Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T11:07:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MARIA AMELIA DE JESUS OLIVEIRA.pdf: 542911 bytes, checksum: c26593fd3157cae77c44ab147f7f5ec6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-01 / This study concerns the identification and the analysis of the characteristics of this fantastic work in O dono do mar, José Sarney, as the highlight and all the supernatural and magical dream like atmosphere that surrounds the story, giving it an aspect linked to unusual dense and terror, that soon will characterize the work as a narrative that leans towards Realism fantastic and Realism magical. We will draw for both, the theorist Tzvetan Todorov to our theoretical framework, especially in his Introduction to Fantastic Literature and also some of his scholars. We chose to work with this work by presenting high range around our goals and purpose, as evidenced in passages that prove the theory regarding the dialogic interface. / Este estudo concerne à identificação e à análise das características do fantástico presente na obra O dono do mar, de José Sarney, com destaque ao sobrenatural e fantástica e mágica que envolve a história, atribuindo-lhe um aspecto denso ligado ao insólito e ao terror, que permitirão caracterizar a obra como narrativa que tem traços tanto do Realismo Fantástico quanto do Realismo Maravilhoso. Recorreremos, para tanto, às formulações desenvolvidas por Tzvetan Todorov, sobretudo, em Introdução a Literatura Fantástica e também a alguns de seus estudiosos. Optamos por estudar o romance O dono do mar, por se tratar de uma obra que apresenta variedade de elementos literários pertinentes aos nossos objetivos e propósitos.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:35:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo Leandro de Campos.pdf: 1504216 bytes, checksum: 8672406ea0a9bc1b66c43757181b3bc6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-02 / This study aims to analyze the work of the Colombian esoteric Samael Aun Weor based on the concept of "secularization of esotericism" proposed by the historian Wouter Hanegraaff. Contributing to the interdisciplinary debate that articulates the field of Cultural History, History of Religions and the recent History of Western Esotericism, it is intended to analyze the reversing relations and mutual influences that guide the construction of the modern Western culture, its rationality paradigms and empirical science; and on the other hand, the establishment of an esoteric tradition that seeks to harmonize these paradigms with a design strongly "enchanted" of the universe, and the mutual process of appropriation/ reinterpretation involved.This debate also dialogues to a more specific discussion in the field of Science of Religions, which seeks to understand the changes occurring in Western religious field opposite the new secularized society. Specifically, this paper seeks to contribute to the debate by offering a perspective of these processes from its Latin American component in order to identify how these dynamics are reproduced on the continent and its specificities. With this purpose, taking the work of Samael Aun Weor as a case study, it was conducted a long-term historical context by inserting the author in a more general constitution process of modern Western esotericism, and specifically, in the constitution process of an esoteric spiritualities field in Colombia, birth cradle of the Gnostic Movement. From a historical-comparative analysis of his work evolution, its institutionalization and practices - which takes into account conceptual and methodological contributions of Italian History of Religions School, historiography on Western esotericism and theoretical proposition Bourdieu from the concept of "field" - the work highlights the doctrinal transition that the Colombian esoteric Aun Weor operates in his work, moving from Rosicrucianism towards the conceptions of a psychological esotericism, proposed by the Russian esoteric Gurdjieff. Such a transition is analyzed by the dominant imagery in the esoteric milieu of his time, a perspective that offers an important analytical material for understanding the structural dynamics that guide the institutionalization of Gnosticism in Latin America and the specifics that guide their reversing relations with the social universe in which they are inserted. / O presente trabalho tem o prop?sito de analisar a obra do esoterista colombiano Samael Aun Weor ? luz do conceito de seculariza??o do esoterismo do historiador Wouter Hanegraaff, que integra um importante debate, no campo da Hist?ria Cultural, que analisa as rela??es reversivas e as