In this project, I examine the impact of early literary criticism, early literary history, and the history of knowledge on the perception of the laureateship as it was formulated at specific moments in the eighteenth century. Instead of accepting the assessments of Pope and Johnson, I reconstruct the contemporary impact of laureate writings and the writing that fashioned the view of the laureates we have inherited. I use an array of primary documents (from letters and journal entries to poems and non-fiction prose) to analyze the way the laureateship as a literary identity was constructed in several key moments: the debate over hack literature in the pamphlet wars surrounding Elkanah Settle’s The Empress of Morocco (1673), the defense of Colley Cibber and his subsequent attempt to use his expertise of theater in An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber (1740), the consolidation of hack literature and state-sponsored poetry with the crowning of Colley Cibber as the King of the Dunces in Pope’s The Dunciad in Four Books (1742), the fashioning of Thomas Gray and William Mason as laureate rejecters in Mason’s Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Whitehead (1788), Southey’s progressive work to abolish laureate task writing in his laureate odes 1813-1821, and, finally, in Wordsworth’s refusal to produce any laureate task writing during his tenure, 1843-1850. In each case, I explain how the construction of this office was central to the consolidation of literary history and to forging authorial identity in the same period. This differs from the conventional treatment of the laureates because I expose the history of the versions of literary history that have to date structured how scholars understand the laureate, and by doing so, reveal how the laureateship was used to create, legitimate and disseminate the model of literary history we still use today.

Ce mémoire vise à placer le travail de la poète colombienne Olga Elena Mattei au sein de la poésie colombienne de son temps (1962-2005). Dans le premier chapitre, certains concepts théoriques sont définis et le terme «canon», axé sur la poésie, est synthétisé. Dans le deuxième chapitre, le paysage de la poésie colombienne de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle est défini. La stylistique des poètes les plus importants et jugés comme étant canoniques, est présentée. Dans le dernier chapitre, les particularités de la poésie de Mattei sont analysées. Il est conclu qu'Olga Elena Mattei fait partie du canon de la poésie colombienne, mais que son travail a contesté le canon dominant de celle-ci, au fil des décennies, et qu'il a été en avance sur les tendances qui émergeraient plus tard. À titre d'exemple, il est montré comment, dans les années soixante du XXe siècle, quand, en Colombie, la rime et le mètre étaient toujours hégémoniques dans la poésie, Olga Elena Mattei a osé écrire et publier en vers libres. Puis, dans les années soixante-dix, lorsque le vers libre a été accepté et il régnait à la poésie colombienne, Mattei fut la première femme à écrire anti-poésie en espagnol. Dans les années quatre-vingt, alors que l'anti-poésie était la principale tendance en Colombie, Mattei s'est consacrée à écrire de la poésie au sujet de la science, jamais réalisée auparavant en Colombie. Et, dans les années quatre-vingt-dix, lorsque le vers libre est dominant en Colombie, Mattei retourne à la rime. / This thesis aims to place the work of the Colombian poet Olga Elena Mattei within the Colombian poetry of her time (1962-2005). In the first chapter, some theoretical concepts are defined and the term "canon", focused on poetry, is explained. In the second chapter, the landscape of the Colombian poetry of the second half of the twentieth century is set. The style of the most important poets, who are considered as canonical, is presented. In the last chapter, the peculiarities of Mattei's poetry are analyzed. It is concluded that Olga Elena Mattei is part of the canon of the Colombian poetry, but her work has challenged the dominant trends over the decades. For example, it is shown how, in the sixties of the twentieth century, when, in Colombia, rhyme and metrics were still preponderant in poetry, Olga Elena Mattei dared to write and publish in free verse. In the seventies, when free verse was accepted and it reigned in the Colombian poetry, Mattei was the first woman to write anti-poetry in Spanish. In the eighties, while anti-poetry was the main trend in Colombian poetry, Mattei devoted herself to write poetry about science, never wrote in Colombia before. And in the nineties, when free verse is dominant in Colombia, Mattei returns to rhyme. / Esta tesina pretende ubicar la obra de la poeta colombiana Olga Elena Mattei en el marco de la poesía dominante de su tiempo (1962-2005), en Colombia. En un primer capítulo, se definen algunos conceptos teóricos y se sintetiza el término “canon”, enfocado en la poesía. En el segundo capítulo, se define el campo poético colombiano de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Se discute sobre la estilística de los poetas más relevantes, aquellos que han sido determinados como canónicos. En el capítulo final, se analiza la poesía de esta autora, sus particularidades, confrontándola con el canon antes explicado. Se concluye que Olga Elena Mattei hace parte del canon de la poesía colombiana, pero que su obra, a lo largo de los decenios, ha rebatido el canon preponderante en Colombia y se ha adelantado a las tendencias que habrían de surgir posteriormente. Como ejemplo, se muestra cómo, en los años sesenta del siglo XX, cuando, en Colombia, todavía la rima y la métrica eran hegemónicas en la poesía, Olga Elena Mattei se atrevió a escribir y publicar en verso libre. Luego, en los setenta, cuando ya el verso libre era aceptado e imperaba en la poesía colombiana, Mattei fue la primera mujer en escribir antipoesía en español. En los ochenta, cuando la antipoesía ya era tendencia distinguida en Colombia, Mattei se encaminó hacia la poesía de temática científica, nunca antes realizada en Colombia, y en los noventa, cuando, predomina el verso libre, Mattei regresa a la poesía con rima y ritmo.

