Esta pesquisa tem como objeto ler as obras de Franz Kafka e Walter Benjamin a partir dos modos de contar o tempo na Modernidade e de sua relação específica com a interrupção. A tese tenta encontrar gestos de interrupção e repetição na estrutura temporal das histórias curtas, contidas em Contemplação e Um médico rural, da novela A metamorfose e dos romances Amerika ou o Desaparecido, O processo e O castelo de Franz Kafka, assim como na crítica de juventude, na Crítica da violência, na Origem do Drama Barroco alemão, em alguns ensaios da década de 1930, em alguns cadernos das Passagens e nas teses Sobre o conceito de história de Walter Benjamin, buscando estabelecer assim uma relação histórica mais ampla com a sensibilidade moderna do tempo e as possibilidades, interrompidas ou não, do seu contar, como tendência ampla que se lança até a contemporaneidade. Tenta-se mostrar, sobretudo, a maneira com que a interrupção surge nestas obras ao mesmo tempo como cura e sintoma da Modernidade, objetivo a ser alcançado e obstáculo ao seu cumprimento. / This research aims to read the works of Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin from the perspective of the ways of telling time in Modernity and their specific relation to interruption. The thesis attempts to find gestures of interruption and repetition in the temporal structure of Kafkas short stories, contained in \"Contemplation\" and \"A rural doctor\", the novella \"The metamorphosis\" and the novels \"Amerika or The disappeared\", \"The trial\" and \"The castle\", as well as in Benjamins youth criticism, in \"The critique of violence\", in \"The origin of German Tragic Drama\", in some essays of the 1930s, in the \"Passages\" work and in the theses \"On the concept of History\", seeking to establish a broader historical relationship with the modern sensibility of time and the possibilities, interrupted or not, of its telling, as a broad tendency that spreads to the present. The thesis tries to point, above all, the manner in which the interruption arises in these works as, at the same time, a cure and symptom of Modernity, a goal to be achieved and an obstacle to its own fulfillment.

Ed. commerciale de thèse : Habilitationsschrift : Köln : 2000. / Bibliogr. p. [372]-393. Index.

This dissertation takes as its premise the belief that privileging the text of a play as the site of meaning is inadequate, given the social nature of theatre. This privileging is evident in the low critical opinion of dramatic adaptations of prose works: the dramatic text, incomplete by nature, cannot compete with the self-sufficient narrative text which it adapts. Rather, as described in the introductory chapter, the socio-historical context of a production must be investigated to flesh out the meaning of the text. Four theatrical adaptations of Franz Kafka's novel Der Prozefi (1925) illustrate a history not only of Kafka reception, but also of society, politics and theatrical practice in Europe and North America. The first adaptation, Le Proces (1947), by Jean-Louis Barrault and Andre Gide, is interpreted in the second chapter in the context of post-Occupation tensions in France, including a sense of guilt left by collaboration. Against an intellectual backdrop of existentialism and absurdism, Le Proces renders Joseph K. as a Jewish victim of unjust authorities. The third chapter describes actor/playwright Steven Berkoff’s antipathy to the middle-class conformism of 1970s Britain, which turns his adaptation, The Trial (1973), into a highly personal protest in which K. is destroyed by bourgeois "mediocrity." Peter Weiss's German adaptation, Der Prozefi (1975), treated in the fourth chapter, attempts more sweeping Marxist social criticism, depicting Kafka's world as a historically specific Eastern Europe in the days leading up to the Great War: K. is a bank employee who, by refusing to ally himself with the workers, seals his own fate under exploitative capitalism. Finally, Sally Clark's Canadian The Trial of Judith K. (1989) is described in the fifth chapter as a cross-gender revision of the novel reflecting both a feminist critique of male oppression and the freedom of interpretation of canonical works enabled by North America's relative intellectual isolation from the canon's European roots. K., as a victim of patriarchy, is a woman. The diversity of these four adaptations pleads for the acceptance of dramatic adaptation as a creative form of interpretation, rather than as an ill-advised misappropriation, of its source.

Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1999. / Written for the Dept. of German Studies. Includes bibliographical references.

