A Pena do Cronista tem como proposta evidenciar a contribuição do gênero crônica na produção ficcional de Machado de Assis. Tendo como pressuposto duas fases distintas na produção romanesca do escritor carioca já exaustivamente pontuadas pela crítica literária machadiana, a análise deste trabalho desenvolve a hipótese de que a mudança na forma romanesca a partir de Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas tem implica o uso dos procedimentos composicionais desenvolvidos nas crônicas. Para tanto, o objetivo dessa tese é compreender, a partir da análise estrutural do romance Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas e das crônicas Comentários da Semana, Crônicas de O Futuro, Ao Acaso, História de Quinze Dias, História de Trinta Dias e Notas Semanais, os modos de produção ficcional desenvolvidos pelo autor. Desse modo, respaldando-se na narratologia de Gerard Genette, sobretudo nos conceitos de metalepse e as cinco funções do narrador - de regência, testemunhal, narrativa, de comunicação e ideológica -, a análise desenvolveu a compreensão estrutural dos quatro romances anteriores da chamada primeira fase - Ressurreição, A Mão e A Luva, Helena e Iaiá Garcia - (os quais compõem a chamada primeira fase) e os três posteriores - Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, Quincas Borba e Dom Casmurro para evidenciar suas particularidades composicionais e observar a contribuição do gênero crônica na produção romanesca machadiana. Partindo da análise dos primeiros textos escritos em prosa e publicados no jornal Marmota Fluminense, buscamos compreender os modos de utilização dos procedimentos retóricos baseados em Oliver Reboul, Chaïm Perelman e Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. Para compreender os diferentes modos técnicos composicionais nas crônicas, utilizamo-nos dos conceitos de discurso polêmico, dialogismo e polifonia recorrendo a trabalhos do círculo de Bakhtin, ao conceito de corporalidade, de Dominique Maingueneau, de performatividade de Paul Zumthor e de autor implicado de Wolfgang Iser e Paul Ricoeur. Em capítulo específico tratamos do conceito de boato desenvolvido por Jean-Noël Kapferer, observando tanto a conceituação quanto a utilização desse procedimento nas crônicas, bem como o recurso ficcional do boato aplicado no romance Dom Casmurro em três perspectivas: o boato do autor suposto, o boato do romance e o boato produzido pelas leituras do romance. Por fim, para estabelecer as diferenças entre os modos de produção das crônicas e dos romances, utilizamos os conceitos de poder, disciplina, panóptico, verdade, método arqueológico, método genealógico, perspectivismo e arbitrariedade de Michel Foucault e os conceitos de esquizoanálise, significante despótico, multiplicidades rizomáticas e multiplicidades arborescentes de Guilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari. Essa diferenciação permitiu-nos propor que, nas crônicas, o autor faz uso rico desses procedimentos como meio de questionar os lugares de produção dos discursos de verdade das instituições científicas, políticas e religiosas do Brasil Império; e, supostos esses sujeito discursivo e procedimentos técnicos, o modo como o autor transforma em objeto de análise esse lugar de produção da verdade nos três primeiros romances da segunda fase. / The Chroniclers Pen has as a proposal to highlight the contribution of the chronicle genre in the fictional production of Machado de Assis. Taking into consideration the fact that there are two distinct phases in the carioca novelists production - already exaustively demonstrated by literary criticism on Machado - this analysis will be based on the hypothesis that the change in his literary form from The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (1881) onwards is intimately related to compositional procedures developed in his chronicle work. The central objective of this thesis is, therefore, the better understanding - from the structural analysis of the novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and the chronicles Comentários da Semana (Weeks Comments), Crônicas de O Futuro (Chronicles of the Future), Ao Acaso (By Chance), História de Quinze Dias (History of Fifteen Days), História de Trinta Dias (History of Thirty Days) and Notas Semanais Weekly Notes) - of the fictional modes of production undertaken by the author. Thereby, drawing on Gerard Genettes narratology particularly on his concepts of metalepsis and the five functions of the narrator regency, testimonial, narrative, communication and ideological this analysis developed the structural comprehension of the four novels that are part of his so-called first phase The Hand and the Glove (1874); Helen (1876); Mistress Garcia (1878); and the three later The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas; Philosopher or Dog? (1891) and Dom Casmurro (1899) in order to highlight their particular formal aspects and observe the contribution the chronicle genre gave to the production of Machados novels. Based on the analysis of the first texts written in prose and published in Marmota Fluminense newspaper, we seek to understand the ways Machado de Assis makes use of rhetorical procedures with the aid of theoretical apparatus developed by Oliver Reboul, Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca. In order for us to understand the different formal devices of composition in the chronicles, we make use of the concepts of \"controversial speech\", \"dialogism\" and \"polyphony\" with reference to the Bakhtin Circles works, on Dominique Maingueneaus concept of corporeality, on Paul Zumthors performativity and, finally, on Wolfgang Iser and Paul Ricoeurs implicated author. In particular chapter we deal with the concept of rumor developed by Jean-Noël Kapferer, examining both the conceptualization and the use of this procedure in chronicle as well as the fictional feature rumor applied in the novel Lord Taciturn in three perspectives: the rumor of the alleged perpetrator, the rumor of romance and the rumor produced by the readings of the novel. Finally, in order to establish the differences between the modes of production of the novels and the chronicles, we use the concepts of power, discipline, panopticon, truth, archaeological method, genealogical method, perspectivism and arbitrariness of Michel Foucault and the concepts of schizoanalysis, significant despotic, rhizomatic multiplicities and arborescent multiplicities of Guilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. This distinction allowed us to realize that in the chronicles, the chronicler makes a rich use of these procedures as a way to question the place of production of truth discourses in scientific, political and religious institutions of empire of Brazil, and from this conclusion, how it constitutes this discursive subject as an author in the three novels of the second phase. Machado de Assis, through these procedures, makes that place of production of truth his object of analysis.

