Héritière de la tradition fantastique borgésienne, imprégnée d’une réalité composée de mythes précolombiens et des résidus industriels de la modernité, et développée à l’ère de la mondialisation, du post-modernisme, des jeux vidéos, du cinéma numérique et d’animation, la tendance cyberpunk latino-américaine est cultivée du Mexique jusqu’en Argentine, en passant par Cuba et d’autres pays souvent méconnus dans le monde de la science-fiction comme le Paraguay et la Bolivie. Pressenti dans les œuvres de certains écrivains canoniques comme Ricardo Piglia, Carmen Boullosa ou Edmundo Paz-Soldán, le cyberpunk se manifeste avec force dans l’écriture de jeunes artistes interdisciplinaires et de collaborateurs assidus des fanzines. Cette adaptation du sous-genre dans un continent où la référence reste encore le réel merveilleux et le réalisme magique, malgré l’apport des générations plus récentes comme celle de « McOndo » ou celle du « Crack », essaie d’élaborer une série de réponses aux questions issues de la conjoncture historique et artistique dans laquelle nous vivons : comment situer l’identité latino-américaine dans la nouvelle cartographie culturelle mondiale à travers une littérature qui cherche à se renouveler par rapport au canon littéraire et à la marginalité de son propre genre? Quelles sont les stratégies d’assimilation et de résistance qu’adoptent des jeunes auteurs latino-américains devant le cyberpunk anglo-américain littéraire et cinématographique? Peut-on parler d’un impact esthétique et philosophique du cyberpunk sur la culture latino-américaine, perçue habituellement comme une consommatrice passive de ces produits culturels et non comme une productrice? Ce travail cherche à parcourir l’ensemble de ces questions à partir d’une réflexion sur les principaux dispositifs constitutifs du cyberpunk – la dystopie et la virtualité – dans les discours (post)identitaires en Amérique Latine. Représentation presque mimétique de l’espace socioculturel et historique latino-américain à travers la violence et la répression politique, militaire, ethnique ou sexuelle, la dystopie est un moyen d’articuler certaines figures spatiales aux mythes nationaux et à la politique identitaire dans le contexte de la mondialisation. Cette dernière réalité socioculturelle, ainsi que l’idéologie esthétique que véhicule celle-ci à travers le cyberpunk, crée un conflit avec ces discours identitaires nationaux, conflit qui est accentué ou dissous par la représentation de la réalité virtuelle. La réalité virtuelle, comprise ici comme la direction que le récit prend pour défaire ou consolider la figure dystopique, mène à réfléchir également sur les enjeux de la (post)identité. Penser à une (post)identité (en gardant bien à l’esprit cette parenthèse) à travers le cyberpunk signifie poser une question sur la résistance au passé identitaire des mythes nationaux, au présent de la mondialisation culturelle, et aux discours post-humanistes qui semblent marquer le futur. À l’appui de travaux sur la dystopie et la réalité virtuelle dans le cyberpunk anglo-américain, ainsi que des études culturelles latino-américaines, je parcourrai un corpus composé des romans écrits entre 1990 et 2005. Ce corpus comprendra La Primera Calle de la Soledad (1993) de Gerardo Horacio Porcayo, Santa Clara Poltergeist (1991) de Fausto Fawcett, Ygdrasil (2005) de Jorge Baradit, et les films argentins No muera sin decirme adónde vas (1992) d’Eliseo Subiela et La sonámbula (1998) de Fernando Spiner. Dans ces oeuvres, la dystopie se configure aux possibilités narratives de la virtualité et traverse des thématiques identitaires comme les mythes sexuels et nationaux, la mémoire et le traumatisme ainsi que les projets utopiques des minorités. / Heirs to the tradition of Borgesian fantasy, impregnated by a reality built upon pre-Columbian myths and the industrial residues of modernity, and developed in the age of globalisation, postmodernism, videogames, digital cinema and animation, Latin American cyberpunk is cultivated from Mexico to Argentina, passing through Cuba and other countries not usually recognized in the world of science fiction like Paraguay and Bolivia. Barely perceived in the works of certain canonical writers such as Ricardo Piglia, Carmen Boullosa or Edmundo Paz-Soldán, cyberpunk manifests itself fully in the writings of young interdisciplinary artists and constant fanzine collaborators. This sub-genre adaptation in a continent better known not only for “lo real maravilloso” and magical realism, notwithstanding other more recent generations of writers such as “McOndo” and “Crack”, tries to elaborate a series of responses to questions issued from the historical and artistic moment of contemporary life: how to place Latin American identity within the new worldwide cultural mapping by means of a literature searching to reinvent itself within the mainstream