Thesis advisor: William Stanwood / The Daily Show with Jon Stewart's ascendance into the mainstream consciousness has reached a point where many not only consider it to be a source of news, but also Stewart to be one of the most respected and important journalists in the country. This study investigated The Daily Show’s impact on the general public using the theoretical framework of agenda-setting. After grounding the study in existing scholarly research, data, content and textual analyses were performed on 12 Daily Show episodes, as well as data analysis on the corresponding network news broadcasts. It was then concluded that The Daily Show has no significant impact on what people think about no matter what variables were analyzed. Thus, Stewart likely has been right all along in his claim that he and his team are not journalists – rather, they are merely producing a comedy show that happens to involve news and parodies news broadcasts. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2011. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: College Honors Program. / Discipline: Communication Honors Program. / Discipline: Communication.

Essa dissertação visa estudar a formação do que veio a ser conhecido como o mito Shakespeariano e sua relação com a produção literária contemporânea, exemplificada pelo romance Wise Children, da romancista inglesa Angela Carter. Tal objetivo pretende ser alcançado por meio uma revisão teórica de elementos relacionados à concepção de mito desenvolvida pelo filósofo francês Roland Barthes, tais quais a concepção tradicional de mito, o Estruturalismo, o Pós-estruturalismo, a crítica ideológica marxista e os Estudos Culturais. Um estudo dos processos históricos que deram origem ao e ajudaram a propagar o mito Shakespeariano também é levado a cabo nessa dissertação: a apropriação da figura e da obra de William Shakespeare feita pelos pré-românticos e pelos românticos em geral; a associação da figura de Shakespeare com a identidade nacional do Império Britânico; o advento da industria Shakespeariana e o papel das adaptações das peças de Shakespeare na propagação do mito Shakespeariano / This dissertation aims at studying what came to be known as the Shakespeare myth and its relation to the contemporary literary production, exemplified by English novelist Angela Carters novel Wise Children. Such objective intends to be achieved by a theoretical revision of elements related to French philosopher Rolan Barthess concept of myth, such as the traditional concept of myth, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Marxist ideological critique, as well as Cultural Studies. A study of the historical processes which led to and helped propagate the Shakespeare myth is also carried out in this dissertation: the pre-Romantic and the Romantic appropriation of the figure and works of William Shakespeare; the association of the figure of Shakespeare with the British Empires national identity; the advent of the Shakespeare industry; and the role the adaptation of the Shakespearean play had in the propagation of the Shakespeare myth

Essa dissertação visa estudar a formação do que veio a ser conhecido como o mito Shakespeariano e sua relação com a produção literária contemporânea, exemplificada pelo romance Wise Children, da romancista inglesa Angela Carter. Tal objetivo pretende ser alcançado por meio uma revisão teórica de elementos relacionados à concepção de mito desenvolvida pelo filósofo francês Roland Barthes, tais quais a concepção tradicional de mito, o Estruturalismo, o Pós-estruturalismo, a crítica ideológica marxista e os Estudos Culturais. Um estudo dos processos históricos que deram origem ao e ajudaram a propagar o mito Shakespeariano também é levado a cabo nessa dissertação: a apropriação da figura e da obra de William Shakespeare feita pelos pré-românticos e pelos românticos em geral; a associação da figura de Shakespeare com a identidade nacional do Império Britânico; o advento da industria Shakespeariana e o papel das adaptações das peças de Shakespeare na propagação do mito Shakespeariano / This dissertation aims at studying what came to be known as the Shakespeare myth and its relation to the contemporary literary production, exemplified by English novelist Angela Carters novel Wise Children. Such objective intends to be achieved by a theoretical revision of elements related to French philosopher Rolan Barthess concept of myth, such as the traditional concept of myth, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Marxist ideological critique, as well as Cultural Studies. A study of the historical processes which led to and helped propagate the Shakespeare myth is also carried out in this dissertation: the pre-Romantic and the Romantic appropriation of the figure and works of William Shakespeare; the association of the figure of Shakespeare with the British Empires national identity; the advent of the Shakespeare industry; and the role the adaptation of the Shakespearean play had in the propagation of the Shakespeare myth

