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Cette étude aborde l’œuvre de Toni Morrison à travers le prisme du sacré. Elle explore comment les romans offrent, d’un point de vue thématique et littéraire, une toile structurelle et formelle permettant l’accès au sacré – à cette transcendance dont le lecteur ne revient pas indemne. L’acte sacrificiel et la violence sont au cœur de la diégèse des romans. La reproduction du geste sacrificiel dans l’acte de « lecture-écriture » (terme emprunté à Henri Meschonnic) élabore le passage, au fil des romans, de la mise à mort des personnages au don (de l’être, de l’œuvre), comme en atteste le titre du dernier roman, A Mercy. L’idée de séparation véhiculée par l’étymologie du mot « sacré » est explorée à travers la dichotomie du pur et de l’impur ; le positionnement systématique des personnages d’un côté et de l’autre d’un écran de « pureté » participe au processus de sacralisation et tisse le fil rouge de la contagion, générée dans le texte même. Ce travail explore dans quelle mesure le sacré se répercute sur l’écriture, au point de devenir la condition du dé-pli et de l’expérience figurale du texte. La composition à l’œuvre dans les romans orchestre une écriture vivante, à haute voix, à l’orée du sentiment, qui rend très souvent compte de l’élément non rationnel du « divin ». Celui-ci est à même de souligner l’impact de l’écriture morrisonienne sur le lecteur, alors que le ressenti commun entre écrivain et lecteur, propre à l’écriture dialogique, génère la pulsion d’écrire. / This study investigates Toni Morrison’s oeuvre from the standpoint of the sacred, and in particular how the sacred bears upon the writing itself, thus transforming the text into the locus and condition of the reader’s experience. Morrison’s work is thematically and formally predicated upon an access to the sacred/holy. The concept of the sacred is indeed highly relevant in Toni Morrison’s work, since the very act of composing/conducting the novels is heard and set in an affective language which often renders the non-rational element of the divine, referred to here as the “holy”. Its ability to move and astound the reader is rendered through actual or textual sacrifice. As the title of her latest novel, A Mercy, suggests, the sacrificial gesture which is reproduced in the reading/writing experience (following Meschonnic’s concept of “lecture-écriture”) creates an intimate link between the characters’ sacrificial deaths and the gift of the book, thereby inscribing sacrifice and violence at the very heart of the novels. The idea of separation conveyed by the etymology of the word “sacred” is explored through the dichotomy of “purity” versus “impurity” in the novels, where characters labelled as either pure or impure participate in the sacralising process. The concept of the sacred/holy not only accounts for the impact of Toni Morrison’s writing on the reader; it also sheds light on the dialogical nature of her work from which arises the shared impulse that is the reading/writing of the book.

Thesis advisor: Paul Doherty / Thesis advisor: Michael Resler / This thesis is a case study of translation, based upon the translation of Max Frisch's play "Don Juan: oder, die Liebe zur Geometrie". It includes a brief overview of translation theory from the Romans to the present century, an introduction to the life and works of Frisch and post WWII Swiss literature, and a translation of the full text of the play, complete with notes and observations on the translation. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2006. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: English. / Discipline: Germanic Studies. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

The aim of this thesis is to offer a comparative analysis of the nineteenth-century translations of Don Quixote into English, which have received little critical attention to date. During this process I will focus on the issue of translating irony, in order to engage in the discussion regarding reader response to Don Quixote in England during the nineteenth century. This reader reception represents another area of research yet to be studied in any significant detail. This thesis will take the following structure: in the first chapter I will provide a background into the existing problems and working concepts as they have been researched so far. In the course of this I will look at the work of Allen (2008) in particular, as the critic who has provided the longest known, though by no means exhaustive, list of examples of irony identified in Don Quixote. This will be followed by a review of reader response along the centuries, beginning with the seventeenth and eighteenth and then an overview of the nineteenth. I will then engage in an analysis of specific examples of irony, using a representative sample taken from Allen’s selection. The conclusions this analysis will offer will shed further light on the importance of studying irony in Don Quixote, and also on how irony can be used as an explanation as to why so many translations of it were produced in such quick succession in the 1880s, after so long without any new versions. This research also considers the question of the transience of irony and the extent to which what constitutes irony changes over time, as reflected by a similar list of examples of irony compiled by Albert Calvert (1905). My analysis will also add further evidence to the two main debates surrounding critical opinion on Don Quixote in the nineteenth century; firstly, that Ormsby’s is justified in being regarded as the best translation of the three produced in that century, if not of all time, and secondly, the ongoing debate over whether or not Don Quixote was or should still have been regarded as a Romantic novel during the 1880s. By tracking trends and shifts in critical thinking down the centuries since Don Quixote first appeared at the start of the seventeenth century, my analysis will also offer some comment on the novel’s subsequent twentieth-century reception. Moreover, as the first study of all three of the nineteenth-century translations of Don Quixote into English, my conclusions make an important and original contribution to the emerging area of study into Cervantes in a transnational context.

