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The essay represents the projector principle, on which, as the essay’s author believes, the narration of The Summer Lightning and Other Stories by Olive Senior is based. The projector principle illustrates the idea that little details and images in the text serve big purposes, for example, reflect the emotional state of the characters or how the characters construct their identity. The literary analysis of the present essay aims at exploring a complicated identity construction in the context of Jamaica with its half-lost indigenous and half-remained colonial legacies through the identity construction of adolescent Jamaican protagonists of the short stories.

In the rich diversity of forms of the Christian Church, there are different perspectives on how believers ought to live holy lives and how their sanctification should progress. As such, the piety and sanctification of Christians entail every facet of our lives and the possibility of misunderstanding is ever present, because humans are fallible and at risk to "work" with the Bible in their own fashion. A wrong understanding of sin inevitably leads to error as regards piety. Pietism or mutations /forms thereof may therefore stifle, rather than promote real piety coram Deo, in the Christian faith community and in conducting our everyday lives. The aim of the study is, therefore, to advance genuine piety with Christian believers. The doctrine of successive works of grace and the style or approach in which proponents of the doctrine treat Scripture, were critically examined in the first section of the basis-theory. A hermeneutical position from the reformed perspective was stated. The sovereignty of God and the acknowledged authority of Scripture are both the centre and periphery of the reformed perspective, and from a grammatical-historical paradigm augmented by historical-cultural information, the construct of sin in the understanding of the first New Testament audience was examined. The juxtaposed construct of piety, as the logical opposite of sin, was correspondingly explored. The doctrine of so-called successive works of grace was reviewed analytically in the second phase of the basis-theory and the conclusion was stated that this doctrine is a form of pietism. The usage of Scripture and the terminology utilized by pietistic groupings to establish their doctrine was evaluated from a grammatical-historical point of departure. The aim of the study was to render pastoral assistance to someone who was, or is involved with the successive works of grace variation of pietism. For this reason, the meta-theoretical facet of the study did not focus on an academic study of sources to explain the phenomenon of pietism, but instead believers' experience of the successive works of grace form of pietism was investigated by means of a narrative empirical study. This investigation took place within the margins of the religious experience of three groups of participants in a church that embraces the particular doctrine. The three categories were believers that advocate the doctrine of successive works of grace, believers that abandoned the same and those that disagree with such a doctrine. From the basis-theory and the interpretation of the empirical results, an uncomplicated hermeneutical counselling strategy was put together with due emphasis on the correct understanding of Scriptural information on the topics of sin and piety/sanctification. The aim of the strategy is to educate believers from a Scriptural position and perspective on the indicative-imperative aspects of reconciliation and sanctification in Christ. The perfection of what Jesus has done and our reciprocal faith response is stated and conveyed in the strategy. A model consisting of a number of counselling sessions are suggested to guide believers not to adopt the particular belief or, otherwise, to provide a pastoral, remedial support to assist believers in finding liberation from the doctrine of successive works of grace. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Pastoral)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.

In the rich diversity of forms of the Christian Church, there are different perspectives on how believers ought to live holy lives and how their sanctification should progress. As such, the piety and sanctification of Christians entail every facet of our lives and the possibility of misunderstanding is ever present, because humans are fallible and at risk to "work" with the Bible in their own fashion. A wrong understanding of sin inevitably leads to error as regards piety. Pietism or mutations /forms thereof may therefore stifle, rather than promote real piety coram Deo, in the Christian faith community and in conducting our everyday lives. The aim of the study is, therefore, to advance genuine piety with Christian believers. The doctrine of successive works of grace and the style or approach in which proponents of the doctrine treat Scripture, were critically examined in the first section of the basis-theory. A hermeneutical position from the reformed perspective was stated. The sovereignty of God and the acknowledged authority of Scripture are both the centre and periphery of the reformed perspective, and from a grammatical-historical paradigm augmented by historical-cultural information, the construct of sin in the understanding of the first New Testament audience was examined. The juxtaposed construct of piety, as the logical opposite of sin, was correspondingly explored. The doctrine of so-called successive works of grace was reviewed analytically in the second phase of the basis-theory and the conclusion was stated that this doctrine is a form of pietism. The usage of Scripture and the terminology utilized by pietistic groupings to establish their doctrine was evaluated from a grammatical-historical point of departure. The aim of the study was to render pastoral assistance to someone who was, or is involved with the successive works of grace variation of pietism. For this reason, the meta-theoretical facet of the study did not focus on an academic study of sources to explain the phenomenon of pietism, but instead believers' experience of the successive works of grace form of pietism was investigated by means of a narrative empirical study. This investigation took place within the margins of the religious experience of three groups of participants in a church that embraces the particular doctrine. The three categories were believers that advocate the doctrine of successive works of grace, believers that abandoned the same and those that disagree with such a doctrine. From the basis-theory and the interpretation of the empirical results, an uncomplicated hermeneutical counselling strategy was put together with due emphasis on the correct understanding of Scriptural information on the topics of sin and piety/sanctification. The aim of the strategy is to educate believers from a Scriptural position and perspective on the indicative-imperative aspects of reconciliation and sanctification in Christ. The perfection of what Jesus has done and our reciprocal faith response is stated and conveyed in the strategy. A model consisting of a number of counselling sessions are suggested to guide believers not to adopt the particular belief or, otherwise, to provide a pastoral, remedial support to assist believers in finding liberation from the doctrine of successive works of grace. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Pastoral)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.

