Since the regime collapse in 1991, Albania has been going through a democratization process. In contrast to government attempts to introduce a democratic system according to a western model, blood feuds based on Albanian customary law increased drastically and individuals began to seek their own justice by ignoring state and judicial institutions. The incidence of blood feuds increased exceptionally, not only compared with the situation under the communist regime but the crime rate in general. As a result, the Albanian state has appeared not only as weak and fragile but weaker in comparison with the previous communist regime.<p>Although a great deal of research on vendetta is carried out either in the fields of anthropology or sociology of law, this topic has not been studied by political scientists. As a consequence, studies of vendetta in relation to institutional weaknesses are missing. Thus, one of the contributions of this study will be to fill this gap in the literature by explaining the role of state institutions in the continuation and increase in blood feuds.<p>The Albanian case was chosen as a subject for study as it represents a country which following a harsh communist regime has made attempts at democratization with the aim of joining the European Union, and at the same time is characterized by the strong presence of customary law claiming revenge in cases of homicide, despite interventions by the judicial authorities.<p>Therefore, the aim of this study is to explain the reasons for the increase in blood feuds in Albania from 1991 to 2010 by identifying the structure and agency factors impacting the motivation of individuals to commit murders in the name of vendetta.<p>I will make use of historical institutionalism to identify the increasing returns of vendetta and explore the different factors and processes that trigger and underlie the institutional development of Albanian vendetta over time. Historical institutionalism is an approach to the analysis of the evolution of institutions and their outcomes in terms of formal and informal rules that shape the behavior of actors. Hence, understanding the causation and restraining factors in determining the high rates of blood feuds is indispensable. However, because of the lack of attention that historical institutionalism pays to the structure-agency dichotomy, the tools of criminology and more specifically, elements of ‘social control theory’ are required in this study. This theory enables/permits the study of vendetta by focusing on the motivation of the authors of vendetta, looking at the incidence and the forms of the criminal behavior. In order to explain vendetta and its causes, both fear of punishment (belief) and social bonds (attachment, commitment and involvement) have been taken into account.<p>For this study, both primary and secondary sources were combined, such as expert interviews, archival documents and police data, in order to assess the cases of vendettas brought before the courts, judicial proceedings, and the final sentences handed down.<p>The findings show that the weaker the bonds of trust in institutions such as state institutions and the legal system, the more individuals will be involved in blood feuds. The more trust is placed in institutions the less likely it is that individuals will be involved in vendetta.<p>This research contributes to the literature dealing with institutional change and the study of crime rates in transitional democracies. <p> / Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

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Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-08-15T13:32:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 5553857 bytes, checksum: eddf1c2b07f342ed63d4d08962d89796 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-15T13:32:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 5553857 bytes, checksum: eddf1c2b07f342ed63d4d08962d89796 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This master dissertation aims at elaborating a comparative analysis of the two versions of V for Vendetta (comics and cinema), focusing on the form and strategies of narrative composition used by the authors of the graphic novel, Alan Moore and David Lloyd; and also considering how this narrative has been recomposed into another medium by director James McTeigue in his 2006 film adaptation. To reach this objective we first analyze how some of Alan Moore’s novels have been transposed to the cinema since the beginning of this century, in an attempt to localize the present object of study between the adapted texts and the adaptations. Secondly, we employ theoretical principles by Linda Hutcheon (2011) and Robert Stam (2000, 2008), who define adaptation mainly in terms of transposition from other media (as comics and literature) into the cinema. Finally, we describe how the printed version used some resources of comics (images and words) to compose the narrative of V for Vendetta (1988-1989), and how the homonymous film by James McTeigue (2006) recreates similar aesthetics effects, while also being / Esta dissertação de mestrado visa fazer uma análise comparativa das duas versões de V for Vendetta (quadrinhos e cinema), dando enfoque à forma e às estratégias de composição narrativa utilizadas pelos autores do romance gráfico, Alan Moore e David Lloyd; e, às estratégias de reestruturação desta narrativa em outra mídia, usadas por James McTeigue na adaptação para o cinema, em 2006. Para alcançar tal objetivo, primeiramente analisamos como alguns romances gráficos de Alan Moore têm sido transpostos para o cinema desde o início deste século, visando posicionar, dentre os textos adaptados e as adaptações, o objeto de estudo deste trabalho. Em um segundo momento, fizemos uso de teorias discutidas por autores como Linda Hutcheon (2011) e Robert Stam (2000, 2008), que trabalham com os conceitos de adaptação, principalmente no que diz respeito à transposição de outras mídias (literatura, quadrinhos, etc) para o cinema, como aporte teórico para embasar esta pesquisa. Por fim, descrevemos como a versão impressa utiliza os recursos dos quadrinhos (imagens e palavras) para compor a narrativa de V for Vendetta (1988-1989), e como o filme homônimo de James McTeigue (2006) recria efeitos estéticos semelhantes, ao mesmo tempo em que é influenciado pela especificidade midiática e pela tradição hollywoodiana da qual o filme faz parte.