space and the marginality of its own genre? What are the strategies of assimilation and resistance adopted by these young Latin American cyberpunk writers in the face of literary and cinematographic Anglo American cyberpunk? Can one speak of an aesthetic and philosophical impact on Latin American culture, normally perceived not as a producer but rather a passive consumer of this sort of cultural production? This thesis intends to deal with these questions in reflecting on one of the constituent devices of cyberpunk: dystopia in conjunction with post-identitary discourses in Latin America. An almost mimetic representation of Latin America’s sociocultural and historical space through violence and political, military ethnic or sexual repression, dystopia is a means to articulate certain spatial figures in national myths and identity politics within the context of globalisation. This latter sociocultural reality, along with the aesthetic ideology that conveys it throughout cyberpunk, enters in conflict with those discourses of national identity, leading us to reflect on post-identity issues. Relying on works on dystopia and identity in Anglo American cyberpunk, as well as on Latin American cultural studies, I will peruse a corpus made up of the novels La primera calle de la soledad (1993) by Gerardo Horacio Porcayo, Santa Clara Poltergeist (1991) by Fausto Fawcett, Ygdrasil (2005) by Jorge Baradit, and the films No muera sin decirme adónde vas (1992) by Eliseo Subiela and La sonámbula (1998) by Fernando Spiner. In these works, dystopia meshes with virtual reality narratives and covers aspects of the identity such as national and sexual myths, memory, trauma as well as minorities utopian projects.

De la mouvance du récit contemporain fragmenté, labyrinthique, se dégage un rapport significatif entre les personnages du récit et les lieux dans lesquels ils gravitent : lieux comme figures diverses et discontinues de l’histoire et des mythes y étant inscrits. Cette construction interactive entre lieu et sujet fait intervenir l’espace comme primordial, et, ainsi, redéfinit l’importance du temps dans l’écrit. Le temps n’adviendrait plus seulement dans le « raconté », comme le suggère Ricœur, mais dans les strates successives de son inscription dans les lieux : le lieu est vécu comme art combinatoire des expériences qui s’y rattachent. C’est par le projet continuel et imparfait du sujet à se situer, plus spécifiquement ici dans la ville et dans celles auxquelles il s’identifie, que surgit l’expression du récit. À travers trois œuvres de Julio Cortázar, le temps sera pensé comme une modalité de fragments « empilables », inscrite dans les lieux signifiants, qui saura émerger au conscient par l’entremise de la porosité de la ville, de sa capacité à susciter des « sauts », des passages. Ce qui lie les espaces architectoniques et le temps qui s’y imprime au sujet qui doit se dire pour exister, mettre en récit afin d’unifier les parties discontinues de son être, émergera dans le « devenir en mouvement », superposition du récit et de l’expérience réelle, par les tropes cortazariens de l’expérimentation, jeu, passage et langage. Là surgira dans l’acte créatif une dynamique spécifique à la ville qui envahit et guide le sujet: sa singularité plurielle. / From the shift of contemporary literature towards labyrinthine, fragmentary self expression, emerges a meaningful correspondence between the characters of a narrative and the spaces they inhabit : spaces as multiple and discontinuous figures inscribed in history and myth. This interactive construction linking place and subject renders space of primary significance and in so doing, redefines the importance of time in the act of writing. Time does not unfold only in "what is told", as Ricoeur suggests, but in the successive layers of its inscription in place: which is lived through the combining art of experimentation with attachment to place. The expression of the subject of the narrative emerges from the continual and imperfect project of the subject to locate himself in the city, in those places with which he identifies and which construct him. Through three texts by writer Julio Cortázar, time will be considered as a modality of “accumulatable” fragments, inscribed in significant places, from which a consciousness emerges through the city's porousness and its capacity for leaps and passageways. What connects the architectonic spaces and the imprint of time within them and a subject who must express himself to exist and create narratives to unify the discontinuous parts of his being, will emerge through "becoming in action", the addition of narrative and real life experience in Cortazarian figures of experimentation, play, passageway et language. Herein a dynamic specific to the city emerges in the creative act that fulfills and guides the subject: his plural singularity.

