Includes errata tipped in between leaf 224 and 225. / Bibliography: leaves 226-238. / 238 leaves ; 30 cm / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Adelaide University, Dept. of English, 2001

The current study investigates changing attitudes to militarism within Israeli society since the tumultuous decades following 1948. Events leading to the current state of Israeli society will be traced in order to illustrate the way in which change occurs. The shifts in Israeli history and society during these decades will be examined alongside developments in Israeli literature. Accordingly, eight works of fiction have been selected to lie at the heart of the study. These works, all of which centre around the Israeli military experience, convey an erosion of personal, national, and ideological certainties. The analysis of these works demands three areas of exploration: the depiction of the soldier in the civilian setting, the depiction of the soldier as he interacts with other soldiers in the military sphere, and ‘post-Zionist’ military fiction produced in recent decades. These three areas of exploration entail an interrogation of gender, nationalism, and ‘post-Zionism’ in contemporary Israel. The works examined in the third chapter contain commentary not only upon the social reality of their authors, but also upon the way in which Israeli literature engages with the issues that inform its existence.This study is fuelled by the need to understand the links between history and fiction, as the latter grapples with the strain of ongoing military conflict. While Yitzhak Laor, Yehosha Kenaz, and Yoram Kaniuk have chosen to explore Israeli militarism through a re-narration of past chapters in Israeli history, Yitzhak Ben-Ner, Amos Oz, Etgar Keret and A. B. Yehoshua all comment on the events of their time. Some authors have identified this strain as a diminishing masculinity; others convey this burden as a direct corollary of shifting truths about Israeli nationalism.

Zugl.: Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Diss.

Based on the author's Thesis (doctoral--Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1995). / Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-240).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-02-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:55:28Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 moraes_jl_me_assis.pdf: 10363074 bytes, checksum: a03b9aef55133f49c70fb31f2d74fd0d (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / São Paulo surge nos primórdios do século XX como grande pólo econômico devido ao café que regia a cidade, o sudeste do país, especialmente, e trazia benefícios nos aspectos: econômico, político e cultural. Sob essas condições, a cidade de São Paulo civiliza-se, acentuam-se também as transformações e as revistas e jornais se constituem como meio de entretenimento para a sociedade burguesa e como divulgação para a literatura. O presente trabalho, partindo da premissa de que a Literatura é fruto de seu tempo e que é indissociável da sociedade que está ao seu redor, estudou a revista A Vida Moderna (1907- 1922), que participou e interagiu no processo de criação de novos costumes, valores e comportamentos na cidade de São Paulo. Neste periódico, encontramos textos de autores consagrados e também de outros menos conhecidos, além de notícias e notas sobre a vida e as personalidades importantes desse momento paulista. No capítulo 1, contextualizamos a revista na cidade de São Paulo, mostramos o momento político, econômico e cultural da cidade. No capítulo 2 recuperamos o formato pelo qual o periódico tornou-se um sucesso editorial e um empreendimento comercial de sucesso, assumindo o perfil de revista de variedades, com grande tiragem e estreita relação com a publicidade. No capítulo 3, reunimos informações sobre seus colaboradores _ autores, ilustradores, caricaturistas _ bem como sobre o público- leitor da época, o modo de se fazer a revista e as alterações realizadas ao longo dos anos. No capítulo 4, fizemos uma coletânea dos poucos, mas significativos textos de literatura e de cultura portuguesas publicados no periódico. A maior parte dos textos literários portugueses são de autores canônicos como Camões (século XVI), Padre António Vieira (Século XVII), Alexandre Herculano... / São Paulo city emerges at the beginnings of the 20th century as a huge economic pole due to the coffee agriculture that conducts the city of São Paulo, the southeastern side of the country, specially, and brings social, cultural and economical improvements. Under these conditions, São Paulo gets development and social progress, the transformations get harder where magazines and newspaper are a means of amusement of the burgeois society and a means of publishing literary texts. This master's dissertation considering that Literature is a product of its social time and it is part of the society it concerns to, proposes to study A Vida Moderna (1907-1922) (The Modern Life) magazine which participated and interacted in the process of creation of new habits, values and behaviors in the city of São Paulo. In this magazine, we find literary texts by wellknown authors as well as unknown ones, besides news and some notes about lives of important persons of São Paulo city. In chapter one, we contextualized the magazine in São Paulo town, showing the politic al, economic and cultural moment of the city. In the 2nd chapter, we review the time the magazine became a successful publishing business as a magazine of variety contents and a good sale one with a slight relation with merchandising. In chapter 3, we collect information about the magazine collaborators_ authors, illustrators, caricaturists _ as well as the reader of that time, the way of writing/publishing the magazine and the modifications it got all over the years. In chapter 4, we did a collection of a few but very meaningful texts about Portuguese culture and literature published in The Modern Life. The most part of the literary text authors are very wellknown ones as Camoens (16th century), the priest Antonio Vieira... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