Considered an integral part of Metropolitan France, the island of Corsica is situated nonetheless on the very periphery of the modern state that claims it. Actually situated geographically closer to Italy than to any part of France, its culture and its people are likewise more closely related to their Italians neighbors than to the rest of what Corsicans term "Continental France." Following the acquisition of Corsica, both government officials and bourgeois travelers would seek to visit the island, often recording their findings and publishing these memoirs for others to know of their travels. This concept of travel memoirs, specifically those regarding Corsica, had already been a fairly common practice among the British, as they had often placed interest in the island itself. From this group of French and British travel memoirs would come the writings of James Boswell, P. P. Pompéi, and the Baron de Beaumont, among others. Corsica becomes a place of unique setting for novels and short stories throughout the century, with tales of banditry, vendetta, and violence from the island. For those authors seeking to place their stories in Corsica, inspiration was drawn from the very travel memoirs they had read regarding the island, although often they chose to ignore them in favor of stereotypes. I have chosen three specific 19th century authors in relation to the images created by the travel memoirs of Corsica: Prosper Mérimée, Honoré de Balzac, and Guy de Maupassant. The purpose behind each author's use of the images of Corsica was very different and shows different ways that these images were used. Mérimée directly used Corsica to question the triumph of the civilized over the uncivilized, Balzac used Corsica to represent France itself, and Maupassant used Corsica to show that "reality" is really nothing more than a personal illusion. Though when publishing their travel memoirs the authors might not have expected much to come of them, they have actually influence an entire century of writers, and possibly an entire nation, with their images of Corsica.

Tesis

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1988.

Submitted by Geandra Rodrigues (geandrar@gmail.com) on 2018-04-10T19:18:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 lucasfazolamiguel.pdf: 7948999 bytes, checksum: d1fa53335cfcae9999e759982d1faf59 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-04-11T15:07:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 lucasfazolamiguel.pdf: 7948999 bytes, checksum: d1fa53335cfcae9999e759982d1faf59 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-11T15:07:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 lucasfazolamiguel.pdf: 7948999 bytes, checksum: d1fa53335cfcae9999e759982d1faf59 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-27 / Essa pesquisa propõe o estudo da história em quadrinhos V de Vingança, de autoria dos britânicos Alan Moore e David Lloyd, a partir da análise estrutural da linguagem do meio, bem como do cenário teórico no qual a obra se insere, para identificarmos o diálogo existente entre os quadrinhos e a literatura. Lançaremos o olhar para uma investigação do meio a partir de sua composição estrutural inerentemente híbrida, tendo como apoio teórico as proposições de Thierry Groensteen (2015) e Scott McCloud (2005), bem como realizaremos um apanhado histórico das histórias em quadrinhos, com o suporte de García (2012) e Campos (2015). Pretendemos observar, a partir de Linda Hutcheon (1991), Lyotard (2009) e Compagnon (1999), os pressupostos que compõem o cenário teórico pós-moderno com o qual V de Vingança dialoga, ressaltando sua narrativa intertextual e fragmentária, de modo a destacar a aproximação entre a obra de Moore e Lloyd com o romance pós-moderno V. (1988), de Thomas Pynchon. Ao realizarmos uma leitura analítica da história em quadrinhos, verificaremos o diálogo da mesma com as distopias modernas, como 1984 (2009) de George Orwell, sob o aporte teórico de Jacoby (2007), Kopp (2011) e Hilario (2013), de modo a evidenciarmos como o contato com a literatura corroborou para o amadurecimento do meio proporcionando novas possibilidades narrativas para os quadrinhos. / This research proposes the study of the comic book V for Vendetta, written by the british Alan Moore and David Lloyd, from the structural analysis of the comic books language, as well as the analysis of the theoretical scenario in which the work is inserted, in order to identify the existence of a dialogue between comics and literature. The focus of this work is on the inherently hybrid structural creation of this language. The theoretical support are the proposals of Thierry Groensteen (2015) and Scott McCloud (2005). Furthermore we will make a historical catch of the comic books, with the support of García (2012) and Campos (2015). We intend to observe, from Linda Hutcheon (1991), Lyotard (2009) and Compagnon (1999), the assumptions that compose the postmodern theoretical scenario with which V for Vendetta dialogues, emphasizing its intertextual and fragmentary narrative, in order to highlight the approximation between the work of Moore and Lloyd with Thomas Pynchon's postmodern novel V. (1988). This analytical reading of comics will enable us to verify the dialogue of the comic books with the modern dystopias, such as 1984 (2009) by George Orwell, with the theoretical contribution of Jacoby (2007), Kopp (2011) and Hilario (2013), in order to show how the contact with a literature corroborated the ripening of the medium, providing new narrative possibilities for comics.

