O livro Serafim Ponte Grande, escrito por Oswald de Andrade no final da década de 1920 e publicado em 1933, apresenta o baixo e o alto da cultura brasileira. Surgem o humor, a sexualidade e a própria literatura como elementos importantes e exacerbados pela técnica, surgem tipos e expressões tanto coloquiais como eruditas rebaixadas pelo tratamento que o autor dá aos temas apresentados. Considerando tais fatores, esta pesquisa tem como objeto Serafim Ponte Grande (1933) buscando iluminar a relação entre a técnica literária e a matéria por ela formalizada. / The book Serafim Ponte Grande, written by Oswald de Andrade in the late 1920s and published in 1933, presents the \'low\' and \'high\' of Brazilian culture. Humor, sexuality and literature appear as important elements and exacerbated by technique, there are types and expressions both colloquial and erudite downplayed by the treatment that the author gives to the themes presented. Considering these factors, this research aims at Serafim Ponte Grande (1933) seeking to illuminate the relationship between the literary technique and the material formalized by it.

A pedra de toque do bom falar de Eulálio, narrador de Leite derramado, romance de Chico Buarque publicado em 2009, está nas reminiscências desse oligarca cuja família sempre teve o Brasil nas mãos. À primeira vista, a narrativa poderia ser lida, portanto, como uma espécie de romance de formação da nação brasileira a partir do olhar de um respeitável membro de sua elite. A deriva dos pensamentos de Eulálio, porém, cujo vai e vem começa logo nas primeiras páginas do romance, já demonstra minimamente que na formação do Brasil nunca houve nada linear e, em especial, que o poderio da elite familiar ao narrador foi mudando de mãos ao longo dos séculos, por mais que ele teime em manter potente sua voz de mando no presente narrativo. Não é possível ignorar o lugar de onde Eulálio narra sua história: a cama de um hospital público e decrépito. Leite derramado está, então, mais próximo de uma história do país a contrapelo, montada a partir dos dizeres de um senhor outrora poderoso que, no hoje, é todo mambembe. O que se encontra entre a potência das memórias de um oligarca e seu lugar no hoje, ao lado de toda a sorte desvalidos de quem não se veem os rostos, mal se escutam as vozes, mas cuja presença se faz, de alguma forma quase surda, também potente ao redor do narrador? É o modo como se estrutura a sobreposição entre a memória cheia de posses e a emergência do pronto-socorro (a televisão ligada; as vozes sem rosto que rodeiam Eulálio; toda violência que tenta empurrar os que nunca tiveram lugar para uma marginalidade cada vez mais distante), um dos grandes problemas críticos do livro. Tal sobreposição, cristalizada na forma do romance, joga luzes sobre o nosso tempo contemporâneo. Neste trabalho, abordaremos especialmente o que se concentra entre dois polos: o modo como o Golpe Militar de 1964 é narrado por Eulálio de Assumpção, como atinge a ele e a seus herdeiros; a maneira como a força de trabalho é retratada. A não ser pelo narcotráfico, ela é também um vulto sem forma acompanhando aqueles que rodeiam o narrador cambaio mas que, afinal, teve berço. / Buarque\'s novel published in 2009, is reminiscent of this oligarch whose family always had Brazil in his hands. At first glance, the narrative could therefore be read as a kind of novel of formation of the Brazilian nation from the look of a respectable member of its elite. The derivation of Eulalio\'s thoughts, however, whose beginning and end starts at the very beginning of the novel, already demonstrates in the least that in the formation of Brazil there has never been anything linear and especially that the power of the family elite to the narrator has changed from hands over the centuries, no matter how much he tries on keeping powerful his voice command in the present narrative. Speaking about the presente time, it is not possible to ignore the place from where Eulalio tells his story: the bed of a public and decrepit hospital. Leite derramado is then closer to a story of the country against the grain, built from the words of a once powerful oligarch who, in the present day, is all mambembe. What lies between the power of the memories of an oligarch and where he lies today, beside all the luck of those who do not see the face, hardly hear the voices, but whose presence is made, somehow almost deaf, also potent around the narrator? It is the way in which the overlap between the memory of possessions and the emergence of the emergency room (the television on, the faceless voices that surround Eulalio, the violence that tries to push the ones that have never taken place for a marginality more and more distant), one of the great critical problems of the book. Such overlap, crystallized in the form of the novel, throws light on our contemporary time. In this text, we will especially focus on what is concentrated between two poles: the way the 1964 Military Coup is narrated by Eulalio de Assumpção, how it affects him and his heirs; the way the workforce is portrayed. Except for the drug traffickers, she is also a formless figure accompanying those who surround the narrator who, after all, had a cradle.