Submitted by LILIANE PEREIRA SOARES DO NASCIMENTO null (lipsn30@gmail.com) on 2017-03-26T01:35:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ficção, representação e imaginário - a invenção da Amazônia nos romances De ouro e de Amazônia e Rum para Rondônia.pdf: 1451169 bytes, checksum: f9580f50b39ce50e52f93b1a1f8431e9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-03-29T17:13:18Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 nascimento_lps_dr_sjrp.pdf: 1451169 bytes, checksum: f9580f50b39ce50e52f93b1a1f8431e9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-29T17:13:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 nascimento_lps_dr_sjrp.pdf: 1451169 bytes, checksum: f9580f50b39ce50e52f93b1a1f8431e9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A pesquisa aqui apresentada promove uma leitura de dois romances brasileiros da década de 1980: De ouro e de Amazônia, de Oswaldo França Júnior, e Rum para Rondônia, de Luiz Roncari, a fim de observar de que modo as duas narrativas representam tanto o deslocamento geográfico dos dois protagonistas, como os seus descentramentos íntimos, ambos envoltos na atmosfera sociocultural e política da chamada “década perdida”. Um, empurrado pela recessão econômica; o outro, desgastado pelo embate com as formas de representações de poder instituídas depois do golpe militar de 1964. Um, em busca de ouro; o outro, em fuga de tudo e de todos. Ambos migrantes que veem em Rondônia uma representação do “Eldorado”. Tais romances, como já se pode depreender, valem-se da estratégia narrativa de tensionar as fronteiras entre ficção e realidade, advindo daí o nosso objetivo que é demonstrar, por um lado, quais procedimentos narrativos e linguísticos são articulados para compor literariamente alguns traços da identidade e do imaginário da sociedade brasileira das décadas de 1970 e 1980 e, por extensão, dado o perfil escolhido pelos romancistas para compor os seus protagonistas, alguns aspectos do imaginário sobre a Amazônia rodoniense. Para tanto, consideramos os estudos sobre representação literária a fim de compreender a complexa relação entre contexto social, ficção literária e imaginário. Interessa-nos, os estudos de Wolfgang Iser (1996,1999) sobre o fictício e o imaginário, as discussões filosóficas de Luiz Costa Lima (2006) sobre os conceitos de ficção e mímesis, as contribuições de Mikhail Bakhtin (1990), segundo as quais a matéria do romance é uma representação de diversas vozes sociais, o pensamento de Lukács, que aponta o romance como expressão de uma experiência conflitante entre o homem e o mundo, além dos ensinamentos de Antonio Candido (1965), sobretudo no que diz respeito à percepção de como os conteúdos da realidade são transcriados para constituírem a representação literária. Tendo por base tais reflexões, empreendemos o estudo de duas obras de pouca circulação no meio acadêmico, buscando entender o fato de os autores, de formações distintas, participarem da promoção de um imaginário sobre Rondônia, contribuindo para fixar o pensamento comum de “terra distante” em que os códigos de conduta seriam balizados por formas de exploração, pela desconfiança e pela violência, tudo isso emoldurado por uma natureza ao mesmo tempo inóspita e grandiosa. / The research presented here promotes the reading of two Brazilian novels of the 1980s: De ouro e de Amazônia (Of Gold and of Amazon), by Oswaldo França Júnior, and Rum para Rondônia (Rum for Rondônia), by Luiz Roncari, in order to observe how the two narratives represent not only the geographical displacement of the two protagonists but also their personal wanderings, both enveloped in the sociocultural and political atmosphere of the so-called "lost decade." One, driven by the economic recession; the other, worn out by the clash with the forms of power instituted after the military coup of 1964. One, in search of gold; the other, on the run from everything and everyone. Both migrants who see in Rondônia a representation of "Eldorado." Such novels, as can already be seen, employ the narrative strategy of tensing the boundaries between fiction and reality, arriving at our goal which is to show, on the one hand, which narrative and linguistic processes are articulated to compose literary traits of identity and illusion of the Brazilian society of the 1970s and 1980s, and on the other hand, given the profile chosen by the novelists to compose its protagonists, some aspects of illusion about the Rondônia Amazon. Therefore, we consider the studies on literary representation in order to understand the complex relationship between the social context, literary fiction and illusion. Of interest are the studies of Wolfgang Iser (1996, 1999) about the fictitious and the illusory, the philosophical discussions of Luiz Costa Lima (2006) on the concepts of fiction and mimesis, the contributions of Mikhail Bakhtin (1990), who indicates that the subject matter of novels is a representation of various social voices, in addition to the teachings of Antonio Candido (1965), particularly with regard to the perception of how the content of reality is transformed to form literary representation. With these reflections and considerations as our foundation, we undertook the study of two works of little circulation in academia, seeking to understand the fact that the authors, of different backgrounds, participate in the promotion of an illusion about Rondônia, contributing to instill the widespread thought of a "distant land" in which the codes of conduct would be marked by forms of exploitation, mistrust and violence, all framed by a rugged yet grandiose nature.

