This thesis proposes that a defining feature of Pirandello???s 1921 play ??? Six Characters in Search of an Author, is a relentless transcendentalism. It argues that the play embodies a fascination with existential and conceptual ???occult???, and my hypothesis is that by exploring Pirandello's transcendentalism we may enhance our understanding of how and why Pirandello's play points a mirror up to the invisible and suggests that we could be a reflection of that. Pirandello's drama alludes to some of the most convoluted and enduring debates in western philosophy. However, there is very little English-language material on Pirandello???s relation to philosophy or the relevance of analytical philosophy, metaphysics or epistemology to Pirandello???s playwriting. Even foreign-language studies focus on existentialism, phenomenology and other Continental traditions of philosophy. My contribution is to craft a subjective response to Six Characters in accordance with the methods of analytical philosophy, making use of paradigms and techniques that stem from aesthetics and metaphysics to elucidate a complex self-reflexive play. Chapter One presents analytical philosophy as a potential interpretative framework for the play, whereas chapters two and three explore the metacharacters specifically. This thesis does not seek to offer conclusive assertions about the peculiar ontological status of Pirandello???s metacharacters, rather, it introduces some frameworks and conceptual tools for better approaching their ontolo

This thesis proposes that a defining feature of Pirandello???s 1921 play ??? Six Characters in Search of an Author, is a relentless transcendentalism. It argues that the play embodies a fascination with existential and conceptual ???occult???, and my hypothesis is that by exploring Pirandello's transcendentalism we may enhance our understanding of how and why Pirandello's play points a mirror up to the invisible and suggests that we could be a reflection of that. Pirandello's drama alludes to some of the most convoluted and enduring debates in western philosophy. However, there is very little English-language material on Pirandello???s relation to philosophy or the relevance of analytical philosophy, metaphysics or epistemology to Pirandello???s playwriting. Even foreign-language studies focus on existentialism, phenomenology and other Continental traditions of philosophy. My contribution is to craft a subjective response to Six Characters in accordance with the methods of analytical philosophy, making use of paradigms and techniques that stem from aesthetics and metaphysics to elucidate a complex self-reflexive play. Chapter One presents analytical philosophy as a potential interpretative framework for the play, whereas chapters two and three explore the metacharacters specifically. This thesis does not seek to offer conclusive assertions about the peculiar ontological status of Pirandello???s metacharacters, rather, it introduces some frameworks and conceptual tools for better approaching their ontolo

