Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-02-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:47:16Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 cordeiro_fhc_me_sjrp.pdf: 623421 bytes, checksum: 39d3a582f4ed130fa53c55bc33d451d6 (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Este trabalho propõe-se a estudar Balada da Praia dos Cães (1982), de José Cardoso Pires, sob a perspectiva da paródia do romance policial, tendo em vista que essa obra utiliza-se de procedimentos típicos desse gênero para, a partir de dentro, subvertê-lo. A subversão manifesta-se, principalmente, pelo desvio no foco da narrativa, que deixa de ser a resolução do enigma, como no romance policial clássico, e passa a ser a construção do texto/inquérito por parte do detetive e do narrador, ou seja, a obra não tem como foco principal descobrir quem, como e por que ocorreu o crime, mas sim desvendar o processo de composição narrativa. Nesse sentido, pode-se dizer que o romance cardoseano engendra uma reflexão metalingüística que se desdobra em dois planos: por um lado, vemo-nos diante de um texto que nos revela os próprios mecanismos que o constroem, principalmente, pela recorrência e subversão do paradigma policial, e, por outro, temos um romance sobre o processo pelo qual o detetive elabora uma narrativa a partir das provas, indícios, etc. Tendo em vista essa configuração, destacam-se as instâncias do narrador e do autor, que instauram no romance uma rede de desconfianças que desestabilizam as noções de “verdade” e “autoridade” a partir do exame e questionamento dos mais diversos discursos que se fazem presentes na obra de Cardoso Pires. / This paper aims at studying Balada da Praia dos Cães (1982), by José Cardoso Pires, from the perspective of the detective novel parody, considering that the novel uses the typical procedures of this genre and then subverts it. Subversion is manifested mainly by diverting the focus of the narrative, which is no longer the puzzle solving, as it is in the classic detective story, but the construction of the text/inquest by the detective and the narrator, that is, the novel is not focused on finding out who, how and why the crime occurred, but to unravel the process of the narrative composition. In this sense, it can be said that the cardoseano novel engenders a metalinguistic reflection that unfolds on two levels: on the one hand, we are faced with a text that reveals its own mechanisms of construction, mainly for the recurrence and the subversion of the detective paradigm, and, on the other hand, we have a novel about the process by which the detective creates a narrative based on the proof, evidences, etc. Given this setting, the highlights are on the instances of the narrator and the author, which introduce in the novel a network of suspicions that destabilize the notions of truth and authority from the examination and questioning of many different speeches that are made present in the work of Cardoso Pires.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-02-26Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:16:03Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 figueiredo_pgb_me_sjrp.pdf: 368369 bytes, checksum: b02410315da7c36be8ce1d1c493bc361 (MD5) / Este trabalho propõe-se a estudar o processo de desnudamento⁄revelação dos discursos de poder, sejam eles social e historicamente reconhecidos como tais ou não, em dois romances do escritor português José Saramago: Ensaio sobre a lucidez (2004) e As intermitências da morte (2005). A linha norteadora para a análise são as reflexões de Michel Foucault referentes à idéia de que a sociedade é determinada por certas regras que a delimitam e controlam por meio dos “jogos de verdade” pertinentes a cada época. Essa “sociedade disciplinar” teria criado um sujeito apenas aparentemente livre, pois subordinado a um sistema invisível de poder. Em ambos os romances, os discursos que, aberta ou veladamente, exercem sobre a sociedade algum tipo de poder são desautorizados, destituídos de seu poder, pois o leitor é levado a enxergá-los como uma construção. Nesse mesmo sentido, a ficção – discurso assumidamente construído – volta-se para si mesma, por meio de um narrador que comenta e questiona seu próprio contar, apontando para o seu caráter estritamente ficcional, relativizando, assim, o alcance de poder de sua própria voz, já que exige do leitor um posicionamento crítico com relação a ela. Em As intermitências da morte busca-se ainda investigar, por meio dos estudos de Walter Benjamin sobre o “narrador” (contador de histórias), como o tom fabular conferido ao romance contrasta com os constantes questionamentos do narrador que, comentando mais que contando, tece, ao longo do texto, um discurso que, vez ou outra, não hesita em se auto-avaliar, num jogo de redução e ampliação das possibilidades do texto ficcional, levando o leitor a refletir sobre as dimensões possíveis do literário. A dimensão metalingüística assumida nos romances leva, também, a uma reflexão mais apurada sobre a língua e suas armadilhas, considerando-se, então, os estudos... / This work aims to study the unveiling/revelation of discourses of power, regardless if those discourses are socially and historically recognized or not, in two novels by Portuguese writer José Saramago: Seeing (2004) and Death with Interruptions (2005). The analysis is primarily based on Michel Foucault’s idea that society is determined by certain rules which in turn delineate and control it by means of ‘games of power’ that prove relevant to each epoch. This ‘disciplinary society’ would have produced an only apparently free subject, who is subordinated to an invisible system instead. In both the aforesaid novels, the discourses which either overtly or covertly exercise some sort of power over society are rendered nugatory, powerless, since the reader is lead to construe them as sheer construct. Therefore, fiction – an acknowledgedly constructed discourse – turns to its own axis by means of a narrator that comments and questions the very telling, demanding that the reader take up a critical position, a demand which in turn causes such a voice to get the reach of its own power into perspective. The present work also refers to Walter Benjamin’s studies on the ‘narrator’ (story teller) so as to investigate how the fabular tone the narrator assumes in Death with Interruptions (2005) contrasts with his/her constant questioning. By commenting more than telling, this narrator weaves, throughout the text, a discourse which, time and again, does not hesitate to perform a self-evaluation in a play that narrows and broadens the possibilities of the fictional text, causing the reader to reflect upon the very possible literary dimensions. Also, the metalinguistic dimension the novels assume activates a more accurate reflection upon language and its traps, which in the process leads the way into Roland Barthes’s studies that allude to language as an elemental locus of power.

