O filme Short Cuts - Cenas da Vida (1993), do diretor norte-americano Robert Altman (1925-2006), foi baseado numa coletânea de contos do escritor Raymond Carver (1938- 1988). Nosso trabalho tem por objetivo o estudo dos modos pelos quais são figurados, no filme de Altman, os processos de virtualização da realidade e de fragmentação sóciohistórica (bem como suas possíveis causas) reinantes na sociedade contemporânea norteamericana e facilmente reconhecíveis em outras sociedades do mundo globalizado, inclusive na brasileira. Short Cuts se passa nos subúrbios da cidade de Los Angeles, metrópole socialmente fragmentada, caracterizada pela invasão da mídia em todos os domínios e assolada pela violência. Procuramos fazer um levantamento da fortuna crítica escrita sobre o filme e percebemos que os críticos se mostraram parcialmente equivocados em suas interpretações pela utilização de categorias inapropriadas para interpretá-lo, posto que ele está estruturado com base em preceitos épicos, ao invés de dramáticos, como a maioria da crítica pressupôs. Em seguida, tentamos analisar, a partir da tradição seguida por teóricos como Walter Benjamin, Fredric Jameson, Raymond Williams, Peter Szondi e Susan Willis, dentre outros, determinados aspectos do filme que demonstram não apenas a ideologia dominante e as crises cíclicas enfrentadas pelo sistema capitalista de produção, como também o desejo pela coletividade. Altman, valendo-se de técnicas como a rima visual e a filmagem através de superfícies, procura mostrar as conexões inevitáveis entre personagens que acreditam estar isoladas umas das outras, demonstrando, assim, o caráter ideológico da virtualização e da fragmentação. / Directed by Robert Altman (1925-2006), the film Short Cuts (1993) was based on a compilation of short stories written by Raymond Carver (1938-1988). Our work\'s objective is to study the means through which the processes of reality\'s virtualization and sociohistorical fragmentation, largely diffused in contemporary societies, are figured in Altman\'s film. Short Cuts is set on the suburbs of Los Angeles, a socially fragmented metropolis, characterized by the media invasion in all domains and fraught with violence. We have attempted to gather some thoughts that the critics have expressed toward the film, and we have noticed that their interpretations have proven to be partially mistaken, due to the use of improper categories to interpret it, considering that Altman\'s film is structured upon epic categories rather than dramatic ones, unlike most critics presupposed. We have also tried to analyze, based on the tradition followed by theoreticians such as Walter Benjamin, Fredric Jameson, Raymond Williams, Peter Szondi and Susan Willis, to name a few, certain aspects of the film that not only demonstrate the dominating ideology and the cyclic crises faced by the capitalist mode of production, but also the desire for collectivity. Through techniques such as the visual rhyme and the filming through surfaces, Altman attempts to show the inevitable connections between characters who believe to be isolated from each other, thus demonstrating the ideological essence of both virtualization and fragmentation.

Bortom historien slut – Beyond the end of history According to Robert Dahl there are seven criteria that have to be fulfilled in order for a state to be democratic. Dahl also states that there are several factors that effect the development of democracy. In today’s world it is mostly developing countries that have failed to bring about democratic changes. It is the developing country that is in focus in this thesis. The purpose is to examine if there are any particularly advantageous factors that can bring about or promote the development of democratic institutions. The questions are: What factor has effected the development of democratic institutions? Which, if any, of Dahl’s seven criteria is found within each state today?; do they correctly reflect the democratic situation? Can any connection between the states democratic development be found in a comparison? In a comparison between nine countries the different factors have been examined. The result shows that pluralism is a key factor for development of democracy in a developing country. External influence is on the other hand not important. Keywords: developing countries, democratization, Robert Dahl Nyckerlord: utvecklingsländer, demokratisering

