<p>Denna uppsats undersöker varför vissa blogginlägg får många kommentarer jämfört med mindre kommenterade blogginlägg. Utgångspunkten är att undersöka en dagboksblogg skriven av en tonårig kvinna, då det finns förhållandevis lite forskning inom detta specifika område. Materialet som ligger till grund för undersökningen är en blogg som heter Kenza och de tre mest respektive minst kommenterade inläggen från denna blogg under perioder från 1 januari till 28 februari 2009.</p><p>William Labovs teori om narrativer och Wolfgang Isers reception theory utgör uppsatsens teorier. Metoderna som används är läsbarhetsindex, nominalkvot, narrativ analys och interpersonell analys.</p><p>Resultaten som framkommit ur analyserna visar att i jämförelse mellan de minst och de mest kommenterade blogginläggen har de mest kommenterade få långa ord och en utpräglad verbal stil. Blogginlägg med en tydlig narrativ struktur och ett direkt tilltal fick också fler kommentarer. </p> / <p>This essay examines why certain posts on weblogs get more comments compared to less commented posts. The purpose is to examine an online journal weblog that is written by a teenage girl, since there exists little research within this field. The material is taken from a weblog called Kenza and I examined the three most commented and the three least commented posts during January and February 2009.</p><p>The theoretical background for this essay is William Labov’s theory on narrative and Wolfgang Iser’s reception theory. The methods used are readability analyses, narrative analysis and interpersonal metafunction.</p><p>From the results it can be concluded that in comparison with the least commented posts the most commented posts have fewer long words and a distinct verbal style. Weblog posts with an evident narrative structure and direct address towards the reader also got more comments.</p>

Denna uppsats undersöker varför vissa blogginlägg får många kommentarer jämfört med mindre kommenterade blogginlägg. Utgångspunkten är att undersöka en dagboksblogg skriven av en tonårig kvinna, då det finns förhållandevis lite forskning inom detta specifika område. Materialet som ligger till grund för undersökningen är en blogg som heter Kenza och de tre mest respektive minst kommenterade inläggen från denna blogg under perioder från 1 januari till 28 februari 2009. William Labovs teori om narrativer och Wolfgang Isers reception theory utgör uppsatsens teorier. Metoderna som används är läsbarhetsindex, nominalkvot, narrativ analys och interpersonell analys. Resultaten som framkommit ur analyserna visar att i jämförelse mellan de minst och de mest kommenterade blogginläggen har de mest kommenterade få långa ord och en utpräglad verbal stil. Blogginlägg med en tydlig narrativ struktur och ett direkt tilltal fick också fler kommentarer. / This essay examines why certain posts on weblogs get more comments compared to less commented posts. The purpose is to examine an online journal weblog that is written by a teenage girl, since there exists little research within this field. The material is taken from a weblog called Kenza and I examined the three most commented and the three least commented posts during January and February 2009. The theoretical background for this essay is William Labov’s theory on narrative and Wolfgang Iser’s reception theory. The methods used are readability analyses, narrative analysis and interpersonal metafunction. From the results it can be concluded that in comparison with the least commented posts the most commented posts have fewer long words and a distinct verbal style. Weblog posts with an evident narrative structure and direct address towards the reader also got more comments.

