This dissertation examines how news and information circulated among select colonies in the British and French Caribbean during a series of military conflicts from 1763 to 1804, including the American War of Independence (1775-1783), French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802), and the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). The colonies included in this study are Barbados, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint-Domingue. This dissertation argues that the sociopolitical upheaval experienced by colonial residents during these military conflicts led to an increased desire for news that was satiated by the development and improvement of many processes of collecting and distributing information. This dissertation looks at some of these processes, the ways in which select social groups both influenced and were affected by them, and why such phenomena occurred in the greater context of the 18th and early 19th century Caribbean at large. In terms of the types of processes, it examines various kinds of print culture, such as colonial newspapers, books, and almanacs, as well as correspondence records among different social groups. In terms of which groups are studied, these include printers, postal service workers, colonial and naval officials, and Catholic missionaries. The dissertation is divided into five chapters, the first of which provides insight into the operation of the mail service established in the aforementioned colonies, and the ways in which the Atlantic Revolutions impacted their service in terms of the different historical actors responsible for collecting and distributing correspondences. Chapter two looks at select British and French colonial printers, their print shops, and the book trade in the Caribbean isles during the 18th century. Chapter three delves into the colonial newspapers and compares the differences and similarities among government-sanctioned newspapers vis-à-vis independently produced papers. It uses the case of the Haitian Revolution to track how news of the slave insurrection was disseminated or constricted in the weeks immediately following the night of 22 August 1791. Chapter four examines the colonial almanac as a means of connecting colonial residents with people across the wider Atlantic World. It also surveys the development of these pocketbooks from mere astrological calendars to essential items that owners customized and frequently carried on their person, given the swathes of information they featured after the American War of Independence. The final chapter looks at the daily operations of Capuchin and Dominican missionaries in Martinique and Guadeloupe at the end of the 18th century and how they maintained their communications within the islands and with the heads of their Catholic orders in France, as well as in Rome. Overall, this project aims to fill in some of the gaps in the literature regarding how select British and French colonial residents received and dispatched information, and the effect this had in their respective Caribbean islands. It also sheds light on some of the ways that slaves were incorporated into the mechanisms by which information was collected and distributed, such as their encounters with printers, employment as couriers, and use as messengers to relay documents between colonial officials. In doing so, it hopes to encourage future discussion regarding how information moved in the British and French Caribbean amid periods of revolution and military conflict, how and why these processes changed, and the impact this had on print culture and mail systems in the post-revolutionary period of the 19th century.

This thesis discusses the ideals of behaviour which sought to govern family life and which were common currency in England and northern Europe, how they were constructed, and how the late medieval gentry and nobility interacted with them. Hagiography, sermons, and courtesy literature all explicitly sought to influence the views and behaviour of their audiences, whilst the letter collections of the Pastons, Plumptons, Stonors, Celys, and Armburghs offer an insight into the self-perceptions of the recipients of this didactic material. Much of this material has been studied, but it did not exist in a vacuum. Images in books, often marking key moments in a typical life-cycle, supported, extended, even contradicted the notions inculcated by these texts, were increasingly relevant to later medieval daily lives, and both influenced their audience and were used by their audience as a form of self-fashioning. The five chapters of this thesis each explore a different aspect of the medieval lifecycle. Chapters One and Two take the foundation of the household, marriage, as their starting point, discussing courtship and the ideal marriage ceremony, as well as the attributes and behaviour of the ideal spouse. Chapter Three turns to how this household operated on a wider scale, demonstrating how lords were caught between Christ's example and the pressures of lavish lay display when building networks of friendship. Chapter Four considers the genesis of a new generation: how images and texts conveyed sometimes different notions of the ideal mother and father, the location of the household as a place of learning, and the importance of models when shaping the development of the ideal child. Lastly, Chapter Five investigates the end of the lifecycle, death, and how images and texts worked together to propound the central medieval idea of a 'good death'. Consideration is given throughout this thesis to how the norms of behaviour communicated by texts and images may be studied.

