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This master’s thesis examines the Swedish gymnastics troupe, the Sofia Girls 1942-1964 from the perspective of gender and girlhood. The aim is to analyse the construction of the Sofia girl by their leader Maja Carlquist, the audience and the girls themselves, focusing on their characteristics, abilities and experiences. By applying Yvonne Hirdman’s theory of the Gender contract on another subject than the housewife, the girl, it is possible to discover a more nuanced history on gender. The results show that through her leadership of the Sofia Girls, Carlquist created the idea of a particular kind of girl to present to the world. This girl was strong, yet feminine, natural, and resolved to the ideals of womanhood while also challenging them. The girls who adapted to this construction, therefore agreeing to this particular kind of gender contract, were given opportunities to travel and were situated in positions of responsibility. This gave them self-esteem as they continued their lives. Thus, by conforming to the ideals, opportunities were created for the girls rather than holding them back. In this sense, the Sofia Girls displayed signs of progress during a period where it was rare at best.

Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T23:50:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_LeandroSilvade_M.pdf: 1065982 bytes, checksum: 821da734c07735ad9eebf68cdf353f77 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: O objetivo deste trabalho é fazer uma análise do desenvolvimento do pensamento de Hilda Hilst manifesto em sua obra literária acerca da relação com o tema do corpo. Partindo da constatação de que sua literatura possui uma natureza essencialmente existencialista, procuramos apontar de que modo o corpo manifesta-se como elemento central na produção hilstiana já que se apresenta como uma das dimensões conflitantes da dupla natureza humana (corpo/mente). Elegemos quatro momentos distintos da carreira literária de Hilda Hilst para compor esse painel da representação do corpo: sua produção poética de 1962 a 1967; toda sua produção dramatúrgica (1967 a 1969); o livro A Obscena Senhora D (1982) e o livro Cartas de um sedutor (1991). Elegemos também três autores muito referenciados por Hilst - Nikos Kanzantzakis, Ernest Becker e Georges Bataille - para nos auxiliar na análise crítica e procuramos relacionar o pensamento deles aos livros analisados a fim de encontrar ressonâncias possíveis / Abstract: The objective of this research is to make an analysis of the development of Hilda Hilst's thoughts manifested in her literary work regarding the relation with the thematic of the body. Starting from the statement that her literature has a nature that is essentially existentialist, we try to point out the way that the body is presented as a central element in Hilst's production, since it appears as one of the conflicting dimensions of the double human nature (body/mind). We elected four distinct moments of Hilda Hilst's literary career to compose this panel of the representation of the body: her poetic production from 1962 to 1967; all her dramaturgical production (1967-1969); the book "A Obscena Senhora D" (1962) and the book "Cartas de um sedutor" (1991). We also elected three authors that are often referenced by Hilst - Nikos Kanzantzakis, Ernest Becker e Georges Bataille - in order to help us with the critical analysis, establishing relations between their thoughts and the pieces analyzed looking for possible resonances / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

From introduction: Wenn ich mir neben anderen sozial-psychologischen Theorien· auch die Theorie Freuds zunutze mache, so geschieht das nicht nur um der Textgerechtheit und der Nachprüfbarkeit willen, sondern auch aufgrund der überlegung, daß der Nossacksche Held, als "bürgerlicher Held"⁵²) , in mehr oder minderem Maße krank- und wahnhafte Züge haben wird, denn seine Bürgerlichkeit ist schon beim ersten, auffassenden Lesen der Texte kaum rnehr zu bezweifeln. Sein verstockter Individualismus ist hingegen, um noch einmal Adorno anzuführen, auch wieder nicht rückhaltlos verwerflich, ist dieser doch, "sowohl Produkt desDrucks", wie "das Kraftzentrum, das ihm widersteht".⁵³)

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Please read the abstract in the 00front part of this document / Thesis (DLitt (English))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / English / unrestricted

This study asks whether the use of non-English words in the novels of Canadian Mennonites perpetuates a cultural binary, and concludes that it does not. The use of the non-English word, rather than enforcing a binary between "us and them", ultimately reveals that cultural boundaries are permeable and unstable. Recent reader-response theory, which sees the reader as always influenced by a context, is central to this inquiry. Analysis of readers' responses in the form of questionnaires constitutes part of the support for my assertions, while an examination of typography, orthography, interlingua, and theme in three novels by Canadian Mennonites provides the balance. Chapter one lays the theoretical framework for the investigation. It discusses: reader-response theory and the impossibility of accessing a stable textual meaning coincidental with the author's intention, the challenge of the non-English word to the concept of universality, and the distinction between proper “English" and non-institutional "english". Chapter two examines some readers' responses to non-English words and finds that “inside" readers have interpretations in common with "outside” readers, and that variations exist between the interpretations of “inside" readers. A binary model is too simplistic to encompass the range of contexts from which readers read. Chapter three discusses typography, orthography, and interlanguage in relation to (Low) German, and suggests the importance of these features to a discussion of the texts. Chapters four through six examine Rudy Wiebe's The Blue Mountains of China (1970), Anne Konrad's The Blue Jar (1985), and Armin Wiebe's The Salvation of Yasch Siemens (1984) respectively. Each novel's thematic concern with cultural boundaries serves as a framework for interpreting its physical and linguistic features. Chapter seven concludes by examining the influence of my own fragmented identity on the development of my argument, and revisits the issue of authorial intent in our politically less-than-perfect world. A lengthy appendix serves as a pluralistic glossary to the texts, and contains the responses to my questionnaires. A brief section outlines some of the appendix's interesting patterns and trends. An index to the appendix is provided since the appendix is not arranged alphabetically. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate