電視模式（TV formats）在全球的跨文化旅行，及其如何本土化以適應在地社會政經情境，成為值得學界關注和研究的主題。作為對這一主題的回應，本文致力於研究《醜女無敵》電視劇--“醜女貝蒂“模式在中國的本土化。借由對該劇文本、生產和觀眾解讀的綜合分析，本研究從宏觀上探索符號形式與中國社會變遷的關係。具體而言，研究者聚焦於以下研究問題：在當前電視模式貿易、克隆和本土化的背景下，中國電視劇《醜女無敵》與美國電視劇《醜女貝蒂》有何異同？在中華人民共和國這一特定社會情境下，《醜女無敵》受到了怎樣的政治、經濟限制？中國觀眾如何解讀《醜女無敵》電視劇？《醜女無敵》受歡迎的原因所在，及該劇表徵了怎樣的中國現代性？ / 為回答以上問題，研究者採用了多種定質方法，即文本分析、民族志、焦點小組、檔案分析和深度訪談。其研究發現《醜女無敵》作為混雜性文本，兼有西方現代性元素和獨特的中國性。《醜女無敵》的生產受到了中國政經情境的極大限制。經濟力量有中心主導、系統地控制著生產過程。而政治力量的控制卻是散漫於整個生產者社群，并呈現去中心的狀態。中國觀眾在解讀《醜女無敵》時主要有两種模式：霸權式解讀与協商式解讀。而对抗式解读却在该剧的解读模式中呈现缺失状态。持有霸權式解讀的觀眾作為主流在諸多方面與權力中心一致，從而形成霸權效應。 / 《醜女無敵》可歸類為本研究所析霸權文本，并表徵和複製了一種中國現代（Chinese modernity）。轄制於党國，中國現代性在其三大結構性維度上都呈現高度的混雜性。就中國電視業發展趨勢而言，研究者認為全球電視模式在中國將愈加繁榮，因其有極大潛質成為霸權文本，繼而服務于權力中心。 / With the increasing transcultural flow of television formats, the localization of these formats to fit various socio-political contexts is worthy of academic scrutiny. This is a case study on the TV drama Ugly Wudi (Chounv Wudi), the Chinese version of the global Ugly Betty format. Exploring textuality, production, and reception simultaneously, my dissertation sheds light on the relationship between symbolic forms and social transition in China. Specifically speaking, the research questions initiating this study are as follows: Under current TV format cloning, trading, and borrowing, what are the similarities and differences between the Chinese Ugly Wudi and the American Ugly Betty? In the specific context of the People’s Republic of China, what are the political and economic forces that constrain the production of Ugly Wudi? What are the audience interpretations of Ugly Wudi? What accounts for Ugly Wudi’s popularity, and to what extent does it reflect a Chinese version of modernity? / Multiple qualitative methods have been applied by the researcher to explicate the research questions, including textual analysis, ethnography, focus groups, archival analysis, and in-depth interviews. It is found that Ugly Wudi is a hybridized text that combines elements of Western modernity with Chinese particularities. As for Wudi’s production, there are significant constraints arising from China’s political economy. While the economic systematically controls the production with a center, the political is a decentered control pervasively conditioning the production community. Two different readings of the Wudi show are found, namely, the hegemonic reading and the negotiated reading; while the resistant reading is absent in the show’s viewership. The hegemonic audience forms the majority, coinciding with the authorities in many respects, which shows a hegemonic effect. / Ugly Wudi is a hegemonic text that can best represent and reproduce Chinese modernity. Charted by the party-state for legitimization, Chinese modernity shows a high degree of hybridization in its three structural dimensions. The researcher contends that television formatting will be a trend in the Chinese TV industry, as it has great potential to create hegemonic texts that serve the power center. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Zhang, Xiaoxiao / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-203). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese; some appendixes also in Chinese . / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgements --- p.iv / Table of Content --- p.viii / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- TV Format: A New Television Phenomenon / Chapter 1.2 --- The Ugly Betty Format: A Global Culture / Chapter 1.3 --- Significance and Contribution / Chapter 1.4 --- Chapter Outline / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.18 / Chapter 2.1 --- Localization of Global Television Formats / Chapter 2.2 --- Political Economy in Cultural Hybridization / Chapter 2.3 --- TV Formats and Social Transition / Chapter 2.4 --- Previous Studies on the Ugly Betty Format / Chapter 2.5 --- Research Questions / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- METHODOLOGY --- p.35 / Chapter 3.1 --- Textual Analysis / Chapter 3.2 --- Ethnographic Observation / Chapter 3.3 --- Focus Groups / Chapter 3.4 --- Archival Analysis / Chapter 3.5 --- In-depth Interviews / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND POLITICAL ECONOMY CONTEXT --- p.51 / Chapter 4.1 --- Media and Hegemony / Chapter 4.2 --- Market versus State / Chapter 4.3 --- Market, Politics, and Media Competition in China / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- THE CHINESE UGLY BETTY: TV CLONING AND LOCAL MODERNITY --- p.87 / Chapter 5.1 --- Contextualizing the Two Versions / Chapter 5.2 --- The Continuity of Modernity in the Ugly Betty Formula / Chapter 5.3 --- Ethnic Invisibility and Gender Normality / Chapter 5.4 --- When the Political and the Market Align / Chapter 5.5 --- Ugliness Is at Fault, Not the State / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- PRODUCING THE CHINESE UGLY BETTY: DECENTERED POLITICAL AND CENTERED ECONOMIC CONTROLS --- p.114 / Chapter 6.1 --- TV Production in China: Indicator of Dominance / Chapter 6.2 --- Decentered Political Control / Chapter 6.3 --- Centered Economic Control / Chapter 6.4 --- When the Political and the Economic Contradict / Chapter 6.5 --- Television Formats and Hegemony / Chapter CHAPTER 7 --- READING THE LOCALIZED UGLY BETTY: HEGEMONIC OR NEGOTIATED, BUT NOT RESISTANT --- p.140 / Chapter 7.1 --- A Patterned Spectatorship / Chapter 7.2 --- Values Creolization in Contemporary China / Chapter 7.3 --- The Hegemonic Reading / Chapter 7.4 --- The Negotiated Reading / Chapter 7.5 --- The Absence of the Resistant Reading / Chapter 7.6 --- Structured Polysemy in China / Chapter 7.7 --- Invitation from Television Formats / Chapter CHAPTER 8 --- TOWARD CHINESE MODERNITY? --- p.159 / Chapter 8.1 --- Four Texts in the Chinese Mediascape / Chapter 8.2 --- Ugly Wudi as a Hegemonic Text / Chapter 8.3 --- Structural Dimensions of Chinese Modernity / Chapter 8.4 --- Discursive Construction of Chinese Modernity / Chapter 8.5 --- TV Industries in China: Development and Future / REFERENCES --- p.178 / LISTS OF APPENDICES --- p.204 / Chapter Appendix 1 --- Methods Answering Research Questions / Chapter Appendix 2 --- Ethnographic Observation Schedule / Chapter Appendix 3 --- Focus Groups Schedule / Chapter Appendix 4 --- Focus Groups Participants / Chapter Appendix 5 --- Focus Groups Questionnaire / Chapter Appendix 6 --- Outline of Focus Groups Discussion (18 years old and above) / Chapter Appendix 7 --- Outline of Focus Groups Discussion (under 18 years old) / Chapter Appendix 8 --- Interviewees List

Interpretations of osteological remains from mainland Greece during the 1960-1980s led to the suggestion that the most virulent form of malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, was prevalent between the Mesolithic and Late Bronze Age (c. 8700 cal. BC-1100 cal. BC). Although disregarded over the past decade, the theory has regained support in recent years from osteological, epidemiological, environmental and DNA studies. However, the presence of this strain of malaria in prehistoric Greece remains controversial. This thesis evaluates 1) the palaeoclimatic conditions of the Aegean between the Mesolithic and Late Bronze Age and 2) the palaeoenvironmental conditions of three archaeological settlements, with the aim of ascertaining whether the climatic and environmental conditions were as conducive for P. falciparum and the mosquito vectors as the osteological evidence suggested. Equal consideration is given to the so-called ‘lesser strains’ of malaria, P. vivax and P. malariae, the significance of which is considered to have been underestimated in previous studies.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-03-29T12:27:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Luana Aguiar Werneck.pdf: 2369744 bytes, checksum: 13c889ab0e0d03cc88f177851e2e84d0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-29T12:27:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luana Aguiar Werneck.pdf: 2369744 bytes, checksum: 13c889ab0e0d03cc88f177851e2e84d0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-21 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This dissertation investigates the trajectory of Alfredo Ellis Júnior, between 1922 and 1952, which corresponds to his work in the press, party politics and on the Subject of History of Brazilian Civilization at the College of Philosophy, Sciences and Literature of the University of São Paulo (FFCL / USP). The theoretical assumptions are based on the concepts of J.F. Sirinelli and C. Charle, specifically in the intellectual sphere and his trajectory, which aim to understand who Ellis Júnior was and how his itinerary defined the constitution of the intellectual being. The study intends to understand how Ellis Junior's spheres of action defined his intellectual path. Therefore, based on the analysis of the selected sources, for instance: the works of his authorship, Raça de Gigantes, Bandeirismo paulista e o recuo do meridiano, Confederação ou Separação e A Nossa Guerra, besides the works of some of his students of