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O propósito desta dissertação de mestrado é examinar um procedimento específico utilizado por Miguel de Cervantes na construção de sua obra El ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha: o paralelismo entre episódios como meio de proporcionar coesão à narrativa longa. Tal recurso indica uma solução encontrada pelo escritor, voltada à estrutura textual, com intenção de equilibrar a narrativa longa/linear e a episódica/fragmentada, unindo as partes da sua composição e dando totalidade a ela. Para isso, o autor se vale de preceptivas de retórica e poética da antiguidade e de sua época, sendo os autores mais expressivos: Aristóteles, Cícero, Quintiliano, Horácio e Alonso López Pinciano. No que diz respeito especificamente ao uso do paralelismo entre episódios no Quixote, esta dissertação se beneficia dos trabalhos dos críticos Edward Riley e Knud Togeby; contudo, esses autores não analisaram detalhadamente o efeito de tal uso na unidade da obra, o que configura este trabalho como uma extensão da observação feita por eles a respeito dos episódios paralelos. Por fim, a análise demonstra que Cervantes compõe um recurso poético próprio, resultante da combinação de diversas fontes de conhecimento. A demonstração desse procedimento se faz pela leitura comparativa de quatro trios de episódios, cada trio composto por um episódio da primeira parte e dois da segunda parte, discutindo-se a maneira como o paralelismo entre eles interfere na composição geral do Quixote promovendo um tipo de unidade da narrativa diverso do que se vê prescrito nas poéticas antigas e nas do século XVII. / The purpose of this master\'s thesis is to examine a specific procedure used by Miguel de Cervantes in the construction of his work El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha: the parallelism between episodes as a means of providing cohesion to the long narrative. This feature indicates a solution found by the writer, focused on the textual structure, with the intention of balancing the long / linear narrative and the episodic / fragmented narrative, uniting the parts of its composition and giving totality to it. For this, the author uses precepts of rhetoric and poetics of antiquity and of his time, being the most expressive authors: Aristotle, Cícero, Quintiliano, Horácio and Alonso López Pinciano. With specific regard to the use of parallelism between episodes in the Quixote, this thesis benefits from the contributions of the literary critics: Edward Riley and Knud Togeby. However, these authors did not analyze in detail the effect of such use on the unit of the work, which configures this work as an extension of their observation of parallel episodes. Finally, the analysis shows that Cervantes composes a poetic resource of his own, which results from the combination of several sources of knowledge. The demonstration of this procedure is done by comparing four trios of episodes, each of them composed of one episode of the first part and two of the second part. Then discussing how the parallelism between them interferes in the general composition of Quixote by promoting a different type of narrative unity from the ones prescribed in the ancient Poetics and in the seventeenth century.