This dissertation concurs with the Jungian postulation that certain psychological archetypes are inclined to be reproduced by the collective unconscious. In turn, these psychological archetypes are revealed to emerge in literature as literary archetypes. It is consequently argued that science fiction has come to form a new mythology because the archetypal images are displaced in a modern, scientific guise. This signifies a shift in the collective world view of humanity, or a shift in its collective consciousness. It is consequently argued that humanity’s collective consciousness has evolved from mythic thought to scientific thought, courtesy of the numerous groundbreaking scientific discoveries of the past few centuries. This dissertation posits as a premise that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s supposition of humanity’s collective consciousness evolving towards what he calls the Omega Point to hold true. The scientific displacement of the literary archetypes reveals humankind’s evolution towards the Omega Point and a cosmic consciousness. / English Studies / M.A. (English)

This dissertation examines the nature of epiphanic discourse in three of Robert Browning's religious poems, namely, 'Christmas- Eve', 'Easter-bay' and 'La Saisiaz'. Chapter 1 investigates epiphany from religious, historical and theoretical perspectives, followed by a discussion of Browning's developing Christian beliefs. Chapters 2 and 3 explore the epiphanic moment in the companion poems, 'Christmas- Eve' and 'Easter-Day'. Chapter 4 explores how the double epiphany initiated from Browning's personal experience recounted in 'La Saisiaz', finds its resolution in 'The Two Poets of Croisic'. Browning's 'good minute' or 'infinite moment' originates in Romanticism and reverberates into the twentieth century mainly in the writing of James Joyce, who first used the word 'epiphany' in its literary sense. Because Browning's faith allowed continual interrogation of Christian doctrine, his experience and reading of epiphanic moments avoid any attempt at closure. Thus they offer the reader both a human image for recognition and a coded legend for individual interpretation / M.A. (English Studies) / M.A. (English)

Denna uppsats utforskar vikten av att läsa Platon inte bara som en filosof men också som en poet med utgångspunkt i dialogformen och genom begreppet mimesis.

