Her Terrible Splendor is a poetry collection that transports the Greek witch-goddess Circe from her mythical island of Aeaea to modern-day East Texas, where I was raised. By locating Circe in the Piney Woods, I heighten the strangeness that I identify with that setting and open up new contexts for considering Circe as a woman, as an enchanter, and as figure of retelling and revision. Circe appears in an array of roles—friend, lover, mentor, alter-ego, muse—as the poems view her through different lenses, including ekphrastic responses to visual art, rewritings of myths, and "portrait" poems that cast people from the human speaker's life as the goddess herself. A powerful mythic woman who works alone and creates a haven for strange creatures and lost humans, Circe offers a way for the manuscript to consider the complex, multifaceted process of coming of age as a woman, self-making as myth-making.

La richesse de l’anthologie Sette libri di Satire (1560) tient au défi que l’éditeur vénitien Francesco Sansovino relève avec succès à un moment où la Contre-Réforme bat son plein : élaborer une codification en langue vulgaire du genre satirique en rupture avec le genre tel que les auteurs sélectionnés - ou exclus - l’ont pratiqué ou sont censés l’illustrer. L’éditeur oppose le pouvoir de la règle au pouvoir de l’écriture au point de laisser apparaître une triple phase de l’évolution du genre : l’inventio reviendrait à Horace, l’écriture à l’Arioste et la réécriture à Sansovino. L’ensemble de la recherche partagée entre théorie et pratique, vise à interroger cette bipolarité comme une forme de coincidentia oppositorum dans la dialectique que la règle et l’écriture mettent en jeu, autrement dit dans la capacité qu’elles manifestent à « se récuser » et « se fondre l’une l’autre », sur le versant latin et vulgaire. Dans cette optique, loin d’être un exemple de « muséification » des auteurs et des textes, l’anthologie se présente comme la création d’un ‘Hermès bifront’ qui met à son tour le lecteur au défi d’en appréhender les subtilités. / The anthology Sette libri di Satire (1560) is so rich due to the challenge that the Venetian publisher Francesco Sansovino successfully took up at a time when the Counter-Reformation was in full swing. It consisted in elaborating in common language the codification of the literary genre of satire as it broke away from that genre as the authors selected for, or excluded from, the anthology, practised satire or were supposed to exemplify it. To the sway of the rule the anthologist opposes the power of writing, revealing three distinct phases in the development of the genre: the inventio as ascribed to Horace, writing, to Ariosto and re-writing to Sansovino.The research in its entirety, divided as it is between theory and practice, aims to question such bi-polarity as a form of coincidentia oppositorum in the dialectics brought into play by rule and writing, in other words in their ability to reject each other or blend in with each other, within Latin and common language. From this perspective, far from being an example of the transformation of authors and texts into museum pieces, the anthology is presented as the creation of a ‘bi-frontal Hermes’, in turn challenging the reader to grasp its subtleties.

In recent years XML, the eXtensible Markup Language has become the de-facto standard for publishing and exchanging information on the web and in enterprise data integration systems. Materialized views are often used in information integration systems to present a unified schema for efficient querying of distributed and possibly heterogenous data sources. On similar lines, ACE-XQ, an XQuery based semantic caching system shows the significant performance gains achieved by caching query results (as materialized views) and using these materialized views along with query containment techniques for answering future queries over distributed XML data sources. To keep data in these materialized views of ACE-XQ up-to-date, the view must be maintained i.e. whenever the base data changes, the corresponding cached data in the materialized view must also be updated. This thesis builds on the query containment ideas of ACE-XQ and proposes an efficient approach for self-maintenance of materialized views. Our experimental results illustrate the significant performance improvement achieved by this strategy over view re-computation for a variety of situations.

The aim of this research was to determine how Gestalt Therapy could be utilised to re-write life script. Transactional Analysis terminology was translated into Gestalt Therapy, especially the terms life script, life position and re-writing in the literature study. Gestalt Therapy concepts of importance for the research were also discussed in the literature study. An empirical study was conducted, involving one respondent, for whom Gestalt Therapy sessions were provided with the aim of determining how life script could be re-written through such intervention. Gestalt Therapy concepts and life script concepts were identified during the therapy process. A re-written life script was formulated by the researcher corresponding with the level of functioning of the respondent during therapy and in relation to the respondent's life position. The researcher deducts from the entire study, but especially from the empirical study that life script can be re-written by means of utilising Gestalt Therapy. / Social Work / M. Diac. (Play Therapy)

