Early modern representations of witchcraft have been the subject of considerable recent scholarship; however, three significant aspects of the corpus have not received sufficient attention and are treated independently here for the first time. This dissertation will examine how witchcraft imagery invited discourse concerning the reality of magic and witchcraft and suggested connections to contemporary issues through the themes of the witch’s violent autonomy, bestial passions, and unnatural interactions with the demonic and the dead. These three themes address specific features of the multifaceted identity of the witch and participate in a larger discussion that questioned the nature of humanity. Analysis of each issue reveals a complex, ambiguous, and often radically open treatment of the subject that necessitates a revision of how witchcraft imagery from this period is understood. Each understudied aspect of witchcraft imagery is explored through a series of case studies that have not appeared together until now. Previously unexamined artworks with inventive content are introduced and canonical pictures are examined from new perspectives. These images were created in the principal artistic centers, the Italian city-states, the German provinces, and the Low Countries, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when the controversy over witchcraft was at its peak. Although they are few in number, these highly innovative images are the most effective and illuminating means by which to access these themes. These works of art provide valuable insights into important issues that troubled early modern society. Chapter 1 reveals how witchcraft imagery produced in the Low Countries is concerned with the witch’s violent rejection of the social bonds and practices upon which the community depends for survival. Chapter 2 examines how the figure of the witch was used to explore concerns about the delineation and transgression of the human-animal boundary. Chapter 3 exposes an interest in the physical possibility of witchcraft; artists questioned the ability of witches and demons to manipulate the material world. Issues include the witches’ capacity to reanimate dead bodies and create monstrous creatures. Together these images demonstrate active and meaningful engagement with the theories, beliefs, and practices associated with witchcraft.

Early modern representations of witchcraft have been the subject of considerable recent scholarship; however, three significant aspects of the corpus have not received sufficient attention and are treated independently here for the first time. This dissertation will examine how witchcraft imagery invited discourse concerning the reality of magic and witchcraft and suggested connections to contemporary issues through the themes of the witch’s violent autonomy, bestial passions, and unnatural interactions with the demonic and the dead. These three themes address specific features of the multifaceted identity of the witch and participate in a larger discussion that questioned the nature of humanity. Analysis of each issue reveals a complex, ambiguous, and often radically open treatment of the subject that necessitates a revision of how witchcraft imagery from this period is understood. Each understudied aspect of witchcraft imagery is explored through a series of case studies that have not appeared together until now. Previously unexamined artworks with inventive content are introduced and canonical pictures are examined from new perspectives. These images were created in the principal artistic centers, the Italian city-states, the German provinces, and the Low Countries, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when the controversy over witchcraft was at its peak. Although they are few in number, these highly innovative images are the most effective and illuminating means by which to access these themes. These works of art provide valuable insights into important issues that troubled early modern society. Chapter 1 reveals how witchcraft imagery produced in the Low Countries is concerned with the witch’s violent rejection of the social bonds and practices upon which the community depends for survival. Chapter 2 examines how the figure of the witch was used to explore concerns about the delineation and transgression of the human-animal boundary. Chapter 3 exposes an interest in the physical possibility of witchcraft; artists questioned the ability of witches and demons to manipulate the material world. Issues include the witches’ capacity to reanimate dead bodies and create monstrous creatures. Together these images demonstrate active and meaningful engagement with the theories, beliefs, and practices associated with witchcraft.

