Victorian society had strict written and unwritten laws about what was permissible in terms of personal relationships. Anglican patriarchal church values governed behaviour between the classes and enforced codes of conduct on gender related boundaries of private individuals. Society subscribed to the traditional family of man, woman and children in the context of marriage. Homosexuality amongst men was punishable by prison. Government and religion preached Christian morality, yet the number of prostitutes had never been greater. This dissertation explores the problems of a pro-homosexual and anti-establishment Victorian author writing about human relationships forbidden by society. It exposes the consequences suffered by Oscar Wilde due to his investigative insights into the `Other' in the context of individual rights of preference in regard to sexual orientation, as expressed in selected texts, and his resolution of conflict, in De Profundis. / English Studies / MA (English)

Tesis optar al grado de Magíster en Literatura mención Literatura Hispanoamericana y Chilena / El objetivo de la presente investigación es dar cuenta de la manera en que la tensión que introduce el proceso modernizador de nuestra sociedad –en pleno desarrollo durante el siglo pasado- gatilla un cambio en la configuración identitaria de los sujetos sociales representados, el que se hace patente en los discursos de los personajes que conforman las obras analizadas, con lo que se erigen dichas obras como el espacio de cuestionamiento o pregunta por la identidad de tales sujetos. Para desarrollar nuestro planteamiento tensionamos, en primer lugar, el discurso narrativo y en ello seguimos a Bajtín3 y su postura respecto de la manera en que los discursos individuales se articulan como portadores de contenidos ideológicos que finalmente, tras el despliegue de sus diversos niveles de significación, remiten a la configuración social en un lugar y momento dados. En este mismo sentido, Carrasco4 y De la Fuente5 aportan precisiones metodológicas concretas que permiten establecer el análisis de la configuración identitaria del sujeto representado en el discurso narrativo.

A tese aborda as questões da arquitetura brasileira pós-Brasília a partir de produção de Lúcio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Vilanova Artigas e Lina Bo Bardi. Através dos nexos arquitetônicos existentes entre os quatro arquitetos que vetorizam o campo arquitetônico brasileiro, torna-se possível explorar as transformações e complexidades deste campo do conhecimento. Suas arquiteturas contribuem para revelar as questões latentes e os valores emergentes de uma produção arquitetônica também situada entre múltiplas tensões culturais, sociais e políticas --entre 1960 e 1985-- constituindo-se como a chave fundamental de compreensão da produção arquitetônica brasileira pós-Brasília. / This thesis focuses on Brazilian post-Brasília architecture throughout Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, Vilanova Artigas and Lina Bo Bardi\'s architecture. They are the most important vectors at the architectural field, so their projects have an extraordinary possibility to reveal architectural nexus in a current transformations and complexities circumstance. So their architectural contributions also become a strategic key to realize emergent and pulsing questions at that in-between post-Brasília gap that Brazilian architectural field had come into.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo comparar as interpretações da Revolução Mexicana realizadas por três representantes dos ideais anti-imperialistas na América Latina da década de 1920: o peruano José Carlos Mariátegui, o boliviano Tristán Marof e o brasileiro Oscar Tenório. A partir de seus textos sobre o México, analisamos como estes intelectuais refletiram sobre os significados políticos da Revolução Mexicana no âmbito de seus países e também como a experiência mexicana possibilitou que os autores pensassem (e repensassem) seus projetos políticos, tanto na perspectiva nacional quanto na continental. Também abordamos a circulação de ideias políticas na América Latina, demostrando a singular importância deste evento para a geração de intelectuais do período em pauta. / This study aims to compare the interpretations of the Mexican Revolution made by three exponents of the anti-imperialist ideals in Latin America of the 1920s: the Peruvian José Carlos Mariátegui, the Bolivian Tristán Marof and the Brazilian Oscar Tenório. From their writings on Mexico, we analyzed how they reflected upon the political meanings of the Mexican Revolution within their own countries. We have also observed how their interpretations of Mexico Revolution sustained their political positions both in their own countries and in a continental perspective. In addition, we have demonstrated the circulation of political ideas in Latin America, showing the singular importance of the Mexican Revolution for the generation of intellectuals of 1920s.