À partir d'une enquête ethnographique sur les réceptions situées d'un tableau de Nicolas Poussin conservé au musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, cette thèse interroge la place de la visite au musée d'art dans les répertoires de loisir des classes moyennes et supérieures. Elle s'appuie sur trois matériaux principaux : environ 50 journées d'observations in situ de l'activité des visiteurs, 45 entretiens de réceptions menées au musée, et 18 entretiens biographiques portant sur les habitudes de visite de visiteurs occasionnels ou réguliers aux profils sociaux similaires à ceux arrêtés au musée. La thèse met en évidence l'importance du statut des œuvres dans l'orientation et dans l'allocation de l'attention des visiteurs. Cet usage pratique de la légitimité culturelle produit un paradoxe : le tableau examiné est considéré comme un chef-d'œuvre, mais il suscite peu d'intérêt esthétique. L'examen lexicométrique d'un corpus d'articles de presse consacrés au tableau confirme que cette réaction s'étend à des publics professionnels comme les journalistes. Le malaise que provoque cette contradiction témoigne de l'importance de la compétence artistique statutaire. La thèse examine alors la place des dispositifs de médiation dans la réduction de cet écart. On peut interpréter la tendance à la déconnexion entre leur usage et la contemplation des œuvres comme un signe de l'importance du discours autorisé de l'institution pour les visiteurs faiblement ou moyennement dotés en ressources spécifiques. Enfin, l'analyse des biographies de visiteurs montre le poids de l'injonction normative à la visite ainsi que l'importance de son inscription dans des routines de loisirs. / Drawing on an ethnographic study of the receptions of a Nicolas Poussin's painting curated at the Fine Arts Museum in Lyon, France, this dissertation analyses the position of museum visiting in the leisure repertoire of the middle and upper-middle classes. Three main data sources are used: about 50 days of observation of the activities of museum visitors, 45 reception interviews carried out inside the museum, and 18 biographical interviews on visiting habits with occasionnal or regular museum visitors. The dissertation sheds light on the central role of the artwork's status in their orientation and the distribution of their attention. This practical use of cultural legitimacy leads to a paradox: the painting is considered a masterpiece, but it has little aesthetic appeal. A lexicometric analysis of a corpus of newspapers articles confirms that this perspective may be extended to professional audiences, such as journalists. The unease this contradiction provokes in the audience is a reminder of the centrality of statutory artistic skill. The dissertation then analyses how mediation devices are used to fill this gap. The disconnection between the use of devices and the contemplation of the painting might be interpreted as the sign of how important the authorized, institutional discourse on the artwork is for visitors with low to average levels of specific resources. Finally, an analysis of visitors' biographies demonstrates that a normative injunction to visit greatly weights in visitors' practices, but that visits mostly occurs when they are embedded into leisure routines.

Hearing is one of the most important senses for establishing a satisfying communication among people. This way, individuals stroked by different kinds of hearing losses show difficulties on speech-reception and in their ability to communicate through different ways for there is a correlation between these difficulties and the types and degrees of hearing losses. These differences make essential to the audiologist to evaluate qualitatively and individually the effects of hearing losses. The objectives of this research were to settle the the speechreception threshold in quiet (LRSS) and the signal/noise relations where was obtained the speech-reception threshold in noise (LRSR) with the use of auricular phones, using the List of Portuguese Sentences (LSP) test and comparing the LRSS results, including the LRF values from individuals who had sensorineural hearing loss with configurations of flat, descendent, and ramp loss (Ski). The test material used was composed by the Portuguese List of Sentences (LSP) proposed by Costa (1998). 46 adult individuals were evaluated, male and female gender, at the ages from 15 to 83 years old. The sample inclusion criteria were to introduce the audiological diagnostic of sensorineural hearing loss, in light and moderately severe rates, proved by previously hearing evaluation and not be hearing aid user for more than three months. The tone threshold and the speech-reception threshold in monosyllabic words and LRSS and LRSR and the relations sign/noise for each hearing loss level were obtained. The sentences and the noise (steady at 65dB NA) were introduced monaurally, by auricular phones. Through ascendant-descendent strategy (Levitt and Rabiner 1967). The results obtained show that the LRSS, and the average relation signal/noise where was obtained the LRSR for sensorineural loss in ramp, flat and descendent were respectively: 24,77 and + 0,29; 43,20 and +1,36; 41,26 and +3,09. Taking in account such results we can state that low frequencies conservation, as in sensorineural hearing loss in ramp case, contribute considerably for better results in speech-reception, so