Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 28 février 2024) / En nous fondant sur un corpus de huit romans, dont trois de l'auteur congolais V.Y. Mudimbe (Entre les eaux, 1973, L'écart, 1979 et Shaba deux, 1989) et cinq de l'auteur martiniquais Édouard Glissant (La lézarde, 1958, Le quatrième siècle, 1964, La case du commandeur, 1981, Mahagony, 1987 et Tout-monde, 1995), cette thèse examine comment la quête de sens des personnages et des narrateurs, sous les diverses formes qu'elle revêt dans les textes (quête de liberté politique et intellectuelle, quête de l'histoire et de la mémoire, quête existentielle), est une manière pour les romanciers de réfléchir aux problématiques identitaires du sujet africain et antillais colonisé, d'identifier les maux qui rongent leurs sociétés (la misère et les inégalités sociales, les dictatures et la guerre en Afrique, l'oubli d'une histoire traumatique aux Antilles) et de chercher des pistes de solution. Dans cette recherche, la quête de sens renvoie au cheminement des personnages vers une meilleure connaissance d'eux-mêmes, de leur société et de leur histoire. Chez Mudimbe, elle s'observe dans l'ambivalence de sujets tiraillés entre l'Afrique et l'Occident, la réflexion et l'action. Dans le contexte qui suit les indépendances, les personnages se questionnent sur leur parcours d'intellectuels occidentalisés, cherchent qui ils sont et comment participer à l'avènement de sociétés plus justes en Afrique. Chez Glissant, la quête de sens s'enracine dans l'angoisse généalogique de sujets qui ignorent le passé de la traite et de l'esclavage aux Antilles. Les personnages cherchent dès lors des traces de leurs origines dans les mémoires et les lieux martiniquais. Notre visée est de montrer comment, chez chaque auteur, les personnages et les narrateurs développent peu à peu, chacun à leur manière, des compétences d'interprétation et de déchiffrement du présent et du passé, jouant une fonction de dévoilement d'aspects inédits du social et de l'histoire dans les romans. L'usage combiné de la sociologie de la littérature et des théories de l'énonciation nous permet d'étudier comment la fiction devient un outil de questionnement et d'analyse pour le romancier, qui réfléchit à sa société et à son histoire en les réinventant. Les quêtes des divers personnages et des narrateurs permettent à Mudimbe et à Glissant de dévoiler différentes facettes de l'existence en Afrique et aux Antilles, qui se rencontrent autour d'une interrogation commune : qu'est-ce que veut dire être Africain/Antillais aujourd'hui ?

One rarely sees the names James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway together in the same sentence. Their obvious differences in writing styles, nationalities, and lifestyles prevent any automatic comparison from being made. But when one compares their early short story collections, Dubliners and In Our Time, many surprisingly similarities appear. Both are collections of short stories unified in some way, written by expatriates who knew each other in Paris. A mood of despair and hopelessness pervades the stories as the characters are trapped in the human condition. By examining the commonalities found in their methods of organization, handling of point of view, attitudes toward their subjects, stylistic techniques, and modes of writing, one is continually brought back to the differences between Joyce and Hemingway in each of these areas. For it is their differences that make these artists important; how each author chose to develop his craft gives him a significant place in literature.

When analyzing literatures that expose the effects of colonialism one can identify similarities between the lives of the oppressed. Although colonization occurs in different times and locations the consequences upon the subjugated become comparable throughout history. One prominent pairing of mirrored colonial episodes can be identified in the literature of Irish author James Joyce and St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott. Both authors endured British colonialism and produced literatures which revealed similar themes and narratives. Yet simply because both authors lived through colonization does not equate their experiences as parallel. This thesis argues that Joyce and Walcott created comparable literatures because they experienced subjugation on islands. A comparison of Joyce's Ulysses (1922) and Walcott's Omeros (1990) reveals the similar colonial experiences which were produced by island landscapes. Overall, this thesis will argue that the colonial turmoil which Joyce highlighted in Ulysses becomes mirrored in the postcolonial plot of Omeros. / by Sebastian Terneus. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2011. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

This thesis argues that tasting appears as an act of creative empathy and of knowledge acquisition in Virginia Woolf's writing. First contextualising my discussion within Woolf's own reading of the aesthetic and literary history of ‘taste', I then use Cixous' essay ‘Extreme Fidelity' (renamed ‘The Author in Truth') as a theoretical entryway to passages from The Voyage Out, Jacob's Room, A Room of One's Own, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, and Orlando which centralise the role of gustatory pleasure in creativity and epistemology. Cixous elaborates an oral, ‘poetic' and feminine ontology rooted in a receptivity to sensual pleasure, a concept that assists my reading of Woolf in several aspects. I suggest that in Woolf, both literal and figurative experiences of taste contribute to physical and psychic repletion, consequently eliciting empathy with the other (Cixous' term). This empathy which originates in the body constitutes an epistemological source distinct from intellectual or emotional intelligences, but one equally integral to the creative process. I assert that empathy features in Woolf as an extension or enlargement of the imagination through which a subject incorporates knowledge of alterity, but without consuming the other - as in the act of tasting. This ideation differs from notions of empathy as an analogical mapping or projection of self onto other. I discuss the ways in which a ‘gustatory epistemology' informs Woolf's approach to her craft, shapes the interrelationships of her characters, and materialises stylistically in her development of a ‘poetic' prose language.