Souvent laissée pour contre par les théoriciens, longtemps associée à la littérature populaire, la littérature fantastique a su depuis se tailler une place parmi les grands genres de la littérature. Depuis le milieu du XXe siècle, les chercheurs et le public découvrent ou redécouvrent un genre qui a toujours fait parti du paysage littéraire. Une œuvre majeure contribuera à la redécouverte scientifique du genre : Écrite en 1970 l’œuvre de Tzvetan Todorov Introduction à la littérature fantastique donne tant au néophyte qu’au chercheur un ouvrage qui trouve encore des échos aujourd’hui. Sa définition du fantastique, son approche du rôle du narrateur et du lecteur sont une référence, un point de départ et surtout un incontournable pour ceux et celles qui désirent comprendre et apprendre le fantastique. Dans ce mémoire, nous nous concentrerons particulièrement sur le rôle et la problématique du narrateur dans l’œuvre de deux représentants majeurs de la littérature fantastique de langue allemande du début du XXe siècle : Leo Perutz (1882-1957) et Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976). Le narrateur semble jouer un rôle prédominant dans la littérature fantastique. En effet, par son discours souvent présenté au « je », il semble créer une dynamique très particulière : il manipule son propre discours, il agit sur le lecteur en étant narrateur et personnage dans le récit, il crée une tension entre les différentes couches narratives par son état instable. Bref, il semble contribuer à l’apparition du fantastique dans le texte et également provoquer une certaine hésitation chez le lecteur. Le texte joue également un rôle : Leo Perutz produit un modèle de texte qui semble marquer aussi son collègue Alexander Lernet-Holenia. La structure presque mathématique des textes de Perutz rappelle que le fantastique peut jouer même à l’intérieur de paramètres rigides avec l’ordre et le chaos, les frontières entre le réel et le rêve. Nous étudierons des œuvres de Leo Perutz et d’Alexander Lernet-Holenia qui ont été publiées entre 1915 et 1937. Les théories qui serviront à appuyer mon travail sont tirées entre autre des études de Tzvetan Todorov et Uwe Durst sur la littérature fantastique et de Gérard Genette sur le narrateur. / Often neglected by theorists and long associated with popular literature, fantastic literature is increasingly considered as an important literary genre. Since the beginning of the 20th century, researchers and the public have discovered or rediscovered this form of literature which is omnipresent in the literary landscape. A major piece of work that led to the scientific rediscovery of the genre is Tzvetan Todorov’s Introduction à la littérature fantastique. Written in 1970, this piece still offers a present-day echo to the scientist as much as the neophyte. Its definition of fantastic and its approach to the reader’s role are a reference, a great starting point for scientific study and a must for anyone desiring to explore fantastic literature. In this thesis, we will mainly focus on the role and problematic of the narrative writer throughout the work of two major representatives Austrian authors of the early 20th century fantastic literature: Leo Perutz (1882-1957) and Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976). The narrative writer seems to be playing a key role in fantastic literature: By addressing the reader at the first person, the author creates a particular dynamics. He influences the reader by being the narrator at the same time as a character in the story. He also creates a tension throughout the different narrative layers with his fragile state. The writer contributes to the outbreak of fantastic within the text and causes a reader’s hesitation. Leo Perutz produces a text model that also marks his colleague Alexander Lernet-Holenia. The almost mathematical structure of Perutz’s writings reminds that fantastic literature can play with order and chaos as well as with the frontier between dream and reality. We will study pieces by Leo Perutz and Alexander Lernet-Holenia published between 1915 and 1937. The secondary literature sources that will serve to support my work are that of Tzvetan Todorov and Uwe Durst on fantastic literature and Gérard Genette on the narrator. / Sehr oft von den Theoretikern außer Acht gelassen und lange mit der Trivialliteratur verbunden, hat die phantastische Literatur heute ihren Platz innerhalb der großen literarischen Genres gefunden. Seit den fünfziger Jahre haben Forscher und Leser diese literarische Gattung entdeckt oder wiederentdeckt, die immer zur literarischen Landschaft gehört hat. Ein wichtiges Werk trägt zur wissenschaftlichen Wiederentdeckung des Genres bei: Die 1970 von Tzvetan Todorov