Sur le restreint territoire de la Vallée d’Aoste, en Italie, deux modalités distinctes de pèlerinage trouvent place. Une modalité est représentée par les pèlerinages locaux, fréquentés par une communauté de dévots qui se connaissent depuis toujours, l’autre par les pèlerinages internationaux, composés de fidèles qui souvent se rencontrent pour la première fois alors qu’ils montent sur le bus qui les conduira vers le lieu saint. Parmi ces pèlerinages internationaux, un des plus fréquentés dans ces dernières années est celui qui amène les pèlerins à la rencontre de la Vierge de Medjugorje, en Bosnie-Herzégovine. Quelles sont les différences qu’on peut retrouver à l’intérieur de ces deux modalités distinctes de voyage saint ? Les participants aux pèlerinages locaux sont les mêmes qui décident d’aller à la rencontre d’une Vierge “étrangère” et non pas encore reconnue par l’Église ? Et qu’est -e que cette dévotion peut offrir de plus par rapport aux nombreux lieux de culte présents sur la région ? A travers l’instrument de l’analyse ethnographique, Nora Demarchi cherche à répondre à ces questions, en illustrant comment l’analyse du phénomène du pèlerinage religieux peut nous dire de plus sur la société plus en général. / In the narrow area of Valle d'Aosta, in Italy, two different approaches to pilgrimage can be found: one is represented by local pilgrimages, attended by a community of devout constantly in touch with each other, the other one being international pilgrimages, composed by followers who meet for the first time when they board the bus that will take them towards the holy place. Among the latter, one of the most frequented lately is the one that brings the pilgrims towards the Virgin of Medjugorje, in Bosnia-Herzegovina. What are the differences we can find between these two different peregrinations ? Are the members of local pilgrimages the same who decide to meet a “foreign” Virgin Mary, which has not even been yet acknowledged by the Church ? Can this second devotion offer something more than the numerous places of worship located in the region ? Through the instruments of ethnographical analysis, Nora Demarchi tries to answer those questions, illustrating how the study of the religious pilgrimage phenomena can say something more about society in a broader sense.

Cette étude a des assises autant dans l’histoire de l’art que dans l’esthétique du cinéma. Son point de départ est une aporie : « Qu’est-ce que le mouvement en image dès lors il s’agit de le chercher en dehors des représentations et de leurs techniques ? ». La substance mobile des images dont nous souhaitons faire ici le cas se situe à l’intérieur même du point de vue et non pas à l’enchaînement entre points de vue. Il s’agit de penser sa construction en termes d’un clivage interne, d’une bifurcation. Il s’agit surtout de placer la construction du point de vue au croisement de deux apprentissages [mathésis] : d’un côté celle de la contemplation du monde à partir d’un point fixe, unique ou changeant, de l’autre celle de la mobilité inhérente qui régit tout aspect de la vie. Dans ce contexte, le mouvement des images ne serait pas seulement le résultat d’une révolution du regard ou l’aboutissement d’une aventure technique, mais également et au même titre qu’eux, le résultat d’un événement conflictuel entre deux configurations du [sa]voir différentes bien que totalement pondérées. « Qu’est-ce qui ne marche pas ? » est la question qui nous guide à travers l’écriture. Les images témoignent d’une forme de [dé]marche transversale, d’un accident de la « marche » tant au niveau structurel du film qu’au niveau diégétique. Elles renvoient à quelque chose comme un trouble, un dissentiment. Chaque partie de ce travail constitue, enfin, une étude de cas. Chaque cas dénonce une aporie de point de vue : pittoresque, elliptique, théorique. Les films analysés, très différents les uns des autres, proviennent du cinéma et de ses pratiques élargies. Mais chacune des trois parties est également conçue autour d’un « metteur-en-scène » au sens large : Robert Smithson, Gus van Sant, Victor Burgin. Issus de la grande famille des artistes et non seulement de celle des cinéastes confirmés, ils nous guident à travers la construction de récits ancrés autant dans l’histoire des arts [peinture, sculpture, architecture] que dans les péripéties du cinéma contemporain. / Both art history and cinema aesthetics lie at the foundations of this study. Our starting point is a perplexing difficulty [an aporia]: “What is an image motion when we think about movement beyond its representations and the techniques that accompany them?”. In this dissertation, we examine the mobile substance of images from within the standpoint itself and what resembles to an internal cleavage. We argue that a particular kind of viewpoint can emerge at the crossroads of two different understandings [mathesis]: on the one hand, the contemplation of the world from a single or interchangeable fixed point; on the other hand, the corporeal mobility inherent to every aspect of life. Within this context, image motion is more than just the consequence of a major change in our “ways of looking”, or the outcome of a technical adventure. We argue that image motion is equally the result of a conflict between two different configurations of knowledge - seeing. The images attest to a way of thinking and unthinking motion, illustrated by a disruption in “the walk of the images” which takes place both in the film’s narrative and in the film’s structure revealing something like a trouble, or a dissent. Each section in this work constitutes an autonomous case study. Each case relates to a particular bifurcation of the standpoint: picturesque; elliptical; theoretical. The films in question, very different from one another, stem from cinema and its expanded practices. These three sections are also articulated around three “metteurs-en-scène”: Robert Smithson, Gus Van Sant, Victor Burgin. Belonging to the larger family of artists [and not only to that of confirmed filmmakers], they guide us through the unfolding of a narrative, whose roots are to be found as much in the history of the arts [painting, sculpture, architecture], as in the vicissitudes of contemporary cinema.