influ?ncias m?tuas que pautam, de um lado, a constru??o da moderna cultura ocidental e seus paradigmas de racionalidade e ci?ncia emp?rica, e do outro a constitui??o de uma tradi??o esot?rica que busca harmonizar estes paradigmas com uma concep??o fortemente encantada do universo, e dos m?tuos processos de apropria??o/reinterpreta??o envolvidos. Esse debate tamb?m dialoga com uma discuss?o mais espec?fica ao campo da Ci?ncia das Religi?es, que busca compreender as transforma??es que ocorrem no campo religioso ocidental frente ? nova sociedade secularizada. Nesse sentido, nosso trabalho busca contribuir com o debate oferecendo uma perspectiva destes processos a partir da periferia do ocidente , a Am?rica Latina, buscando identificar em que medida essas din?micas s?o reproduzidas no Novo Continente, e o que elas possuem de espec?fico. Com esse prop?sito, tomando-se a obra de Samael Aun Weor como estudo de caso, conduziu-se uma contextualiza??o hist?rica de longa dura??o, inserindo o autor no processo mais geral de constitui??o do moderno esoterismo ocidental, e de maneira mais espec?fica no processo de constitui??o de um campo de espiritualidades esot?ricas na Col?mbia. A partir de uma an?lise hist?rico-comparativa da evolu??o de sua obra, de sua institucionaliza??o e de suas pr?ticas, que leva em conta contribui??es conceituais e metodol?gicas da Escola Italiana de Hist?ria das Religi?es, nosso trabalho destaca a transi??o doutrin?ria que o autor opera em sua obra, deslocando-se do Rosacrucianismo em dire??o ?s concep??es de um Esoterismo Psicol?gico do esoterista russo Gurdjieff. Essa transi??o ? analisada ? luz do imagin?rio dominante no milieu esot?rico de sua ?poca, perspectiva que oferece um importante material anal?tico para a compreens?o das din?micas estruturais que norteiam a institucionaliza??o do gnosticismo na Am?rica Latina e das especificidades que definem suas rela??es reversivas com o universo social em que est?o inseridas.

Ritos de magia e sobrevivência tem como tema central as manifestações mágico-religiosas em seus nexos com a história social do Brasil e de São Paulo dos últimos anos do século XIX às primeiras décadas do século XX. A temática foi sugerida inicialmente pelo nosso trabalho de mestrado e pela documentação criminal da segunda metade do século XIX que chamou a atenção para a importância de uma religiosidade difusa, no geral oriunda das crenças afro-brasileiras, no processo de luta contra a reificação pretendida pelo regime da dominação escravista e por seus efeitos no pós-Abolição. Impregnada na organização do dia-a-dia das populações urbanas e rurais, muitas delas oriundas da condição escrava, manifesta na ação de curandeiros, feiticeiros, pitonisas e benzedeiras, insinuou a força de uma sensibilidade religiosa que se transformava muitas vezes em componente essencial de processos cognitivos e de uma concepção de mundo capaz de fornecer os referenciais para que tais grupos pudessem pensar a sua condição social e se compatibilizar com a sociedade mais ampla. De outra parte, nos quadros das transformações que se operavam no período, não se tratava de uma simples permanência de ritos e crenças, em continuidade com as tradições do catolicismo popular e dos ritos afro-brasileiros, mas de um processo de acentuada revivescência das mais variadas correntes de pensamento mágico e místico, denotando em outros termos os ritmos e as direções dos processos históricos em curso. A história da cidade nessa época, marcada pelo crescimento espantoso do número de habitantes, vinha inscrita também no alastramento das vertentes do pensamento espiritualista: a difusão do espiritismo, as teorias e práticas relacionadas ao magnetismo animal, a ciência do ocultismo, a quiromancia e a cartomancia mesclavam-se às tradições existentes e acabavam por moldar práticas e figuras multifacetadas. Além disso, aludiam ao clima de insegurança social, à mobilidade de contingentes populacionais imigrantes, migrantes e negros, às oscilações implícitas nos processos históricos em curso e, indiretamente, ofereciam um quadro revelador do custo social da urbanização e da modernização. Emprestando os termos de Oswaldo Xidieh (1944), senhores e senhoras em idade provecta, negras velhas e macumbeiros, parteiras e carolas, curandeiros e benzedeiras, rezadores e tiradores de cobra, capelães e cozinheiras, amas-secas e mumbavas, crias e cantadores, folientos do Divino, penitentes andarilhos e beatas são os sujeitos desse estudo. / This thesis, Ritos de magia e sobrevivência, is focused on magical-religious manifestations in its links with Social History of Brazil and São Paulo in the last years of the nineteenth century to the early decades of the