sense of global simultaneity, I further examine how the rhetoric of gender was central to Japanese literary modernism through the reception of two major British modernists, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, in Japan.

Una de las personalidades que ha maravillado a la intelectualidad peruana como a la educación nacional, tanto a maestros como a defensores de los indígenas, es José Antonio Encinas. Con esta investigación se quiere identificar y comprender el marco de historia intelectual que rodeó a este maestro puneño. Es un trabajo de historia sobre el contexto social, sobre las influencias regionales -un indigenismo temprano y el pensamiento adventista moderno- que sentaron en él un poderoso proyecto educativo que llevó a la práctica en una escuela pequeña de su gran mundo andino. / Tesis