The thesis provides a scholarly introduction to most of Robert Louis Stevenson's short stories: New Arabian Nights, More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter, The Merry Men and Other Tales, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Island Nights' Entertainments, 'When the Devil was Well,' 'The Body-Snatcher,' 'The Misadventures of John Nicholson' and 'The Tale of Tod Lapraik' from the novel Catriona. The approach here is contextual: the discussions of each story draw on Stevenson's essays and other writings, and remark on some of the more significant literary or historical sources of which Stevenson had made use. The earlier versions (including manuscripts or manuscript fragments) of certain stories are also remarked on, in order to provide a fuller understanding of that story's development over a period of time. Five appendices are included, tabulating in detail the differences between the earlier versions and the final published versions of these stories. These introductory remarks are also directed towards providing a particular reading of the short stories. This reading begins by drawing attention to the neglected 'new' Arabian Nights, French and South Pacific stories, and refers to them as 'romantically comic.' It then suggests that, with endings characterised by reconciliation and resolution, these stories present an essentially 'restorative' or 'remedial' process: it is this process that allows these stories to be defined as 'romantically comic.' The term 'remedial' has significant implications: in these stories a character may literally be 'healed' or 'restored,' and the setting itself (for example, the forest of Fontainebleau in 'The Treasure of Franchard') may possess 'healing' properties. The thesis examines the implications of this comic 'remedial' process, and shows how it operates in and controls the outcome of these stories. By contrast, a number of these stories are not at all 'romantically comic.' Stories such as 'The Body-Snatcher' or The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde present a process that is by no means 'remedial' or 'restorative': instead, an opposite process of decline or 'deterioration' is traced where, now, a character may literally lose his health. These gloomier and more tragic stories examine the 'symptoms' of such a 'deteriorated' condition: premature ageing, the sleepless night, the nightmare or the feverish dream, the dependance upon and enslavement to drugs or 'powders,' and so on. The thesis thus classifies two essentially opposite kinds of short story: the 'romantically comic,' with its 'restorative' ending and its 'remedial' process, perhaps literally representing the recovery of a character's health; and the gloomier 'tales for winter nights' which, by contrast, present a process of 'deterioration' where, for various reasons, a character's health is lost and is never finally recovered. The thesis implies a connection between these two processes, operating throughout the short stories, and Stevenson's own condition as an invalid (with its connotations of 'deteriorating' health) and a convalescent (with its opposite connotations of recovery). Indeed, for Stevenson, the act of writing stories is itself significant in this context.

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This thesis takes as its starting point the consensus among scholars and interpreters of Joseph Roth’s work that his writing can be divided into two periods: an early “socialist” phase and a later “monarchist” phase. In opposition to this view, a reading of Roth’s novels is put forward in which his desire to make sense of post-Habsburg Central Europe provides the underlying logic, thus reconciling his early novels with Radetzkymarsch and Die Kapuzinergruft. The first chapter addresses the common contention that the transformation in Roth’s work is the result of a deep identity crisis. An alternative reading of the relevance of Roth’s identity to his work is offered: namely, that Roth’s conviction that identity is multivalent explains his rejection of both nationalism and other “solutions” to the problems of post-war Europe, a sentiment that finds expression in his early novels. The interpretation of these novels, which represent Roth’s early attempts to give literary form to contemporary reality, is the focus of the second chapter of the thesis. In the third chapter Radetzkymarsch is analyzed as a historical novel in the terms first proposed by Georg Lukács, as a novel which facilitates the understanding of the present through the portrayal of the past. Paradoxically, it is the historical form that most effectively captures and illuminates the complex reality of Roth’s contemporary times. The fourth and final chapter demonstrates that Die Kapuzinergruft is not simply an inferior sequel to Radetzkymarsch, a nostalgic evocation of an idealized lost Habsburg world and condemnation of the 1930s present, but rather continues the dialogue between past and present begun in Radetzkymarsch. In this novel, written before and in the immediate aftermath of the Anschluß of Austria to Nazi Germany, it is not Roth but his narrator who takes flight from reality, behaviour that Roth condemns as leading to the repetition of mistakes from the past and the failure to prevent the ultimate political catastrophe.

Thesis (M.A.)--Guo li zheng zhi da xue. / Cover title. Mimeo. copy. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Zhongguo wen hua xue yuan. / Reproduced from typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-290).