twentieth century. The theme was originally suggested by our previous research based on criminal documentation of the second half of the nineteenth century that drew attention to the importance of a diffuse religiosity, in general originated from the African-Brazilian beliefs, in the struggle against reification intended by slavery and their effects on post-Abolition. Steeped in the organization of everyday life of urban and rural populations, many of them coming from the slave condition, manifested in the action of healers, shamans, and pythoness, the strength of a religious sensibility became an essential component of cognitive processes and a conception of the world able to provide references for such groups could think about their social status and be compatible with the wider society. On the other hand, in the frames of transformations operated in this period, in continuity with the traditions of popular Catholicism and African-Brazilians rites, in a stead process of revival of the most various currents of mystical thought and magic, the religious dimension denote in other terms the historical process in progress. São Paulo´ History at this time, marked by phenomenal growth in the number of inhabitants, was also marked by the spread of spiritual strands of thought: the diffusion of spiritualism, the theories and practices related to Animal Magnetism, the Occultism, the Cartomancy mixed with ancient traditions and practices and ultimately shape different figures. Moreover, allude to the climate of social insecurity, the mobility of population groups of immigrants, migrants and blacks population, and also fluctuations implicit in ongoing historical processes, reveal indirectly the social cost of urbanization and modernization. Borrowing the terms of Oswaldo Xidieh (1944), \"lords and ladies in ripe age, old black and macumbeiros, pious and midwives, healers and faith healers, chanters, chaplains and cooks, nannies and mumbavas, and young singers , folientos the Divine, wanderers and penitents butts \"are the subjects of this study.

Afin d’expliciter les modes d’influence intervenant dans les Dialogues de Platon, nous étudions de quelle manière se déploie la magie notamment de Socrate, qui est présenté comme un sorcier par plusieurs interlocuteurs. Une étude générale préliminaire sur la magie portant sur l’anthropologie, les rituels, pathologiques (troubles obsessionnels-compulsifs) ou culturels, et enfin la pensée magique nous fournit un cadre pour envisager comment se manifeste l’influence chez Platon. Différents facteurs influent sur les modes de pensée des individus souvent à leur insu : personnalité, habitudes, société, éthique, ignorance, etc.. La magie oratoire est pratiquée, depuis Gorgias, par divers experts du discours comme les orateurs ou les sophistes, ce qui révèle l’ambiguïté de la magie de Socrate, alors qu’il prétend éliminer le faux et les illusions. Dans le Phèdre, différents types de possession se produisent, certaines incontrôlées, d’autres contrôlées, impliquant un processus d’initiation. La magie de Socrate trouve encore à s’illustrer avec plusieurs cas d’envoûtement marquants, mais aussi un usage d’incantations notamment pour traiter la crainte de la mort. Dans le domaine politique, le législateur recourt aussi aux incantations pour plus d’efficacité, vu qu’elles agissent sur la forme des comportements, contribuent à souder les citoyens et participent au contrôle social. Une législation sur les crimes de magie est aussi édictée. / To explain the modes of influence operating in Plato’s Dialogues, we study how Socrates and others use their magic as several interlocutors have called Socrates a sorcerer. A framework is given to our research with a preliminary general study about magic covering anthropology, rituals – pathological (obsessive-compulsive disorders) or cultural – and magical thought. In Plato’s works, the way people think is influenced by many factors often unknowingly: personality, habits, society, ethics, ignorance, etc. Since it had been analyzed by Gorgias, speech experts, such as orators or sophists, have been using oratorical magic in their performances. And then the ambiguity of Socrates’ magic blatantly appears whereas he claims to refute falsehood and eliminate illusions. Different types of possession occur in Phaedrus, some uncontrolled, other controlled, entailing an initiation. Socrates carries out his magic in several striking cases of bewitchment and he also uses incantations in particular to sooth the fear of death. In the political field, the lawgiver finds an interest in using incantations for more effectiveness in his task since they can shape the forms of behaviors, create strong bond between citizens and contribute to social control. A law about crimes of magic is also designed.