Este trabalho traz a análise da obra Um Castelo no Pampa, de Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil, examinando as relações entre Literatura, História e Mito. Para tanto, direcionados pelos sinais míticos presentes na obra, investigamos, em um primeiro momento, o significado desses aspectos. Disso resultou a identificação dos mitos de origem. A seguir, empreendemos a pesquisa da História do Rio Grande do Sul, o que nos fez comprovar que a obra em análise faz a releitura crítica dos modelos consagrados pela historiografia positivista. Como as questões da História, na narrativa, sinalizam para a realização de uma escrita que tem como forma a metaficção historiográfica, nos termos de que nos fala Linda Hutcheon (Poética do Pós-Modernismo,1991), averiguamos sua íntima relação com a redação pósmoderna. Contemplamos o aspecto da historicidade pelo viés crítico, estabelecendo elos entre a Sociologia literária, a Crítica literária e a Literatura Comparada. Mostramos, enfim, como o autor imbricou fatos e personagens históricas do Rio Grande do Sul com sua narrativa ficcional para inverter as nossas expectativas e para que dialoguemos com o passado, que se apresenta fragmentado, em perspectiva com um tempo que ainda será construído, ou seja, um porvir mais real, menos fantasioso e, por isso mesmo, mais factível. / This paper analyzes the book Um Castelo no Pampa, written by Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil. It examines the relations among Literature, History and Myth. In the beginning, directed by the mythic signals present in the book, we analyzed the meaning of these aspects. And the result was the identification of of the myths of origin. Next we researched the history of Rio Grande do Sul. And this made us prove that the book rereads in a critical way the positivist historiography consacrated models. As History´s issues, the narrative signals to the writing in a metafiction historiographic way, as spoken by Linda Hutcheon (A Poetics of Postmodernism, 1991). And we also verified its intimate relation with post-modern writing. We contemplated the historicity issue by the critical bias, estabilishing links among Literary Sociology, Literary Criticism and Compared Literature. We concluded that the writer imbricated historical facts and historical characters of Rio Grande do Sul State in his fictional narrative to invert our expectancies. And also to make us dialogue with the past, which presents itself in a fragmented way, in a perspective that is yet to come and will be traced, more realistic, less imaginative, but more possible.

Este trabalho traz a análise da obra Um Castelo no Pampa, de Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil, examinando as relações entre Literatura, História e Mito. Para tanto, direcionados pelos sinais míticos presentes na obra, investigamos, em um primeiro momento, o significado desses aspectos. Disso resultou a identificação dos mitos de origem. A seguir, empreendemos a pesquisa da História do Rio Grande do Sul, o que nos fez comprovar que a obra em análise faz a releitura crítica dos modelos consagrados pela historiografia positivista. Como as questões da História, na narrativa, sinalizam para a realização de uma escrita que tem como forma a metaficção historiográfica, nos termos de que nos fala Linda Hutcheon (Poética do Pós-Modernismo,1991), averiguamos sua íntima relação com a redação pósmoderna. Contemplamos o aspecto da historicidade pelo viés crítico, estabelecendo elos entre a Sociologia literária, a Crítica literária e a Literatura Comparada. Mostramos, enfim, como o autor imbricou fatos e personagens históricas do Rio Grande do Sul com sua narrativa ficcional para inverter as nossas expectativas e para que dialoguemos com o passado, que se apresenta fragmentado, em perspectiva com um tempo que ainda será construído, ou seja, um porvir mais real, menos fantasioso e, por isso mesmo, mais factível. / This paper analyzes the book Um Castelo no Pampa, written by Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil. It examines the relations among Literature, History and Myth. In the beginning, directed by the mythic signals present in the book, we analyzed the meaning of these aspects. And the result was the identification of of the myths of origin. Next we researched the history of Rio Grande do Sul. And this made us prove that the book rereads in a critical way the positivist historiography consacrated models. As History´s issues, the narrative signals to the writing in a metafiction historiographic way, as spoken by Linda Hutcheon (A Poetics of Postmodernism, 1991). And we also verified its intimate relation with post-modern writing. We contemplated the historicity issue by the critical bias, estabilishing links among Literary Sociology, Literary Criticism and Compared Literature. We concluded that the writer imbricated historical facts and historical characters of Rio Grande do Sul State in his fictional narrative to invert our expectancies. And also to make us dialogue with the past, which presents itself in a fragmented way, in a perspective that is yet to come and will be traced, more realistic, less imaginative, but more possible.