Thesis (M.A.)--Zhongguo wen hua xue yuan. / Reproduced from typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-290).

Thesis (M.A.)--Guo li zheng zhi da xue. / Cover title. Mimeo. copy. Includes bibliography.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-16T21:31:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0Bitstream added on 2016-01-08T14:13:47Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 170099.pdf: 30113052 bytes, checksum: fb50bb648cc73b9ce5d67e9fca93f2d0 (MD5)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:53:11Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 giavara_sm_me_arafcl.pdf: 546123 bytes, checksum: 89aa0ccd6d8c21fb77d9343db447e573 (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O eixo condutor da análise dos quatro livros de sonetos da poetisa Florbela Espanca (1894 -1930) - Livro de Mágoas (1919), Livro de Sóror Saudade (1923), Charneca em Flor (1931) e Reliquiae (1931) - será a feição dramática que ela lhes imprimiu, criando um estilo derramado que comove o leitor, bem como uma ambientação propícia à utilização de máscaras poéticas. Para tanto, no primeiro capítulo, explicitarei o conceito de drama e de dramático; no segundo, analisarei como a poetisa usa as figuras retóricas para dar essa expressão dramática aos seus versos; e, no terceiro, buscarei evidenciar as diferentes identidades usadas pela poetisa na composição de seus quatro livros de sonetos. O embasamento teórico deste trabalho pautou-se em alguns teóricos sobre a lírica e o drama, bem como em alguns estudiosos da Retórica Antiga - como Marcus Fabio Quintiliano e Aristóteles - e em estudos modernos sobre Estilística Literária. / The axis of the analysis of the four sonnet books by Florbela Espanca (1894 -1930) - Livro de Mágoas (1919), Livro de Sóror Saudade (1923), Charneca in Flor (1931) and Reliquiae (1931) - will be the dramatic feature that she imprinted on them, creating a sheded style that moves the reader, as well as a favorable atmosfhere to the use of poetic masks. For so much, in the first chapter, I will develop the concept of drama and dramatic; in the second, I will analyze how the poet uses figures of speech to give that dramatic expression to her verses; and, in the third, I will highlight the different identities used by her poet in the composition of the four sonnet books. The theoretical basis was the Literary Critic about the lyric and the drama, some specialists of the Old Rhetoric - like Marcus Fábio Quintiliano and Aristotle - and modern studies on Literary Stylistic.

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Exatas, 2015. / Submitted by Ana Cristina Barbosa da Silva (annabds@hotmail.com) on 2015-07-06T14:30:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_NewtonMayerSolorzanoChavez.pdf: 713834 bytes, checksum: fa5dcfcc4bcd42f4b02d1ce4b3e3f95b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana(raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2015-08-18T12:21:50Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_NewtonMayerSolorzanoChavez.pdf: 713834 bytes, checksum: fa5dcfcc4bcd42f4b02d1ce4b3e3f95b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-08-18T12:21:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2015_NewtonMayerSolorzanoChavez.pdf: 713834 bytes, checksum: fa5dcfcc4bcd42f4b02d1ce4b3e3f95b (MD5) / Consideramos métricas de Finsler esfericamente simétricas do tipo Douglas. Caracterizamos tais métricas por uma equação diferencial e obtemos a solução geral desta equação em termos de quatro funções arbitrárias. Quando as métricas de Finsler são esfericamente simétricas mostramos que as métricas do tipo Berwald coincidem com as do tipo Landsberg. Provamos que o problema de classificar as métricas esfericamente simétricas do tipo Douglas com S−curvatura nula reduz-se a classificar as métricas esfericmanete simétricas do tipo Berwald ou Landsberg. Obtemos a classificação de tais métricas. Incluímos vários exemplos e classes de novas métricas de Douglas. / We consider spherically symmetric Finsler metrics of Douglas type. We characterize such metrics by a differential equation and we obtain the general solution of this equation in terms of four arbitrary functions. For spherically symmetric Finsler metrics we show that the metrics of Berwald type coincide whit those of Landsberg type. We prove that the problem of classifying the spherically symmetric Douglas metrics whose S−curvature vanishes reduce to classifying the spherical symmetric metrics of Berwald or Landsberg type. We obtain the classification of such metrics. We include several examples and new classes of Douglas metrics.