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Henrique Sugahara Francisco.pdf: 1251006 bytes, checksum: 1894f98758d7585f039dd807bd538e71 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The aim of this research is to analyze, in the context of the modernization of the city of São Paulo, the representations of the magic practitioners in the sensationalist news and in the faits divers of the melodramatic newspaper A Capital. In the view of the publication, these characters represented a setback on the way of civilization and were immoral per excellence. Witches, faith healers, fake mediums and cartomancers underwent a process of disqualification, being represented as highly dangerous people. On the other hand, spiritists and occultists, due the fact that they based their practices on scientific, rational and philosophic principles, were praised by the newspaper as people who were able to regenerate society by spreading values that should be embodied by the people of Brazil and São Paulo, such as erudition, highly moral, solidarity and religious feeling in the direction of humanitarianism / A presente pesquisa tenciona, no contexto de modernização da cidade de São Paulo, analisar as representações dos praticantes de magia nas notícias sensacionalistas e nos faits divers melodramáticos do jornal A Capital. Por constituírem-se, no entender desse periódico, em símbolos de atraso rumo à civilização e imorais por excelência, feiticeiros, curandeiros, falsos médiuns e cartomantes passaram por um processo de desqualificação, sendo representados como sujeitos de alta periculosidade. Espíritas e ocultistas, por sua vez, em virtude do fato de basearem suas práticas em fundamentos científicos, racionais e filosóficos, foram noticiados sempre com louvor pelo jornal, tendo sido exaltados como indivíduos capazes de regenerar a sociedade, por meio da difusão de valores que deveriam ser incorporados pela população paulista e brasileira, como a erudição, a moral elevada, a solidariedade e o sentimento religioso na direção do humanitarismo

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fatima Cristina Leister.pdf: 7649157 bytes, checksum: 36c1cf1ad0ee28bfee66d7927867aae7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-25 / In spite of the publication of Law 10.369 in 2003, which made the teaching of the history and culture of Africa and African Brazilians compulsory, there is still much to be done to reduce the defects in the national curriculum and offer better guidance for the study of the Africas and of Africans. There are still many avenues that need to be explored in order to fill the gaps that the colonial legacy has left. To this end, in order to broaden historical horizons and contribute to the historiographical debate already under way, the focus of the present work is directed at the area occupied by current Guinea-Bissau, especially during the period of the Imperial Colonial Portuguese Empire. This area has been almost totally neglected in Brazil, but the culture of Guinean people has been described in the annals of the Boletim Cultural da Guiné Portuguesa. This colonial periodical, published between 1946 and 1973 is now available online as the Projeto Memória de África e Oriente. Coordinated by the Fundação Portugal-Africa, the aim of this project is to collect, collate and digitalize documents at present scattered among the documentation centers of various Portuguese-speaking countries and make them available to researchers on the internet. The Boletim Cultural is a varied source made up of 110 editions published uninterruptedly three times a year. There are over 20,000 pages, whose main emphasis is on articles concerning ethnographics, which, although often seen from an undesirably European perspective, offer the opportunity to study these little-known cultures, which have been mostly handed down by oral tradition, and despite the cultural bias they display, these articles are nevertheless well worth reading. In fact, paradoxically, this alien perspective serves to highlight certain cultural features and the very characteristic language used in them expresses quite pointedly the colonial logic upon which political and scientific studies were based. In this way, this scientific knowledge, despite its subtexts, has enabled a dialog to take place with various actors who made their own history, despite this remaining restricted even until today, by others who sought to control it. Thus, despite being strongly influenced by scientific colonial attitudes, these studies published in the pages of Boletim Cultural, did