The thesis is devoted to the work of the French writer and philosopher Donatien Alphonse François de Sade and three female 20th-century French novelists Laure, Pauline Réage and Jeanne de Berg, whose work draws inspiration from Sade's. In the first part of the thesis we focus on the Marquis de Sade. First, we recount the key events in Sade's adolescence and family life, his sexual indulgences and particularly his lengthy imprisonment, as these had profound influence on his work. Next we highlight the relevant historical incidents of his time and discuss the position of his work within the so- called libertin literary movement. Then we proceed to analyze the themes and motifs of Sade's three pivotal books: 120 Days of Sodom (Les Cent Vingt Journées de Sodome), Justine (Justine ou les Malheurs de la vertu), and Juliette (Histoire de Juliette). Our analysis points out a deeper philosophical message that can be found behind erotic themes of Sade's work. In the final sections we describe the fate of Sade's legacy in the 19th century and also his rehabilitation in the 20th century, when his writings have finally been critically studied and his collective works published. The second part of the thesis concentrates on Sade's female followers in the 20th century: Collette Peignot alias Laure (Laure: Écrits),...

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Cette recherche a comme objectif l’étude d’un des thèmes clef dans la vaste œuvre du poète et essayiste mexicain Octavio Paz (1914-1998) : les analogies entre l’érotisme, le poème et le sacré comme chemins ou voies d’union et de réconciliation humaine, idée qui est particulièrement renforcée dans son œuvre à partir des voyages et du séjour en Orient –spécialement en Inde– entre 1951 et 1968. Pendant la période nommée « cycle indien » (‘ciclo hindú’), Paz s’est intéressé aux différentes traditions de la pensée orientale, particulièrement le bouddhisme, et surtout son orientation tantrique. Ce mémoire analyse les apports les plus significatifs du bouddhisme à l’œuvre de Paz. À partir de l’étude de concepts comme la vacuité, le silence, l’autre bord (‘otra orilla’), l’union extatique transcendante et la libération, ce mémoire soutient que Paz a approfondi les analogies entre l’érotisme, la poésie et le sacré en ne les concevant pas seulement comme expériences de réconciliation mais en les menant au-delà, au plan transcendental, à partir de l’union extatique dans la vacuité. Même si ce mémoire tient compte d’un grand nombre d’œuvres d’Octavio Paz, qui vont de El arco y la lira (1956) à Vislumbres de la India (1995), une attention particulière est dédiée à deux textes qui sont les plus représentatifs du résultat de sa rencontre avec l’Orient, Ladera este (1969) et El mono gramático (1974), dans lesquels il est possible d’observer les analogies que Paz établit entre l’érotisme, le poème, et le bouddhisme tantrique à partir de l’expérience de l’altérité (‘otredad’), qui propose à l’être humain la recherche de son ‘autre’ pour se réconcilier dans l’unité, et de l’expérience de dissipation dans la vacuité. La conclusion générale de l’étude souligne que l’érotisme, le poème, et le bouddhisme tantrique se proposent dans l’œuvre de Octavio Paz comme trois chemins parallèles de révélation par lesquels l’être humain peut accéder à sa plénitude, état manifeste dans l’expérience extatique. / This research studies a key subject in the work of the Mexican poet and essayist Octavio Paz (1914-1998): the analogies between eroticism, poetry and the sacred as three human ways of union, reconciliation, and liberation that are particularly reinforced in his work since his journey to and stay in the East –especially in India- between 1951 and 1968. During the period called Hindu cycle (‘ciclo hindu’), Paz was interested in different traditions of oriental thought such as Buddhism, especially in its tantric orientation. This study analyses the significant contributions of Buddhism to Paz’s work. The examination of concepts like vacuity, silence, another shore (‘otra orilla’), ecstatic transcendental union, and liberation proves that Paz studied the analogies between eroticism, poetry and the sacred in depth, broaching them not just as reconciliation experiences but taking them further (‘más allá’) to the transcendental level of ecstatic union in vacuity. Although a large number of Paz’s works are considered, from El arco y la lira (1956) to Vislumbres de la India (1995), particular attention is dedicated to two poetics texts which are the most representative of his encounter with the East - Ladera Este (1969) and El mono gramático (1974) - where we can observe the