TITLE Compositional-stylistic Unities in David Lodge's Changing Places AUTHOR Martina Felcmanová DEPARTMENT Department of English Language and Literature SUPERVISOR PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D. ABSTRACT The main aim of this diploma thesis is to focus on the forms in which heteroglossia manifests itself in the most widely known campus novel of David Lodge, Changing Places. The Theoretical Part explains the two crucial terms of Mikhail Bakhtin's literary theory, namely heteroglossia and dialogism, and describes the impact his ideas had on the critical writings of David Lodge. Moreover, it strives to combine Bakhtin's and Lodge's typologies of novelistic discourse with the terminology of Seymour Chatman, in order to create sufficient terminological framework for the subsequent stylistic analysis. Consequently, the Practical Part attempts to explore how the separate unities of heteroglossia are represented within the structure of Changing Places, what effect they have on the implied reader and how they influence the novel as a whole.

The present thesis is devoted to selected prosaic works of Anna Blažíčková - specifically to her books Čekání v zástupu, Psí víno and Teď něco ze života. In its chapters-which focus successively on the narrator, composition, characters, time, and space-the thesis shows the repertory of elements and procedures which link the texts as well as how these elements and procedures help to create the world of the chosen prosaic works. These observations are based on an analysis of the original texts and with the help of theoretical literature.

This dissertation critically appraises some ofChauke's literary works within a semiotic approach especially in terms of colours of the spectrwn. In this study the spectrum is reganled as a replica or symbol of man's various filcets of Jife. Analyses of the representations of "Life is a Spectrum" have been made in tenns of psychological and symbolic &.cets. Cbauke's narrative s1yle in delineating characters and milieus sketching received attention in the discussion. The cunent scenario in education and politics as well as socio-economic issues have also been dealt with. This study has revealed that Chauke is an author who dmws readers very close to his works that serve as mirrors of their lives. It bas been established that Chauke is an outstanding writer who uses real situations and events that are relevant to people•s life in this contempotaty situation. / African Languages / M.A. (African Languages)

