Project (D. Min.)--Iliff School of Theology, 2004. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-144 ).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 294-303).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Vita. "Publisher's no.: UMI 3145359." Includes bibliographical references. Also issued online.

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Andrew Epstein, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 8, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 51 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Project (D. Min.)--Iliff School of Theology, 2004. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-144 ).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Undergraduate honors paper--Mount Holyoke College, 2007. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 103-105).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 292-309).

This thesis is intended to document and explain the peculiarly high incidence of monsters in English children's literature, where monsters are understood in the term's full etymological sense as things which demonstrate through disturbance. In this context, monsters are frequently young people themselves; the youthful protagonists of children's literature. Their demonstrative operation typically functions not only as an overt or covert tool by which to educate children's literature's implied child audience, but also as a wider indicator - demonstrator - of adult appreciations of and arguments over children and how children should be permitted to grow. In this latter role especially, children are rendered truly monstrous as alienated and problematic tokens in adult cultural arguments. They can fast become such efficient demonstrators of adult crises that their very presence engenders all the notions of unacceptability with which monsters are characteristically associated. The chronological range of this thesis' study is the eighteenth-century to the present. From this period, the following children's authors, children's books, and series of children's books have been examined in detail: • Thomas Day: Sandford and Merton • Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Lessons for Children and Hymns in Prose for Children • Sarah Trimmer: Fabulous Histories • Mary Martha Sherwood: The Fairchild Family • Charles Kingsley: The Water-Babies • Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass • George MacDonald: At the Back of the North Wind • J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Peter Pan, and Peter and Wendy • C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia (The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and The Last Battle) • J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter {The Philosopher's Stone, The Chamber of Secrets, The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Goblet of Fire, The Order of the Phoenix, and The Half-Blood Prince). The theoretical notions of monsters and monstrosity that are used to discuss these texts draw principally on the writings on the sublime by Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant, the uncanny by Sigmund Freud, and the fantastic by Tzvetan Todorov.

Orientador: Francisco Cláudio Alves Marques / Banca: Gabriela Kvacek Betella / Banca: Esequiel Gomes da Silva / Resumo: A partir da década de 1960, a produção de folhetos de cordel, como vinha sendo tradicionalmente praticada, sofre um considerável declínio, embora neste mesmo período poetas como Rodolfo Coelho Cavalcante ainda estejam produzindo, existe o receio de que o cordel brasileiro possa cair no ostracismo. Para evitar o desaparecimento dessa prática, alguns poetas populares começam a dar um tratamento distinto a seus folhetos, adotando temáticas de interesse mais geral e empregando certa erudição nas suas narrativas em versos, numa tentativa de atingir um público mais amplo, como é o caso de Gonçalo Ferreira da Silva, um dos principais mentores do processo de revitalização da Literatura de Cordel. O fato é que, no fim dos anos 70 e início dos anos 80, o interesse pela literatura de folhetos aumenta, principalmente por parte dos pesquisadores e do público acadêmico, cada vez mais interessado em entender aspectos da cultura popular brasileira. Para a compreensão do processo de declínio e revitalização da Literatura de Cordel, o presente trabalho se propõe a analisar alguns folhetos anteriores e posteriores à década de 1960, observando sempre as modificações de ordem técnica, contextual e temática. O corpus desse trabalho conta principalmente com folhetos pertencentes à produção dos poetas Leandro Gomes de Barros, pertencente à Primeira República, Rodolfo Coelho Cavalcante (situado em período intermediário) e Gonçalo Ferreira da Silva, nosso contemporâneo, com pequenas inserções de outro... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: From 1960 the cordel leaflect production, as it was being traditionally made, suffers a considerable decline, although during this period poets like Rodolfo Coelho Cavalcante were still producing, the fear of Brazilian cordel might fall into ostracism already existed. In order to avoid the oblivion of this practice, some popular poets started to treat their leaflets differently, resorting to general interest, as well as exert slight erudition in their narratives in verse, in an attempt to reach a broader public, like Gonçalo Ferreira da Silva, one of the main mentors of the revival process of cordel literature. Surely, at the end of the 70s and at the beginning of the 80s, the interest for leaflet literature raises, especially from researchers and academic community, growing more interested in understanding the aspects of Brazilian popular culture. To understand the process of decline and revival of Cordel Literature, this paper proposes to analyze some leaflets from earlier and later 60s, always observing the modification regarding technique, context and theme. The corpus is composed mainly of leaflets belonging to the production from the poets Leandro Gomes de Barros, referring to the First Republic, Rodolfo Coelho Cavalcante (placed in-between period) and Gonçalo Ferreira da Silva, our contemporary, with small inserts of other leaflets to illustrate the process of modification of cordel literature along 100 years of production / Mestre