Submitted by Maria Aparecida (cidazen@gmail.com) on 2017-04-18T12:01:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Anderson Roberto.pdf: 601948 bytes, checksum: 02b984b19962126af1746cfd8691d3c1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-18T12:01:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Anderson Roberto.pdf: 601948 bytes, checksum: 02b984b19962126af1746cfd8691d3c1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-01-27 / CAPES / This dissertation addresses significant aspects of the production of novels-report by the writer José Louzeiro, published during the regime of dictatorship civil-military law in Brazil between 1964 and 1985. The research focuses on understanding the nature of resistance and social denunciation of the narrative written by journalist from Maranhão, taking as corpus the work Aracelli, meu amor – Um anjo espera a justiça dos homens, published in 1976. We tried to make a reflection on the construction of the report of the nature of testimony, supporting the analysis on the assumption that relations between memory and forgetting are present in text narratives, pointing out possible contributions of the writer for the consolidation of the debate about the theme of childhood helpless in Brazil. The narrative of resistance of José Louzeiro, in addition to provide the coping and the analysis of themes muffled by the dictatorial government, produced constructions with aesthetic effects of the thoroughness of the work of counting and by textual fabric, marked by the journalistic bias. / Essa dissertação aborda aspectos significativos da produção de romances-reportagem pelo escritor José Louzeiro, publicados durante o regime de ditadura civil-militar, vigente no Brasil entre 1964 e 1985. A pesquisa tem como foco compreender o caráter de resistência e de denúncia social da narrativa escrita pelo jornalista maranhense, tomando como corpus a obra Aracelli, meu amor – Um anjo espera a justiça dos homens, publicada em 1976. Buscou-se fazer uma reflexão sobre a construção do relato de natureza testemunhal, amparando-se as análises no pressuposto de que as relações entre memória e esquecimento estão presentes em textos narrativos, apontando-se possíveis contribuições do escritor para a consolidação do debate acerca da temática da infância desamparada no Brasil. A narrativa de resistência de José Louzeiro, além de propiciar o enfrentamento e a análise de temas abafados pelo governo ditatorial, produziu construções com efeitos estéticos pelo rigor do trabalho apurativo e pela tessitura textual, marcados pelo viés jornalístico.

