Submitted by Edileide Reis (leyde-landy@hotmail.com) on 2013-05-09T15:06:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Aurinívea Sousa de Assis.pdf: 670163 bytes, checksum: 1c27657b550d95cd45e8abc0f5ef9888 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Alda Lima da Silva(sivalda@ufba.br) on 2013-05-10T17:18:49Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Aurinívea Sousa de Assis.pdf: 670163 bytes, checksum: 1c27657b550d95cd45e8abc0f5ef9888 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-10T17:18:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Aurinívea Sousa de Assis.pdf: 670163 bytes, checksum: 1c27657b550d95cd45e8abc0f5ef9888 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / O presente estudo comparado põe em diálogo as narrativas Grande sertão: veredas de Guimarães Rosa e A Morte em Veneza de Thomas Mann, a partir das simbólicas travessias dos protagonistas Riobaldo e Aschenbach. As cenas de travessia sintetizam as experiências dramáticas dos protagonistas que aprendem acerca da existência marcada pelo paradoxo e instabilidade assustadora. Considera-se, inicialmente, o modo como cada um dos escritores teceu um imaginário acerca da cultura do outro e como esses trânsitos culturais encontram-se representados em suas literaturas. Partindo das cenas de travessia, destacam-se os aspectos épico-dramáticos em ambas as narrativas e os principais leitmotive e simbologias presentes nas cenas que se desdobram nas aprendizagens existenciais dos protagonistas. O trabalho discute como os dois escritores elaboram seus discursos sob o signo da limiaridade, relacionando as experiências de Riobaldo e Aschenbach com as atuais configurações do conceito de devir propostas por Gilles Deleuze e Félix Guattari. / Salvador

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-03T11:52:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-04-23Bitstream added on 2015-03-03T12:06:28Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000810150.pdf: 450823 bytes, checksum: f0f322459f112bd8195944539b53a9b6 (MD5) / A presente dissertação de mestrado busca estabelecer uma comparação entre os conceitos “apolíneo” e “dionisíaco” apresentados por Thomas Mann em seu romance A montanha mágica (1924) e por Nietzsche em O Nascimento da Tragédia ou Helenismo e Pessimismo (1872), de modo a verificar em que se assemelham ou diferenciam, segundo a perspectiva assumida pelos autores na concepção do individualismo. Investigaremos em que medida a noção do individual presente em Mann – constituída pela dialética razão e emoção – conjuga-se às teorias engendradas por Nietzsche em seu primeiro livro, buscando entender a construção da ironia no romance, mais particularmente aquela tocante ao narrador que, dissimuladamente, pretende conduzir o leitor quanto à caracterização da personalidade/intelectualidade do protagonista em formação. Procuraremos, então, como objetivo principal, apreender de que maneira o recurso irônico utilizado na construção do romance ícone da modernidade alemã o distingue do paradigma do gênero literário Bildungsroman, Os anos de aprendizado de Wilhelm Meister, analisando para tanto os elementos tempo e Bildung, fundamentais para a compreensão da tessitura paródica da narrativa em questão / The present dissertation seeks to establish a comparison between the Apollonian concepts and Dionysian presented by Thomas Mann in his novel The Magic Mountain (1924) and by Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy or Hellenism and Pessimism (1872), in order to verify they resemble or differ from the perspective assumed by the authors in the conception of individualism. We will investigate to what extent the notion of individual present in Mann - constituted by dialectical reason and emotion - is conjugated to theories engendered by Nietzsche in his first book, seeking to understand the construction of irony in the novel, particularly what concerns to the narrator, who covertly intends to lead the reader as to characterization of personality/intellectuality of the protagonist in formation. We seek, then, as the main goal, apprehend how the ironic resource used in the construction of the emblematic novel of German modernity distinguishes it from the paradigm of Bildungsroman literary genre, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, analyzing for this purpose, time and Bildung, fundamental elements to understanding the parodic organization of the narrative in question

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Western Ontario, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-101).

This thesis compares the novels Doktor Faustus: das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde (Thomas Mann) and Mephisto: Roman einer Karriere (Klaus Mann), insofar as they are portrayals of the situation in Germany during the Third Reich. Essentially a comparative study, I explore similarities and differences – thematic and conceptual – by situating both novels in their socio-historical moment (Chapter 1), exploring their conceptions of German national identity (Chapter 2), tracing intertextual connections to other works (Chapter 3), and, finally, examining their understanding of and reliance on art as insofar as it provides the allegorical framework for their respective portrayals of Nazi Germany (Chapter 4).

Orientador: Mário Luiz Frungillo / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T14:31:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bragion_AlexandreMauro_D.pdf: 1552608 bytes, checksum: 965c78de173cb0327f8b839002571a50 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: A presente tese toma como corpus de análise o romance alemão Doutor Fausto, escrito por Thomas Mann entre os anos de 1943 a 1947. Objetivando reconhecer e apontar nele possíveis influências e aspectos pertencentes diretamente ao universo composicional da música erudita, este texto - pautando-se no processo metodológico de comparação entre a literatura e a música apresentado por Steven Paul Scher e Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira - relaciona o referido romance de Mann com a musicografia do compositor austríaco Arnold Schönberg; e propõe, a partir de tais relações, uma leitura de Doutor Fausto à luz das ideias e teorias expostas pelo filósofo Theodor W. Adorno em seus livros Filosofia da Nova Música e Dialética do Esclarecimento / Abstract: The present thesis takes as corpus the analyze of the german novel Doktor Faustus written by Thomas Mann between 1943 and 1947. Aimed to recognize and point out in it possible influences and aspects arising directly from the erudite music compositional universe - and based on the methodological process to compare literature to music presented by Steven Paul Scher e Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira - this work relates Mann's novel with the musicography of the Austrian composer Arnold Schönberg; it also proposes, from such relations, a reading of Doktor Faustus enlightened by Theodor W. Adorno's theories from the books Philosophy of New Music and Dialectic of Enlightenment / Doutorado / Literatura Geral e Comparada / Doutor em Teoria e História Literária