Dans Certainement Pas, je m’intéresserai à la problématique du jeu littéraire dans son rapport à la contrainte. Comment Chloé Delaume réussit-elle dans un premier temps à s’approprier un certain nombre de discours culturels et de formes a priori extralittéraires pour ensuite les transformer? Dans un second temps, comment s’y prend-elle pour « phagocyter » dans son écriture une pléthore de références littéraires? Conséquemment, quelle conception de la littérature livre-t-elle? Veut-elle, par l’aspect ludique de son roman, rendre un hommage filial aux auteurs d’hier et ainsi adopter une position empreinte de dévotion? Essaye-t-elle, au contraire, de « déchiqueter-dégurgiter » ces textes paternels et agir en iconoclaste? En procédant de cette façon, détruit-elle ou non le mythe de l’originalité en littérature? Finalement, comment s’effectue la réception de son texte ? Jouer le je est un projet d’écriture prolongeant les réflexions sur la place du jeu et de la contrainte dans la littérature. Prenant la forme d’une pièce de théâtre, il cherche à travailler la problématique de l’automatisme langagier actuel et devient une tentative de destruction de celui-ci. Ce texte met en scène deux personnages. La protagoniste principale, une jeune femme de vingt-cinq ans nommée Plume Liddell, étudiante en immunologie souffrant de dyslexie linguistique, participera à six séances de psychothérapie au cours desquelles elle parlera d’elle-même. L’autre personnage: la psychologue, restera muette ou presque tout au long des séances. / In Certainement Pas, I will be focusing on the problematic of the literary game and its relation to the constraint. First, how does Chloé Delaume manage to appropriate multiple extra-literary cultural discourses and forms a priori, in order to then transform them? Second, how is she able, within her style of writing, to "phagocyte" a vast quantity of literary references? Consequently, what concept of literature does she provide the reader? Does she aspire, by modeling her novel on a game, to filially acknowledge past authors, thus adopting a devoted position? Or, does she conversely attempt to "dissect/ regurgitate" these paternal texts in order to act iconoclastically? In this manner, does she succeed in destroying the myth of originality in literature? Last but not least, how is her text interpreted and received by the reader? Jouer le je is a literary project which broadens and pushes the boundaries of reflections on the role that the game and the constraint play in literature. Written as a play, the text seeks to hone the problematic of linguistic automatism, thus becoming a tool of the latter's destruction. The text features two characters. The principal protagonist, a young twenty-five year old woman named Plume Liddell studying immunology and suffering of linguistic dyslexia, shall participate in six psychotherapy sessions during which she will describe herself. The second character, the psychologist, will not speak for the greater part of the sessions.

Dans Certainement Pas, je m’intéresserai à la problématique du jeu littéraire dans son rapport à la contrainte. Comment Chloé Delaume réussit-elle dans un premier temps à s’approprier un certain nombre de discours culturels et de formes a priori extralittéraires pour ensuite les transformer? Dans un second temps, comment s’y prend-elle pour « phagocyter » dans son écriture une pléthore de références littéraires? Conséquemment, quelle conception de la littérature livre-t-elle? Veut-elle, par l’aspect ludique de son roman, rendre un hommage filial aux auteurs d’hier et ainsi adopter une position empreinte de dévotion? Essaye-t-elle, au contraire, de « déchiqueter-dégurgiter » ces textes paternels et agir en iconoclaste? En procédant de cette façon, détruit-elle ou non le mythe de l’originalité en littérature? Finalement, comment s’effectue la réception de son texte ? Jouer le je est un projet d’écriture prolongeant les réflexions sur la place du jeu et de la contrainte dans la littérature. Prenant la forme d’une pièce de théâtre, il cherche à travailler la problématique de l’automatisme langagier actuel et devient une tentative de destruction de celui-ci. Ce texte met en scène deux personnages. La protagoniste principale, une jeune femme de vingt-cinq ans nommée Plume Liddell, étudiante en immunologie souffrant de dyslexie linguistique, participera à six séances de psychothérapie au cours desquelles elle parlera d’elle-même. L’autre personnage: la psychologue, restera muette ou presque tout au long des séances. / In Certainement Pas, I will be focusing on the problematic of the literary game and its relation to the constraint. First, how does Chloé Delaume manage to appropriate multiple extra-literary cultural discourses and forms a priori, in order to then transform them? Second, how is she able, within her style of writing, to "phagocyte" a vast quantity of literary references? Consequently, what concept of literature does she provide the reader? Does she aspire, by modeling her novel on a game, to filially acknowledge past authors, thus adopting a devoted position? Or, does she conversely attempt to "dissect/ regurgitate" these paternal texts in order to act iconoclastically? In this manner, does she succeed in destroying the myth of originality in literature? Last but not least, how is her text interpreted and received by the reader? Jouer le je is a literary project which broadens and pushes the boundaries of reflections on the role that the game and the constraint play in literature. Written as a play, the text seeks to hone the problematic of linguistic automatism, thus becoming a tool of the latter's destruction. The text features two characters. The principal protagonist, a young twenty-five year old woman named Plume Liddell studying immunology and suffering of linguistic dyslexia, shall participate in six psychotherapy sessions during which she will describe herself. The second character, the psychologist, will not speak for the greater part of the sessions.

