Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Classical Languages and Literatures, June 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1983. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 766-791).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago Divinity School, August 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

The episode framework of the Kaiserchronik is as much a semanticising structure as the chronicle’s content. If treated analogous to Hayden White’s analysis of annals the conceptual continuity of the Roman Empire as the object of narration becomes all the more clearer. The episodes are used as pegs for a wide selection of historical narratives, which are decontextualised and presented unmoored from its traditional semantic environment. Only its place in the continuous succession of emperor episodes imbues them with historical meaning. The mobility of these episodes, however, is limited as two dimensions emerge within which the chronicle does have to negotiate qualitative change which translates into historical difference and not only distance as the episode framework produces it. Next to its axial episode paradigm the Kaiserchronik also employs rhetorics as a tool to create distance. This however happens mainly to distance itself from an unspecified group of other texts. The Kaiserchronik aims to polemicise against those text which don’t share its ideas about poetic artefactuality and composition. The transformation of the Roman Empire from a pagan into a Christian one is one of the essential threads of the Kaiserchronik. The gradual substitution of the polytheistic worship of demons disguised as gods with Christian monotheism is the driving motivator behind the selection of much of the narrative material up until Constantine and Theodosius. The aim here is not to device a teleological salvation historical trajectory but to negotiate the qualitative change of religious identity in the conceptually unchanged Roman Empire. This means that Christianity even after its assertion always remains vulnerable. While the Roman Empire always remains Roman, the perspective on it and its rulers changes significantly. Even when the Roman Empire is ruled by Roman emperors the chronicle opportunistically latches on to several opportunities to emphasis the historical closeness of the Germans or of discrete German peoples to the body and history of the Roman Empire. This is especially poignant during the Caesar episode, which sees the inauguration of the Empire as an imperial genealogy and in the Charlemagne episode, which marks the switch of perspective from an internally and essentially Roman one to a transalpine on, which, however, never fully asserts a fully conceptualised Germanness.

Orientadores: Francisco Foot Hardman, Luiz Carlos da Silva Dantas / Acompanha partes II e III (Antologia) / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T06:22:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Melo_CarlosAugustode_M.pdf: 3073270 bytes, checksum: 1c8e2bafc3ebcc07533cd6055297f88a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: O Cônego Fernandes Pinheiro (1825-1876) foi um dos intelectuais brasileiros que mais se destacaram no aparelho cultural do Império, uma vez que teve uma vida intensamente dedicada às letras que compreende andanças por diversos campos institucionais do período. Se, naquele tempo, obteve uma posição privilegiada no "Império das letras", a recepção da elite literária posterior não conservou esse mérito, oferecendo-lhe apenas um profundo silêncio. Na tentativa de resgatar tal personalidade de nosso passado cultural, esse trabalho procura estudar o Cônego Fernandes Pinheiro como crítico literário pioneiro das letras brasileiras, a partir da leitura e análise dos livros mais relevantes dele: o Curso elementar de literatura nacional (1862), as Postilas de Retórica e Poética (1871) e o Resumo de história literária (1873); bem como de seus artigos e ensaios publicados nos principais periódicos românticos. Com isso, pretende-se reavaliar a obra desse importante intelectual oitocentista, posto à margem pelos estudos literários e, assim, contribuir para a historiografia literária do Romantismo brasileiro / Abstract: Pinheiro, J. C. Fernandes (1825-1876) was one of the most succeed inteUectuals in the Brazilian Empire. He dedicated aU his life to the glory of the Brazilian letters, working in many distinguished institutional fields. Although he had got privileged position in the "Empire of Letters ", the same not happened after his death. The posterior literary criticism did not conserve his merit, o.ffering him on/y a deep silence. Trying to rescue such personality of our cultural past, this text intends to study the Pinheiro 's pioneer work, mainly his more important books: Curso elementar de literatura nacional (1862), Postilas de retórica e poética (1871) and Resumo de história literária (1873); and, of course, his essays published in the Romantic national press. Then, it wil/ be possible reevaluate F ernando Pinheiro as a critica I literary pioneer, rank to the edge for literary studies e, thus, to contribute for the our literary historiography / Mestrado / Literatura Brasileira / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