Orientador: José Sterza Justo / Banca: Luiz Carlos da Rocha / Banca: José Artur Molina / Resumo: O mito de Don Juan surgiu em 1630 na peça O Burlador de Sevilha e o Convidado de Pedra, escrita por Tirso de Molina. Desde então o personagem ganhou espaço no imaginário coletivo através de inúmeras releituras que o levou a ser reconhecido como um mito moderno. O objetivo desse trabalho é analisar o mito de Don Juan tal como ele se expressa em obras literárias e cinematográficas, identificando as expressões da subjetividade e suas transformações ao longo desses 400 anos. Para analisar tais representações, importantes para a construção e desenvolvimento desse mito, utilizamos como referência metodológica a análise de conteúdo. As primeiras representações de Don Juan pintavam-lhe como anti-herói. Uma observação detalhada do contexto de seu aparecimento revelou que o mito surgiu como um dispositivo da Contra-Reforma para combater o individualismo e a crise de valores que se irrompeu com a falência dos ideais Renascentistas. Assim, verificamos que a discussão inicial em torno do mito, fundado nas burlas de Don Juan, gira em torno da crise entre indivíduo e sociedade, entre os valores morais da sociedade e a conduta dos seus sujeitos. As subsequentes atualizações do mito deslocam esse conflito do terreno da religião para as instituições sociais emergentes. Em 1821, Lord Byron começa a escrever um Don Juan em conflito com os ideais das revoluções burguesas. Já em 1973, curtindo o legado da revolução feminista, Don Juan vem à tona como uma mulher sedutora e insaciável, interpretada por Brigitte Bardot. Em 1995, o personagem é novamente evocado para relembrar, ao mundo globalizado, o papel da fantasia. Já em 2005 o plot é revisto e ampliado por José Saramago, que lhe imprime, além da falência do inferno como instância punitiva, as características do sujeito atual. Sem a pretensão de esgotar o assunto, este trabalho revela as transformações do sujeito e sua relação com alguns aspectos da sociedade / Abstract: Don Juan's myth first appeared in the 1630's play named El Burlador de Sevilla y Convidado de Piedra, written by Tirso de Molina. Since then the character became popular through many remakes that lead it to be recognized as a modern myth. The objective of the present work is to analyze the myth of Don Juan as it appears on literature and cinematographic works, identifying the expressions of the subjectivity and its transformations throughout these 400 years. To analyze such representations we recurred to Bardin's Analysis of Content. The first artworks about Don Juan made him as a villain. A closer look to the social context of its appearance reveals that the myth was built up as a method of repression against the individualism in attempt to cease the crisis of the Christian's moral codes that burst with the ruin of the Renaissance's values. Therefore, we brought up that the initial subjects on the myth, pictured by the character's tricks, comes to be the crises between the individual itself and the society. However, the subsequent updates of the myth displaced the religious conflict to the emergent social institutions. In 1821, Lord Byron starts to write his Don Juan in disagreeing the Bourgeois Revolution values'. In 1973, tanning the legacy of the feminist revolution, Don Juan is brought up as seductive woman, played by Brigitte Bardot. In 1995, the character is once more evoked to remind the globalizing world of the importance of loving and fantasy. In 2005 the plot is remade by Jose Saramago, who prints to it the failure of Hell as a punishing institution. Without the pretension to deplete the subject, this work discloses to the transformations of the individual and its relation with some social issues / Mestre

This thesis examines the dichotomy of locura/cordura in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote de la Mancha (1605/1615), specifically the nature of the madness of the titular character. Two different aspects of the Quijote are discussed: (1) the dual nature of the personality of Don Quijote/Alonso Quijano as being "sanely insane," that is, that although Don Quijote exhibits symptoms unmistakably indicative of madness, he maintains his sanity underneath this mad façade; the dedicatory sonnets that precede Part 1, the epitaphs that follow the end of Part 1, and the two poems that serve as an epilogue to Part 2 are examined in length in order to show that Don Quijote, and not "Alonso Quijano el Bueno," is the true protagonist of the Quijote; and (2) the roles that the various encantadores play in the Quijote and how they interact with Don Quijote are discussed in order to further explore this dichotomy of locura/cordura.

While the Romantic lyric has long been understood as an exploration of human subjectivity, the era's dramatic works have been viewed as more oriented toward objective or mimetic representation. As such, scholarship on Romantic subjectivity from Harold Bloom to Andrea Henderson has bypassed dramatic and quasi-dramatic explorations of subjectivity. These explorations, however, add to the conversation about subjectivity in powerful ways by addressing the paradoxes of mimetically representing subjectivity. These difficulties spring from a question that surrounds mimetically represented subjectivity: how can a supposedly objective medium portray experience that is by definition non-objective, purely interior, and therefore incommunicable? This paradox calls for a reassessment of criticism on Romantic subjectivity, this time attending not only to the Romantic lyric with its recognized formal emphasis on interiority, but also to Romantic drama, which productively resists interiority by underscoring the paradoxes inherent to representations of subjectivity. This thesis traces the development of dramatic explorations of subjectivity in two of Byron's works, the closet drama Manfred and the trans-generic mock-epic Don Juan. Manfred attempts to mimetically portray the horrors of subjectivity by showing how the title character's solipsism leads to his demise. The work ultimately falls short of this purpose, but in so doing reveals a crucial paradox: the tragedy inherent to subjectivity lies in the very inexpressibility the play hopes to express. Don Juan, on the other hand, embraces this paradox by allowing the work's theme of Manfred-like subjectivity to leak from content to form—from the story of Juan to the very act of diegesis. This blurring of textual lines results in generic inversions, marked in Don Juan by the constant irruptions of comedy into the otherwise tragic tale. Ultimately, if Don Juan succeeds as tragedy of subjectivity, it does so by failing, tragically, at being tragedy. Such a tragedy must be understood based on a dynamic, rather than a static, conception of genre; rather than being defined based on a resemblance to recognized tragedies, Don Juan's tragic associations come from the work's constant movement between genres. As such, Don Juan's method for treating the paradoxes of mimetically portrayed subjectivity is to imagine them as the play between content and genre, substance and form.

