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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1984.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1984. / Also available in print.

Thesis (Min.D.) -- McCormick Theological Seminary, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves: 80-84)

This study examines the links between architecture and literature through the work of English author/mathematician/geometrician Lewis Carroll/Charles L. Dodgson. The premise is that throughout Carroll's work, questions concerning the position of the body in relation to its surroundings---the possibility for one to forge a sense of place---are recurrent. Carroll stages a series of bodily movements in space: changes in scale, transformations, alterations, translations from bottom to top, from left to right, from the inside to the outside, and so on. Reading the work, one is constantly reminded that one's perception of space, as well as one's understanding of where one stands, are phenomena that take place in language, through utterances, through words. Approaching Carroll's work with particular attention to the space of bodily movements and to plays on language, one can access a subterranean architectural discourse. This discourse is oblique, suggested rather than explicit, but nonetheless raises pertinent questions concerning the formation of architectural meaning: the relationship of sense to its limits---to nonsense---in architecture. / The following texts are studied: Carroll's two architectural pamphlets; the two Alice stories with their convoluted spaces; a long epic poem dealing with the space of discovery; a drama on geometry and a logical exposition on the paradoxes of movement. Throughout Carroll's multifaceted work, nonsense guides the construction of the texts. Working at the limits of language and literary genres, Carroll's parodies possess strong allegorical powers: sense travels obliquely and the work remains enigmatic. However, the reader somehow understands the work; the experience of the work produces a certain kind of knowledge. / In architecture, meaning is also tied to its outer limits---to the polysemy of nonsense. Through one's experience of space, a stable and orderly building becomes heterogeneous, loaded with qualities and symbols. A sense of place emerges and meaning momentarily appears along the sinuous paths that run between bodily movements, thoughts, dreams, desire and words.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2009. / Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on October 14, 2009). At head of title screen: University of Alberta. A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Modern Languages and Cultural Studies. Includes bibliographical references.

O objetivo principal desta dissertação consiste na apresentação da contribuição filosófica de Noël Carroll, pensador contemporâneo norte-americano, ao debate sobre o conceito de arte. Seu trabalho principal dentro do tema é duplo. De um lado, Carroll elabora um empreendimento crítico às teorias estéticas da arte que são para ele uma tradição filosófica capaz de fornecer as condições de possibilidade para o surgimento de uma definição estética da arte. E, de outro lado, Carroll elabora um empreendimento propositivo a partir do qual sua posição no debate definicional sobre o termo ‘arte’ pode ser evidenciada. Em sua etapa crítica, o pensamento de Carroll: (1) desenvolve uma genealogia das teorias estéticas, apresentando assim o arcabouço histórico para elas; (2) indica o que é comum a elas, a saber, a definição estética da arte; (3) procede a uma análise lógica dessa definição, apresentando as suas implicações e justificando o seu descredenciamento. Já em sua etapa propositiva, o pensamento de Carroll: (1) realiza um balanço das contribuições filosóficas ao debate definicional, apresentando pensadores importantes como Weitz, Dickie e Danto; (2) desenvolve um método de identificação de arte que dispensa a via definicional, chamado de narrativas identificadoras; (3) apresenta uma série de respostas às objeções desenvolvidas por outros autores ao seu método. / The main purpose of this work consists in an exposition of Noël Carroll’s philosophical contribution. Carroll is a contemporary North American philosopher whose work focuses on the debate concerning the concept of art. Our view is that his work consists in a twofold undertaking. On one side, Carroll elaborates a critical enterprise to the aesthetic theories of art that, for him, can foster the conditions and the possibilities to the outbreak of an aesthetic definition of art. On the other side, Carroll elaborates a purposeful enterprise through which his position on the definitional debate of the term ‘art’ can be easily understood. On his critical stage, Carroll: (1) makes a genealogy of aesthetic theories, giving them a historical outline; (2) indicates their common core, namely, the aesthetic definition; (3) proceeds analyzing this definition, showing its implications and justifying its disenfranchisement. In addition, on his purposeful stage, Carroll: (1) analyses relevant philosophical contributions to the definitional debate, presenting authors like Weitz, Dickie and Danto; (2) develops a method for art identification that exonerates the traditional definitional approach, called identifying narratives; (3) presents a series of replies to objections to his method made by others philosophers.