Ce travail d'investigation est fondé sur une analyse discursive des notions de race et de classe sociale dans la production narrative de l'écrivaine Marvel Moreno, née à Barranquilla. Dans un premier temps, il a été nécessaire de déterminer les antécédents du sujet pour pouvoir, ensuite, élaborer un corpus de récits qui rendent compte de ces deux notions. Nous avons finalement reconstruit le code raciste et le code social de l'œuvre à travers l'étude de termes comme racisme, noir, métis, mulâtre, blanc, noir, aristocratie, décadent, bourgeois, parvenu ou nouveau riche et classe moyenne. La pertinence de cette étude est validée par l'absence, jusqu'à aujourd'hui, d'un travail qui explique, à partir de l'œuvre, de la théorie littéraire et de l'histoire colombienne, les préjugés et stéréotypes au sein de la société décrite par l'écrivaine. D'un point de vue méthodologique, nous avons analysé les opinions exprimées par les voix narratives lorsqu'elles décrivent et qualifient les personnages et les situations. Par conséquent, nous avons démontré que dans l'univers fictif de l'auteure, les idées reçues depuis la Colonie façonnent les modes de pensée et les relations de la haute société de Barranquilla, société raciste et discriminante. / The present research establishes an analysis of the discourse and narrative of the Barranquillan author Marvel Moreno. First, it was necessary to determine the background investigation on the same topic to be able to later elaborate a corpus which took into account the maximum of value judgments about the two notions, consequently. Finally, the reconstruction of the terms racist-code and social-code of the author’s literature, was reconstructed in accordance with the theoretical definitions as well as with the literature itself, analyzing terms such as racism, race, black person or negro, half blood, mulatto, white person, “down at heel person”, an upstart person or parvenu and middle class, aristocracy and bourgeoisie. The pertinent of this study is therefore justified by the absence so far of another study that treats the same chosen narratives and discourses used by the author to explain the social conflict in the fictional Barranquilla. From a methodological point of view, the goal was to see how narrators and characters judge and were judged. Consequently, it was demonstrated that the narrative voices focus on describe the social and racial codes belonging to the upper class, which at the same time and through their prejudices construct the rest of the society validating in this way the elite’s racist and excluding identity. / La presente indagine consiste in un’analisi discorsiva delle nozioni di razza e di classe sociale nella narrativa di Marvel Moreno, scrittrice di Barranquilla. In un primo momento è stato necessario determinare gli antecedenti dei due temi, per poi stabilire un corpus di racconti che ne trattano. Infine, si sono ricostruiti il codice razzista e il codice sociale dell’opera attraverso lo studio di termini come razzismo, razza, meticcio, mulatto, bianco, negro, aristocrazia, borghesia, fallito, arricchito, nuovo ricco e classe media. L’importanza di questa ricerca è avvalorata dall’assenza, fino ad oggi, di un lavoro che chiarisca i pregiudizi e gli stereotipi della società rappresentata dall’autrice a partire dall’opera stessa, dalla teoria letteraria e dalla storia colombiana. Da un punto di vista metodologico si sono analizzate le opinioni delle voci narranti per descrivere e qualificare personaggi e situazioni. Di conseguenza, si è dimostrato che, all’interno dell’universo fittizio dell’autrice, le ideologie ereditate dal periodo coloniale configurano modalità di pensiero e relazioni di potere nella società.

La tesi mira a esaminare la genesi del Calloandro di Giovan Ambrogio Marini nel contesto del ricco e dinamico contesto sociale e culturale della Genova della prima metà del XVII secolo. Le pagine prefattorie premesse alle varie edizioni dell’opera rappresentano un contributo importante per la definizione di un genere la cui diffusione non fu accompagnata, in Italia, da uno studio teorico e sistemico. Dopo una ricognizione delle fonti sulla biografia e la produzione letteraria dell’autore, nel primo capitolo viene proposta una sintesi dettagliata della trama del romanzo che illumina gli elementi fondamentali del testo e del genere. Nel secondo, si prosegue con l’analisi della struttura narrativa dell’opera, soffermando l’attenzione sulle tecniche di costruzione dell’intreccio. Quindi, si procede all’individuazione nel romanzo greco d’epoca ellenistica e nella tradizione comica i modelli letterari che influenzarono in modo più significativo la fantasia del Marini nella composizione del Calloandro. Nel quarto capitolo è affrontato il sistema dei personaggi, in cui, tra le molte figure generiche e inconsistenti, si distinguono alcuni personaggi complessi e imprevedibili: questi fanno del Calloandro un esperimento maturo del genere in cui il realismo psicologico di matrice ligure si combina con il gusto per l’avventura proprio dei romanzi di produzione veneta. / This thesis examines the origin of Giovan Ambrogio Marini’s Calloandro in Genoa’s rich and dynamic social and cultural context of the first half of the XVII century. Introductory pages to the novel’s various editions represent an important contribution about the novel’s developement in Italy, where the success of the genre wasn’t followed by a theoric and systemic study. After a research on the sources concerning the author’s biography and literary production, the first chapter presents a detailed synthesis of the novel’s plot which fixes some fundamental elements of this kind of work. The second chapter is about the novel’s narrative structure focusing on the techniques of the plot’s building. Then the third chapter describes literary models which influenced Marini’s work, in particular the Greek novels of Hellenism and the comic tradition. The fourth chapter analyses the characters' system: there are some subtle and unforeseeable characters, among many generic and insubstantial figures, that make Calloandro a unpredictable novel in which the psychological realism, typical of Ligurian novels, is combined with the taste of adventure, typical of the Venetian novels.