Thesis (M.A. (Hons.))--University of Wollongong, 2006. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: leaf 159-171.

Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2006

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wyoming, 2009. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 29, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-64).

The focus of this thesis is contemporary Polish playwriting after Poland's accession to the European Union in 2004. From a broad reading of plays by many new writers, four playwrights were selected for study on the basis of prominence and artistic merit: Pawel Demirski, Dorota Maslowska, Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk and Przemys law Wojcieszek. Their plays were studied as texts and in performance, and twelve main plays became the focus of closer analysis. The thesis identifies and examines three major concurrent themes in the works of these playwrights. Remembering versus forgetting the past is discussed through the lens of selected aspects of memory studies, including Nora's lieux de mémoire, Hirsch's postmemory and Assman's mnemohistory. The playwrights are shown to share an endorsement of the de-politicisation of collective memory and to advocate a cessation of the passing down of trauma to post-war generations. The human body is highlighted as another concurrent thematic concern and is illuminated by certain tenets of Catholic doctrine as well as Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. The playwrights' rejection of the tabooisation of the body is demonstrated and the shared notion of the body as both sentient and unifying is exemplified. Social marginalisation is examined as the final concern, with an emphasis on the notion of the 'other', particularly in relation to socio-economic status, sexuality, and religious beliefs. The plays are shown to support and promote a rejection of the myth of homogeneity in favour of openness to diversity. Major dramatic techniques are then closely examined. It is demonstrated that the plays share traits with Lehmann's theory of postdramatic theatre, including a rejection of Aristotelian unities. Key commonalities are evidenced, particularly comedy, bad language, intertextualities with the outside world, and an engagement with Polish social realities. The playwrights' approach to the spectator as a socio-political being is shown to be of paramount importance.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-09T12:28:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-01-28Bitstream added on 2015-04-09T12:47:17Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000812864.pdf: 531665 bytes, checksum: e92e8f9ddc465d7424116998ce98ea05 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho de pesquisa de mestrado foi realizado junto ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras do Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas da Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, câmpus de São José do Rio Preto (UNESP-IBILCE), sob orientação da Profa. Dra. Diana Junkes Bueno Martha, com bolsa da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES). Ao longo da dissertação buscamos analisar a obra Órfãos do Eldorado (2008), do escritor Milton Hatoum, com o intuito de averiguar como o autor utiliza a memória para articular a construção da novela, publicado em 2008. Segundo aponta Benedito Nunes (2009, p.301-302) a narrativa de Hatoum é fortemente calcada na memória, como atestam, por exemplo, Relato de um Certo Oriente (1989) e Dois Irmãos (2000). Em Órfãos do Eldorado, essa carga memorialística surpreende porque articula três planos narrativos: o mítico, o histórico e o pessoal; este último pautado pelo relato que o protagonista faz de sua difícil relação com o pai, causada pela morte da mãe no momento do parto e dos traumas que são acarretados por isso; traumas que vão surgindo aos poucos na narrativa entre recalques e silenciamentos complexificados pela incursão de aspectos míticos, relativos tanto às lendas da Amazônia e ao mito do Eldorado, quanto à ordenação factual de dados históricos concernentes à história da região amazônica. Em outras palavras, o que se verifica é a convergência desses três planos de modo a configurar um texto marcado pela inventividade, pelo rigor criativo e certo lirismo, responsáveis pelo desenho do regionalismo revisitado que Tania Pellegrini (2004) e Alfredo Bosi (2001) atribuem ao fazer narrativo de Hatoum. O desenvolvimento desta pesquisa pressupõe a análise dos três planos narrativos acima citados, procurando, ao mesmo tempo, propor uma reflexão sobre as articulações existentes entre elas, a partir da ... / Este trabajo de investigación se realizó junto al Programa de Maestría en Letras del Instituto de Biociencias, Letras y Ciencias Exactas de la Universidad Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho , campus de São José do Rio Preto (UNESP - Ibilce), bajo la coordinación de la Profa. Dra. Diana Junkes Bueno Martha, con una beca de la Coordinación de Perfeccionamiento de Personal de Nivel Superior (CAPES). A lo largo de la tesis analizamos la novela de Milton Hatoum, Órfãos do Eldorado publicada en 2008, a fin de determinar la forma como el autor utiliza la memoria para articular la construcción de dicha novela. Según Benedito Nunes (2009, p.301 -302) la narrativa de Hatoum se basa en gran medida en la memoria, como lo demuestra, por ejemplo, Relato de um certo Oriente (1989) y Dois irmãos (2000). En Órfãos do Eldorado, esta carga memorialística sorprende, ya que articula tres niveles narrativos: el mítico, el histórico y el personal, este último dirigido por los relatos que el protagonista hace de su difícil relación con su padre, causada por la muerte de la madre en el parto y los traumas que se implicaron por ella; traumas que van surgiendo poco a poco en la narrativa entre la represión y los silenciamientos agravados por la incursión de los aspectos míticos, relativos tanto a las leyendas de la Amazonía y el mito de Eldorado, como a los datos históricos de hechos relacionados a la historia de la Amazonia. En otras palabras, lo que vemos es la convergencia de estos tres planes, con el fin de configurar un texto marcado por la invención, el rigor creativo y cierto lirismo, responsables por el diseño del regionalismo revisitado que Tania Pellegrini (2004) y Alfredo Bosi (2001) atribuyen al hacer literario de Hatoum. El desarrollo de esta investigación consistió en el análisis de los tres planes mencionados anteriormente, buscando, a la vez, desarrollar una reflexión sobre las articulaciones existentes entre ...