allow the first approaches to be made to Guinea-Bissau and its constituent elements in the 20th century / Não obstante a promulgação da Lei 10.639, que desde 2003 tornou obrigatório o ensino de História, Cultura Africana e Afro-Brasileira, ainda há muito que avançar para minimizar deficiências curriculares nacionais e reorientar reflexões sobre as Áfricas e os africanos. Há, ainda, um vasto campo a ser explorado para preencher os vazios que a marca colonial legou. Nesse sentido, a fim de ampliar horizontes históricos e contribuir com debates historiográficos já formulados, o foco do presente trabalho dirige-se para a região da atual Guiné-Bissau, especialmente no período em que compunha o Império Colonial Português. Praticamente ausente da historiografia disponível no Brasil, as culturas de povos guineenses foram destacadas dos registros contidos no Boletim Cultural da Guiné Portuguesa. Esta revista colonial, publicada entre 1946 e 1973, encontra-se hoje disponibilizada através da página eletrônica do Projeto Memória de África e Oriente. Coordenado pela Fundação Portugal-África, este projeto tem como objetivos coletar, tratar, digitalizar documentos espalhados pelos centros de documentação de países lusófonos, disponibilizando-os aos pesquisadores através da internet. O Boletim Cultural é uma fonte variada composta por 110 edições publicadas quadrimestralmente de forma ininterrupta. São mais de 20 mil páginas, das quais foram priorizados os artigos de cunho etnográfico, os quais, embora permeados pelos filtros desqualificadores europeus, ofereceram a oportunidade de fazer contato com culturas pouco conhecidas, majoritariamente constituídas na tradição oral. A intermediação realizada pelos articulistas não inviabilizaram o processo. Ao contrário, através de seus estranhamentos, a diferença foi evidenciada e ganhou uma linguagem escrita publicada nas páginas da revista, que expressava, materialmente, a lógica colonial construída sob a interação entre política e ciência. Nessa medida, esse conhecimento científico proporcionou, apesar de intenções subjacentes, um canal de diálogo com vários atores que construíram histórias próprias, contudo encapsuladas, até hoje, por outras que lhes foram impostas. Assim, orientados pela política colonial científica , os trabalhos publicados nas páginas do Boletim Cultural permitiram as primeiras aproximações com a Guiné-Bissau e seus elementos constituintes de meados do século XX

A partir de minha tradução para o português brasileiro de The Magic Pudding (1918), novela infantil australiana escrita e ilustrada por Norman Lindsay, o objetivo desta dissertação é demonstrar as peculiaridades da tradução de literatura infantil ilustrada. Portanto, este estudo analisa o papel das ilustrações na tradução, enquanto levanta questões sobre a adaptação literária em uma época em que novos meios e tecnologias de leitura competem com o livro impresso pela atenção infantil. Como O Pudim Mágico é a primeira tradução da novela para o português, e devido à importância das ilustrações na narrativa, é proposta uma tradução estrangeirizada para que elementos da cultura e da natureza australianas, especialmente alimentos e animais, permaneçam visíveis no texto de chegada. Pelas mesmas razões, tanto o texto propriamente dito quanto as ilustrações são tratados como textos, respectivamente, verbal e pictórico, em oposição aos peritextos verbal e pictórico acrescentados ao texto de chegada. Este estudo é dividido em quatro capítulos: 1) apresentação da biografia e obra do autor, bem como do contexto em que The Magic Pudding foi escrito, seguida pelo resumo detalhado da novela, uma discussão sobre as peculiaridades da tradução para crianças e, baseadas principalmente em Lawrence Venuti e Gérard Genette, as justificativas para a abordagem estrangeirizante com o emprego de elementos peritextuais; 2) apresentação das estratégias de Javier Franco Aixelá para a tradução de itens culturais-específicos para discutir o tratamento de nomes próprios contendo significados culturais; considerando o leitor-alvo, é sugerido o acréscimo de elementos peritextuais, tais como novas ilustrações combinadas com um prefácio verbal, a fim de evitar o emprego de notas de rodapé; 3) análise da influência da ilustrações de Lindsay na tradução, com sugestões para o tratamento do texto verbal de chegada; 4) discussão sobre tópicos de adaptação e transmidiação de literatura infantil, com sugestões para tratar os textos verbal e pictórico na transposição de O Pudim Mágico de meio impresso a digital; com base principalmente nos estudos de Lars Elleström e Ellen McCracken, dispositivos digitais de leitura como o Amazon Kindle e o Apple iPad são