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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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When the mountains speak: the voices of rural landscape in the short stories of Miguel Torga and Han Shaogong

Infante, Gustavo de Brito Aranha Sanches January 2013 (has links)
This thesis explores selected short stories and novellas by Portuguese writer Miguel Torga and Chinese writer Han Shaogong from a comparative perspective. Both writers produced short fiction in contexts of dictatorships that had started from processes that can be traced back to moments of national humiliation at the hands of the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Apru1 from observing the historical contexts of those moments, this study looks at the literary background of both Torga and Han, discussing specific concepts associated with these two men, such as Torga's "Iberianism" and Han's "search for the roots", as well as the implications of these and other concepts. . Rural landscape has a socio-political voice and role in the Sh011 fiction discussed in this thesis. Both writers, given the political contexts, use their skills as narrators in order to allow the landscape to say what they cannot say themselves and denounce . various issues which they cannot openly criticize. One of the consequences of this subterfuge is that their rural landscapes are sometimes idyllic and other times depicted as a locus horrendus. Other issues that orbit around the socio-political role of the landscape are also discussed. Firstly, how both writers characterize the "self' and the "other" in various ways. Secondly, how Torga and Han use animalization and humanization as a means to highlight the social issues that may be implied from these narrative processes. Finally, both writers are shown to be aware of the importance of local language, customs, and superstitions in their narratives as elements that are crucial to associate the narratives with the landscape.
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Novels of Lídia Jorge (1984 - 1998) : saying other/wise - testimony and alterity

Silva, Lígia Maria Pereira da January 2003 (has links)
No description available.
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A trilingual study of the translation of idioms in Miguel Torga's A criação do mundo

Fonte, Catarina January 2012 (has links)
This thesis is the record of a three-year research project, conducted between 2007 and 2010. It involves three main disciplines, Torga Studies, Idiom Studies and Translation Studies and the main aim is to explore how the English and Spanish translators of A Criação do Mundo, Miguel Torga’s fictional autobiography, carried out the translation of idiomatic expressions in his work. In order to accomplish this, the original and the two translations of the book were read. A set of data composed of 175 idioms was then collected, according to previously stipulated criteria. The data was subsequently divided into seven categories. All examples were back-translated into English and listed according to a specific methodology, allowing the contrastive analysis of the translation procedures carried out by both translators. The comparison of the same idiom in three different languages led to the conclusion that translators used diverging translation procedures for different idiom categories. Research showed that idioms posed specific semantic, cultural and morphological problems for translators. Idioms have very complex features which vary from language to language and that acknowledgement has contributed to an extensive lack of consensus among scholars as to what truly constitutes an idiom and which obstacles translators face. With this descriptive study, the aim was to explore Torga’s work from a translational perspective, by acquiring a better understanding of Torga’s idiomaticity, and discovering to what extent the preservation of his idiomaticity is visible in the translations. The trilingual nature of this research also revealed that the English translator showed a more explicative tendency and the Spanish a more varied usage of different procedures. It is hoped that this research will inspire academics to conduct research on less-translated Lusophone authors from the point of view of translation.
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A study of themes and poetics in the fiction of João Guimarães Rosa, with special reference to Grande Sertão: Veredas

Kelley, C. M. January 1975 (has links)
No description available.
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Beyond the mirror : transgressing the canon and the fiction of contemporary Portuguese women writers (1980-2015)

Bozkurt, Suzan January 2017 (has links)
This thesis looks at the representations of four contemporary Portuguese women writers, Helia Coreia, Lidia Jorge, Teolinda Gersao and Ines Pedrosa in literary histories, press critical commentaries and digital media. This study analyses how far a gendered critical view is present inch of the three different media and whether any alternative contextualisation exists that allows for a non-gendered, universal critical representation of female authorship. The process of canonisation within the Portuguese cultural field is studied here, following the fundamental changes in the critical landscape over the past thirty years, especially the new possibilities offered in electronic media. This thesis explores the juxtaposition between an elitist institutionalism, which can be found in academic, press and online criticism, and the presence of alternative critical voices in cultural criticism, that would adequately represent female authorship and open up the critical debate, so the traditional constructions of cultural value, such as a division into popular and quality literature, can be re-evaluated.
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A silent scream : trauma and madness in the early works of António Lobo Antunes