as in quiet as in noise. Each classification of hearing loss owns unique characteristics which must be investigated and took into account when involving evaluation processes, intervention and auditive rehabilitation, once the great objective to be reached is precise audilogical diagnostic and the improvement of the patient s life quality. / A audição é um dos sentidos mais importantes e necessária para que se estabeleça uma comunicação satisfatória entre as pessoas. Assim sendo, indivíduos acometidos por diferentes tipos de perdas auditivas, apresentam dificuldades no reconhecimento de fala e na sua habilidade para se comunicar, de maneiras diferentes, pois existe correlação entre as dificuldades, os tipos e graus das perdas. Estas diferenças tornam imprescindível que o audiologista avalie qualitativa e individualmente os efeitos da perda auditiva. Os objetivos desta pesquisa foram estabelecer os Limiares de Reconhecimento de Sentenças no Silêncio (LRSS) e as relações sinal/ ruído, onde foram obtidos os Limiares de Reconhecimento de Sentenças no Ruído (LRSR) com o uso de fones auriculares, utilizando o teste Listas de Sentenças em Português (LSP) e comparar os resultados dos LRSS com os valores dos Limiares de Reconhecimento de Fala (LRF) de indivíduos com perda auditiva neurossensorial com configurações de perda plana, descendente e em rampa (Ski). O material de teste utilizado foi composto pelas Listas de Sentenças em Português (LSP) proposto por Costa (1998). Foram avaliados 46 indivíduos adultos, dos gêneros masculino e feminino, com idades variando entre 15 e 83 anos. Os critérios de inclusão da amostra foram apresentar diagnóstico audiológico de perda auditiva do tipo neurossensorial, de grau leve a moderadamente severo, comprovado por prévia avaliação da audição e não ser usuário de próteses auditivas há mais de três meses. Foram obtidos os limiares tonais, os LRF, os LRSS, os LRSR e as relações sinal/ruído. As sentenças e o ruído (fixo a 65 dB NA) foram apresentados monoauralmente, por fones auriculares, através da estratégia ascendente-descendente (Levitt & Rabiner, 1967). Os resultados obtidos mostraram que os LRSS, e as relações sinal/ ruído onde foram obtidos os LRSR médios para as perdas neurossensoriais em rampa, plana, e descendente, foram, respectivamente: 24,77 e + 0,29 dB NA; 43,20 e + 1,36 dB NA; 41,26 e +3,09 dB NA. Levando em consideração tais resultados, podemos afirmar que a conservação das baixas freqüências, como é o caso da perda auditiva neurossensorial em rampa, contribuem consideravelmente para melhores resultados de reconhecimento de fala, tanto no silêncio quanto no ruído. Cada classificação de perda auditiva possui características únicas que devem ser investigadas e levadas em consideração quando envolvem os processos de avaliação, intervenção e reabilitação auditiva, uma vez que o grande objetivo a ser alcançado é um diagnóstico audiológico preciso e a melhora da qualidade de vida do paciente.

A dissertação A volta do Horla estuda a recepção crítica e criativa de Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) no Brasil, o contista francês mais representativo do século XIX. Esse escritor foi lido, traduzido e comentado nos jornais Gazeta de Noticias, Correio Paulistano, Jornal do Commercio, O Estado de São Paulo (A Provincia de São Paulo, até 1889), de 1880 a 1921, bem como nos principais estudos críticos e bibliográficos de historiadores da Literatura Brasileira, os quais compõem o corpus desta pesquisa. Sua presença é também encontrada em obras ficcionais no período que compreende o Realismo-Naturalismo e o Pré-Modernismo brasileiros, de que são exemplos os livros de contos de Monteiro Lobato (1882-1948). Esse corpus, aqui analisado e interpretado, mostra-nos as diversas leituras feitas pelas variadas correntes críticas em voga no Brasil. Tomam por base critérios literários ou não-literários, estimulados pela vasta produção e particular variedade da obra em questão e pelo conhecimento difundido da vida do autor. Permite-se aqui, portanto, mais um momento de releitura crítica desse escritor, revelado por olhares ora esquecidos e não raro desconhecidos dos estudiosos de Guy de Maupassant. / The dissertation The Horla Return studies the critical and creative reception of Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) in Brazil, the most representative French storyteller of the 19th century. This writer was read, translated and commented in newspapers Gazeta de Noticias, Correio Paulistano, Jornal do Commercio, O Estado de São Paulo (A Provincia de São Paulo, up to 1889), between 1880 and 1921, as well as in the main critical and bibliographical studies of Brazilian Literature historians, which compose the corpus of this research. Its presence is also found in ficcional works in the period which includes Brazilian Realism-Naturalism and Pre-Modernism, of which the story books of Monteiro Lobato (1882-1948) are examples. This corpus, here analysed and interpreted, discloses diverse readings made for the various critical current in vogue in Brazil. It has as background literary or nonliterary criteria, stimulated for the vast production and internal variety of the work itself and by the knowledge difusion of author\'s life. It is allowed here, therefore an additional moment of critical reading of this writer, depicted through the eyes either forgotten or unknown of Guy de Maupassant\'s scholars.

