Bergman has claimed that he does not have any ideological intention behind his films. He has also been generally criticized for his bourgeois outlook and lack of ideology. Among the vast amount of Bergman studies as well, the ideological aspect of Bergman’s films has been an under-researched area. This thesis will focus on the five-hour television version of Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1983) and investigate the interrelationship between the formal features of narrative, character, music and their ideological functions, utilizing ideological and formalist approaches. The premise of this study is: films are cultural products that implicitly or explicitly carry ideological messages. Bergman’s films are no exception. Through the blend of contradictory elements in narrative and the representation of fluid subjectivity, Bergman’s cinematic vision provides an “alternative moral picture”, an expression coined by Hector Rodriguez, and functions as ideology critique. This thesis intends to shed more light on the ideological value embedded in Bergman’s films in general, and Fanny and Alexander in particular, and contribute to a comprehensive field of Bergman research.

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This thesis is a study of four compositions written by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, older sister of Felix Mendelssohn. Her music is compared with four pieces composed by Felix. This study shows that Fanny was a gifted and creative composer, even surpassing Felix and predating Brahms with her compositional ideas and progressive uses of harmony. Despite her excellent education and recognition among those who knew her well, she did not publicize her talent in any way because of pressure from her father, Abraham, and Felix to stay within the prescribed societal confines of wife and mother.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T14:54:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Edenilson Mikuska.pdf: 802856 bytes, checksum: 3869582c82ab2454c08d9fba691f684e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The subject of this study is the self-theorization in the novel Fanny Owen (1979) by Portuguese writer Agustina Bessa-Luís. The self-theorization occurs when literature looks at itself in a movement of self-reflexivity. Fanny Owen herself is entirely a self-theorization exercise. Her work is a fictional treatment of biographical facts related to historical personalities – mainly to the writer Camilo Castelo Branco, to his friend José Augusto Pinto de Magalhães, and to Fanny Owen, daughter of the British Colonel Hugh Owen , who had a leading role in the Portuguese Civil War (1828 -1834) . These three characters are involved in a love triangle. The narrative presents as a background the cultural context dominated by the Romantic movement, which has notable influence on the characters, especially on Fanny and Jose Augusto, readers of literature – mainly of Lord Byron. Given the importance that the theme of the literature appears in Fanny Owen, it seemed appropriate to allocate it in the subgenre "novel of reading", concept created by German theorist Volker Rollof. The novel of reading is that work whose reading of literature by its characters featured prominently in the plot. Such a condition of the work herein studied favors our approach of the self-theorization theme, since this category of novels, when addressing the relationship between reader and literature reading, necessarily establishes a discussion on the literary phenomenon. However, self-theorization also appears at other levels in this novel. It occurs through the narrator, who at several moments uses strategies in an attempt to be confused with the empirical author and that, moreover, mind-wanders about the art of writing. It also occurs when it portrays the writer Camilo Castelo Branco as a writer in training. Chapter I addresses specifically the self-theorization theme and reflections supported by theoretical contributions from Jonathan Culler, Antoine Compagnon, David Lodge, Umberto Eco, Lelia Pereira Duarte and Karin Volobuef. In Chapter II, it begins the study of the novel Fanny Owen discussing its main themes: the romantic culture, which appears portrayed in panorama along the plot, and the love triangle, which I analyze in accordance with the ideas of Denis de Rougemont and René Girard. The third chapter deals specifically with the self-theoretical mechanisms in the novel Fanny Owen. / O presente trabalho tem como tema a autoteorização no romance Fanny Owen (1979), da escritora portuguesa Agustina Bessa-Luís. A autoteorização ocorre quando a literatura volta o olhar sobre si mesma, num movimento de autorreflexividade. Fanny Owen é integralmente um exercício de autoteorização. A obra dá tratamento ficcional a fatos biográficos relacionados a personalidades históricas – principalmente o escritor Camilo Castelo Branco, seu amigo José Augusto Pinto de Magalhães, e Fanny Owen, filha do coronel inglês Hugh Owen, o qual teve destacado papel na Guerra Civil Portuguesa (1828-1834). Temos então estes três personagens envolvidos num triângulo amoroso. A narrativa apresenta como pano de fundo o contexto cultural dominado pelo movimento romântico, que tem notável influência nos personagens, principalmente em Fanny e José Augusto, leitores de literatura – sobretudo, de Lord Byron. Dada a importância com que o tema da literatura aparece em Fanny Owen, pareceu-me cabível alocá-lo no subgênero ―romance de leitura‖, conceito criado pelo teórico alemão Volker Rollof. O romance de leitura é a obra em que a leitura de literatura pelos personagens aparece com destaque na trama. Tal condição da obra ora estudada oportuniza a abordagem do tema da autoteorização, já que tal categoria de romances, ao tratar da relação entre leitor e leitura de literatura, estabelece necessariamente uma discussão sobre o fenômeno literário. No entanto, a autoteorização aparece também em outros níveis neste romance. Ocorre através do narrador, que em diversos momentos lança mão de estratégias na tentativa de ser confundido com o autor empírico e que, além disso, é dado a divagações sobre a arte da escrita. Ocorre também na medida em que retrata o escritor Camilo Castelo Branco como escritor em formação. O capítulo I aborda especificamente a autoteorização e conta com reflexões amparadas pelos aportes teóricos de Jonathan Culler, Antoine Compagnon, David Lodge, Umberto Eco, Lelia Pereira Duarte e Karin Volobuef. No capítulo II, começo o estudo do romance Fanny Owen, discutindo seus temas principais: a cultura romântica, a qual aparece retratada em panorama ao longo do enredo, e o triângulo amoroso, que analiso segundo as ideias de Denis de Rougemont e René Girard. O terceiro capítulo trata especificamente dos mecanismos autoteorizantes em Fanny Owen.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Mannheim, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-304).

