Thesis (Ph. D.) Catholic University of America, 1929. / Bibliography included in preface.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1902. / Bibliography: p. 60-70.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1930. / Includes bibliographical references (p. xii-xiv; "Collections": p. ix-x).

Orientador: Helio Rebello Cardoso Junior / Banca: Maria Teresa Santos Cunha / Banca: Tânia Regina de Luca / Resumo: O principal objetivo desta pesquisa é tentar compreender algumas das motivações que, na metade do século passado, ainda orientavam as atividades de muitos grupos de intelectuais no interior do país. Assim, através da análise de um rico acervo epistolar acumulado entre 1948 e 1959 pelo Centro Cultural Euclides da Cunha, de Ponta Grossa (PR), o presente estudo procura desvendar a empolgação característica que cercava as atividades do grupo intelectual ali reunido. Ao se examinar hoje os indícios e vestígios encontrados nessa documentação, é possível perceber, por exemplo, a existência de um apego muito grande às lides científicoliterárias e ao trabalho intelectual diletante. Na mais remota das hipóteses e sem a menor dúvida, tais motivos devem ter ocupado tempo e espaço consideráveis nas vidas destas pessoas, devem ter mobilizado suas existências e, desse modo, forjado em grande parte suas identidades. Em última análise, estas questões devem ter tido um significado que agora irremediavelmente nos escapa. Tendo isso em vista, a proposta deste trabalho é tentar reconstruir este significado nos pormenores de suas dimensões social, conceitual e subjetiva, lançando mão para tanto de alguns conceitos e apontamentos enfeixados pela história cultural / Abstract: The aim of this research is to understand some reasons which have guided the activities of many intellectuals groups in Brazil's half of twentieth century. Then, through analysis of the epistolary rich collection amassed between 1948-1959 by the Centro Cultural Euclides da Cunha, of Ponta Grossa, Paraná, Brazil, this study tries to uncover the great excitement that surrounded the activities of the intellectual group gathered there. By examining these documents it is possible to realize the existence of a very large devotion to scientific, literary and intellectual works. Undoubtedly, those reasons must have occupied considerable time and space in the lives of these people, should have mobilized their existence and thus largely forged their identities. Keeping this in view, the purpose of this work is to try to reconstruct this meaning in its social, conceptual and subjective details, using for that some cultural history methodological guidelines / Mestre

abstract: ABSTRACT The early twentieth century saw changing attitudes in gender roles and the advancement of the "New Woman." Despite the decline in the availability of homesteading land in the US West, homesteading still offered a means for women to achieve or enact newfound independence, and the letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart, Elizabeth Corey, and Cecilia Hennel Hendricks offer a varied view of the female homesteading experience. This dissertation focuses upon the functionality of epistolary discourse from early twentieth century homesteading women within a literary and historical framework in order to establish the significance of letters as literary texts and examine the methodology involved in creating epistolary identities. Chapter one provides background on the history of the letter in America. It also as introduces a theoretical framework regarding life writing, feminism, and epistolary discourse that inform this study, by scholars such as Phillipe LeJeune, Leigh Gilmore, Janet Altman, Julie Watson, and Sidonie Smith. Chapter two delves into the published letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart and the way in which her writing, when situated within a US western literary framework, serves as a reaction to the masculine western hero. Chapter three considers the epistolary relationships evident in the letters of Elizabeth Corey and the construction of gender identity within epistolarity. Chapter four focuses upon Cecilia Hennel Hendricks and the historical and feminist context of her letters, with a particular emphasis upon the "love letter." The conclusion examines the progression of the letter in the twentieth century and forms of online discourse that can be directly linked to its evolution. Far from being simply a form of communication, these letters reveal the history of a time, a place, a people, function as narrative literary texts, and aid in developing identities. For readers and scholars they tell offer a glimpse into life for women in the early twentieth century and highlight the significance of letters as a literary form. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. English 2010

Contained in this thesis is an annotated edition of the correspondence between the African-American leaders W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Du Bois and Washington would go on to become rivals, their philosophies of education and racial uplift diverging from one another. Du Bois favored vocal protest and higher education, while Washington preferred a gradual approach of vocational education and economic advancement. However, this correspondence sees them attempting, albeit unsuccessfully, to work together. Covering the decade between 1894 and 1904, the letters touch on a variety of political, social, and educational topics at a crucial time for race relations in America. The differences between the two men that would lead to their split - age, regional origin, education, philosophy - are seen in the correspondence, but so too is a spirit of cooperation. These themes are explored in an introductory essay, while other more specific contextual details are provided in the footnotes accompanying the letters. The many individuals mentioned by Du Bois and Washington are annotated, allowing the reader a fuller understanding of the social world of black activism at the turn of the twentieth century. Narrative material is provided to help bridge the gap between letters, and a timeline detailing the relationship between the two men is also included. While some of these letters have been published before, their presentation as part of an annotated correspondence allows for a greater understanding of this primary source material.