Frederick Buechner is an American novelist, born in 1926, who, since 1950, has created eight novels and five works of nonfiction. Although his work has been reviewed and admired by prestigious critics, no lengthy study has yet appeared. Yet the merit of Buechner's work deserves wider critical attention. This study does not attempt to deal comprehensively with Buechner's twenty-five year span of creativity. Instead it presents a consideration of what has been Buechner's most consistent concern throughout his work: his attempt to justify the ways of God to contemporary man. This study is unique in that much of it is based upon a personal conversation with the author rather than on secondary sources. On March 15, 1976, a personal interview was granted with Mr. Buechner in Hobe Sound, Florida. It was a rare opportunity to question an author about his works and his life, especially since this interview occurred simultaneously with the writing of this paper. In addition to the personal interview, Buechner's nonfictional works were used to illuminate his fictional themes. The religious dimension is present in Buechner's works from the beginning, even before he had formally studied theology. Although Buechner is still a relatively young novelist who will no doubt add to his present achievements, he is already unique among modern novelists in that he does not hesitate to deal with religious concepts as literal truths.

Ao longo das leituras dos romances do autor moçambicano Mia Couto é possível observar que, sistematicamente, o escritor propõe ao leitor a aproximação e a interlocução entre o mundo subjetivo das personagens no interior do texto e a História de Moçambique, protagonizada por esses atores ficcionais em recortes cronológicos em que passado e presente permanentemente estão em diálogo. Dessa forma, manifesta-se em sua prosa uma relação intrínseca entre a produção literária e, portanto, as especificidades próprias do campo ficcional e o comprometimento do autor com a realidade histórica de seu país. Através das personagens presentes em seus contos e romances, a História de Moçambique se apresenta e o autor constrói uma perspectiva crítica do país delineando uma realidade social e concreta manifesta vivamente no espaço onde as personagens circulam e vivem. O cenário moçambicano descrito, portanto, em seus romances e contos, aproxima o leitor da realidade histórica e também social do país, reunindo a dinâmica material da vida em Moçambique - com suas especificidades culturais e as tradições locais bem como uma reflexão acerca do próprio papel social da literatura. / Throughout the readings of the novels of the Mozambican author Mia Couto is possible to observe that, systematically, the writer proposes the reader to approach and dialogue between the subjective world of the characters within the text and history of Mozambique, starring actors such fictional clippings in chronological in which past and present are constantly in dialogue. Thus, manifest in his prose an intrinsic relationship between literary productions and, therefore, the specificities of the field of fiction and the author\'s commitment to the historical reality of his country. Through these characters in his stories and novels, history of Mozambique is presented and the author builds a critical perspective of the country outlining a concrete social reality and manifests strongly in the space where the characters live and circulate. The Mozambican scenario described thus in his novels and stories, the reader approaches the historical reality and also the country\'s social, gathering material dynamics of life in Mozambique - with their specific cultural and local traditions - as well as a reflection of their own social role of literature.

Excerpt: Lucia St. Clair Robson began publishing historical novels in 1982 with Ride the Wind, which draws on the history of the Comanches, and has continued to work in the field of historical fiction. Four of her novels focus closely on historical personages: Ride the Wind (Cynthia Ann Parker and Quanah Parker); Light a Distant Fire (Osceola of the Seminoles); Walk in My Soul (Tiana Rogers of the Cherokee and Sam Houston); and Ghost Warrior(Lozen of the Chiricahua Apache).

