Thesis (doctoral)--Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, 1982. / Vita (on cover), with authors name: Albrecht Gustav Reinhold Bender. Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-227).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-213).

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-92)

Thesis (doctoral)--Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, 1982. / Vita (on cover), with authors name: Albrecht Gustav Reinhold Bender. Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-227).

Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of English, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2005. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-92)

Thesis (M.A.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis investigates how Old English poets understood the processes of signification and interpretation through analysis of depictions of poor interpreters and the use of 'sign terms' such as tacen and beacen in the longer Old English poems. The first chapter deals with the Beowulf Manuscript, the second and third chapters consider Elene and Andreas within the network of related poems found in the Vercelli Book and the begin- ning of the Exeter Book, the fourth chapter is on the Junius Manuscript, and the conclusion looks at the use of the 'bright sign' motif across all four major poetic codices. I suggest that there is a 'heroic sign-bearing interpreter' character-type which several of the poems utilize or ironically invert, and that poor interpretation is nearly always asso- ciated with hesitation, which often resembles acedia. I also argue that there is greater nuance in the poems' depictions of modes of understanding than has previously been acknowledged: Eve in Genesis B does not stand for the senses which subvert the mind, but rather models the limits of rational thought as a means of understanding God, and Elene does not depict a simple opposition of letter and spirit, but a threefold mental pro- cess of learning about the Cross with analogues in exegesis and Augustine's Trinity of the Soul. Finally, I argue that there is a 'bright sign' motif which functions within a brightness-sign-covenant concept cluster, whose evocation as a traditional poetic unit is not identical to the denotation and connotation of its constituent parts. These strands of inquiry taken together demonstrate how Old English poems invest signs with significance by tapping into a specifically poetic network of allusion.

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Orientador: Suzi Franki Sperber / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T23:21:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Nascimento_MariadeFatimado_D.pdf: 1799333 bytes, checksum: 729e6f97401c4dd48cfcfe3116ab0df2 (MD5) Nascimento_MariadeFatimado_D_Volume_II.pdf: 3163844 bytes, checksum: 506f73bbb4718a2d2deff88138f762de (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: O presente estudo sobre a crítica literária de Benedito Nunes, dividido em dois volumes, parte de variados gêneros textuais (tentativa de romance, poemas, aforismos, crônicas sobre ciência, poesia, filosofia e religião, entrevistas, crítica de poesia e de romances), ou seja, seus primeiros textos nos seguintes periódicos de Belém do Pará: "Arte Suplemento Literatura", do jornal Folha do Norte (1946-1951), onde ele inicia sua carreira de crítico de literatura, continuada nas revistas Encontro (1948) e Norte (1952); sua produção em outros periódicos do Brasil, como seus textos no "Suplemento Dominical" do Jornal do Brasil e nos suplementos de O Estado de São Paulo e O Estado de Minas Gerais (ensaios com análises de poemas, romances e filosofia); e ainda seus primeiros livros: O mundo de Clarice Lispector (1966) e O dorso do tigre (1969), livro que o consagra como um dos expoentes da moderna crítica literária da segunda metade do Século XX no Brasil, principalmente das obras de autores que publicam da década 1940 em diante, a exemplo de Clarice Lispector, Guimarães Rosa e João Cabral de Melo Neto. A compilação de textos nos periódicos, além de possibilitar a identificação das principais leituras de Benedito Nunes, incorporadas à concepção de sua crítica, com leituras iniciais dos filósofos cristãos, São Tomás de Aquino, Pascal e especialmente, um precursor do existencialismo, Kierkegaard, que vai ser uma constante nas análises do ensaísta brasileiro, permite traçar a trajetória intelectual de Benedito Nunes, particularmente como crítico literário. Este, posteriormente, vai acrescentar em suas análises as ideias de Sartre e Heidegger. Com relação especificamente a Heidegger, o qual Nunes estuda durante toda a sua vida, verifica-se a concepção ontológica da criação artística pela linguagem verbal, que, para o filósofo alemão corresponde à fundação do ser pela palavra. Com respeito à divisão deste estudo, o primeiro volume contém a trajetória intelectual de Benedito Nunes, bem como as análises do material compilado nos periódicos e de dois livros do crítico brasileiro (O mundo de Clarice Lispector (ensaio), de 1966 e O dorso do tigre, 1969), enquanto que o segundo volume contém uma amostra do material compilado / Abstract: This dissertation, about the literary criticism of Benedito Nunes, divided in two parts, is based on a variety of textual genres (attempts to write novels, poems, aphorisms, chronicles on science, poetry and philosophy, interviews, criticism on poetry and novels). In other words, this study is about Nunes? first texts on some newspapers of Belém do Pará: "Supplement of Art and Literature", on the newspaper Folha do Norte (1946-1951), in which the author starts his career as a literary critic, also writing on magazines such as Encontro (1948) and Norte (1952). This study is also based on Benedito Nunes? writings on other newspapers of Brazil, such as the "Sunday Supplement" of Jornal do Brasil and on the supplements of journals like O Estado de São Paulo and O Estado de Minas Gerais (texts containing analysis of poems, novels and philosophy); and, still, Nunes? first books: O mundo de Clarice Lispector (1966) and O dorso do tigre (1969). The latter causes the writer to be considered one of the exponents of modern literary criticism in the second half of the twentieth century in Brazil, mainly of the works of art of writers who published from the decade of 1940 on, namely, Clarice Lispector, Guimarães Rosa and João Cabral de Melo Neto, just to name a few. The compilation of the texts published on journals, besides enabling the identification of the main readings of Benedito Nunes, which were incorporated to the conception of his criticism, considering some Christian philosophers as Saint Thomas Aquinas, Pascal, and, particularly, a precursor of existentialism, Kierkegaard, which will be constant in the analysis of the Brazilian author, makes it possible to trace the intellectual path followed by Benedito Nunes, specially as a literary critic. The writer will, lately, add the ideas of Sartre and Heidegger to his analysis. Specifically considering Heidegger, who Nunes studies throughout his whole life, it is possible to see the ontological conception of artistic creation by verbal language, which, to the German philosopher, corresponds to the foundation of the self by the word. Regarding the division of this study, the first part contains the intellectual path Benedito Nunes followed, as well as analysis of the material compiled from the newspapers and from the two books of this Brazilian critic. The second part contains a sample of the material which was compiled / Doutorado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Doutora em Teoria e História Literária