O presente estudo tem por objeto investigar a gênese dos potenciais transformativos geralmente atribuídos à memória pelos modernos teóricos da Justiça de Transição. A partir de sua relação genética com o Direito Internacional dos Direitos Humanos, elucidaram-se os contornos do conceito de memória na Teoria da Justiça de Transição demonstrando-se tanto a centralidade da memória na efetuação das práticas transicionais como uma constante atribuição de potenciais transformativos à memória. Uma vez diagnosticada a lacunaridae dessa relação jamais explicada em sua dinâmica própria entre os teóricos da Justiça de Transição , formulou-se a hipótese de que um conceito ontológico, dinâmico e metaindividual de memória, tal como registrado pela filosofia de Henri Bergson, poderia abranger os heterogêneos conceitos de memória dos teóricos da Justiça de Transição com a vantagem analítica de permitir integrar a lacuna teórica encontrada, explicando-se como se podem atribuir potenciais transicionais à memória. Para tanto, foi necessário demonstrar que a filosofia bergsoniana da duração instaura um vínculo entre ontologia e política, duração real, memória e variação das formas de vida. Em seguida, buscamos derivar dessa ontologia política bergsoniana as consequências subjetivas, morais e institucionais correlatas a dois grandes referenciais que Bergson e a Teoria da Justiça de Transição possuem em comum: a democracia e os direitos humanos. Dessa forma, pretendeu-se estabelecer um problema ainda não investigado no âmbito da Teoria da Justiça de Transição e oferecer-lhe uma solução original à luz de sua interlocução com a filosofia de Henri Bergson, seu conceito de memória e suas implicações políticas. / The present essay aims to investigate the genesis of transformative potencies generally assigned to memory by modern Transitional Justices theorists. Starting on its genetic relationship with International Human Rights Law, this essay have clarified the patterns of memory in Transitional Justice proving the central role played by memory in the field of transitional practices as well as it has demonstrated the constant assignment of transformative potencies to memory. Once established these patterns, this study diagnosed a theoretical gap on connecting memory and transition on Transitional Justice theory. Therefore, according to our hypothesis, an ontological, dynamic and meta-individual concept of memory, as registered on Bergsons philosophy, would comprehend Transitional Justices heterogenic notions of memory and could go far beyond them. By this mean, we were able to fulfill the theoretical gap encountered in order to clarify how is possible to assign transitional potencies to memory. Thus, this study demonstrates that Bergsons durational philosophy promotes a connection between ontology and politics, real duration, memory and variation of ways of life. Afterwards, we derivated from that bergsonian political ontology subjective, moral and institutional consequences related to democracy and human rights referrals that Bergson and Transitional Justices theorists have in common. We have tried to establish a problem not yet investigated by Transitional Justice Theory and offer a original solution to it since Henri Bergsons philosophy, his concept of memory and its political implications.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T18:12:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sonia Cristina Coelho de Oliveira.pdf: 2826076 bytes, checksum: 3a0b9ecb63f882aad46fb8c197a39d8a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-09-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Introduction: in Brazil, Roberto Carlos has been studied in many areas of knowledge, among them History and Social Psychology due to his relevance as an interpreter and musical and social phenomenon. The singer is considered a bestselling artist, being able to reach an audience of various social, economical and cultural classes. Objective: to analyse Roberto Carlos s voice by perceptive-hearing evaluation, acoustic analysis and the audience's opinion. Method: a perceptivehearing evaluation of voice was performed of two selected songs from each decade (60 to 90), by six evaluation judges (speech therapists and vocal teachers); the acoustic analysis of pieces of the songs DETALHES and EMOÇÕES, by the researcher, and a questionary with two questions, to have a sample of the population of the city of Sao Paulo (group 1-G1) and another to the fans of the singer (group 2-G2) who belong to the communities on-line on orkut. Results: in relation to the perceptive-hearing analysis of the voice, the parameters most referred in the four decades were: adequate respiratory-speech, medium pitch for the shrill, adequate loudness, precise articulation, soft vocal attack, vocal resonance with nasal compensatory focus, chest modal register, brilliance and projected voice, vibrato predominantly absent, medium tessitura and adjusted vocal quality. The quality of the recording was related as reasonable and the characteristics related to the recording showed variable: jovial