This thesis concerns narratives about Anglo-Scandinavian contact and literary traditions of Scandinavian origin which circulated in England in the post-conquest period. The argument of the thesis is that in the eleventh century, particularly during the reign of Cnut and his sons, literature was produced for a mixed Anglo-Danish audience which drew on shared cultural traditions, and that some elements of this largely oral literature can be traced in later English sources.  It is further argued that in certain parts of England, especially the East Midlands, an interest in Anglo-Scandinavian history continued for several centuries after the Viking Age and was manifested in the circulation of literary narratives dealing with Anglo-Scandinavian interaction, invasion and settlement.  The first chapter discusses some narratives about the reign of Cnut in later sources, including the Encomium Emmae Reginae, hagiographical texts by Goscelin and Osbern of Canterbury, and the Liber Eliensis; it is argued that they share certain thematic concerns with the literature known to have been produced at Cnut’s court.  The second chapter explores the literary reputation of the Danish Earl of Northumbria, Siward, and his son Waltheof in twelfth-century sources from the East Midlands and in thirteenth-century Norwegian and Icelandic histories.  The third chapter deals with an episode in the Middle English romance Guy of Warwick in which the hero helps to defeat a Danish invasion of England, and examines the romance’s references to a historical Danish right to rule in England.  The final chapter discusses the Middle English romance Havelok the Dane, and argues that the poet of Havelok, aware of the role of Danish settlement in the history of Lincolnshire, makes self-conscious use of stereotypes and literary tropes associated with Danes in order to offer an imaginative reconstruction of the history of Danish settlement in the area.

Cette thèse a pour objectif d’étudier la présence, dans l’œuvre de Robbe-Grillet, de personnages stéréotypés récupérés de la paralittérature. Les stéréotypes dont il sera question dans ce travail sont : le solitaire romantique, l’errant citadin, le justicier criminel, le détective, le tueur, le trio des romans de la jalousie, la prostituée, le voyeur pervers, la stripteaseuse et le conteur. Au terme de cette "exploration", nous arriverons à la conclusion suivante : dans son ensemble, l’œuvre de Robbe-Grillet est ancrée dans la stéréotypie. Cependant, nous découvrirons qu’il ne s’agit pas là d’une apologie du stéréotype. Mais simplement d’une prise en compte de son action dans la culture contemporaine et du rôle de celle-ci dans l’élaboration du discours de l’œuvre. / This thesis aims at investigating the presence of stereotypical characters in the work of Robbe-Grillet retrieved from the paralitterature. Stereotypes that will be discussed in this work are: the romantic loner, wandering the city, the vigilante crime, the detective, the killer, the trio of novels of the jealousy, the prostitute, the perverse voyeur, the stripper, and the storyteller. After this “exploration”, we reach the flowing conclusion: as a whole, the work of Robbe-Grillet is rooted in the stereotype. However, we will discover that this is not an apology for stereotype. But simply taking into account its action in contemporary culture and the role of the latter in the elaboration discourse of the work.

