Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1974. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1969. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Submitted by Caroline Falcao (caroline.rfalcao@ufpe.br) on 2017-06-14T19:23:05Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) 2012-dissertacao-ThacioSantos.pdf: 2361333 bytes, checksum: 7c002da216d41c187b23a9eaafb786b3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-14T19:23:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) 2012-dissertacao-ThacioSantos.pdf: 2361333 bytes, checksum: 7c002da216d41c187b23a9eaafb786b3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Estudiosos de diversas áreas tem destacado o ‘retorno’, ou ‘re-valorização’ da astrologia no Ocidente. O fenômeno da difusão astrológica também não passou desapercebido pelos antropólogos brasileiros.A astrologia, enquanto vivência cotidiana, se difunde cada vez mais, em diferentes dimensões da cultura Brasileira. Considerando tal emergência, queremos com esta investigação nos debruçar sobre o tema. Estadissertação visa a analisedas dimensões simbólicas da astrologia manifestas nas relações interpessoais e na organização da vida cotidiana de indivíduos residentes no Recife. A construção desta investigação partiu de observações iniciadas em 2010, em colaboração com os pesquisadores do Núcleo interdisciplinar de pesquisas sobreImaginário e da Pós-Graduação em antropologia da UFPE. Nossa pesquisa baseou-se em entrevistas semiestruturadas, assim como observações realizadas em cursos e palestras sobre a astrologia, além e conversas informais. No período de 2010 a 2011 foram realizadas entrevistas, com cinco astrólogos e dez estudantes e interessados em astrologia. Para a análise desse material utilizamos a metodologia formulada pelo antropólogo francês Gilbert Durand: a mitocrítica. Este método de crítica literária, de crítica do discurso, torna possível a compreensão do caráter mítico inerente à significação de todo e qualquer relato. Baseado em autores como Jung, Bachelard, Mircea Eliade, Gilbert Durand, Maffesoli, além do Dicionário de Símbolos de Chevalier e Gheerbrant, nos propomos a interpretar símbolos e mitemas levantados, pondo a descoberto seus significados e suas relações com a cultura. Acreditamos que o presente estudo não só tenha revelado o universo simbólico da vivência da astrologia no Recife,como também contribuído para uma maior compreensão da temática no contexto brasileiro. / Experts from different areas have highlighted the “return”, or “re-valorization" of astrology in the West. The diffusion of astrological phenomenon also did not go unnoticed by Brazilian anthropologists. The astrology, as a quotidian experience of life, diffuses more and more in various aspects of Brazilian culture. Given such an emergency, with this research, wewant to lean over on the theme. This dissertation aims to analyze the symbolic dimensions of astrology expressed in interpersonal relations and in organization of everyday life of individuals that living in Recife.The investigation was constructed from observations started in 2010 with the collaboration of researchers, members from Interdisciplinary Nucleus about Imaginary Research and from Anthropology Post-Graduate Program of UFPE.Our research was based on semi structured interviews, as well as observations of courses and lectures about astrology, and informal conversations. In the 2010-2011 period, interviews were conducted with five astrologers and ten students interested in astrology.In order to analyze this material was used the methodology formulated by the French anthropologist Gilbert Durand: the myth criticism. This method of literary criticism, criticism of the speech, makes it possible to understand the mythical character inherent in the meaning of any report.Based on authors such as Jung, Bachelard, Mircea Eliade, Gilbert Durand, Maffesoli, and the Dictionary of Symbols by Chevalier and Gheerbrant, we propose to interpret symbols and mythemes raised, revealing their meanings and their relationship with culture. We believe that this study has revealed not only the symbolic universe of the experience of astrology in Recife, but also contributed to greater understanding of the theme in the Brazilian context.

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This thesis examines the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and the archetypal images therein. The Scarlet Letter is discussed extensively with references made to The Blithedale Romance. Characters in the following short stories are referred to: “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” “Young Goodman Brown” and “The Birthmark.” An overall analysis of feminine repression in both male and female characters is explored. Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Pearl are the subjects of lengthy discussion. Journeys, both inward and outward are explored in the characters. The context is nineteenth-century culture of which Hawthorne is a product. The characters in The Scarlet Letter search for a complete existence, an integration of the unconscious and the conscious. Through a mythological study of Hawthorne’s work, we draw closer to understanding this complex example of nineteenth-century literature.

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The reading of four contemporary novels, namely: Credo by Melvyn Bragg, The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett, Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy and American Gods by Neil Gaiman explores the prominent position of mythification and remythification in contemporary literature. The discussion of Bragg's novel examines the significance of Celtic mythology and folklore and to what extent it influenced Christian mythology on the British Isles and vice versa. The presentation of the transition from a cyclical, pagan to a linear, Christian belief system is analysed. My analysis of Bennett's novel supports the observation that political myth as myth transformed contains elements and qualities embodied by sacred myths and investigates the relevance of Johan Degenaar's observation that "[p]ostmodernism emphasises the fact that myth is an ambiguous phenomenon" and practices an attitude of "eternal vigilance" (1995: 47), as is evident in the main protagonist's dispassionate stance. My reading of Kennedy's novel explores the bond that myth creates between the artist and the audience and argues that the writer as myth creator fulfils a restorative function through the mythical and symbolic qualities embedded in literature. Gaiman's novel American Gods focuses on the function of meta/multi-mythology in contemporary literature (especially the fantasy genre) and on what these qualities reveal about a society and its concerns and values. The thesis contemplates how in each case the original myths were substituted, modulated or transfigured to be presented as metamyth or myth transformed. The analysis shows that myth can be used in various ways in literature: as the data or information that is recreated and transformed in the creative process to establish a common matrix of stories, symbols, images and motifs which represents a bond between the author and the reader in terms of the meaning-making process; to facilitate a spiritual enrichment in a demythologized world and for its restorative abilities. The study is confirmed by detailed mythical reference. / English Studies / (D. Litt. et Phil. (English))