analogies that Paz established between eroticism, poetry and tantric Buddhism, through the experiences of ‘otherness’, which proposes to man the search of the ‘other’ to reconcile in unity, and dissipate in vacuity. The general conclusion of the study emphasizes that eroticism, poetry and tantric Buddhism are proposed in Octavio Paz’s work as three parallel ways of revelation from which human being can achieve plenitude, which is manifest in the ecstatic experience. / Esta investigación tiene como objetivo el estudio de un tema clave en la extensa obra del poeta y ensayista mexicano Octavio Paz (1914-1998): las analogías entre el erotismo, el poema y lo sagrado como caminos o vías de unión y reconciliación humana, ideas que se refuerzan particularmente en su obra a partir de los viajes y estancias en Oriente –especialmente en La India- entre 1951 y 1968. Durante el período denominado ‘ciclo hindú’, Paz se interesó en diferentes tradiciones de pensamiento oriental entre las que destacó el budismo, sobre todo en su orientación tántrica. Esta memoria analiza las significativas aportaciones del budismo a la obra de Paz y, a partir del estudio de los conceptos de vacuidad, silencio, otra orilla, unión extática trascendente y de liberación, se sostiene que Paz profundizó en las analogías entre el erotismo, la poesía y lo sagrado, no planteándolas sólo como experiencias de reconciliación sino llevándolas ‘más allá’, al plano trascendental, a partir de la unión extática en la vacuidad. Aunque se tiene en cuenta un buen número de obras de O. Paz desde El arco y la lira (1956) hasta Vislumbres de la India (1995), se dedica una atención particular a dos textos poéticos que son los más representativos del resultado de su encuentro con Oriente, Ladera este (1969) y El mono gramático (1974), donde se observan las analogías que Paz establece entre el erotismo, el poema y el budismo tántrico a partir de la experiencia de ‘otredad’, que propone al hombre una búsqueda de su ‘otro’ para reconciliarse en la unidad, y de la experiencia de disipación en la vacuidad. La conclusión general del estudio subraya que el erotismo, el poema y el budismo tántrico se plantean en la obra de Octavio Paz como tres caminos paralelos de revelación por los que el hombre puede acceder a su plenitud, estado manifiesto en la experiencia extática.

This dissertation explores the connections that exist between Gertrude Steins late nineteenth-century psychological studies at Harvard University, her fin-de-sicle brain research at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, and her early twentieth-century cubist writings. This study is important to neuraesthetic researchers, because it appears that Stein produced a secret series of cubist brain maps from approximately 1912 to 1935, and then published her first explicit brain map in _The Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind_, in 1936. The cubist brain maps that Stein produced during this period can be conceptualized as evolving, neuraesthetic writing practices that reflect her complex, scientific insights and her varied, artistic associations. One of the primary differences between Steins cubist writings and those of her literary peers is that she deploys the cubist painting strategies of Pablo Picasso, for the purpose of portraying the human central nervous system. In addition to exploring the scientific meanings of Steins multidimensional, performative and introspective cubist puns, my study examines how Stein uses color in her cubist writings, as a means of anticipating the visual effects of future scientific discoveries and connectivity maps, such as the Brainbow system, which uses the fluorescent protein from the jellyfish Aequorea Victoria to label the central nervous systems of genetically modified mice with distinguishable colors. Also, this project examines how Stein uses color words and other simple devices from the English language to illustrate the brains cellular structures, neural networks and neuroanatomical features. This studys primary aim is to explore how Steins dissociative writings function within western culture as neuraesthetic modes of masterpiece creation, brain representation and consciousness translation. Through the serial production of cubist brain maps, Stein posed important questions about the modern science of the reading brain. By developing allegorical methods of brain representation, Stein contributes to the western practice of neuroesthetics by foregrounding the role that creative writing plays in the production of imaginary, laboratory practices and imaginative, brain imaging technologies.