Notre analyse du rôle de l’association La ronde des poètes dans la lutte pour l’autonomie de la littérature camerounaise s’est appuyée sur l’approche sociologique de Pierre Bourdieu pour qui la société est constituée de champs spécifiques en lutte les uns contre les autres pour atteindre un statut privilégié dans le champ social, ce qui constitue un aspect de leur autonomie. Selon Bourdieu, l’étude des manifestations de l’autonomie des champs littéraires devrait tenir compte de toutes les actions entreprises par les agents dudit champ. En effet, ces différentes actions ne sont que des stratégies de lutte. Seulement, d’après Jacques Dubois, l’autonomie des littératures nationales n’est acquise que lorsque celles-ci possèdent un appareil institutionnel propre capable d’assurer seul la production et la diffusion des œuvres, la légitimation et la consécration des écrivains. Si toutes ces conditions réunies échappent encore à plusieurs littératures de l’Afrique subsaharienne, il n’en demeure pas moins que ces dernières sont engagées dans un processus de lutte pour leur autonomie, ce que prouve l’exemple de La ronde des poètes, notre prétexte pour observer les manifestations de l’autonomie au sein du champ littéraire camerounais. Les stratégies de lutte de La ronde des poètes sont d’émergence et de fonctionnement. Pour le premier cas, la formule associative qui donne plus de possibilités que ne pourrait avoir un auteur isolé, le choix de la poésie aussi qui est un genre dont la production des œuvres ne nécessite pas de gros moyens financiers, nous sont apparus comme des stratégies ayant permis aux membres de La ronde des poètes de devenir des écrivains dans un contexte de production défavorable. De plus, par leurs textes fondateurs, ils se définissent comme un groupe ayant un programme d’action bien établi. Par ailleurs, ils attirent sur eux l’attention en se proclamant avant-gardistes et, pour le montrer, publient des manifestes et se détournent, idéologiquement parlant, de la poétique de la négritude dont la fixation sur la race a dominé la création littéraire pendant plusieurs décennies en Afrique. Les stratégies d’émergence de La ronde des poètes ont travaillé à l’identification de cette association comme un élément du champ littéraire camerounais ayant sa place aux côtés d’autres acteurs existant déjà dans ce champ. Pour ce qui est des stratégies de fonctionnement, La ronde des poètes s’est dotée d’un statut légal en se faisant enregistrer auprès des autorités camerounaises, ce qui la consolide dans son champ social. Sur le plan littéraire, ses membres lui confèrent un caractère institutionnel en créant en son sein des formes d’instances littéraires. Leurs ateliers d’écriture assurent la création des œuvres, les instances de diffusion prennent chez eux la forme d’un bulletin hebdomadaire, « Le rondin », mais surtout d’une revue, Hiototi : Revue camerounaise de poésie, de lettres et de culture. Cette revue recueille les articles de critiques littéraires formés à La ronde des poètes et de ceux du Cameroun. Le « Prix de la poésie rondine » est leur instance de consécration interne. Cette association réussit ainsi à obtenir la reconnaissance de pairs, poètes et écrivains camerounais et étrangers, celle aussi d’autorités camerounaises et internationales. En somme, la réunion de ces instances institutionnelles montre combien la marche vers l’autonomie de la littérature camerounaise en général est réelle. / Our analysis of the role of the association The Round of Poets in the struggle for the autonomy of the Cameroonian literature was based on the sociological approach of Pierre Bourdieu for whom our society is made up of specific fields fighting against one another to reach a privileged status in the social field, which is an aspect of their autonomy. According to Bourdieu, the study of the autonomy of literary fields should take into account all the actions taken by the agents of a field. Indeed, these actions are all control strategies. Only, according to Jacques Dubois, the autonomy of national literatures is achieved when they have their own institutional apparatus capable by themselves of providing the production and distributing of works, the legitimation and consecration of writers. If African literatures cannot fulfill all these conditions, it remains that they are engaged in a process of struggle for their autonomy. The example of The Round of Poets shows that, this association being our excuse to observe the manifestations of autonomy within the Cameroonian literary field. Control strategies of The Round of Poets are appearance and operating strategies. For the first case, the associative formula that gives more opportunities than could have an isolated author, and also, the choice of poetry as a genre where the production of works does not require large financial resources, have emerged as strategies which allowed the members of The Round of Poets to become writers in an unfavorable production environment. In addition, by their founding documents, they define themselves as a group with an agenda established. Moreover, they draw attention to them by proclaiming avant-garde. To show this, they publish manifestos, and turn away, ideologically speaking, from the poetics of Negritude whose fixation on race dominated the literary creation during decades in Africa. The strategies of appearance of The Round of Poets worked to identify this association as part of the Cameroonian literary field and having its place alongside other components already existing in this field. For the second case which regards operating strategies, The Round of Poets obtained a legal status by registering with the Cameroonian authorities, which action consolidates this group in its social field. On the literary side, its members give it an institutional character by creating instances relating thereto. Their writing workshops provide creative works; their instances of dissemination appear in the form of a weekly newsletter, “The Rondin”, but also as a review, Hiototi: Cameroon Journal of Poetry, Literature and Culture. This review collects articles from literary critics trained in The Round of Poets and of those of Cameroon. The “Prize of the Rondine Poetry” is their instance of internal consecration. Hence, this association has managed to get the recognition of peers which are Cameroonian and foreign poets and writers, as the Cameroonian and international authorities. In short, the combination of these institutional instances shows how the movement towards autonomy of Cameroonian literature in general is real.