and immature voice in the sixties; fluent interpretation, with the emission soothed in the seventies; variation in the vocal parameters in the eighties and showing discrete vibrato with characteristics of tremor, compressed and with alteration in the dynamics, nevertheless mature and introspective in the nineties. The measures of acoustic analysis indicated a bigger variation of the harmonics in the song EMOÇÕES. The contour of the pitch and the amplitude coherent with the melody, f0 without variation and vibrato predominantly absent were found in two pieces of music. F1, F5 reduced; F2, F3, F4 increased; a bigger prolongation and accentuation of the vowels in the song DETALHES were observed and F1, F2 reduced; F3, F4 with little variation and F5 increased in the song EMOÇÕES. The questionary of G1 proved statically that 70,38% of the citizens like the singer, from this total, 76,15% belong to the female and 86,54% are between 51 and 60 years old. In terms of background and superior income made evident that the individual qualified the singer s voice in a negative way. From the 70,38% of the individuals that like the singer, 18,03% like him because of the songs. On the other hand from the 29,62% of the individuals that don t like the singer, 33,77% don t like him because of his songs. The questionary of G2 showed that there wasn t meaningful statistic for these variables, but it was evident that this group presented levels of income and background superior to G1. Conclusion: the results enabled to show that there were few variations in the voice of the singer Roberto Carlos in the elapsing of his artistic trajectory, more evident in the decades of 60 to 70 coherent with the styles adopted and age, keeping similar in the years 80 and 90. Notwithstanding, for the audience (G1 and G2), Roberto Carlos s voice isn t the predominant factor whether to like him or not, but his repertory, that is the content of his songs that is simbolized by the hearer / Introdução: no Brasil, Roberto Carlos tem sido estudado em muitas áreas do saber, dentre elas História e Psicologia Social, dada a sua relevância como intérprete e fenômeno musical e social. O cantor é um dos artistas que mais vende discos, sendo capaz de atingir um público das mais variadas classes sociais, culturais e econômicas. Objetivo: analisar a voz do cantor Roberto Carlos por meio da avaliação perceptivo-auditiva, da análise acústica e da opinião do público. Método: foram realizadas a avaliação perceptivo-auditiva da voz, de duas músicas selecionadas de cada década (60 a 90), por seis juízes avaliadores (fonoaudiólogos e professores de canto); a análise acústica de trechos das músicas DETALHES e EMOÇÕES, pela pesquisadora, e uma enquete com duas perguntas, para uma amostra da população da cidade de São Paulo (grupo1-G1) e outra para os fãs do cantor (grupo2-G2) pertencentes a comunidades on-line do artista no orkut. Resultados: em relação à análise perceptivo-auditiva da voz, os parâmetros mais referidos nas quatro décadas foram: coordenação pneumofonarticulatória adequada, pitch médio para agudo, loudness adequada, articulação precisa, ataque vocal suave, ressonância laringo-faríngica com foco nasal compensatório, registro modal de peito, voz com brilho e com projeção, vibrato predominantemente ausente, tessitura média e qualidade vocal adaptada. A qualidade de gravação foi relatada como razoável e as características relacionadas à gravação mostraram-se variáveis: voz jovial e imatura na década de 60; interpretação fluida, com emissão suavizada na década de 70; variação nos parâmetros vocais na década de 80 e voz comprimida com alterações na dinâmica, porém madura e introspectiva na década de 90. As medidas da análise acústica indicaram harmônicos com maior variação para a música EMOÇÕES. Contorno de pitch e de amplitude coerentes com a melodia, f0 sem variação e vibrato predominantemente ausente foram encontrados nas duas músicas. O F1, F5 diminuídos; F2, F3, F4 aumentados; maior prolongamento e acentuação das vogais foram observados na música DETALHES. F1, F2 diminuídos; F3, F4 com pouca variação e F5 aumentado em EMOÇÕES. A enquete do G1 comprovou estatisticamente que 70,38% dos sujeitos gostam do cantor, desse total, 76,15% pertencem ao sexo feminino e 86,54% estão na faixa etária dos 51 aos 60 anos. Nos níveis de escolaridade e rendimento superiores evidenciou-se que os sujeitos qualificaram a voz do cantor de forma negativa. Dos 70,38% dos sujeitos que gostam do cantor, 18,03 % gostam pelas suas músicas. Em contrapartida dos 29,62% dos sujeitos que não gostam do cantor, 33,77% não gostam por conta das músicas. A enquete do G2 demonstrou que não houve significância estatística para essas variáveis, porém constatou-se de forma significativa que esse grupo apresentou níveis de rendimento e escolaridade superiores ao G1. Conclusão: os resultados permitiram demonstrar que houve pequenas variações na voz do cantor Roberto Carlos no decorrer de sua trajetória artística, mais evidentes da década de 60 para 70, coerentes com os estilos adotados e com a época, mantendo-se similar nos anos 80 e 90. No entanto, para o público (G1 e G2), a voz de Roberto Carlos não é o fator determinante para gostar ou não do cantor, mas sim o seu repertório, ou seja, o conteúdo das canções que é simbolizado pelo ouvinte

