O presente trabalho procura discutir a sociedade formada em Minas Gerais entre fins do século XVIII e início do XIX. Pelas particularidades que envolveram sua criação e ocupação, a colônia portuguesa na América foi palco de configurações identitárias específicas que conviveram durante o período da crise do Antigo Sistema Colonial, alternando as formas de relacionamento e autoimagem dos colonos. Em Minas Gerais, as sociabilidades foram influenciadas também pelas práticas de educação, de leitura e pela posse de livros. Para analisar a questão, procuramos utilizar parte da intensa produção epistolar produzida no período com base, principalmente, no acervo da Coleção Casa dos Contos. / This study discusses the society formed at Minas Gerais between the ending of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. Due to the peculiarities surrounding its creation and occupation, the portuguese colony at America has given rise to specific forms of identity, which existed together during the crisis of the Old Colonial System alternating forms of relationship and self-image of the settlers. At Minas Gerais, the sociability were also influenced by the practices of education, reading and book ownership. To examine the issue, well use part of the intense epistolary production produced in the period, based primarily on the collection of the Casa dos Contos collection.

O presente trabalho procura discutir a sociedade formada em Minas Gerais entre fins do século XVIII e início do XIX. Pelas particularidades que envolveram sua criação e ocupação, a colônia portuguesa na América foi palco de configurações identitárias específicas que conviveram durante o período da crise do Antigo Sistema Colonial, alternando as formas de relacionamento e autoimagem dos colonos. Em Minas Gerais, as sociabilidades foram influenciadas também pelas práticas de educação, de leitura e pela posse de livros. Para analisar a questão, procuramos utilizar parte da intensa produção epistolar produzida no período com base, principalmente, no acervo da Coleção Casa dos Contos. / This study discusses the society formed at Minas Gerais between the ending of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century. Due to the peculiarities surrounding its creation and occupation, the portuguese colony at America has given rise to specific forms of identity, which existed together during the crisis of the Old Colonial System alternating forms of relationship and self-image of the settlers. At Minas Gerais, the sociability were also influenced by the practices of education, reading and book ownership. To examine the issue, well use part of the intense epistolary production produced in the period, based primarily on the collection of the Casa dos Contos collection.

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This is a study of autobiographical letters written in the early 1950s by seven Swedish sailors. The letters were contributions to a project at the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm aiming to collect and publicize workers' autobiographical narratives. The aim of this thesis is to analyze how the sailors composed their narratives in dialogue not only with heroic epics and other oral and written literary traditions but also with folklore studies and with contemporary public conversations about Sweden. According to Bachtin, any given text must be understood as a dialogue with the entire history of literature and the analysis in this study shows that the sailors' narratives are composed according to the pattern of the returning Homeric hero: the hero by destiny, the hero by action, and the hero by tradition. In terms of contents the letters are centered on two major themes: the two world wars and the transformation of Sweden from a poor rural society into a modern well-fare state. These themes are dramatized in plots, test-conflicts, motifs, and motif-complexes (functions, motiphemes), well-known from oral traditions and classical drama. An experiment in which two of the letters are subjected to “ethnopoetic transcription” shows the nature and extent of the oral idiom used by the writers. Two other writers display their literary ambitions through an abundance of paraphrases and hidden quotations. For the museum staff, the sailors' contributions were problematic. The verbal artistry of the writers challenged assumptions that workers' life narratives should be “simple and ingenious descriptions” and transparent sources of ethnological data. Furthermore, the sailors' frankness about Sweden's and their own part in the world wars challenged the myth of the neutrality and peacefulness of the Swedish folkhem.

<p>In this dissertation, I examine the correspondence of an upper middle-class family from the early part of the nineteenth century. My aim is to answer questions about correspondence and letter-writing as an everyday event and as a social activity. My principal theoretical framework has been ethnograpy of communication. </p><p>My main source is the Eurén-Snellman manuscript collection at Uppsala University Library (UUB, G65). The central figure of this collection is Axel Eurén (1803−1879), who was a clergyman in Dalarna and also a member of the Swedish parliament. The material expands over three generations and includes Axel, his mother, his sister, his wife and Axel’s and his wife Sophie’s three children. In each generation the letter-writing is reciprocal in nearly all relations.</p><p>By creating a database of the 2,267 letters that remain from the family correspondence and by extracting meta-commentary about letter-writing I have studied how the family organized their correspondence. From the total collection I have chosen 293 letters during the period 1825−1858. These letters constitute a digitalized corpus that consists of approximately 160,000 words. With this corpus as my principal source, I have examined two different aspects of language use: a structural analysis of each writer’s total sum of letters and a study on address. </p><p>Certain findings confirm that letter-writing was based on routine. Traits of orality appear less often in the latter part of the material, a result that is in line with earlier investigations.The dimension of formal−informal language has been interesting to examine in relation to gender. Whereas the women’s writing at a lexico-grammatical level is more informal and natural in style, their need to portray themselves in a virtuous Christian manner seems at the same time to promote a certain kind of formality in expression. The opposite seems to be true for the men. </p>