Este trabalho propõe uma interpretação da obra A hora da estrela, de 1977, de Clarice Lispector, tendo como eixo de análise o ponto de vista do narrador na tentativa de representação de seu outro de classe. Para tal, enfrenta-se o romance em três aspectos: dentro do conjunto da obra da autora; dentro de um recorte da tradição literária brasileira; e pelo close reading. A hipótese é a de que, em A hora da estrela, o ponto de vista do narrador permite apreender aspectos decisivos da relação do intelectual brasileiro com seu outro de classe, a quem conhece apenas como fantasmagoria criativa / This study provides an interpretation for Clarice Lispectors A hora da estrela (1977), taking the point of view of the narrator as the main line of analysis, in an attempt to represent his other of class. In order to do so, the novel is considered in three different aspects: within the overall work of the author, in relation to part of the Brazilian literary tradition, and by means of close reading. The hypothesis is that, in the above-mentioned novel, the narrators point of view allows us to capture some critical aspects concerning the relationship between the Brazilian intellectual and his other of class whom he only knows as a creative phantasmagoria

Este trabalho procura explorar o ponto de vista de Aquino Corrêa, que pressupõe a adoção de um comportamento crítico diante do poema, assentado na análise da forma e do conteúdo, admitindo a existência de uma norma de uso da língua na modalidade literária capaz de expressar na obra a distinção dessas duas entidades: a forma e a matéria ou fundo. A perspectiva adotada para a realização deste estudo foi a de análise do discurso crítico com que Aquino Corrêa analisa estas duas entidades para determinar a função das obras, no interior do sistema literário de onde elas emergiram. Alicerçados na sua biobibliografia elegemos os pontos fundamentais que sustentam o estilo particular do escritor e os critérios que o mesmo defende para conceber o texto elevado à categoria de literário mediante o tratamento dispensado à forma e ao conteúdo. O princípio teórico fundamental desta tese assenta-se na concepção da natureza universal do texto literário constituído como expressão de um conteúdo que ganha uma forma determinada tanto no processo de escrita quanto de análise do texto, implicando em procedimentos essenciais à realização da crítica literária, a qual visualiza a obra configurada no desabrochamento simultâneo de uma estrutura e de um pensamento, no amálgama solidário de uma forma e de uma experiência individual. Nesta relação, distinguemse a literatura enquanto arte criativa e os estudos literários como um enfoque especializado do texto que possibilita à crítica traduzir a experiência criativa da literatura através de procedimentos específicos que a subsidiam e a legitimam.Neste prisma em que o texto é analisado nas suas categorias estruturais e nas relações de significação com o autor, a língua literária subordina-se a determinadas normas lingüísticas que funcionam como reguladoras dos procedimentos tanto de elaboração como de avaliação crítica do texto, promovendo a depuração dos excessos tanto da linguagem revolucionária dos modernistas quanto dos resíduos lusófilos dos tradicionalistas (LEITE, 2006: 31). / This work looks for to explore point of view of the Aquino Corrêa that ahead estimates the adoption of a critical behavior of the poem seated in the analysis of the form and the content, admitting the existence of a norm of use of the language in the literary modality capable to express in the workmanship the distinction of these two entities: the form and the contents or the deep substance.The perspective adopted for the accomplishment of this study was of analysis of the critical speech with that Aquino Corrêa analyzes these two entities to determine the function of the workmanships in the interior of the literary system of where they had emerged. The basis of our argument is in his biobibliography we choose the basic points that support the particular style of the writer and the criteria that the same defends to conceive the high text to the literary category by means of the treatment excused to the form and the content.The theoretical basic principle of this thesis is based in the conception of the universal nature of the literary text consisting in the place where the content in such a way gains definitive form for the process of writing how much of analysis of the text implying in essential procedures to the literary accomplishment of the critical one, which analyzes the workmanship configured in the simultaneous unclasping of a structure and a thought, in the solidary amalgam of a form and an individual experience. In this relation they distinguish it literature while creative art and the literary studies as one specialized approach from the text that it makes possible to the critical one to translate creative of literature the experience through specific procedures that subsidize it and they legitimize it. In this prism where the text is analyzed in its structural categories and the relations of means with the author, the literary language subordinates it definitive linguistics norms that they function in such a way as regulating of the procedures of elaboration as of critical evaluation of the text, promoting the purification of the excesses in such a way of the revolutionary language of the modern movement how much of the lusófilos residues of the traditionalists (LEITE, 2006:31).

