Myth and history are instances that intertwine strongly in Caim (2009), by Portuguese novelist José Saramago, whose incisive reading of the biblical text is made in the light of a conception of free traffic by time and introducing questions about the meaning of life, the men s place in legend and his role in chronicle. Starting from this fact, this study seeks to elucidate the representations of temporalities in Saramago s last work, mainly using the concepts developed over time by Paul Ricoeur and notions of chronotope proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin, emphasizing the approaches of historical time and mythical time in search of sense of time to the experiences of the protagonist. Investigating the concepts over time and their dynamics as a leitmotiv of the protagonist's relationship with the deity and the world, is outlined an ouroboros that weaves Myth and History, leading the protagonist in an intense journey of challenges and revelations that refers to the defense of former cultural constructs, simultaneously open new meanings to human existence. / Mito e História constituem instâncias que se entrelaçam vigorosamente em Caim (2009), do romancista português José Saramago, cuja contundente leitura do texto bíblico se faz à luz de uma concepção de livre trânsito pelo tempo, instaurando questionamentos sobre o sentido da vida, seu lugar na lenda e seu papel na crônica. Partindo desta constatação, o presente trabalho busca elucidar as representações das temporalidades nesta derradeira obra saramaguiana, utilizando-se, principalmente, das concepções sobre o tempo desenvolvidas por Paul Ricoeur e das noções de cronotopo propostas por Mikhail Bakhtin, enfatizando as abordagens de tempo histórico e tempo mítico na busca de um tempo do sentido para as vivências do protagonista. Investigando os conceitos sobre o tempo e sua dinâmica enquanto leitmotiv da relação do protagonista com a divindade e com o mundo, delineia-se um ouroboros que entrelaça Mito e História, conduzindo Caim por uma intensa trajetória de desafios e revelações que remete à contestação de antigos construtos culturais, simultaneamente à abertura de novos sentidos para a existência humana.

A obra inicial de Lídia Jorge, O dia dos prodígios, por meio de um riquíssimo conjunto de imagens e metáforas, constrói ficcionalmente o que seria, na visão de sua autora, a realidade socioeconômica e política de uma parcela significativa da população portuguesa a do Portugal agrário, de pensamento medievalizado e medievalizante, absorto em seu próprio cotidiano e, também por isso, distante das transformações vividas pelo restante do país. Para isso, a escritora cria um ambiente tempo e espaço que carrega marcas ideológicas nas imagens que o constituem, o que caracteriza, assim, o procedimento a que Mikhail Bakhtin deu o nome de cronotopo. Dessa forma, o propósito central desse estudo é identificar, no romance, os elementos espaciais que representem ideologicamente Portugal através dos tempos, com ênfase no pensamento português no contexto da Revolução dos Cravos, e quais traços dessa ideologia são alegorizados por esses elementos cronotópicos, na crença de que, ao identificá-los e compreendê-los, será possível perceber a existência de diferentes graus de importância que teriam sido atribuídos à insurreição de abril de 1974, em diferentes contextos. É também objetivo dessa dissertação descrever os procedimentos narrativos empregados por Lídia Jorge a fim de representar cronotopicamente a sociedade rural portuguesa, uma vez que a geração de prosadores de ficção pós-1974 pautou seu trabalho não só pelo resgate da identidade nacional envolta em brumas ideológicas desde o século XVI , mas também pela ruptura com a estética literária herdada do salazarismo , estética essa tributária da tradição cultural portuguesa, cujos valores mantiveram-se quase intactos ao longo dos séculos. / Lidia Jorges first novel, O dia dos prodígios, brings out a rich set of imagery and metaphors which builds in fiction what would be the authors point of view on the socioeconomic and political reality of a very meaningful part of the Portuguese society the one that lives in and from the countryside, whose ideas are quite medieval, and who spends life locked into their own sight of view, far from all the changes faced by their country. In order to do so, the writer builds a setting time and space which carries ideological signals in the imagery that constitutes it, what leads to the concept of chronotope, as defined by Mikhail Bakhtin. Thus, the main purpose of this study is to identify the elements that represent Portugal ideologically throughout time, in the novel, with emphasis on the Portuguese thought in the context of the Revolução dos Cravos (the revolution that ended the dictatorship in which Portugal had been submerged until 1974), and which aspects of this ideology are metaphorically represented through chronotope procedures, once it is believed that it will be possible to notice the existence of different ways of perception of the Revolução, in different contexts, by identifying and comprehending those chronotopic constructions. It is also an aim of this paper to describe the narrative procedures used by Lidia Jorge in order to represent chronotopically the rural Portuguese society, once the post-1974 generation of writers made a point not only in recreating Portugals identity but also in breaking the ties with the literary procedures inherited from the cultural Portuguese tradition, kept alive by Salazars dictatorship.