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:10:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Beatriz Santos Samara.pdf: 435550 bytes, checksum: bc6c24f75a808774f6941f0e57d23c67 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-05 / This thesis aims at studying the reception developed during Roberto Carlos s artistic career. In order to achieve our goal, a biographical research and a field research both qualitative and quantitative were elaborated, so that the object is centered in the analysis of the process that constitutes a popular idol, its dialogue with the context of various decades, as well as the kind of communicative strategy that assured this artist permanent success and significant choice of preference. Initially, we have favored a synthetic directioning of his career in order to place the artist in the exercise of his art in contemporaneity. But because of his celebrity condition Roberto Carlos is a public personality somehow the dimension and significance of his success is well known. It is not by chance he is widely known as the King . The theoretical framework concurs on two inevitable matrices which, at the same time, justify this state of affairs and elucidate the strategic process of construction of success. As a consequence of this empiric basis, associated with the biographical research and with the analysis of the communicative process that built the idol RC, we hope we will contribute to contemporary studies on reception in development currently, especially those that concentrate on significances of wide recognition and popular response in the intricate process of communication / Essa dissertação tem por objetivo estudar a recepção desenvolvida durante a carreira artística de Roberto Carlos. Para isso, elaborou-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica e uma pesquisa de campo qualitativa e quantitativa onde o objeto está centrado na análise do processo de constituição de um ídolo popular, seu diálogo com o contexto de diversas décadas, bem como o tipo de estratégia comunicativa que lhe garantiu, efetivamente, a perenidade do sucesso e a expressiva preferência de gosto. Para situar o artista nas condições do fazer artístico na contemporaneidade, optou-se, de início, por um norteamento sintético de sua carreira, visto que, enquanto personalidade da esfera pública, de alguma forma, sabe-se da significação e da dimensão de seu sucesso. A resposta para isso se situa no designativo de Rei , amplamente a ele atribuído. A fundamentação teórica incidiu sobre duas matrizes inevitáveis que, ao mesmo tempo, justificam esse estado de coisas e elucidam o processo estratégico de construção do sucesso. Como conseqüência dessa base empírica aliada à pesquisa bibliográfica e, sobretudo, à análise do processo comunicativo que construiu o ídolo RC, esperamos contribuir para os estudos de recepção contemporâneos, em especial para aqueles que se concentram em significações de grande reconhecimento e adesão popular no intrincado processo da comunicação na atualidade

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo compreender as abordagens que permitiram a quatro compositores brasileiros verterem com maestria três canções do compositor e cantor Bob Dylan (It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue, Romance In Durango e I Want You) e baseada nas abordagens adotadas pelos mesmos, compor uma versão de uma canção do vasto repertório dylaniano. A partir disso, procurei traçar os rumos que levaram ao primor das três versões Negro Amor, Romance no Deserto e Tanto, focando não apenas na mera tradução, mas na transposição para a língua portuguesa brasileira da lírica dylaniana mantendo para tal o formato da canção. As canções, apresentadas na ordem cronológica do lançamento das versões, são cotejadas com suas respectivas originais e os panos de fundo dos quatro versionistas, procurando analisar o caminho que cada um trilhou para chegar a sua interpretação. Ao final, tendo como enfoque as abordagens colhidas, apresento uma versão de própria lavra de uma canção do cancionista americano. / The present work aims to trace the approaches which led to the perfection of Negro Amor, Romance no Deserto and Tanto, three versions to songs of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue, Romance In Durango and I Want You respectively) e, focusing not merely on translation, but in the transposition of Dylan’s lyric into Brazilian Portuguese in which the song format has been maintained intact. The songs, presented in the chronological order of the versions, are collated with their corresponding originals and backgrounds of the four Brazilian composers, looking to analyze the way in which each one of them was able to reinterpret a Dylan song. At the end, taking into account the approaches gathered along this study, I present my own version of a Bob Dylan song.