In "Contestatory Subjects: Performance and the Politics of Recognition in Don Quijote," I analyze the performative strategies used by several well-known characters in Cervantes' 1605 Don Quijote to counter their initial displacement and to constitute an alternative yet acceptable subject position for themselves within the socio-historic structure of the text. Throughout the study, I posit that successful subjectivity requires more than the character who performs any given subject position; it requires a response, an on-going dialogue between self and other - and most importantly - it requires an ethical commitment to the process on the part of the witness, be that witness intra- or extra-textual. My analysis of Dorotea, Ruy Pérez, and Zoraida shows that their individual performances are really communal or dialogic processes played out in conjunction with other characters. My project therefore counters the tendency to study each character's story as an isolated performance or as a self-contained intercalated tale in Don Quijote. Rather, I offer a more holistic or integrated examination of a trajectory of contestatory performances throughout Part I of the Quijote. With each performance, the 1605 novel increasingly expands the normative limits of social inclusivity in Early Modern Spain, ultimately arguing in the last chapters for the accommodation of a mora cristiana within the limits of the recognizable. In viewing these characters not as isolated, self-fashioning individuals but rather as a community of performers and ethical witnesses, my analysis points toward a didactic project on Cervantes's part in the 1605 novel, in which he uses these characters to model and tutor the reader in empathetic reading strategies that forestall the inquisitorial hermeneutic imposed by the State and the Church in Habsburg Spain. My analysis of Cervantes's contestatory performances and their receptions draws primarily on critical theories of gender and performance studies in combination with the cultural materialist studies of early modern Spain (e.g., Cruz, Fuchs, Hernández-Pecoraro, Johnson, Maravall, Mariscal, Presberg, Sieber). Of particular importance are Judith Butler's work on gender performativity and Kelly Oliver's work on witnessing, which nuances Butler's notion of performativity by addressing the ethical responsibilities on the part of the witness/spectator. Each chapter links the performance in question back to the material conditions and available discourses vying to produce acceptable subjects in early modern Spain. In terms of normative discourses, the most obvious institutions involved in the formation and reformation of the seventeenth-century Spanish subject are the Church and the Absolutist state, quite effectively combined in the Holy Office of the Inquisition. Therefore, this study features a number of theological, economic, and social treatises that were written in an effort to constitute the ideal Spanish subject in terms of gender, religion, race/ethnicity and class/estado. Around these normative subject positions we observe the subsequent formation of resistant or contestatory discourses, which also feature prominently in each chapter of the study. By combining the work of Butler and Oliver, and insisting on an analysis of both the performer and the spectator in various scenes of Don Quijote, Part I, this project fills gaps in the scholarship on Cervantes and performance studies, which have tended to privilege the performance of the self-fashioning individual while overlooking the dialogic nature of performativity. I show that there is more at stake than opening space for projects of private perfection, which is no doubt a necessary goal. Also at stake are ethical relationships with others and shared projects of social reform and restoration. In all of the performances I analyze here, Cervantes creates characters who self-fashion by reiterating and manipulating contrary, traditionally binary discourses around gender, class, race/ethnicity, religion, and nationality. In turn, his fictional witness-listeners model the ethical posture necessary to maintain a productive openness to the characters' difference. Together, their performances induce us to accept the contestatory virtues of faith, good works, and caritas over the normative determinants of blood (purity) and lineage (old-order occupations; ejercicios), which the novel shows to be tired categories that are encouraging costly foreign wars, emigration to the New World, declining fertility rates, and unproductive economic investments.