The reading of four contemporary novels, namely: Credo by Melvyn Bragg, The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett, Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy and American Gods by Neil Gaiman explores the prominent position of mythification and remythification in contemporary literature. The discussion of Bragg's novel examines the significance of Celtic mythology and folklore and to what extent it influenced Christian mythology on the British Isles and vice versa. The presentation of the transition from a cyclical, pagan to a linear, Christian belief system is analysed. My analysis of Bennett's novel supports the observation that political myth as myth transformed contains elements and qualities embodied by sacred myths and investigates the relevance of Johan Degenaar's observation that "[p]ostmodernism emphasises the fact that myth is an ambiguous phenomenon" and practices an attitude of "eternal vigilance" (1995: 47), as is evident in the main protagonist's dispassionate stance. My reading of Kennedy's novel explores the bond that myth creates between the artist and the audience and argues that the writer as myth creator fulfils a restorative function through the mythical and symbolic qualities embedded in literature. Gaiman's novel American Gods focuses on the function of meta/multi-mythology in contemporary literature (especially the fantasy genre) and on what these qualities reveal about a society and its concerns and values. The thesis contemplates how in each case the original myths were substituted, modulated or transfigured to be presented as metamyth or myth transformed. The analysis shows that myth can be used in various ways in literature: as the data or information that is recreated and transformed in the creative process to establish a common matrix of stories, symbols, images and motifs which represents a bond between the author and the reader in terms of the meaning-making process; to facilitate a spiritual enrichment in a demythologized world and for its restorative abilities. The study is confirmed by detailed mythical reference. / English Studies / (D. Litt. et Phil. (English))

Ausgehend von der sog. "Fiedler-Debatte" des Jahres 1968, eine jener Auseinandersetzungen über Formen und Inhalte, Aufgaben und Möglichkeiten von Literatur, Kunst und deren Kritik, wie sie im Umkreis des Annus mirabilis so häufig wie heftig geführt worden sind, unternimmt diese Arbeit auf rund 340 Seiten den Versuch, mit (nicht nur) diskursanalytischen Methoden das in der "Chiffre 1968" besonders virulent gewordene Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Kunst, Literatur und Ästhetik auf der einen und den vielfältigen Politisierungstendenzen auf anderen Seite mikrologisch auf-zuschreiben und mit Blick auf eine ganze Reihe verschiedener Bezugspunkte und -ebenen zu erklären (z.B. bezüglich genereller Kunst- und Ästhetikvorstellungen innerhalb der (Neuen) Linken, hinsichtlich der Aufarbeitung der deutschen NS-Vergangenheit, der Auseinandersetzung mit Antiamerikanismus usw.) Dabei rücken nicht nur die vielfältigen, nicht selten geradezu antagonistisch auftretenden "deutschen" Revolte-Ansätze "um '68", sondern auch Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zu zeitgleichen Tendenzen und Debatten in den USA in den Fokus. Die umfangreiche Analyse der ebenso vielen wie vielschichtigen Ebenen der "Chiffre 1968" zeigt, dass von einem "1968"oder "den 68ern" nirgends Rede sein kann.

Ausgehend von der sog. "Fiedler-Debatte" des Jahres 1968, eine jener Auseinandersetzungen über Formen und Inhalte, Aufgaben und Möglichkeiten von Literatur, Kunst und deren Kritik, wie sie im Umkreis des Annus mirabilis so häufig wie heftig geführt worden sind, unternimmt diese Arbeit auf rund 340 Seiten den Versuch, mit (nicht nur) diskursanalytischen Methoden das in der "Chiffre 1968" besonders virulent gewordene Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Kunst, Literatur und Ästhetik auf der einen und den vielfältigen Politisierungstendenzen auf anderen Seite mikrologisch auf-zuschreiben und mit Blick auf eine ganze Reihe verschiedener Bezugspunkte und -ebenen zu erklären (z.B. bezüglich genereller Kunst- und Ästhetikvorstellungen innerhalb der (Neuen) Linken, hinsichtlich der Aufarbeitung der deutschen NS-Vergangenheit, der Auseinandersetzung mit Antiamerikanismus usw.) Dabei rücken nicht nur die vielfältigen, nicht selten geradezu antagonistisch auftretenden "deutschen" Revolte-Ansätze "um ''68", sondern auch Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zu zeitgleichen Tendenzen und Debatten in den USA in den Fokus. Die umfangreiche Analyse der ebenso vielen wie vielschichtigen Ebenen der "Chiffre 1968" zeigt, dass von einem "1968"oder "den 68ern" nirgends Rede sein kann.