veröffentlichte Introduction à la littérature fantastique bietet sowohl dem Anfänger als auch dem Forscher eine bis heute gültige Einführung. Seine Definition der literarischen Phantastik, der Rolle des Erzählers und des Lesers sind eine Referenz, ein Ausgangspunkt und ein Muss für diejenigen, die die phantastische Literatur verstehen oder mehr über diese lernen wollen. In dieser Diplomarbeit konzentrieren wir uns auf die Rolle und die Problematik des Erzählers in den Prosawerken von zwei wesentlichen Vertreter der deutschen phantastischen Literatur des Anfangs des 20. Jahrhunderts: Leo Perutz (1882-1957) und Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976). Der Erzähler scheint eine bedeutende Rolle in der phantastischen Literatur zu spielen. Der Erzähler erzeugt mit einem Ich-Diskurs eine spezielle Dynamik: Er manipuliert seinen eigenen Diskurs, weil er gleichzeitig Erzähler und Figur in der Handlung ist, er beeinflusst den Leser, sein instabiler Zustand bewirkt eine Spannung zwischen den verschiedenen narrativen Ebenen des Textes. Der Erzähler trägt also zur Entstehung des Phantastischen im Text bei und hinterlässt beim Leser Unschlüssigkeit. Der Text spielt ebenfalls eine Rolle: Dazu produziert Leo Perutz ein Textmodell, das auch Einfluss auf die schriftstellerische Arbeit von Alexander Lernet-Holenia hat. Die fast mathematische Struktur der „perutzschen“ Texte ermöglicht es dem phantastischen Text, innerhalb eines strengen Rahmens mit der Ordnung und dem Chaos und mit den Grenzen zwischen dem Realen und dem Traum zu spielen. Wir behandeln Prosawerke von Leo Perutz und Alexander Lernet-Holenia, die zwischen 1915 und 1937 veröffentlicht worden sind. Um unsere Argumentation zu stützen, wird Sekundärliteratur unter anderem von Tzvetan Todorov und Uwe Durst über die phantastische Literatur und von Gérard Genette über den Erzähler verwendet.

La partie création de ce mémoire se veut soutenue par une tension narrative reliée à la curiosité suscitée par le personnage principal, de prime abord énigmatique, qui se dévoile de façon capricieuse par un changement constant de focalisation et de temporalité. Nathan vit à une ère où l’humanité a frôlé l’extinction, et où tout est à repenser après l’annihilation du virus ramenant les morts à la vie. N’ayant pas été témoin de ces horreurs, ses plus grandes préoccupations concernent son cheminement vers l’authenticité. Saltimbanque de métier, il voyage de communauté en communauté, où chacune a fait ses choix pour recréer le monde. Sa volonté de prôner l’art dans un processus de reconstruction sociale et sa poursuite d’une image perdue le pousseront toujours plus loin dans ses pérégrinations; vers des réalités qui le conduiront à redéfinir son univers. La partie essai s’interroge sur les procédés formant la tension narrative des romans d’Émile Ajar, pseudonyme laissant deviner la plume expérimentée de Romain Gary qui se réinvente dans l’anonymat. L’attention est centrée sur les jeux de narration, le rôle actanciel des personnages et l’orchestration formelle des récits, à savoir s’ils sont assez similaires pour lier les opus et les constituer en une série unifiée. Cette réflexion à la recherche de l’essence de l’oeuvre ajarienne, touchante par ses antihéros souvent démunis dans leur quête existentielle, a été une inspiration pour la rédaction de Le jour où la Terre en avait vu d’autres. Les rêves de Nathan sont racontés à la première personne, rejoignant certaines modalités ajariennes où la psyché des protagonistes se révèle par une narration au “je”. Les questionnements sur la tension narrative ont été déclencheurs de cette première démarche d’écriture romanesque, même si elle est située dans un cadre complètement autre et use d’une plume bien différente de celle d’Ajar. / The creative part of this Master’s thesis is based on curiosity about the main character, at first enigmatic, who is to be revealed in an unpredictable way with continuous focal and temporal changes. Nathan lives in an era in which humanity came close to extinction, and where everything is to be rethought after the annihilation of the virus that brings the dead back to life. As a saltimbanco, he travels from community to community, in which each one has made choices to recreate the world. His will to advocate art in the social reconstruction and his pursuit of a lost image will always drag him further in his peregrinations, towards realities that will lead him to redefine his universe. The essay part examines the literary techniques that create the narrative tension of novels authored by Émile Ajar, pseudonym of the accomplished writer, Romain Gary, who reinvents himself anonymously. The attention is centered on the narration, actantial roles of the characters and formal organization of the story, to ascertain if they are similar enough to link them in a unified series. This reflection searches for the essence of Ajar’s work which, along with the moving existential quests of the characters, have been an inspiration for writing Le jour où la Terre en avait vu d’autres. Nathan’s dreams are related in a first person narration, in accordance with some of Ajar’s modalities where the characters’ psyches reveal themselves through that perspective. The ponderings on the narrative tension have been the trigger for this first fiction writing experience, even though it takes place in a completely different setting.