In this bachelor’s essay, I examine the importance of place in Marguerite Duras’ The Lover from 1984. By using an ecocritical approach I find that the concepts of “culture” and “nature”, or “human” and “environment”, are made undistinguished. I also find that colonialism is highly present, and the novel accords to the theories of the overlapping literary fields of ecocriticism and postcolonialism. Ecocritical postcolonialism maintains that non-white people have historically been likened to animals and thus have a similar relationship with colonisers as humans have with the non-human. In addition, I apply Michail Bachtin’s concept of the chronotope to the novel and conclude that the Mekong River, the Cholen district, the mother’s home, the desert, and France are the most significant chronotopes. They all represent time in some way – usually in the form of cultural history or the protagonist’s lifetime – and each one plays into the novel’s overarching views of colonialism and nature.

В данной магистерской диссертации исследуется категориальная специфика жанра (текстотипа) новостной заметки. Рассматриваются особенности выражения темы, хронотопа и тональности в новостных заметках на сайте агентства URA.Ru за декабрь 2017 г. Описано типологическое функционирование данных категорий; доказано, что набор категорий «тема + хронотоп + тональность» может быть признан необходимым и достаточным для описания новостной заметки как жанра публицистического функционального стиля. Полученные результаты анализа проявлений названных текстовых категорий ассоциированы со всем объемом сплошной выборки и транспонированы на весь жанр новостной заметки как текстотип. / This master degree thesis studies the categorical specifics of the news notes texts. The features of topical, chronotopical, and tonal representations in the news notes texts published on the URA.Ru website during December 2017 are considered. The typical functionality of the categories given is characterized, the set of such categories as theme, chronotope, and tonality being recognized as essential and sufficient to describe a news note as a genre of the newspaper style. The analysis results of the verbal representations of the text categories given were then associated with the entire continuous sampling, and transposed to the whole text type of the news notes.

La presente tesina aborda la temporalidad de Maldito amor y otros cuentos (1986) de Rosario Ferré desde la perspectiva de la narratología. Se estudian no solamente las paradojas o deslindes temporales y las anacronías, sino también las coincidenciasy no coincidencias espaciotemporales (llamadas también cronotopos). Los datos analizados muestran que los cuatro cuentos que componen la colección están basados en los hechos relatados y no en el tiempo cronológico. Esto explica que los datos temporales puedan ser eliminados sin que por ello la historia se vea alterada. / The following thesis addresses the temporality of Sweet Diamond Dust and Other Stories (1986) by Rosario Ferré from the perspective of narratology. Not only are temporal paradoxes or boundaries and anachronies studied, but also spatial-temporal coincidences and non-coincidences (also called chronotopes). The analyzed data shows that the four short stories that make up the collection are based on the events narrated and not on chronological time. This explains that the temporal data can be eliminated without altering the story.

