Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1906. / "Selected list of books, articles, and dissertations": p. 14-16. Includes bibliographical references and index. Also available on the Internet. Also issued online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1906. / "Selected list of books, articles, and dissertations": p. 14-16. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1906. / "Selected list of books, articles, and dissertations": p. 14-16. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / The main aim of my dissertation is to re-evaluate the poetry of the South African writer Dennis Brutus (1924-2009). Even though he produced a substantial number of poems over more than half a century, his work continues to receive limited attention in South African literary criticism. One of the main reasons is the perception that he was primarily a political activist who wrote poetry with the purpose of advancing his political objectives. However, even though he wrote extensively on political issues, his themes include a wide range of subjects. In addition, he paid close attention to the craft of poetry. Due to the tendency to foreground the political content of his writing, the complexity and diversity in the language and style of his poetry are seldom examined. Refocusing attention on the aesthetic features of his work is a key aspect of my dissertation. I also contend that, despite the political content of much of his poetry, Brutus remains, first and foremost, a writer of lyric poetry. What makes his writing different from the conventional lyric, though, is his quest to find ways of using a very personal mode of poetic expression to make statements on public matters. How he pursues this objective is a major focus of my dissertation. I examine various literary influences on his writing as well. Brutus initially drew extensively on the traditional English literary canon he was taught at school and at university. Later, in order to communicate more directly and accessibly, he drew on traditional Chinese poetry. For the same reason, he subsequently wrote some poems with the specific objective of public performance. My re-evaluation of Brutus’ poetry is primarily based on a contextual reading of his work. Such an approach is based on the notion that the context within which a writer lives and writes is vital in order to gain a more informed understanding of his or her writing. In addition, my dissertation draws on Homi K. Bhabha’s elaboration of Freud’s notion of the “unheimlich” (“unhomely”) to examine Brutus’ life and poetry. Bhabha pays particular attention to the sense of estrangement which is embedded in Freud’s theory. His elaboration provides an important conceptual tool with which to analyse Brutus’ writing, and makes it possible to identify links among his various poetic personae and to identify common features in the themes of his poetry. I argue that Brutus’ unhomelineness lies at the centre of his poetic personae – the troubadour, the exile and the cosmopolitan – and of most of the themes of his poetry. Another important focus of my dissertation is how Brutus responds to this state of unhomeliness. The central aspect of my argument is that he redefines his sense of self during different periods of his life: he evolves from initially being a patriot in South Africa into a rooted cosmopolitan in exile; he then, finally, becomes a rootless cosmopolitan. I explore the reasons behind this evolution, and contend that these shifts were essentially attempts to regain agency over his life.

Robert Russell Craven's Thesis (doctoral)--University of Rhode Island, 1976. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-250).

Robert Russell Craven's Thesis (doctoral)--University of Rhode Island, 1976. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-250).

Este trabalho divide-se em duas partes: a primeira consiste em um estudo sobre o diálogo Brutus de Marco Túlio Cícero, a segunda apresenta uma tradução completa da obra. Guardando características do diálogo filosófico, do relato histórico e da laudatio funebris, o Brutus pode ser resumido como uma história da oratória romana. Seguindo certa ordem cronológica, Cícero menciona e forma juízo sobre as qualidades oratórias de oradores e magistrados romanos, fazendo referência à história política de Roma, ao desenvolvimento das letras latinas, bem como a pontos de doutrina oratória. O Brutus é um diálogo (sermo) entre as personagens Bruto, Ático e o próprio Cícero. No estudo, discutem-se as características da obra enquanto diálogo, laudatio funebris, memoria e historia da oratória romana. / This dissertation is divided into two parts: the first one is a study about the Brutus, a dialogue by Marcus Tullius Cicero; the second one presents its complete translation into Portuguese. The Brutus shows features of philosophic dialogue, of historical narrative and of laudatio funebris, and can be summarized as a history of Roman oratory. In chronological order, Cicero mentions and assesses the oratorical qualities of Roman orators and magistrates, while at the same time dealing with Romes political history, with the development of Latin literature and with oratorical doctrine. The Brutus is a dialogue (sermo) between Brutus, Atticus and Cicero. This study discusses its features as a dialogue, laudatio funebris, memoria and history of Roman oratory.

Este trabalho divide-se em duas partes: a primeira consiste em um estudo sobre o diálogo Brutus de Marco Túlio Cícero, a segunda apresenta uma tradução completa da obra. Guardando características do diálogo filosófico, do relato histórico e da laudatio funebris, o Brutus pode ser resumido como uma história da oratória romana. Seguindo certa ordem cronológica, Cícero menciona e forma juízo sobre as qualidades oratórias de oradores e magistrados romanos, fazendo referência à história política de Roma, ao desenvolvimento das letras latinas, bem como a pontos de doutrina oratória. O Brutus é um diálogo (sermo) entre as personagens Bruto, Ático e o próprio Cícero. No estudo, discutem-se as características da obra enquanto diálogo, laudatio funebris, memoria e historia da oratória romana. / This dissertation is divided into two parts: the first one is a study about the Brutus, a dialogue by Marcus Tullius Cicero; the second one presents its complete translation into Portuguese. The Brutus shows features of philosophic dialogue, of historical narrative and of laudatio funebris, and can be summarized as a history of Roman oratory. In chronological order, Cicero mentions and assesses the oratorical qualities of Roman orators and magistrates, while at the same time dealing with Romes political history, with the development of Latin literature and with oratorical doctrine. The Brutus is a dialogue (sermo) between Brutus, Atticus and Cicero. This study discusses its features as a dialogue, laudatio funebris, memoria and history of Roman oratory.