The thesis attempts at providing a critical evaluation of the city as the mythological site of modernity. For that purpose, highlighting such special nature of the urban context as it finds expression by the cinematic medium, what is aimed at is the analysis of, first, the mythical dimensions of modern urban life as the prime site of enthusiasm and spirit with its fleeting impressions and changing images, secondly, the (re)creation of the city myth through cinema as an elaborate perceptive vehicle for a specific way of picturing and enframing the cityscape and, lastly the representation of the destruction of such myth. In this way, it will also be possible to point out concretely that the city experience of the modern individual simultaneously embodies fascination and horror, hope and despair. In order to explain the situation of the modern individual in the big city, Odysseus&rsquo / s encounter with mythological forces in ancient world are taken as a parable in the footsteps of Adorno and Horkheimer&rsquo / s allegoric interpretation of Homer&rsquo / s Odyssey. Specifically speaking, the cinematic representation of Istanbul-myth and the destruction of this myth in Turkish cinema of the nineties will be examined through three prominent examples in the light of the above theoretical considerations.

This performance-as-research project incorporated a five-month residency inside a working power station, Swanbank, Ipswich, a provider of electricity to Australia's eastern states via the national grid. The concept 'power station' is compelling because it involves the transformation of material form (coal) to immaterial phenomena (electricity), a process analogous to making electronically-mediated art. Three linked interdisciplinary works were created out of the artist's immersion on site: Swanshift, a music-video eulogy to the closure of the station's oldest coal-fired facility, Swanbank 'A'; The Industrial Theatre, a photographic series featuring Swanbank workers; and unstatic, a live, video-mediated performance. As an enquiry into meaning within contemporary art practice, this research project used allegory as its symbolic mode of thought and formation. Through allegory, the Swanbank site was explored metaphorically to reveal a fictional, parallel world beyond the literal surface of danger, authority and rigour. In this space of excess, unreality and overflowing boundaries, meaning is multiple and celebrated. Hand-in-hand with an exploration of allegory, this exegesis also presents an insight into methodologies for industrial, site-specific, interdisciplinary practice, and arts-industry collaboration.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper proposes an analysis on the novel Pedro Páramo, by Juan Rulfo, in which elements such as the conception of future and past defended by Modernity, the allegorical construction and the work of mourning arise as central axis. Throughout four chapters we sought to answer the following question: How, in Pedro Páramo, the Mexican revolutionary process and future prospects arising from Modernity are expressed? In the first, based on authors like Carlos Fuentes, Alejo Carpentier, Jorge Alberto Vital and Ruffinelli, we linked the author, the work and the context of production in an attempt to apprehend the formation of the Mexican historical-social-economic reality. Also at this stage, we make some considerations about the processes of cultural encounters experienced by Mexico (since the arrival of the Spanish to the mexican revolution) in order to relate issues of modernity and the constitutive process of the novel studied. In the second chapter, we detailed the process of the narrative construction, associating the external to the internal elements in a process of entry and exit of the novel, adding the literary text to the Mexican political-historical-social context. Also, we used the concept of literary transculturation proposed by the Uruguayan critic Ángel Rama, who helped us understand the narrative structure of Rulfo s novel, especially in relation to the historical moment in which it was produced. In the third chapter, we approached the cultural elaboration of death in Mexico, in its condition as national totem. Furthermore, based on the studies developed by Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, Octavio Paz and Darcy Ribeiro, we related, to the narrative analyzed, Benjamin s concept of allegory and the temporal conception adopted in Modernity. In the fourth and final chapter, the writings of Theodor Adorno and Idelber Avelar helped us with concepts such as mourning, loss, defeat, tension - associated to negative dialectics - taking Pedro Páramo as an open system in which the tension leads to a conception of future that subverts the conception presented by Modernity: a future in ruins. The projection of a future in ruins turns active the past, the present and the future. In this light, the different narrative voices in Pedro Páramo are taken as different possibilities, singular and incomplete, which propose the revision of the constitution of the Great National Report of Mexico related to the Revolution, starting from the recognition of the past as heterogeneous and fragmented, breaking with the homogenizing and totalizing visions of history and taking diversity and opposition as positive aspects. / Este trabalho apresenta uma proposta de análise do romance Pedro Páramo, de Juan Rulfo, na qual a concepção de futuro e de passado defendida pela Modernidade, a construção