by Amy Tak-Yee Lai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [106]-114). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter Chapter One --- "Narcissism, Approach and Theories" --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter Two --- The Artist and His Portrait: The Picture of Dorian Gray --- p.25 / Chapter Chapter Three --- The Stutterer and His Temple: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion --- p.49 / Chapter Chapter Four --- The Poet and His Garden: Ying'er --- p.70 / Chapter Chapter Five --- "Narcissism, Culture and Self" --- p.95 / Works Cited and Consulted --- p.106

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-02-22T11:43:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Sueli Chaves Andrade.pdf: 3112531 bytes, checksum: 7f54bec4f70c3790a30a9b1667d7b223 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-22T11:43:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sueli Chaves Andrade.pdf: 3112531 bytes, checksum: 7f54bec4f70c3790a30a9b1667d7b223 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-17 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Chris Cunningham is the main subject in this thesis. Cunningham was one of the most influential and creative music video directors in the 90’s and early 2000’s. Visible throughout his art is the theme of the body and its innards - an important and wide discussion in contemporary culture studies. The hypothesis of this text is that the music video is one of the main audiovisual narratives of postmodern culture from the aspect of new aesthetics and artistic experiments. Cunningham adds original marks to the characteristics that constitute contemporary art, especially the one that has placed the body under interrogation and also the art object as waste. The contemporary art discussion in this thesis is inspired by psychanalysts Jacques-Allan Miller and Gerard Wajcman and the positioning of the object, and a new gaze at it is provided by Didi-Huberman. Concerning the role of the body in this setting, Santaella brings a contribution on it as an art support, besides presenting much of the specific problems of the body in culture. Raymond Bellour, Philippe Dubois and Arlindo Machado with their discussions around film and video allow the insertion of the music video as a language with its own characteristics and history, as the theorists Andrew Goodwin, E. Ann Kaplan and Carol Vernallis point out. The Lacanian theory provides a formal way to analyze and discuss the body from an instinctive perspective that drives the subject in the contemporary world. In order to prove this assertion and the hypothesis of this thesis, three semiotic-psychoanalytic analyses were done on the following works: All is Full of Love (1999), Flex (2000) and Rubber Johnny (2005) / Chris Cunningham é o objeto de investigação desta tese. Trata-se de um autor reconhecido de videoclipes e narrativas audiovisuais contemporâneas das décadas de 1990 e 2000. Seus trabalhos são permeados por uma temática de suma importância e ampla discussão no campo de estudos da cultura contemporânea: o tema do corpo e suas estranhezas. A hipótese que se coloca é a de que o videoclipe é um dos principais formatos narrativos audiovisuais do pós-moderno, sob o aspecto da produção de novas estéticas e experimentações artísticas. Tendo isso em vista, a obra de Cunningham acrescenta marcas originais às características próprias da arte contemporânea, especialmente aquela que vem colocando o corpo sob interrogação e o objeto enquanto dejeto. No que diz respeito aos debates que envolvem a arte contemporânea, há uma escuta daquilo que os psicanalistas Jacques-Allan Miller e Gerard Wajcman têm a dizer sobre o lugar do objeto, bem como sobre uma nova forma de olhá-lo, tal qual propõe Didi-Huberman. A respeito do papel do corpo neste mesmo cenário, Santaella traz uma contribuição sobre o mesmo como suporte da arte, além de apresentar as problemáticas específicas do corpo na cultura. Raymond Bellour, Philippe Dubois e Arlindo Machado aprofundam a discussão sobre cinema e vídeo, o que permite a inserção do videoclipe como uma linguagem com características e história próprias, conforme apontam os teóricos Andrew Goodwin, E. Ann Kaplan e Carol Vernallis. Toma-se, então, a perspectiva psicanalítica de orientação lacaniana para observar o corpo para além de sua função como suporte na arte: o das pulsões que tomam conta do sujeito no universo contemporâneo. De modo a comprovar tal afirmação e a hipótese desta tese, três análises de cunho semiótico-psicanalítico abordam os trabalhos: All is Full of Love (1999), Flex (2000) e Rubber Johnny (2005)