[pt] Sonho, Narrativa e Psicanálise é uma proposta de articulação entre os três eixos que dão nome à tese. O material apresentado é uma tentativa de explorar uma teoria a partir da combinação desses eixos e representa um esforço para trazer a psicanálise para o campo de estudos das narrativas ficcionais. Assim, os capítulos da tese dividem-se a partir das interseções entre os eixos: sonho e psicanálise; psicanálise e narrativa; narrativa e sonho. O que se propõe é uma investigação em torno do inconsciente, enquanto estruturado como uma linguagem, a partir do material dos sonhos e com a apuração de algumas poéticas literárias e cinematográficas de viés onírico, elegendo-se como pilares epistemológicos a psicanálise e sua influência nas teorias da arte a partir da década de 80, com destaque para os trabalhos de Paul Ricoeur, Peter Brooks e para a crítica de inspiração lacaniana, representada aqui por Jean-Pierre Oudart e Hal Foster. Em que medida tem valor a psicanálise para o campo de estudos narrativos? Onde buscar através dos sonhos e da psicanálise conhecimento sobre as narrativas? A distorção pareceu uma coisa a ser notada e compreendida. Cientes do mal de todo arquivo, ela foi eleita nossa chave de leitura, uma leitura que convoca o sujeito. Procurar o lugar do sujeito, da sutura, dos entretempos, aquele lugar onde o sujeito é convocado, talvez seja a forma privilegiada de trazer a psicanálise para o campo das artes, na medida em que se entenda que a arte implica em uma produção e em uma leitura (virtual) do arquivo (oculto) e que se leve em conta seu arquivamento diferenciado, deformado, distorcido. A primeira parte da tese serve para apresentar ao leitor os termos teóricos com que vamos trabalhar, dando-lhes um contexto, mas também procurando integrar os textos freudianos de uma maneira específica, dentro dos nossos propósitos. Na segunda parte, são abordadas algumas tentativas de aplicação da psicanálise no campo das artes, sendo três os caminhos que se destacaram no âmbito dessa pesquisa. Primeiro, o da crítica que procede analogicamente ao modelo dos sonhos, apresentada por Paul Ricoeur, que identificou o onírico em geral ao enxergar nos sonhos um valor de modelo. Um segundo caminho possível foi delineado por Peter Brooks, que propõe pensar um modelo econômico de narrativa enquanto estrutura espaço-temporal a partir do modelo econômico freudiano. A terceira via de aproximação entre a psicanálise e as artes tem inspiração lacaniana, trazendo para o centro da questão o lugar do sujeito em um modelo topológico. Por fim, a partir desses três caminhos de aplicação da psicanálise ao campo das artes em geral, e da arte narrativa em particular, será formada a base teórica para a análise crítica de um autor, o polonês Bruno Schulz, e de um roteiro cinematográfico original, que surgiu a partir de uma imagem de sonho. / [en] Dream, Narrative and Psychoanalysis is a proposal to articulate the three axes that name this dissertation. The material presented here is an attempt to explore a theory drawing on the combination of those axes, and it represents an effort to bring psychoanalysis to the field of fictional narrative studies. Thus, the chapters of the dissertation are divided based on the intersections between the axes: dream and psychoanalysis; psychoanalysis and narrative; narrative and dream. What is proposed here is an investigation around the language of the unconscious, drawing on the material of dreams, and examining some literary and cinematographic poetics with oneiric features. Psychoanalysis and its influence on theories of art after the 1980 s were elected as the epistemological pillars, highlighting the works of Paul Ricoeur and Peter Brooks and Lacan-inspired critique, here represented by Jean-Pierre Oudart and Hal Foster. To what extent is psychoanalysis valuable for the field of narrative studies? Where to seek knowledge about narratives through dreams and psychoanalysis? Distortion seemed like something to be noted and comprehended. With awareness of the archive fever, it was selected as the key to our reading, a reading