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Thesis (M.F.A.)--York University, 2006. Graduate Programme in Visual Arts. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR19722

Undergraduate honors paper--Mount Holyoke College, 2008. Dept. of English. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-131).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1996. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [236]-248).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Claremont Graduate School, 1997. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 359-396) Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A..)--Marshall University, 2009. / Title from document title page. Includes abstract. Document formatted into pages: contains v, 33 p. Includes bibliographical references p. 33

Thesis (MFA)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2008. / Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Ronald Tobias. Weatherscape is a DVD accompanying the thesis. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 25-26).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-02Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:15:52Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 noronha_acc_me_arafcl.pdf: 368573 bytes, checksum: 7957b64f2a359ef4bdcaf9a7940905ab (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Esta dissertação apresenta um estudo sobre o processo de leitura utilizando como base teórica a semiótica de linha francesa. Investiga-se como se dá o processo de leitura por meio de um estudo da enunciação e por meio da organização do percurso gerativo do sentido do texto. Investiga-se como o enunciador e o enunciatário (tratados como o autor e o leitor que o texto nos permite apreender) relacionam-se no texto e também quais os valores que aquele transmite a este por meio da circulação de objetos-valor na narrativa escolhida para análise. Para essas investigações tomou-se como corpus a narrativa ficcional juvenil Por onde você andou, Robert?, do escritor alemão Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Nela, um protagonista adolescente abstrai-se da realidade do mundo em que vive e viaja, no tempo e no espaço, sete vezes, sempre para o passado. Essas viagens são comparadas a leituras, por ambas iniciarem-se pelo olhar. Acredita-se que nessas viagens há uma ficcionalização da leitura como um ato, e também que o protagonista busca, como seu objeto valor, o saber. De posse do saber, o protagonista volta a seu mundo original, e sente-se como um leitor realizado, como alguém que sabe mais do que os outros. / This paper presents an study over reading as a discursive process, based on the French semiotics. It investigates how the reading process happens by the study of enunciation and by the organization of the generative process of the meaning in the text. It investigates how the enunciator and the enunciatee (seen as the author and the reader that the text allow us to conceive) relate in the text and which are the values that one passes to the other by the circulation of value objects in the narrative. For these investigations is used a juvenile fictional narrative named Where have you been, Robert (Wo warst du, Robert?), by the German author Hans Magnus Enzensberger. In this story, a teenager escapes from the reality of the world where he lives and travels back in time and space, seven times. These trips are compared to reading, as both are understood as a process which starts from the eyes. It is also believed that this narrative fictionalizes the process of reading as an act and that the protagonist searches for knowledge as his value object. When he comes to possess knowledge, he returns to his original world and is satisfied because, as a satisfied reader, he feels as somebody who knows better than the others.

I develop a theory of learning grounded in Charles Peirce’s semiotics. This endeavour comes in the context of the iconic (phenomenological) turn in semiotics, which resulted in a Peircean renaissance, and of the growing semiotic trend in education. Peirce’s semiotics offers insights into the phenomenon of learning and contains an implicit philosophy of education. The application of Peirce’s phenomenological categories to education reveals the semiosic character of education. Learning, education, and research constitute a triad, having the structure of a sign (phenomenon of signification). As such, they are correspondingly governed by Peirce’s three criteria of evolution: chance, necessity, and love. Therefore, Peirce’s theory of education can only be understood in the context of his theory of evolution. I develop three central arguments: (1) that according to Peirce’s taxonomy of signs, learning is the evolution of signification from the Icon sign type to the Argument sign type, (2) that learning is the Universe’s way of discovering itself through life forms, thus being both an evolutionary factor and an explanation for the emergence of life and (3) that learning can only be fulfilled in self-denying love for the other. Using Peirce’s taxonomy of signs I analyse the student/teacher relation, explaining how the passage from Icon to Argument proceeds and how learning is fulfilled in self-denying love.