Esta tese investiga a obra do autor português Gonçalo M. Tavares, Uma Viagem à Índia (2010), texto que encarna uma dupla possibilidade de leitura: a de uma narrativa versificada, (anti)épica; e, a de um conjunto de pequenos poemas líricos organizados pelo instrumento visual contido no final do livro. Tavares subverte a forma épica em um movimento que, ao mesmo tempo em que recorre ao modelo épico na origem da literatura, também nos remete a uma temporalidade pósmoderna, pós-figurativa e pós-representativa, num arranjo estético e temático bastante contemporâneo. A temática extraída deste corpus de investigação é a possibilidade de sobrevivência do modelo épico na literatura de viagem contemporânea. Tavares, ao estabelecer profunda intertextualidade com Os Lusíadas, joga com a forma híbrida e inacabada do romance, convertendo-o num longo poema narrativo, mas também numa lírica breve e numa extensa profusão aforística, mapeados ao final da obra por meio de uma interessante invenção paratática. Este instrumento visual “ilumina” a feitura textual épica fragmentada em lírica, garantindo a sua “sobrevivência”, conceito tomado de Georges Didi-Huberman em sua obra Sobrevivência dos vaga-lumes (2011). Tal subversão, ocorrida no interior da épica, forma poética seminal e grandiloquente – portanto, uma forma poética “maior” –, imputa-lhe um índice subversivo que a “minoriza”, isto é, torna-a uma “poética menor” no contemporâneo, movimento este semelhante ao teorizado por Deleuze & Guattari em Kafka por uma literatura menor (1975). / This thesis investigates the work of the Portuguese author Gonçalo M. Tavares, Uma Viagem à Índia (2010). This text embodies a double possibility of reading: that of a (anti)epic versified narrative; and that of a set of small lyric poems organized by the visual instrument presented at the end of the book. Tavares subverts the epic form in a movement that, while appealing to the epic model in the origin of literature, also refers to a postmodern, postfigurative and post-representative temporality, in a very contemporary aesthetic and thematic arrangement. The thematic extracted from this corpus of investigation is the possibility of survival of the epic model in the contemporary travel literature. Tavares, by establishing deep intertextuality with Os Lusíadas, plays with the hybrid and unfinished form of the novel, making it in a long narrative poem, but also in a brief lyric and an extensive aphoristic profusion, charted at the end of the work through an interesting paratactic invention. This visual tool "illuminates" the fragmented epic textual making in lyric, ensuring its "survival", concept taken from Georges Didi-Huberman in his work Sobrevivência dos vaga-lumes (2011). Such subversion, occurring within the Epic, a seminal and grandiloquent poetic form - therefore a "major" poetic form - impute to it a subversive index that "minorizes" it, that is, makes it a "minor poetic" in the contemporary. This movement is similar to the theorized by Deleuze & Guattari in Kafka por uma literatura menor (1975).