SILVA, Marilde Alves. O riso ausente: desenho de infâncias em seis contos de Moreira Campos: Infância, A catita, Os meninos, Olhos espantados, Estrela vésper, A matutina e Cassiano. 2008. 111f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Literatura, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, Fortaleza-CE, 2008. / Submitted by Liliane oliveira (morena.liliane@hotmail.com) on 2012-07-05T12:11:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_DIS_MASILVA.pdf: 767408 bytes, checksum: 7583402b4eb825244053bd858b2bfa14 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-07-23T11:46:15Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_DIS_MASILVA.pdf: 767408 bytes, checksum: 7583402b4eb825244053bd858b2bfa14 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-07-23T11:46:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_DIS_MASILVA.pdf: 767408 bytes, checksum: 7583402b4eb825244053bd858b2bfa14 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / This work aims to analyze how the construction of discourse about infancy occurs in Moreira Campos’ prose, starting from the stories: Infância and A Catita from the book As Vozes do morto (1963); Os meninos and Olhos Espantados from the book O Puxador de terço (1969); Cassiano and Estrela Vésper, A matutina from the book A Grande Mosca no copo de leite (1985), which composed the Corpus of the research. Our hypothesis is that the voice which builds an infancy representaton belongs to the narrator, who assumes the discourses in face of the process of discussive emptying the infant character has to go through. As an organizer and a conductor of the discourses, he translates the view of the adult about the child, considering that the term infancy and cognates in their latin origin mean absence of speech, thus, infancy is always another in relation to that one that names and studies it (LAJOLO, 2006, p.229). / Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar de que forma ocorre a construção de um discurso sobre infância na prosa de Moreira Campos, partindo dos contos: Infância e A Catita do livro As Vozes do morto (1963); Os meninos e Olhos Espantados do livro O Puxador de terço (1969); Cassiano e Estrela Vésper, A matutina do livro A Grande Mosca no copo de leite (1985), que compuserem o Corpus da pesquisa. Nossa hipótese é a de que a voz que constrói uma representação de infância pertença ao narrador, que assume os discursos diante do processo de esvaziamento discursivo pelo qual a personagem infantil passa. Ele traduz, como organizador e condutor dos discursos, uma visão do adulto sobre a criança, tendo em conta que em sua origem latina o termo infância e cognatos cobrem a idéia de ausência de fala, desse modo a infância é sempre um outro em relação àquele que a nomeia e a estuda (LAJOLO, 2006, p.229).

Les narrateurs du Bel Inconnu de Renaut de Beaujeu, de Florimont, d’Aimon de Varennes et de Partonopeu de Blois se démarquent par leur statut ambigu. Ils posent leur voix dès le prologue et s’affirment à travers un dialogue avec les dédicataires dont la lecture ou l’écoute actualisent le processus narratif. Un transfert à la fois énonciatif et scriptural parachève cette élaboration, offrant la possibilité aux auteurs de se couler dans la fonction du narrateur, appréhendé dès lors comme l’unique médiateur du récit. Dans une perspective plus large, l’intrication des formes et des matières favorise la complexité et la richesse du « je » polymorphe à venir. Les narrateurs deviennent alors conteurs et maîtres d’une narration qu’ils organisent à leur guise. En adoptant des stratégies narratoriales diverses, ils demeurent la voix unique et font figure d’instance narrante surplombante dans une perspective exclusive, globale et cohérente. Mais surtout, ils combinent leur « je » conteur à leur « je » amoureux dont les interruptions au caractère plus intime permettent la réalisation. Le récit subsume ainsi le discours lyrique, le fait sien, l’espace romanesque devenant le lieu d’une mutation lors de laquelle les narrateurs se projettent dans les personnages eux-mêmes, conçus tels des outils au service du « je ». Nous assistons ainsi à une narration plus intériorisée et à la manifestation d’un narrateur-auteur qui, en tant que sujet empirique, se sert de la fiction comme d’un véritable espace d’expérimentation. Cette figure auctoriale se cristallise lorsque le « je » exhibe ses capacités d’écrivain ou lorsqu’il livre des considérations pseudo-autobiographiques semblant marquer le texte du point de vue d’une conscience. / The narrators in Le Bel Inconnu by Renaut de Beaujeu, Florimont, by Aimon de Varennes and Partonopeu of Blois stand out due to their ambiguous status. They establish their voice in the prologue and assert themselves through a dialogue with the dedicatees, whose reading or listening updates the narrative process. A transfer, which is at the same time enunciative and scriptural, completes this elaboration, offering the authors the possibility to sink into the function of the narrator, understood from then on as the sole mediator of the narrative. From a broader perspective, the entanglement of forms and materials fosters the complexity and richness of the future polymporph "I". The narrators then become storytellers and masters of a narrative that they organise as they see fit. By adopting diverse narratorial strategies, they remain the sole voice and act as an overriding narrative authority from an exclusive, comprehensive and coherent perspective. But above all, they combine their storyteller "I" with their romantic "I" whose interruptions to the more intimate style allow for their realisation. The narrative thus subsumes the lyrical discourse, adopting it as its own, the romantic space becoming the place of change in which the narrators project themselves into the characters themselves, conceived as tools in the service of "I". We are thus witnessing a more internalised narrative and the manifestation of a narrator-author who, as an empirical subject, uses fiction as a truly experimental space. This auctorial figure crystallises when the "I" exhibits his capacities as a writer or when he provides pseudo-autobiographical considerations seeming to mark the text from the point of view of a consciousness.

