O presente estudo tem como objetivo a aproximação de dois escritores praticamente contemporâneos, Camilo Castelo Branco e Eça de Queirós, usualmente afastados em manuais de literatura e até mesmo no ensino universitário por serem classificados como pertencentes a dois movimentos literários antagônicos. Através da perspectiva do comparatismo histórico e das transferências culturais, pretendemos relativizar o modo panorâmico de análise, que os distancia para fins didáticos, e a visão de que a literatura e cultura francesas teriam representando para Portugal e seus escritores uma influência hegemônica e centralizadora, perspectiva dominante em parte da crítica literária, lançando um novo olhar sobre a produção inicial de ambos os escritores de forma a aproximá-los e repensando alguns aspectos do romance-folhetim oitocentista produzido em Portugal. Para tanto, realizaremos uma análise comparativa dos seguintes romances: Les Mystères de Paris (1843), do escritor francês Eugène Sue; Mistérios de Lisboa (1854), de Camilo Castelo Branco; e O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra (1870), de Eça de Queirós e Ramalho Ortigão. / Our research is aimed at approximating two writers Camilo Castelo Branco and Eça de Queirós who are practically contemporary, and usually studied separately in literature manuals, and even at university for they are classified as belonging to two antagonistic literary movements. Through the perspective of the historical comparatism and cultural transfers, we intend to reconsider a panoramic way of studying, which separates the writers because of didactic reasons, as well as the perspective that the French literature and culture would have represented to Portugal and its writers an hegemonic and centralizing influence, which is a dominant perspective in part of the literary criticism, by adopting a new perspective on the initial production of both writers and rethinking some aspects of the Roman feuilleton from the 19th century produced in Portugal. We will therefore perform a comparative analysis of the following novels: Les Mystères de Paris (1843), by the French writer Eugène Sue; Mistérios de Lisboa (1854), by Camilo Castelo Branco; and O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra (1870), by Eça de Queirós and Ramalho Ortigão.

O presente estudo tem como objetivo a aproximação de dois escritores praticamente contemporâneos, Camilo Castelo Branco e Eça de Queirós, usualmente afastados em manuais de literatura e até mesmo no ensino universitário por serem classificados como pertencentes a dois movimentos literários antagônicos. Através da perspectiva do comparatismo histórico e das transferências culturais, pretendemos relativizar o modo panorâmico de análise, que os distancia para fins didáticos, e a visão de que a literatura e cultura francesas teriam representando para Portugal e seus escritores uma influência hegemônica e centralizadora, perspectiva dominante em parte da crítica literária, lançando um novo olhar sobre a produção inicial de ambos os escritores de forma a aproximá-los e repensando alguns aspectos do romance-folhetim oitocentista produzido em Portugal. Para tanto, realizaremos uma análise comparativa dos seguintes romances: Les Mystères de Paris (1843), do escritor francês Eugène Sue; Mistérios de Lisboa (1854), de Camilo Castelo Branco; e O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra (1870), de Eça de Queirós e Ramalho Ortigão. / Our research is aimed at approximating two writers Camilo Castelo Branco and Eça de Queirós who are practically contemporary, and usually studied separately in literature manuals, and even at university for they are classified as belonging to two antagonistic literary movements. Through the perspective of the historical comparatism and cultural transfers, we intend to reconsider a panoramic way of studying, which separates the writers because of didactic reasons, as well as the perspective that the French literature and culture would have represented to Portugal and its writers an hegemonic and centralizing influence, which is a dominant perspective in part of the literary criticism, by adopting a new perspective on the initial production of both writers and rethinking some aspects of the Roman feuilleton from the 19th century produced in Portugal. We will therefore perform a comparative analysis of the following novels: Les Mystères de Paris (1843), by the French writer Eugène Sue; Mistérios de Lisboa (1854), by Camilo Castelo Branco; and O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra (1870), by Eça de Queirós and Ramalho Ortigão.