A definição mais imediata para canção de ninar, uma das várias denominações brasileiras para este gênero poético-musical, é estabelecida por sua finalidade: canção feita para adormecer criança pequena; uma definição funcional,portanto. A análise do conteúdo poético e da forma destas canções permite identificar os elementos imprescindíveis à sua composição e eficácia estética, ampliando tal conceito. Desta maneira, a canção de ninar pode ser considerada um dos primeiros objetos culturais a que o ser humano é exposto. O medo da morte (perdas, despedidas, separações), presente nos cuidados maternos, paternos e de outros adultos com as crianças pequenas, especialmente com os recém-nascidos, penetra as canções de ninar em diferentes culturas, expressando-se em vários elementos, inclusive em suas figuras de terror. A esta linha interpretativa, substancializada por constatações advindas de uma prática clínica de atendimento psicológico às famílias de recém-nascidos, foi acrescida outra de caráter mais sociológico: o estudo de alguns textos de canções de ninar tradicionais brasileiras revelou elementos dos encontros e desencontros étnico-culturais dos diferentes povos que formaram a nação brasileira. O traço de terror, geralmente compreendido como medida disciplinar para o sono, aparece acentuado nas nossas canções também porque se origina em um ambiente colonial, escravocrata, contaminado por ameaças e hostilidades. Junto a vestígios de horror apareceram também traços de resistência e preservação cultural das etnias indígenas e negras; como se as canções de ninar fossem veículos propícios ao transporte resguardado de elementos fundamentais da cultura dos grupos humanos colonizados ou escravizados. As pesquisas e reflexões de Mário de Andrade e o estudo de acalantos compostos por artistas brasileiros contemporâneos permitiram conhecer e delinear melhor este gênero: o contexto que o origina, seu tom melancólico, sua forma curta e repetitiva, o uso da sonoridade nasal hum e da vogal u. Por sua qualidade artística, o acalanto pode revigorar o ambiente cultural que cerca o nascimento e a infância. Neste sentido, ele é potencialmente humanizador. O ambiente cultural é tão fundamental e delimitador da experiência humana quanto o ambiente físico e emocional (familiar ou institucional). Cuidar do surgimento das palavras, da sua afinação com a experiência vivida, de seu vigor e sentido; cuidar da experiência inicial com a palavra é condição para o desenvolvimento pleno deste ser de linguagem que é o homem. Assim, redimensiona-se neste estudo o conceito de puericultura que passa a abranger também as ações de cultivo da palavra e da poesia com a criança pequena. / The most immediate definition of lullaby, only one among several Brazilian denominations for this poetic-musical genre, is determined by its main purpose: a song intended for little children to fall asleep, a functional definition, therefore. The analysis of the poetical content and of the form of these songs allows us to identify the essential elements of their aesthetic composition and effectiveness, broadening such concept. Thus, the lullaby may be considered one of the first cultural objects that the human being is exposed to. The fear of death (losses, farewells, separations), present in the cares given by mothers, fathers and other grown-ups to little children, especially newborn babies, permeates the lullabies in different cultures, expressing itself in many elements, including its terror figures. To this interpretative line, based on observations derived from the practice of psychological assistance to the families of newborn babies, another one of a more sociological nature has been added: the study of some texts extracted from traditional Brazilian lullabies has revealed elements of the ethnic-cultural matches and mismatches of the different cultures that shaped the Brazilian nation. The element of terror, generally understood as a disciplinary measure for sleeping, is highlighted in our songs because it also has its origin in a colonial slave-based environment, contaminated by threats and hostilities. Along with the vestiges of horror, there have arisen traces of resistance and cultural preservation of black and indigenous ethnic groups, as if the lullabies had been proper conducive vehicles to the hedged transportation of fundamental elements of the culture of the colonized or enslaved human groups. The researches carried out by Mario de Andrade, as well as his reflections, and the study of lullabies composed by contemporary Brazilian artists allowed the better understanding and outline of this genre: the context where it comes from, its melancholic tone, its short and repetitive form, the use of the nasal sonority \'hum\' and the vowel \'u\'. For its artistic value, the lullaby can be quite refreshing for the cultural environment surrounding birth and childhood. In this sense, it is potentially humanizing.The cultural environment is as important and delimiting for human experience as the physical and emotional environment (familiar or institutional). Caring about the arising of new words, their affinity to the life experience, their vitality and sense; caring about the initial experience with words is a condition for the full development of this language-based being, the man. Hence, in this study, the concept of childcare is resized so as also to include the actions of cultivation of word and poetry with the little child.