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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, May, 2007. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

This dissertation explores how contemporary, small-press, speculative fiction deviates from other genres in depicting the processes of consciousness in narrative. I study how the confluence of contemporary cognitive theory and experimental, small-press, speculative fiction has produced a new narrative mode, one wherein literature portrays not the product of consciousness but its process instead. Unlike authors who worked previously in the stream-of-consciousness or interior monologue modes, writers in this new narrative mode (which this dissertation refers to as "the little weird") use the techniques of recursion, narratological anachrony, and Ulric Neisser's "ecological self" to avoid the constraints of textual linearity that have historically prevented other literary modes from accurately portraying the operations of "self." Extrapolating from Mieke Bal's seminal theory of narratology; Tzvetan Todorov's theory of the fantastic; Daniel C. Dennett's theories of consciousness; and the works of Darko Suvin, Robert Scholes, Jean Baudrillard, and others, I create a new mode not for classifying categories of speculative fiction, but for re-envisioning those already in use. This study, which concentrates on the work of progressive, small-press, speculative writers such as Kelly Link, Forrest Aguirre, George Saunders, Jeffrey Ford, China Miéville, and many others, explores new ideas about narrative "coherence" from the points of view of self as they are presented today by cognitive, narratological, psychological, sociological, and semiotic theories.

Submitted by Mariana Dornelles Vargas (marianadv) on 2015-03-19T17:49:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 tao_perto.pdf: 14815217 bytes, checksum: e50a3bfe314240a743ac3c073ddbd810 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-19T17:49:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tao_perto.pdf: 14815217 bytes, checksum: e50a3bfe314240a743ac3c073ddbd810 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A presente dissertação pretende analisar as caricaturas e contos de alguns periódicos e suplementos libertários e anticlericais de Buenos Aires e de Porto Alegre que circularam nessas cidades durante os anos de 1897 a 1916, procurando abordar as variadas maneiras e estratégias de que tais veículos da pequena imprensa se utilizavam para contestar, denunciar e, possivelmente, efetivar ações em prol de uma nova realidade. Utilizar-se-á da comparação para contrapor um contexto social a outro, para apontar diferenças e semelhanças entre as diversas publicações aqui estudadas, bem como ao que concerne à análise das caricaturas e dos contos, realizando aproximações e distanciamentos entre o discurso visual e o verbal de tais elementos. As caricaturas serão tratadas enquanto representações, pois se acredita que a dimensão das imagens é sempre uma (re) criação, uma (re) interpretação de um possível real e, no caso em questão, as imagens serão consideradas ainda como um instrumento de luta, uma arma de combate. Já os contos serão considerados elementos pedagógicos preciosos para a conscientização dos leitores, uma vez que a brevidade dos mesmos tencionava transmitir sem complexidade a mensagem a que se propunham. Além disso, supõe-se que tanto as caricaturas, quanto os contos apresentam um alcance maior do que as matérias extensas, ou seja, atingem um número maior de leitores, o que tanto justifica seu estudo como alude à importância desses elementos para a formação dos seus leitores. Os periódicos utilizados para o exame serão o La Protesta de Buenos Aires e os gaúchos A Luta e Lúcifer, somando-se a esses os suplementos La Obra e o Suplemento de La Protesta de Buenos Aires. / This essay intends to analyze caricatures and tales of some libertarian and anti-clerical journals and supplements from Buenos Aires and Porto Alegre which circulated in these cities during the years 1897 to 1916, in an attempt to portray the many ways and strategies used by those small press vehicles in order to contest, denounce and, possible, implement actions to promote a new reality. Comparison will be used in order to oppose a social context to another, pointing out differences and similarities between the several publications addressed in this study, as well as what concerns the analysis of the caricatures and tales, carrying out similarities and differences between visual and verbal discourse of such elements. The caricatures studied here will be treated as representations, since it is believed that the dimension of the images is always a (re) creation, a (re) interpretation of a possible reality, which in this case, the images are seen as a class struggle tool, a combat weapon. The tales, on the other hand, are considered valuable pedagogical elements in the promotion of the readers awareness, since its briefness had the intention to convey the message without complexity. Moreover, it is assumed that both the caricatures and the tales have a broader range than the longer materials, i.e., they reach a greater number of readers, which justifies this study and alludes to the importance of these elements in the formation of its readers. The periodicals that are going to be used for the analysis are La Protesta, from Buenos Aires and A Luta and Lúcifer, both from Porto Alegre, and also the supplements La Obra and Suplemento de La Protesta from Buenos Aires.

This dissertation examines booksellers in multiple roles as cultural agents in the small press field. It proposes various ways of understanding the work of booksellers as actively shaping the production, distribution, reception, and preservation of small press works, arguing that bookselling is a small press act unaccounted for in existing scholarship. It is structured around the idea of “contributive” bookselling from Nicky Drumbolis, wherein the bookseller “adds dimension to the cultural exchange […] participates as user, maker, transistor” (“this fiveyear list”). The questions at the heart of this dissertation are: How does the small press, in its material strategies of production and distribution, reshape the terms of reception for readers? How does the bookseller contribute to these processes? What does independent bookselling look like when it is committed to the cultural and aesthetic goals of the small press? And what is absent from literary and cultural records when the bookseller is not accounted for? This dissertation covers a period from 1952 to the present day. I begin by positing Raymond Souster’s “Contact” labour as an influential model for small press publishing in which the writer must adopt multiple roles in the communications circuit in order to construct and educate a community of readers. I then examine the bookseller catalogue as a bibliographic, critical, and pedagogical genre of publication that mediates productive encounters between readers and books. I next position the material, affective, and effective labour of the bookseller within the small press gift economy. Finally, I theorize the bookstore as a potential small press archive that functions as a viable counterweight to institutional collection and preservation. My reconsideration of the labour of the bookseller realigns relations between production, distribution, reception, documentation, and preservation of small press publications, making possible a more complete accounting of the histories of the book and of the small press in Canada.