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RESUMO Neste trabalho procurei retratar resumidamente a diáspora judaica, desde a destruição do Segundo Templo até a expulsão dos judeus da Europa cristã, culminando com o seu refúgio no leste europeu, especialmente na Polônia e Lituânia. Estes dois reinos, que foram unificados em 1569, passaram para o total domínio russo em 1815. Nesta ocasião os judeus ficaram sujeitos aos novos mandatários e foram confinados no assim chamado Distrito de Residência, em algumas cidades e em aldeias denominadas de shteitlach, na Europa Oriental. Em seguida, apresentei a biografia de alguns poetas populares que viveram nessa região onde houve um enorme desenvolvimento cultural e literário da língua ídiche. (século XIX e começo do século XX). Eles foram especialmente escolhidos por seus trabalhos, que resultaram em canções populares, as quais se espalharam pelo mundo judaico, levando as mensagens do judeu dos shteilach da Europa Oriental do seu modo de vida, de sua religiosidade, seus dramas, as perseguições sofridas e também suas alegrias e suas esperanças. Seguem-se quarenta e sete canções transliteradas e traduzidas para o português, bem como algumas delas devidamente comentadas. Depois, sete canções são analisadas com base na lingüística e semiótica, revelando fatos históricos do povo judeu. O capítulo 4, “O fim do shteitl e as canções do gueto", com sete canções, retrata o inferno vivido pelos judeus europeus durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, que se encerra com o bárbaro assassinato de seis milhões de judeus pelos nazistas, marcando quase que em definitivo, o final da literatura poética em língua ídiche. Por fim, uma vasta bibliografia, os créditos relativos às ilustrações utilizadas, bem como um glossário, para melhor entendimento do texto. São apresentados também dois anexos: no Anexo A, um catálogo de seissentas músicas judaicas e, no Anexo B, um livreto com doze músicas, na lingua original,transliteradas e traduzidas para o português, alem das partituras e um CD com as respectivas canções. / ABSTRACT I tried to portray, concisely, the Jewish Diaspora from the destruction of the Second Temple till the expulsion of the Jews from Christian Europe, that obliged then to be refuge in the western Europe specially in Poland and Lithuania. Both Kingdoms were unified in 1569 and after annexed to the Russian Empire in 1815 that forcing the Jews to live in Pales and inside villages called shteitlach, in Oriental Europe. In the sequence I presented some popular poets biographies, specially chosen by their work, which resulted in popular songs that spread through out the jewish world and showed their way of life, their religiosity, their dilemmas, their persecutions, their happiness and their dreams. Forty-seven songs transliterated and translated to Portuguese (some of that properly commented) are presented. Also seven songs analyzed using linguistics and semiotics methods, from which emerge historical facts of the Jewish people. The Fourth Chapter: “The end of the Shteitl and the Ghetto’s Songs," containing seven songs, portrays the Holocaust of the Second World War, the murder of six million Jews, which led to the Yiddish poetic literature ending. Finally., there are a large bibliography, credits to the illustrations, and a Glossary, for a better understanding of the text. There are, also, two enclosures: In Enclosure A: A Six-hundred Jewish Songs Catalog. In Enclosure B: A song book and one CD containing Yiddish songs.

