<p> This dissertation examines postcolonial narrative fiction as a site of cosmopolitanism that is self-consciously local and global at the same time. I argue that, in order to think through a form of cosmopolitanism that takes seriously questions of social justice, we must think through the way cosmopolitan world-views are articulated in place. Much is made of the deterritorializing forces of both cosmopolitanism and globalization, but, as the novels I examine suggest, this ignores the simultaneous re- and multi-territorialization that is always ongoing. This gap in cosmopolitan theory means that everyday lived cosmopolitanism, which enacts this oscillation between the global and the local, is often left outside the scope of theory. Fiction offers a corrective to cosmopolitan theory by paying particular attention to that which is often outside of the scope of this theoretical paradigm. Postcolonial theory's emphasis on the importance of political responsibility and the remembrance of past and ongoing violence informs this project.</p> <p> In this dissertation, I primarily engage with the two dominating strains of cosmopolitan theory: liberal-bourgeois cosmopolitanism and vernacular cosmopolitanism. I read these theoretical models alongside cultural geography and eco-criticism to account for what I term "territorialized cosmopolitanism." I suggest that territorialized cosmopolitanism enacts a dialectical movement between the global and the local and this movement between these two zones prompts ethical and political responsibilities to others (both human and nonhuman) both physically nearby and distant - reflecting the shaping role place defined in physical and cultural terms-- has in developing cosmopolitanism.</p> <p> Focussing my reading on novels that address cosmopolitanism through different kinds of places (the metropolis, the regional city, and the rural community), I argue that different places focus a territorialized cosmopolitan sensibility in different ways. What these differences suggest is the importance of un-learning typical notions of how place is used and represented - particularly in relation to the global. A territorialized cosmopolitan sensibility, in these novels, allows for and encourages this unlearning. </p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Mémoire (M.E.L.)-- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1994. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Writing gives children a chance to practice self-expression and creativity (Dobson, 2015b; Millard, 2005) as they learn needed literacy skills (Calkins, 2003). When children write, they appropriate semiotic materials from popular culture, literature, and the world around them (Dyson, 1997, 2003, 2013). Although the National Commission on Writing (2003) recommended that writing instruction be "placed squarely in the center of the elementary curriculum," attention to writing continues to lag behind other subjects (Coker et al., 2016; Cutler and Graham, 2008; Korth et al., 2016; Simmerman et al., 2012). Vygotsky's sociocultural (1978) and creativity (1971) theories, together with Freire's critical pedagogy theory (1970), form the basis of the theoretical framework used for this research. Various literature on the importance of writing (e.g., Dyson, 1993, 2008), creativity (e.g., Csikszsentmihalyi, 1996), and place (e.g., Gruenewald, 2003) were also influential in its framing. This study sought to illuminate the possibilities that emerge when rural students in the intermediate elementary grades engage in narrative fiction writing. Qualitative content analysis (Hsieh and Shannon, 2005) was used to analyze 237 stories written as the culminating project of the semester-length Fiction unit of Promoting PLACE (Azano et al., 2017a), a place-based language arts curriculum for fourth graders attending rural schools. The researcher first typed the stories, making low-level inferences to correct spelling and grammar mistakes so comparisons could be made across stories about macrostructure elements (Koustofas, 2018), or the overall structure, organization, and cohesion of the piece. The data were described and catalogued according to codes that emerged from a deep dive into the stories. Thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke, 2006) was used to inductively identify thematic understandings across the stories. Specifically, the researcher searched for expressions of identity, connections to place, and mastery of age-appropriate language arts standards. Findings revealed that students can exert agency and express their identities through creative writing and that many students demonstrated mastery of needed language arts skills through the narrative fiction writing task. The study illuminated the value of sharing place-based literature as "mentor texts" for rural students, the importance of providing choice in writing assignments, and the need to foster the writing talent of rural students as a matter of social justice. / Doctor of Philosophy / Writing gives children a chance to practice self-expression and creativity (Dobson, 2015b; Millard, 2005) as they learn needed literacy skills (Calkins, 2003), yet attention to writing lags behind other subjects (Coker et al., 2016; Cutler and Graham, 2008; Korth et al., 2016; Simmerman et al., 2012). Using Vygotsky's sociocultural (1978) and creativity (1971) theories, together with Freire's critical pedagogy theory (1970), as the theoretical framework, this study sought to illuminate the possibilities that emerge when rural students in the intermediate elementary grades engage in narrative fiction writing. Qualitative content analysis (Hsieh and Shannon, 2005) was used to analyze 237 stories written as the culminating project of the semester-length Fiction unit of Promoting PLACE (Azano et al., 2017a), a place-based language arts curriculum for fourth graders attending rural schools. Thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke, 2006) was used to inductively identify thematic understandings across the stories, and findings revealed that students exerted agency and expressed their identities through creative writing while demonstrating mastery of needed language arts skills. The study illuminated the value of sharing place-based literature as "mentor texts" for rural students, the importance of providing choice in writing assignments, and the need to foster the writing talent of rural students as a matter of social justice.