This dissertation articulates the relationship between literary form and unconscious affect in fictions by Cesare Pavese, Samuel Beckett and Alain Robbe-Grillet. Drawing from contemporary psychoanalytic object-relations theory, including the work of W.R. Bion and the Bionian school, it defines three paradigmatic forms of psychic work — reparation, containment and construction — that structure the intersubjective unconscious responses to specific formal challenges. It claims that the psychic work involved in meeting those challenges is both “historical” — in the sense that it reveals elements of each text’s historicity and political valence within their cultural setting — and “productive,” in the sense that it entails a degree of psychic growth for the reader. This dissertation bridges literary history, psychoanalytic theory and reader-response theory. It seeks to intervene in each discipline’s debates: in literary-historical terms, it argues that the psychic work of reading must be understood as constitutive of the texts’ expression of the context of the postwar and as part of their struggle to move beyond the aesthetic of modernism. In psychoanalytic terms, it joins in the lively discussion about the historical specificity of the mechanisms theorized by object-relations theory. Finally, at the level of literary theory, it seeks to affirm the value of Bion’s model of object-relations in theorizing reading as a transformative process characterized by intense unconscious, intersubjective activity. The dissertation is organized in three literary chapters, followed by a theoretical chapter. Taken together, the first three chapters represent the evidence for the need of a concept of psychic work in reading late modernist fiction and for the potential payoffs of formulating such a concept. Chapter 4 consists of four theoretical “notes,” addressing, in broad terms, the resonance of intersubjective notions of psychic work for reading, criticism and literary theory.

His Story takes the form of a fictive but autobiographically based investigation into the child and young adult I used to be, and follows that protagonist into early adulthood. It tries to show the damage done to that character and the way in which he damaged others in turn. As Hemingway said, We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. More importantly, the main protagonist is somebody who became concerned with, and cognizant of the main political and social events of his day. His life is set in its social context, and reaches out to the larger issues. That is to say, the personal events of the protagonist's life are recorded alongside and set in the context of the major events taking place on the world stage. The manuscript is some sort of hybrid of novel, autobiography, and historical and social document. As Isaac Bashevis Singer said, The serious writer of our time must be deeply concerned about the problems of his generation. In order to make His Story effective in sharing my ideas and beliefs, and, of course, in order to protect the innocent and more particularly, the guilty, it is created in the colourful area that is the overlap between memory and fiction. When we tell the stories of our lives to others, and indeed, to ourselves, we prise them out of memory's fingers and transform them into fiction. To write autobiography well, as E.L. Doctorow said, you have to invent everything, even memory.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2006. / Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2009 Jun 15

The Author and the Shepherd: The Paratextual Self-Representations of James Hogg (1807-1835) This project establishes a literary-cultural trajectory in the career of Scottish poet and author James Hogg (1770-1835) through the close reading of his self-representational paratextual material. It argues that these paratexts played an integral part in Hogg’s writing career and, as such, should be considered among his most important works. Previous critics have drawn attention to Hogg’s paratextual self-representations; this project, however, singles them out for comprehensive analysis as literary texts in their own right, comparing and contrasting how Hogg’s use of such material differed from other writers of his period, as well as how his use of it changed and developed as his career progressed. Their wider cultural significance is also considered. Hogg not only used paratextual material to position himself strategically in his literary world but also to question, challenge and undermine some of the dominant socio-cultural paradigms and hierarchies of the early-nineteenth century, not least the role and position of ‘peasant poets’ (such as himself) in society. Hogg utilised self-representational paratextual material throughout his literary career. Unlike other major writers of the period Hogg, a self-taught shepherd, had to justify and explain his position in society as ‘an author’ through these pseudo-autobiographical paratexts, which he attached to most of his works (in such forms as memoirs, introductions, dedications, notes and footnotes, and introductory paragraphs to stories). Via these liminal devices he created and propagated his authorial persona of ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’, whose main function was to draw attention to Hogg’s preeminent place in the traditional world, and to his status as a ‘peasant poet’. It was on the basis of this position that he argued for his place in the Scottish literary world of the early-nineteenth century and, ultimately, in literary history. His paratextual self-representations are thus a crucial element in his literary career. Drawing on Gerard Genette’s description of ‘the paratext’, the authorial theories of Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault (along with more recent authorial criticism), as well as autobiographical theory, this project traces Hogg’s changing use of self-representational paratexts throughout his career, from his first major work The Mountain Bard (1807) to his final book of stories Tales of the Wars of Montrose (1835). By reading Hogg’s paratexts closely, this project presents a unique view – from the inside out – of the specific literary world into which Hogg attempted to position himself as an author.

