La thèse entend proposer un commentaire de la Chanson de Roland, fondé sur l'analyse minutieuse de toutes les variantes qui nous soient parvenues. Cette prise en considération de l'ensemble des versions françaises, rompant avec le dogme de la précellence du manuscrit d'Oxford, s'explique logiquement par la nature mouvante des œuvres médiévales, mais s'enracine aussi dans la conviction d'une texture mythique du poème de Roncevaux. Aussi le recours à la mythologie comparée constitue-t-il une ligne de force majeure du présent travail : s'inscrivant dans la tradition des études indo-européennes telles que Georges Dumézil a contribué à les fonder, la thèse propose une comparaison morphologique entre les mythes de Baldr et de Roland. Cet essai de mythologie comparée forme un premier temps dans l'analyse de la texture mythique du poème et peut être considéré comme autonome. Il s'articule cependant avec le travail de comparaison typologique qui lui succède. La thèse se propose en effet d'étudier la Chanson de Roland à la lumière de l'hypothèse victimaire élaborée par René Girard, qui permet de penser sous un jour nouveau l'esthétique et l'idéologie de la chanson de geste. De fait, la poétique de la répétition et l'art de la symétrie sont justiciables de la théorie du désir mimétique, tout comme la crise épique entretient des analogies étroites avec le modèle de la crise sacrificielle. C'est autour de la question anthropologique de la violence et de l'ambiguïté de la figure du guerrier mythique que ce travail réconcilie deux méthodes réputées incompatibles et pourtant complémentaires dans l'analyse qu'elles proposent de l'ambivalence des héros épiques. / This doctoral thesis intends to propose a commentary of the Chanson de Roland, based on a meticulous analysis of all the variants which have reached posterity. By paying close attention to the whole of French versions and by refusing to comment the sole manuscript of Oxford, as most of scholars do, we comply with the unsettled nature of medieval poetry and furthermore support the idea that the Chanson de Roland should be considered as a myth. The comparative mythology thus constitutes a main thrust of this work : in the tradition on Indo-european studies as founded by Georges Dumézil, we compare the myth of Roland to the myth of Balder, on a morphological level. The essay of comparative mythology is the first part of our commentary and could be regarded as self-reliant. However, it forms a single entity with the essay of typological comparison which follows. The thesis actually intends to interpret the poem in the light of the theory developed by René Girard, which allows to analyze the aesthetics and the ideology of the chanson de geste in a new light. The poetic of repetition and the art of symmetry are closely linked to the hypothesis of mimetic desire, just like the epic crisis is closely linked to the model of the sacrificial crisis. By studying the anthropological question of violence and the ambiguous figure of mythical warrior, this work combines two approaches, deemed to be irreconcilable and nevertheless complementary, in the sense that they interpret in the same way the ambivalence of epic heroes.

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2017-01-26T12:02:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 GideanaSousa.pdf: 2682729 bytes, checksum: 5ec57ecb335f020e008c123896e1f756 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-26T12:02:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GideanaSousa.pdf: 2682729 bytes, checksum: 5ec57ecb335f020e008c123896e1f756 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-20 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / This dissertation presents the results of research on Silas Malafaia - a well-known lecturer between evangelicals and among non- evangelicals in Brazil that uses the TV feature for about 33 years , where it holds programs with different formats over the years ; and an incisive speech relevant influence on many followers . His preaching condemns abortion , drug use and what sees as increasing the privileges of homosexuals , while he took the theology of prosperity. Using the theory of Mimetic Mechanism René Girard , and studying the context in which it was created and who was related from its beginnings , this research studies the evolution and positioning changes Silas Malafaia and the influence of his desire models. We will analyze in particular the transition to a more conservative theology Assembly of God to join the Positive Confession and Prosperity Theology, and the use of media not only toward Christians, but as a trade tool , which once fought . It started from the hypothesis that Silas Malafaia change his speech and preaching in that it takes as models of desire televangelists American pastors , as Morris Cerullo and Mike Murdock , who work in television media and are considered successful pastors. That the analysis , we differentiate two types of desire models - according to the mimetic desire theory of René Girard - in the life of Silas Malafaia : internal mediation models and external mediation. It is hoped that this work can contribute to the reflections on René Girard 's theory and for studies concerning the Assembleiano Pentecostalism and its various possibilities. / Esta dissertação de mestrado apresenta os resultados da pesquisa sobre Silas Malafaia – um conferencista conhecido entre evangélicos e entre não-evangélicos no Brasil que se utiliza do recurso televisivo há cerca de 33 anos, onde detém programas com formatos diversificados ao longo dos anos; e um discurso incisivo de relevante influência sobre muitos seguidores. Sua pregação condena o aborto, o uso de drogas e o que enxerga como aumento dos privilégios dos homossexuais, ao mesmo tempo em que assumiu a teologia da prosperidade. Usando da teoria do Mecanismo Mimético de René Girard, e estudando o contexto no qual foi criado e com quem se relacionou desde os seus primórdios, esta pesquisa estuda a evolução e mudanças de posicionamento de Silas Malafaia e a influência dos seus modelos de desejo. Analisaremos em particular a sua transição de uma teologia mais conservadora da Assembleia de Deus para adesão à Confissão Positiva e Teologia da Prosperidade, e a utilização da Mídia não apenas voltada para cristãos, mas como ferramenta de comercio, que antes combatia. Parte-se da hipótese de que Silas Malafaia muda seu discurso e pregação na medida em que assume como modelos de desejo pastores norte-americanos teleevangelistas, como Morris Cerullo e Mike Murdock, que atuam na mídia televisiva e são considerados pastores bem-sucedidos. Nessa na análise, diferenciamos dois tipos de modelos de desejo, -- de acordo com a teoria de desejo mimético de René Girard -- na vida de Silas Malafaia: modelos de mediação interna e os de mediação externa. Espera-se que este trabalho possa contribuir para as reflexões sobre a teoria de René Girard e também para estudos concernentes ao Pentecostalismo Assembleiano e suas diversas possibilidades.

