Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 1989. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 252-293).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 201-210).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hong Kong Baptist University, 2005. / Thesis submitted to the Dept. of Chinese Language and Literature. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-199).

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Translation of the author's thesis written in Portuguese (doctoral)--University of São Paulo, Brazil, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-177) and index.

Th. lett. Genève, 1998 ; L. 442. / Im Buchh.: Basingstoke etc. : Palgrave. Register. Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-213) and index.

My thesis examines the concept of sweetness as an aesthetic category in nineteenth-century British culture. My contention is that a link exists between the idea of sweetness as it appears in literary works and sugar as an everyday commodity with a complex history attached. Sugar had changed from being considered as a luxury in 1750 to a mass-market staple by the 1850s, a major cultural transition which altered the concept of sweetness as a taste. In the thesis I map the consequences of this shift as they are manifest in a range of texts from the period, alongside parallel changes in the aesthetic category of sweetness. I also assess the relationship between the material history of sweetness and the separate but related concept of aesthetic sweetness. In focussing on the relationship between sugar and sweetness in the Victorian period this thesis examines an area of nineteenth-century life that has previously never been subject to detailed study. Although several critics have explored the connection between sugar and concepts of sweetness as they relate to abolitionist debates in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, my focus differs in that I assert that other material histories of sugar played as significant a role in developing discourses of sweetness. Throughout this study, which spans the period 1780-1870, I draw on a range of sources across a variety of genres, including abolitionist pamphlets, medical textbooks, the novels of Charlotte Brontë and Wilkie Collins, the cultural criticism of Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater, and the poetry of Christina Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne. I conclude that literary cultures in the nineteenth century increasingly use discourses of sugar to relate to the mass market and explore the commercialisation of literature, at a time when a growing commodity culture was seen as a threat to literary integrity.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-14T16:53:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-04-24Bitstream added on 2015-05-14T16:58:59Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000824228_20190624.pdf: 87788 bytes, checksum: b2078016ab433594363661bc6a6b4a20 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A tese investiga as afinidades de ideias entre a Crítica da Faculdade do Juízo de Kant, e o pensamento estético de Goethe, abordando os elementos presentes nos textos que o escritor produziu sobretudo a partir de 1786, ano em que realiza a famosa viagem à Itália e espécie de marco zero na construção de sua estética. Pelo conceito kantiano de finalidade sem fim [Zweckmässigkeit ohne Zweck], um dos termos decisivos de sua Terceira Crítica, pretende-se apreciar a concepção segundo a qual a obra de arte não seria redutível a uma explicação ou dedução em uma ciência do Belo, detentora que é de valor intrínseco, avessa a qualquer finalidade que não seja ela própria. Por finalidade sem fim, entende-se, pois, a independência de julgamento do objeto de bela arte face a outras instâncias, sejam elas morais, históricas ou filosóficas, não cabendo instrumentalizá-la no sentido de qualquer finalidade que seja exterior a ela, uma vez que nenhum discurso exterior é capaz de traduzir a verdade do texto poético. Nesse sentido, a formulação representa uma ruptura com a tradição estética predominante em séculos anteriores. A arte, para Goethe como para Kant, constitui, no limite, um campo inexprimível. Em Goethe, a arte produz seu próprio mundo, suas próprias verdades, e por isso mesmo não deve ser julgada senão a partir de suas leis intrínsecas, conceito que abriga também, ainda que com traje específico, a ideia de sua intraduzibilidade. Desde os anos 1990, essa ideia vem adquirindo especial importância para os estudos de Goethe, valendo salientar que mesmo o Goethe maduro recorre a Kant e, em especial, à ideia da autonomia da arte. Na última parte deste trabalho, tendo em consideração os pressupostos teóricos acima arrolados, procede-se à análise crítica de seu último romance, As afinidades eletivas [Die Wahlverwandtschaften], com uma metodologia que se mostra apropriada para a obra em apreço ... / This thesis investigates the affinities between the ideas of Kant’s Critique of Judgment and Goethe´s aesthetic thought, by dealing with aspects in Goethe´s texts from 1786 on, when Goethe made his renowned journey to Italy, a landmark in the construction of his aesthetics. Through the concept of purposiveness without a purpose [Zweckmässigkeit ohne Zweck], one of the key terms of Kant´s Third Critique, it is intended to explore the aesthetic concept, which states that the artwork ist not reducible to an explanation or deduction in a science of beauty. The value of art should lie in itself; the art has an intrinsic value, not projected for any purpose than itselt. Through the notion of purposiveness without a purpose one should undestand the independency of the judgment of an art object in regard to other spheres, whether moral, historical or philosophical, not instrumentalizing thereby the literary text to any outside purposes, since no external speech is able to translate the truth of the poetic text. In this sense, the term relates the moment of rupture with the normative aesthetic tradition prevalent in previous centuries, as the sphere of art is to both, Goethe and Kant, an area that remains inexpressible. For Goethe, art is also a domain that creates its own world, its own truths, and in this sense should be judged only from its intrinsic rules. The idea of the untranslatability of the art manifests, though in his own way, also in Goethe. From the 90´s on, this idea reaches considerable importance to the poet and even the mature Goethe appeals to Kant and specially to the idea of the autonomy of art. Here, the last Goethe´s novel Die Wahlverwandtschaften is analyzed according to the theoretical premises discussed in the first part of this thesis: the novel´s critical analysis intends thereby to incorporate the concept of the art as an untranslatable domain. We argue that this way of critical analysis is suitable for the ...

This dissertation argues that Russia’s confrontation with modernity generated a series of sociocultural paradigm crises that gave rise to a modernist grotesque aesthetic tradition, uniting over forty years of artistic production into a coherent literary movement. While close reading the work of Fyodor Sologub (The Petty Demon [Мелкий бес]), Andrei Bely (Petersburg [Петербург]), Evgenii Zamyatin (At World’s End [На куличках]), and Velimir Khlebnikov (“The Crane” [Журавль]), I argue that prerevolutionary modernist writers utilized grotesque modes of representation to depict a world where the former cornerstones of pre-modern Russian identity are fracturing under the pressures of modernity. In contrast to extant scholarship, I argue the 1917 Revolution is not a fundamental break in Russia’s experience of the crisis of modernity, but an extension, and an exacerbation of it. Though discourses of Russian identity formation will be rapidly recodified around the Soviet project, the same underlying grotesque aesthetic devices used by pre-revolutionary authors are taken up by a new generation of Soviet-era modernists. Mikhail Zoshchenko’s parody in Michel Sinyagin (Мишель Синягин) elicits skepticism about yesterday’s unenlightened masses becoming today’s new Tolstoys. Andrei Platonov’s anomalous depictions of the Russian periphery in his Juvenile Sea (Ювенильное море) are still inhabited by monsters, too far from Soviet nodes of power to be assimilated into the national ideological project. And Konstantin Vaginov (in the novel Goat Song [Козлиная песнь]) and Evgenii Shvarts (in the play The Shadow [Тень]) capture the prevalence of superfluous intellectuals with ruptured psyches, frustrated by their unsuccessful attempts to adapt to the new Soviet reality.