During the years of the Holocaust, song literature was needed to fulfill the unique needs of people caught in an unimaginable nightmare. The twelve years between 1933 and 1945 were filled with a brutal display of man's inhumanity to man. Despite the horrific conditions or perhaps because of them, the Jewish people made music, and in particular, they sang. Whether built on a new or an old melody, the Holocaust song literature continues to speak to those of us who are willing to listen. This body of work tells the world that these people lived, suffered, longed for vengeance, loved, dreamed, prayed, and tragically, died. This repertoire of songs is part of the legacy, the very soul of the Jewish people. This study contains a brief look at the historical circumstances, and through the song literature of Hirsh Glick, Mordechai Gebirtig and Simon Sargon, life within the ghetto, the concentration camp, the decisions families had to make, the choices to fight back against incredible odds, the place of faith within this nightmare, and a look at the lives and works of the composers themselves.

This study explores six utopias by female authors written at the turn of the twentieth century: Mary Bradley Lane's Mizora (1881), Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant's Unveiling Parallel (1893), Eloise O. Richberg's Reinstern (1900), Lena J. Fry's Other Worlds (1905), Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1915), and Martha Bensley Bruère's Mildred Carver, USA (1919). While the right to vote had become the central, most important point of the movement, women were concerned with many other issues affecting their lives. Positioned within the context of the late nineteenth century women's rights movement, this study examines these "sideline" concerns of the movement such as home and gender-determined spheres, motherhood, work, marriage, independence, and self-sufficiency and relates them to the transforming character of female identity at the time. The study focuses primarily on analyzing the expression of female historical desire through utopian genre and on explicating the contradictory nature of utopian production.

Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T19:03:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Silva_GustavoRodriguesda_M.pdf: 1551456 bytes, checksum: e4003a3b502430573237a1f412eed5b8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Alguns pesquisadores estudaram o estilo tardio, como Gottfried Benn, Havelock Ellis, Edward Said, entre outros. Quem consagra a noção de estilo tardio é Theodor Adorno em seu ensaio El estilo tardío de Beethoven (2008 [1963]). De acordo com Adorno, uma obra tardia é única porque ela causa uma ruptura no cenário literário da época, pois traz novidades impensadas até então. Essa ruptura não é compreendida em um primeiro momento por muitos leitores que, só com um exame detido da obra em questão, como nos propomos nessa dissertação, conseguem captar a grandeza de uma obra tardia. Ela é atemporal, pois se distancia do passado pela inovação, se diferencia do presente pelo estranhamento e prenuncia um futuro, dadas as suas inovações serem consideradas como referências literárias para obras por vir. Logo, cada obra tardia tem um estilo tardio único. Ramón María del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) tem uma vasta obra literária, com várias peças. Segundo John Lyon, em The theatre of Valle-Inclán (2009), o ápice do teatro de Valle-Inclán são os esperpentos. Quando analisamos o esperpento Los cuernos de Don Friolera (1968 [1921]), observamos que a obra traz algumas inovações literárias para a época, que podem ser enquadradas na noção teórica de estilo tardio. Já o esperpento anterior, Luces de bohemia (2001 [1920]), apresenta a teoria esperpêntica que é posta em prática no esperpento seguinte, justamente Los cuernos de Don Friolera. Em nossa dissertação, vamos mostrar de que forma Valle-Inclán trabalha a teoria estética esperpêntica proposta em Luces de bohemia e em Los cuernos de Don Friolera, e como essa maneira de trabalhar essa teoria se constitui em um estilo tardio. Logo, vamos provar o estilo tardio do esperpento Los cuernos de Don Friolera quando comentarmos as suas inovações quanto à forma e ao conteúdo como a grande variação de possíveis sequências de leitura, a combinação de quatro paródias de movimentos literários espanhóis diferentes dentro do mesmo esperpento, a criação de uma obra que é tanto literária como histórica, entre outros aspectos. Também comentaremos o estilo tardio nos outros dois esperpentos valle-inclanianos: Las galas del difunto (1968 [1926]) e La hija del capitán (1968 [1927]). Defendemos que esse caráter tardio do nosso objeto de estudo reflete o exaurimento das formas literárias existentes e questiona o status de obra ficcional no começo do século XX, além de ditar novos rumos para a literatura espanhola e, quiçá, ocidental / Abstract: Some researchers studied the late style as Gottfried Benn, Havelock Ellis, Edward Said, among others. The one who enshrines the notion of late style is Theodor Adorno in his essay El estilo tardio de Beethoven (2008 [1963]). According to Adorno, a late work is unique because it causes a break in the literary scene of the era, because it brings thoughtless news so far. This break is not understood at first by many readers, that only with a close examination of the work in question, as we propose in this thesis, can capture the greatness of a late work. It is timeless because it moves away from past by the innovation, it differs from the present by the estrangement and predicts a future, given the innovations being considered as references to literary works to come. Thus, each late work has a unique late style. The Spanish writer Ramón María del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) has a vast literary work, with several plays. According to John Lyons in The theatre of Valle-Inclán (2009), the theater apex of that Spanish author is the esperpentos. When we analyze the esperpento Los cuernos de Don Friolera (1968 [1921]), we realize that the work brings some literary innovations for the time, which can be evidenced in the theoretical notion of late style. Already the previous esperpento, Luces de bohemia (2001 [1920]), presents the esperpêntica theory that is put into practice the next esperpento precisely Los cuernos de Don Friolera. In our thesis, we are going to show in what way Valle-Inclán works the esperpêntica aesthetic theory proposal in Luces de bohemia in Los cuernos de Don Friolera and how this way of working this theory constitutes a late style. Thus, we will prove that the late style of esperpento Los cuernos de Don Friolera when commenting their innovations as the form and the content as the wide range of possible sequences of reading, the combination of four parodies of different Spanish literary movements within the same esperpento, the creation of a work that is both literary and historical, among others. We are also going to comment the late style in the other two valle-Inclanianos esperpentos: Las galas del difunto (1968 [1926]) and La hija del capitán (1968 [1927]). We argue that this late character of our matter subject reflects the depletion of existing literary forms and questions the fictional work status in the early twentieth century, in addition to dictate new directions for Spanish literature and perhaps western / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