The diploma thesis is concerned with reception of the Austrian novelist and playwright Thomas Bernhard in the Czech Republic after 1989. The piece of work mainly focuses on how the writer was presented to the Czech society. The thesis also responds to the statement of the Czech Germanist Milan Tvrdík who said, in 1995, that Thomas Bernhard still awaits discovery of his writings in the Czech Republic and, so far, is an author mostly for Germanists. Theoretical framework of the work is based on the reception theory of Constance school. The research is mainly focused on the Czech translations of the Bernhard's books which contain epilogues and editorial notes, then on the reviews of the Bernhard's plays introduced in the Czech theatres between 1989 and 2019. Considering the fact that some adaptations of Bernhard's plays in our country offered an interesting link between Czech and Slovakian acting scene, an insight of the Bernhard's reception in Slovakia is a part of the work. The analysis takes into consideration external factors, too. These factors are translators, editors, or individual publishing houses Prostor, Mladá Fronta, Divadelní ústav or Odeon, which have influenced the reception of Bernhard's work in the Czech Republic. The qualitative analysis infers a picture of the Austrian playwright...

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This dissertation comprises the first study of the poetry of the Portuguese humanist Diogo de Teive (1513-14 – c. 1569). It examines and presents a scholarly edition of the Epithalamium which Teive composed on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Maria of Portugal to Alessandro Farnese in 1565. It also critically explores the work in which the poem was published, the Epodon libri tres (Lisbon, 1565). Because both this and the Epithalamium bring together different strands of Teive’s literary work, Chapter One analyses the development of his literary career, linking it to the ideological and cultural transformations which took place in Portugal from the 1540s to the 1560s, and the author’s attempt to carve his identity and space in the Portuguese literary scene. Chapter Two explores the concepts of ‘imitatio’ and ‘mimesis’ in the Epodon libri tres, shedding light on specific aspects of the Epithalamium. In the eyes of his readers, Teive emerges as a Catholic Horace. This is achieved by means of formal imitation, ‘aemulatio’, and allusion to Horace, a process whereby Teive introduces significant and ideologically motivated differences representative of the impact of Counter-Reformation upon literary writing. The ‘aemulatio’ of Prudentius’s Peristephanon in book II is to be understood in this light. Part Two engages with Teive’s comments on questions of verbal representation in the Epodon libri tres. Chapter Three analyses the Epithalamium from a generic perspective, arguing that it presents instances of generic enrichment, and that these are an example of the appropriation of occasional poetry for the purpose of authorial self-representation. One of the instances of generic enrichment is the incorporation of a didactic passage indebted to the tradition of the ‘speculum principum’, which is analysed in Chapter Four. Part One interprets the rewriting and appropriation of Plutarch and Erasmus as authorising strategies whereby Teive represents himself as an advisor of kings in the Epodon libri tres. Part Two discusses the author’s political thought and opinions, drawing from an analysis of the Epithalamium. Finally, Chapter Five comprises the study of the transmission of the poem, its metrical analysis, edition, translation, and commentary.

In this essay the reception of Helena Munktell’s 1885 1921 compositions are mapped andanalysed. The term reception is used to express to what extent Munktell’s compositions wereperformed, and also how they were received in newspaper reviews. The reception is studiedholistically. This means that all identifiable concerts and all accessible newspaper reviews havebeen taken into consideration, and that the mapping and analysis aims to demonstrate how thereception differs between genres and countries, as wel l as how it changes over time.Helena Munktell (1852 1919) was a Swedish composer, pianist, and singer. Hercatalogue is concise, but she composed music in several different genres. In 1915 she wasinducted into The Royal Swedish Academy of Music Munktell was active in both Sweden andFrance, and her work shows traces of Swedish folk music as well as French style elements. Shestudied composition with a number of teacher s, both in Stockholm and Paris. Her mostinfluential teacher was Vincent d’Indy. Through him directly, and César Franck indirectly, hercompositions came to include neo French mannerisms such as cyclic form, colourful chordchanges, and downplaying the imp ortance of melody in favour of harmonic progression.The analysis was done in four stages. In the first stage facts were collected. Thebulk of the source material was gathered from a scrapbook with reviews from Munktell ’sposthumous collections, and from the national database of Swedish newspapers Svenskadagstidningar In the second stage a calendar of all identifiable concerts was comprised. In thethird stage an account of all compositions, concerts, and reviews for each respective genre wascreated. In the fourth stage the results were analysed from a historical perspective and fromPierre Bourdieu’s theory on capital and fieldApproximately 140 concerts have been identified. The vocal