在這篇研究阿蘭達蒂•洛伊《微物之神》之再現與踰越的論文中，筆者所要探討的主題有二，第一點旨在分析作者如何透過雙胞胎女孩的稚氣觀察去敘事，呈現出印度南方小鎮中，一家族興落的故事。筆者藉由霍米•巴巴的殖民學舌和含混將小說中的後殖民景狀加以探討；第二點以佳亞特麗•史碧娃克的第三世界女性觀點，探討小說中阿慕的踰越社會加諸於女性之限制。尤其在殖民後的印度，女性的角色並未因解殖民而提高或改善，故其跨越性別邊界及限制之舉，實為後殖民女性自覺與自我定位之肯定。 第一章筆者將阿蘭達蒂之生長背景及寫作過程作簡要之介紹。第二章筆者將後殖民印度之文學情況與阿蘭達蒂之寫作特色做一連結及闡述。第三章筆者提出霍米•巴巴之殖民學舌及含混敘述小說中重要之片段。第四章筆者以佳亞特麗•史碧娃克於文章「賤民能否發言？」中對第三世界女性所受之同質化等之不平對待，引出小說中作者所要表達的議題。以小說中阿慕為例，筆者闡述後殖民女性應有超越束縛之意識，並進而達成自我的定位。第五章，筆者對《微物之神》之標題做出自己之見解，並總論此篇研究所欲達到之景境。 / In the study of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, I focus on two essential aspects: representation and transgression. The first concern lies in the author’s linguistic and literary presentation that is closely related to Homi K. Bhabha’s colonial mimicry and hybridity in the novel. My second concern is related to Gayatri C. Spivak’s postcolonial feminist thoughts and Ammu’s transgressive behaviors. In the first chapter, I offer an epitome of the thesis. The themes of biology and transgression expressed by the author testify to the postcolonial tasks of demolishing the authorized norm and praising the indigenous aesthetics. The literary and sexual transgressions in and of the novel illustrate the abatement of confinements and the liberation of the mind and body. The second chapter of the thesis discusses literary issues in postcolonial India that are closely related to Arundhati Roy’s novel and writing. In the third chapter, I further develop Homi K. Bhabha’s theories of mimicry and hybridity that accentuate literary strategies in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. The fourth chapter has deeply explored on Gayatri C. Spivak’s postcolonial feminist thoughts and analyzed the transgressors that break up the social bonds in the novel. In the final chapter, I explain the novel’s title with the stress on indigenous aesthetics and the ensuing change of little discourse.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-02-29Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:47:11Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 oliveira_jg_me_sjrp.pdf: 637378 bytes, checksum: 83b7630d60ed94acc5e0daa92fcb0566 (MD5) / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo refletir sobre os aspectos transgressores do romance A lua vem da Ásia, de Campos de Carvalho. Esses aspectos dizem respeito à desarticulação da forma romanesca tradicional e do discurso linear e lógico, e ainda aos posicionamentos ideológicos e comportamentais do protagonista. Para nortear esta análise, utilizamos a teoria da carnavalização de Mikhail Bakhtin, teórico que observa as manifestações literárias tendo em vista as transgressões verificadas durante as festividades carnavalescas, que estabelecem uma “vida às avessas”, na qual inexistem as regras cotidianas e as relações hierárquicas vivenciadas no universo “extra-carnavalesco”. Nesse sentido, buscamos vislumbrar a referida obra de Campos de Carvalho enquanto objeto literário transgressor e dessacralizador, na medida em que a perspectiva narrativa reflete a visão de mundo de um narrador supostamente “louco” que (re)cria uma realidade inusitada, o avesso da “normalidade”, um mundo, segundo nossa hipótese, carnavalizado. / This dissertation is an analysis of the transgressive aspects in A lua vem da Ásia, by Campos de Carvalho. These aspects are related to the disarticulation of both the traditional novel structure and the linear and logical discourse, as well as of the ideologic and behavioural positions of the main character. This analysis is based upon Mikhail Bakhtin`s carnivalization theory, whose examination of literary manifestations is carried on with regard to the transgressions observed during the carnival festivities, which establish a ‘wrong life’ in which everyday rules and hierarchical relations experienced in the ‘extracarnival’ world are inexistent. Thus we consider Campos de Carvalho`s book as a transgressive and desacralizing literary work, in the sense that the narrative perspective reveals the world of a supposed ‘lunatic’ narrator who (re)creates an unusual reality, the opposite of ‘normality’: in our proposal, a carnivalized world.