Thesis (M. A. (African Languages)) -- University of Limpopo, 2004 / Refer to the document

En 1918, Frans Masereel fait paraître à compte d’auteur 25 Images de la passion d’un homme. Si l’on trouve dès ce premier roman en images sans paroles composé de bois gravés les thèmes de prédilection de l’artiste belge – la ville dévoreuse d’hommes, la lutte des classes et l’incommunicabilité entre les deux sexes –, l’originalité du livre ne réside pas tant sur le fond – un idéaliste qui meurt pour ses idées – que sur sa forme : un récit en images sans légendes ni textes. Encouragé par l’accueil réservé à ce premier roman en images sans paroles, Masereel inaugure un cycle de livres en gravures sur bois remarquables par leur inventivité narrative et leur innovation plastique – de Mon Livre d’heures à Du Noir au blanc. Ces suites gravées d’un genre nouveau furent surtout remarquées en leur temps par les écrivains de la Mitteleuropa (Max Brod, Hermann Hesse, Stefan Zweig) qui voyaient en ces récits muets non seulement une œuvre novatrice, mais surtout une littérature sans verbe capable de traduire en images un monde à jamais marqué par la guerre. Bavard par nature, le roman chez Masereel ne s’embarrasse pas de la béquille d’un langage écrit, codifié, mais d’un langage universel reposant sur une succession d’images gravées dans le bois. Le récit masereelien ne nécessite donc pas les services d’un traducteur. Peintre de mœurs, son œuvre au noir stigmatise le capital et ses croupiers, la roue de l’infortune qui touche le prolétariat et cet instinct de mort qui conduira bientôt l’Europe vers le chaos. / In 1918, Frans Masereel got 25 Images de la passion d’un homme [25 Images of a Man’s Passion] published at his own expense. We recognise in this first wordless graphic novel made with woodcut prints the themes that were dear to the Belgian artist: the city that chews up men, class struggle, the impossibility of true communication between genders. But what makes the book original is not so much its substance – an idealist who gives up his life in the name of his ideas – as its form: a caption-free, text-free narrative. Masereel, invigorated by the positive reception of his first wordless graphic novel, started a series of books made out of wood engravings whose narrative creativity and formal audacity set them apart from the rest – from Mon Livre d’heures [My Book of Hours] to Du noir au blanc [From Black to White]. Those series of engravings of a new kind mostly drew the attention of Mitteleuropa writers then (Max Brod, Hermann Hesse, Stefan Zweig), who saw in those still narratives not only a ground-breaking work, but also a wordless literature that could translate into images a world that had been forever changed by the experience of the war. Masereel’s novel is chatty by nature, but it does away with the crutch of a written, codified language, and instead turns towards a universal language whose existence is defined by a series of pictures engraved in wood. His narrative does not require any kind of translation. Masereel is the painter of life; his black work stigmatises the capital and its agents, the cycle of misfortunes that the proletariat fell victim to, and the death instinct that was about to drag Europe into chaos.

This thesis comprises of a series of personal essays exploring intersections and parallels between my life and D.H. Lawrence’s classic novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The essays discuss, among other things, Lawrence and tuberculosis, gamekeeping, mining in 20th century England, love, education, and youth. Thus, the collection creates a literary memoir.

Comics and graphic texts require complex engagement from readers, engagement that relies on a developed understanding of text and image, and how they interact to create meaning. There are several theories about how readers engage with comics, many from comic creators themselves, and some from scholars in literature and composition. This project introduces an approach to comics utilizing visual rhetoric, which reconsiders the stricter text/image dynamics often conceptualized in Comics Studies, includes the reader as creator, and explores comics as collaboratively created texts. This approach is applied to Superman: Red Son, a popular text that focuses in on Superman, and Cold War politics, producing a critical conversation about American and Russian relations and their influences in a global context. This project has several goals: to legitimize the superhero comic as a place of important cultural power, to show the collaborative nature of comics, placing writers and artists in equal standing to the work they produce, and to introduce the reader as creator.