Orientador: Eduardo Sterzi de Carvalho Júnior / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-28T14:21:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marinho_Danielle_M.pdf: 1646369 bytes, checksum: e3a300c6b6c0dd63fa91b1b7c870a4f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Se a questão que se impõe na atualidade é a da sobrevivência do homem em uma terra devastada ¿ numa dimensão ambiental e civilizacional ¿ e se há ainda um esforço de criação em meio a essa dispersão, como o é a tentativa poética, o mundo que então se revela não é feito de presença e inteireza, é um mundo cuja imagem encontra-se também arruinada. O poeta que, hoje, opta por lidar com essa destruição, cria no poema um campo de ressurgências de imagens e palavras, no qual vibra, como potência daquilo que é resto, o fato de elas terem resistido, apesar de tudo. Nesse contexto a obra "A quarta cruz", de Weydson Barros Leal, adquire ainda mais densidade, pois suas figurações são visões da crise, da ruína, da perda de imagem, ou da imagem que se dá apesar da destruição. A cruz de Weydson Leal é talhada no tempo, na memória, na desesperança; é cinza que sobrevive ao incêndio, à catástrofe da palavra, ao grito do silêncio; é visão do escuro, forma do excesso, presença do vazio. Suas imagens poéticas lampejam em desaparecimentos e reaparições, dando corpo ao que denominamos, com base em Georges Didi-Huberman, uma poética da sobrevivência. Se essa marca inventiva puder ser considerada não só em sua dimensão de crise, mas também como análise dessa crise, então, de algum modo, os resquícios e ruínas da imagem do mundo que constituem sua poética organizam nossa consciência de sermos sobreviventes, isto é, organizam nosso pessimismo, pois estabelecem a sobrevivência das palavras e das imagens quando a nossa própria sobrevivência encontra-se comprometida. Voltando-se para o futuro, o poeta não pode redimir sua obra, pois sua condição é a vida que lhe resta, tardia, irreparável, insalvável, como a define Giorgio Agamben. Cabe-lhe, por fim, afirmar que o homem é destrutível e indestrutível, e a partir desse paradoxo disseminar sobrevivências / Abstract: If the question to be answered today is the survival of mankind in a wasteland ¿ in a environmental and civilizational meaning ¿, and if there is an effort to create in the midst of this dispersion, as it is the poetic attempt, then the world that is revealed is not made of the presence and integrity, is a world whose image is also ruined. The poet who deals with this destruction creates in the poem a field of resurgence of images and words, where vibrates, as a potencial of the rest, the fact that they have endured, though. In this context, the book "A quarta cruz" ("The fourth cross"), written by Weydson Barros Leal, becomes denser, since their poetic images are visions of the crisis, the ruin, the loss of image, or the image that remains despite the destruction. The cross of Weydson Leal is carved in time, in memory, in despair; it is ashes surviving the fire, the catastrophe of the word, the cry of silence; it is vision of the darkness, form of excess, presence of emptiness. His poetic images are disappearances and reappearances, forming what we call, based on Georges Didi-Huberman, a poetics of survival. If this inventive peculiarity can be considered not only in its dimension of crisis, but also as analysis of this crisis, then, somehow, the ruins of the world image that make up his poetic organize our awareness of being survivors, that is, it organizes our pessimism, because it establishes the survival of words and images when our very survival is compromised. Turning to the future, the poet cannot redeem his work because his condition is life he have left, late, irreparable, unsaveable, as Giorgio Agamben defines. The poet must, finally, affirm that we are destructible and indestructible, and from that paradox disseminate survivals / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestra em Teoria e História Literária