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-02-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:55:31Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 souza_lna_me_sjrp.pdf: 459476 bytes, checksum: 8ef7ff93bc4e74ea26fc38076128ba2e (MD5) / Este trabalho desenvolve uma análise sobre o livro Poemas malditos, gozosos e devotos (1984) da escritora paulista Hilda Hilst (1930-2004). Para tanto, realiza-se um estudo da busca devota, maldita e gozosa empreendida pelo sujeito poemático no intuito de obter o conhecimento de si mesmo e do sagrado representado pela idéia de Deus. Nas análises dos poemas, procura-se desvelar o modo como essa tentativa de relação do eu frente ao objeto é construída através da linguagem a partir da tensão instituída entre busca/distanciamento e carne/espírito, uma vez que nos poemas Deus é o amante desejado, mas completamente distante e alheio aos apelos de quem o busca ininterrupta e sacrificialmente. / The aim of this work is to analyze the book Poemas malditos, gozosos e devotos (1984) of the Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst (1930 – 2004). The study searches the devoted, cursed and joyful search done by the subject in the poem who aims to obtain the knowledge about himself and about the sacred, represented by the idea of God. In the analyses of the poems it is unveiled the way that this attempt of relationship of “I” facing the object is constructed through the language, from the tension between search and distance and between flesh and spirit, given that in the poems God is the desired lover, but is completely distant and ignores the cries of those who search Him interruptedly and with sacrifice.

This dissertation concerns the socio-cultural politics expressed in the performances of Matthew Barney, Steven Cohen, Marina Abramovic, and the ‘Pop’ artist Madonna. The contention is that these artists mirror and dramatize marginalization and seem to reflect a desire to resolve conflicts experienced between social and psychological identities in contemporary society. The premise of this study is that these performers engage in a ‘dialogue’ with viewers as a form of self-preservation and self-healing. The Performance artists’ measure of socio-cultural tensions suggests the merging of mass media entertainment, theatrical devices and other cultural practices such as fetishism and rituals involving altered states of consciousness, props and allusions to shamanism. An ancient modality of healing, such as shamanism, when appropriated by artists, seems to reflect an urgent phenomenological need of the individual within Western society for overcoming feelings of powerlessness as a type of therapeutic practice. The Performance artists’ Othering is acted out as a survival mechanism addressing and questioning the ‘degradation’ imposed on marginalized individuals who challenge the traditional notion of authentic identity and the ‘classic’ body. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / M.A. (Visual Arts)

À travers l’érotisme et sa mise en fiction dans les récits courts écrits par des femmes dans la région centraméricaine, notre thèse montre l’importance de l’étude du discours érotique aussi bien que son évolution et ses dernières tendances. Dans l’introduction de notre recherche, nous expliquons de manière brève des conditions sociales et historiques de l’Amérique centrale afin de rendre visible une région qui reste méconnue même à l’heure actuelle. Ensuite, nous présentons la méthode que nous avons utilisée ainsi que les objectifs à suivre et les sources que nous avons consultées. Dans le deuxième chapitre, nous établissons un parcours chrono-littéraire de l’érotisme qui commence par Le Cantique de Cantiques et qui finit avec un débat sur les notions de Bataille, les études du genre et quelques idées de la théorie queer. Observer l’évolution de l’érotisme ainsi que ses enjeux nous semblait fondamental. / Through the analysis of eroticism and the way it is used in short tales authored by women of Central America, this thesis demonstrates the significance of the study of the erotic discourse as well as its evolution and the latest trends. In the first chapter- the introduction- we briefly explain the social and historical context of Cen-tral America, in order to draw attention to an area still unknown at the current time. Afterwards, we will intro-duce our method of analysis, the objectives and the consulted sources. In the second chapter we submit a chronology of eroticism in literature which starts by The Song of Songs and finishes by a debate about Gender Studies and the Queer Theory. It is crucial to observe the evolution of eroticism as well as its significance.