Julia Margaret Cameron, Alfred Tennyson, and Virginia Woolf: three major figures of British art and letters who have received much critical attention individually, but have not yet been studied together. In this project I consider the valedictory works of these artists at their convergence, first through their obvious geographic, familial, and aesthetic relationships, then in more subtle, deeper, and overarching dimensions. The chief texts that are the focus of this dissertation are Tennyson's Idylls of the King, plus five of the Laureate's most popular poems; Cameron's photographic illustrations of these poems; and a selection of Virginia Woolf's late work, with a focus on "The Searchlight," Three Guineas, Between the Acts, and Anon. The dissertation also makes use of apposite poems, essays, life writing, and fiction created by these artists. Since "The Theatre of Anon" focuses primarily on Cameron's Illustrations, a chapter containing photographs of all the books' pages concludes the dissertation text. An additional selection of images is included as an appendix, in support of the central thesis of this project. The complex friendship between Tennyson and Cameron inspired the latter's only published book, a collection of poetic excerpts accompanied by images of his poems staged as scenes from amateur theatricals. The photos, with the photographer acting as their playwright-director, evoke the literary pageant in Woolf's last novel. In photographing the Illustrations, Cameron took control of the Laureate's poetry, metaphorically assuming the role of Vivien stealing Merlin's poetic spells. This dissertation traces Woolf's perception of her great aunt as it evolved over the decades, beginning with the eccentric, affected, and comical Cameron of Freshwater (1926) and ultimately portraying her as a dynamic, determined, and creative artist who helped provide inspiration for the character of the playwright-director Miss La Trobe of Between the Acts (1940). I argue that her great aunt's work influenced Woolf to create the figure she called Anon as a counterpart to Tennyson's King Arthur, and to place La Trobe's pageant-play at the center of her last novel, Between the Acts, as a final act of homage to Cameron. An aggregate of all anonymous minstrels, artists, and authors who ever lived, Anon appears in the guise of Miss La Trobe, whose communal, participatory art demonstrates how the traditionally monocular "eye" of history can be enlarged in community theatre from a single "I" to a collaborative project accommodating multiple perspectives. The Arthurian chivalry to which the ideology of Anon is set in counterpoint represents a conservative point of view based on the belief in a divinely-ordained social order headed by a monarch, with prescribed roles for each of its members. Valor in combat and devotion in courtly love, chivalry's two chief expressions, are the basis of Arthur's knightly code, which has influenced British national character and identity from the country's founding. Arthur reached his Anglophone apotheosis in the nineteenth-century's Gothic revival, epitomized in Tennyson's Idylls of the King. At the end of her career, at the start of the Second World War, Woolf came to believe that theatrical performance offered a better paradigm for social organization than the chivalric hierarchy at the root of the patriarchal British Victorian culture in which she had grown up. She saw in the community theatre a gathering place that could foster moments of transcendent unity, intellectual freedom, and imaginative inspiration, and in drama an art form resilient enough to withstand an audience's interruption and disillusionment. Performance provided a collaborative alternative to the conservative constraints that were her Victorian legacy; history, she felt, could be more accurately portrayed through the accretion of expressive theatrical performances than by the monolithic, linear narrative it had become as the official transcript of the nation's past. The theatricals scenes of La Trobe's pageant and Cameron's Illustrations - both composed of scraps and fragments of quotidian life rearranged and recombined - offer a new visual conception of the past. Working at the level of what Walter Benjamin has called photography's optical unconscious the dissertation demonstrates how Cameron's photographs reveal a reconstellation or reconfiguration, of the dominant British narrative from defamiliarized versions of the past that resonate with La Trobe's pageant. I propose that Cameron's photos re-envision canonical texts, inspiring a new mythology for Woolf, one that reflects a fluid and elastic version of the British national story. Challenging the received Carlylean conception of history as the biographies of great men, Woolf's counter-history, like Cameron's book of illustrations, features ordinary men and women playing extraordinary roles. The legendary Arthur, traditionally credited with uniting the country's thirteen tribes, founding Britain, and shaping the nation's identity, is but one actor among many in Woolf's pageant of history; his starring role in Tennyson's Idylls of the King is reduced to a few key scenes in the Illustrations and a cameo appearance in Between the Acts. Woolf implies that though there may still be room in history's narrative for heroic men, they will no longer dominate it. With its evolving, democratic nature, the community theatre created by Anon offers a paradigm of citizenship and social organization that Woolf believed could encompass British history, re-envision it, and offer the world's citizens hope for the future.