genres are dominantmore than half of the performances concern works for vocal soloists. The opera I Firenze wasperformed in Stockholm 13 times. This accomplishment can be attributed to the fact thatMunktell had an abundance of what Bourdieu call s cultural and social capital. The opera andthe vocal performances were almost exclusively well reviewed. Munktell’s compositions werealso successful in France. She became a member of the prestigious organisation SociétéNationale de Musique where several of her compositions were performed. Three of her fourorchestral works were premiered in France, as was her violin sonata. Munktell’s success inFrance can be explained partly by her compositions having a strong French influence, and thefact that cultural capital is highly valued in France. Dalsvit was the only orchestral work thatwas performed in Sweden during her lifetime and it received very mixed reviews. The violinsonata is the instrumental composition that w as performed the most. It received mixed reviewsin the daily newspapers at the time of its first performance in Stockholm in 1905, butconsiderably more positive appraisal after the memorial concert at The Royal Swedish Operain 1921. This can be explained by the societal interest and appreciation of German musicaldominance giving way to F rench musical styles in a different way in 1921.The account from Swedish Musical Heritage Anders Edling’s biography onHelena Munktell, saying that all contemporary re views of Munktell as a composer were positiveis incorrect; they were mixed, varying between genres, and changing over time.A similar analysis could be carried out concerning other composers works. Suchan analysis would make it possible to compare the reception between two or more composers’work, but also how their different prerequisites may have influenced their reception. / I uppsatsen kartläggs och analyseras receptionen av Helena Munktells kompositioner under åren 1885–1921. Med reception avses dels i vilken utsträckning Munktells kompositioner blev framförda, dels hur de blev mottagna i tidningsrecensioner. Receptionen utforskas ur ett helhetsperspektiv. Det betyder att alla identifierbara konserter och alla tillgängliga recensioner omfattas och att kartläggningen och analysen syftar till att åskådliggöra hur receptionen skiljer sig åt mellan genrer och mellan länder liksom hur den förändras med tiden.  Helena Munktell (1852–1919) var en svensk tonsättare, pianist och sångerska. Hennes verkförteckning är kort men hon komponerade i ett flertal genrer. År 1915 blev hon invald som tonsättare i Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien. Munktell var verksam i både Sverige och Frankrike och i hennes verk finns såväl svenska folkmusikinfluenser som franska stilelement. Hon tog lektioner i komposition för ett flertal lärare, både i Stockholm och Paris. Den lärare som påverkade henne mest var Vincent d’Indy. Genom honom och därmed indirekt genom César Franck kom hennes kompositioner att inrymma stildrag från den nyfranska skolan: cyklisk form, färgskapande ackordväxlingar och nedtoning av melodins betydelse till förmån för harmonisk progression. Undersökningen har genomförts i fyra steg. I första steget samlades fakta in. Huvud-sakligt källmaterial var en klippbok med recensioner från Munktells efterlämnade samlingar samt recensioner från databasen Svenska dagstidningar. I andra steget togs en kalender fram omfattande alla identifierade konserter. I tredje steget utarbetades en redogörelse över kompositioner, konserter och recensioner för respektive genre. I fjärde steget analyserades resultatet ur ett historiskt perspektiv och utifrån Pierre Bourdieus teorier om kapital och fält. Cirka 140 konserter har identifierats. De vokala genrerna dominerar och över hälften av konserterna avser solosång. Operan I Firenze framfördes i Stockholm 13 gånger. Denna bedrift kan till viss del förklaras med att Munktell hade god tillgång till det Bourdieu kallar kulturellt och socialt kapital. Operan och solosångerna fick nästan uteslutande goda omdömen i recensionerna. Munktells kompositioner rönte stora framgångar i Frankrike. Hon blev medlem i den prestigefyllda föreningen Société Nationale de Musique där flera av hennes kompositioner framfördes. Tre av hennes fyra orkesterverk uruppfördes i Frankrike, så också hennes violinsonat. Munktells framgångar i Frankrike kan förklaras dels med att hon till stor del komponerade i fransk stil, dels med att kulturellt kapital värderas mycket högt i Frankrike. Dalsvit var det enda orkesterverk som framfördes i Sverige under hennes levnad och den renderade starkt skiftande omdömen. Munktells violinsonat är den instrumentala komposition som framfördes mest. Sonaten fick ett blandat bemötande i dagspressen efter framförandet i Stockholm 1905 men betydligt positivare omdömen efter minneskonserten på Kungliga Operan 1921. Detta kan förklaras med att den tyska musikstilens dominans hade mattats av och att de franska stildragen uppskattades på ett annat sätt 1921.  Uppgiften i Anders Edlings biografi över Helena Munktell i Levande musikarv om att alla samtidens omdömen om Munktell som tonsättare var positiva stämmer inte; de var skiftande, skiljde sig åt mellan genrer och förändrades med tiden.  En motsvarande undersökning skulle kunna genomföras rörande andra tonsättares verk. En sådan studie skulle göra det möjligt att jämföra receptionen av tonsättarnas verk och också jämföra vilken betydelse tonsättarnas olika förutsättningar kan ha haft för receptionen.

