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Throughout film history, the female body has been gazed upon, lusted after, protected, admired, and murdered. A sampling of post-modern films, including Kill Bill; Vol. I, The Swimming Pool, Boys Don’t Cry, Orlando, The Piano, The Ballad of Little Jo and Hedwig and the Angry Inch divulge new and complex views of the female body, including gender transformation. The maternal body, the clothed body, and the psychological and cultural body display the evolving female psyche. The female protagonists in the films, whether rewriting their own stories (Swimming Pool), finding methods to transform their sex within a patriarchy (The Piano), or altering their femininity (Orlando, Boys Don’t cry, The Ballad of little Jo, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch) redefine their gender. In doing so, the postmodern female body surpasses her assigned gender role. / Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, Dept. of English. / "May 2006." / Includes bibliographic references (leaves 35-38).

Previous research on healing in Ireland has primarily been the concern of folklorists. Based on interviews with a variety of healers, this thesis broadens our understanding of healing in Ireland by considering the socio-political context within which healing beliefs and practices occur. Theory from the anthropology of the body and the critical interpretive approach within medical anthropology provide means for exploring how the body is used as a symbol to express anxiety about social change in Ireland and how individual bodies are socialized and regulated within an economy of power. Prevailing views of the correct "Irish body" are shown to be important elements of Irish identity, especially vis-a-vis the outside world. By drawing attention to the significance of key themes of healing within contemporary Irish society, this thesis suggests that "Irishness" is inscribed in the body in healing.

Creativity, for Wallace Stevens, depends on connections to the natural world which can be examined through garden imagery. Chapters one and two focus on Stevens' private writing, identifying the range of garden environments and natural expanses to which he responded and associating these responses with his aesthetic sensibilities. Continental and Adamic traditions in garden imagery are explored as are contemporary practices in conservation and horticulture. Chapter three concentrates on poems which treat the garden as a locus amoenus of repose and delight where a poet can engage his imaginative faculties with sensual reality. Chapter four analyzes poems whose garden imagery elucidates Stevens' attempts to confront social and political as well as aesthetic issues. Chapters five and six examine Stevens' consideration of the garden as a hortus mentis, emblematic of creative experience, where Stevens assesses the relation of expression to environment and celebrates life lived "in the word of it."

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Tal análise tem a intenção de investigar até que ponto o figurino reconstrói o personagem no cinema, uma vez que o traje que veste (ou desnuda) o personagem literário e o cinematográfico faz parte dos signos simbólicos no sistema de comunicação. O figurino no cinema é entendido como um dos elementos primordiais para se construir a identidade dos personagens no que diz respeito à expressão da sexualidade, a identificação com uma classe social ou mesmo com o poder. Este enfoque pressupõe também refletir a visão da função da vestimenta face ao figurino do personagem do cinema e em relação à conjuntura da época em que os filmes foram exibidos. Pretende-se, então, analisar as seguintes transposições para a linguagem do cinema: o filme de Nelson Pereira dos Santos (1963), a partir do livro homônimo Vidas Secas, de Graciliano Ramos (1938), o filme Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (1964), de Glauber Rocha, inspirado nas obras Grande Sertão: Veredas, de Guimarães Rosa e Os Sertões (1902), de Euclides da Cunha, e por último, a análise dos figurinos do filme Guerra de Canudos (1997), de Sérgio Rezende baseado na obra literária de Os Sertões, que inspirou o roteiro do filme. Os recortes foram feitos de maneira a possibilitar a análise da concepção estética dos três cineastas dos filmes elencados, por meio do figurino, considerando o sentido narrativo literário. / The analysis of costumes in Brazilian cinema comes from the construction of the character in the imaginary “country person” figure in the discursive visuality of cinema which was derived from the literary origin. This analysis is intended to investigate to what extent the costumes reconstruct the character in the movies, since the costume that wears (or bares) the literary and cinematographic character is part of the symbolic’s signs in the communication system. The movie’s costumes are understood as one of the key elements to build the identity of the characters concerning the expression of sexuality, identification with a social class or even with power. This approach also assumes to reflect the function of the garment over the movie character's costumes and in relation to the circumstances of the time period the movies were shown. It is intended, then, to analyze the following transpositions to the language of cinema: film by Nelson Pereira dos Santos (1963), from the eponymous book Vidas Secas, by Graciliano Ramos (1938), the film Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (1964), by Glauber Rocha, inspired from the books Grande Sertão: Veredas, by Guimarães Rosa, and Os Sertões (1902), by Euclides da Cunha, and finally, the analysis of the film’s costumes from Guerra de Canudos (1997), by Sérgio Rezende in relation to the literary work Os Sertões, which the movie was based off. The cutouts were made in order to enable the analysis of the aesthetic design of the three directors of the listed films by means of the wardrobe, considering the literary narrative sense. / El presente trabajo realiza un análisis comparativo entre las estrategias políticas elaboradas por dos partidos comunistas latinoamericanos, el Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) y el Partido Comunista de Chile (PCCh). Ambos nacidos en 1922, los partidos comunistas de Brasil y de Chile, a lo largo dei sigla XX, ejercieron un importante papel en los debates de izquierda en sus países. La comparación entre esas izquierdas tiene como objetivo rescatar, mientras objeto de estudio y reflexión, elaboraciones teóricas y líneas de actuación que buscaban alcanzar el poder de manera distinta de aquello que, a partir de 1959, debido ai impacto de la Revolución Cubana, quedaría consagrado como el "modelo revolucionaria" a ser adaptado en toda América. La enorme influencia de la Revolución Cubana en el conjunto de las organizaciones de izquierda en Latinoamérica acabaría por ocultar la existencia de otras formulaciones y propuestas de acceso ai poder por parte de la izquierda latinoamericana, que estaban en curso antes de su eclosión y que permanecieron en las décadas posteriores. Además, el ejercicio comparativo aquí pretendido parte de la suposición de que hubo una inversión en los caminos estratégicos de estos dos partidos. Teniendo como principal referencia el afio de 1958, el análisis alrededor de las estratégicas políticas de estas dos Partidos ilustra los distintos posicionamientos acerca de los procesos de modernización en curso en Brasil y en Chile. De este modo, mientras el PCB dio inicio a una transformación en su cultura política, pasando a legitimar la relación entre desarrollo capitalista y democratización social, el PCCh juntamente con otros partidos de la izquierda chilena, elaboró un proyecto político que tenía como objetivo la hegemonía en la conducción de un proyecto socialista de sociedad. AI final de los afios 1970 y a lo largo de los afios 1980, cuando el Movimiento Comunista Internacional se deterioraba, los sentidos de estas estrategias definieron el papel de cada Partido en los procesos de redemocratización en Brasil y en Chile. / FAPESP: 2012/25481-9