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This dissertation will explore the way Philip treats puppets and masks as pseudo-sacred objects in order to maintain control in Angela Carter’s work The Magic Toyshop. To show the implications of the pseudo-sacred, I will use Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard that examines the way primitive cultures are able to maintain order through particular religious beliefs and collective violence against a scapegoat. My critical reading of the text will look closely at how Philip uses the pseudo-sacred to build up the community. When the pseudo-sacred is finally called into question the community is threatened. Although Philip attempts to deflect blame onto the scapegoat Melanie, he fails as there is no social buy-in, leading to the destruction of the community. While the house is burned down destroying the puppets and masks, presumably along with Philip, the pseudo-sacred still has the chance of being perpetuated through Finn’s own obsession with power and control.

This thesis presents a critical analysis of normalisation by evaluation as a technique for speeding up compilation of typed functional programming languages. Our investigation focuses on the SML.NET compiler and its typed intermediate language MIL. We implement and measure the performance of normalisation by evaluation for MIL across a range of benchmarks. Taking a different approach, we also implement and measure the performance of a graph-based shrinking reductions algorithm for SML.NET. MIL is based on Moggi’s computational metalanguage. As a stepping stone to normalisation by evaluation, we investigate strong normalisation of the computational metalanguage by introducing an extension of Girard-Tait reducibility. Inspired by previous work on local state and parametric polymorphism, we define reducibility for continuations and more generally reducibility for frame stacks. First we prove strong normalistion for the computational metalanguage. Then we extend that proof to include features of MIL such as sums and exceptions. Taking an incremental approach, we construct a collection of increasingly sophisticated normalisation by evaluation algorithms, culminating in a range of normalisation algorithms for MIL. Congruence rules and alpha-rules are captured by a compositional parameterised semantics. Defunctionalisation is used to eliminate eta-rules. Normalisation by evaluation for the computational metalanguage is introduced using a monadic semantics. Variants in which the monadic effects are made explicit, using either state or control operators, are also considered. Previous implementations of normalisation by evaluation with sums have relied on continuation-passing-syle or control operators. We present a new algorithm which instead uses a single reference cell and a zipper structure. This suggests a possible alternative way of implementing Filinski’s monadic reflection operations. In order to obtain benchmark results without having to take into account all of the features of MIL, we implement two different techniques for eliding language constructs. The first is not semantics-preserving, but is effective for assessing the efficiency of normalisation by evaluation algorithms. The second is semantics-preserving, but less flexible. In common with many intermediate languages, but unlike the computational metalanguage, MIL requires all non-atomic values to be named. We use either control operators or state to ensure each non-atomic value is named. We assess our normalisation by evaluation algorithms by comparing them with a spectrum of progressively more optimised, rewriting-based normalisation algorithms. The SML.NET front-end is used to generate MIL code from ML programs, including the SML.NET compiler itself. Each algorithm is then applied to the generated MIL code. Normalisation by evaluation always performs faster than the most naıve algorithms— often by orders of magnitude. Some of the algorithms are slightly faster than normalisation by evaluation. Closer inspection reveals that these algorithms are in fact defunctionalised versions of normalisation by evaluation algorithms. Our normalisation by evaluation algorithms perform unrestricted inlining of functions. Unrestricted inlining can lead to a super-exponential blow-up in the size of target code with respect to the source. Furthermore, the worst-case complexity of compilation with unrestricted inlining is non-elementary in the size of the source code. SML.NET alleviates both problems by using a restricted form of normalisation based on Appel and Jim’s shrinking reductions. The original algorithm is quadratic in the worst case. Using a graph-based representation for terms we implement a compositional linear algorithm. This speeds up the time taken to perform shrinking reductions by up to a factor of fourteen, which leads to an improvement of up to forty percent in total compile time.