C’est parce qu’il existe historiquement un fonds commun, le christianisme, que les films de Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) peuvent communiquer par l’intermédiaire du sacré avec les films d’Andreï Tarkovski (1932-1986). Leurs carrières de cinéastes débutent presque au même moment, au début des années 1960, et dans le même pays, l’Italie. Le premier film réalisé par Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accattone (Accattone, 1961), est projeté pour la première fois à la Mostra de Venise le 31 août 1961, là-même où L’Enfance d’Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo, 1962) de Tarkovski recevra l’année suivante le premier « Lion d’or » de l’histoire du cinéma soviétique. La religion n’occupe cependant pas la même place dans la vie sociale italienne, où le catholicisme est religion d’État jusqu’en 1984, que sous un régime athée fondé sur la « Séparation de l’Église avec l’État et avec l’École » en vertu de la loi du 23 janvier 1918. Nous formons l’hypothèse que leurs poétiques engagent respectivement une fonction critique à l’égard d’un pouvoir ayant autorité sur le sacré. Cette charge critique s’exercerait pour Tarkovski à l’encontre de la politique athée et matérialiste du régime soviétique, que ce soit à la fin du gouvernement de Krouchtchev (1953-1964) ou celui de Leonid Brejnev (1964-1982) sous lequel il évolue principalement en tant qu’artiste soviétique. Dans le cas de Pasolini, cette charge critique s’exercerait à l’encontre de la religion catholique et de son alliance politique avec la Démocratie chrétienne. Dans les deux cas, il s’agit d’investir et de s’approprier l’opposition fondamentale entre le sacré et le profane pour redéfinir leur frontière et leur répartition dans l’espace et le temps. Le parcours que nous suivrons s’échelonnera en trois parties. La première est axée sur la façon dont les réalisateurs ont respectivement actualisé au cinéma un paradigme de l’incarnation pour élaborer des figures christiques. Par leur intermédiaire, les réalisateurs nouent respectivement des rapports avec la liturgie, tantôt pour briser l’identification constituée historiquement sur « le » Christ de l’Église, tantôt pour réintroduire le culte et la tradition orthodoxes refoulés par le régime soviétique. Dans une deuxième partie, nous interrogeons la façon dont la représentation des corps et des sexualités mettent en tension le sacrilège et le sacré. Il faudra penser la dialectique du sacré et du profane avec des autorités ayant pouvoir de sanctionner la représentation des corps. La troisième partie, enfin, appréhende le sacré et le profane comme deux catégories opposées contribuant à la reconfiguration politique de l’espace et du commun. Nous analyserons l’emploi de traditions chrétiennes et la relation fondée sur la sanction qui unit des peuples « saints » à des formes de souveraineté politique se présentant elles-mêmes comme des autorités sacrées, séparées du commun des mortels / Because there exist historically a common culture, Christianity, that the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) can communicate with the films of Andreï Tarkovski (1932-1986). Their careers of filmmakers begin almost at the beginning of the years 1960, and in the same country, Italy. The first film carried out by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Accattone (Accattone, 1961), is shown for the first time at Mostra of Venice on August 31st, 1961, where the Childhood of Ivan (Ivanovo detstvo, 1962) of Tarkovski will receive the following year the first “gold Lion” of the History of the Soviet cinema. The religion does not occupy however the same place in the Italian social life, where Catholicism is religion of State until 1984, which under a Soviet regime based on the “Separation of the Church with the State and the School” since 1918. Their poetic respectively engage a critical function with regard to a power having authority on Sacred Christian. This criticism would be exerted for Tarkovski against the atheistic and materialist policy of the Soviet regime, under the government of Krouchtchev (1953-1964) and Leonid Brenev (1964-1982). In the case of Pasolini, this criticism would be exerted against the Catholic Church and to its political alliance with the Christian-Democracy. In both cases, it would be a question of investing and of adapting the fundamental opposition between the Sacred and the Profane to redefine their border and their distribution in space and time