FFCL / USP and documents related to his work in the legislature and in the press, it is observed that Ellis Júnior was the representative of a methodical French historiography and a traditional society that were in decadence, just as it was spokesman of an eugenicist thought, characteristic of a fourcentenary social elite and heiress of the paulista bandeirismo / Esta dissertação investiga a trajetória de Alfredo Ellis Júnior, no período entre 1922 e 1952, que corresponde à sua atuação na imprensa, na política partidária e na Cadeira de História da Civilização Brasileira da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras da Universidade de São Paulo (FFCL/USP). Os pressupostos teóricos estão embasados nos conceitos de J.F. Sirinelli e C. Charle, especificamente as categorias intelectual e trajetória, que visam compreender quem foi Ellis Júnior e de que forma seu itinerário definiu a constituição do ser intelectual. O estudo busca compreender de que maneira as esferas de atuação de Ellis Júnior definiram a seu percurso intelectual. Para tanto, a partir da análise das fontes selecionadas, a saber: as obras de sua autoria, Raça de Gigantes, Bandeirismo paulista e o recuo do meridiano, Confederação ou Separação e A Nossa Guerra, além de trabalhos de alguns dos seus discentes da FFCL/USP e documentos relativos à sua atuação no legislativo e na imprensa, observa-se que Ellis Júnior foi o representante de uma historiografia metódica francesa e de uma sociedade tradicional que estavam em decadência, assim como foi porta-voz de um pensamento eugenista, característico de uma elite social quatrocentenária e herdeira do bandeirismo paulista

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-05-12T13:14:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 João Nicodemos Martins Manfio.pdf: 3538637 bytes, checksum: 7455a6d5895789c43e35beeb806af5ba (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-12T13:14:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 João Nicodemos Martins Manfio.pdf: 3538637 bytes, checksum: 7455a6d5895789c43e35beeb806af5ba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-05 / This thesis analyse the biobibliography of Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist who made the idea of liquid modernity universal. Through the analysis of the phases of his thought, with the help of the interpreters of his work Aguiluz-Ibargüen (2009), Beilharz (2001), Smith (1999), Béjar (2005) and Tester (2004) proved to be essentially concerned thinker with the daily lives of people in their struggle for survival and defender of dialogue between the different. The possibility of an encounter between the author and other important educational thinkers such as Freire (1996), Pineau (2003) and Morin (2015) has been built from the observation that education faces institutional crisis due to the transformations in liquid modernity. From the identification with his thought was made reflection on the personal course from the primary school to the higher teaching highlighting vicissitudes and conquests. Personal interviews were conducted with Bauman that support the understanding of his teachings for the convergence between Social Sciences and Education / Esta tese analisa a biobibliografia de Zygmunt Bauman, sociólogo que universalizou a ideia de modernidade líquida. Por meio da análise das fases de seu pensamento, com o auxílio dos intérpretes de sua obra: Aguiluz-Ibargüen (2009), Beilharz (2001), Smith (1999), Béjar (2007) e Tester (2004), revelou-se pensador preocupado essencialmente com o cotidiano das pessoas na sua luta pela sobrevivência e defensor do diálogo entre os diferentes. Construiu-se possibilidade de encontro entre o autor e outros importantes pensadores da educação como Freire (1996), Pineau (2003) e Morin (2015) a partir da constatação de que a educação enfrenta crise institucional decorrente das transformações na modernidade líquida. Da identificação com seu pensamento fez-se reflexão sobre o percurso pessoal desde a escola primária até a docência superior, destacando vicissitudes e conquistas. Entrevistas realizadas pessoalmente com Bauman sustentam a compreensão de seus ensinamentos para a convergência entre as Ciências Sociais e a Educação