analisados, concluindo-se que o texto-alvo é considerado uma tradução em formato impresso, uma remidiação em formato para Kindle e uma transmidiação em formato para iPad. / Based on my unpublished translation of The Magic Pudding (1918), Australian children’s novel written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay, this thesis aims at demonstrating the peculiarities of translating illustrated children’s literature. Therefore, it analyses the role of the illustrations in the translation while raising questions on literary adaptation at a time when new reading media and technology compete with the printed book for children’s attention. Given that O Pudim Mágico is the first translation of the novel into Portuguese and due to the importance of the illustrations in the narrative, I propose a foreignised translation to preserve Australia’s cultural and natural elements, in particular foods and animals, visible in the target text. For the same reasons, both the text proper and the illustrations are regarded as texts, respectively verbal and pictorial, in opposition to the verbal and pictorial peritexts added to the target text. This study is divided into four chapters: 1) a presentation of the author’s biography and oeuvre, as well as of the context in which The Magic Pudding was written, followed by a detailed summary of the novel, a discussion on the peculiarities of translating for children and, mainly based on Lawrence Venuti and Gérard Genette, a justification for the foreignising approach with the employment of peritextual elements; 2) a presentation of Javier Franco Aixelá’s strategies to translate culture-specific items in order to discuss the treatment of proper names that hold cultural meanings; considering the target reader, the addition of peritextual elements, such as new illustrations combined with a verbal preface, is suggested as a means to avoid the employment of footnotes; 3) an analysis of the influence of Lindsay’s illustrations on the translation with suggestions for the treatment of the verbal target text; 4) a discussion on issues of adaptation and transmediation of children’s literature, with suggestions for treating the verbal and pictorial texts in the transposition of O Pudim Mágico from printed to digitised media; based mainly on the studies by Lars Elleström and Ellen McCracken, digital reading devices such as Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad are analysed to conclude that the novel’s target text is deemed to be a translation in print format, a remediation on Kindle and a transmediation on iPad. Keywords: Adaptation. Australian Literature. Children’

Au XVe siècle, le philosophe florentin Marsile Ficin (1433-1499) rédige un texte singulier intitulé De vita coelitus comparanda ou « comment obtenir la vie du ciel » qui deviendra le troisième et dernier livre d’un ouvrage médical de plus large envergure, le De vita libri tres, consacré à conserver et à prolonger la santé des hommes de lettres accablés sous le poids de l’étude. Ce texte est tout entier consacré au pouvoir apotropaïque et prophylactique du talisman ou « image astrologique », une notion savante qui apparaît en Occident au milieu du XIIIe siècle, et insiste tout particulièrement sur la matérialité, la forme et l’apparence de ces images. Ainsi Ficin développe-t-il un discours original par rapport à la tradition en se concentrant sur le processus de fabrication, discours qui n’est pas sans rappeler les premières théories de l’art qui apparaissent à la même époque à Florence. Ficin réhabilite la figure du mage antique dans le cadre d’une réflexion plus vaste qui met en exergue le pouvoir créateur de l’homme en tant que savant, humaniste et philosophe. Si le postulat d’une influence tardive du néoplatonisme ficinien sur la littérature artistique du XVIe siècle a donné lieu à de nombreuses études, il apparaît en revanche que les rapports que Ficin était susceptible d’entretenir avec le monde des artistes, et surtout des artistes-théoriciens du XVe siècle, demeure un terrain relativement peu exploré. Tout l’enjeu de notre travail se situe donc dans la triple interrogation que ce concours de circonstances soulève : quel rôle jouent au sein de la pensée magique de Ficin les allusions à l’art et à sa pratique qui traversent l'ensemble de son œuvre? dans quelle mesure la notion d’«image astrologique» qu’il reprend et développe s’est-elle nourrie de la nouvelle littérature artistique alors en pleine formation? et enfin, comment peut-on affirmer que certaines œuvres typiques du Quattrocento florentin relèvent d’un caractère « mixte » oscillant entre le produit de l’art à proprement parler et l’objet magique? / In fifteenth-century