L’objet de la présente recherche est l’étude de l’accessibilité des enfants lecteurs à la réception de l’élément parodique, présent dans les œuvres littéraires d’Eugène Trivizas, auteur grec d’une grande renommée dans la littérature d’enfance. Ceci concerne toute forme de parodie et à tous les niveaux où elle pourrait se produire, des conditions dans lesquelles elle se produit, des facteurs qui favorisent sa réalisation et des manières par lesquelles elle pourrait être aperçue. Par ailleurs la recherche se propose de vérifier si les fonctions des parodies de Trivizas estimées « libératrices » ont bien eu cet effet sur les jeunes lecteurs et si la poétique parodique de l’auteur contribue à la création du jeune lecteur critique. L’étude des résultats de la recherche réalisée avec des élèves des écoles maternelles et primaires en Grèce aboutit aux convictions suivantes: a. La réceptivité parodique des enfants lecteurs concernant l’œuvre d’Eugène Trivizas peut être réalisable à certaines conditions. b. La communication parodique suscitée dans les œuvres littéraires d’Eugène Trivizas, possède la dynamique de fonctionner au niveau de la socialisation et de la politisation des jeunes lecteurs. / The object of the present research is to investigate the capabilityof children readers to perceive the parodic element which emerges in the literary texts of Eugene Trivizas, one of the most renounced Greek writers of children' s literature. This concerns every form of parody, also the levels on which it is produced, the circumstances under which it is produced, and finally the factors which favour its realisation and the ways in which it can function. Furthermore, this research aims at verifying whether the functions of parody in the work of Eugene Trivizas which are conceived as "liberating" have, indeed, this impact on children readers and whether the parodic poetics of the writer contributes to the creation of a young critical reader. The study of the results of the research which was carried out on pupils of nursery and primary schools of Greece leads to the following two conclusions: a. The reception of the parodic element in the work of Eugene Trivizas is feasible/ possible under certain circumstances. b. The communication of parody possesses the dynamics to lead towards the socialisation and politicalisationof young readers.