À la fois procédé artistico-littéraire et réflexion intellectuelle, la mise en abyme est une des stratégies de création favorites du romancier Umberto Eco. Certains auteurs ont utilisé cette technique uniquement pour de créer de « simples » jeux de miroirs (comme c’est le cas des Nouveaux Romanciers). Chez Umberto Eco, la mise en abyme est destinée à faire saillir aussi bien l’intelligibilité que la structuration de l’oeuvre. Elle est un principe récursif de la génération de figures et de formes narratives fractales : elle est pour ainsi dire le raisonnement servant comme base dans la création d’un univers romanesque par excellence autoréflexif. Selon une représentation très succincte (mais essentielle), la mise en abyme est ce dispositif narratif consistant à insérer un (ou plusieurs) récit(s) dans le Récit, qui, en reproduisant les caractéristiques de ce dernier va (vont) l’illustrer, l’expliquer et mettre en évidence le/les thème(s) de l’oeuvre. / An artistic and literary procedure and, at the same time, an intellectual reflexion, mise en abyme is one of the favorite strategies of creation of the novelist U. Eco. Certain authors have used this technique just to create "simple" games of mirrors (such as the French writers called "Nouveaux Romanciers"). In the case of Umberto Eco, mise en abyme is destined to emphasize both the intelligibility of his work, as well as its being structured in multiple layers of narrativity. We reckon that this is the recursive principle, serving at the generating of fractal shapes and characters: this is therefore the reasoning laying at the foundation of creating a fictional universe self-reflective par excellence. If we want a very concise (but essential) representation, we will say that the mise en abyme is that device consisting of the insertion of one or many more stories into The Story, which, by reproducing the characteristics of the latter, provides us with an explanation and will shed light on the theme / themes of the work.

The subject matter of this thesis is the presentation of a typology of rural imagery based on a thematic and interpretative analysis of Polish and Czech literary texts from the 1960s with respect to the ongoing changes made to the original romantic-realist concept of the rural novel. The analysis of specific literary works (Sekyra by Ludvík Vaculík, Smuteční slavnost by Eva Kantůrková, and Čas kopřiv by Josef Knap from Czech literature, and, from Polish literature, Opadaný sad by Wiesław Myśliwski, the novels Na slunci by Julian Kawalec and … až budeš králem, až budeš katem… by Tadeusz Nowak) permits us to create a basic register of elements of rural narrativity which, however, Czech and Polish literatures have different perspectives on. Through this dichotomy we present typical narratives contained in the Czech and Polish rural novel of the given period. The subsequent interpretative analysis of the texts takes inspiration from contemporary narratology with special attention to the narrator and time categories, and by extension to the interplay of these categories with individual themes, symbols and topoi.

This thesis examines the prosaic works of Ladislav Dvo ák (1920-1983), specifically the collection of short stories entitled Šavle me e. It analyses the construction of Dvo ák's texts with regard to two significant aspects. First it deals with the connection between reality and the world depicted in the narrative. With the help of the concept of objectivity', adapted for literary interpretation, it explores the role of facts, description and narrator in the text. The second part treats the function of comedy in the stories, especially the difference between comical and humorous characters and the role of the verbal and situational humor. The analysis is based on the theories of P emysl Blaží ek and Milan Jankovi , who treat the specifics of creating meaning in literature.