In this dissertation, I examine the correspondence of an upper middle-class family from the early part of the nineteenth century. My aim is to answer questions about correspondence and letter-writing as an everyday event and as a social activity. My principal theoretical framework has been ethnograpy of communication. My main source is the Eurén-Snellman manuscript collection at Uppsala University Library (UUB, G65). The central figure of this collection is Axel Eurén (1803−1879), who was a clergyman in Dalarna and also a member of the Swedish parliament. The material expands over three generations and includes Axel, his mother, his sister, his wife and Axel’s and his wife Sophie’s three children. In each generation the letter-writing is reciprocal in nearly all relations. By creating a database of the 2,267 letters that remain from the family correspondence and by extracting meta-commentary about letter-writing I have studied how the family organized their correspondence. From the total collection I have chosen 293 letters during the period 1825−1858. These letters constitute a digitalized corpus that consists of approximately 160,000 words. With this corpus as my principal source, I have examined two different aspects of language use: a structural analysis of each writer’s total sum of letters and a study on address. Certain findings confirm that letter-writing was based on routine. Traits of orality appear less often in the latter part of the material, a result that is in line with earlier investigations.The dimension of formal−informal language has been interesting to examine in relation to gender. Whereas the women’s writing at a lexico-grammatical level is more informal and natural in style, their need to portray themselves in a virtuous Christian manner seems at the same time to promote a certain kind of formality in expression. The opposite seems to be true for the men.

Thesis--Vanderbilt University, 1970. / On cover: The familiar letter of recommendation. Bibliography: p. 239-244.

Cette thèse se propose d’étudier comment, entre 1527 et 1555, l’affermissement de l’épître en vers à l’intérieur du champ poétique s’est produit par une diminution paradoxale de son statut, depuis le prestige de l’héroïde ovidienne jusqu’à la forme modeste et familière dépréciée par Du Bellay dans la Deffence et Illustration de la langue Françoise (1549). Lieux de construction d’une figure auctoriale affirmée, les recueils d’auteur ont constitué le medium privilégié de cette « personnalisation » du genre épistolaire. Dans une première partie, une analyse diachronique révèle qu’aux balbutiements imprimés de l’épître personnelle (1527-1532) succède une période d’hégémonie éditoriale du modèle familier (1532-1549), avant que la diffusion imprimée de l’épître ne soit corrélée à la défense d’une poétique « marotique » (1549-1555). La deuxième partie examine les représentations de l’épître personnelle à l’intérieur du corpus : celle-ci s’affirme en exhibant sa modestie, que ce soit par la revendication d’un intertexte récent, par l’élaboration d’un decorum soulignant la marginalité du poète ou par la mise en œuvre d’une poétique du sermo. La troisième partie articule les approches matérielle et poétique pour monter comment la dispositio des sections épistolaires donne à voir le surgissement d’une familiarité débordant les principes de composition chronologiques et hiérarchiques, en même temps qu’elle exprime la singularité de cette nouvelle poétique épistolaire. / This dissertation offers to uncover how, between 1527 and 1555, the establishment of the French verse epistle as a poetic genre paradoxically happened through a diminishing of its status, from the prestigious Ovidian héroïde to the “low” familiar type criticized by Du Bellay in his Deffence et Illustration de la langue Françoise (1549). It argues that the marotique-type printed collections, which are built around the assertion of a strong auctorial figure, played a great part in this transformation, as they proved to be a designated supporting medium for the “personalization” of the epistle. The first part of this thesis analyzes from a diachronic perspective the interplay between the poetic establishment of the genre and its anthologization: this led to the singling out of a first period in which poets explored the genre through the debuting medium of the recueil d’auteur (1527-1532), a second period that consecrated the printed familiar epistle (1532-1549) and a third period during which epistles’ authors redefined the genre in order to challenge Du Bellay (1549-1555). The next part investigates the way printed epistolary collections reflect a specific image of the genre, which asserts itself by highlighting its own modest status, whether this means hiding its Horatian background, emphasizing the humble social status of the poet or elaborating a decorum that revolves around marginality. Finally, a third part analyzes the dispositio of several emblematic epistolary collections, arguing that the order through which the epistles were displayed was orientating the readers’ reception of the genre as well as expressing the singularity of the epistolary poetics elaborated by our authors.