As Written presents an investigation of selected literary configurations of musical ineffability in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By putting literary parables into constellation with media technologies and texts from philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, and media theory, the dissertation seeks to better understand the ways in which literature engages, discloses, disrupts, and determines musical discourse at times of aesthetic, political, and technological shift. The dissertation begins by establishing the “cryptographic” ineffable that emerges in early German Romanticism through readings of Novalis. These readings suggest this formulation of ineffability to arise out of an instrumentalization of instrumental music that emphasizes the symbolic relations of musical notation over music’s sound—this in service of a literary and philosophical project that strives to transcend its own medial and epistemological limits. Subsequent chapters will analyze alternative configurations of ineffability in writings by Richard Wagner, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Mann, and Helmut Lachenmann, but vestiges of this “originary” Romantic configuration will remain. Indeed, while the literary texts analyzed in these later chapters will respond to the medial, technical, and technological developments of their historical contexts, more than merely disclosing discursive formulations of musical ineffability, they, like Novalis’ Heinrich von Ofterdingen, will be shown to enact these formulations in forms of linguistic, sonic, and material absence through their complex narratologies and poetologies. How, this dissertation will ask, might literature’s ability to accommodate changing contexts in these configurations ultimately suggest musical ineffability as a conduit through which a music-discursive tradition that emerges in literature around 1800 is able to preserve itself into the twentieth century?

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My D.Phil, dissertation sheds new light on German literary decadence around 1900, its universal concepts, plurality of discourses and poetic transformations. The heuristic value of my dissertation is a refined differentiation of Dekadenz which reconstructs the literary history of the concept and for the first time proposes specific poetic constellations. In chapter 1, decadence is reviewed with its rich research heritage and introduced as a decisive concept and discourse of aesthetic modernism. Although much has been written on decadence, the concept is clearly in need of scholarly reconsideration. I argue that decadence is not only a vague epochal construct and an ensemble of motifs, but also encompasses discourses, universal concepts and a versatile literary style. In view of the stylistic eclecticism around 1900, I argue that decadence is a dynamic and malleable concept which can be combined with other aesthetic styles, movements and philosophical contexts depending on the specific author. Chapter 2 contextualizes Dekadenz from its etymology and central discourses to its universal concepts. Etymologically derived from the Latin verb de-cadere decadence signifies a downward movement and a figure of fragmentation. It evokes cultural and political decline especially that of the Roman Empire (décadence romaine) and undergoes various aesthetic transformations (1857-1894). After touching upon the precursors Baudelaire (1857), Bourget (1883) and Bahr (1889-1894), I dwell on Nietzsche to demonstrate the philosophically complex German double evaluation of decadence. I derive three universal concepts from Nietzsche (health vs. sickness, endings vs. new beginnings, fragmentation vs. wholeness) which are crucial to my literary analysis. My comprehensive literary analysis centers on three specific poetic constellations of decadence between late realism and aesthetic modernism. Chapter 3 illuminates Mann's spätrealistische Dekadenz (1894-1924) with his (Nietzschean) double evaluations. Transformations of decadence are shown in his early novellas, Buddenbrooks, Der Tod in Venedig and Der Zauberberg. Chapter 4 illustrates Hofmannsthal's ästhetizistische Dekadenz (1891-1902) in his early essays, his prose fragment Age of Innocence and Das Märchen der 672. Nacht. A significant transformation of decadence is illuminated in Ein Brief (1902), where Nietzschean decadence is concentrated and tentatively overturned. In chapter 5, Rilke's modernistische Dekadenz (1898-1910) is shown from his early fragment Ewald Tragy to his only novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge. His novel attempts a poetic 'revaluation of all values' and culminates in the emergence of a genuinely modernist decadence.

This doctoral dissertation, «The Retrospective Novel: The Romance of the Self,» focuses on the relationship between literary genres, ideology, and history. The novels I analyze are widely regarded as masterpieces of the last two centuries of Western literature. They include works by authors such as Melville, Conrad, Gide, Pirandello, Svevo, Roth, Faulkner, and Mann. All these novels present a biographical structure, in which the life of the protagonist is narrated retrospectively either by the hero himself (like in Pirandello’s Mattia Pascal) or by one of his friends (as in Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus). The research aims to examine the relationship between the retrospectivity of these novels and the rise of modern bourgeois society. The goal is to define the retrospective novel as a genre that, by continuing the Romantic tradition, reacts to Western ideas of modernity and to the realist novel. The dissertation discusses the formal features of retrospective novels to investigate the relationship between the crisis of linear plots and the existence of tragic heroes. The analysis takes into consideration the tension between polyphony and monologism, the combination of essayism and narration, and the importance of a centralized moral point of view that questions the predominant moral discourse of society. The discussion of these formal aspects of retrospective novels lets emerge the craving for epic anti-bourgeois heroes that characterizes retrospective novels. By employing a novel theoretical framework, the dissertation aims to reappraise capital texts of the Western canon and to reevaluate the underestimated influence of Romanticism on the development of the modern Western novel.