La réception critique de l'oeuvre du feuilletoniste Eugène Sue s'est penchée sur l'apparente disjonction entre, d'une part, son contenu "socialiste" édulcoré et d'autre part, l'impact qu'on accorde à ses écrits par rapport à l'engagement populaire de 1848. Cette lecture, cependant, a tendance à interpréter l'engagement politique de l'auteur, entre Les Mystères de Paris (1842) et Les Mystères du Peuple (1857), comme faisant montre d'un développement soutenu, mais problématique, d'une pensée anti-bourgeoise et socialiste. En montant une lecture sociocritique du discours politique d'un des premiers romans de Sue, Atar-Gull (1832), nous sommes à même de relever les bases d'une pensée radicalement antibourgeoise dans les toutes premières années de sa carrière. La contextualisation littéraire et historique d'Atar-Gull, ainsi que la réexaminassions de l'orthodoxie critique relevée ci-haut, nous permettent de comprendre l'importance de certains textes littéraires en tant que monuments historiques. / So far, critical evaluations of the works of serial writer Eugène Sue have tended to concentrate upon the apparent disjunction between his stereotypical brand of socialism, and the role his writing is credited with having played in furthering popular participation in the revolution of 1848. This critical understanding has tended to portray the author's own political engagement between the publication of Les Mystères de Paris (1842) and that of Les Mystères du Peuples (1857), as a sustained, yet problematic, development in anti-bourgeois and socialist thought. On the basis of a sociocritical reading of one of Sue's earliest novels, Atar-Gull (1832), we do, however, notice a radical antibourgeois stance from the very first years of his career. In examining this novel in context, both historical and literary, and in revisiting the premises that underlay past critical orthodoxy, we may demonstrate the relevance of certain kinds of literary production as historical monuments. / Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2013

This thesis has three main sections, the first a full-length novel entitled The Gift of Death, the third the bibliography and two appendices. The second contains variously: a preface; a critical exposition/analysis of the preceding novel with subsections, considering in conceptual fashion three central themes: death considered through symbolic, ideological and other meanings; a positioning of the academy in the ‘Campus’ novel sub-genre; and a socio-cultural analysis of fiction as a field of production and associated struggles for entry determined by class, origin and periodic cultural preferences. The Gift of Death concerns a sixty-year-old’s attempt to write a novel. Procrastinating English scholar, archetypal baby-boomer Jim Dent, revisits the thwarted ambitions of youth. Inspired by novelist Sue Townsend’s death, once a friend, Jim recalls knowing other aspirant artists—writers and film-makers— living and dying in obscurity. He reflects upon a troubled past, on unsatisfactory elements of the present and the increasingly daunting task of composition. The Gift of Death reworks the tradition of the campus or varsity novel, detailing lives tied to the rhythms of the academy. The chapters explore various eccentrics whose lives Jim traces through tentative, inadequate notes. Expanding such recollections the narrative includes: schooldays; postgraduate studies and school-teaching in Leicester; a voyage to interview Basil Bunting; and friendships with oddball alcoholics writers, Cedric and Challis, never satisfied or fully recognized creatively. Finally, overwhelmed by self-doubt, Jim abandons his Sisyphean task. Reflecting upon failure, an unexpected turn of events associated with visiting Bunting emerges in the present, offering resolution of sorts. The Gift of Death’s primary themes/contexts are: self-reflexive, multi-chronic form; death, loss and mourning; the baby-boomer generation; struggling for professional entry into the field of fiction; lost provincial and local creativity; the juxtaposition of past and present; loyalty, friendship and memory; parental conflict; and finally procrastination and disappointment.