Die Untersuchung betrachtet das Verhältnis der Schriften 4., 5. und 6. Esra zueinander. Während die Apokalypse 4. Esra als Referenztext für neutestamentliche Schriften Gegenstand zahlreicher Untersuchungen ist, wurden 5. und 6. Esra bisher lediglich als christliche Hinzufügungen abgetan und nicht in einer bedeutungsvollen Beziehung zu 4. Esra verstanden. Auf Grund der syrischen Tradition, die 4. Esra als geschlossene Schrift überliefert, wird oftmals übersehen, dass in den lateinischen Traditionen 4. Esra ausschließlich im Zusammenhang zu 5. und 6. Esra bezeugt ist. Die Arbeit greift methodische Ansätze aus der alttestamentlichen und Apokryphenforschung auf, um das Verhältnis der drei Schriften zueinander zu beschreiben. Handelt es sich um eine willkürliche Zusammenordnung der Schriften oder lassen sich Ordnungsprinzipen und durchgängige Konzepte erkennen, die eine Lesart als zusammenhängende und aufeinander bezogene Gesamtschrift 2. Esdras nahe legen? Die Arbeit geht dabei auf verschiedenen Ebenen vor: Zunächst werden die mittelalterlichen Manuskripte, die die früheste vollständige Bezeugung der Schriften darstellen, analysiert und ausgewertet. Wesentlich ist hierbei, dass die Schriften zwar immer im Zusammenhang zueinander überliefert wurden, jedoch in sehr unterschiedlichen Anordnungen in den jeweiligen Manuskripten enthalten sind. Auf synchroner Ebene werden zentrale Konzepte der einzelnen Schriften exegetisch herausgearbeitet und zueinander in Bezug gesetzt. Schließlich werden narratologisch und daramaturgisch die Erzählbögen der Einzelschriften analysiert und ausgewertet, ob und wie ein Gesamthandlungsbogen von 2. Esdras erkennbar ist. Gerade an der literarischen Figur des Esra zeigt sich, wie die unterschiedlichen Anordnungen jeweils andere Aspekte der Figur in den Vordergrund rücken. Die literarische Gestalt des Esra selbst wird zur Projektionsfläche für die Intentionen der späteren Tradentenkreise. Daher stellt die jeweilige Anordnung der Schriften einen bewussten und sinnhaften Ausdruck der theologischen Konzeptionen der Tradentenkreise dar. / The study is focused on the relation of 4th, 5th and 6th Ezra. While the Apocalypse 4th Ezra as a reference text for New Testament writings is the subject of numerous studies, 5th and 6th Ezra are normally dismissed as Christian additions and are not understood in a meaningful relationship to 4th Ezra. Due to the fact that the Syriac tradition testifies 4th Ezra as an independent writing, it is often ignored, that the Latin tradition exclusively features 4th Ezra in the context of 5th and 6th Ezra. The study employs methodological approaches from the 361 Old Testament and Apocryphal research to investigate the relation between the three writings. Should it be regarded as a random compilation of writings or are there indications for a structural order or underlying concepts and motifs, which suggest an interrelated reading as a composed writing of 2nd Esdras? The study engages the subject with different approaches of research: first of all the medieval manuscripts representing the oldest complete sources for the writing of 2nd Esdras are evaluated. It is to be considered, that while all three writings are featured, the order of arrangement of the writings varies in the different traditions. In a synchronic exegetical analysis of the texts main themes and concepts are retraced and put in perspective to each other. Finally in a narratologic and dramatic point of view the plots and the arc of suspense of each writing is examined and considered in perspective of an underlying plot and understanding of 2nd Esdras as one story line. Especially in regard to the literary character of Ezra the different arrangements of the text emphasize different theological aspects of the character. The figure of Ezra itself becomes a projection space for the intentions of the later recipients. Therefore each arrangement of the writings can be regarded as a deliberate and meaningful expression of the theological concept of the recipients.