This thesis examines the relationships between different nations and cultures in Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Quentin Durward, Anne of Geierstein and Count Robert of Paris using Post-colonial theory. An analysis of Scott’s conception of society in general shows that 18th century Scottish historiography is fundamental to his vision of the world because it forms the basis of his systematization of history, social development and interaction between communities. It also profoundly influences his imagery and descriptions, as well as providing him with a range of stereotypes that he manipulates so skilfully that his great dependence upon them is occulted. Contemporary ideas and his own attitude to the Union of Scotland and England lead him to conceive of nation formation in terms of descent and hybridity. In part, he sees the nation as a community of blood. Yet, his acceptance of the Union means that he also considers it to be a body of different ethnic elements that live together. His use of the 18th century metaphor of family to figure the nation allows him to incorporate heredity and miscegenation into his analysis of national development through father-daughter couples. The father represents traditional culture, and the daughter, the nation’s present and future; her marriage to a foreigner signifying that people of differing descent can cross the nation’s porous borders. Religion is the final frontier: Christian nations cannot absorb non-Christians. Scott sees dominance and subordination as a complex part of human relationships. Apparently-subordinate subjects possess occulted power because their support of the hegemonic is often essential if the latter is to maintain its superiority. While his conception of society in patriarchal terms means that his female characters cannot offer violence to men, he shows that passive resistance is very effective. Through mimicry, the subordinate threatens the power and identity of the dominant. Power is not only conceived of in political terms. In Ivanhoe, Scott reveals the importance of moral stature which allows Rebecca to dominate the work although she is at the bottom of the political and racial hierarchy that structures English society. Scott’s conception of time is fundamental to the manner in which he conceives of the nation. Historical cultural forms are physicalised through chronotopes. Politically subordinate cultures base their actions in the present on pedagogic time, while the dominant ignore their past and live only in the present and the future. He also expresses dominant-subordinate relationships through speed, with time moving quickly for the powerful and slowly for the weak. Time, whether in the form of history, the characters’ perception of it or speed amalgamates all the various elements of Scott’s conception of nationhood into a seamless whole. Cette thèse analyse par le biais la théorie post-coloniale les relations internationales dans Ivanhoe, Quentin Durward, Anne of Geierstein et Count Robert of Paris. Les théories historiques élaborées en Écosse au XVIIIème siècle sont fondamentales dans la vision scottienne parce qu’elles forment la base de la systematisation de l’histoire, du développement sociale et, par conséquent, des relations entre les différentes communités. Ces théories influencent profondement les images qu’il utilise et la façon dont il décrit les caractères et les scènes. De plus, elles lui fournissent une gamme de stéréotypes qu’il manipule très adroitement. Sa conception de la manière dont se forment les nations vient des idées contemporaines et de sa propre expérience de l’union politique de l’Angleterre et de l’Écosse. Il considère la nation comme une communauté fondée sur l’ascendance par le sang mais aussi comme un groupe d’ethnies différentes qui vivent ensemble. Sa description de la nation emprunte à la métaphore de la famille courante au XVIIIième. Celle-ci lui permet d’inclure dans son analyse l’héridité et la mixité au moyen des couples formés par un père et sa fille. Le père représente la culture traditionelle, et la fille, le présent et le futur national. Son marriage avec un étranger signifie que les gens d’ascendance différente peuvent traverser les frontières perméables d’une nation. La religion est la frontière ultime: les nations chrétiennes ne peuvent absorber de non-chrétiens. Scott considère que la domination et la sujetion forment une partie complexe des relations humaines. Les sujets qui paraissent subordonnés possèdent en fait un pouvoir occulte, le dominant ayant besoin de leur soutien pour maintenir sa position. Bien que sa conception patriarcale de la société fasse que les caractères feminins ne manifestent pas d’agression envers les hommes, il montre que la résistance passive est très efficace. En imitant le sujet dominant, le sujet subordonné menace le pouvoir et l’identité de ce dernier. Le pouvoir ne s’exprime pas seulement dans la politique. Rebecca dans Ivanhoe revèle l’importance que revêtent le caractère et la moralité. Bien qu’elle soit au bas de la hiérarchie structurante de la société anglaise, elle domine le roman. La conception que Scott se fait du temps est fondamentale à celle de la nation et de la culture. Au moyen du chronotope, les cultures historiques prennent des formes physiques. Les cultures qui sont subordonnées politiquement basent leur action au présent sur le “temps pédagogique”. Au contraire, le dominant rejette son passé et ne vit qu’au présent et au futur. Les relations entre le pouvoir dominant et le subordonné s’expriment aussi par la vitesse: le temps passe vite pour les puissants, mais lentement pour les faibles. En définitive, tous les éléments de la conception scottienne de la nation sont liés au temps, qu’il s’agisse de l’histoire, de perception par les caractères, ou de la vitesse.