This thesis offers the first reading of the letters of Catherine the Great as a unified epistolary corpus with literary merit as well as historical value. It explores how the empress employed a key eighteenth-century literary form - the letter - not only to make tactical interventions in political and cultural life, but also to shape her persona. The often contrastive style of her letters balances a charming epistolary voice, suited to the letter as a practice of sociability, with exhibitions of the empress's power and stature as a great individual on the historical stage. The interplay between these two facets, sociability and grandeur, defines her unique approach to the letter form as well as the image of the enlightened monarch as she created it. She displayed her mastery, both literary and political, by creatively manipulating all aspects of the letter, from language choice through etiquette and materiality. Both her lively and seductive personal style and her regal character as an Enlightenment great man derived from and reappropriated available literary models. Seeking to ensure that this image reached receptive audiences, Catherine also carefully controlled the circulation of her letters: in keeping with the semi-privacy of the eighteenth-century letter, she wrote first and foremost to win a reputation with cultural and social elites who exchanged letters out of print. At the same time, she manipulated indirectly through her correspondents the image received by a broader public of her contemporaries and of future generations. The French Revolution challenged all her values, troubling also her elite mode of sociable correspondence and her eighteenth-century version of glory. Yet, to the end of her days Catherine employed her dual style as the best means of writing herself into history.

ALMEIDA, Larissa Pereira de. Gênero carta-corrente digital: estudo dos aspectos formais e funcionais. 2007. 157f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernáculas, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza (CE), 2007. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-08-20T12:35:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2007_dis_lpalmeida.pdf: 1310914 bytes, checksum: 5fa1aef5aa1db67d2c5ba2a73aa04430 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-08-20T16:36:45Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2007_dis_lpalmeida.pdf: 1310914 bytes, checksum: 5fa1aef5aa1db67d2c5ba2a73aa04430 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T16:36:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2007_dis_lpalmeida.pdf: 1310914 bytes, checksum: 5fa1aef5aa1db67d2c5ba2a73aa04430 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / This research analyzes the digital chain letters through the sociorethoric perspective of gender, that consider speech gender as an interaction process between people and places where it is in. The approach of textual gender discourse is based on propositions of Bakhtin (1981, 1997), Swales (1990, 1992) and Bhatia (1993, 2004). The corpus is composed of 36 digital chain letters copies. The methodology procedure is based on Bhatia (1993) and allowed us to identify digital chain letters by others genders that are in the web. The main purpose is to analyze the formal and functional aspects of digital chain letters and the specific objectives are: to analyze digital chain letters specifics purposes; to identify the standardized form characteristics; to analyze the standardized functional characteristics in the samples. The characteristics analyzed showed the essence of digital medium inside the texts. Evidenced, either, a standardized constitution of linguistics and functional aspects, that are connected to their specific purposes and have digital evidence inside constitution and text. / Enviadas por e-mail a diversos destinatários, as cartas-corrente surgem cada vez mais freqüentes nos correios eletrônicos. Este trabalho de pesquisa analisa as cartas-corrente digitais por meio de uma orientação sócio-retórica de gêneros e possui fundamentação teórica composta pelos postulados de Bakhtin (1981, 1997), passando por concepções atuais de Swales (1990, 1992) e Bhatia (1993, 2004). A pesquisa nos permitiu alcançar os objetivos específicos de identificação das cartas-corrente e diferenciação dos outros gêneros que circulam por e-mail, analisar seus propósitos comunicativos específicos e identificar as regularidades formais e funcionais encontradas nos exemplares. Observamos que nas cartas-corrente digitais, assim como em outros gêneros, os aspectos formais e funcionais estão intimamente ligados e que as tornam diferentes entre si é o uso dos recursos lingüísticos e de apresentação da ordem de idéias, que estão ligados ao tema apresentado e ao conhecimento institucional do ambiente de replicação. A análise nos permitiu identificar as regularidades da carta-corrente digital e alguns aspectos que são específicas do próprio gênero não apenas por se tratar de uma mensagem que circula por e-mail, mas por levar em consideração as peculiaridades desse meio, as estratégias de escrita e a abordagem de assuntos que configuram como específicos.