Robert Macaire apparaît en 1823 dans le mélodrame L’Auberge des Adrets sur la scène du Théâtre de l’Ambigu-Comique. Cette pièce marque l’histoire du mélodrame grâce à l’interprétation qu’en fait Frédérick Lemaître. Il crée un costume extravagant et improvise sur scène, transformant alors ce personnage secondaire en héros. Notre thèse met en lumière les modifications apportées dans l’oeuvre initiale grâce au jeu du comédien et recontextualise l’histoire des premières représentations. Le personnage apparaît de nouveau en 1834 dans Robert Macaire. Il devient un témoin emblématique des travers de la société de l’époque et héraut des contestations sociales et politiques de la monarchie de Juillet. Le succès est tel que le personnage réapparaît dans de nombreuses suites et avatars, donnant naissance au « macairisme ». Il s’attire ainsi les foudres de la censure. Au-delà du théâtre, il se transpose dans les caricatures et la littérature, devenant une figure archétypale et mythique. Il reste néanmoins fortement attaché à Frédérick Lemaître avec lequel il constitue un couple symbiotique justifiant l’analyse de l’impact du comédien dans la transfiguration du personnage de théâtre en un type social médiatisé. À travers cette étude, nous analysons le succès de Robert Macaire et les différentes utilisations du personnage et de ses implications politiques afin de comprendre comment et pourquoi ce personnage théâtral est devenu type social. Aborder la question de Robert Macaire à travers le couple qu’il forme avec Frédérick Lemaître permet d’interroger les véritables enjeux de l’esthétique macairienne dans l’affirmation du théâtre populaire. / Robert Macaire appears in 1823 in L’Auberge des Adrets melodrama on the stage of the L’Ambigu-Comique Theater. This play celebrates the melodrama’s history, thanks to the interpretation created by Frédérick Lemaître. He creates an extravagant costume and improvises on stage, transforming this secondary character in heroe. Our thesis highlights changes in the initial work through the actor’s play and re-contextualizes the history of the firsts performances. The character appears again in 1834 in Robert Macaire. He became an emblematic witness of the society of that time and herald for the social and political challenges of the “monarchie de Juillet”. Due to the success, the character reappears in many suites and avatars giving birth to the “Macairisme”. He thus, attracted the wrath of censorship. Beyond the theatre, he transfers in cartoons and literature, thus becoming an archetypal and mythic figure. Nevertheless, he remains strongly attached to Frédérick Lemaître with whom he creates a symbiotic couple justifying the study of the impact of the comedian in the transfiguration of the theatre in a publicized social type character. Through this study, we do analyze the success of Robert Macaire and the different uses of the character and its political implications in order to understand how and why this theatrical character has become a social type. Addressing the issue of Robert Macaire through the couple formed with Frédérick Lemaître, allows querying the real issues of “the macairienne esthetic” in the claim of the popular theatr