Uppsatsen syfte är att undersöka mötet mellan feministisk religionsfilosofi och frågan om religiös mångfald. Utgångspunkten för uppsatsen är religionsfilosofiska texter av Pamela Sue Anderson och Grace Jantzen och dessa texter får här representera och ligga till grund för en feministisk religionsfilosofi. Som representant för det filosofiska samtalet om religiös mångfald använder jag mig av Mikael Stenmarks översikt över den typologi som präglar det filosofiska samtalet om religiös mångfald. Uppsatsens frågeställning lyder: Vad kan en feministisk religionsfilosofi som tar sin utgångspunkt i Grace Jantzens och Pamela Sue Andersons religionsfilosofiska texter bidra med till det filosofiska samtalet om religiös mångfald? Genom att läsa Andersons och Jantzens litteratur svarar jag för det första på hur en feministisk religionsfilosofi som tar sin utgångspunkt i Andersons och Jantzens texter skulle kunna se ut. För det andra undersöker jag hur en feministisk religionsfilosofi förhåller sig till det filosofiska samtalets typologi (exklusivism, inklusivism och pluralism) vad gäller religiös mångfald. Slutligen svarar jag på vad en feministisk religionsfilosofi kan bidra med till det filosofiska samtalet om religiös mångfald. Ett första bidrag kan innebära en medvetenhet och erfarenhet om mångfalden som finns ibland oss. Ett andra bidrag kan innebära en diskurskritik och en medvetenhet av att religionen inte går att separera från samhälleliga normer och diskurser. Ett tredje bidrag kan handla om fantasi och föreställningsförmåga som strategi. På grund av globalisering, migration och kommunikation som snabbt tar oss över jordklotet uppstår möten mellan människor med olika erfarenheter, traditioner, kulturer och religioner. Detta innebär nya utmaningar som inte bör lösas genom att dela in människor i påstått homogena grupper och försöka lösa konflikter och oenighet mellan dessa grupper. Den feministiska religionsfilosofin med dess utmaningar - att granska maktstrukturer, söka alternativa bilder och våga göra nya tolkningar av religioners funktioner och betydelser i ljuset av feministisk teori - riktar blicken mot mellanmänskliga relationer, oavsett religionstillhörighet.

Thesis (M.A.)--Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall/Crozer Theological Seminary, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-79).

Thesis (M. A.)--Florida State University, 2005. / Advisor: Dr. Maxine L. Montgomery, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 19, 2005). Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 90 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

La presse française du XIXe siècle a été marquée par une conjugaison du journalisme avec la littérature qui se déclinait en plusieurs types de rubriques et genres – de la chronique de variétés aux romans-feuilletons, des interviews-enquêtes aux grands récits de voyages et chroniques-reportages. Tout se passait dans le bas de page des journaux, qui devenait un espace d’expérimentation pour les gens de lettres, qui prêtaient alors leurs plumes aux quotidiens. Or, on retrouve ces mêmes caractéristiques dans les journaux brésiliens de cette époque. En effet, des innovations de la presse française étaient presque simultanément adoptées par des journaux brésiliens qui les acclimataient, les adaptaient, les transformaient et les réinventaient. Cette recherche s’intéresse à investiguer, à partir de l’étude de la vie et de l’oeuvre de deux pairs d’écrivains et journalistes, français et brésiliens, comment se sont établis ces rapports et ces flux de transferts culturels entre les deux pays. Eugène Sue (1804-1857) et José de Alencar (1829-1877), Jules Huret (1863-1914) et João do Rio (1881-1921), ont été des responsables des innovations dans la presse de leurs temps, et jouaient aussi – parfois à leur insu – le rôle de médiateurs culturels dans ces processus d’emprunts et d’assimilations, entre inspiration et création. À partir de la narrative de leurs biographies croisées, ce travail essaie de comprendre également comment s’est développé un genre spécifique, la chronique (crônica, en portugais), héritière de ce journalisme hybride de littérature du XIXe siècle, et qui demeure présent dans les principaux quotidiens du Brésil jusqu’à aujourd’hui. / The French press of the 19th century is characterized by a combination of journalism and literature that gave rise to various genres and news sections – from the weekly-magazine type journalism to serialized fiction, from interviews to travel reportage and serialized news stories. All this action was happening in the bottom part of newspaper pages, which had been turned into experimental laboratories for the literati who lent their quills to those periodicals. Those same characteristics can be found in Brazilian newspapers of the time. Indeed, innovations in French periodicals were almost simultaneously adopted by Brazilian newspapers, which in turn would adjust, adapt, transform and reinvent them. This research will focus on the life and work of two pairs of French and Brazilian writers and journalists in order to investigate how those relationships and flows of cultural transfers were established between the two countries. Eugène Sue (1804-1857) and José de Alencar (1829-1877), Jules Huret (1863-1914) and João do Rio (1881-1921) were responsible for innovations in the press of their times and, even if unaware, also played the role of cultural mediators in processes of assimilation and borrowing, between inspiration and creation. Taking the narrative of their crossed biographies as a starting point, this work also seeks to understand the development of a specific genre, the chronicle (crônica in Portuguese), a tributary to this 19th century hybrid form of journalism and literature which is present in the main Brazilian newspapers to date.