Este trabalho traz a análise da obra Um Castelo no Pampa, de Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil, examinando as relações entre Literatura, História e Mito. Para tanto, direcionados pelos sinais míticos presentes na obra, investigamos, em um primeiro momento, o significado desses aspectos. Disso resultou a identificação dos mitos de origem. A seguir, empreendemos a pesquisa da História do Rio Grande do Sul, o que nos fez comprovar que a obra em análise faz a releitura crítica dos modelos consagrados pela historiografia positivista. Como as questões da História, na narrativa, sinalizam para a realização de uma escrita que tem como forma a metaficção historiográfica, nos termos de que nos fala Linda Hutcheon (Poética do Pós-Modernismo,1991), averiguamos sua íntima relação com a redação pósmoderna. Contemplamos o aspecto da historicidade pelo viés crítico, estabelecendo elos entre a Sociologia literária, a Crítica literária e a Literatura Comparada. Mostramos, enfim, como o autor imbricou fatos e personagens históricas do Rio Grande do Sul com sua narrativa ficcional para inverter as nossas expectativas e para que dialoguemos com o passado, que se apresenta fragmentado, em perspectiva com um tempo que ainda será construído, ou seja, um porvir mais real, menos fantasioso e, por isso mesmo, mais factível. / This paper analyzes the book Um Castelo no Pampa, written by Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil. It examines the relations among Literature, History and Myth. In the beginning, directed by the mythic signals present in the book, we analyzed the meaning of these aspects. And the result was the identification of of the myths of origin. Next we researched the history of Rio Grande do Sul. And this made us prove that the book rereads in a critical way the positivist historiography consacrated models. As History´s issues, the narrative signals to the writing in a metafiction historiographic way, as spoken by Linda Hutcheon (A Poetics of Postmodernism, 1991). And we also verified its intimate relation with post-modern writing. We contemplated the historicity issue by the critical bias, estabilishing links among Literary Sociology, Literary Criticism and Compared Literature. We concluded that the writer imbricated historical facts and historical characters of Rio Grande do Sul State in his fictional narrative to invert our expectancies. And also to make us dialogue with the past, which presents itself in a fragmented way, in a perspective that is yet to come and will be traced, more realistic, less imaginative, but more possible.

The thesis takes the French revue Lignes (1987-present) as its object of study to provide a new account of French intellectual culture over the last twenty-five years. Whilst there are now many studies covering the role of such revues throughout the twentieth-century, the majority of such monographs extend no further than the mid-1980s: the major novelty of this thesis is extending these accounts up until the present moment. It is largely assumed that a reaction against the Marxist and structuralist theories of the 1960s and 1970s led to embrace of liberalism and an intellectual drift to the right in France from the 1980s onwards: whilst largely supporting this account, the thesis attempts to nuance this narrative of the fate of the intellectual left in the following years by showing the persistence of what can be called a politicised 'French theory' in Lignes, and a returning left-wing militancy in recent years. In doing so, it will both reveal under-studied aspects of well-known thinkers, such as Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, as their thought develops through their participation in a collaborative, periodical publication, and introduce lesser known thinkers who have not received an extended readership in Anglophone spheres. Lignes also argues for the continued persistence and relevance of the thought of a previous generation of thinkers, notably Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot and Dionys Mascolo, and the thesis concludes by examining the potential role 'French Theory' could still have in France. Furthermore, as revues provide a unique nexus of intellectual, cultural, social and political concerns, the thesis also provides a unique history of France from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the 2007 financial crisis and the Arab Spring. Much of the thesis is concerned with contextualising intellectual debates within a period characterised by the moralisation of discourses, a return of religion, the global installation of neo-liberalism and the eruption of immigration as a controversial European issue. From a relatively theoretical and politically stable position to the left of the Parti socialiste, Lignes therefore provides a privileged vantage point for the mutations in French social and cultural life throughout the period.