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:59:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mirtes Maria de Oliveira Portella.pdf: 1725905 bytes, checksum: 894aaf7317e57ff7140edab2e5a80677 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-09-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The purpose of this work is the investigation about conception of literary that is implied in the displacement of brazilian popular story from the verbal form to the writting form. As references, the edited storys contained in the book Brazilian Popular Stories - Ceará (2003) was taken as study object. This book was made from some colect of popular stories, which transcription methodology was worried about the allegiance to the verbal source, in order to preserve the vocal marks of the storytellers. The analysis corpus had as election criterion the capacity of survival and conservation of the stories João and Maria , Maria Borralheira and Dom Anin , inspired in the conceptions of voice, body and performance elucidated by the medievalista Paul Zumthor (1915 - 1984). During the development of this research strategies of text reformulation could be revealed in the tranfiguration of verbal form to the writing one, which gives to the writting form a hibrid caracter, between the letter and voice. To inquire about how and when the orality marks inscribed in the texts became condition to consider them poetical, diverse linguistic characteristics was analysed, such as: phonological, morphologic and syntactic, besides conversational and prosaisms markers of orality, which had vivified the narrative speech intensifing the presence of narrators performance: initiatives that not just allow the decoding of graphical signs but also make possible the recognition of a listening, that is a determinative principle of the poetical essence of literature. The analysis of the narratives demonstrated that even being coherent with the orality elements present in the speaks of the storytellers, the transcription also bring some inherents caracteristics of the publishing process. Those process transit between the tradition and memory, but are paradoxicalally unfinished because are always related to its context of production. The stories are constituent of a dialogal and discursive net, and in this condition are presented by social and historical entities at the performance moment. When represented in the written text, the speeches made by those entities suggest narrators in parallel with the original storytellers. So, in this context the reader is in charge to rescue trough the letter the vocality and performance, attributing some carnal e material characteristics to the transmission process / Esta dissertação tem por objetivo a investigação sobre a concepção de literário que subjaz ao conto popular brasileiro no seu deslocamento do oral ao escrito, tendo por referência os textos editados no livro Contos Populares Brasileiros Ceará (2003). Essa obra é fruto de recolhas cuja metodologia de transcrição implicou rigorosa fidelidade à fonte oral, de modo a preservar as marcas vocais dos contadores. O corpus de análise teve por critério de seleção a capacidade de sobrevivência e conservação dos arquétipos dos contos João e Maria , Maria Borralheira e Dom Anin , à luz das concepções de voz, corpo e performance do medievalista Paul Zumthor (1915 1984). O desenvolvimento da pesquisa revelou estratégias de retextualização na passagem do texto oral ao escrito, que conferiram à escritura hibridização entre letra e voz. Para averiguar sobre como e quando a oralidade inscrita nos textos tornou-se condição para considerá-los poéticos, diversas características lingüísticas foram levantadas, tais como: fonológicas, morfológicas e sintáticas, além de marcadores conversacionais e prosaísmos da fala, recursos que vivificaram o discurso narrativo quanto mais intensificaram a presentificação da performance dos narradores: movimentos que deslocaram a simples decodificação de signos gráficos, para o reconhecimento de uma escuta, princípio determinante da essência poética da literatura. A análise das narrativas demonstrou que, embora fiel aos elementos prosódicos da fala dos contadores, a transcriação de suas performances no livro divide a responsabilidade sobre a representação de suas vozes com o todo o processo editorial dos contos. Esses, ainda que transitem entre tradição e memória, são, paradoxalmente, moventes e inacabados, porque sempre relacionados ao seu contexto de produção. Os contos, enquanto constituintes de uma rede discursiva dialogal, são presentificados, no momento da performance, por entidades instituídas social e historicamente, cujos discursos, representados no texto escrito, sugerem narradores em sintonia com os contadores originais. Cabe ao leitor, por meio da letra, resgatar a vocalidade e performance, conferindo carnalidade ao processo de transmissão