Esta dissertação tem por tema o estudo do circuito social de uma pintura histórica voltada à representação urbana. Trata-se da tela Fundação de São Paulo, concluída pelo pintor brasileiro Oscar Pereira da Silva em 1907, e pertencente ao acervo do Museu Paulista da Universidade de São Paulo. Produzida em um momento em que o sucesso político e econômico das elites dirigentes paulistas era associado à construção de um passado heróico para a capitania de São Vicente e de São Paulo, esta pintura integra-se ao processo de produção de representações iconográficas que tinham por intenção oferecer uma narrativa visual sobre esse passado. Sua musealização permitiu um contínuo processo de apropriação social, que permitiu integrá-la ao imaginário paulistano e paulista. Percorrer o circuito desta pintura (composto por sua concepção/realização, exposição, fortuna crítica,aquisição, musealização e reprodução) é o objetivo deste trabalho, tendo em vista que a obra é um dos principais suportes da representação de momentos fundadores de espaços urbanos produzidos no Brasil republicano e peça fundamental no corpus de imagens que embasaram um imaginário nacional, paulista e paulistano. / The theme of this dissertation is the study of the social circuit of a historical painting with a urban representation motif. It discusses the painting Fundação de São Paulo, concluded by the Brazilian painter Oscar Pereira da Silva in 1907, and belonging to the collection of the University of São Paulo\'s Museu Paulista (São Paulo Museum). Produced in a moment in which the political and economic success of the São Paulo ruling upper classes was associated with the construction of a heroic past for the São Vicente and São Paulo captaincies, this painting integrates itself with the production process of iconographical representations that intended to offer a visual narrative for this past. Its museumization permitted a continuous social appropriation process, that allowed its integration with the São Paulo state\'s and city\'s imagery. To browse through this painting\'s content (composed by its conception/production, exposition, critic fortune, aquisition, museumization and reproduction) is this work\'s goal, since the picture is one of the main sustainment of the representation of founding moments in urban spaces produced in republican Brazil, and keystone to the images\' corpus that supported an imagery for the country, the state and the city.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo comparar as interpretações da Revolução Mexicana realizadas por três representantes dos ideais anti-imperialistas na América Latina da década de 1920: o peruano José Carlos Mariátegui, o boliviano Tristán Marof e o brasileiro Oscar Tenório. A partir de seus textos sobre o México, analisamos como estes intelectuais refletiram sobre os significados políticos da Revolução Mexicana no âmbito de seus países e também como a experiência mexicana possibilitou que os autores pensassem (e repensassem) seus projetos políticos, tanto na perspectiva nacional quanto na continental. Também abordamos a circulação de ideias políticas na América Latina, demostrando a singular importância deste evento para a geração de intelectuais do período em pauta. / This study aims to compare the interpretations of the Mexican Revolution made by three exponents of the anti-imperialist ideals in Latin America of the 1920s: the Peruvian José Carlos Mariátegui, the Bolivian Tristán Marof and the Brazilian Oscar Tenório. From their writings on Mexico, we analyzed how they reflected upon the political meanings of the Mexican Revolution within their own countries. We have also observed how their interpretations of Mexico Revolution sustained their political positions both in their own countries and in a continental perspective. In addition, we have demonstrated the circulation of political ideas in Latin America, showing the singular importance of the Mexican Revolution for the generation of intellectuals of 1920s.

Esta dissertação tem por tema o estudo do circuito social de uma pintura histórica voltada à representação urbana. Trata-se da tela Fundação de São Paulo, concluída pelo pintor brasileiro Oscar Pereira da Silva em 1907, e pertencente ao acervo do Museu Paulista da Universidade de São Paulo. Produzida em um momento em que o sucesso político e econômico das elites dirigentes paulistas era associado à construção de um passado heróico para a capitania de São Vicente e de São Paulo, esta pintura integra-se ao processo de produção de representações iconográficas que tinham por intenção oferecer uma narrativa visual sobre esse passado. Sua musealização permitiu um contínuo processo de apropriação social, que permitiu integrá-la ao imaginário paulistano e paulista. Percorrer o circuito desta pintura (composto por sua concepção/realização, exposição, fortuna crítica,aquisição, musealização e reprodução) é o objetivo deste trabalho, tendo em vista que a obra é um dos principais suportes da representação de momentos fundadores de espaços urbanos produzidos no Brasil republicano e peça fundamental no corpus de imagens que embasaram um imaginário nacional, paulista e paulistano. / The theme of this dissertation is the study of the social circuit of a historical painting with a urban representation motif. It discusses the painting Fundação de São Paulo, concluded by the Brazilian painter Oscar Pereira da Silva in 1907, and belonging to the collection of the University of São Paulo\'s Museu Paulista (São Paulo Museum). Produced in a moment in which the political and economic success of the São Paulo ruling upper classes was associated with the construction of a heroic past for the São Vicente and São Paulo captaincies, this painting integrates itself with the production process of iconographical representations that intended to offer a visual narrative for this past. Its museumization permitted a continuous social appropriation process, that allowed its integration with the São Paulo state\'s and city\'s imagery. To browse through this painting\'s content (composed by its conception/production, exposition, critic fortune, aquisition, museumization and reproduction) is this work\'s goal, since the picture is one of the main sustainment of the representation of founding moments in urban spaces produced in republican Brazil, and keystone to the images\' corpus that supported an imagery for the country, the state and the city.

Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka recensionerna av Oscar Wildes Dorian Grays porträtt i svenska dagstidningar under utgivningsåret av den svenska översättningen (1905). Utöver att dagspressens artiklar analyseras, ges en djupare inblick av Wildes mottagande genom en undersökning av andra artiklar om Wilde år 1905, av arbetarpressens mottagande och Uppsala Universitetsbiblioteks intag av boken. Genom detta ses samtidens attityder till Wilde och hans författarskap.

My aim with this study has been to examine how the fashion is a leading component in the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. I have studied the role fashion plays in the novel and in which way it can be seen as a way of letting the reader know the important role of fashion in 19tcentury England and the morals of Oscar Wilde. To prove my thesis I have used literature that shows how Oscar Wilde uses influences from his own life in his writing of The Picture of Dorian Gray. I have also used Judith Butler's theory of performativity in analyzing the characters in ordet to display their way of staging themselves and their lifestyles and their dependence of that performativity in their interactions. Even though the theory of performativity often is used to hold the importance of the sexes, I have concluded that it has an important role in the novel when Dorian Gray interacts with the character Sibyl Vane who is an actress. My results have shown that fashion in the novel is often a way of letting the reader know important elements of a character in the way that certain fabrics and items are mentioned when Wilde writes about his characters. I have also found that fashion is an important factor when the characters judge each when they speak about the way they dress. The way fashion is presented in the novel is important to my thesis and has shown me how fashion can be used in literature as symbolic elements guiding the narrative. Keywords: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Fashion in literature, Performativity. Judith Butler

Le sport est reconnu, par un nombre croissant de sociologues, comme un moyen heuristique de compréhension du social contemporain. Au cours de l'année 2007, l'institution sportive a été confrontée à une situation particulière. En effet, Oscar Pistorius, un athlète double amputé tibial appareillé, participe à des compétitions dites de « valides » (meetings internationaux d'athlétisme). La singularité de cette situation génère des controverses médiatisées à propos de la légitimité de sa participation. L'étude de cas, fondée sur une approche « pragmatique », vise à mettre en évidence ce que ces controverses révèlent du sport dans les sociétés contemporaines. L'analyse des discours médiatiques à propos de Pistorius montre que cet athlète pose un problème de catégorisation sportive. En effet, d'une part, les performances qu'il produit le distinguent de la catégorie « sportif handicap » et semblent permettre de l'intégrer dans la catégorie « athlète valide ». Mais d'autre part, son appareillage empêche d'entériner cette classification sportive. Malgré le verdict du Tribunal Arbitral du Sport qui l'autorise à participer à toute compétition d'athlétisme, la persistance des controverses témoigne du fait que la situation de Pistorius marque une rupture de l'intelligibilité sportive. Cette situation doit alors être comprise comme une monstruosité, au sens foucaldien du terme, car elle met en échec les définitions nécessaires pour penser le sport. Remettant en question les fondements de l'institution sportive, la situation controversée de Pistorius révèle ainsi la manière avec laquelle le sport met en ordre les athlètes. Plus précisément, cette monstruosité donne à voir l'incapacité de l'institution sportive à prendre en charge la différence radicale des corps performants appareillés. / Sport is acknowledged, by an increasing number of sociologists, as an heuristic way to understand contemporary societies. During year 2007, sports institution was faced up to a particular situation. Indeed, Oscar Pistorius, a double legs amputated athlete with artificial lower limbs, takes part in « able bodied » competitions (international athletics meetings). The singularity of this situation causes media covered controversies regarding legitimacy of his involvement. The study of this case, based on a « pragmatic » approach, highlighting what those controversies show from sport in contemporary societies.The analysis of media speeches about Pistorius reveals that this athlete poses a sports categorization problem. Indeed, on the one hand, the performances he produces distinguishes between him and « disabled athlete » category and seems to allow to put him in the « able bodied » one. But, on the other hand, his artificial limbs prevent from validating this sports classification. Despite the verdict of the Court of Arbitration for Sport which autorises him to take part in all athletics competitions, the persistence of controversies shows that Pistorius’ situation gives a breach of sports understandability. Then, this situation has to be understood like a monstrousness, in the Foucaldian sense of the word, because it messes up the required definitions to think sport. Challenging sports institution basis, thus the disputed pistorius’ situation reveals the way in which sport sets athletes in order. More exactly, this monstrousness proves sport inability to take charge of the efficient fited bodies radical difference.