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:11:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tales Augusto Queiroz Tomaz.pdf: 729788 bytes, checksum: 2811b8e85340fe0593dcacbc775d2507 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-12-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present Dissertation focuses on the relation between glocal phenomenon and financial hypervolatilzation of the cybercultural capitalism. Glocal phenomenon is the hybridization between local context and global satellized culture, inextricable mix articulated and modulated by instantaneous communication and deepened by the proliferation of technologies of virtual. It is therefore the very mediatic logic of contemporary civilization. Glocal phenomenon experiences sociotechnological trajectory of progressive prominence in social and cultural contemporary history, to become the default condition in cyberculture, understood here as the contemporary social-historical configuration grounded on and through the digital technologies and nets. Along with postindustrial processes, late capitalist economy acquires specific characteristics, among which the financial hypervolatilization, to which news constantly refer as financial bubbles and crises . In this scenario, the present reflection proposes as research problem the following questions: how is glocal inserted in the reproduction of the financial hypervolatilization in today s economy? What s the social-historical signification of the glocalized hypervolatility? These are the hypotheses designed to those questions: [1] communication massive and interactive media, hereafter converging in the transnational informational vector radicates in the basis of the economy transition to the flexible regime of accumulation and of the financial hypervolatilization in these times, articulated by human life glocalization; and [2] hypervolatilization, as sine qua non condition of contemporary economy, articulates the very mode of accumulation of the late capitalism, which becomes virtualized, denoting also in this area the presence of the crisis of the materiality of existence emerged in the development of the mediatic nets. The objectives of the research are, apart from apprehending the socio-structural mode of glocal operation, to investigate the relation between its presence in economy and the existence of the financial hypervolatilization. This research aims to accomplish these objectives by an exclusively theoretical methodology based on progressive revision of bibliography in the following perspectives: Paul Virilio s sociodromology and its late unfoldings by Eugênio Trivinho, with the concepts of glocal, mediatic visibility and cyberculture; the theoretical post-modernism, according to Fredric Jameson, Perry Anderson and Ciro Marcondes Filho; the financialization of the post-modern capitalism, as explained by David Harvey, Robert Reich and Zygmunt Bauman; and the simulation of real by signical-mediatic saturation, as in Jean Baudrillard s studies. By such characteristics, the research aims to contribute to the development of the studies in cyberculture and communications in Brazil / A presente Dissertação versa sobre a relação entre o fenômeno glocal e a hipervolatilização financeira do capitalismo cibercultural. Fio condutor da reflexão, o fenômeno glocal é a hibridação entre contexto local e cultura mundial satelitizada, mescla inextricável articulada e modulada pela comunicação instantânea e aprofundada com a proliferação das tecnologias do virtual. É, portanto, a própria lógica mediática da civilização contemporânea. O fenômeno glocal cumpre trajetória sociotecnológica de progressiva proeminência na história social e cultural contemporânea, até tornar-se condição padrão na cibercultura, encarada como categoria de época, atinente à configuração social-histórica atual, alicerçada nas e pelas tecnologias e redes digitais. Na esteira dos processos pós-industriais, a economia capitalista avançada adquire características diferenciadas, entre as quais destaca-se a hipervolatilização financeira, à qual o noticiário alude constantemente como bolhas e crises financeiras . Diante desse quadro, a presente reflexão propõe, como problemática de pesquisa, as seguintes questões: como o fenômeno glocal se põe na reprodução da hipervolatilização financeira atual? Qual a significação social-histórica da hipervolatilização mediática dos valores? A tais questões, sucedem-se estas hipóteses: [1] a comunicação mediática de massa e interativa, doravante confluentes no vetor informacional transnacional radica na base da transição da economia para o regime de acumulação flexível e (na base) da hipervolatilização financeira dos tempos atuais, articulada pela glocalização da vida humana; e [2] a hipervolatilização, como