Though casual readers may often assume cookbooks are primarily reference materials,cookbooks actually offer readers a type of autobiography; I examine cookbooks as literary autobiographical acts by analyzing three celebrity chefs' cookbooks and the recent film, Julie and Julia. Julie and Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, illustrates several key autobiographical ideas, specifically Barthes' ideas of readerly and writerly texts and the distinction between an author and a persona. The film acts as a visual representation of the way a reader engages with a text and makes it a writerly text while successfully distinguishing between an author and a persona/narrator. After a brief review of autobiography theory through Julie and Julia, the three selected authors' work further magnifies the ideas. The first celebrity chef, David Lebovitz, uses a highly narrative style and incorporates numerous autobiographical details into his books. The second, Ina Garten, utilizes different methods of creating a persona, including photography. The third chef, Dorie Greenspan, uses the same methods used by Lebovitz and Garten, but has been replicated extensively in online baking groups, making her texts ideal for understanding the role of the reader in an autobiography. The work of these three authors illustrates well how autobiographies function and how readers can reiterate their own autobiographies through the books and food they consume.

The thesis combines D.N. Rodowick’s concept of the figural, denoting the complex nature of filmic signification; Roland Barthes’ distinctions between the readerly and the writerly, which are different methods of engaging with a text; and Thierry Kuntzel’s concept of semiotic constellations, the reading of recurring yet fragmented motifs that occur throughout the film. Here reintroduced through the concept of eddies—discursive fields within the film which displace the connection between the signifier and signified (the flow of signification), instead distinguished by signifiers engendering new signifiers (the swirl of signification)—to unlock a new method of reading a film. This method focuses on interpreting the latent meanings of the plural of the text; the residual signs in the film which hold little to no bearing on its narrative, but through their deconstruction and later reassembly they may guide to viewer to new meanings. By first delineating the method proposed for this type of reading, the thesis then applies this method to the reading of one such eddy in the art-film Out 1: Noli me tangere from 1970, which is connected to the discursive field of Prometheus Bound, a play rehearsed within the film by a group of six actors who engage in various exercises, which at first glance seem to be entirely unconnected to the play. In this case, the method reveals through the figural activity of the film that the exercises of the group are engaged in dialogue with themes touched upon in the play.

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Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2016-04-23T00:13:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 ArthurViniciusDantasDaSilva_DISSERT.pdf: 840223 bytes, checksum: a197958ada04d856e2f0807b2a40aca3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-04-23T00:26:08Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ArthurViniciusDantasDaSilva_DISSERT.pdf: 840223 bytes, checksum: a197958ada04d856e2f0807b2a40aca3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-23T00:26:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ArthurViniciusDantasDaSilva_DISSERT.pdf: 840223 bytes, checksum: a197958ada04d856e2f0807b2a40aca3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-10-06 / A uma leitura mais atenta, o texto de Caio Fernando Abreu se apresenta m?ltiplo. Seja por uma indistin??o gen?rica que problematiza a categoriza??o de sua obra em uma inst?ncia de g?nero apenas, seja por opera??es que suspendem alguns outros sentidos temporariamente. Dessa forma, este trabalho se prop?e a encontrar esses espa?os de suspens?o, em conson?ncia com o curso ministrado no Coll?ge de France pelo escritor franc?s Roland Barthes em 1977-1978, intitulado O Neutro. Al?m disso, a an?lise comparativa teorizada por Ute Heidmann ajudar? a entender como a suspens?o da configura??o do g?nero textual propicia as zonas neutras que Barthes identificou. A an?lise se prop?e a entender a estrutura??o do texto em uma perspectiva intrincada que leve em considera??o tanto aspectos tem?ticos, quanto discursivos e estruturais. / The work of Caio Fernando Abreu has a very vast and impressive thematic horizon , which is usually the core of the papers on the work of this author . This paper proposes to understand this characteristic of a more intricate point of view : perceive and analyze how the work of the author builds itself thematically , but mainly textually . I n other words , as the text enacts his own writing . From this it is noticeable how the text of Abreu plays with some senses through textual constructions that do not impose directly sense to the reader . Thus, the research sees in the chosen corpus , the collection Os drag?es n?o conhecem o para?so ( 2014 ), the neutral as proposed by the French essayist Roland Barthes (2003 a ). This neutral is understood by Barthes as a possibility to suspend the paradigms that constitute the sense, what exactly justifies the noticeable game in the work of Abreu . This game , to Roland Barthes , is precisely the literature. If the paradigm involves transforming the language , and all language expressions, in a way to propagate ideologies , the literature does not escape this fate . In order to escape this fate , you must fight the language internally ; we must play wit h the language . The neutral is the possibility of the game. Thus , the study sought neutral in Caio Fernando Abreu short stories , presenting it and analyzing it through " figures" which, for Barthes , is a way of perceiving the neut ral through texts , but not in a prescriptive manner. It was proposed , in the analysis , then understand the " Subjectivities ", the " Default ", the " Body " and " Disease " , for example, as possibilities of the game . Finally , in many Abreu?s work instances , the neutral is achieved by textual operations that are not in themselves neutral , but which achieve a " neutral effect ", which explains the game , the literature, in the texts of Caio Fernando Abreu .