Robert Merle est au purgatoire des Belles-Lettres françaises. Quelque chose dans sa trajectoire, qui va du prix Goncourt avec son tout premier roman, Week-end à Zuydcoote, aux treize tomes d’une saga historique, Fortune de France, a semble-t-il sonné le glas de sa consécration. Et ce quelque chose tient sans doute à la singularité d’un écrivain franc-tireur, allergique à toute mode, à toute école, à tout parti et qui portera un demi-siècle durant son rêve d’un « roman romanesque » qui allie le populaire à la qualité, un roman démocratique, un roman des Trente Glorieuses qui réhabilite ce « vice impuni », comme disait André Wurmser, la lecture. Ce sont des voies singulières que Merle explore, des voies qui l’entraînent vers les champs en jachère de l’expérimentation, du « mauvais genre », de la politique-fiction et du roman populaire. L’écrivain démocrate choisit, contre une littérature « mandarinale », contre tout formalisme et esthétisme, une littérature accessible, un roman romanesque, un roman à histoire où règne, en maître, la tension narrative. Et ce, au risque de la déconsécration, au risque du middlebrow. Son œuvre pourtant, si éclectique en apparence, est une œuvre essentielle car Merle est un écrivain de l’événement et du pire. Ce pire qui fit qu’une génération entière fut happée par l’Histoire et n’en sortit pas indemne. Unde malum faciamus ? Cette question qui, en filigrane, traverse tous ses écrits de 1949 à 2003, ne cessa de tarauder Merle. Toujours il s’est agi, pour cet écrivain-militant, de poursuivre le combat, envers et contre l’amnésie, les œillères, les mensonges, et de le poursuivre pour les générations à venir. / Robert Merle is in the purgatory of the French Belles-Lettres. Something in his work, which goes from the Prix Goncourt with his first novel, Weekend at Dunkirk, to the thirteen volumes of a historical saga, Fortune de France, seems to have gone awry and ended this recognition. And that something is probably due to the singularity of an independent writer allergic to any fashion, school or party who will uphold for half a century his dream of a “novelistic” novel which would be both popular and good, a “democratic” novel, a novel of the postwar boom, which rehabilitates the pleasure of reading, the “unpunished vice”, in André Wurmser’s words. Merle treads unusual paths, which lead him to the fallow fields of experimentation, to the disreputable genres of political and popular fiction. As a democratic writer opposed to “elitist” literature, as well as formalism and aestheticism, he chooses a literature which is accessible, a “novelistic” novel, in which the story itself and narrative tension are paramount, at the risk of not being recognized any longer or being dubbed a middlebrow writer. If eclectic in appearance, his work, is an essential one: Merle is a writer of the event and of the worst-case scenario. A worst witnessed by an entire generation caught up by history which did not leave unscathed. Unde malum faciamus? This question which underlines all of his writings from 1949 to 2003, never stopped haunting Merle. His goal, as a writer-activist, was ever to continue the fight against amnesia, blinders and lies for generations to come.

[pt] Em uma perspectiva interdisciplinar entre os estudos de literatura e os estudos teatrais, esta dissertação propõe um olhar atento sobre a linguagem e a sonoridade no trabalho do diretor teatral norte-americano Robert Wilson nas três décadas que separam duas de suas realizações cênicas: Deafman Glance (1970), peça marcada pela ausência de palavras e sons, e Monsters of Grace II (2013), sua primeira obra radiofônica. A partir de pressupostos teóricos do teatro pósdramático e do teatro performativo, investigam-se o processo de aproximação de Wilson à linguagem oral, bem como novas abordagens do uso da voz no teatro. Objeto central da pesquisa, a peça Monsters of Grace II ganha uma análise detalhada, seja no contexto de produções na intersecção entre teatro e rádio, seja como dispositivo para investigar as possibilidades materiais e corporais da experiência radiofônica. / [en] From an interdisciplinary angle that takes in both literature and theater studies, this thesis turns its gaze on both language and sound in the oeuvre of American theater director Robert Wilson in the three decades that separate two of his works: Deafman Glance (1970), a play characterized by the absence of words and sound, and Monsters of Grace II (2013), his first work for radio. Wielding theoretical propositions from postdramatic and performative theater, this analysis investigates the process by which Wilson came to reconcile himself with oral language, as well as exploring new approaches to the use of voice in theater. The central object of this study, Monsters of Grace II is examined in greater detail, be it in the context of productions at the crossroads between theater and radio or as a framework by which to investigate the material and corporeal possibilities of experimentation in radio.