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Ce travail porte sur les conditions d’élaboration d’un savoir anthropologique à partir des formes discursives du roman contemporain et la représentation du personnage qui en découle. Il dresse un statut de ce savoir en mettant ces formes en relation avec le contexte socio-anthropologique qui détermine leur émergence, renvoyant le phénomène esthétique à sa réception et à sa signification sociale.Ainsi, par le concept de théâtralité, nous désignons un bouleversement de l’identité du roman ainsi que la modalité par lesquelles la crise du personnage s’énonce en « refigurant » l’image de l’individu et de la société. Les trois parties de la thèse répondent à la triple articulation de la méthode socio-anthropologique du Texte. La première partie revient sur les influences mutuelles entre littérature et anthropologie et montre, à partir du concept de mimésis, que la fiction propose à son tour une vision de l’homme. La seconde partie localise deux niveaux de théâtralité dans le roman : celle qui met l’identité de ce dernier en crise et l’autre qui réélabore la mimésis en « représentant » un personnage de roman totalement morcelé. La troisième partie, enfin, cherche à établir des correspondances entre cette double crise du roman et du personnage et les figures de l’homme. / This work concerns the conditions of elaboration of an anthropological knowledge from the discursive forms of the contemporary novel and the representation of the character which this one sets up. It raises a status of this knowledge by putting these forms in connection with the socio-anthropological context which determines their emergence, referring to the aesthetic phenomenon of its reception and its social significance. So, the theatricality concept indicates a disruption of the novel identity as well as the method by which the character crisis expresses itself, "refiguring" the vision of human being and the society. The dissertation is divided in three parts all in accordance with the triple articulation of the Text socio-anthropological method. The first part’s dealing with the mutual influence between literature and anthropology. With the mimesis concept, that first part shows that the novel proposes its own vision of the human being. The second part localizes two levels of theatricality in the novel: the one that puts the identity of that one in the crisis and the over that re-elaborates the mimesis by representing a character totally split. The third part tries to establish correspondences between this double crisis of the character and human beings.

American writers of narrative fiction frequently manipulate the words of their narrators in order to convey a significance of which the author and the reader are aware but the narrator is not. By causing the narrator to reveal information unwittingly, the author develops covert themes that are antithetical to those espoused by the narrator. Particularly subject to such subversion is the first-person narrator whose "I" is not to be interpreted as the voice of the author. This study examines how and why the first-person narrator is subverted in four works of twentieth-century American fiction: J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to , and Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus

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Como objetivo geral teve-se a intenção de propor elementos para realizar uma experiência tendo a Análise do Discurso como metodologia para decodificar formações discursivas que auxiliassem o processo de análise documental de textos narrativos de ficção. Nos específicos averiguou-se a aplicabilidade da Análise do Discurso como metodologia de análise na literatura; se destacou a importância da análise de textos literários em comparação de textos científicos; analisou-se os contos “O Sapatão”, “Que Vidinha”, “A Mensagem”, “Dois Açucareiros” e “Capitu” de Dalton Trevisan, para resolução das questões levantadas; realizou-se a comparação das análises realizadas com as representações encontradas em outras unidades de informação para a observação da representação que seria melhor recuperada e traçou-se um paralelo entre as formações discursivas e formações ideológicas com o regime de informação. Tem a Análise do Discurso de matriz francesa como metodologia, com a intenção de mostrar que seus conceitos são aplicáveis no projeto proposto. Contos do autor foram analisados para a observação de termos e assuntos que pudessem representar a obra e comparou-se com unidades de informação escolhidas para a observação da representação ali encontradas. Como resultados, pode-se afirmar que os objetivos foram alcançados e a Análise do Discurso se mostra uma metodologia viável para a análise em literatura, possibilitando uma abertura para estudos e parâmetros futuros na área. Observou-se que os textos narrativos de ficção podem ser melhor representados se analisados sob a ótica da Análise do Discurso, possibilitando, assim, uma melhor recuperação e uso dos documentos. / Information Science is articulated in the production, organization and use of information, where the organization cares, also, with the representation of the information and in the same way, it is known that the Documentary Analysis is concerned with the representation, articulate Discourse Analysis as part of it. From this, the Literary Discourse Analysis is rarely used and refers to the analysis of literary texts based on Discourse Analysis and concepts, considering that a literary discourse allows its sayings might be considered under an enunciation given by a partner position social and historical and enunciators are revealed replaceable. As a general objective, it was proposed to propose elements to carry out an experiment with Discourse Analysis as a methodology for decoding discursive formations that would aid the process of documentary analysis of fictional narrative texts. In the specifics the applicability of Discourse Analysis was analyzed as methodology of analysis in the literature; the importance of analyzing literary texts in comparison with scientific texts was emphasized; the tales “O Sapatão”, “Que Vidinha”, “A Mensagem”, “Dois Açucareiros” e “Capitu”, by Dalton Trevisan were analyzed for the resolution of the issues raised; a comparison of the analyzes carried out with the representations found in other information units was carried out to observe the representation that would be better retrieved and a parallel was drawn between the discursive formations and ideological formations with the regime of information. It has the Discourse Analysis of French matrix as methodology, with the intention of showing that its concepts are applicable in the proposed project. Tales of the author were analyzed for the observation of terms and subjects that could represent the work and was compared with units of information chosen for the observation of the representation found there. As results, it can be affirmed that the objectives were reached and the Discourse Analysis shows a feasible methodology for the literature analysis, allowing openness for studies and future parameters in the area. It was observed that fictional narrative texts can be better represented if analyzed from the perspective of Discourse Analysis, thus enabling a better retrieval and use of the documents. / FAPESP: 2016/05842-8