My dissertation focuses on an analysis of postmodern narrative strategies in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (ULB) and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting ( BLF) . By analysing the postmodern ab/use of narrative strategies, I argue that postmodern fiction marks a decided shift from both classical realism and modernism. My dissertation has predominantly been motivated through my contention that postmodern fiction is not elitist as it has been perceived to be. Rather, I suggest that postmodern fiction ab/uses narrative strategies to deconstruct the ontological boundaries between the political and private and fiction and 'fact'. Consequently, postmodern fiction interrogates the contrived intelligibility of History. A further argument that I raise is that postmodern fiction through its (re) appropriation, subversion and use of parodic structures creates.narrative space for the Other. In order not to canonize Kundera's texts, I situate both ULB and BLF as 'nodes' within a diffuse network of intertextual discourse. My analyses of the postmodern narrative strategies in ULB and BLF, attempt to interrogate the diffuse 'nature' of postmodern fiction which resists both authorative analysis and closure. In exploring the relationship between recuperation and postmodern narrative strategies in ULB and BLF and other works and/or texts of fiction, I argue that postmodern fiction does not revel in its narrativity, it constitutes, instead, a political strategy / Afrikaans and Theory of Literature / M.A. (Theory of Literature)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cleber Luis Dungue.pdf: 2132666 bytes, checksum: b5f4670171869d1843a1c0328070e5cf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-28 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / The present research tries to question if a story that has been told so many times Santos-Dumont, a national hero, the airplane inventor and father of aviation can still bring something new, singular, able to break the expectancy of the reader. The life and history of Santos-Dumont have already been the theme of hundreds of biographies, many of them written using a traditional model that tries to develop, enhance and perpetuate the heroic image of the aviator. This happens, mainly, because of the proximity of the aviator to the classical myths and of the use of particular laudatory words. The image of the hero is made up from this vision that is one-dimensional and infallible. Walk together, therefore, with the very shape of the speech that the states it, based on a monological truth, absolute, which is intended indisputable. Among so many biographies that try to rebuild the life of Santos-Dumont, and fail precisely at this point, there is one that stands out as a parodic-novel O Brasileiro Voador by Márcio Souza. Facing the impossibility to distinguish the factual from the invention, among the shifts terrains of biographies, this Amazonian author sorts out the elements from original documents about Santos-Dumont in a fictional context. Without giving away the data research, the text is built from the unfolding, moving and condensing the facts that really happened, and they are explored according to the existing, possibilities in the literary environment. When re-organizing the conventional biographies data using parody and fiction, the act of creation of Márcio Souza, alters, erasures and transforms the official history of Santos-Dumont. Thereby, both the myth and the structure of the traditional biographical speech itself are deconstructed by the Amazonian author, showing up the fictional line that holds every biography. Through this process, the parody is precisely the most efficient strategy to break up the sedimented tradition and extract from it, not the hero, but the man with his conflicts and contradictions / Este trabalho procura questionar se uma história contada tantas vezes Santos-Dumont, herói nacional, inventor do avião e ―pai da aviação‖ ainda pode trazer algo novo, singular, capaz de romper o horizonte de expectativa do leitor. A vida e a história de Santos-Dumont já foi tema de mais de uma centena de biografias, muitas delas ordenadas segundo um modelo tradicional que procura enformar, engrandecer e perpetuar a figura heroica do aviador. Isso se dá, principalmente, pela aproximação do aviador a mitos clássicos e pelo uso de determinados vocábulos encomiásticos. O herói que se configura a partir desse olhar é unidimensional e infalível. Caminha junto, portanto, com o próprio formato do discurso que o enuncia, baseado em uma verdade monológica, absoluta, que se pretende incontestável. Em meio a tantas biografias que tentam reconstruir a vida de Santos-Dumont, justamente no ponto em que elas fracassam, sobressai como contrapartida o romance paródico-biográfico O brasileiro voador, de Márcio Souza. Diante da impossibilidade de distinguir, dentro dos domínios movediços do relato biográfico, o factual do inventado, o autor amazonense redistribui os elementos de origem documental sobre Santos-Dumont dentro de um contexto fictício. Sem despojar-se da pesquisa de dados, o texto é construído a partir do desdobramento, deslocamento e condensação de fatos que realmente aconteceram, explorados segundo as possibilidades do espaço literário. Ao reorganizar dados das biografias convencionais por meio de uma enunciação paródico-ficcional, o ato de criação de Márcio Souza altera, rasura e transforma a história oficial sobre Santos-Dumont. Assim, tanto o mito quanto a estrutura do próprio discurso biográfico tradicional são desconstruídos pelo autor amazonense, evidenciando-se o traçado ficcional que sustenta toda biografia. Nesse processo, a paródia é justamente a estratégia mais eficaz para romper a tradição sedimentada e retirar dela não o herói, mas o homem com seus conflitos e contradições

My dissertation focuses on an analysis of postmodern narrative strategies in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (ULB) and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting ( BLF) . By analysing the postmodern ab/use of narrative strategies, I argue that postmodern fiction marks a decided shift from both classical realism and modernism. My dissertation has predominantly been motivated through my contention that postmodern fiction is not elitist as it has been perceived to be. Rather, I suggest that postmodern fiction ab/uses narrative strategies to deconstruct the ontological boundaries between the political and private and fiction and 'fact'. Consequently, postmodern fiction interrogates the contrived intelligibility of History. A further argument that I raise is that postmodern fiction through its (re) appropriation, subversion and use of parodic structures creates.narrative space for the Other. In order not to canonize Kundera's texts, I situate both ULB and BLF as 'nodes' within a diffuse network of intertextual discourse. My analyses of the postmodern narrative strategies in ULB and BLF, attempt to interrogate the diffuse 'nature' of postmodern fiction which resists both authorative analysis and closure. In exploring the relationship between recuperation and postmodern narrative strategies in ULB and BLF and other works and/or texts of fiction, I argue that postmodern fiction does not revel in its narrativity, it constitutes, instead, a political strategy / Afrikaans and Theory of Literature / M.A. (Theory of Literature)