that summons the subject. Searching for the place of the subject, of the suture, of the in-between, that place where the subject is summoned, may be the privileged way to bring psychoanalysis to the field of arts, insofar as it is understood that art entails a (virtual) production and a (virtual) reading of the (hidden) archive, and it is taken into account its differentiated, deformed, distorted archiving. The first part of the dissertation serves to present the theoretical terms that are going to be addressed, giving them a context, but also seeking to integrate the Freudian texts in a specific way, within our purposes. In the second part, some attempts of applying psychoanalysis to the field of arts are approached, and three paths stood out within the scope of this research. First, that of the critique that proceeds analogically to the dream model, presented by Paul Ricoeur, who identified the oneiric in general by seeing in dreams the value of a model. A second possible path was outlined by Peter Brooks, who proposes thinking of an economic model of narrative as a spatial-temporal structure based on Freud s economic model. The third path to bring psychoanalysis and art together is inspired by Lacan, foregrounding the issue of the subject s place in a topological framework. Finally, drawing on those three paths of psychoanalysis applied to the field of the arts in general, and of the narrative art in particular, the theoretical basis will have been laid for the critical analysis of an author from Poland, Bruno Schulz, and of an original screenplay, that unfolded from an image in a dream.

Student leadership in South African (SA) universities has undergone radical change since the transformation of Higher Education in post-apartheid South Africa and this has consequently resulted in shifts in priorities for student leaders. In addition, this leadership can be viewed as occurring in multiple forms in SA universities and in the literature about student leadership in SA. Furthermore; student leadership comprises different and more diverse demographics now in the post-apartheid era. Thus the concept of student leadership may be constituted differently for different student leaders in SA universities today. This research has been undertaken to explore the latter in a particular SA university with the specific aim of studying the social construction of student leadership in a SA university. A social constructionist lens was adopted as the underpinning worldview to adopt a pluralistic qualitative approach in this psychosocial research. Data were gathered using a social dream drawing technique, accessing information on three levels: conscious, subconscious and unconscious. The findings express the fusion of discourse analysis and a psychodynamic interpretation employed in the data analysis. The major findings suggest a two-way interaction between identity in student leadership and relational dynamics in student leadership: these set up a conversation about the anxiety of working with diversity dynamics. Therefore the social construction of student leadership in a SA university has been found to be a space for a conversation about the said anxiety. Metaphors employing Mandela and Moses as leadership symbols have been related to psychodynamic themes such as narcissistic injury and stillbirth and grief in terms of the conversation about the given anxiety amongst such leaders in a SA university. The research makes a methodological contribution by recommending pluralism as a favourable research approach in the study of student leadership. In addition, recommendations for practice such as the implementation of student leadership schools and the incorporation of the relevant psychology professionals to intervene from an adjustment perspective are proposed to inform consulting psychologists and other relevant practitioners in terms of fit for purpose interventions that are linked to student leadership in SA universities. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / Ph. D.(Consulting Psychology)