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Inspirada pelo pensamento de autores como Nietzsche, Foucault, Susan Sontag, Oswald de Andrade, Cássia Lopes e Suely Rolnik, o corpo emerge não somente como objeto, mas como o próprio agente do estudo. A burla – retirada de dentro da moldura do gênero burlesco (visto principalmente em dicionários etimológico e de termos literários, bem como em O Riso Burlesco, de Georges Minois, e na análise do movimento New Burlesque) – aparece como uma estratégia de criação do corpo, que pretende operar a partir de suas marcas (sendo algumas delas o gênero, visto por Judith Butler, bem como o colonialismo e estereotipização, apontadas por Homi K. Bhabha, entre outras), dando visibilidade e potência a características que estão impedidas de se desenvolver dentro dos discursos da tradição racionalista e colonial. Percebe-se, através da descrição e análise de alguns processos criativos (dos trabalhos Los Juegos Provechosos, 2009; Simpatia Full Time, 2008-2010; Burlescas, 2009; Salmon Nela, 2007; e Technomaravilha, 2010), que pontos de bloqueio e aprisionamento dos estereótipos tornam-se evidentes quando o corpo está em performance. Na burla do corpo, rompe-se com as lógicas e práticas normatizadoras, criando possibilidades de reinvenção. O trabalho problematiza, além disso, certos engessamentos de procedimentos e metodologias de criação no campo das artes cênicas (dança e teatro). Tais pontos de fixidez também corroboram para a manutenção de concepções de corpo que, numa prática artística comprometida politicamente, necessitam ser revistas e modificadas. A pergunta de Espinosa, atualizada por Deleuze e Guattari – o que pode o corpo? – é uma questão norteadora. Das práticas artísticas mencionadas (nas quais participei como performer), emerge o corpo que chacoalha – borrando contornos e inaugurando uma erótica própria ao ato performático (Massimo Canevacci). Esse chacoalhar torna-se um dos caminhos possíveis para iniciar a burla do corpo. O corpo que burla é uma resposta criativa à pergunta de como seria possível descolonizar o corpo, feita por André Lepecki, pois ele se torna um caminho para a leitura crítica de dados culturais. / The body is the local where the artistic and the academic researches are articulated to generate problematized issues in this work. Here, the methodological horizons are based on a geographical thinking, in a spatial point of view, that seeks to drawing up cartographically the concepts that are being built throughout the research process. Inspired by the thought of authors such as Nietzsche, Foucault, Susan Sontag, Oswald de Andrade, Cassia Lopes and Suely Rolnik, the body emerges not only as an object but as the subject in this study. The burla – extracted from the frame of the burlesque genre (studied in etymological dictionary, literary terms dictionary, in Georges Minois's article The Burlesque Laughter, as well on the analysis of the New Burlesque movement) – appears like a strategy to the creation of the body which want to operate from its scars (some of which are the gender, seen by Judith Butler, as well as colonialism and stereotyping, highlighted by Homi K. Bhabha, among others), giving visibility to potency and characteristics that are prevented from developing within the discourses of colonial and rationalist tradition. It's possible to note through the description and analysis of some creative processes (the works Los Juegos Provechosos, 2009; Simpatia Full Time, 2008-2010; Burlescas, 2009; Salmon Nela, 2007; and Technomaravilha, 2010), the blockade and entrapment points from the stereotypes that becomes evident when the body is in performance. In the burla of the body, it breaks up with logical and normalizing practices, creating possibilities for reinvention. This research discusses, in addition, a certain fixity of procedures and methodologies in the field of the performing arts (dance and theater). Such fixed points also supports for the maintenance of body conceptions that a politically engaged art practice needs to review and modify. The question of Spinoza, updated by Deleuze and Guattari – what can a body do? – is a north query. From the mentioned artistic practices (in which I participated as a performer) emerges the shaking body – blurring boundaries and inaugurating a peculiar erotica born in the performative act (Massimo Canevacci). This shake becomes one of the possible ways to start the burla of the body. The body that does the burla is one artistic answer to André Lepecki's issue how to revert the colonization of the body, because it could be a way to read and to criticize cultural data.