This thesis examines Spanish representations of Muslim and Jewish cultures in Morocco during the colonial campaigns in the Rif (1909-1927) in relation to constructions of Spanish identity during this period. It focuses on visual and textual narratives in the press (colonial photojournalism) and on three literary texts: Carmen de Burgos' En la guerra (1909), Ernesto Giménez Caballero's Notas marruecas de un soldado (1923) and Arturo Barea's La ruta (1943). The analysis undertaken centres on the use of the motifs of the body and the city and references to the medieval Castilian ballad tradition, the Romancero, by writers and photographers to explore the cultural relationship between Spain and North Africa. The chapters explore the delineation of boundaries between Spanish and Moroccan cultures by contemporary commentators and the power structures that underpin those boundaries, considering the different hierarchies that are established in Spain's relationship with Moroccan Muslims and Jews. Chapter 1 concerns the socio-historical context of the colonial campaigns and highlights the significance of the question of Spain's identity in relation to Morocco during this period. Chapter 2 compares representations of cultural and ethnic affinity between Spain and Morocco, arguing that beyond merely serving as a tool of colonial domination, they are harnessed in some cases to support the colonial venture, in others to challenge it, and yet in others to explore the pre-modern origins of the Spanish nation. In many of the examples examined, a process of self-Orientalisation is observed, where the 'Orientalist' and colonialist gaze is turned back on Spain as well as on Morocco. Chapter 3 examines representations of Muslim and Jewish alterity, arguing that these assertions of difference reveal Spanish anxieties about non-difference from North Africa, cultural regression, national fragmentation, and Spain's ability to dominate the protectorate. I conclude that these anxieties provide the fundamental underpinning to Spanish constructions of Morocco during the Rif War, and that this self-awareness about non-difference and failures of domination unsettles the predominant paradigm of discourse analysis within colonial studies.

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Le second tiers du XIXe siècle correspond à un moment d’intenses mutations au sein du champ éditorial : avec l’entrée de l’imprimé dans l’ère de la production et de la consommation de masse, c’est le statut du livre lui-même qui se trouve remis en question. On assiste dès lors aux prémices d’une nouvelle forme de bibliophilie, qui se construit en tournant le dos aux normes de la librairie contemporaine pour privilégier, à l’inverse, des valeurs de singularité et de rareté. Or, un certain nombre d’auteurs, parmi lesquels Charles Nodier, Paul Lacroix, les frères Goncourt, Gérard de Nerval ou encore Octave Uzanne, s’adonnent eux-mêmes à la passion des livres anciens ou précieux, et en nourrissent plusieurs de leurs textes. Cette étude vise précisément à mettre en lumière les rapports étroits qui unissent tout au long du XIXe siècle pratiques bibliophiliques et création littéraire. Au croisement de l’histoire du livre, de l’analyse textuelle, et de l’histoire littéraire, la bibliophilie s’affirme comme un objet éminemment poétique, un répertoire complexe de motifs et de représentations liés au livre. Dans le même temps, elle se présente comme une pratique socio-culturelle singulière qui contribue à mettre au jour les tensions liées à l’irruption de la modernité industrielle dans la production et la transmission de l’imprimé. / Around 1830, the publishing sector experiences numerous shifts : with the printing system submitting itself to new mass producing principles, the status of the book itself is at stake. From this moment on, we witness the beginnings of a new form of bibliophilism, which builds itself by turning its back on the contemporary publishing standards. Some writers, amongst whom Charles Nodier, Paul Lacroix, the Goncourt brothers, Gérad de Nerval, or Octave Uzanne, are dedicated to collecting rare or valuable books, and find in this passion an inspiration for their own work. This study aims at showing the strength of the links between bibliophilism and writing during all of the XIXtch century. At the intersection of several disciplines such as book history, stylistic analysis, or history of literature, bibliophilism appears as a strongly poetical object and as a complex compilation of themes and topics about books. At the same time, bibliophilism ca be defined as a singular socio-cultural habit, that allows us to perceive all the tensions arisen by the development of modern and industrial ways of producing and selling books.

MENDES, Francisco Fabiano de Freitas. Ponto de fuga tempo, fome, fala e poder em Vidas Secas e São Bernardo. 2004. 204f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em História, Fortaleza (CE), 2004. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-10-10T12:47:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2004-DIS-FFFMENDES.pdf: 1332830 bytes, checksum: 5608d77146bbdc3341ff461be59566c9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-10-10T14:12:27Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2004-DIS-FFFMENDES.pdf: 1332830 bytes, checksum: 5608d77146bbdc3341ff461be59566c9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-10-10T14:12:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2004-DIS-FFFMENDES.pdf: 1332830 bytes, checksum: 5608d77146bbdc3341ff461be59566c9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / The books by Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953) form a rich and varied subject for researching History, heading for the relation with the literary source. In this work, I focus on the interior of the northeast of Brazil depicted by that writer, starting from two of his novels – in fact, his masterpieces – “São Bernardo” (1934) and “Barren Lives” (1938), in order to analyse questions about the conflict between Graciliano Ramos and social transformations which embrace him, the registration by him on his own action as a committed man of letters and, finally, the power which accompanies the knowledge and the contact with the literary production – this weapon, the writing. In this way, this work is divided in chapters which deal with this subjects: time, hunger and speech, trying to understand the literary register on reality of northeastern interior of Brazil in the thirties last century. / A obra de Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953) constitui um rico e variado material para a pesquisa em história, enveredando pela relação com a fonte literária. Neste trabalho, foco minhas atenções para o interior do nordeste brasileiro retratado pelo escritor alagoano, tomando dois de seus romances de ficção, São Bernardo(1934) e Vidas Secas(1938), pilares de sua obra, para analisar as questões conflitantes entre o homem Graciliano e as transformações sociais que o envolvem, o registro da ação desse homem enquanto é observada sua própria ação como literato engajado e, por fim, o poder que acompanha o saber e o contato com a produção literária, também verificado nessa arma que é a escrita. Dessa forma, o trabalho se divide em capítulos que tratam de cada uma dessas questões: tempo, fome e fala, a fim de tentar compreender o registro literário da realidade do interior nordestino dos anos 30 do século passado.