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of History, 2009. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-52).

The thesis entitled Life and Work of Fanny Neuda deals with a significant and almost forgotten writer from Lostice who lived between 1819-1894. It was Loštice that was the place of her writing, which is why the first chapter is devoted to them. This Jewish community was quite specific in its history, as discussed in the chapter. The second chapter deals with Fanny Neuda itself, her life and her "pioneering" writing activity. Since Fanny Neuda, née Schmiedl, was the world's first woman of Jewish descent, she did not write only prayers for women, but wrote a book for general opportunities / stimuli named Stunden der Andacht. Ein Gebet- und Erbauungsbuch für Israels Frauen und Jungfrauen, zur öffentlichen und häuslichen Andacht, sowie für alle Verhältnisse des weiblichen Lebens (Praha / Břeclav, 1855). She confidently compares her prayers with those written by men for women, for she is denied empathy with women's perception. But a woman can read in the hearts of her sisters.1 It is worthwhile to bring the character of Fanny Neuda and her work closer together, as well as the challenges she faced in writing in German. Pnina Navé Levinson characterized Fanny's literary work, a rabbi's rabbi, whose pious book for women can be regarded as a "classic" from the second half of the 19th century to our times....

Guided by the feminist intention of reasserting the importance of neglected female writers, I have used this work to re-examine the lives and texts of eighteenth-century diarists Hester Thrale-Piozzi and Frances Burney. Adopting an interdisciplinary methodology, I draw on both literary and non-literary material to examine the effect of familial and social patriarchy in eighteenth-century England. Using the diaries, journals and letters of Hester and Frances, I ask why female conformity to masculine domination was expected, and how violence was used to extract subserviant behaviour from women. Beginning with gossip, and encompassing social, editorial and physical abuse, I use the medical profession's manipulation of female vulnerability to exemplify the way society legitimates violence to ensure female ductility. Moving beyond this physical aspect, I then examine the psychical, and question the existence of a ‘self’ which is vulnerable to external manipulation. By diverging from the influence of Freudian psychology, and developing a form of Jungian feminism, I propose the existence of an essential female Self which transcends the constraints of societal expectations and physical violence. In this work, both Hester and Frances emerge as physically and psychically strong entities who were forced to adopt socially conformist personae to survive.

This thesis contextualises Austen’s novel within the issues of political economy contemporary to its publication, especially those associated with an emerging credit economy. It argues that the problem of determining the value of character is a central one and the source of much of the novel’s irony: the novel sets the narrator’s model of value against the models through which the various other characters understand value. Through language that represents character as the currency and as a commodity in a credit economy, Mansfield Park engages with the problems of value raised by an economy in flux. Austen uses this slipperiness of language to represent social interactions as a series of intricate economic transactions, revealing the irony of social exchanges and the expectations they engender, both within and without the context of courtship. / Graduate