This thesis examines the carnivalesque strategies evident in the short story "Confabulacion de la arana" by the Cuban writer, Guillermo Vidal. Two particular perspectives are used here. First, an analysis of the narrator and the narrative structure is made in which the contribution of the narrative strategies present in the text are explored. To do this, the methodological framework of literary carnivalization offered by the Russian critic Mijail Bajtin has been used, foregrounding his basic argument that carnival, as a social practice, is intrinsically subversive since it abolishes all forms of hierarchy and convention present in society during non-carnival time. By extending his theory to those genres of literature in which the elements of carnival are transcribed, Bajtin insists that carnival and carnivalized literature are potentially subversive since they contest conventional structures and frameworks. The narratological models and categories outlined by Gerard Genette and Mieke Bal allow consideration of the variety of pronouns through which the story is narrated and text's representation of the various speech acts. Unlike traditional narratives which are based on the use of a single pronoun, narration in this text is conducted through continual and abruptly shifting changes of pronoun. Such a technique disrupts the stability afforded by a single narrative voice and a narrative function based on ambivalence and plurality becomes evident. Secondly, the carnival theme and its relationship to the Bajtin's theory of the carnivalesque is examined. It is the contention here that "Confabulacion de la arana" may be read as a satire of contemporary Cuban society. Through the process of the continual debasement of the main character, the representative here of authority in Cuba, the story critiques the social and political values in force in Cuba today.

In the ongoing critical discourse about education, the status of aesthetics has always played second fiddle to the main arguments about what constitutes a relevant curriculum. Aesthetics is seen by many educators as a frivolous experience---at best a weak substitute for serious learning. This is the issue that Dewey addressed in his philosophy of aesthetics, and this is also where my focus lies in this thesis. / The thesis is a personal and theoretical examination of John Dewey's aesthetic philosophy as it is principally expressed in Art as Experience . In exploring the personal implications of the aesthetic experience, the thesis investigates Dewey's argument that the aesthetic is an intrinsic part of life. It demonstrates Dewey's emphasis on the productive presence of the aesthetic in the cultural life of society.

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My dissertation provides the first full-length study of representations of domestic material culture in contemporary Canadian women's fiction. The first chapter presents two metaphors, the elephant in the living room, and the open secret, and indicates their usefulness in explaining the cultural and critical tendency to overlook the meanings communicated by contemporary domestic material objects and spaces. Drawing on cultural anthropologist Grant McCracken's research into the role of consumption in the preservation of hopes and ideals, the second chapter examines gendered patterns of consumption in Joan Barfoot's first two novels. I suggest that Barfoot's female protagonists reject their suburban homes out of an awareness of the ways these spaces function as repositories of values with which they can no longer live. In the third chapter, I situate my discussion of the Hardoy, or "butterfly chair," in Marion Quednau's novel of the same name, against the backdrop of twentieth-century design debates between modernists and traditionalists. The chair is the object in which the novel's main tensions, which relate to notions of comfort, history, and authority, are embedded. In the fourth chapter I maintain that the central concerns of Diane Schoemperlen's fiction are couched in her representations of domestic material culture. Interpersonal relationships are consistently represented in her fiction as mediated through domestic objects and spaces. Her characters' struggles over issues of control, and the ambivalence characteristically associated with these struggles, often materialize in their manipulations of their domestic environments. Such manipulations make explicit the process of self-fashioning via material culture which every individual engages in on a daily basis, albeit at the level of the tacit.

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Akademisk avhandling--Helsingfors, 1995. / Résumé en anglais. Bibliogr. p. 294-301. Index.

Akademisk avhandling--Uppsala Universitet, 1978. / Mention parallèle de titre ou de responsabilité : Socialization derailed : Sweden, oil and the USA's plansfor a new world order, 1945-1949 / Thomas Jonter. Contient un résumé en anglais. Notes bibliogr. en bas de page. Bibliogr. p. 189-198.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:11:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6583.pdf: 1365012 bytes, checksum: 629adc56aab8f208bd16b0b183650acf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-11 / Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos / The novel Orphans of Eldorado (2008 ), by Milton Hatoum, brings into his narrative a number of references to Amazonian texts of different indigenous and riverine populations of the region of Manaus , Amazonia . Highlighting the indigenous elements , seems to build a deep dialogue with the call Amerindian literature , thus expanding the possibilities for analysis and interpretation of the work . The narrative is inspired by the myth of Eldorado , a possibly indigenous source of a series of records made throughout history that show the tense relationship between the colonial and post- colonial explorers in the Amazonian indigenous peoples and their lands . In addition to this story , other indigenous texts are cited and appear in the novel , composing a rich and heterogeneous scenario . To take account of this literary phenomenon , we mobilize our work in the categories of literary heterogeneity , intertextuality and rhizome , looking to make a broad approach that seeks to bring to the discussion the relevance of Amerindian substrate of the work , and show the importance of indigenous literature for this novel . We also consider it important to use the methodology of tensive semiotics to highlight gradations , the gradiência , and relationships , realizing the game of presence and absence of these indigenous elements that appear in the figures of sound, noise and silence. We believe that this work can contribute not only to compose the critical fortune of this novel , but to emphasize the importance of indigenous elements and indigenous reality in Brazilian literature and society. / O romance Órfãos do Eldorado (2008) de Milton Hatoum traz em sua narrativa uma série de referências aos textos amazônicos, de diferentes povos indígenas e das populações ribeirinhas da região de Manaus, Amazônia. Colocando em evidência os elementos indígenas, parece construir um profundo diálogo com a literatura chamada ameríndia, ampliando assim as possibilidades de análise e interpretação de tal obra. A narrativa inspira-se no mito do Eldorado, uma fonte possivelmente indígena de uma série de registros feitos ao longo da história que mostram a relação tensa entre os exploradores coloniais e pós-coloniais nas terras amazônicas e seus povos autóctones. Além dessa história, outros textos indígenas são citados e aparecem no romance, compondo um cenário heterogêneo e rico. Para dar conta desse fenômeno literário, mobilizamos em nosso trabalho as categorias de heterogeneidade literária, intertextualidade e rizoma, procurando fazer uma abordagem ampla que procurasse trazer para a discussão a relevância do substrato ameríndio da obra, e mostrar a importância da literatura indígena para esse romance. Consideramos também importante usar a metodologia da semiótica tensiva para ressaltar as gradações, a gradiência, e as relações do texto, percebendo o jogo de presença e ausência desses elementos indígenas, que aparecem nas figuras de som, ruído e silêncio. Acreditamos que este trabalho pode contribuir não somente para compor a fortuna crítica desse romance, mas para sublinhar a importância dos elementos e da realidade indígenas na literatura e sociedade brasileiras.