Le personnage du forçat est omniprésent dans la littérature française du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle. La représentation du monde des travaux forcés dans les bagnes portuaires et plus tard extra-métropolitains est à la croisée de la représentation plus large de la criminalité au XIXe siècle, selon un développement historique concomitant avec l’expansion coloniale. Les faits divers, ces petits bulletins d’alerte lancés comme une basse continue sur la cité, changent la manière de percevoir la criminalité. Obéissant à une structure particulière, le fait divers va remodeler la représentation littéraire de la criminalité. C’est ici qu’intervient le personnage du forçat. En effet, jouissant d’un statut particulier (mort/vivant/revenant), il offre aux romanciers des « conditions de possibilité » inédites jusque-là dans le monde des lettres. Jean Valjean, Monte-Cristo et Chéri-Bibi, pour ne citer que les plus connus, sont devenus des modèles dans ce qu’on peut appeler le « roman de la chiourme », (sous)-genre qui se développe en France à partir de 1830. Ainsi, Valjean donnera l’archétype du « forçat innocent », le converti miraculé et la réincarnation de Jésus-Christ. Monte-Cristo sera le Vengeur par excellence, dont le parcours donnera le modèle du genre – la vengeance étant un topos inévitable de la littérature populaire du XIXe siècle et jusqu’à nos jours. Chéri-Bibi quant à lui, au début du XXe siècle, incarne un tournant dans l’histoire du genre ; il serait au roman de la chiourme ce que Don Quichotte fut pour le roman de chevalerie : une somme et un dépassement. L’étude que nous proposons, centrée sur la « genèse et la structure » du roman du bagne, est un voyage à rebours dans l’histoire de ce genre qui ne dit pas son nom. / The character of convict is omnipresent in French literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The representation of the world of hard labor in metropolitan and colonial prisons is at the crossroads of the broader representation of crime in the nineteenth century, according to a concomitant historical development with colonial expansion. The miscellaneous news, these little newsletters launched continually on the city, change the way of perceiving crime. Obeying a specific structure, this type of news will reshape the literary representation of crime. This is where the character of the convict comes in. Indeed, enjoying a special status (dead/alive/revenant), it offers novelists "conditions of possibility" unseen until then in the world of letters. Jean Valjean, Monte-Cristo and Chéri-Bibi, to name only the well known, have become models in what we can call the "novel of the convicts", literary (sub)-genre which develops in France from 1830 onwards. Thus, Valjean will give the archetype of the "innocent convict", the miraculous convert and the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Monte-Cristo will be the Avenger par excellence, whose course will be the model of the genre - revenge being an inevitable topos of popular literature of the nineteenth century and until today. As for Chéri-Bibi, at the beginning of the twentieth century, embodies a turning point in the history of gender; it would be to the novel of the convict what Don Quixote was for the chivalric romance: a sum and a surpassing. The study we propose, oriented on the "genesis and structure" of the prison novel, is a reverse journey in history of this literary genre that does not say its name.

Magister Artium - MA (English) / After the 1976 student uprising, South Africa entered a period of increased violent state repression. The struggle against apartheid also became increasingly globalised, as can be seen in the UN resolution and the rise of various international anti-apartheid organisations. My thesis looks at the various ways in which art was used as a response to the crisis of late apartheid in the 1980s, focusing on a landmark international exhibition, the Art Contre Apartheid exhibition which opened in Paris on 1983. It examines the context and history of the Art Contre Apartheid collection, and follows its path to its current location at the Mayibuye Archive at the University of the Western Cape, where it mostly languishes in packing crates. My research locates its analysis of the works in broader debates around art and politics during the struggle years in South Africa, but also to highlights the continuities and contrasts between international responses to apartheid, and local struggle art produced in the period surrounding the launch of the exhibition. Some of most compelling works of art in the collection depict the human form, and register acts of torture. The analysis focuses specifically on depictions of a fragmentation and dismemberment of the human body. Drawing on Elaine Scarry's argument about the limitations of language as an adequate response to trauma, my research develops an analysis of these works that demonstrates how the body becomes a privileged site in which violent political contestations are made visible. The thesis also deals extensively with the 'absence of form', which highlights the various instances in the ACA collection where abstract art was used as a signifier of pain, and thus the unspeakable effects of apartheid.