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In Vienna from about 1918 until the 1930s, contemporaries perceived a high point in the music-historical significance of Mahler's works, with regard to both the history of compositional style and the social history of music. The ideas and meanings that became attached to Mahler's works in this milieu are tied inextricably to the city's political and cultural life. Although the performances of Mahler's works under the auspices of Vienna's Social Democrats are sometimes construed today as mere acts of political appropriation, David Josef Bach's writings suggest that the innovative and controversial aspects of Mahler's works held social value in line with the ideal of Arbeiterbildung. Richard Specht, Arnold Schoenberg, and Theodor Adorno embraced oft-criticized features in Mahler's music, regarding the composer as a prophetic artist whose compositional style was the epitome of faithful adherence to one's inner artistic vision, regardless of its popularity. While all three critics addressed the relationship between detail and whole in Mahler's music, Adorno construed it as an act of subversion. Mahler's popularity also affected Viennese composers during this time in obvious and subtle ways. The formal structure and thematic construction of Berg's Chamber Concerto suggest a compositional approach close to what his student Adorno described a few years later regarding Mahler's music.

The purpose of this study is to explore the literature for textless voice and woodwind instruments. The primary focus concerns the timbral and ensemble possibilities exploited in three twentieth-century works in which the voice is treated as an instrument i.e., without the usual preoccupation with textual meaning. An historical overview of vocal works with obbligato woodwinds and concerted works for textless voice serves as an introductory chapter. The variables of voice and instrument acoustical makeup, vocal vowel formation and instrumental voicings, volume, vibrato, resultant tones, range, and extended techniques (fluttertongue, special vibrato demands, non-vibrato, etc.) are the focus of the performance considerations for this study. Over thirty twentieth-century textless works for voice and at least one woodwind instrument were located. The three, chosen for this study represent different periods in the century, and present contrasting styles and musical merit: Aria (1931) by Jacques Ibert, Three Vocalises (1958) by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Duos I (1976) by Nancy Chance. A style and performance analysis of these works with pertinent research on the composers is presented. Appendices include an annotated bibliography of selected works for the medium, a written interview with Nancy Chance, and performance notes provided by the composer, concerning Duos I.

This work is an effort to investigate the relationship between Albert Camus' philosophic concepts of the absurd presented in "The Myth of Sisyphus" and the Absurdist Theatre as defined by Martin Esslin. Included in this thesis is a discussion of each of the above concepts. Focus is placed upon the characteristics of the Absurdist Theatre which constitute the basis for the label "Absurdity." The conclusion indicates that while the playwright's personal experiences and philosophies correspond to Camus', their plays fail to communicate or express that concept of absurdity satisfactorily. The major emphasis is on the lack of concrete reality used to communicate a concept based upon concrete reality.

This oral interpretation thesis analyzes the impact that three poets from Black Mountain College had on contemporary American poetry. The study concentrates on the lives, works, poetic theories of Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan and culminates in a lecture recital compiled from historical data relating to Black Mountain College and to the three prominent poets.

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