alegórica e o trabalho de luto erigem-se como eixos centrais. Ao longo de quatro capítulos, buscamos responder a seguinte pergunta: Como, em Pedro Páramo, o processo revolucionário mexicano e a perspectiva de futuro decorrente da Modernidade estão expressos? No primeiro, os escritos de Carlos Fuentes, Alejo Carpentier, Alberto Vital e Jorge Ruffinelli nos ajudaram a relacionar o autor, a obra e o contexto de produção, na tentativa de apreender a formação da realidade histórico-social-econômica mexicana. Ainda nesta etapa, tecemos algumas considerações sobre os processos de encontros culturais vivenciados pelo México (desde a chegada dos espanhóis até a revolução mexicana) com o intuito de abarcarmos questões relativas à Modernidade e à constituição do romance estudado. No segundo capítulo, analisamos a construção da narrativa, associando os elementos externos aos internos em um processo de entrada e saída do romance, somando o texto literário ao contexto político-histórico-social mexicano. Também, empregamos o conceito de transculturação literária proposto pelo crítico uruguaio Ángel Rama, o qual nos ajudou a compreender a estrutura narrativa de Pedro Páramo, principalmente, face ao momento histórico em que foi produzida. No terceiro capítulo, a partir de autores como Claudio Lomnitz, Carlos Monsiváis e Octavio Paz, abordamos a elaboração cultural da morte no México, em sua condição de totem nacional. E, partindo dos estudos desenvolvidos por Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, Octavio Paz e Darcy Ribeiro, relacionamos ao romance analisado o conceito benjaminiano de alegoria e a concepção temporal moderna. No quarto e último capítulo, os escritos de Theodor Adorno e de Idelber Avelar auxiliaram-nos com conceitos como luto, perda, derrota, tensão - associados à dialética negativa , a partir dos quais tomamos Pedro Páramo como um sistema aberto no qual a tensão conduz para uma concepção de futuro que subverte a apresentada pela Modernidade: um futuro em ruínas. A projeção de um futuro de ruínas torna atuante tanto o passado quanto o presente e o futuro. Sob esse prisma, as distintas vozes narrativas de Pedro Páramo são possibilidades diversas, singulares e incompletas que propõem a revisão da constituição do grande relato nacional mexicano relacionado à revolução, partindo do reconhecimento do passado como heterogêneo e fragmentado, rompendo com as visões homogeneizantes e totalizantes da história e tomando a diversidade e a oposição como aspectos positivos.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-02-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:14:18Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 jesus_alg_me_sjrp.pdf: 1561763 bytes, checksum: 335ac20fd838f62c63247753c19a0692 (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de investigar as representações da morte e do morrer na obra de Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-1996). A morte e o morrer são temas recorrentes que figuram tanto como tema principal quanto motivo que reivindica um espaço importante na obra do escritor. Para tal investigação, partimos da concepção, defendida por Walter Benjamin (1975), de que a literatura contemporânea estabelece uma relação com a temporalidade e a morte, relação esta que se faz presente por meio do olhar alegórico e fragmentário e procura representar, no texto literário, o indizível que é a própria experiência de morte (GAGNEBIN, 1994). Nosso olhar se dirigiu, também, para os modos de construção das representações da morte: a mobilização das figuras de linguagem e as escolhas sintáticolexicais são elementos importantes para a constituição de um inventário de como a morte e o morrer aparecem na produção ficcional do escritor. A memória, o testemunho, o aprisionamento nas lembranças traumáticas e a consciência da transitoriedade e consequente arruinamento dos objetos e pessoas são alguns dos modos de morte presentes na obra de Abreu. Para este trabalho analisamos um conjunto de cinco contos e, também, o romance Onde andará Dulce Veiga? (1990), texto no qual a consciência da morte traz uma reflexão sobre a valorização da vida. / The current work has the goal of investigating the representations of death and dying at Caio Fernando Abreu's work (1948-1996).The death and dying are recurrent themes that figure both as the main theme and the reason that claims an important place in the writer's work. For such an investigation, I started from the conception, defended by Walter Benjamin (1975), that the contemporary literature establishes a relationship with temporariness and death; and that such a relationship is present through the allegorical and frangmentary look and also that it tries to represent, in the literary work, the unspeakable, which is the own experience of death (GAGNEBIN,1994) . My look was also taken to the ways of construction of the representations of death: the mobilization of the figures of speech and the syntacticlexical choices are important elements for the constitution of an inventory as how death and dying appear in the writer's fictional production. The recalling, the testimony, the imprisonment in the traumatic memories and the awareness of how transitory objects and people are and also their consequent ruination are some of the ways of death which are present at Abreu's work. For this work, I analyzed a set of five short stories and also a novel called Onde andará Dulce Veiga? (1990), in which the awareness of death brings up to a reflection about life's worth.