El tema central de esta investigación es el análisis de la representación discursiva y estética de la atmósfera distópica totalitaria en dos películas del siglo XXI, "Equilibrium" (2002) y "V for Vendetta" (2005), tomando como referencia el análisis de los elementos de dirección de arte y de fotografía, y cómo estos pueden ser influenciados y estar relacionados con la época de producción de las películas. Además, se analizará cómo la narrativa guía y, a la vez, colabora a generar la atmósfera distópica, respondiendo a temas y discursos de la época que son adoptados por estas películas para pronosticar los miedos futuros. El tema de la investigación está centrado en el análisis discursivo y la representación visual/estética de las distopías del siglo XXI, considerando películas realizadas desde el 2000 hasta el 2014. La base central de esta investigación es analizar cuáles son las características generales más importantes de las distopías del siglo XXI de acuerdo al contexto histórico en el que fueron realizadas, especificando su propuesta discursiva y estética.

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Die Untersuchung 'Von den Ähnlichkeiten und Differenzen. Ehre und Drama des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts in Italien und Spanien' stellt ein Standardwerk sowie den bisher stärksten und gründlichsten Beitrag zu einem der meistdiskutierten Themen der Hispanistik, zur Ehre und zum Drama des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts unter Berücksichtigung Italiens dar, das im Rahmen eines kulturtheoretischen, semiotisch-epistemologischen Konzepts ein umfassendes Interpretations- und Erklärungsmodell für die interkulturelle und intertextuelle Behandlung der Gebiete Drama, Poetik, Ehre, Ethik, Rechtsphilosophie, Moraltheologie, Strafgesetze entwickelt. Die Arbeit gliedert sich in zwei große Abteilungen: die erste beschäftigt sich gleichermaßen mit dem Ehr-begriff, der Rache, der Ehe und dem Ehebruch in der Ethik und Jurisprudenz in Italien und Spanien. (Hier greift er auf die römische, germanische und spanische Rechtsprechung des Mittelalters, auf die Moraltheologie, auf die Bücher der Beichtväter und Prediger, auf Sammlungen von Sprichworten und Anekdoten zurück.) Auf Grundlage dieses Materials werden die Wesenszüge, die Ähnlichkeiten und Differenzen, zwischen beiden Systemen. Im zweiten Teil der Analyse der Tragödie und der Tragikomödie in Italien und Spanien des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhundert mit über dreihundert Dramen gewidmet, wird Ein vergleichbares Verfahren, das der Ähnlichkeiten und Differenzen, bei den historisch-typologischen Untersuchung (Poetiken) der dramatischen Gattungen in beiden Ländern verwendet womit ein System zur Verfügung gestellt wird, das die Ehrendramen erklärt und interpretiert. Die Arbeit schließt mit einem Modell für die epistemologische (von den Ursprüngen des Ehrdiskurses und seiner Konstituenten im entsprechenden Epistem der Epoche) und zeichenhafte Interpretation (in ihrer Konkre-tisierung in semantische, pragmatische und syntaktische ‚Marken‘). / La investigación 'De las Similitudes y Diferencias. Honor y Drama de los siglos XVI y XVII en Italia y España' es una obra fundamental y la contribución más importante y completa en el contexto de un sistema semiótico-epistemológico de la teoría de la cultura desarrolla un amplio modelo de interpretación para los campos del drama, del honor, de la ética, de la teología moral, de la jurisprudencia, de las leyes penales, etc. El trabajo se divide en dos grandes partes: la primera se ocupa del concepto de honor, venganza, matrimonio, adulterio etc. en la ética, en la jurisprudencia (recurriendo aquí a la jurisprudencia romana, germana y a la española medieval, a la teología moral, a los libros de confesores y predicadores, a colecciones de refranes y de anecdotarios tanto en Italia como en España. Partiendo de este material se establecen las características fundamentales, de las similitudes y diferencias, entre ambos sistemas. En la segunda parte dedicada al análisis dramático de la tragedia, y tragicomedia en Italia y España de los siglos XVI y XVII se emplea el mismo procedimiento, de las similitudes y diferencias para el estudio histórico-tipológico de los géneros dramáticos (y poéticas) en ambos países desarrollando un sistema explicativo e interpretativo para los dramas de honor. El trabajo concluye con un modelo para la interpretación epistemológica (del origen del discurso del honor y sus constituyentes en la respectiva episteme de la época) y sígnica (de su concretización en ‘marcas’ semánticas, pragmáticas y sintácticas). / La ricerca 'De le Similitudini e Differenze. Onore e dramma nel Cinquecento e nel Seicento in Italia e in Spagna' è un’opera fondamentale e il contributo più importante e