Em nosso trabalho buscamos compreender a relação entre literatura e conhecimento do real em Jean-Paul Sartre e suas conseqüências para a ação moral, pois desta abordagem resulta o engajamento do leitor em face daquilo que foi desvendado por ele. Assim, devemos esclarecer direta ou indiretamente dois conceitos centrais da obra sartriana: o de ação por desvendamento e o de realismo, o que exige o deslocamento de conceitos tradicionais de seus locais originais, redefinindo uma nova constelação que operará um novo método. A dissertação desenvolve-se, então, em quatro partes. Na primeira, visamos o conceito de conhecimento como desvendamento, analisando passagens das obras O ser e o nada (Être et néant 1943) e, principalmente, Verité et existence (1948). A verdade passa, a partir da leitura destas obras, a ser considerada não como uma forma axiomática, mas como experiência da contingência. Daí a mudança necessária no método filosófico e o embate contra determinada tradição a das chamadas filosofias digestivas. Na segunda parte, com base principalmente nos ensaios Que é a literatura? (Quest-ce que la littérature - 1947) e Lartiste et sa conscience, vemos como as outras artes (à exceção da prosa) não se constituem para Sartre como movimentos privilegiados da experimentação e verificação do conhecimento da realidade. Na terceira parte, abordamos propriamente o conteúdo ontológico da linguagem que funciona como modo de visar o ser através da ausência e observamos como estas relações conduzem à questão moral, pois é pelo olhar do outro que o dom (o que foi verificado e estabelecido por uma comunidade) readquire o sentido de novo desvendamento e, nesta perspectiva, é a ação do leitor, que faz o papel do outro da linguagem, que terminará a obra literária tanto no sentido da criação como no da ação moral. Por fim, na parte quatro, propomos como exemplo do modo de visar o real do desvendamento e da prosa a interpretação de um conto de Franz Kafka, Tribulação de um pai de família (1919), baseada nos conteúdos abordados nas partes anteriores. / In this work, we seek comprehension about the relationship between literature and reality knowledge in Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as the consequences for the moral action, because from this approach results the reader engagement in face of what has been unveiled by him or her. Therefore, we must clarify directly or indirectly two central concepts in the sartrian works: the concept of action through revealment and the concept of realism, which requires a displacement of traditional concepts from their original places, redefining a new constellation that will produce a new method. The dissertation is developed in four parts. In the first one, we aim at the concept of knowledge as devoilement, analyzing passages of the works Être et néant (1943) and, foremost, Verité et existence (1948). After the study of these works, the truth turns to be considered not as an axiomatic form, but as an experience of contingence. Thence comes the necessary change on philosophical methods and the fight against a certain tradition the tradition of what it known as digestive philosophies. In the second part, based primary on the essays Quest-ce que la littérature? (1947) and Lartiste et sa conscience, we see how the other arts (with exception to the prose) do not constitute for Sartre as privileged movements for the experimentation and verification of the reality knowledge. In the third part, we approach properly the ontologic content of language that function as a way of aiming at the being through the absence and we observe how these relationships drive to the moral question, since it is through the others look that the gift (what was verified and established by a community) reacquires the sense of a new revealment. In this perspective, it is the action of the reader, which acts as the other opposed to the language, that will complete the literature work both in the sense of creation and in the sense of moral action. Finally, at the forth part of this work we propose an interpretation of a Franz Kafka short story, Worries of a family man (1919), as an example of the way of aiming at the real of the devoilement and of the prose, based on the contents approached on the last sections.

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo investigar de que forma a estrutura e a temática do texto de Franz Kafka, ao criarem um espaço de estranhamento na relação entre o leitor e o texto uma sensação constante de que algo está fora de lugar, constroem um campo de resistência política. Parte-se da análise dos elementos constitutivos da obra kafkiana, buscando localizar quais elementos efetuariam tal processo, assim como da análise dos trabalhos de pensadores como Adorno, Benjamin, Deleuze & Guattari e outros sobre o escritor checo. Para tanto, será feito recurso livre à produção do autor, com destaque para a tríade O Processo, O Castelo e A Metamorfose, sem prejuízo de outros contos, novelas, cartas e anotações de seus diários. Também será buscada uma articulação dos temas inerentes à obra de Kafka com os conceitos principais dos filósofos citados. Como procedimento metodológico, estruturamos este percurso em quatro eixos principais: a escrita, o conceito de mímesis, o conceito de estranhamento (unheimlich) e as relações entre arte, política e sociedade, com especial foco no conceito de resistência, presente nas definições de Adorno e Deleuze sobre a arte. Assim, busca-se averiguar o caráter político dos textos de Kafka como alegorias da condição humana. / This work aims to investigate the way Kafka´s thematics and narrative structure builds the sensation of uncanny, misplacing and oddity between the reader and the story. Simultaneously, these characteristics of Kafka´s work can build a political field of resistance. To achieve this goal and locate those elements in Kafka´s literary corpus, an in-depth analysis of his works letters, aphorisms, romances and short stories - is necessary, with special attention to The Process, The Castle and The Metamorphosis. Also, this work intends to establish a dialogue between Kafka´s thematics and the concepts of Adorno, Benjamin, Deleuze and Guattari, among others. Four lines of force are the core of this thesis: Kafka´s writing techniques; the concept of mimesis; the uncanny (unheimlich); and the linkage between art, poltics and society, with emphasis in the concept of resistance which is present in Kafka´s work and in Adorno´s (and also in Deleuze´s) definition of art. At last, what is the political status of Kafka´s work as an allegory of human condition?