In the Maoist era, the quest for beauty was regarded as decadent Western bourgeois culture. However, more and more Chinese women have been shopping for a youthful and beautiful appearance by undergoing cosmetic surgery in recent decades. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Beijing, China, in 2006--2007, this study examines the phenomenon of the rapidly growing popularity of cosmetic surgery among Chinese women and considers the relationships between the remaking of female body image through cosmetic surgery, the reconstruction of self identity, and the reconfiguration of state power and market forces with the expansion of global consumerism in post-Mao China. The thesis suggests that the alteration of female body features through cosmetic surgery reflects in microcosm the transition of China from a Maoist socialist regime to a post-Maoist consumer society within a few decades, following its own "Chinese characteristics." Therefore, Chinese women's involvement in cosmetic surgery must be understood within the broader historical and socio-political context of China, and also must be seen both as the empowerment of Chinese women and also their ongoing subjugation to men, markets, and the state. / Wen, Hua. / Adviser: Gordon Matthews. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-04, Section: A, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 392-421). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract and glossary also in Chinese.

Il Sacro Bosco in Bomarzo is an experience in Lessons on Love. The statues are a constant repetition of the paradox of Eros. The exoteric meaning of the statues will be given through the- narratives that influenced them. Then, the esoteric meaning behind the narratives and the statues will be given with the help of Ficino's Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love. Because the garden exists in the space of desire, it is able to speak to us today. This thesis is a walk through the garden. It is only through the experience of the garden that architectural meaning is conveyed. The garden is a journey that will heal the body and the soul through the spirit. Il Sacro Bosco leads to a better understanding of the self and, in the Renaissance, its connection to the One.

This thesis is the first sustained analysis of the relationship between Elizabethan theatre and the judicial practice of burning at the stake. Focusing on a five-year window of theatrical output (1587-1592), it argues that polemical literary presentations of burning are the key to understanding the stage's negotiation of this most particular form of judicial violence. Unlike other forms of penal violence, burning at the stake was not staged, and only fourteen incidences of the punishment are recorded in Elizabethan England. Its strong literary presence in Protestant historiography is therefore central to this study. Part I explores the tragic and overtly theatrical rhetoric that the widely available Acts and Monuments built around the burning of heretics in the reformation, and argues that the narrative of this drama of injustice intervened in the development of judicial semiotics over the late-sixteenth century. By the time that Tamburlaine was first performed, burning at the stake was a pressing polemical issue, and it haunts early commercial theatre. Elizabethan historiography of the stake was deeply influential in Elizabethan theatre. In Part II, I argue that Marlovian fire spectacles evoke tableaux from the Acts and Monuments to encourage partisan spectatorship, informed by the rhetoric of martyrdom. Dido's self-immolation courts this rhetoric by dismissing the sword from her death, while Tamburlaine's book burning is condemned through its emphatically papist undertones. These plays court the stake through spectacles utilizing its rhetoric. In Part III, I show that characters historically destined to face the stake required thorough criminalization to justify their sentence. Alice Arden is distinguished from female martyrs celebrated for their domestic defiance, while Jeanne d'Arc's historical heresy is forcefully rewritten as witchcraft and whoredom to condemn 1 Henry VI's Joan la Pucelle. Both women are punished offstage, and the plays focus instead on the necessary task of justifying the sentence of burning. Though rare in practice, burning at the stake was a polemical issue in Elizabethan England. Despite the stake's lack of imitation in the theatre, I argue that widely available Protestant historiography - propaganda at the heart of debates about burning and religious violence - affected both how plays were written, and how they could be viewed.

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