completo nel contesto di un sistema semioti-co-epistemologico di teoria della cultura, che sviluppa un ampio mo-dello interpretativo per i campi del dramma, dell’onore, dell'etica, della teologia morale, della giurisprudenza, del diritto penale, ecc. L’opera è divisa in due parti principali: la prima tratta il concetto di onore, vendetta, matrimonio, adulterio, ecc. nell'etica, nella giurisprudenza (attingendo alla giurisprudenza romana, tedesca e spagnola medievale, alla teologia morale, ai libri di confessori e predicatori, alle raccolte di proverbi e aneddoti sia in Italia che in Spagna). Sulla base di questo materiale, vengono stabilite le caratteristiche fondamentali, le similitudini e le differenze tra i due sistemi. Nella seconda parte, dedicata all’analisi drammatica della tragedia e della tragicommedia in Italia e in Spagna nei secoli XVI e XVII, lo stesso procedimento viene utilizzato per lo studio storico-tipologico dei generi drammatici (e delle poetiche) in entrambi i paesi, sviluppando un sistema esplicativo e interpretativo dei drammi d’onore. Il lavoro si conclude con un modello di interpretazione epistemologica (dell’origine del discorso dell’onore e dei suoi costituenti nella rispettiva episteme del tempo) e di segni (della sua concretizzazione in ‘segni’ semantici, pragmatici e sintattici). / The Study 'On Similarities and Differences. Honour and Drama of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries in Italy and Spain' is a standard work and the strongest and most thorough contribution to date to one of the most discussed topics in Hispanic Studies, Honour and drama in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, taking Italy into account. It develops a comprehensive model of interpretation and explanation for the intercultural and intertextual treatment of the fields of drama, honour, ethics, legal philosophy, moral theology and penal laws within the framework of a cultural-theoretical, semiotic-epistemological concept. The work is divided into two large sections: the first deals equally with the concept of honour, revenge, marriage and adultery in ethics and jurisprudence in Italy and Spain. (Here he draws on Roman, Greek and Spanish jurisprudence of the Middle Ages, on moral theology, on the books of the confessors and preachers, on collections of proverbs and anecdotes). On the basis of this material, the traits, the similarities and differences, between the two systems are analysed. In the second part, dedicated to the analysis of tragedy and tragicomedy in Italy and Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries, with over three hundred dramas, a comparable method, that of similarities and differences, is used in the historical-typological study (poetics) of the dramatic genres in both countries, providing a system that explains and interprets the dramas of honour. The work concludes with a model for the epistemological (from the origins of the discourse of honour and its constituents in the corresponding episteme of the period) and sign-like interpretation (in its concretisation in semantic, pragmatic and syntactic ‘marks’). / La recherche 'Des Similitudes et Différences. Honneur et drame aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles en Italie et en Espagne' est un ouvrage fondamental et la contribution la plus importante et la plus complète dans le cadre d’un système sémiotique-épistémologique de la théorie de la culture. Ici on développe un vaste modèle d’interprétation pour les domaines du drame, de l’honneur, de l’éthique, de la théologie morale, de la jurispru-dence, du droit pénal, etc. L’ouvrage est divisé en deux grandes parties: la première traite du concept d’honneur, de vengeance, de mariage, d’adultère, etc. dans l'éthique, la jurisprudence (en s’appuyant ici sur la jurisprudence romaine, alle-mande et espagnole médiévale, la théologie morale, les livres des confesseurs et des prédicateurs, les recueils de proverbes et d’anecdotes en Italie et en Espagne). Sur la base de ce matériel, les caractéristiques fondamentales, les similitudes et les différences entre les deux systèmes sont établies. Dans la deuxième partie consacrée à l'analyse dramatique de la tragédie et de la tragi-comédie en Italie et en Espagne aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, la même procédure de similitudes et de différences est utilisée pour l’étude historico-typologique des genres dramatiques (et de poétiques) dans les deux pays, en développant un système explicatif et interprétatif pour les drames d’honneur. L’œuvre conclue avec un modèle d’interprétation épistémologique (de l’origine du discours de l’honneur et de ses constituants dans l’épistème respectif de l’époque) et de l’interprétation des signes (de sa concrétisation en ‘marques’ sémantiques, pragmatiques et syntaxiques).