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Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-09-30T12:45:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 henriquealmeidadequeiroz.pdf: 695140 bytes, checksum: 1d9481c5396d2e53777cf662369da7c5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Diamantino Mayra (mayra.diamantino@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-09-30T13:38:12Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 henriquealmeidadequeiroz.pdf: 695140 bytes, checksum: 1d9481c5396d2e53777cf662369da7c5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-30T13:38:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 henriquealmeidadequeiroz.pdf: 695140 bytes, checksum: 1d9481c5396d2e53777cf662369da7c5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-17 / Este trabalho concentra-se na análise da modernidade ocidental, segundo as perspectivas de três clássicos da Sociologia Alemã, para ampliar a interpretação das obras de Franz Kafka da perspectiva burocrática para a moderna. Buscamos em Marx uma compreensão mais aprofundada sobre o tema da alienação e seus significados para a sociedade capitalista. Estudamos em Weber a influência da religião e dos protestantes na formação do ocidente secularizado, seus significados e suas conseqüências. Em Simmel, pesquisamos as consequências do mundo moderno no embotamento das emoções da esfera subjetiva e a responsabilidade individual contra este movimento. Estudamos a metodologia weberiana para criticar o modelo de racionalidade instrumental com Elster, Magalhães e Habermas. Também utilizamos o último para tecer considerações sobre um novo tipo de formação da modernidade, através do consenso, pelo processo de refuncionalização da esfera literária. Continuamos nossa pesquisa, utilizando o conjunto do nosso trajeto, numa possível interpretação crítica da esfera literária sobre romances de Kafka, procurando afinidades eletivas entre os sociólogos clássicos selecionados e este romancista. Por último, mostramos que Kafka possui, em seus escritos, consciência das transformações de seu mundo e ela está presente no conjunto de suas obras o que, significativamente, trouxe ganho às interpretações tanto do romancista quanto dos sociólogos clássicos, pois o primeiro propiciou uma interpretação “concreta” das teorias elaboradas pelos sociólogos selecionados. / This work focuses on analysis of Western modernity, under the perspectives of three classics of German Sociology, to extend the interpretation of the works of Franz Kafka from the bureaucratic to a modern perspective. We seek in Marx understanding on the theme of alienation and their meanings to capitalist society. We studied at Weber the influence of religion and of Protestants in the shaping of secularized West, their meanings and their consequences. In Simmel, we have researched the consequences of the modern world in the dullness in the subjective sphere emotions and individual responsibility against that process. We have studied Weber´s methodology to criticize the instrumental rationality model with Elster, Magalhães and Habermas. We also use the last to write considerations about a new type of shaping of modernity, through consensus, by a re-function process of literary sphere. We continue our search, using our path through the possible interpretation of literary criticism on novels of Kafka, looking for elective affinities among the classical sociologists and this novelist. Finally, we show that Kafka, in his writings, has conscious of the transformations of his world and it is present in the collection of his works which brought, significantly gains on both interpretations of the novelist and the classical sociologists, because the first presented a “concrete” interpretation of the theories developed by the selected sociologists.

This dissertation takes as its premise the belief that privileging the text of a play as the site of meaning is inadequate, given the social nature of theatre. This privileging is evident in the low critical opinion of dramatic adaptations of prose works: the dramatic text, incomplete by nature, cannot compete with the self-sufficient narrative text which it adapts. Rather, as described in the introductory chapter, the socio-historical context of a production must be investigated to flesh out the meaning of the text. Four theatrical adaptations of Franz Kafka's novel Der Prozefi (1925) illustrate a history not only of Kafka reception, but also of society, politics and theatrical practice in Europe and North America. The first adaptation, Le Proces (1947), by Jean-Louis Barrault and Andre Gide, is interpreted in the second chapter in the context of post-Occupation tensions in France, including a sense of guilt left by collaboration. Against an intellectual backdrop of existentialism and absurdism, Le Proces renders Joseph K. as a Jewish victim of unjust authorities. The third chapter describes actor/playwright Steven Berkoff’s antipathy to the middle-class conformism of 1970s Britain, which turns his adaptation, The Trial (1973), into a highly personal protest in which K. is destroyed by bourgeois "mediocrity." Peter Weiss's German adaptation, Der Prozefi (1975), treated in the fourth chapter, attempts more sweeping Marxist social criticism, depicting Kafka's world as a historically specific Eastern Europe in the days leading up to the Great War: K. is a bank employee who, by refusing to ally himself with the workers, seals his own fate under exploitative capitalism. Finally, Sally Clark's Canadian The Trial of Judith K. (1989) is described in the fifth chapter as a cross-gender revision of the novel reflecting both a feminist critique of male oppression and the freedom of interpretation of canonical works enabled by North America's relative intellectual isolation from the canon's European roots. K., as a victim of patriarchy, is a woman. The diversity of these four adaptations pleads for the acceptance of dramatic adaptation as a creative form of interpretation, rather than as an ill-advised misappropriation, of its source. / Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies / Graduate

The paper focuses on the possibilities and potential of connecting live performance with new media. Our attempt is to find alternative strategies for theatre/performance relations with media, in this case digital media, by means of placing the theatre/performance within contemporary art production, developing strategies of production, which is developing a culture of usage. “In this new form of culture, which one might call a culture of use or a culture of activity, the artwork functions as the temporary terminal of a network of interconnected elements, like a narrative that extends and reinterprets preceding narratives.” [Nicolas Bourriaud: Postproduction, New York 2002] The project we are going to introduce is based on collaborative research, in which artistic and scientific approaches overlap and fuse.