The aim of this research was to determine how Gestalt Therapy could be utilised to re-write life script. Transactional Analysis terminology was translated into Gestalt Therapy, especially the terms life script, life position and re-writing in the literature study. Gestalt Therapy concepts of importance for the research were also discussed in the literature study. An empirical study was conducted, involving one respondent, for whom Gestalt Therapy sessions were provided with the aim of determining how life script could be re-written through such intervention. Gestalt Therapy concepts and life script concepts were identified during the therapy process. A re-written life script was formulated by the researcher corresponding with the level of functioning of the respondent during therapy and in relation to the respondent's life position. The researcher deducts from the entire study, but especially from the empirical study that life script can be re-written by means of utilising Gestalt Therapy. / Social Work / M. Diac. (Play Therapy)

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Text in Afrikaans / In this thesis the term post-colonialism in the Afrikaans drama is investigated, focussing on the post-sixties. The term post-colonialism is difficult to define. Not only are theories of post-colonialism in a state of continuous flux and shifting emphasis, but as a result of different colonial dominations, separate identities have been constructed in South-Africa; so that defining the terms colonial, post colonial and post-colonial proves to be even more problematic. The purpose of this study is to determine to what extent the Afrikaans drama fits into these discourses. The basic point of departure is the fact that post-colonialism played a considerable role in the development of the Afrikaans drama, at the same time providing a more varied scope. The research covers several aspects of post-colonialism in Afrikaans drama; each dealt with in a separate chapter. A multitude of perspectives are featured within the broader discourse in order to obtain multiple norms and standards in a phase of self-criticism. The focus falls mainly on themes and not on performance aspects. New perspectives on issues such as canon texts, silence, hero-worship, the portrayal of woman, patriarchy, and neo-colonialism are presented (chapter 1). In chapter 2 focus falls on the period before 1960, and notably the question of nationalism (associated with apartheid) and the portrayal of the Afrikaner. The literary canon, forms of violence and the position of the super-Afrikaner are viewed in a new light during the re-writing of post-colonial history and the resulting paradigm shifts after 1960. Renewed emphasis is placed on discourse concerning land (chapter 3). Contrasting concepts regarding race, class, language, gender and religion are reconsidered in order to contribute towards the heterogeneous nature of post-colonialism (chapter 4). The function of theatre is to re-evaluate in the context of a post-1994 democratic system. Texts now focus especially on empowerment, re-discovery and re-ordering of history, reconciliation, inter-cultural contact and a post-apartheid syndrome (chapter 5). Anti-hegemonic resistance in Afrikaans literature since the sixties has confronted writers with the challenge of depicting or creating a larger post-colonial reality through their texts. / Afrikaans & Theory of Literature / D. Litt. et Phil. (Afrikaans)

Text in Afrikaans / In this thesis the term post-colonialism in the Afrikaans drama is investigated, focussing on the post-sixties. The term post-colonialism is difficult to define. Not only are theories of post-colonialism in a state of continuous flux and shifting emphasis, but as a result of different colonial dominations, separate identities have been constructed in South-Africa; so that defining the terms colonial, post colonial and post-colonial proves to be even more problematic. The purpose of this study is to determine to what extent the Afrikaans drama fits into these discourses. The basic point of departure is the fact that post-colonialism played a considerable role in the development of the Afrikaans drama, at the same time providing a more varied scope. The research covers several aspects of post-colonialism in Afrikaans drama; each dealt with in a separate chapter. A multitude of perspectives are featured within the broader discourse in order to obtain multiple norms and standards in a phase of self-criticism. The focus falls mainly on themes and not on performance aspects. New perspectives on issues such as canon texts, silence, hero-worship, the portrayal of woman, patriarchy, and neo-colonialism are presented (chapter 1). In chapter 2 focus falls on the period before 1960, and notably the question of nationalism (associated with apartheid) and the portrayal of the Afrikaner. The literary canon, forms of violence and the position of the super-Afrikaner are viewed in a new light during the re-writing of post-colonial history and the resulting paradigm shifts after 1960. Renewed emphasis is placed on discourse concerning land (chapter 3). Contrasting concepts regarding race, class, language, gender and religion are reconsidered in order to contribute towards the heterogeneous nature of post-colonialism (chapter 4). The function of theatre is to re-evaluate in the context of a post-1994 democratic system. Texts now focus especially on empowerment, re-discovery and re-ordering of history, reconciliation, inter-cultural contact and a post-apartheid syndrome (chapter 5). Anti-hegemonic resistance in Afrikaans literature since the sixties has confronted writers with the challenge of depicting or creating a larger post-colonial reality through their texts. / Afrikaans and Theory of Literature / D. Litt. et Phil. (Afrikaans)