A participação dos artistas plásticos e gráficos na publicidade brasileira, mais especificamente na comercial de produtos e empreendimentos, entre as décadas de 1920-1940 constitui o núcleo de investigação desta tese. Se historicamente as artes plásticas e a publicidade internacionais sempre mantiveram relações estreitas e até mesmo conflituosas, indagou-se como teriam se comportado entre si esses dois campos profissionais no Brasil quando da passagem da nossa publicidade amadora para aquela moderna, impregnada, sobretudo, pelos métodos das agências norte-americanas atuantes no eixo Rio-São Paulo. A partir de um exame atento do mercado de trabalho dos diversos profissionais considerados, procurou-se entender as motivações que os levaram a produzir peças publicitárias, o que por sua vez direcionou o estudo ao questionamento das hierarquias artísticas, pois a relação entre a arte e a publicidade prolonga o consagrado debate em torno das artes mecânicas e liberais, e, por conseguinte as disputas entre arte maior e arte menor, entre arte pura, desinteressada e livre e arte comprometida, dentre outras tipologias usuais. Concomitantemente, averigou-se como a passagem e mesmo a convivência de um sistema acadêmico com um moderno, que se constituiu a partir dos anos 1920, alterou, ou melhor, conformou o campo artístico brasileiro. Frente a esses impasses, recorreu-se a algumas proposições teóricas mais atuais, que ao transferirem o foco problemático do campo artístico para o estético, atenuaram os questionamentos como também permitiram maior flexibilidade de análises. Nos exames formais das peças publicitárias, selecionadas em função de suas representatividades dentro do conjunto, defendeu-se a tese de que houve momentos em que a produção de cartazes e anúncios comerciais, este em maior número, aproximou-se de uma linguagem artística moderna, a exemplo dos projetos comerciais do artista Fulvio Pennacchi, que pertencem à coleção do Instituto Moreira Salles. E, na busca desses momentos estéticos modernos, procurou-se não enxertar e tão somente verificar correspondências com os moldes europeus, ao contrário, isso permitiu o conhecimento da nossa realidade, da modernidade artística que nos foi possível edificar, tendo em conta as variantes que o decorrer dos anos lhe agregou. Este posicionamento, em contrapartida, de forma alguma pôde desprezar o fato da história da propaganda brasileira ter fortes e ricas ligações com os modelos estrangeiros, portanto, impôs-se às análises iconográficas a tarefa de também investigar o quanto a nossa produção foi ou não uma reelaboração particular dos exemplos da arte publicitária em circulação. A interdisciplinaridade foi uma constante neste estudo pelo entrelaçamento de informações originárias de vários campos do conhecimento, sem a qual a pesquisa não teria êxito. / The role of the plastic and graphical artists in the Brazilian commercial advertising of products and enterprises, between the decades of 1920 and 1940, is the core of investigation of this thesis. Historically, plastic arts and advertising always kept narrow and even tough relationships in the international panorama. Therefore, in this work we have inquired the behavior of these two professional fields in Brazil as we pass from an amateur to a modern advertising. The latter has been influenced by the North-American advertising agencies from Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. From a painstaking analysis of the labor market of several professionals in the plastic arts field, we have tried to understand the reasons that had taken them to produce advertisement materials. This has led us to investigate artistic hierarchies, since the relationship between art and advertising only emphasizes the old debate around mechanical and liberal arts, minor and major arts, pure and compromised arts, amongst other usual typologies. At the same time we investigated how the coexistence of an academic system and a modern one, established in the years of 1920, molded the Brazilian artistic field. Due to these impasses it was necessary to use some modern theoretical propositions that shifted the subject from the artistic to the aesthetic field, reducing doubts and allowing for a more flexible analysis. In the critical analysis of the selected advertisement materials, we looked for instances where the posters and commercial advertisements, the latter bigger in number, approached a more modern artistic language, such as the commercial projects of the artist Fulvio Pennacchi, that belong to the collection of the Instituto Moreira Salles. In pursuit of these modern aesthetic instances we have not tried only to find similarities with the European patterns but made an effort to understand our reality and the artistic modernity we were able to produce at that time. We did not deny the strong link between the Brazilian and the international advertising, therefore, in our iconographic analysis, we have investigated to what degree our advertisement productions were just reelaborations of the current advertisement art in circulation. In this thesis the interdisciplinarity played a major role due to the crossing of information from many areas of knowledge and, without it, our research would not be possible.

This thesis aims to rescue the name of Elisabeth Mulder, a Spanish female poet who started to publish her first poetry books around the rise of the Generation of 1927 in Spain. The importance of this work hinges on the recognition of Mulder as a female poet whose work has been marginalized from the literary canon, like that of many other women of her era. This thesis focuses on Mulde''s third poetry collection, Sinfonâia en rojo, which was published in 1929 and stands out for its symbolic richness and its romantic and modernist features. Part of this research deals with the symbolism of the color red and the meanings that red acquires within the context of the poems. The main leitmotivs of Sinfonâia en rojo are the images of fire and blood, which are used to make reference to both the emotional and the physical world of the poetic voice. The research also focuses on the connections between Mulder's work and that of her contemporaries, and it suggests that she was in contact with the literary world of her era. / by Itxaso del Olmo Lâopez. / Abstract in English. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.