condição sine qua non da economia contemporânea, articula o próprio modo de acumulação dessa fase do capitalismo, que se torna virtualizado, indicando a presença, também nesse campo da vida humana, da crise da materialidade da existência desencadeada na formação das redes mediáticas. Os objetivos da pesquisa são, além de apreender o modo socioestrutural de operação do glocal, investigar a relação entre a sua presença na economia e a existência da hipervolatilização financeira. Para atingir esses objetivos, a pesquisa, de base exclusivamente teórica, adotou metodologia embasada em revisão bibliográfica progressiva, no âmbito das seguintes perspectivas: a sociodromologia de Paul Virilio, levada adiante nos estudos de Eugênio Trivinho sobre glocal, visibilidade mediática e cibercultura; o pós-modernismo teórico, conforme Fredric Jameson, Perry Anderson e Ciro Marcondes Filho; a financeirização do capitalismo pós-moderno, segundo David Harvey, Robert Reich e Zygmunt Bauman; e a simulação do real por saturação sígnico-mediática, nos termos de Jean Baudrillard. Com tais características, a pesquisa pretende contribuir para o desenvolvimento dos estudos sobre cibercultura e comunicação no Brasil

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:15:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Angela Pintor dos Reis.pdf: 1296951 bytes, checksum: b382511cce6ae79eb1fd861bdd110ade (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-22 / This research examines the ways in which the phenomena of communication and speed jointly instigate subtle forms of violence that ultimately thwart the recognition of experience in intersubjective relations (technologically articulated or not) in the advanced mediatic civilization. Consistent with this demarcation, the overall objective of the research was to investigate how these forms of violence are composed as capital assimilated by the individual and how they appear embedded in the dynamics of recognition, compromising its effectiveness in social life under dromocracized conditions (i.e., marked by acceleration in all the sectors of human activity). The relevance of this study lies in the treatment of the aforementioned communication logic as a habitus and therefore as a complex of mediations between individuals, in which certain forms of violence not commonly studied participate, affecting recognition as a constitutive experience of the individual. The main research problem consists in understanding specifically how the violence arising from real-time logic jeopardizes the conditions for recognition in this dromocratic context of intersubjective relationships. This problem implies the basic assumption that such subtle forms of violence are articulated in the life of an individual who self-elaborates upon processing symbolic representations of himself and of the other, irreversibly deepening the conditions of impracticability of recognition as an intersubjective experience. The theoretical framework is based on the following thematic research lines and authors: [1] socio-historical foundations of advanced mediatic civilization and of dromocracy, according to Trivinho and Virilio; [2] concepts of violence and its manifestations, outlined by Michaud, Dadoun, Crettiez, Pontara, Bourdieu and Passeron, and Trivinho; [3] definition of the individual in Lacan; and [4] principles of recognition in Honneth, Taylor, Levinas, Derrida and Lacan. Given the theoretical nature of this research, the bibliographic material is reflectively analyzed, focusing on practical and emblematic situations that underlie the materiality of violence inherent to the logic of real-time communication, which enhances the precariousness of recognition in accelerated social life. It is believed that the findings of this research constitute a proposed epistemological critique of the modus operandi of real time, considered in the Thesis as a problematizing sociocultural factor of relationships in which individual and alterity are irremediably involved / A presente pesquisa está dedicada às formas pelas quais os fenômenos da comunicação e da velocidade fomentam conjuntamente modalidades sutis de violência que acabam por inviabilizar a experiência do reconhecimento em relações intersubjetivas (articuladas ou não tecnologicamente) na civilização mediática avançada. Coerente com esse recorte, o objetivo geral da pesquisa foi o de investigar como essas formas de violência compõem-se como capital incorporado pelo sujeito e apresentam-se incrustadas na