Narrative point of view should be the initial place of focus in the study of prose fiction, but it is often difficult to understand or teach. This study proposes that stage or screen production of narrative fiction may be purposefully structured to enhance the understanding of narrative perspective. The study details grammatical analysis of narrative language and describes implications drawn from that language which influence production decisions. The thesis examines the techniques and technology of stage and screen production which may be manipulated to underscore narrative point of view, suggesting ways in which each medium can borrow from the techniques of the other for point of view production.

Les études consacrées à la représentation du mariage dans les textes narratifs au XVIe siècle cherchent le plus souvent à mettre en rapport l’image du lien conjugal construite par les récits avec les débats de l’époque. Nous avons voulu combiner cette approche, relevant davantage de l’histoire des idées, à une analyse des formes littéraires en nous interrogeant sur le rôle joué par le thème du mariage dans les évolutions du genre narratif à la Renaissance.Nous menons notre enquête sur un ensemble de douze fictions narratives en prose, de composition française, écrites entre 1515 et 1559. Durant cette période, le mariage se trouve au cœur de nombreuses controverses théologico-politiques et les regards portés sur la vie conjugale se modifient. En nous appuyant sur un travail de contextualisation historique, nous croisons une approche thématique avec une réflexion sur la poétique narrative pour étudier la structuration des intrigues, la construction des personnages et les dispositifs didactiques et herméneutiques des textes. La comparaison de nos récits à d’autres œuvres – contemporaines ou antérieures, françaises ou étrangères – fait apparaître, au cours de notre période, un renouvellement de la matière narrative autour du mariage. L’accent mis sur certaines situations matrimoniales et les enjeux spécifiques qui leur sont associés à l’époque se révèlent être un ferment favorable à l’apparition de structures narratives innovantes. Le mariage joue en particulier un rôle déterminant dans l’orientation des récits brefs vers le genre de l’histoire tragique et dans l’apparition de formes romanesques originales à travers lesquelles on voit s’élaborer le genre du roman sentimental. / In most cases, studies devoted to the representation of marriage in narrative texts of the 16th century aim to link the image of the marriage bond as elaborated in the narratives to the controversies of the time. In order to show how the theme of marriage has played a part in the development of the narrative genre in the French Renaissance, we have decided to combine such an approach, which is rather based on the history of ideas, with an analysis of literary styles.We have conducted our survey on a set of twelve prose narrative fictions written in French between 1515 and 1559. Marriage was then at the heart of many theological-political controversies and married life started to be seen in a new light. Basing our work on historical contextualization, we have intertwined a thematic approach with a reflection on narrative poetics so as to study the plot structure and characterization as well as the didactic and hermeneutic systems of the texts. Comparing these narratives with other literary works – contemporary or prior, French or foreign – has enabled us to highlight a renewal of the narrative matter related to marriage themes during that period. The emphasis put on certain matrimonial situations and the related specific challenges in those days created favourable grounds for the advent of innovative narrative structures. Marriage stories have particularly contributed to orienting short stories towards the style of tragic stories and to giving birth to original novelistic forms in which the early stirrings of the style of the sentimental novel can be seen.

L’essor du numérique et la multiplication des supports (smartphone, tablette tactile)ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives en matière d’écriture. Dans ce monde où textes, images et sons s’entrecroisent au fil des réseaux et au gré de l’interactivité, la fiction littéraire peut-elle trouver une voie qui lui permette de préserver sa richesse tout en bénéficiant des apports du numérique ? Comment l’auteur littéraire peut-il concevoir et agencer ses matériaux narratifs afin de toucher efficacement des lecteurs disposés à franchir le pas du numérique ? Quels sont les fondements d’une narration multimodale utilisant au mieux les potentiels du texte, de l’image et du son, dans toute leur complémentarité, pour servir une fiction littéraire destinée à un large public ? Ces questions sont abordées, tant du point de vue de l’auteur que de celui du lecteur, dans une approche transdisciplinaire à la fois théorique et expérimentale. / The intense development of digital technologies and hardware (smartphones, tablets) is opening up new prospects for storytelling. In a world where texts, images and sound intermingle through networks and user interactivity, is it possible for narrative fiction to preserve its great wealth while taking advantage of digital techniques? How can a literary author put together and elaborate his narrative components to effectively reach readers willing to use digital content? What are the foundations of multimodal storytelling that use all the potential of text, image and sound in the best complementary ways to create narrative fiction that can be read by a large public? What balances can be found between "telling" and"showing"? How can interactivity be used to serve the narrative without losing the reader? These issues will be dealt with from both the author's and reader's point of view, in an interdisciplinary approach mixing theory and experimentation.