This thesis examines the rich and layered intertextual relationship between five artisticrepresentations of the razed neighborhoods of Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, and its former residents. These works include Seattle-based photographer Don Normark’s 1999 photography collection Chávez Ravine, 1949: A Los Angeles Story; the full-length dramatic play Chavez Ravine, written and first performed by Los Angeles-based Chicano comedy troupe Culture Clash in 2003; Jordan Mechner’s 2004 short documentary film Chávez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story; Ry Cooder’s musical album Chávez Ravine: A Record by Ry Cooder; and lastly, high school history teacher Ken Aven’s 2006 debut novel, Chavez Ravine Echoes. Together, these five productions make up a case study that engages with the theoretical debate about privileged groups speaking for, or on behalf of, underrepresented groups. This analysis emphasizes a process of representation that is shared and driven by dialogue between the artists of these productions and the place and people they represent. Through the inclusion of resident involvement in the production process and the weaving of narrative elements from both Mexican American and dominant cultural traditions, these projects promote the Ravine’s cultural wealth and visibility within a popular culture dominated by the symbol of Dodger Stadium. This study, through close readings and textual analysis, demonstrates how these works, considered together, open up spaces for cross-cultural discussions about Chavez Ravine and the various roles it plays within U.S. cultural history. More importantly, these five representations of Chavez Ravine figuratively practice and promote a “speaking to and with” model of intercultural communication between dominant and minority cultures.

In this thesis I argue that food and drink were of central importance to Don Dunstan throughout much of his political and private life. The conventional view of Dunstan always proclaimed that his passionate interest in food and drink was merely peripheral to his life. Food and drink were simply an aberration, of the same idiosyncratic order of importance as his song and dance routine with Keith Michell, his piano playing, or his reciting poetry from the back of an elephant. These various accomplishments were merely confirmation that Dunstan was different from other politicians. I argue that Dunstan was indeed different, but that the difference was rooted firmly in his life-long love affair with food and drink. I argue that his fascination with food and drink drove much of his reform agenda, that it helped his day-to-day survival, and that it provided him with the means of expressing his ove for others. Dunstan's 1976 cookbook announced his arrival as a devotee of gastronomy and furthers my argument that he helped to introduce and establish a new Australian cuisine. After Dunstan left political life in 1979 he tried to establish himself in other spheres, but it was his almost obsessive interest in all of the aspects of a gastronomic life that triumphed. In the final decade of Dunstan's life his long love affair with food and drink became a full-blown passion. I argue that, with his long-overdue adventure as a restaurateur, he finally became the complete Don Dunstan. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of History and Politics, 2004.

L'objectif de cette thèse est d'étudier l'impact sur le travail du tournant gestionnaire des établissements de santé et d'identifier les conditions organisationnelles et managériales favorables à la santé au travail. Elle associe une entrée à un niveau micro par l'analyse du travail et la prise en compte des contraintes provenant à un niveau macro de la montée de la régulation externe dans le champ de la santé. Elle mobilise une approche par le don et considère la reconnaissance comme le signal que la part de don contenue dans le travail a bien été vue et reçue comme telle par l'organisation, faute de quoi l'engagement dans une relation sans réciprocité tend à s'épuiser. Elle met en évidence le lien entre le bien-être au travail et l'existence d'espaces de discussion permettant la régulation locale du travail et l'expression de la reconnaissance, ainsi que le rôle du cadre de proximité dans l'animation de ces espaces. La thèse s'appuie sur deux recherches-intervention ethnographiques dans un centre de soins de suite associatif et une clinique privée engagés dans une hyperactivité gestionnaire. Les deux études confirment que le mal-être au travail peut être lu comme un malaise du don et soulignent l'enjeu de la reconnaissance des dynamiques de don. Elles mettent en évidence le rôle fondamental du management, tant des cadres de proximité que des directions, afin que les outils de gestion ne se substituent pas à la relation et au dialogue mais s'accompagnent d'espaces de reconnaissance du don qui soutiennent l'engagement et la coopération.

The objective of this essay is to study technical problems and performance issues in the piano-reduction accompaniments of three solo arias from Mozart’s Don Giovanni: “Or sai chi l’onore,” “Dalla sua pace la mia dipende,” and “Batti, batti, o bel Masetto.” This study is executed through the comparative analysis of the arias’ accompaniments from four piano-vocal score editions of the opera (Bärenreiter, G. Schirmer, Ricordi, and Boosey & Hawkes) with cross-reference to the full orchestral score (the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe). The essay contains a detailed presentation of the merits and flaws of each of the four piano-vocal score editions; a discussion of the realizations’ quality; examples by the author of plausible modifications; and the author’s suggestions for practice, fingering, pedaling, and dealing with various performance issues. This essay can provide a stimulus for vocal pianists to explore the countless possibilities in piano realizations of the orchestral accompaniments of operatic works, and to continue to refine and improve their ability to imitate orchestral sonorities and textures at the piano.