A definição mais imediata para canção de ninar, uma das várias denominações brasileiras para este gênero poético-musical, é estabelecida por sua finalidade: canção feita para adormecer criança pequena; uma definição funcional,portanto. A análise do conteúdo poético e da forma destas canções permite identificar os elementos imprescindíveis à sua composição e eficácia estética, ampliando tal conceito. Desta maneira, a canção de ninar pode ser considerada um dos primeiros objetos culturais a que o ser humano é exposto. O medo da morte (perdas, despedidas, separações), presente nos cuidados maternos, paternos e de outros adultos com as crianças pequenas, especialmente com os recém-nascidos, penetra as canções de ninar em diferentes culturas, expressando-se em vários elementos, inclusive em suas figuras de terror. A esta linha interpretativa, substancializada por constatações advindas de uma prática clínica de atendimento psicológico às famílias de recém-nascidos, foi acrescida outra de caráter mais sociológico: o estudo de alguns textos de canções de ninar tradicionais brasileiras revelou elementos dos encontros e desencontros étnico-culturais dos diferentes povos que formaram a nação brasileira. O traço de terror, geralmente compreendido como medida disciplinar para o sono, aparece acentuado nas nossas canções também porque se origina em um ambiente colonial, escravocrata, contaminado por ameaças e hostilidades. Junto a vestígios de horror apareceram também traços de resistência e preservação cultural das etnias indígenas e negras; como se as canções de ninar fossem veículos propícios ao transporte resguardado de elementos fundamentais da cultura dos grupos humanos colonizados ou escravizados. As pesquisas e reflexões de Mário de Andrade e o estudo de acalantos compostos por artistas brasileiros contemporâneos permitiram conhecer e delinear melhor este gênero: o contexto que o origina, seu tom melancólico, sua forma curta e repetitiva, o uso da sonoridade nasal hum e da vogal u. Por sua qualidade artística, o acalanto pode revigorar o ambiente cultural que cerca o nascimento e a infância. Neste sentido, ele é potencialmente humanizador. O ambiente cultural é tão fundamental e delimitador da experiência humana quanto o ambiente físico e emocional (familiar ou institucional). Cuidar do surgimento das palavras, da sua afinação com a experiência vivida, de seu vigor e sentido; cuidar da experiência inicial com a palavra é condição para o desenvolvimento pleno deste ser de linguagem que é o homem. Assim, redimensiona-se neste estudo o conceito de puericultura que passa a abranger também as ações de cultivo da palavra e da poesia com a criança pequena. / The most immediate definition of lullaby, only one among several Brazilian denominations for this poetic-musical genre, is determined by its main purpose: a song intended for little children to fall asleep, a functional definition, therefore. The analysis of the poetical content and of the form of these songs allows us to identify the essential elements of their aesthetic composition and effectiveness, broadening such concept. Thus, the lullaby may be considered one of the first cultural objects that the human being is exposed to. The fear of death (losses, farewells, separations), present in the cares given by mothers, fathers and other grown-ups to little children, especially newborn babies, permeates the lullabies in different cultures, expressing itself in many elements, including its terror figures. To this interpretative line, based on observations derived from the practice of psychological assistance to the families of newborn babies, another one of a more sociological nature has been added: the study of some texts extracted from traditional Brazilian lullabies has revealed elements of the ethnic-cultural matches and mismatches of the different cultures that shaped the Brazilian nation. The element of terror, generally understood as a disciplinary measure for sleeping, is highlighted in our songs because it also has its origin in a colonial slave-based environment, contaminated by threats and hostilities. Along with the vestiges of horror, there have arisen traces of resistance and cultural preservation of black and indigenous ethnic groups, as if the lullabies had been proper conducive vehicles to the hedged transportation of fundamental elements of the culture of the colonized or enslaved human groups. The researches carried out by Mario de Andrade, as well as his reflections, and the study of lullabies composed by contemporary Brazilian artists allowed the better understanding and outline of this genre: the context where it comes from, its melancholic tone, its short and repetitive form, the use of the nasal sonority \'hum\' and the vowel \'u\'. For its artistic value, the lullaby can be quite refreshing for the cultural environment surrounding birth and childhood. In this sense, it is potentially humanizing.The cultural environment is as important and delimiting for human experience as the physical and emotional environment (familiar or institutional). Caring about the arising of new words, their affinity to the life experience, their vitality and sense; caring about the initial experience with words is a condition for the full development of this language-based being, the man. Hence, in this study, the concept of childcare is resized so as also to include the actions of cultivation of word and poetry with the little child.