Rato Rodrigues, Ricardo January 2016 (has links)
Intersection between Literature and Health Sciences, the current thesis is dedicated to the analysis of the early work of influential Portuguese novelist António Lobo Antunes. His multifaceted roles - as psychiatrist, soldier and writer - inform his literary production, in particular the semi-autobiographical novels Memória de Elefante (Elephantine Memory), Os Cus de Judas (Land at the End of Nowhere) and Conhecimento do Inferno (Knowledge of Hell), as well as his letters and chronicles. The thesis looks at the different ways in which Lobo Antunes' oeuvre articulates the different perspectives within the contexts of mental institutions and war. Issues such as trauma (individual and collective), PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and the cathartic role of writing are analysed in detail. The brutal and traumatic realities of war and post-colonial trauma are intertwined in the novels in the intricate and complex writing that is characteristic of Lobo Antunes. His writing ethos elicits an active participation from the reader - an act of participatory reading which aims for the broadening and better understanding of human experiences via empathy. The writer's importance is not only relevant for the Portuguese context. Despite his close attention to the troublesome tradition of Portuguese psychiatry (i.e. the invention of lobotomy by Dr. Egas Moniz, who was awarded the Nobel prize in Medicine for such discovery) and the country's recent belligerent and oppressive history (the dictatorial regime and the Colonial War), Lobo Antunes' novels have universal qualities, in the Joycean tradition of the 'universality of the local', which gives his work validity and urgency.
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Late postcoloniality : state, violence and wealth in the literatures of early 21st century Portuguese-speaking Africa

Santos, Emanuelle Rodrigues dos January 2016 (has links)
This study is a comparative analysis of the representations of State, violence and wealth in early 21st Century novels belonging to the literatures of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe. It departs from a dialogue with the international criticism of these national literatures and with the field of postcolonial studies to produce a critical intervention which responds to these two wide fields of academic inquiry. As a result, this work argues for a transformation in both fields. It proposes that both the critique of African Literatures written in Portuguese and the field of postcolonial studies must turn their attention to the post-independence internal dimension of these countries in order to promote a much needed refashioning of the concept of postcoloniality.
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The construction of a city : Salvador in the writings of Jorge Amado

De Oliveira, Mauricio Sellmann Soares January 2013 (has links)
This thesis analyses the evolution of the city of Salvador in the novels of Brazilian writer Jorge Amado in order to identify different conceptualisations and perceptions of the city. For more than half a century, Amado was the best-selling Brazilian author, both in his own country and abroad. His work may be divided loosely into urban and rural novels. The majority of his urban novels focused on Salvador, the capital of Bahia state. Over a 60-year period, Amado portrayed Salvador in different forms: the city started out as a fragmented space in his first novel and was depicted as a potentially syncretic place in his last one. Several studies have analysed Amado’s works from a myriad of perspectives: gender, race, carnivalesque motifs and political history are the most prominent themes in these analyses. However, these studies tend to ignore or downplay the importance of Salvador itself: its transformation across multiple narratives and how the city’s characteristics greatly influence these narratives. The city was the original capital of Brazil, it has one of the largest black populations in the country and a very characteristic syncretic culture that draws on Afro-Brazilian practices. Amado is the best-known chronicler of Salvador. The objective of this dissertation is to assert the importance of Salvador in the writer’s work and in a general discussion of how urban spaces may be conceived and occupied. The evolution of this fictional Salvador takes place over eight novels that represent four different periods of Amado’s work: O País do Carnaval and Suor, the two earliest works; Jubiabá and Capitães da Areia, the socialist realist novels from the late 1930s; A Morte e a Morte de Quincas Berro Dágua and Os Pastores da Noite, two picaresque works from the early 1960s; and finally Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos and Tenda dos Milagres, the novels about hybridity from the late 1960s. The analysis of these novels reveals a process which moves towards the creation of an ideal city. To unveil this urban model, this thesis examines Amado’s construct through several city binaries: order versus disorder, upper-class districts versus lower-class areas, as well as racial and cultural binaries. Such an investigation will demand the use of both literary and social theory, including Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of carnival, concepts of heterotopia as laid out by Michel Foucault and Edward Soja, Richard Sennett’s examination of homogeneous and heterogeneous spaces, and Roberto Da Matta’s analysis of Brazilian society. The starting point for this investigation is Henri Lefèbvre’s concepts of spatial notions (lived and conceived spaces). In the process, this study places Amado’s Salvador in the context of other Brazilian and world cities at the time and probes the ideologies that underlie different perspectives of urban space.

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