Orientador: Marcos Aurelio Pereira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T05:07:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pini_Mariana_M.pdf: 615255 bytes, checksum: 51467bd71b14bb047c5105dea6592413 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: A obra Brutus, de Marco Túlio Cícero, conduz uma reflexão sobre a história da eloquência e uma avaliação sobre os grandes nomes da retórica, desde suas origens dentro da cultura grega antiga até suas contribuições romanas, cuja glória máxima é depositada sobre o próprio autor. No ocaso da República sob a tirania de César, o Arpinate apresenta seu panteão de oradores, associado a um conjunto de preceitos sobre o latim. Este trabalho advoga que a preceptiva ciceroniana dialoga com a obra De analogia, de César (por sua vez, dedicada a Cícero como resposta a seu influente De oratore). O estudo se dedica a investigar como Cícero formula suas concepções sobre o bom latim de forma incompatível, em numerosos aspectos, com as concepções de César. A discussão sobre a Latinitas é tomada como oportunidade, no Brutus, para que Cícero articule seu próprio ethos como um personagem, bem como o de César, também presente no diálogo. O latim é um campo de batalha que se tinge de tonalidades políticas: o orador concebe a Latinitas como questão de educação elementar e hábito alcançado através da prática com boas famílias. Júlio César, por sua vez, tinha por objetivo democratizar a Latinitas. Assim, a defesa do general, em favor de uma forma restrita de oratória, é regida pela ratio, isto é, de um método racional. A Latinitas está ligada à ideia de identidade propriamente romana; contudo, o debate sobre a fala adequada envolve inevitavelmente pontos de vista diferentes. O Brutus se inicia com a morte de Hortênsio, mas o eclipse do debate forense público imposto pelo general César representa, para Cícero, a morte da República; dessa forma, o texto compõe uma reflexão sobre a morte não apenas de um orador, mas de numerosos princípios caros ao Arpinate na Roma que se desenhava sob o domínio da censura / Abstract: The work Brutus, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, builds a reflection upon the history of eloquence and an evaluation about the greatest names of Rhetoric, since its emergence within the ancient Greek culture until its Roman contributions, whose most glorious representative is Tully himself. At the end of the Republic, under Caesarian tyranny, the Arpinate displays his pantheon of speakers, associated with a set of precepts about the Latin language and culture. The present study advocates that the Ciceronian perceptive is related to De analogia, a work by Julius Caesar (and dedicated to Cicero, as a reaction to his influential De oratore). This dissertation aims at investigating how Cicero formulates his conceptions about Latin in a way incompatible with Caesar¿s convictions. The discussion about Latinitas is seen as an opportunity, in Brutus, for Cicero to articulate his own ethos as a character, as well as Caesar¿s (also included in the dialogue). Latin is a battlefield tinted with political hues: The Roman orator conceives Latinitas as a matter of basic education and a habit reached through practice with worthy families. Julius Caesar, on the other hand, aims to democratize Latinity. Hence, the general¿s standpoint, favoring a restricted understanding of oratory, is governed by ratio ¿ in other words, by a rational method. Latinitas is connected to the idea of a properly Roman identity; the adequate speech is understood differently according to those different perspectives. The Brutus begins with the death of Hortesius, but the obliteration of public forensic debate (enforced by Caesar) represents, for Cicero, the death of Republic. Therefore, the text composes a reflection on death ¿ not merely the death of a speaker, but also the death of a number of principles cherished by the Arpinate in a Rome which had been recently brought under control by means of censorship / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestra em Linguística

This thesis examines the relationship between speech and action in Dionysius' Antiquitates Romanae. It consists of five main chapters, an introduction and a conclusion. In the introduction I establish the status quaestionis and consider different modes of presenting discourse. Chapter 2 is an intertextual analysis of Dionysius' first preface, AR I.1-8, exploring Dionysius' engagement with his Greek and Roman predecessors. I take one modern theory, concerning Dionysius apparent 'idealisation' of the Roman past, in order to examine the relationship between the Antiquities and Dionysius' rhetorical works. In the four chapters that follow, I trace the changing texture of narrative across the Antiquities, sinking shafts at moments to examine closely what is going on. First (ch. 3), I analyse speech in the Regal Period, focusing on the story of Lucretia and Brutus (AR IV.64-85), and the way that Herodotean allusion meshes with intratextual devices to narrate the fluctuations of the Regal Period. Chapter 4 is a paired reading of (4a) the story of Coriolanus' trial (VII.21-66) and (4b) the story of Coriolanus' encounter with his mother (VII.39-62). Ch. 4a concentrates on Thucydides and Isocrates, and how Coriolanus' trial binds the Greek literary past to the first-century Roman present. In 4b, I examine how Dionysius manages the shift between high politics and family relationships. Chapter 5, on the decemvirate (X.50-XI.44), explores again Roman tyranny, this time in a Republican frame; the power of the senate is consequently in point here. Chapter 6, on AR XIV-XX, probes the questions of Greek and Roman ethnicity and the individual which had arisen in the earlier chapters. In the conclusion I consider the precise question of Dionysius' Augustanism, relating it to Dionysius' apparent status in Rome.