Florence, the philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) wrote the De vita coelitus comparanda, i.e. “how to capture life from the heavens”, which would later form the last and third book of a larger volume titled De vita libri tres. The latter exposes the means to preserve the health and extend the life of man of letters afflicted by their intense studies. The former deals with the apotropaic and prophylactic power of the talismans also called “astrological images”, following a learned concept which appeared in Western Europe in the mid-thirteenth century, and focuses on the materiality, form and appearance of these images. Ficino hence develops a new reflexion that focuses on the process of making which seems to echo new artistic theories devised during the same period in Florence. Ficino redeems the figure of the ancient magus by enhancing man’s creative power and his status as a philosopher and a humanist. The assumption of a late influence of Ficino’s neoplatonic thought on the arts in the sixteenth century has led to several studies but its genesis and its potential links with the artistic world and, especially his fellows artist-theoreticians, remained to be fully investigated. This thesis aims therefore to investigate the role of the artistic references within Ficino’s magic thought, the influence of contemporary ideas on the art practice upon his conception of “astrological image”, and the nature of specific artworks typical of fifteenth-century Florence, which seem to respond to both a magical and an artistic purpose.

À la fois mythique constructeur ou destructeur de Mondes, incarnation du Malin pour l'Église au Moyen-âge, monstre lové sur un trésor au fond d'une grotte, qu'un héros doit tuer pour prouver sa bravoure dans les légendes et les contes, le dragon revient périodiquement exprimer les peurs et les fantasmes les plus profonds. Au XXème siècle, la Fantasy a ramené le dragon en littérature et la Dragon Fantasy récente (DragonLance de M. Weis et T. Hickman comme point de départ en 1984) a fait évoluer son image en lui offrant le rôle de personnage principal ou de héros, contribuant à l'amplification de la figure mythique du dragon et à son renouveau. Le dragon vole, crache du feu, pense, parle, raisonne, se métamorphose, possède des pouvoirs magiques, aime et se bat. Il existe également au féminin. Si le dragon ancien était représenté aux pieds de l'homme, en position d'infériorité d'animal dompté, le dragon de Fantasy se situe dans le ciel, libre et supérieur à l'homme. Il ouvre la voie d'une sagesse ancestrale au dragonnier qu'il se choisit. Les combats des dragons symbolisent les éternelles luttes du Bien et du Mal présentes dans toutes les sociétés humaines et en l'homme lui-même, les forces qui s'affrontent pour le rétablissement de l'ordre et de l'équilibre universel en danger. / A mythic builder or destroyer of Worlds, the embodiment of Evil for the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Agesd, a monster to kill in order to take its treasure in legends or tales, the dragon periodically comes back expressing one's fears or diseases. Fantasy has brought the dragon back to twentieth century literature and Dragon Fantasy offers him the leading role in fights to keep order and and hold the world balanced. The new dragon, male or female, thinks, speaks, loves, fights, has magical powers, can fly, breathe fire, transform himself/herself. He shows human beings the way to ancestral wisdom.

This thesis comprises translations of five articles by the Russian ethnolinguist Nikita Iljich Tolstoy, some of which deal with the theory of the ethnolinguistic approach to language and the Slavic culture and others demonstrate a practical application of such an approach and such methods on the traditional Slavic culture. They present this approach as a continuous development of linguistic research which draws on the rich tradition and at the same time transcends its past and enriches it with new points of view. This also constitutes a unique way of preserving the legacy of our ancestors while simultaneously showing it in a new light. Aside from the translations the present thesis also includes an introductory study dealing with general characteristics of ethnolinguistics, its goals, subject, methods, and various schools of thought. In addition, chapters are included introducing the scientific work of N. I. Tolstoy and other members of the Moscow School of Ethnolinguistics. Present are also notes and comments on the translation, clarifying terms from the Russian cultural tradition not necessarily familiar in the Czech environment and explaining certain terms that may be difficult to translate.