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T14:24:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Rafael Dias Ferreira.pdf: 1772615 bytes, checksum: fa2ff782d2f93b7889a2314a61401a72 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-14 / This master thesis aims to analyze narratological, stylistic, and discursive procedures adopted in the novel of the Amazonian writer Milton Hatoum: The Tree of the Seventh Heaven (1989). Its overall goal is to propose interpretation for articulatory aspects of dialogical/intertextual nature in contents and forms present in these books and, as specific activity, dealing with the repercussions by means of comparative readings, with regard to tendency in contemporary Brazilian literature, observed in exemplary cases such as Osman Lins and Raduan Nassar of utilization of elements, from domains of knowledge and belief, of Judeo-Christian and Islamic cultural background, explored through the core composed by its thematic and novelistic characters: immigrants of Lebanese origin. Peripherally, this study also aims, on the one hand, the discussion of technical and methodological implications concerning the referential developments for the author s compositional repertoire and, on the other hand, the survey of objects of the referentiality and the intersemioticity in the corpus of work, in accordance with the conciliatory proposal for the theories of intertextuality by Tiphaine Samoyault: the memory of literature. As mentioned in the following introduction, the division of contents conforms to the criteria, at first, of a revisionist movement towards encompass the classical theories of intertextuality. In a second step, it develops discussions related to the questioning raised by critics about the notions of referentiality, reference, and relation, as well as the intersection of semiotic codes conventionally insulated. Finally, the core of the project consists of a dialogical and intertextual approach of The Tree of the Seventh Heaven to other literary works. / Esta dissertação analisa os procedimentos narratológicos, estilísticos e discursivos adotados em um romance do escritor amazonense Milton Hatoum: Relato de um certo Oriente (1989). Seu objetivo de conjunto é o de propor interpretação para aspectos articulatórios de natureza dialógico-intertextual em conteúdos e formas presentes nesse livro, e, como atividade específica, tratar das repercussões por meio de leituras comparativas, tocantes à tendência na literatura brasileira contemporânea, observada em casos exemplares, como os de Osman Lins e de Raduan Nassar do aproveitamento de elementos, de domínios do conhecimento e da crença, de origens culturais judaico-cristãs e islâmicas, explorados através dos núcleos compostos por sua temática e seus personagens romanescos: imigrantes de origem libanesa. Perifericamente, este estudo visa ainda, por um lado, à discussão acerca das implicações técnicometodológicas concernentes a desenvolvimentos referenciais para o repertório composicional do autor e, por outro, ao levantamento de objetos da referencialidade e da intersemioticidade nas obras do corpus de trabalho, em acordo com a proposta conciliatória, para as teorias da intertextualidade, de Tiphaine Samoyault: a memória da literatura. Como referido na introdução, a seguir, a divisão dos conteúdos obedece aos critérios, primeiramente, de um movimento revisionista no sentido de abarcar as teorizações clássicas da intertextualidade. Em um segundo momento, desenvolve discussões ligadas à problematização levantada pela crítica especializada quanto às noções de referencialidade, referência e relação, assim como à intersecção de códigos semióticos convencionalmente isolados. Por fim, o núcleo do projeto consiste em uma aproximação dialógica e intertextual de Relato de um certo Oriente a outras obras literárias.