Submitted by Márcio Maia (marciokjmaia@gmail.com) on 2016-09-05T18:18:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 10679540 bytes, checksum: 5c04b01b8e288e7d0aaf64e25805c251 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-05T18:18:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 10679540 bytes, checksum: 5c04b01b8e288e7d0aaf64e25805c251 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-30 / This master‟s research‟s theme is the education to civility, analyzed by the device of educational formation, the epistolary manual Novo Secretario Portuguez ou Código Epistolar, by JI Roquette, seeking to contribute with the History of Education, highlighting the historical importance of manuals on the constitution of reading and writing formation. The idea of civility is understood as the education of body and soul, for it molds the subject to the social patterns seen as „distinguished‟ in society interaction. Manuals have constituted important devices to education as a way of formation. Also in the Brazilian civilizing project, in which occurred the production, editing and publishing of entire books, exclusively for teaching the writing of letters and with the circulation of models in Paraíba – research scenario and trade evidence copies of epistolary manuals through the sale of ads that title in nineteenth-century newspapers. The research methodology began with reading Novo Secretario Portuguez ou Código Epistolar, considering it‟s been working for centuries and its historical relevance, as a formation device in Brazilians education, establishing strategic ways of how to form a national identity, in the midst of the construction of a modern e civilized country. Another reading took place, through the content and elements of the perigrafia of the epistolary manual, concerning the teaching of how to write letters. This book makes part of the pedagogic press category of education to civility, teaching rules, conduct patters and letter styles for the population, making legit the daily social contact. It‟s noticeable that the act of writing was considered by Roquette as a practice that revealed the subject and his ways as good manners person, distinction object, tuning with values recommended by those times elite. The content in the manual demonstrate that the protocol education also occurred in the way of writing letters, using a proper manual for this intention, using specific cases and personalities examples, chosen as models to be followed. The discussion of the dissertations theme was based in some important theorist that developed studies about civility, books history and epistolary manuals in the international, national e regional scene. / O tema da pesquisa de mestrado é a educação para a civilidade, analisada por meio do dispositivo de formação educacional e fonte da pesquisa, o manual epistolar Novo Secretario Portuguez ou Código Epistolar, de J. I. Roquette, buscando contribuir com as pesquisas em História da Educação, evidenciando-se a importância histórica dos manuais na constituição do ensino da leitura e da escrita. A concepção de civilidade compreendia a educação do corpo e da alma, no sentido de moldar o sujeito aos padrões sociais tidos como 'distintos', na convivência em sociedade. Os manuais se constituíram em dispositivos importantes à educação como formação, também no projeto civilizador brasileiro, no qual ocorreu a produção, edição e publicação de livros completos, exclusivamente para o ensino da escrita de cartas e, inclusive, com circulação de exemplares na Paraíba – cenário da pesquisa e com evidências de comercialização dos exemplares de manuais epistolares, através dos anúncios de vendas desses títulos nos jornais Oitocentistas. A metodologia de pesquisa iniciou-se com a leitura das páginas do Novo Secretario Portuguez ou Código Epistolar, considerando o seu funcionamento secular e relevância histórica, como dispositivo de formação na educação dos brasileiros, delimitando estratégias para forjar uma identidade nacional, no bojo da construção de um país moderno e civilizado. Realizou-se outra leitura, através do conteúdo e dos elementos da perigrafia do manual epistolar, em relação ao ensino da escrita de cartas. Esse livro fez parte da categoria de impressos pedagógicos de educação à civilidade, ensinando regras, condutas e estilos de cartas para a população, legitimando assim o seu cotidiano social. Percebe-se que o ato de escrever era considerado por Roquette como prática que revelava o sujeito e o seu trato como pessoa de bons modos, objeto de distinção, em sintonia com os valores preconizados pelas elites da época. Os conteúdos abordados pelo manual demonstram que a educação protocolar também ocorria no modo de escrever cartas, utilizando um manual próprio para este fim, trazendo exemplos de casos ocorridos e de personalidades, escolhidas como modelo a serem seguidos. A discussão do tema proposto na dissertação baseou-se em alguns teóricos importantes que desenvolveram estudos sobre Civilidade, História do Livro e Manuais Epistolares no âmbito do cenário internacional, nacional e regional.

The institution of sport has an extensive history of heterosexism, and homophobia, making sport a problematic and unsafe space for gay-identified males. The lack of representation of gay athletes in professional sports highlights the risks associated with openly identifying one’s sexual identity within athletic settings, as gay-identified players often are faced with discrimination and harassment. As a result, gay-identified athletes may choose not to be open about their sexual identity or leave sports altogether as a way to avoid being subjected to discrimination and marginalization within athletics. Grounded in queer theory, and engaging in phenomenology and arts-informed inquiry, this study seeks to explore the ways in which gay-identified males involved in sport negotiate their identies and masculinities. After each participant was interviewed, he wrote a letter to his past self as a way to share what he had come to learn about his process of coming into his own identity and negotiating masculinity. The study interrogates how gay males experience team-based competitive sports differently than individually-based sports and personal fitness activities. Additionally, it explores the personal process of defining and embracing masculinity. Deconstructing the definition of hegemonic masculinity, this study explores how masculinity can be understood in multiple ways. Changing the heterosexist and homophobic discourse that informs the organization of sport on multiple levels creates more opportunities for gay-identified athletes to be welcomed into the arena of sport and safely access the benefits associated with competitive sports and healthy active living activities. This study brings light to the emotional and psychosocial consequences that stem from homophobia and heterosexism’s dominance in our society. The perpetual discrimination and marginalization faced by those who identify as gay males highlights the need for social work’s involvement in justice-oriented research and practice as a way to bring greater equality and equity into our communities. / Thesis / Master of Social Work (MSW)