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-01-27T13:27:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 saviodamatomendes.pdf: 828811 bytes, checksum: da0b9c008f1c08b673e1d0adac1d9c84 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-01-27T13:58:33Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 saviodamatomendes.pdf: 828811 bytes, checksum: da0b9c008f1c08b673e1d0adac1d9c84 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-27T13:58:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 saviodamatomendes.pdf: 828811 bytes, checksum: da0b9c008f1c08b673e1d0adac1d9c84 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-27 / O que se propõe neste estudo é investigar os procedimentos que em uma obra literária levam ao efeito de ―Fora na linguagem‖. O que é esse Fora? Que gama de efeitos produz? Quais os procedimentos para fazê-lo existir em uma obra de arte, na literatura em particular? Eis algumas das questões que nos interessam. Para desenvolver tal procura em busca do Fora, utilizaremos como suporte e corpus teórico autores que seguiram a trilha do Fora na linguagem, tais como Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Pierre-Félix Guattari, Tatiana Salem Levy, dentre outros. Será a partir de cinco obras previamente selecionadas que exploraremos alguns dos procedimentos que levam ao Fora, assim como seu conceito aplicado à literatura: ―A Terceira Margem do Rio‖ e ―Meu Tio Iauaretê‖, de Guimarães Rosa; Mar Paraguayo, de Wilson Bueno; Bodenlos: uma autobiografia filosófica, de Vilém Flusser e Bartleby, o escrivão, Herman Melville. Nosso objetivo não será analisar tais obras, mas, a partir delas, observar alguns dos procedimentos que levam ao Fora. Portanto, tomaremos delas apenas os recortes necessários. Falaremos do que força o pensamento a pensar, do que antecede o pensar. Falaremos do Fora e do plano de imanência; dos corpos sem órgãos; dos devires moleculares e molares. Falaremos de linhas; pontos, encontros, fugas; máquinas; superfície de registro; produção, processo; fluxos e rupturas. Falaremos de limiares; entremeios; gradientes; fragmentações; linhas e margens que se desmancham, desdobram, invaginam, explodem; intensidades e potências; territorialização e desterritorialização. / What is proposed in this study is to investigate the procedures in a literary work lead to the effect of "Out in the language." What is this out? Range of effects that produce? What procedures exist to make it into a work of art, literature in particular? Here are some of the issues that concern us. To develop such a search to search out , we use as support and theoretical corpus authors who followed the trail out of the language , such as Roland Barthes , Maurice Blanchot , Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari Pierre - Tatiana Salem Levy , among others . Will be from five previously selected works will explore some of the procedures that lead to out , as well as its concept applied to literature : " The Third Bank of the River " and " My Uncle Iauaretê " , Guimarães Rosa , Mar Paraguayo , Wilson Bueno , Bodenlos : a philosophical autobiography, Flusser and Bartleby , the scribe Herman Melville . Our goal is not to analyze such works , but from them , watching some of the procedures that lead to out . Therefore , we will take them only the necessary cutouts . Talk about what force thought to think , from the foregoing thinking . We will speak out and the plane of immanence ; bodies without organs , the molecular and molar becomings . We will talk about lines , points , meetings , trails , machinery, surface registration , production , process, flows and ruptures . Speak of thresholds ; inset ; gradients ; fragmentation ; lines and edges that crumble , unfold, invaginate , explode , intensities and powers ; territorialization and deterritorialization.