H.P. Lovecraft, em seus ensaios e cartas, nos oferece uma reflexão riquíssima sobre a narrativa de horror e como esta deve se expressar na literatura. O autor cunhou o termo Horror Cósmico para denominar sua teoria estética. Porém, mais do que ser uma teorização sobre o horror na literatura, o Horror Cósmico é uma teorização sobre como deve ser a narrativa que Lovecraft julga ser a ideal para as histórias que deseja contar. Nessa perspectiva, a análise de sua ficção, acompanhado dos conhecimentos adquiridos pela análise pormenorizada de seus ensaios e cartas sobre o tema, permitem ao leitor compreender melhor sua obra, chegando assim a uma interpretação aproximadamente correta de sua ficção. O objetivo deste trabalho, portanto, é compreender como suas teorizações se refletem em seus textos ficcionais. Os contos e respectivas transposições fílmicas selecionadas foram analisados sobre o prisma destas teorizações. Para alcançarmos esse objetivo primeiro analisamos os seus contos comparativamente com os textos não ficcionais, a fim de compreendermos a forma como o autor expressa o conceito de Horror Cósmico em sua prosa ficcional. Após a compreensão dos elementos teóricos de Lovecraft em sua ficção, analisamos as transposições fílmicas selecionadas sob esse mesmo prisma. Pesquisas bibliográficas foram realizadas com o objetivo de construir um referencial teórico para a abordagem proposta. / H.P. Lovecraft, in his essays and letters, offers the reader powerful insights into the subject of horror and how it should be expressed in literature. The author coined the term Cosmic Fear to name his aesthetic theory. However, in addition to being a theory about horror in literature, Cosmic Fear is a theory about how the ideal horror story (as Lovecraft wishes to write it) should be. From this perspective, the analysis of Lovecraft´s fiction, accompanied by the knowledge acquired through a detailed analysis of his essays and letters on the subject, allows the reader to better understand his work, thus reaching an approximately correct interpretation of his fiction. The goal of our research, therefore, is to understand how Lovecraft´s aesthetic theory works in his fiction. The short stories, novels and the filmic transpositions we selected for this research were analyzed under the prism of these theories. To achieve this goal we analyzed his fiction by comparing it first to his non-fiction in order to understand the concept of Cosmic Fear in his fiction. After understanding Cosmic Fear in Lovecraft´s fiction, we analyzed the selected filmic transpositions under the same prism. Bibliographic references were used with the purpose of building a theoretical framework for the proposed approach.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:31:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana.pdf: 1846344 bytes, checksum: 0b0c746d86c3b294f969b0656e8d2f8d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-04-27 / Letters are one of the oldest long distance communication ways ever known. Beyond that, for centuries, treaties and studies on how letter are and how they should be written have been made. This study focus on letters sent to the TV show Globo Rural, from Globo Television, in 2005, in it s 25th birthday. Firstly, thru a 418 letters database, the identity and demands from viewers that had written to the show were delineated. It was perceived, among other issues, that beyond the people living in rural areas and that keep elation with the field, many viewers of urban and professional areas of not-agriculture areas of knowledge also enter in contact with the program through letters. Secondly, through intentional choices in a qualitative way, with no intention of generalizing, some actual characteristics on writing letters, has been discussed. Comparing with former treaties dating from the Ancient Age, it can be concluded that the analyzed letters still keep many traces defined since then.(AU) / As cartas são uma das formas de comunicação a distância mais antigas de que se tem notícia. Além disso, há séculos são feitos tratados e estudos de como as cartas são e de como devem ser escritas. Este estudo enfoca as cartas enviadas ao programa televisivo Globo Rural, da TV Globo no ano de 2005, data de seu 25º aniversário. Em um primeiro momento, através de um banco de dados, composto por 418 cartas, delineou-se a identidade e as demandas dos telespectadores que escreveram ao programa. Percebeu-se, entre outras questões, que além das pessoas residentes em áreas rurais e que mantêm relação com o campo, muitos telespectadores de áreas urbanas e profissionais de áreas de conhecimento não-rurais também entram em contato com o programa através de cartas. Em um segundo momento, através de escolhas intencionais, com uma abordagem qualitativa, sem intenção de generalização, discutiu-se algumas características atuais da maneira de se escrever cartas. Ao comparar com antigos tratados datados da Era Antiga pode-se concluir que as cartas analisadas ainda mantêm muitos traços discursivos definidos desde então.(AU)