L’étude des romans attribués à Robert de Boron s’inscrit dans le sillage des travaux sur l’autoréflexivité romanesque et auctoriale, ainsi que sur le développement et la diffusion du mythe du Saint-Graal. Robert de Boron apparaît comme le fondateur d’une importante tradition graalienne, explicitement associée à la figure du Christ et promise à un avenir littéraire considérable. Nous croyons que l’approche mythopoétique, qui permet à la littérature de créer des mythes, s’accorde avec les enjeux socio-historiques des laïcs, ce qui explique pourquoi le projet de Robert s’est étendu jusqu’au cycle du Lancelot -Graal où il a servi de fondation à la chevalerie célestiele. Dans la première partie de ce travail, nous examinons le Saint-Graal et la tradition incarnée par Robert (occurrences, scènes, senefiance et Hauts Livres). Dans la deuxième partie, nous étudions la figure de Robert (éléments de biographie, figure auctoriale, autorité). La dernière partie nous donne l’occasion de remettre les mythes littéraires dans leur contexte afin de montrer qu’ils sont transformés en mythes socio-historiques grâce au savant mélange du discours laïque et du discours clérical. / The study of the French romances attributed to Robert de Boron lies within the recent works on self reflexivity in medieval literature and on the rise and spreading of the Holy Grail myth. Robert de Boron has become known as the founder of a new Grail tradition, explicitly related to Jesus Christ and destined to a great popularity. We think that mythopoétique approach, which allows literature to create myths, is consistent with the socio-historical issues of the laity, which is why Robert’s undertaking has spread to the Lancelot-Grail cycle where it served as the foundation of celestial chivalry. This dissertation consists of three main parts. In the first one, we examine the occurrences of the « Holy Grail » expression in the selected books. Furthermore, we go deeper in our analysis of the Grail tradition embodied by Robert de Boron. In the second part of the thesis, we focus of the figure of Robert, by studying some biographical information, his status as a writer and the nature of medieval authority and authorship. The last section of our work gives us the opportunity to set the literary myths in context to show that they are transformed into socio-historical myths through both secular and clerical discourses in the Arthurian romances.

This thesis project explores Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa's notion of a new mestiza consciousness, in which the marginalized ethnic American woman transcends her Otherness, breaks down the borders between her different identities, and creates a Thirdspace. Through the rehearsal and performance process, three ethnic American women employed Robert Scholes' model of textuality-the consumption and production of texts-as a framework to construct a new mestiza consciousness, and create a Thirdspace. The project set to determine what strategies were significant rehearsal techniques for encouraging the cast members to exercise textual power and claim a new mestiza identity, a Thirdspace. The results reveal four overarching factors involved in assuming textual power through rehearsal and performance in the production-building trust, having appropriate skills, assuming ownership and responsibility, and overcoming performance anxiety. The discussion addresses the direct link between Thirdspace and Scholes' notion of production of original texts.

Robert Schumann's D-minor Symphony endured harsh criticism during the second half of the nineteenth century because of misunderstandings regarding his compositional approach to the genre of the symphony; changes in performance practices amplified the problems, leading to charges that Schumann was an inept orchestrator. Editions published by Clara Schumann and Alfred Dörffel as well as performing editions prepared by Woldemar Bargiel and Gustav Mahler reflect ideals of the late nineteenth century that differ markedly from those Schumann advanced in his 1851 autograph and in the Symphony's first publication in 1853. An examination of the manuscript sources and the editions authorized by Schumann reveals that he imbued the Symphony with what he called a "special meaning" in the form of an implied narrative. Although Schumann provided no written account of this narrative, it is revealed in orchestrational devices, particularly orchestration, dynamics, and articulation, many of which have been either altered or suppressed by later editors. A reconsideration of these devices as they are transmitted through the authorized sources permits a rediscovery of the work's special meaning and rectifies long-standing misperceptions that have become entrenched in the general literature concerning Schumann in general and the D-minor Symphony in particular.