Creole Gatherings examines the relationship between canon formation and belonging. It studies the evolution of a print culture in New Orleans during the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and argues that textual collection and other paratextual practices were a means of claiming cultural belonging in a society organized around linguistic and racial hierarchies. It proposes an extensive study of the Creole print culture of New Orleans that also takes into account New Orleans’ position as a major American city that entertained connections with many other places in the Atlantic world. Stepping away from a regionalist framework, the dissertation seeks to expand existing literary scholarship on Louisiana and to participate in the production of knowledge about literary exchange in the Atlantic. The dissertation examines the category of identification “Creole,” which became racialized in the late nineteenth century, and the emergence of a scholarly discourse about a “Creole literature.” It argues that two canons were established in the twentieth century, an Afro-Creole canon that would, in time, become affiliated to the canon of African-American literature, and a white Creole canon that would fail to become part of either the American or French canons that formed in the second half of the twentieth century. The study of these canons relies on the analysis of a variety of texts, mainly anthologies, literary criticism, bibliographical essays, collections of poetry, and the literary sections of newspapers. These constitute a continuity of practices indicative of an attempt to record and organize literary production. This study reveals a tension between goals of protecting one’s culture and incorporating it into an emerging field of study and underscores the racializing processes at play within the category of “Creole literature.” Highlighting connections between New Orleans and Haiti’s literary cultures in the nineteenth century, the dissertation points to the need for a large-scale transnational study of these two cultures.

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Orientador: Norma Wimmer / Banca: Antonio Roberto Esteves / Banca: Cláudia Maria Ceneviva Nigro / Banca: Nelson Luis Ramos / Banca: Paulo Sérgio Nolasco dos Santos / Resumo: O principal objetivo desta tese é o estudo das interseções no mito do bandoleiro, como cavaleiro errante, por meio da figura do herói/anti-herói, Silvino Jacques, enfocando particularmente sua trajetória no tempo e no espaço, com vistas à explicitação dos seus "feitos" e análise das regiões de sua atuação, e da notável significação que o nome e a escritura de Silvino Jacques encerram em certa tradição literária. Para tanto, o corpus deste trabalho baseia-se nas obras Decima gaucha, do próprio Silvino Jacques, Silvino Jacques: O último dos bandoleiros, do escritor regionalista sul-mato-grossense Brígido Ibanhes e no documentário Selvino Jacques: A saga de um bandoleiro, de Hamilton Wander Medeiro. O estudo justifica-se, prioritariamente, pela comprovação dos influxos platinos, os quais ultrapassam fronteiras e leis, ocasionando trocas e/ou "contrabandos" literários e culturais entre as regiões envolvidas. Assim, a análise volta-se para a recuperação do tema ao longo da história da literatura, remontando à reconhecida figura do lendário Martín Fierro e sua formidável ressonância e fortuna nas literaturas do Cone Sul, bem como para o ambivalente herói pícaro, representado tanto pelo Quixote como pelo Lazarillo, nas literaturas hispano-americanas. A perspectiva desta análise contempla reflexões teórico-críticas oriundas da Literatura Comparada e dos Estudos Culturais e também da teoria do documentário, campos de saber que propiciaram a abordagem de um tema ainda pouco estudado, mas de grande produtividade para estudiosos e pesquisadores de poéticas comparadas culturais / Resumen: El objetivo principal de esta tesis es el estudio de las intersecciones en el mito del bandolero, como caballero errante, a través de la figura del héroe /antihéroe, Silvino Jacques, centrándose particularmente en su trayectoria en el tiempo y el espacio, con vistas a explicitación de sus "hechos" y el análisis de las áreas de sus actuaciones, además de la notable significación que el nombre y la obra de Silvino Jacques cierran en determinada tradición literaria. Por lo tanto, el corpus de este trabajo se basa en las obras Decima gaucha, del propio Silvino Jacques, Silvino Jacques: O último dos bandoleiros, del escritor regionalistas sul-mato-grossense Brígido Ibanhes y el documental Selvino Jacques: A saga de um bandoleiro, de Hamilton Wander Medeiro. El estudio se justifica, sobre todo, por la comprobación de los influjos platinos que propasan las fronteras y las leyes, ocasionando cambios y/o "contrabando" literarios y culturales entre las regiones involucradas. Así, el análisis se vuelve para la recuperación del tema al largo de la historia de la literatura que se remonta a la figura del legendario Martín Fierro y su formidable resonancia y fortuna en las literaturas del Cono Sur, como también para el ambivalente héroe pícaro, representado tanto por el Quijote como por el Lazarillo, en las literaturas hispanoamericanas. La perspectiva de este análisis complace reflexiones teórico-críticas oriundas de la Literatura Comparada y de los Estudios Culturales, además de la teoría documental, campos del saber que favorecen el abordaje de un tema todavía poco estudiado, pero de gran productividad para estudiosos y investigadores de poéticas comparadas culturales / Doutor

