Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T18:56:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 luciane_watthier.pdf: 801896 bytes, checksum: fa4dda29e37705bc37384e22f3f531ba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-12 / Although the love/personal/family letter has not being of much use nowadays as a form of verbal interaction between people and relatives or friends who are distant, this discursive genre is constituted as a real document, by containing historical records, retrieving items of cultural ideologies of older times, as well as the style of the people who were part of it because the language, as being eminently social, is a genre responsible for keeping these characteristics. Starting from this premise, this work was made with the intention to conduct a language study on the discursive genre love letter, including its defining characteristics, such as production context, thematic content, compositional structure and its style, in line with their conditions of production. Linedup in methodological order for language studies suggested by Bakhtin/Volochinov (2004), an order that includes these three compositional elements of discursive genres, we analyzed four love letters written in the 1950s and 1960s decades. This approach allowed us to highlight moreover the structural and functional characteristics of this genre, of cultural aspects of time when these texts were produced and also the identity of those involved in the enunciative situation. We recovered focused on the story of a passion almost erased by an unrequited love and by the time that was able to yellow, but not destroy, sheets of paper that revealed this love. To develop this study, the main theoretical references were, in addition to Bakhtin s publications (1988, 2000, 2002), Bakhtin/Volochinov (2004) and his circle (Tchougounnikov (2009), Faraco (2009), Zandwais (2009), Miotello (2008), among others), assays about culture, identity, discursive genres and love/family/personal letters. We concluded that a detailed study of language, covering the production context, the thematic content, compositional construction and style of an statement allows us to a deeper understanding of a discursive genre. The love letter is therefore a type of statement that allows a freedom of speech and a change in the level of formality and organization of its compositional elements. Moreover, the love letter, when brought to a classroom, allows a study of the language in a contextualized and meaningful way, providing also a linguistic and cultural discussion. / Apesar de a carta de amor/pessoal/familiar ser, atualmente, pouco utilizada como forma de interação verbal entre pessoas parentes e/ou amigas que se encontram distantes, tratase de um gênero discursivo que se constitui como um verdadeiro documento, por conter registros históricos, recuperando ideologias constituintes da cultura de épocas passadas, bem como de do estilo das pessoas que dela fizeram parte, pois a linguagem, sendo de cunho eminentemente social, é um gênero responsável por guardar essas características. Partindo dessa premissa, este trabalho foi elaborado com o objetivo de realizar um estudo da linguagem sobre o gênero discursivo carta de amor, compreendendo suas características definidoras, tais como, contexto de produção, conteúdo temático, estrutura composicional e estilo, em consonância com suas condições de produção. Pautados na ordem metodológica para estudos da língua sugerida por Bakhtin/Volochinov (2004), ordem que contempla esses três elementos composicionais dos gêneros discursivos, analisamos quatro cartas de amor escritas nas décadas de 1950 e 1960. Tal abordagem permitiu-nos destacar, além das características estruturais e funcionais do gênero em questão, de aspectos culturais da época em que esses textos foram produzidos e, também, da identidade das pessoas envolvidas na situação enunciativa. Recuperamos, sob tal enfoque, a história de uma paixão quase apagada por um amor não correspondido e pelo tempo que foi capaz de amarelar, mas não destruir, os papéis das cartas que o revelam. Para o desenvolvimento deste estudo, os principais referenciais teóricos foram, além de publicações de Bakhtin (1988, 2000, 2002); Bakhtin/Volochinov (2004) e de seu círculo (Tchougounnikov (2009); Faraco (2009); Zandwais (2009); Miotello (2008), entre outros), trabalhos que versam sobre cultura, identidade, gêneros discursivos e cartas de amor/familiares/pessoais. Concluímos, então, que um estudo aprofundado da língua, contemplando o contexto de produção, o conteúdo temático, a construção composicional e o estilo de um enunciado, permite a compreensão aprofundada de um gênero discursivo. A carta de amor é, pois, um modelo de enunciado que permite uma liberdade de expressão, bem uma variação quanto ao nível de formalidade da linguagem e à organização de seus elementos composicionais. Além disso, a carta de amor, quando levada para a sala de aula, possibilita um estudo da língua de forma contextualizada e significativa, propiciando, ainda, uma discussão linguística e cultural.

