Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Universiẗat, Diss.

Judith Butler é mais conhecida como autora de Gender Trouble, no qual problematiza a maneira pela qual se pensava o gênero até então. A partir daí, ela publica diversas obras nas quais aprofunda e desenvolve sua filosofia, calcada em larga medida em considerações inicialmente propostas por Michel Foucault, partindo de sua noção de um poder produtivo dos sujeitos. Butler investiga os termos que desenham o campo de possibilidade dos sujeitos, desnudando como nossas noções de realidade são informadas pela linguagem, que indica apenas descrever aquilo que efetivamente molda e orquestra, chamando por transformação social e propondo uma ampliação da categoria de humano. / Judith Butler is better known for her best-seller Gender Trouble, that aims at troubling how gender has been thought until then. Afterwards she publishes several works that deepen and further develop her philosophy, largely based on considerations Michel Foucault has originally made, taking into account his idea of a power that positively produces the subjects. Butler inquires the terms that draw the field of possibility of the subjects, unveiling how our notions of reality are informed to us by language, that denotes to merely describe that which it actually frames into existence and orquestrates. She calls for social transformation and proposes an enlargement of the category of human.

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This study aims to take a closer look at how women in the Jewish tradition are portrayed in two Judith Plaskows books, Standing again at Sinai and The coming of Lilith: Essays on feminism, Judaism, and sexual ethics, 1972-2003. The way that Plaskow presents women in her books will be compared to Geraldine Brooks's book Nine parts of desire and Mohammad Fazlhashemis book Vems islam? and their portrayal of women in the Islamic culture. The study uses one of the interdisciplinary theories called intersectional theory to critically examine the chosen literature. The issues the study will try to answer are based upon the theory. The issues are: 1) how are women perceived in the Jewish and Muslim communities according to the different authors? 2) What aspects do the authors believe has affected the outcome of women's position within religious communities? 3) Do the authors mention men and if they have affected women's discourse? And if mentioned do they believe men's influence was/is positive or negative?

With a focus on gender expectations, this qualitative study analyses how Bellatrix Lestrange and Dolores Umbridge in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series represent evil. Through close reading the first and the final three books of the series using the feminist criticism perspective performativity, the aim of this study is to highlight how the evil women in the series are portrayed in comparison to both good characters of both sexes as well as evil men. The results show that while the evil women represent evil in the ways that they break their gender expectations, the good men also represent goodness in the way that they break their gender expectations. Thus, they are not evil because they deviate from these expectations, but because the gendered traits these women embody are connected to evil and, in turn, help make the reader perceive them as such.