dinâmica do reconhecimento, comprometendo a sua efetivação na vida social sob condições dromocratizadas (isto é, marcadas pela aceleração em todos os setores de atuação humana). A relevância do estudo radica no tratamento da referida lógica comunicacional como habitus e, por essa razão, como complexo de mediações entre sujeitos, do qual participam configurações da violência não comumente estudadas, ressoantes no reconhecimento como experiência constitutiva do indivíduo. O principal problema de pesquisa consiste em saber, especificamente, como as violências dimanantes da lógica do tempo real comprometem as condições para o reconhecimento nesse contexto dromocrático de relações intersubjetivas. Esse problema implica a hipótese básica de que tais formas sutis de violência articulam-se no percurso de um sujeito que se autoelabora ao processar representações simbólicas de si e do outro, aprofundando irreversivelmente as condições de inviabilização do reconhecimento como experiência intersubjetiva. O quadro teórico de referência assenta-se nos seguintes eixos temáticos e respectivos autores: [1] fundamentos social-históricos da civilização mediática avançada e da dromocracia, conforme Trivinho e Virilio; [2] conceitos de violência e de suas formas de manifestação, concebidos por Michaud, Dadoun, Crettiez, Pontara, Bourdieu e Passeron, e Trivinho; [3] definição de sujeito em Lacan; e [4] princípios do reconhecimento em Honneth, Taylor, Lévinas, Derrida e Lacan. Em virtude do caráter teórico da pesquisa, projeta-se o tratamento reflexivo do material bibliográfico com remissão a situações práticas e emblemáticas que fundamentam a materialidade das violências imanentes à lógica da comunicação em tempo real, que intensificam a precariedade do reconhecimento na vida social acelerada. Estima-se que os resultados alcançados perfaçam uma proposta epistemológica crítica do modus operandi do tempo real, considerado na Tese como fator sociocultural problematizador das relações em que sujeito e alteridade encontram-se irremediavelmente envolvidos

This thesis aims at showcasing the movement of African cultural meaning from Africa to Europe by Europeans in their involvement in the African slave trade as well as the colonization of Africa, which was the imprisonment of the African cultural expression as well as a limitation of its development and further production. The thesis also addresses one of the reason for the global circulation of the European culture, which is the search and achievement of absolute power and control over the minds of its conquests in order to become a dominant culture. Note, however that the act of becoming a dominant culture stem from the European cultural persuasion of the dominance of its culture by its self and not a reflection of epistemological and ontological superiority. Note also that in claiming to be a dominant culture, the European culture is in reality only in control of its conquests, which are cultures whose nature is to its full knowledge, and whose meaning it distributes upon will and purpose. Therefore, the movement of African cultural values, norms and beliefs to Europe and the Euro‐Atlantic world, implies that the ideas from which the European fashion system´s inspiration is founded, are in essence not only European derived. This conclusion is based on a critical analysis of the nature of the European culture and its authentic self, a self that produces European culture. / Program: Textilt management, fashion management

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The Alexander romance—a heroic narrative loosely based on the life of Alexander the Great—was one of the most widely copied texts throughout premodern Europe and the Islamic world. In premodern Persian histories and literature, Alexander was an archetypal Persian king, who conquered the world and united "East and West." Four Persian Alexander epics were composed between 1000 and 1500 CE by some of the most famous authors of the Persian literary tradition: Firdausi (d.1020), Nizami (d.1209), Amir Khusrau (d.1325) and Jami (d.1492). Despite the importance of these epics to premodern Persian literature, this dissertation is the first monograph in any European language to compare all four canonical versions of the Persian Alexander epic in depth. My analysis focuses on the ways in which Persian Alexander epic tradition provides insight into the development of the Persian cosmopolis, a trans-regional cultural phenomenon extending from the Balkans to the Bay of Bengal.