Cette thèse traite de la carrière politique et du « service de plume » de Blaise de Vigenère (1523-1596), agent du roi et voyageur, puis traducteur et commentateur érudit dans le dernier tiers de sa vie. À travers une étude biographique et contextuelle, elle met en évidence une figure sociale trop méconnue du champ des lettres et de l’histoire : celle du secrétaire. Elle interroge ensuite du point de vue de la poétique le statut d’observateur que Vigenère se donne dans ses écrits : le sens de la merveille et l'analyse de la raison technique y vont de pair. La riche expérience de serviteur de l'ombre théorisée dans les traités italiens, et surtout les pratiques d’écritures qui rejoignent l’humanisme constituent un héritage que Vigenère dépasse cependant. L’entreprise de publication, abondante et efficace, est remise en contexte et peut être comprise comme une prudente tentative de courtiser et de conseiller le pouvoir par l’image ou l’allusion. Dans les dernières œuvres où l’allusion le cède au symbole, Vigenère manie le plan littéral et le plan symbolique. Il se montre kabbalisant catholique et pré-nationaliste. En « Politique » de la fin des guerres de religion, il défend alors l’institution monarchique contre la Ligue catholique. Mais les images du Discours sur l’histoire du roy Charles VII (1594) sont les derniers feux d’une herméneutique inquiète. / This study deals with the career and the service to the monarchy of the penman Blaise de Vigenère (1523-1596), who was an agent to the king and was travelling through Europe. He became a translator and scholarly annotator during the last period of his life. I study biography, historical and sociological context, in order to highlight an essential yet overlooked figure : the secretary. I try to show that the personal point of view in his writings is double : while he admires wonders and signs in nature, he is also a sceptical analyst looking for technical explanations. He inherits the experience of those shadowy figures, awarely described in italian trattati, and their practices of writing – those of humanists. But he goes over. Publishing a lot of manuscripts in a short time, he tries to have an effect on the monarch and to court him. His last works are more explicit. Vigenère combines litteral meaning and symbolic interpretation : he uses a kind of catholic kabbalah in a pre-nationalist purpose. As a « Politique », at the end of the Civil Wars, he is a partisan of the monarchy against the Catholic League. But the images of the Discours sur l’histoire du roy Charles VII (1594) might be the swansong of the Renaissance hermetic symbolism.

Collage is presented as an allegoric art-form sui generis, considering allegory itself as an open-ended form of art. The research provides a suggestion to a different understanding of collage i.e.: as a catalyst for a search for structure and semiotic relationships in an attempt to overcome a constant disordered expansion of an intertextual web and hermeneutic possibilities; and as an open work, providing multi-layered meanings. As an open work collage is typified by the prominent role of its "readers", its ambiguity and the infinite net of references it summons. Collage may be conceived as a bridge between modernism and postmodernism, structuralism and post-structuralism; as a model for constant innovation and suppleness; as a stimulator for meta-artistic questions, acceptance of "soft" universals and reevaluation of the role of the Other within an artwork. Works by Jasper Johns, Michal Na'aman, Dina Hoffman and myself exemplify these ideas. / Visual Arts / M.A. (Visual Arts)