This dissertation is a philological study of transnational revolutionary print culture in French and Arabic during Algeria’s War for Independence (1954-1962) and its first post-independence regime (1962-1965). Investigating the ways in which women have been written into historical narratives, it is also a feminist historiography. During this era of global decolonization, the Front de libération nationale (FLN)—Algeria’s vanguard revolutionary party—integrated itself into a global coalition of revolutionary movements that provided mutual material and ideological support and self-identified as part of the Third World. While female freedom fighters (mujāhidāt) attained widespread fame as global symbols of anticolonialism, their intellectual work as intermediaries in constructing national and transnational anticolonial culture remains understudied. This dissertation analyzes the mujāhidāt’s discursive interventions in the project of liberating women, the nation, and the wider colonized world. In doing so, it challenges the masculinist and institutionalist biases prevalent in international relations, a field that has predominantly considered men as global political leaders and privileged government documents and official diplomatic correspondence as source material. Among the varied writings that I examine, two mouthpieces of the FLN take center stage: El Moudjahid (est. 1956) and Révolution africaine (est. 1963). My study of the mujāhidāt’s participation in the construction of national and transnational anticolonial culture consists not only of close readings of their writings in nationalist publications, but also a more holistic analysis of the worlds that these periodicals sought to project an image of via references to and excerpts of literature, film, theoretical texts, interviews, and testimonies. While each mujāhida’s contribution to national and transnational community-building varied, the central argument of my dissertation is that despite working in a patriarchal political and publishing environment, the mujāhidāt were able to express themselves by maneuvering at the margins. That is, they deployed a diversity of rhetorical tactics that subtly contested the premises of the system in which they operated, thus exercising power from a seeming position of weakness. While articles authored by the mujāhidāt are a major part of my corpus, I also read more holistically for gendered discourses of liberation in the print and visual culture of the 1950s and 60s. To contextualize the gendered expectations under which they had to write, Chapter One opens with an analysis of “Algeria’s personality” as it was articulated in nationalist texts, with the concept of “family honor” being an essential part of this personality. Chapter Two examines in literature and films that were commonly referenced by nationalist periodicals another key component of this personality: “authenticity,” and more specifically its expression as feminine revolution authenticity. Investigating how mujāhidāt writers navigated such expectations of authenticity, Chapter Three demonstrates how they promoted their own repertoire of female revolutionary icons in nationalist periodicals, especially the figure of the uneducated but radicalized mother as a bastion of cultural authenticity. Finally, Chapter Four reflects on disjunctures in nation-building narratives during Algeria’s post-independence regime. Examining the FLN’s world-building project of cultural diplomacy and national edification primarily via its periodical Révolution africaine, it examines the mujāhidāt’s modalities of intervention in the cultural debates at the intersection between women’s emancipation and the global anticolonial struggle.

This thesis is about ‘military manuals’ produced in the first few centuries of the Roman imperial period. It argues that these texts merit far more attention and appreciation than they have received in the scholarship so far. I will explore areas such as the way in which their authors order and rank Greek and Roman knowledge, engage with ideas about knowledge and power, help construct identity and discuss ethics and behavior. In the first chapter I will determine whether the authors operate within a specific ‘genre’, or ‘genres’, of military writing. Then I will explore how the texts relate to other traditions of technical texts, questions of audience, and finally the issue of their practicality. The second chapter will examine how authors tackle the issue of ‘Greek’ and ‘Roman’ knowledge, categorize, rank and use it for self-promotion. We will see how Roman knowledge is both subverted but also praised, and how Greek knowledge is at the same time placed above Roman knowledge and integrated into a narrative of continuity with it. The third chapter will focus on the use of Greek knowledge in the construction of Roman identity. I will explore how ‘manuals’ play a part in the identity of the Roman Empire, fitting into a picture of unity in diversity, and show how they contribute to Hadrian’s self-presentation. The fourth chapter will examine the ethical component in manuals. I will determine whether there was an ethical code of conduct in battle in the Classical world and whether it was different from general ethical norms. Then, we will examine whether our texts engage in any way with this ‘code’ and whether their individual approaches have anything in common or are fundamentally different.