本論文探討兩種修辭法- 象徵和隱喻-在表達自我的概念上的能力。朱迪思萊特的詩賦有強烈的倫理感。查爾斯泰勒的哲學則強調道德在現代自我的形成上所扮演的固有角色。萊特的作品所表達關於自我的概念，可藉著泰勒的學說找到亮光。 / 萊特相信現代人濫用科學和他們對科學思維的重視。萊特對此濫用的回應，影響著她的詩詞創作。她認為現代人對理性和客觀性的依賴使他脫離了他創作力和想像力。語言需要被振興來向人揭示他所擁有的語言財富。詩辭可以為他敞開新的方式來表達和觀看世界。 / 萊特對澳洲的景觀存著一份複雜的關係。「[她]生命中的兩條線 -對國土本身的熱愛和對本土人下場的深切不安」，在她的作品裡編織在一起。生於一個使原居民流離失所而致富的牧民家族，她的詩反映著她所背負的歷史罪疚感。萊特的詩闡述了她的內疚，並重申了她對國土的歸屬感。 / 萊特也因著人類與大自然的斷絶而哀悼。她將此等的斷絶歸究於人類對大自然資源的濫用開發。在她而言，大自然是一股永恆的力量，是充滿著不可否定的屬靈意義的。原住民文化重視土地，以它為生命和靈性的源泉，這是萊特認為現代人應當仿效的。環境的退化成了她的終身關注的政治議題。 / 朱迪思萊特的生命有三條主線 - 詩辭，為原住民的公義和保育。這三條線編織在一起，一方面使她的詩呈現著強烈的道德評價，也同時界定著她的自我身份。明顯地，詩辭 - 象徵與隱喻的重生 - 持續了她的希望，表達了她的關切，並塑造了像她如此的人和詩人。 / This thesis examines the capacities of poetic language, symbol and metaphor, to articulate the self. Given the strong ethical direction of Judith Wright’s poetry, the notion of the self expressed in her work finds illumination in the philosophy of Charles Taylor whose writing on the modern self emphasizes the intrinsic role morality plays in its formation. / Underpinning Wright’s poetics is her response to what she believed was modern man’s misuse of science and his emphasis on scientific thinking. His reliance on rationality and objectivity had left him out of touch with his capacities for creativity and imagination. Language needed to be revitalized to reveal to man the wealth of language in his possession; poetry could open up for him new ways of expressing and seeing the world. / Wright’s relationship with the Australian landscape was complex. The “two threads of [her] life, the love of the land itself and the deep unease over the fate of its original people“, would “twine together in her work. Her poetry reflects the historical guilt she carried as a daughter of wealthy pastoralists who had displaced its original inhabitants. Poetry was Wright’s means of expiation of guilt and re-claiming her sense of belonging to the land. / Wright also mourned man’s loss of connection with nature which she attributed to his instrumental exploitation of its resources. Nature had always been for her an abiding force imbued with inescapable spiritual significance. The value Aboriginal culture placed in the land as a source of life and spirituality was, for Wright, a model for modern man to emulate. Environmental degradation remained for the poet a lifelong concern and political cause. / The three strands of Judith Wright’s life - poetry, justice for Aborigines, and conservation - are woven together to emerge as strong moral evaluations in her poetry and defining values in her identity. It is clear that poetic language - the re-constellating symbol and metaphor - sustained her with hope, enabled her to articulate her deep concerns and helped to shape the person and poet she became. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Lamb, Kirsten Emma Wai-Ling. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-119). / Abstracts also in Chinese. / Introduction / Chapter Chapter One --- : Wright and the Self / Chapter i. --- Poetry and the Re-constellation of Language / Chapter ii. --- Born of the Conquerors: Righting the Wrongs of Aboriginal Injustice / Chapter iii. --- “For Earth is Spirit“: Man’s Interconnectedness with Nature / Chapter iv. --- Charles Taylor / Chapter Chapter Two --- : The Self through Symbol / Chapter i. --- Symbols: “Powerful, efficacious, forceful“ / Chapter ii. --- Wright’s Approach to the Symbol / Chapter iii. --- The Child / Chapter iv. --- Darkness / Chapter v. --- Fire / Chapter Chapter Three --- : The Self through Metaphor / Chapter i. --- Metaphors: Innovations of Language / Chapter ii. --- ‘Lament for Passenger Pigeons’: Escaping Disillusion through Metaphor / Chapter iii. --- ‘The Slope’: Resisting Despair through Metaphor / Chapter iv. --- ‘Train Journey’: Epiphany and Renewal through Metaphor / Chapter v. --- ‘To Hafiz of Shiraz’: Encountering the World through Metaphor / Chapter Chapter Four --- : Articulating the Self through Symbol and Metaphor / Chapter i. --- Repeat-able Symbol, Deplete-able Metaphor / Chapter ii. --- Symbols and Bound, Metaphors are Free / Chapter iii. --- Symbols and Metaphors / Concluding Thoughts / Bibliography

Magister Artium - MA

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Thesis (M.A.)--East Carolina University, 2009. / Presented to the faculty of the Department of English. Advisor: Thomas Douglass. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 4, 2010). Includes bibliographical references.