Malgré le mercantilisme ambiant, la conviction qu'un management éthique peut se montrer garant de l'économie, a conduit l'auteur, manager expérimentée, à réfléchir, en endossant une posture critique, à une formation managériale préparant les managers à l'exercice d'un tel mode managérial. Ainsi le management, à la fois science, à la fois art, mérite, d'une part l'examen de théories managériales, d'autre part une approche fondée sur des notions de philosophie sociale, telles que la responsabilité, le paradigme du don selon Marcel Mauss couplé à la reconnaissance (couple défini par Alain Caillé), notion que développe par ailleurs Axel Honneth, et la confiance émanant parfois de la reconnaissance. L'étude de relations managériales ordinaires relatées par des employés et des managers, souligne divergences et convergences entre la pratique de managers et les souhaits d'employés, aussi entre des pratiques relevées dans de grandes entreprises et dans une petite. / In spite of the ambient profiteering, the conviction that an ethical management vouch economic interest, led the author, an experienced manager, assuming a critical attitude, to consider a managerial training preparing the managers with the practice of a such managerial mode. Thus the management, at the same time science and knowledge, at the same time art, deserves and needs, on the one hand the examination of managerial theories, and of the other hand an approach based on notions of social philosophy, such as the notion of responsability, such us the gift-paradigm according to Mauss, coupled with the notion of recognition (this pair defined by Caillé), notion developed by Honneth in addition, this recognition revealed sometimes in the appearence of confidence. The study of ordinary relationships in the managerial links, between employees or individual contributors and managers, indicates divergences and convergences between the practice of managers and the wishes of employees.

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This thesis seeks to explain how Lord George Gordon Byron achieves catharsis through the writing of his truth in Don Juan. In the poem the narrator expresses Byron's innermost emotion while at the same time the protagonist, Juan, relates to readers on a more conscious level. The ability that Byron has to work through the narrator in Don Juan provides him with an avenue of expression for his suppressed and frustrated emotions that are largely subconscious and inexpressible. Byron's poetry, and especially Don Juan, is poetry in which the scope of human experience reaches into every aspect of life as he shares with readers his innermost emotion, emotion that is significantly more intense than that of most 19th century writers. Studying Byron may be considered a study of life itself and an opportunity for literary and historical experience on a uniquely intimate level. Byron left England with his friend Hobhouse to travel through Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Italy in 1809. At this time he wrote Childe Harold, which brought him great fame after his return. The second and final time Byron left England was in 1816. At this time the intense emotional experience and social criticism contained in his poetry brought on severe public criticism which caused him to leave in self-exile. During Byron's second exile he traveled throughout Italy, Turkey and Greece. He ultimately died in Missolonghi, Greece, in 1824 while helping the Greek people fight in a civil war with the Turks. Byron felt that it was important to remain in Greece and help the people, even though his health was failing, ultimately resulting in his death. Byron sought a hero through the writing of Don Juan, and the catharsis he achieved as a result of writing his truth uncovered the hero he was seeking. / Graduation date: 1999

Weddings and funerals are some of the most universally profound events of our lives. Both acts, however disparate, ultimately celebrate life. This thesis draws on themes of life and regeneration in its reading of a neglected yet historically significant site in the port lands of Toronto. The changes that have occurred at the mouth of the Don mirror the changes that have occurred in Toronto from settlement to post-modernity. It is here that the thesis proposes a place that simultaneously reclaims its roots and creates a new identity for the port lands. As a means of reinhabiting this site, the design uses the power of weddings and funerals to generate a collective point of gathering that reflects the multicultural nature of Toronto today.

La presente tesis se realizó durante el periodo Noviembre- Diciembre 2012, tiene por finalidad determinar qué factores sociodemográficos se relacionan al nivel de conocimientos y actitudes hacia la sexualidad en adolescentes del nivel secundario de la Institución Educativa Don José de San Martin. Los adolescentes internalizan normas, costumbres y usos en la interrelación humana a través de la socialización en los ámbitos familiar, escolar y comunitario; de manera que la sexualidad adolescente y las relaciones que se sostienen con respecto a ella, está profundamente vinculada a la construcción social que el adolescente logra a través de la capacidad de interacción y autonomía que haya interiorizado de su entorno. Se trató de un estudio prospectivo, transversal, analítico, no experimental; la muestra estuvo compuesta por 188 estudiantes. En la investigación la información fue registrada mediante la aplicación de 5 instrumentos, que contienen preguntas sobre elementos que constituyen los factores demográficos, apgar familiar, nivel socioeconómico, el nivel de conocimiento y la actitud hacia la sexualidad.