Depuis quelques décennies les musées se sont multipliés ; chaque secteur de la culture, chaque communauté, chaque ville veut le sien, pour le prestige ou pour développer l’activité économique. Aussi la conception du musée a-t-elle évolué dans sa forme, ses objectifs, son organisation, sa gestion. C’est ainsi que sont apparus des enjeux financiers, desquels ont résulté des concepts comme l’entreprise culturelle et ses relations avec le marché, la sauvegarde des collections et leur valorisation par des expositions ouvertes aux différents publics. Alors que le musée devient un élément moteur des politiques culturelles, aussi bien au plan national que local, l’Afrique en général et le Gabon en particulier souffrent d’un retard dans ce domaine, malgré le potentiel qui est le leur. Or un musée sans collection n’existe pas : il doit être un lieu d’exposition ou d’interprétation. Et un musée sans public serait une réserve ou un centre d’étude de collections. C’est à travers la consommation des images de l’histoire dans le temps et l’espace que se forge l’expérience subjective des individus sur la politique culturelle. Cette subjectivité individuelle nous incite à concevoir autrement le musée. Aujourd’hui, cependant, cette révision apparaît compliquée pour un Africain en général et un Gabonais en particulier. En effet, au lieu de s’insérer dans une identité locale plus ou moins homogène et circonscrite au sein de l’identité nationale, il entretient des liens ethniques plus larges en raison des rapports personnels, économiques, professionnels ou financiers qui transcendent quelquefois les frontières géographiques et culturelles de la nation. Ainsi, au Gabon, la gestion du patrimoine culturel doit tenir compte non seulement des retombées de sa valorisation mais aussi des acteurs locaux. Le but est de faire profiter les populations locales des retombées de la valorisation de leur patrimoine. Car, une valorisation non encadrée entraîne un tourisme de masse avec son inconvénient, à savoir l’érosion du patrimoine et des valeurs culturelles, causée par une dégradation soit naturelle, soit humaine. C’est pourquoi il est nécessaire d’instaurer une nouvelle approche qui exige de considérer la gestion du patrimoine culturel comme un facteur de développement local et national. / In recent decades, museums have multiplied in most African societies; each cultural sector, each community, each city wants its own, for prestige or to develop economic and tourism activity. As a result, the design of the museum has evolved in its form, objectives, organization and management. This has given rise to financial challenges, from which concepts such as the cultural enterprise and its relationship with the market, the preservation of collections and their enhancement through exhibitions open to different audiences have emerged. As the museum becomes a driving force in cultural policies, both at the national and local levels, Gabon is lagging behind in this area, despite its potential. However, a museum without a collection does not exist: it must be a place of exhibition or interpretation. And a museum without a public would be a reserve or a center for the study of collections. It is through the consumption of images of history in time and space that individuals' subjective experiences of cultural policy are shaped. This individual subjectivity leads us to conceive the museum differently. Today, however, this revision seems problematic, especially for a Gabonese man. Indeed, instead of being part of a more or less homogeneous local identity that is circumscribed within the national identity, it maintains broader ethnic ties because of personal, economic, professional or financial relationships that sometimes transcend the nation's geographical and cultural borders. Thus, in Gabon, the management of cultural heritage must take into account not only the benefits of its enhancement but also local actors. The aim is to enable local populations to benefit from the benefits of the enhancement of their heritage. For, unframed development leads to mass tourism with its disadvantage, namely the erosion of heritage and cultural values, caused by either natural or human degradation. This is why it is necessary to introduce a new approach that requires considering cultural heritage management as a factor in local and national development.

Over 50 years ago, Marshall McLuhan (2003), a specialist in communication issues, said that the world is becoming smaller and smaller every starting day, a result of the emergence of modern communication around the world. This situation has given birth to the conept `new technology´. This article will break down this new concept by looking at it through the lens of oral literature, which is used in Swahili communities. However, oral Swahili literature uses Kiswahili language, which is the languagge of communication at different levels throughout East and central Africa. The article will examine the ideals and opinions connected to oral literature described in the existing academic literature, and as one of the genres of narrative literature. It will look at the way in which the concept of new technology is explained by specialists, and in which ways this connects to oral literature. Advantages and effects which came about in the society after the coming of this notion will be discussed. The article ends with a conclusion and possible recommendations.