This thesis investigates the particular conception of time developed by Pascal Quignard in his series Dernier Royaume and his novel Les escaliers de Chambord. We argue that this conception of time, which Quignard refers to as Le Jadis, operates through an anachronistic method based on a semiotic apparatus of waste, or rejects. The argument is presented in three different chapters. The first chapter uses the work of Jacques Rancière and Georges Didi-Huberman to show the way in which the concept of anachronism embraces a temporality that blurs the lines between past, present, and future and creates openings to summon and redeem forgotten relics of the past. The second chapter analyzes this open relation to time in Dernier Royaume and Les escaliers de Chambord. In these works, Quignard's notion of Le Jadis seeks specifically to awaken a vertiginously distant conception of past that is incomplete, non-linear, and perpetually becoming. The last chapter analyzes the manner in which Le Jadis can reappear as an active force through the mediation of waste, which constitutes a specific class of signs. The work of Quignard is one of montage and remontage--fragment by fragment, scrap by scrap--of the pieces of memory, which he strives to reopen and release from the linear entrapment of chronological time to which they have been relegated.

During the twentieth century, the former Czechoslovakia was at the forefront of Communist takeover and control. Soviet influence regulated all aspects of life in the country. As a result, many well-known political figures, writers, and artists were forced to flee the country in order to evade imprisonment or death. One of the more notable examples is the writer Milan Kundera, who fled to France in 1975. Once in France, the notion of exile became a prominent theme in his writing as he sought to expose the political situation of his country to the western world--one of the main reasons why he chose to publish his work in French rather than in Czech. This thesis analyzes the themes of language and memory in connection with exile in two of Kundera's novels, Le livre du rire et de l'oubli (1978) and L'Ignorance (2000). We contend that these concepts serve as anchors and tethers, stabilizing forces meant to help exiled characters recreate their identity outside of their homeland. By exploring notions of language and memory in these novels, Kundera demonstrates how the experience of exile affects the human condition during the latter half of the twentieth century.

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This dissertation attempts to develop a counter—memory, a cognitive strategy that provides an alternative to the most prevalent mode of political action by members of minority or subaltern groups: identity politics. It begins with Teresa de Lauretis’ semiotics of subjectivity, which posits the human subject as a shifting series of positions or habits formed through semiotic and cognitive “mapping” of, and being “mapped” by, its environment. De Lauretis maintains that the subject can transform social reality through an “inventive” mode of mapping. The first chapter of this study is a semiotic analysis of the memory system at work in Nicole Brossard’s Picture Theory. It argues that Brossard’s use of holographic technology is an invention that attempts to alter women’s maps of social reality. Quantum physicist David Bohm has also employed the hologram as a theoretical model. By merging Brossard’s holographic memory with Bohm’s theory of a “holomovement,” this study develops an epistemological strategy that alters not only the map of reality, but also the dominant representational mode of cognitive mapping. This enquiry then moves on to other novels written in Canada which have a strong political impetus based on gender, nationality, ethnicity, race and/or class: Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing, Marlene Nourbese Philip’s Looking for Livingstone, Beatrice Culleton’s In Search of April Raintree and Régine Robin’s La Ouébécoite. Through textual analysis, it attempts to establish that although these novels make no mention of holography, each of them employs a memory system that inscribes itself holographically. That holographic memory provides an alternative political strategy to the “identity politics” at work in each of these texts. Each text, in turn, like a fragment of a hologram, adds another structural and political dimension to the hologram. The processual structure of the holographic theory provides a ground for alliances between different political agendas while resisting closure. As an epistemological strategy, it promises to alter both the method and the ground of knowledge.