99 Summary The topic of this Diploma thesis focuses on Fictionalization of History in History Teaching. This area is closely connected with Eduard Štorch. Eduard Štorch was an amateur archaeologist, a very good writer and an undervalued teacher. Based on topics which he drew from a variety of archaeological research projects he created and wrote adventure stories which can be classified as somewhere between fiction and popular science stories in which he described oldest periods of Czech history. His books are still recognised today as the very best of their kind and they have been translated into a number of foreign languages. As a teacher, Štorch did his utmost to improve children's education. At his own expense and almost single-handedly he built a "Children's Farm" on Libeňský ostrov in Prague. It was meant as a place for educating children not only inside a classroom but also in the middle of nature. Children from other schools in Prague were encouraged to use the outdoors facilities there in their free time as well. Eduard Štorch tried to promote and enforce changes in the teaching of all school subjects but concentrated on the teaching of history. For this purpose he published several books such as "The Reform of the History Taught at Schools" (Reforma školního dějepisu; 1905), "The New History"...

La présente étude porte sur l'expression de la mémoire féminine dans les fictions traitant de la guerre civile espagnole (1936-1939) et du franquisme. Elle s’intéresse plus particulièrement aux œuvres publiées depuis la fin de la dictature (1975) jusqu’en 2010, en français (Agustin Gomez-Arcos et Mercedes Deambrosis) et en espagnol (Dulce Chacón, Carme Riera, Josefina Aldecoa, Jesús Ferrero, Marifé Santiago Bolaños et Ángeles Caso). <p>Nous nous attachons d’abord à l’étude globale des représentations des expériences féminines de la guerre et de la répression. Dans l’écriture des violences subies comme dans celle des luttes et résistances, la double dimension politique et de genre émerge. L’analyse se resserre ensuite sur les représentations du traumatisme, entre manifestations pathologiques et tentatives de ritualisation. Nous montrons à cet égard comment le récit peut assumer une fonction rituelle.<p>La « poétique du traumatisme » mise au jour dans le corpus d’étude qualifie des réalisations formelles diverses, rassemblées en trois ensembles, correspondant à autant de lieux possibles d’ancrage du traumatisme :le rapport générationnel, le corps et la voix. Une attention spéciale est accordée à la figure de la victime. Des phénomènes tels que la répétition et la délinéarisation, apparaissant à divers niveaux du récit, éclairent le rapport que les fictions entretiennent avec le passé ainsi que leurs positions éthiques et politiques dans le présent de la démocratie. <p><p>The current study explores the expression of women’s memory in literary works dealing with the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and Francoism. It focuses on the fictional narratives published between the end of the dictatorship (1975) and 2010, in French (Agustin Gomez-Arcos and Mercedes Deambrosis) and Spanish (Dulce Chacón Carme Riera, Josefina Aldecoa, Jesús Ferrero, Marifé Santiago Bolaños and Ángeles Caso).<p>The thesis first conducts a global analysis on the representations of women’s experiences of war and repression. In the writing of violence, struggle and resistance, the double political and gendered dimension emerges. The research focuses subsequently on the trauma representations, between pathological manifestations and ritual attempts, and shows how narrative can assume a ritual function.<p>The « poetics of trauma » characterises various formal realisations, divided into three groups. Each of them embodies a possible space for the inscription of trauma :the generational link, the body and the voice. Special attention is given to the figure of the victim. Phenomena such as repetition and delinearisation, that appear at various levels, clarify the relationship that fictional narratives build with the past as well as their ethical and political positions in the democracy. / Doctorat en Langues et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished