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This dissertation is an interdisciplinary study of David Cronenberg's body-horror films in relation to their embodied spectators. In these films, the horror is not only about the vulnerability of the mortal body, but also about the horrific consequences of organizing culture around the philosophical splitting of the mind from the body. To analyze this relationship, I utilize Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body, object-relations psychoanalysis, especially D. W. Winnicott's theory of the intermeshed psyche-soma, various pro-feminist approaches to horror films, and a concept of ideology informed by nonverbal communication research. The historical arc of Cronenberg's body-horror films has produced a unique cultural record of the impact of technological change on physical bodies through dark fantasies of biological-medical technologies in Shivers, Rabid, The Brood, and Scanners; video communication technologies in Videodrome; and genetic-engineering technologies in The Fly . / My primary thesis is that Cronenberg's body-horror films encourage spectators to "read" not only with their rational-cognitive skills but with their embodied experience as well, which includes emotional and sensory memories, and fantasies, both archaic and contemporary. Cronenberg's appeal to an integrated psyche-soma reading is crucial for understanding how the culturally induced splitting of the mind from the body impacts on working class resistance to exploitative ideology. / In chapter one I argue that the diverse and contradictory readings of Cronenberg's body-horror films are possible, because of the interdependence of the cinematic text, historical and cultural context, and the embodied experience of spectators-critics. Chapter two is a preliminary step towards developing an alternative theory of the horror film spectator, by exploring the productive tension between an active, creative and embodied real viewer, and an ideologically determined, ideal subject of the cinematic apparatus. Chapter three compares Cronenberg's fantasy of metamorphosis body-horror to the fantasy of "leaving the body behind" depicted in many contemporary cyborg films. Chapter four is a series of close readings, analyzing how Cronenberg embeds "imaginary spectators" into his body-horror films through interweaving the body language of his characters and the nonverbal communication of the mise en scene with narrative strategies formulated through the plot.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 233-241).

Texte remanié de--Hist.--Dijon, 1992. Titre de soutenance : Les répressions allemandes dans le département de Saône-et-Loire, 1940-1944 : problématiques nouvelles et histoire comparative. / Bibliogr. 247-248. Index.

Thesis (MA (English))--Stellenbosch University, 2008. / This dissertation rests on the assumption that the literary text is fundamentally part of the world from which it emerges. Following Heidegger's understanding of the work of art as a form of unconcealment, it argues that Michael Ondaatje's fictional work Anil's Ghost discloses the particular, historically contingent conditions that determine the ethical relations people are cast into during a time of war in the present era of globalization. The novel interrogates the idea of truth in its meta-fictional discourse and stakes out the grounds of its own fictional truth in contra-distinction to truth as fact offered by Western empiricism. Alongside the implicit criticism of Western epistemology, the novel mounts a critique of the universal human rights discourse and suggests that an ethical approach to the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka is preferable to a political solution imposed from the outside. War is presented as a radically embodying event in which the body is made vulnerable to death and injury: and the ethical imperative to alleviate physical suffering is identified as the most immediate and appropriate response to the crisis of war. Following Levinas, ethics is understood to transpire in the corporeal relation between individuals. By attending in detail to the embodied experience of being in the world, the novel prepares the ground for an ethics of the body that is closely aligned to the ethics as first philosophy espoused by Levinas. The dissertation argues throughout that the novel discloses the nature of ethical relations between people in the world by means of its aesthetic forms of language. The domain of the ethical and aesthetics are thus commensurate.

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La novela Otra vez el mar del autor cubano Reinaldo Arenas podría considerarse quizás una de las más representativas de su obra, no solo en términos de consolidación de una poética autorial, sino también por su contexto de producción y las circunstancias específicas que condicionaron su proceso de escritura y reescritura, lo que le confiere una carga política adicional, como símbolo de denuncia y protesta frente a la situación de represión en Cuba, que afecta a quienes no son partidarios del régimen de Fidel Castro. No obstante, el análisis que se desarrolla a continuación, surge del interés por una serie de temáticas y características formales presentes en la obra, que la insertan dentro de las principales corrientes discursivas de la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea, como las abordadas por los estudios poscoloniales y los estudios de género; problemáticas que a su vez guardan relación con las estéticas del Barroco y Neobarroco americanos, de cuyas teorías extraemos los conceptos que aplicamos en esta lectura. Nos proponemos pues, un reconocimiento de los aspectos más relevantes, en la medida que den cuenta de los conflictos y cuestionamientos que han sido identificados como manifestaciones sintomáticas de la crisis que define al sujeto posmoderno, según lo indican las líneas de pensamiento surgidas desde mediados del siglo pasado en adelante; elementos que no solo pasan a ser objeto de la representación, sino que afectan las formas de representación en sí mismas. Así, rasgos como la indeterminación absoluta, la infinita multiplicidad de la forma en constante mutación, el simulacro y el vaciamiento del significante ante la imposibilidad de fijar un valor referencial, que son conceptualizados por las mencionadas teorías Barroca y Neobarroca, pasan a constituir no solo la expresión de una identidad específica continental, sino que también de la modalidad de percepción propia de nuestro tiempo y sociedad.

[...] La hipótesis de la presente investigación, en vista de lo planteado anteriormente, se relaciona con la existencia en la narrativa de Soriano de mecanismos y procedimientos, tanto literarios como lingüísticos, que manifiestan procesos de vaciamiento de gran parte de los metarrelatos que estructuraron discursivamente el siglo XX. Para tal efecto, se procedió a elegir tres novelas de las más representativas de su narrativa: No habrá más penas ni olvido, A sus plantas rendido un león y Una sombra ya pronto serás. Asimismo, se considera el concepto “metarrelato” desde la perspectiva propuesta por Jean-François Lyotard: una construcción discursiva legitimada y absoluta, de carácter monosémico y de origen moderno, características que le dan, además, la particularidad de ser un discurso institucionalizado, desde el cual se conforma una cosmovisión unívoca y restringida. A partir de esta conceptualización, resulta pertinente para esta investigación considerar también la concepción de metarrelato desde la dimensión de la pragmática discursiva y desde un enfoque sociopolítico. Para tal efecto, en primer lugar se recurrirá a los planteamientos de John Austin y John Searle, quienes estudian el discurso desde su intencionalidad y sus efectos; en segundo lugar, en tanto, se trabajará con los mecanismos y dispositivos que hacen que un discurso se establezca como oficial y con el concepto de discurso como parte de un continuum mayor del cual cada entidad discursiva, por separado, es tributaria, es decir, como un constructo discursivo reproductor de relaciones de poder, entre lo oficial y lo no oficial.

By way of an analysis of the lino-cuts executed by Muafangejo, firstly elements and influences that are evident in terms associated with his works, will be traced, for example 'primitive' and 'traditional' elements. Secondly, the characteristics that are particular to this artist's work will be defined. It is believed that by using this avenue of approach, a clearer understanding of the artist's traditional world and possibly the stylistic placement of the artist can be attained. However, to rely only on historical and cultural influences to give a perspective of his work, will not be sufficient. It will only highlight a portion of the evidence needed to fully understand his work. (From the introduction).