O objetivo desta dissertação é investigar e analisar a transgressão e o borramento de fronteiras de gênero (categoria narrativa) e sua conexão com a emancipação do sujeito feminino no nível da narrativa nos dois últimos romances de Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus e Wise Children, à luz da teoria da intertextualidade paródica. O tipo de opressão pela qual passam as narradoras/protagonistas Fevvers e Dora Chance bem como as outras personagens femininas em ambos os romances mostra-se intrinsicamente relacionada às restrições ideológicas e formais tradicionalmente impostas aos gêneros (categoria narrativa) pelo patriarcalismo. Estas são precisamente as normas e regulamentos que Angela Carter se propõe desvelar, questionar e minar de forma a preparar o caminho para novas alternativas bem como diferentes possibilidades de futuro tanto para homens como mulheres. A principal contribuição desta dissertação está em sua tentativa de relacionar gênero (categoria narrativa), gênero (determinação sexual) e mudança social a fim de encorajar mais pesquisas sobre o poder político que subjaz a pós-moderna reescritura ou reinvenção e borramento de gêneros (categoria narrativa) praticada pelo sujeito feminino / The aim of this dissertation is to investigate and analyse the transgression and blurring of genre boundaries and its connection with the emancipation of the female subject on the level of the narrative in Angela Carters last two novels, Nights at the Circus and Wise Children, in the light of parodic intertextuality theory. The sort of oppression the narrators/protagonists Fevvers and Dora Chance as well as the other female characters undergo in both novels turn out to be intrinsically related to the ideological and formal constraints traditionally imposed on genres by patriarchy. These are precisely the norms and regulations Angela Carter sets out to unveil, question and undermine so as to pave the way for new alternatives as well as different future possibilities for men and women alike. The main contribution of this dissertation lies in its attempt to relate genre, gender and social change in order to nourish further research on the political power underlying postmodern female rewriting or reinvention and blurring of genres

O objetivo desta dissertação é investigar e analisar a transgressão e o borramento de fronteiras de gênero (categoria narrativa) e sua conexão com a emancipação do sujeito feminino no nível da narrativa nos dois últimos romances de Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus e Wise Children, à luz da teoria da intertextualidade paródica. O tipo de opressão pela qual passam as narradoras/protagonistas Fevvers e Dora Chance bem como as outras personagens femininas em ambos os romances mostra-se intrinsicamente relacionada às restrições ideológicas e formais tradicionalmente impostas aos gêneros (categoria narrativa) pelo patriarcalismo. Estas são precisamente as normas e regulamentos que Angela Carter se propõe desvelar, questionar e minar de forma a preparar o caminho para novas alternativas bem como diferentes possibilidades de futuro tanto para homens como mulheres. A principal contribuição desta dissertação está em sua tentativa de relacionar gênero (categoria narrativa), gênero (determinação sexual) e mudança social a fim de encorajar mais pesquisas sobre o poder político que subjaz a pós-moderna reescritura ou reinvenção e borramento de gêneros (categoria narrativa) praticada pelo sujeito feminino / The aim of this dissertation is to investigate and analyse the transgression and blurring of genre boundaries and its connection with the emancipation of the female subject on the level of the narrative in Angela Carters last two novels, Nights at the Circus and Wise Children, in the light of parodic intertextuality theory. The sort of oppression the narrators/protagonists Fevvers and Dora Chance as well as the other female characters undergo in both novels turn out to be intrinsically related to the ideological and formal constraints traditionally imposed on genres by patriarchy. These are precisely the norms and regulations Angela Carter sets out to unveil, question and undermine so as to pave the way for new alternatives as well as different future possibilities for men and women alike. The main contribution of this dissertation lies in its attempt to relate genre, gender and social change in order to nourish further research on the political power underlying postmodern female rewriting or reinvention and blurring of genres

This study focuses on Bruegel's parodic legacy in the picaresque tradition. It is based, on the one hand, on visual rhetoric, visual parody, and the poetics of epideictic rhetoric; and, on the other, on the interaction between epideictic rhetoric's salient features and the Bruegelian themes of camivalisation, the satirising of human folly, and the ontic order of the World Upside Down topos as organising principles. The relationships between the above themes are chronologically traced in various disguises in pictures by representative picaresque artists from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries: i.e., in Bruegel, Steen, Hogarth, Daumier, and Grosz. Each of these picaresque artists battled with their own times, parodying the paradigmatic targets of the high mode, in both social and genre hierarchy, and in doing so revealed the complexities of the above themes at work within an ever changing context-bound rhetoricity. / Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology / Thesis (D.Litt. et Phil.)