The transition to democracy in South Africa has resulted in systemic efforts to ensure equality education for all. However, despite such endeavours to address inequities, inequalities still remain regarding not only resources but also classroom pedagogies. One aspect of classroom pedagogy is the teaching of writing. The writing proficiency of mainly non-mother tongue learners seldom surpasses that of mother tongue speakers of English. Writing is seldom explicitly taught. Moreover, factual texts are almost never taught in schools although they are one of the most powerful genres in society. Systemic transformation in South Africa is often driven by global trends that focus on functional literacy. The Outcomes Based Curriculum is such an initiative with its emphasis on skills, values, critical thinking, and learner centeredness. The current process writing approach in our schools, within the framework of Outcomes Based Education, does not address the needs of all learners. The focus on grammar, correctness, and creative outpourings of self -reflective essays, advantages the learner familiar with the cultural heritage discourse. It disempowers those who are from different cultural or linguistic backgrounds. Writing is a social practice, and in order to write effectively learners have to uncover the generic conventions that configure different genres. In schools this translates into an explicit pedagogy of writing underpinned by theory. This thesis attempts to seek an alternate approach to the teaching of writing in a multicultural classroom, using the genre approach. The research was collaboratively planned and implemented as an action research intervention, at a multicultural school in Durban. The aims were to change learner attitudes to writing, use genre theory to teach learners explicitly about linguistic and generic conventions, produce a factual group text, and to transform my own practice. The first part of the thesis describes the rationale for the research within the context of transformation, issues of democracy education, and multiculturalism as a challenge to educators teaching English primary language. The second part examines the theories that inform this research especially genre theory, critical language awareness, functional grammar, and critical literacy. The implementation of the project in carefully planned and explicit stages is the subject of the third part of the thesis. It also describes how field notes, questionnaires, and the leaflets were used for data collection in the field of research. The fourth section addresses the action research intervention at Park High within a ten-day cycle, together with an integrated analysis of data collected and the findings. The final section of the thesis examines the limitations of the project together with recommendations for improved practice in the writing classroom. The findings indicate that learners value explicit pedagogies and that learning about generic conventions improves confidence and competence. The findings further suggest that learning about genres and generic conventions is a lengthy and difficult process. However, this process has the potential to transform implied pedagogies for both mother tongue and non-mother tongue learners in a post-apartheid society. / Thesis (M.Ed.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2002.

This thesis consists of two sections. The intention of Section One, 'Biographical Texts: Theoretical Underpinning', is to explore and discuss the theoretical underpinnings of Maori feminism and Kaupapa Maori as they relate to biography as a research method into the lives of Maori women. Biography, as a literary genre is also examined with particular reference to feminist, women of colour and Maori biography. Section One is a wideranging section, encompassing a broad sweep of the literature in these areas. It both draws from existing literature and contributes to the discourse regarding Maori feminism, Maori biography and Maori research. It is relevant to but unconstrained by the content of Section Two. The intention of Section Two, 'Locating the Story of Betty Wark; A Biographical Narrative with Reflective Annotations', is to provide an example of the biographical method and what might constitute Maori biography. The subject of the biographical narrative, Betty Wark, was a Maori woman who was actively involved with community-based organisations from the 1950s until her death in May 2001. Several major themes which emerged from Betty's biographical history occur throughout her narrative and provide a framework in which her story is located. One of the most significant themes was the notion of 'home'; both literal and metaphorical. This theme is reflected in the title of the thesis, Writing Ourselves 'Home'.