ABSTRACT Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka Jacob de Wets porträttserie av skotska kungar som återfinns i Palace of Holyroodhouse i Edinburgh, Skottland. Uppsatsen är tematiskt disponerad där de två första kapitlen behandlar porträttserier i det tidigmoderna Europa, historiska texter om nationens mytologiska ursprung och det samhälleliga läget under de skotska restorationsåren mellan 1660 och cirka 1689. Detta diskuteras sedan tillsammans med Jacob de Wets porträtt vad gäller syfte, funktion och sedermera praktisk tillkomst. Bildanalyser med hjälp av Roland Barthes teori om myten som ett metaspråk fördjupar diskussionen om hur serien ska läsas och förstås. Undersökningen finner att serien har flera syften och funktioner sprungna ur diskurser om nationalitet och makt, grundat i kulturella och konstnärliga praktiker samt historiska händelser gällande politik och religion. Nyckelord: Jacob de Wet, restorationen, Stuart, porträtt, porträttserier, tidigmodern tid,Skottland, Palace of Holyroodhouse, semiotik, Roland Barthes.

Thesis Intertextuality in the work of Milan Kundera deals with intertextuality facets in his novels theoretically and practically. This work deals with the text and the relations between one and other - with intertextuality and with novel genre theories. I work with four important theorist, Michail Bachtin, Julia Kristeva, Gerard Genette and Roland Barthes. I examine their concepts of polyphony or Socratic dialogue and apply them on Kundera. Practical part explores Milan Kundera, intertextuality relation of his work his novelistic and theoretical approaches. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This paper analyzes and compares two photographs of women doing backbends. One is a modern Instagram photo of a female yogi by Alessandro Sigismondi and the other one of a patient diagnosed with hysteria at the Salpêtrières Hospital, photographed in Paris in the 19th century. The photographs are used as a starting point for further discussion about the meaning of images where women are doing backbends. The aim is to understand what these kinds of photographs represent and communicate. The theoretical framework is based on Roland Barthes idea of defining photography out of three perspectives as described in Camera Lucida, the referent’s, the photographer’s and the spectators. Laura Mulvey's thoughts on the male gaze in "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" is a theoretical complement. The method used is Roland Bathes semiotic method from the essay Rhetoric of the image. The study shows how the photographic occasion's imprint of reality is deeply colored by the events, relationships and expectations from outside. Despite the large difference in time, there are great similarities in how the ideal female body is exposed and how women manage and maneuver within the space constructed by the male gaze.

Tom Wolfe was a founding father of New Journalism, revolutionizing journalistic reporting by introducing literary tools of storytelling. The literary influence on New Journalism is well-covered by journalism scholars, but Wolfe was also a fiction writer, and as such he actively tried to rally his generation of fiction writers behind him for a New Social Novel, more grounded in reality and reporting. His post-postmodern novels also amalgamate journalism and literature, but how and to what extent journalism influenced his fiction writing is a story yet untold.  Wolfe provided a normative blueprint for how to achieve verisimilitude in fiction, in his literary manifesto: “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast”. At about the same time, he started writing the novel A Man in Full. Using A Man in Full as an application of his ideas of the ideal novel, this thesis investigates how Wolfe constructed the reality effect in his fiction and foregrounds the origins of Tom Wolfe’s literary voice, focusing on onomatopoetic language, statuspheric minutiae, expressive punctuation, and Wolfe’s characteristic wake-the-dead prose style. I argue that Wolfe did reinvent verisimilitude in literary realism, but not in the way that he intended, through reporting and status details, but rather through language.

First published in 1989 in Spanish and then in 1992 in English, Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate is one of the best known Mexican literary works in the United States. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, Esquivel's novel has inspired great diversity of critical analysis among critics and scholars. Based on the author's comment regarding her intention to tell entertaining stories, critic Jay Corwin warns against the search for hidden layers to her work. Using as a framework Barthes's notion of the "death of the author" as well as cultural theory's argument that "discourse writes through the author", this work unfolds a diverse array of discourses, such as that of feminism, patriarchy, and parody, that liberate Like Water for Chocolate from the despotism of a single authority controlling the truth of the text and show that the readers are capable of intervening in the work's meaning.