The purpose of the present dissertation is to study the elaborations of the initiation myth in contemporary Italian author Alessandro Baricco. The theoretical and methodological framework consists mainly of Mircea Eliade’s phenomenological theory of initiation. It is argued that the categories of space and time are interdepent in religious thought and should thus be studied as a unit, through the notion of the chronotope. The dissertation therefore proposes to introduce the concept of the chronotope of initiation as an operative tool, the intersection of the theories of Eliade and Mikhail Bakhtin, for the literary subgenre of the initiation novel. A hermeneutical analysis of the novels Oceano mare, Emmaus and Mr Gwyn demonstrates that the initiation myth is present in all three novels. The symbolism of death and rebirth is coherently enacted as a movement via the categories cosmos-chaos-cosmos, for which the author uses the symbolism of the earth to define cosmos (regularity and structure) and water symbolism for the regenerating chaos (dissolution and renewal). The different chapters of analysis accentuate the interaction of space and time within the different phases of the initiation pattern: the profane, the threshold, the sacred, the centre (the place where the actual ritual is enacted) and the return, which are all defined as chronotopes. The analysis shows that although the chronotope of initiation – the concept intending the fusion of the temporal event of ritual at the spatial centre – assumes different forms throughout the corpus, its function remains unmodified, with its purpose being the creation of ontological change. In its inherent structure, the chronotope of initiation unites antithetical spatial and temporal characteristics. Spatially it unites infinite and dissolving chaotic space with the constitutive envelope or sacred vertical centre, and temporally it brings together the ultimative ontological change at a fixed, historical moment with the eternal, sacred, time opened by ritual, representing the coincidentia oppositorum of the sacred. The analysis also shows that the so-called “portraits of the ineffable”, present in all three novels, reflect the same qualities. As immanent works of art, they function as thresholds into the infinite. From a chronological perspective, the dissertation shows a modification of the initiation pattern in Baricco’s writing: from the classical form in Oceano mare, via a more realistic application in Emmaus, to the most elaborate, meta-literary adaption in Mr Gwyn. Nevertheless, the use of the pattern and its thematic coherence reveals that Baricco consciously elaborates on the pattern to suit the contemporary context.

This dissertation conceptualizes a Palestinian archipelago based on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the chronotope, and uses the archipelago model to illustrate the situation and development of Palestinian consciousness in diaspora. To gain insight into the personal lives of Palestinians in diaspora, This project highlights several islands of Palestinian identities as represented in the novels: Dancing Arabs, A Compass for the Sunflower, and The Inheritance. The identities of the characters in these works are organized according to the archipelago model, which illustrates how the characters rediscover, repress, or change their identities in order to accommodate life in diaspora. Analysis reveals that a major goal of Palestinian existence in diaspora is the maintenance of an authentic Palestinian identity. Therefore, my description of the characters’ identities and locations in the archipelago model are informed by various scholars and theories of nationalism. Moreover, this dissertation illustrates how different Palestinian identities coalesce into a single national consciousness that has been created and sustained by a collective experience of suffering and thirst for sense of belonging and community among Palestinians. Foremost in the memories of all Palestinians is the memory of the land of Palestine and the dream of national restoration; these are the main uniting factors between Palestinians revealed in my analysis. Furthermore, this project presents an argument that developing a Palestinian exceptionalism as both a response and a solution to the problems Palestine faced in the 20th century has already occurred among diasporic Palestinians as well as those settled in the West Bank. In addition, a significant finding of this dissertation is the generation clash in regarding to the methods of modernization of the West Bank society between the settled Palestinian and those returning from diaspora. Nevertheless, a Palestinian homecoming will require a renegotiation of Palestinian identities in which generation gaps and other disagreements will be resolved and transcended in favor of nation-state building.