Love Song is an essay about romance, passion, obsession, attraction, Eros, intoxication, infatuation, to fall in love and love. Love songs, as artworks, are almost always directed towards a nameless “you” and this essay wants to talk to you. The text might be seen as a way to create and rewrite something, a performance to understand other performances, a dwelling on past relationships, a love letter, or just a text for me to vent you with others that have been thinking about you. I would love to hear Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Chris Kraus, Beyoncé, Bell Hooks, Anaïs Nin and Taylor Swift talk to each other about art and romances, but because that is an impossible dream I try to connect them and many other thinkers, artists and singers through language. One of them, Roland Barthes once wrote: "Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had worlds instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my worlds."[1] Love Song is, more than anything else an attempted to touch you, a strategy to better understand the way you made and make me feel.   [1] Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse – Fragments, original: Fragments d’un discours amoureux, 1977, translation from French: Richard Howard, Edition du Seuil, 1978, p. 73.

Cette étude, intitulée « Représentations de l’Occupation et le parcours de l’identité féminine dans Η μητέρα του σκύλου de Pavlos Matessis », examine la collaboration sexuelle de la femme avec l’ennemi au cours de l’Occupation italo-allemande, son châtiment à la Libération et sa protestation envers la punition infligée. L’analyse des techniques narratives combinée à celle du contexte historique permettent d’approfondir les représentations de l’Occupation élaborées par ce roman et cernent la question centrale qui concerne la position tenue par ce dernier face à un événement que l’Histoire officielle a considéré comme secondaire après l’avoir frappé d’une condamnation allant de soi. Il s’ensuit de l’analyse que cette fiction au caractère éminemment dramatique combine de façon unique l’histoire à ses modes d’énonciation narrative. Sa particularité est aussi qu’elle s’éloigne sensiblement de la version officielle des événements et articule un discours différent sur un sujet tabou, celui de la collaboration sexuelle des femmes avec l’ennemi qui a été reliée à la prostitution et à la trahison de la patrie. Il fait de cette collaboration l’occasion de l’éveil de la conscience sociale du sujet et de la composition d’une identité sur la base de la libre disposition de soi et de l’auto-détermination, et considère le châtiment public comme un mécanisme de déstructuration du sujet auquel répond le silence comme forme de protestation. Il s’agit d’une œuvre « à l’écoute » de la révolte contre l’injustice de l’Histoire, qui répond dans le présent à la demande insatisfaite de la réhabilitation du sujet et défend des idéaux humanistes qu’elle place au dessus des idéaux nationaux. / The title of the present doctoral research is “Representations of the Occupation and the evolution of female identity in Η μητέρα του σκύλου [The Mother of the dog] by Pavlos Matesis”. This novel revolves around the “erotic” collaboration of a woman with the enemy during the years of the Italian-German Occupation, the public disgrace that she suffered at the wake of Liberation and her protest for the punishment that was inflicted on her. Through a methodology consisting of a narrative analysis in combination with the historical context, I examine the representations of the Occupation that the novel offers in a period that was crucial for Greek history and society, and also the historical fact of the sexual collaboration, which was judged to be of “secondary” significance by official History which filed it as self-evidently condemnable. The conclusion stemming from this research is that the novel, through a fictional narrative with strong dramatic characteristics, combines the story with its narrative ways of expression in a unique way. Its peculiarity, however, lies in its distinctive differentiation from the given facts of the dominant version and in its articulation of a discourse on a taboo subject, for literature as for Historiography, this of the erotic collaboration of women with the enemy, the official evaluation of which connects them with prostitution and national treason. Through this collaboration, which stands as a pretext for the awakening of the subject’s social conscience and the constitution of an identity on the basis of self-determination and self-designation, it sees punishment as a deconstruction mechanism of the subject but also silence as a reaction to the former. Η Μητέρα του σκύλου is a book that “listens” to the protest for the historical injustice, brings forward to the present the unfulfilled request for the subject’s moral restoration and supports the humanistic ideals, putting them above the national ones.