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) has traditionally been viewed through the lens of his poetic masterpiece, the Commedia. While his so-called “minor” works, including the overtly political book four of Convivio and the treatise Monarchia, have been studied, much of this work tends to read Dante through the theologized, over-determined hermeneutic of the narrative of his poetic journey through the afterlife. Also, because of the overwhelming temptation to associate Dante’s place in intellectual history with his clerical contemporaries in Paris and Bologna, a similar trend (often combined with the first) reads Dante as merely an idiosyncratic but minor epigone of the scholastics in his non-poetic work. The latter vein of interpretation is very common and tends to generate interpretations of Dante’s political thought which see it as a predominantly abstract encounter with scholastic theology and philosophy in the context of the high medieval church-state conflicts, particularly in the contentious age of Popes Boniface VIII, Clement V, and John XXII and their bloody disputes with claimants to the Holy Roman throne and French and Aragonese monarchies over political control of northern Italian territories. While this kind of reading is not unwarranted—for Dante’s Monarchia does make strong claims in the late medieval church-state conflict and deploys a philosophical lexicon current with scholastic intellectuals of the time—many scholars have read Dante’s monarchical theory in Convivio and Monarchia exclusively as a response to and dialogue with the major scholastic and juridical writers, particularly of the “mirrors of princes genre,” on both sides of these political conflicts between Church-State claims to authority. This is not completely wrong, but in so doing many have, conversely, failed to understand that Dante is making a coherent and unique normative argument. Such readings fail to read Dante 1) as a real Florentine politician, 2) as an enthusiastic follower of Aristotelian paradigms (not merely a scholastic Aristotelian), 3) as a committed political secularist, and 4) as contextualized within the rich municipal, social, economic, and political histories of Florence and Medieval Italy. This study thus moves away from previous approaches to Dante’s political thought and does a close re-reading of Convivio and Monarchia in a properly historicized framework, inspired by the work of Ernst Curtius and modern historicist methodology, contextualizing it in 13th and 14th century history. In particular, the study departs from Dante’s denunciation of greed in his lyrics, Commedia, Convivio, and Monarchia to establish the fact —through extensive research in economic history, commercial development, economic thought, political history, social history in medieval Italy etc.— that far from being a merely abstract denunciation of mammon or usury, like that found in the Bible and other theological writings, it is a unique and acerbic response to broad changes that can only be construed, on the basis of historical scholarship, in terms of the emergence of early capitalism in Florentine society around the early to mid 13th century. Chapter 1 serves as an initial overview of the whole study, also positioning it in relation to debates within the field of Dante studies; chapter 2 examines the international and political situation of Florence and Italy during Dante’s time; chapter 3 proposes a new historiography of this history and examines it as the development of “political economy”; chapter 4 explores the emergence of capitalism in Florence and Italy in the 13th and 14th centuries (also motioning to debates about the nature and definition of “political economy” and “capitalism”); finally, chapter 5 examines Aristotle’s critique of political economy in the Ethics and Politics, then pivots to Dante’s deployment of such Aristotelian paradigms in Convivio and Monarchia to both denounce the injustices generated by the intertwinement of politics and acquisitive monetary wealth-getting and to articulate a monarchical political model for stopping the deleterious effects of greed.