The Mimetic Theory (MT) of René Girard promises a new landscape for the humanities. In this paper I will outline MT, giving a brief overview of the terrain and how the theory works, defend MT against criticisms made against it, and argue that MT ought to be evaluated by a wider academic audience. / Thesis (Master, Philosophy) -- Queen's University, 2013-06-03 14:15:30.176

Previous literature indicates the opercular bone as a useful tool for the determination of age and growth of fish. The reliability and validity of this method is tested for two populations of Utah chub. Age and growth are calculated for 222 Utah chub collected from Panguitch Lake and 212 Utah chub collected from Navajo Lake, southern Utah, in 1952-1953 from both scales and opercular bones. Scales are measured with the aid of a projector. Opercular bones are measured directly. The center of growth of the opercular bone is posterior to the posterior lip of the fulcrum. Correction for curvature is necessary in opercular bone measurements. The body-scale relationships for both populations are linear. The body-opercular bone relationships for both populations are slightly curvilinear. Agreement of dominant age classes for successive years, agreement of empirical length-frequency modes of young fish with calculated length-frequency modes of lower age classes, agreement of ages as indicated by scales and opercular bones, agreement of age with sexually immature fish and an increase in length with an increase in age are accepted as evidence for both methods. Opercular bones have less variation for calculated lengths in older age classes while the scales have less variation in the younger age classes. The scale method is a generally more efficient method for determining the age and growth of the Utah chub.

Le présent travail propose une réflexion sur l'aspect social des émotions par l'entremise d'un examen de la dimension conflictuelle de 3 émotions: le désir, la honte et le dégoût. L'aspect problématique de ces émotions se situe au niveau de leur hypertrophie, en ce qu'elle encourage une emphase sur le soi, sur l'autosuffisance et la toute-puissance de l'individu, ce qui se traduit par des répercussions interpersonnelles, notamment la réduction marquée de la diversité des relations humaines qu'entretient l'individu avec les autres, et intrapersonnelles, particulièrement la narcotisation de l'identité individuelle. Cette réflexion est animée par la pensée de 3 principaux auteurs: celle de René Girard et de Martha C. Nussbaum afin d'explorer, pour chaque émotion, les implications de leur hypertrophie chez l'individu, puis de l'incidence du contexte social sur l'hypertrophie de ces émotions; celle d'Hannah Arendt afin de mieux comprendre la dynamique des relations humaines et comme palliatif à ces répercussions interpersonnelles et intrapersonnelles.

Le présent travail propose une réflexion sur l'aspect social des émotions par l'entremise d'un examen de la dimension conflictuelle de 3 émotions: le désir, la honte et le dégoût. L'aspect problématique de ces émotions se situe au niveau de leur hypertrophie, en ce qu'elle encourage une emphase sur le soi, sur l'autosuffisance et la toute-puissance de l'individu, ce qui se traduit par des répercussions interpersonnelles, notamment la réduction marquée de la diversité des relations humaines qu'entretient l'individu avec les autres, et intrapersonnelles, particulièrement la narcotisation de l'identité individuelle. Cette réflexion est animée par la pensée de 3 principaux auteurs: celle de René Girard et de Martha C. Nussbaum afin d'explorer, pour chaque émotion, les implications de leur hypertrophie chez l'individu, puis de l'incidence du contexte social sur l'hypertrophie de ces émotions; celle d'Hannah Arendt afin de mieux comprendre la dynamique des relations humaines et comme palliatif à ces répercussions interpersonnelles et intrapersonnelles.

Ce mémoire a pour sujet la démarche artistique de François Girard, plus précisément son plus récent long-métrage, Silk, sorti en 2007. Cette coproduction internationale a été le lieu de multiples et fructueuses rencontres interculturelles et le film traduit une importante réflexion sur l'altérité, l'interculturalité et, ultimement, l'intermédialité. Nous nous intéressons donc à la manière dont le réalisateur intègre dans son art et dans son film l'apport culturel de l'Autre afin de réfléchir sur les rapports entre Orient et Occident. Pour réaliser ce film, il s'est notamment inspiré de la peinture sinojaponaise et de la poétique du haïku: la forme même du film fait écho à l'histoire transculturelle d'Hervé Joncour. En plus d'être caractérisé par la mise en contact de plusieurs cultures, le projet de Girard, en tant qu'adaptation cinématographique, s'appuie sur un autre rapport d'altérité, c'est-à-dire la différence entre deux démarches artistiques et deux médias distincts. En effet, le réalisateur s'est réapproprié le roman d'Alessandro Barrico intitulé Seta, en tâchant de réconcilier sa liberté créatrice et sa volonté d'être « fidèle» au texte écrit. Dans le but de montrer combien il est réducteur de juger de la qualité d'une telle adaptation uniquement en fonction d'un critère de fidélité, nous nous attardons au travail de (ré)écriture de Girard. Il est un artiste qui prône, à travers son oeuvre, non seulement la fusion entre les arts, mais aussi le dialogue entre les cultures. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : François Girard, Silk, altérité, adaptation cinématographique, réécriture, transferts culturels, (néo) japonisme