x, 208 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / The scattered instances depicting material literature in Anglo-Saxon poetry should be regarded as a group. This phenomenon occurs in Beowulf, The Dream of the Rood, and The Husband's Message. Comparative examples of material literature can be found on the Ruthwell Cross and the Franks Casket. This study examines material literature in these three poems, comparing their depictions of material literature to actual examples. Poems depicting material literature bring the relationship between man and object into dramatic play, using the object's point of view to bear witness to the truth of distant or intensely personal events. Material literature is depicted in a love poem, The Husband's Message, when a prosopopoeic runestick vouches for the sincerity of its master, in the heroic epic Beowulf when an ancient, inscribed sword is the impetus to give an account of the biblical flood, and is also implied in the devotional poem The Dream of the Rood, as two crosses both pre-and-post dating the poem bear texts similar to portions of the poem. The study concludes by examining the relationship between material anxiety and the character of Weland in Beowulf, Deor, Alfred's Consolation of Philosophy, and Waldere A & B. Concern with materiality in Anglo-Saxon poetry manifests in myriad ways: prosopopoeic riddles, both heroic and devotional passages directly assailing the value of the material, personification of objects, and in depictions of material literature. This concern manifests as a material anxiety. Weland tames the material and twists and shapes it, re-affirming the supremacy of mankind in a material world. / Committee in charge: Martha Bayless, Chairperson, English; James Earl, Member, English; Daniel Wojcik, Member, English; Aletta Biersack, Outside Member, Anthropology

Using the frames of analysis and language of political whiteness and anti-migrant hegemony, this paper examines the narrative of liberal immigration reformers transforming California’s political landscape within the period of 1994 to 2017. Taken as case studies the following articles of legislation are analyzed: Proposition 187 in 1994, the California Dream Act in 2010, the Trust Act in 2014, up to the present Senate Bill 54 in 2017. The paper finds that while California has experienced a recognizable shift in racial liberalism in rhetoric and legislation, its overall policy continues to work within the framework of anti-migrant hegemony that functions through criminalization and detention. The paper ends with the conclusion, informed by Gonzales’ writing in Reform without Justice, that the shift California has experienced is indicative of anti-migrant hegemony reconfiguring itself in changing social and political norms.

The thesis focuses on the conceptual area of sleeping (including waking, dreaming etc.) based on the theories and methods of the cognitive-cultural approach to language. The first chapter deals with the human experience of sleeping. The conceptual area is interpreted both in relation to physical experience and as a part of the Central European cultural code. The second chapter concentrates on the concept and the approach of the linguistic picture of the world (e.g. Bartmiński, 2012), the detection and verification of the semantic connotations method (Bartmiński, Panasiuk, 2001), the conceptual metaphor theory (Lakoff, Johnson, 1980/2002), the cognitive conception of metonymy (cf. ibid), and the interaction between metaphor and metonymy (i.e. metaphtonymy, Goosens, 1990, 2002). The third chapter is based on the linguistic data excerpted from various Czech dictionaries and describes the conceptual area. First are introduced derivational nests, then relevant semantic relations and etymology of the selected terms (spát, bdít etc.). The chapter also analyses polysemy of the selected terms in detail, as well as polysemy of their derivatives. This part of the thesis presents the formulation of conceptual transmissions which are manifested in the given linguistic meanings. The fourth chapter is a...

This work analyses the American family in context of society and its demands. It focuses on the cannonical works of the Modern American drama, namely plays of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard and David Mamet. The playwrights are analysed in two distinctive groups according to similar themes they share. Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller depict the family under increasing pressure from the outside as well from the inside. The unit disintegrates, members of the family escape and thus the unit loses its funtions. The pressure is imposed by the tenets of the American mythology that governs the society, which, in turn, influences the family. The common theme of the first group of playwrights is the feeling of loss. This comprises of two dimensions - spatial and tempoval. The second group of playwrights share the same theme of loss with its spatial and temporal implications. They are characteristic by their distinctive use of language that depicts the prevalent sense of doom, apocalypse, futility and sterility. The search for identity is also implied by the restlessness of characters. The detrimental effect of harsh business environment on the family is explored with regards to masculinity. The work shows the family in the context of the 1950s, an era when the family was elevated to...