Poetics of space in The Alexandria Quartet is created by multilevel structures. This poetics is closely connected to the main space of the story - Alexandria, which is at the same time one of the novel's topics. Each level is suggested in connection to various theoretical conceptions which are subsequently used for my own analysis. Alexandria is initially an aesthetic coulisse of the story which is portrayed by descriptive passages. Strongly subjective and lyrical descriptions of the city establish overall impression of the story and potentially support reader's experiential illusion. Alexandria and its specificity is further modulated and thematised by its special macroscopic conditions which border Alexandria as an autonomous fictional space with its own rules within the novel's fictional world. Part of poetics of the space in this novel is also portraying spatio-temporal aspect of the reality (chronotope) no only on the level of the story, but also on the level of storytelling. Alexandria is further explicit rhetoric and also through semantic indexation personified and enters semantic relations with the main characters and events. Each level is complementary to another and all are part of the semantic gesture of the novel. Alexandria becomes a separate symbol, mythical entity which importance is...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gilmara Alonso Tacito.pdf: 562905 bytes, checksum: ce9b87075600c330f6eba4efd4bee78b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-09-29 / The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the presence of the Author Creator entity interacting with characters in narratives "São Marcos" and "Sarapalha" (1946), Sagarana (1946), written by João Guimarães Rosa (1908- 1967). Concerning to the assumptions of the aesthetic material of Mikhail Bakhtin, it is understood that there is no linkage between work and life of the author, whereas popular culture connects the study of the literary work to the writer's life, only to listen to his voice, pointed to confidences. For the author, all aesthetic analysis should not be targeted directly to the work, but about what the work represents for the aesthetic activity of the artist and the reader. Our object here is delineated as the stuffing of this aesthetic activity focused on the literary work: the aesthetic object. This is the dual-perspective, here, applied to the reading of Rosa's narrative: reading the aesthetic object in its singularity and artistic structure called aesthetic architectonic object, design that allows to the Author Person (ethical-social element) unfolded in Author Creator (constitutive element of the artistic form). This compositional unity is realized between the consciousness of the Author Creator and the outside world resulting from an architectonic model of the human psyche, that makes the world (otherness) your utterance, and, in it, his conscience: with this focus we claim to read the "stranger" in Guimarães Rosa. That is, to read the artistic form as an event or achievement. The reading methodology applied in this study is also based on the concept of the aesthetic object, by practicing discrimination and isolation of the analytical material deductive of the usual perception to the unusual artistic literary form of both tales from Sagarana, in their specific critical-interpretation. The theoretical background is Mikhail Bakhtin, and supporting concepts applied to the analysis, and interpretation, pointing to: Tzvetan Todorov; Katerina Clark & Michael Holquist; Roland Barthes; Antonio Candido; Massaud Moises; Carlos Alberto Faraco; Marília Amorim; Renata Coelho Marchezan / O objetivo desta dissertação é investigar a presença da entidade Autor-Criador em interação com as personagens nas narrativas São Marcos e Sarapalha , da obra Sagarana (1946), de João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967). A partir dos pressupostos da estética material de Mikhail Bakhtin (2006), entende-se que não há vinculação entre obra e vida do autor, considerando que a literatura corrente faz a conexão do estudo da obra à vida do escritor, para apenas ouvir a sua voz, a revelar-se em confidências. Para o autor, toda análise estética não deve ser orientada diretamente sobre a obra, mas sobre o que a obra representa para a atividade estética do artista e do leitor. Nosso objeto, aqui, se delineia como o conteúdo dessa atividade estética orientada sobre a obra: o objeto estético. Esta é a dupla perspectiva, aqui, aplicada à leitura das narrativas rosianas: ler o objeto estético na sua singularidade e na estrutura artística chamado objeto estético arquitetônico, concepção que permite ao Autor-Pessoa (elemento ético-social) desdobrar-se em Autor-Criador (elemento constitutivo da forma artística). Dessa forma composicional é concretizada a unidade entre a consciência do Autor- Criador e o mundo exterior resultante de uma Mente arquitetônica, que faz do mundo (outrem) seu enunciado, e, desse, sua consciência: com esse olhar pretendemos ler o estranho em Guimarães Rosa. Em outras palavras, ler a forma artística em acontecimento ou realização. A metodologia de leitura aplicada neste estudo também se fundamenta no conceito de objeto estético, ao praticar a discriminação e isolamento do material analítico-dedutivo da percepção habitual para o insólito da forma artística literária de ambos os textos os contos de Sagarana em suas especificidades crítico-interpretativas. O teórico de nossa referência é Mikhail Bakhtin e os autores de apoio conceitual aplicados à análise e interpretação assim se nomeiam: Tzvetan Todorov; Katerina Clark & Michael Holquist; Roland Barthes; Antonio Cândido; Massaud Moisés; Carlos Alberto Faraco; Marília Amorim; Renata Coelho Marchezan