L’objectif de ce travail est de presenter une analyse du roman Um beijo de colombina, de l’auteur brésilienne, Adriana Lisboa. Il a l’intention de réfléchir sur le deux types de narrateurs qu’il ya dans le roman: em première et en deuxième personne. Il va analyser sur la possibilité de ce romain être une metafiction, pour ça, il va remarquer les traces au long de l’hitoire que sont en dialogue avec cette hypotèse. Finalement, il va etudier les relations d’intertextualité qu’il y a dans l’oeuvre de Lisboa et les poèmes de Manuel Bandeira, une fois que celui sont dans le romain du debut à la fin. Il utilisera pour cette recherche quelques studieux qui parlent sur les narrateurs contemporain comme Jaime Ginzburg, Ronaldo Costa Fernandes et Regina Dalcastagnè; Les chercheur qui parlent de la narrative metafictional comme Gustavo Bernardo et les personne qui montrent les chemin pour refléchir sur l’intertextualité, comme, Mikhail Bakhtin et Julia Kristeva. / O presente trabalho tem por objetivo realizar uma análise do livro Um beijo de colombina, da escritora brasileira Adriana Lisboa. O romance em questão apresenta uma gama de possibilidades interpretativas, uma vez que, em sua construção, mostram-se mecanismos literários variados. O primeiro deles se compõe de dois narradores que se contradizem em suas histórias. Além disso, são inúmeras as reflexões sobre o fazer literário, sobre a construção de personagens e sobre a leitura e a literatura de uma forma geral. Um outro recurso interessante centra-se no fato de o livro ter sido escrito a partir dos poemas de Manuel Bandeira. Nesta pesquisa, pretende-se refletir sobre os dois tipos de narração que aparecem no romance: em primeira e em terceira pessoa. Visa-se também discutir sobre a temática da metaficção; para tanto, serão destacadas as marcas metaficcionais ao longo do enredo do romance. Por fim, estudar-se-ão as relações intertextuais estabelecidas entre a obra de Lisboa e os poemas de Manuel Bandeira, uma vez que perpassam o texto do começo ao fim. Serão utilizados estudiosos que abordam a questão dos narradores contemporâneos, como Jaime Ginzburg, Ronaldo Costa Fernandes e Regina Dalcastagnè; pesquisadores que discutem a narrativa metaficcional, como Gustavo Bernardo e que mostram caminhos para a reflexão sobre a intertextualidade, como Mikhail Bakhtin e Julia Kristeva.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:18:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SUELI CHAVES ANDRADE.pdf: 1899038 bytes, checksum: caec769991464b555c1e9cedd9bc20dc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-26 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The work from the video artist Chris Cunningham is the main theme of this research. The several audiovisual productions of this director include video installations, advertising and mainly music videos. There are two reasons for the choice of this object. The first one is related to the contemporary themes of Cunningham´s projects such as cyborg and freak bodies in the context of the post-human issue. The second reason is the possibility of placing the British as author in the audiovisual field. The music videos All Is Full Of Love (1999) and Rubber Johnny (2005) are the selected works for analysis of this research. The theoretical references over which this investigation is supported are related to the issues of authorship, post-cinema images and post-human body. Around the authorship discussion this research can be placed on debates proposed by the traditional French journal Cahiers du Cinéma during 1950s and the machine-artist relationship proposed by Vilém Flusser in Towards a Philosophy of Photography. To discuss the music video the selected authors are Arlindo Machado, E. Ann Kaplan and the pop culture experts Andrew Goodwin and Simon Fritch. Besides there are also the theorists Raymond Bellour (1997) who provides a place to the video and Philippe Dubois (2004) who suggests to think of it as a state and not as a product since it´s intimately tied to the device for which it has been designed. The approach to the body theme is based on works from Lucia Santaella, Paula Sibilia and Ieda Tucherman / O trabalho do videomaker Chris Cunningham é o tema principal dessa dissertação. A variedade de produções audiovisuais desse diretor engloba videoinstalações, publicidade e principalmente videoclipes. A escolha desse objeto dá-se por duas razões. A primeira pela contemporaneidade dos temas abordados nos projetos de Cunningham, como a temática dos corpos ciborgue e freak no contexto de discussão do pós-humano. Já a segunda razão é a possibilidade de situar o britânico como autor no campo audiovisual. Os videoclipes All Is Full Of Love (1999) e Rubber Johnny (2005) são as obras selecionadas para estudo analítico nesta pesquisa. As referências teóricas que embasam este trabalho estão ligadas ao tema da autoria, das imagens pós-cinemas e corpo pós-humano. No campo da discussão acerca de autoria, o trabalho situa-se nos debates propostos pelo tradicional periódico francês Cahiers du Cinema na década de 1950 e relação artista-máquina proposta por Vilém Flusser em Filosofia da Caixa Preta. Para se dissertar sobre o videoclipe, os autores selecionados são Arlindo Machado, E. Ann Kaplan e a dupla especialista em cultura pop Andrew Goodwin e Simon Fritch, além do teórico Raymond Bellour (1997), que dá lugar ao vídeo, e Philippe Dubois (2004) que sugere pensá-lo como estado e não como produto, na medida em que está intimamente atrelado ao dispositivo para o qual foi concebido. A abordagem do tema corpo respalda-se em textos das autoras Lúcia Santaella, Paula Sibilia e Ieda Tucherman

El objetivo del presente trabajo es estudiar cómo se construye el colectivo argentino en Adán Buenosayres, novela de Leopoldo Marechal publicada en Buenos Aires en 1948. Desde el mismo nombre del protagonista de la novela –“Adán Buenosayres”- es posible conjeturar la relación que une un nivel individual (“Adán”) a uno colectivo (“Buenosayres”). Puesto que me es imprescindible analizar los múltiples símbolos con que Marechal narra la aventura de su protagonista, la primera sección está dedicada al análisis de su significación. Esta aventura es, sobre todo, una “espiritual”: a través del simbolismo del viaje, la novela expondrá el camino emprendido por Adán desde la fragmentariedad del mundo hasta la Unidad del Creador. / Tesis