Orientador: José Carlos Zamboni / Banca: Luiz Eduardo Ramos Borges / Banca: Tania Celestino de Macêdo / Acompanha CD-ROM Cordas do Panema: música caipira paulista / Resumo: Pretende-se com este trabalho apresentar elementos literários, históricos e sociais da poesia caipira produzida por violeiros na cidade de Assis/SP, compreendidas no período de 1915 a 1998, abrangendo a produção poética dos violeiros Benedito Ferreira de Paula, Isaulino Pereira da Silva, Laurindo de Souza Pereira, Nestor José Casssiano, Joaquim Miguel da Silva, Júlio Andrade, Patrocínio Tarso de Campos, Raimundinho, Leoni Ferreira da Silva, Onório José Cassiano, Custódio Pereira e algumas outras anônimas. / Abstract: The objective of this work is present literary, historical and social elements on country poetry from the city of Assis, São Paulo. The Poetical Antologies of Benedito Ferreira de Paula, Isaulino Pereira da Silva, Laurindo de Souza Pereira, Nestor José Cassiano, Joaquim Miguel da Silva, Júlio Andrade, Patrocínio Tarso de Campos, Raimundinho, Leoni Ferreira da Silva, Onório José Cassiano and Custódio Pereira are present in this work. / Mestre

This study explores two ancient approaches to spirituality, together with the cultural contexts in which they developed. Spirituality is a popular concept today among people of widely differing religious traditions, and among those who espouse no religious tradition. Spirituality defines the way in which people relate to what concerns them ultimately, and ways in which this concern is manifested in their daily lives. This popular interest has resulted in the rise of spirituality as an academic discipline. An in-depth study of Celtic and African Spirituality is presented in this study. Celtic Spirituality dates from the fifth century CE onwards, whereas African Spirituality predates written history. Few examples of African Spirituality are recorded in writing before the twentieth century, although some have existed for centuries in oral form. Many Celtic poems, and other examples of traditional oral literature were collected and recorded in writing by medieval monks, and thus preserved for later generations in writing. Both Celtic and African Spiritualities have a healthy, integrated approach to the material world and to the spiritual world. They acknowledge a constant interaction between the two realms, and do not dismiss or devalue either the physical or the spiritual. Art and oral literature also play an important role in enabling communication and expression of ideas. Power and powerlessness emerges as a dominant theme in African thought and spirituality, especially where African peoples perceive themselves to be powerless politically or economically. Areas of relevance of Celtic and African Spiritualities to the life of the church today are identified and discussed, such as ecological spirituality; oral and symbolic communication; the role of women in church and society; and the theme of power. These are areas from which the world-wide church has much to learn from both Celtic and African Spiritualities. The findings of this study are then discussed in terms of their relevance and helpfulness to church and society. Insights from Celtic and African spiritualities should be used in the future to deepen devotional life of individual Christians and of congregations, and ideas such as ecological responsibility and recognition of the value and gifts of women should permeate the teaching and practice of the church in the future. / Religious Studies and Arabic Studies / D. Th.(Religious Studies & Arabic Studies)

While over the years stakeholders such as publishers and academics have taken a keen interest in research into writing and publishing, they have been less concerned about research into indigenous children‟s literature. In this thesis a comprehensive examination of children‟s literature in the indigenous African languages of South Africa and in Zulu in particular, is presented. Qualitative research methods have been applied, using questionnaires and interviews to gain first-hand knowledge of problems and possible solutions to the dearth of original children‟s literature in the indigenous languages. The data obtained in this regard has proved invaluable to the researcher and, hopefully, will be so to others in the future. Oral folktales narrated before the influence of the missionaries qualify as children‟s literature. The transition from the oral performance of these folktales to the reading of written children‟s texts is discussed in detail. This is achieved by considering the milieu, themes, content, functions and values of this children‟s literature. The discussion of imilolozelo (lullabies) and izilandelo/izidlaliso (game songs) presents the genre of children‟s traditional oral poetry as a form of performance based not only on narrative but also on songs and/or chants interspersed with rhythmical movements to relay their message. Zulu school readers as modern literature for children are also examined by tracing their background and the development of original Zulu children‟s written literature since it was first recorded by the missionaries. Contents and themes of these early readers, dating from the 1800s, are examined and compared with a series of graded readers published in 1962 by C.L.S. Nyembezi. The sixth chapter of the thesis investigates Zulu children‟s picture books as contemporary literature. Various types of picture books and their functions are discussed. Research findings point to an urgent need for the training of African authors in the writing of age-appropriate books in indigenous African languages. Lastly, the study proves that it is feasible to regard traditional oral and modern indigenous texts as children‟s literature. / D. Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)