This dissertation brings together the history of law in postcolonial Nigeria with the history of the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970), analyzing how wartime violence shaped crime and the ethics surrounding it. Using legal records from the Republic of Biafra’s courts, I examine how the secessionist state was governed, and how armed robbery and other criminal activities became means of survival there in the context of the fighting. These cases reveal how Biafrans and their government negotiated what kinds of survival tactics, many of them “criminal,” were permissible or ethical in the context of the war and the humanitarian crisis attending it. Biafra’s courts also became a space where individuals could assert themselves as moral actors in the face of political ataxia and enormous humanitarian strain. The war shaped Nigeria’s postcolonial experience profoundly. As in many conflicts, acts of violence and deception became ordinary – in some cases honorable – when surviving and winning the war trumped all other considerations. When the fighting ended in January 1970, the practices that Biafrans had used to endure the war did not end with it. In the years that followed, fraud and armed violence would become major features of life in reunified Nigeria. Biafra had declared independence in the name of preserving law and order, but the result of the war was to create conditions in which forms of illegality that would later become endemic – forgery, armed robbery, and the body of fraudulent activities known as “419” – could take root. For this reason, the Biafra War is an important episode in both the history of Nigeria after independence, and for the larger study of the dialectics of law and disorder in contemporary Africa.

Neste trabalho investigamos em que medida o mal-estar da sociedade americana, entre 1975 e 1978, causado por uma série de acontecimentos dos anos 1970 (fim da Guerra do Vietnã, reivindicações das chamadas minorias sociais, crise da OPEP e Watergate, entre outros), foi representado em filmes comerciais, feitos dentro de Hollywood e sem maiores ambições autorais. Os filmes analisados neste trabalho são: Rocky - Um Lutador (John G. Avildsen, 1976) e Os Embalos de Sábado à Noite (John Badham, 1977). / In this work we investigate to what extent the malaise of American society between 1975 and 1978, caused by a series of events of the seventies (end of the Vietnam War, calling claims of social minorities, the OPEC crisis and Watergate, among others) , was represented in commercial films made in Hollywood without auteurist ambitions. The films analyzed in this work are: Rocky (John G. Avildsen, 1976) and Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, 1977).

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree. of Master of Arts in Russian Studies. Joharmesburq, 1995 / This thesis undertakes to examine the interdependence of ideology and literary scholarship, in particular regarding the legacy of F.M. Dostoevsky, in the Soviet Union; and to investigate the reflection of political and ideological agenda in Soviet literary criticism's interpretations of Dostoevsky's novel, The Devils during the era of glasnost, 1985-1991. I shall isolate, identify and describe the principal, ideological trends reflected in literary critiques and analyses of this novel, published in the Soviet Union during this specific period of time. My thesis will build on and develop previous research conducted around the analysis of Ideological trends in the Soviet Union through a study of literature and official literary criticism. Western commentators, such as B J.Simmons,V. Seduro, and H. Mondry have demonstrated the correlation between. general shifts in Party domestic and international policy and the ideological viewpoints expressed in literature and literary criticism. They have found it to be a valid practice to analyse certain political, social and ideological factors in the Soviet Union through a close study of literature and literary criticism. In continuing this research, I shall demonstrate that Soviet literary criticism during glasnost could still be regarded as a mirror of political and ideological changes in society, and that Soviet criticism's interpretations of Dostoevsky's The Devils could once again be used to help distinguish, delineate and clarify the ideological trends that existed in Soviet Society during this era. I shall begin my analysis with a consideration of the effects of Gorbachev's glasnost reforms on Soviet culture in general, and on literary cd]~'cal practice in particular; and of the role that literary criticism played in Soviet society during this area. I shall then proceed to a brief historical overview of interpretations of The Devils by Russian and Soviet literary critics, from its publication until the eve of the glasnost reforms, This will demonstrate both the manner in which literary criticism has mirrored Ideological trends in the USSR, and the validity of centring my research on this novel. From there, I shall turn to an examination of how interpretations Offered by Soviet literary critics of The Devils, as well as attitudes expressed by them regarding the writer's world outlook, reflected the ideological trends that existed In Soviet society during glasnost. The interpretations to be analysed will be taken from a broad range of Soviet literary periodicals, mono graphs, and discussions, published in the Soviet Union between 1985 and 1992

In this thesis paper, I will recount the creative and technical processes of making my graduate thesis film, KOOL. I will describe how the story was developed and written, then analyze the phases of pre-production, principle photography, and post production. I will then evaluate my leadership skills, and strengths and weaknesses as a film director.