The dissertation presents and explores a mode of literary studies, which bypasses the question of literary value, and instead aims to assess how and where creative writing challenges hegemonic norms (that is, its political value). In so doing, it reflects on the practice of literary studies per se, and the mechanism(s) by which discourse can impact on subjecthood. The exploration entails the application of certain theoretical tools (concepts) in a reading of a literary work. The primary concepts employed are: performativity, subjectivity and gender. The dissertation seeks to read Muriel at Metropolitan (Tlali 1994) as a performative act, that is, a discursive event which re-enacts the practice of fictional writing and thereby extends (and possibly changes} the convention of crealive writing. If it is true that creative writing is performative, that it partake in the making of the individual, then it is important to study such writing in order to discover the consequences for the subject / English Studies / M.A. (English)

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:29:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sonia Maria Ribeiro Jaconi.pdf: 3328684 bytes, checksum: 560b74238fd86dd58e594b99bc9e7b9f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-17 / This thesis aims to investigate the genre report, in order to know its constituent characteristics, situational context and the socio-communicative role that it plays among its speech community. The object of this research are the public reports written by the mayor Gracialiano Ramos, in the years 1929 and 1930, and sent to the governor of Alagoas State. These documents have achieved great impact at the time, due to the ironic and daring tone present in the texts, indicating a violation of the genre of report writing. For the analysis, it were defined the figures of rhetoric according to Quintiliano de Calahorra, and their incidence in these texts, paying attention to the transgressions committed by the manager-writer. To achieve our goals, the methodology used was the analysis of standardized text and textualization, proposed by Bhatia, with the analysis of expression, as proposed by Laurence Bardin. / Esta tese se propõe a investigar o gênero relatório, a fim de conhecer seus traços constitutivos, seu contexto situacional e a função sócio comunicativa que exerce em sua comunidade discursiva. Forma o objeto desta pesquisa os relatórios públicos escritos pelo prefeito Graciliano Ramos, nos anos de 1929 e 1930, e enviados ao governador do estado de Alagoas. Estes documentos alcançaram grande repercussão na época, devido ao tom irônico e ousado presente em seus textos que indicam uma transgressão da escritura do gênero relatório. Foram definidas para a unidade de análise as figuras de linguagem, na perspectiva de Quintiliano de Calahorra e sua incidência nestes textos prestando atenção nas transgressões praticadas pelo escritor gestor. Para alcançar os objetivos, a metodologia adotada foi o da análise da padronização de texto e textualização proposto por Bhatia, que compartilha com o da análise da expressão, de Lawrence Bardin.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A análise de dados de reflexão sísmica monocanal boomer (Hz ~ 700-4,000; penetração ~ 70 ms) adquiridos na plataforma continental interna-média (até ~ 50-60 m de profundidade) ao largo do sistema estuarino baía de Sepetiba, no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, revelou a ocorrência de uma sucessão sedimentar preservada 15-20 m, sismicamente interpretada como representando ambientes fluvio-estuarinos para marinhos rasos. Estas séries são sotopostas à inconformidade regional mais superior reconhecida na escala de plataforma, chamada superfície S3. Esta superfície é erodida por numerosas incisões fluviais, que sugerem processos erosivos associados à prolongada exposição subaérea da plataforma continental durante o estágio isotópico marinho 2 (MIS 2), globalmente datada em ~ 20 ka A.P.. A preservação de tais unidades de corte e preenchimento estuarinho presumíveis Pleistoceno Superior-Holoceno na plataforma interna-média (até ~ 30 km da costa) evidencia pela primeira vez na área a existência de um paleo sistema fluvial bastante desenvolvido e processos dominantes de denudação na bacia hidrográfica a montante que atualmente alimenta a baía de Sepetiba. Bem como que, uma série de elementos arquiteturais sísmicos dentro desta sucessão estuarina, como canais de maré retrogradantes, registram a evolução do paleo sistema estuarino de um sistema aberto à um sistema parcialmente protegido durante a transgressão Holocênica. A formação e erosão de uma sucessão de ilhas barreira isoladas e canais de maré durante a transgressão persistiu até o desenvolvimento de uma superfície estratigráfica superior na área, interpretada como a superfície de máxima inundação (MFS) no registro estratigráfico. A ilha barreira atual (restinga da Marambaia) prograda sobre a MFS como uma feição deposição regressiva, apontando para uma idade mais jovem do que cerca de ~ 5 ka A. P., idade da transgressão máxima na área, de acordo com a literatura disponível. / The analysis of boomer monochannel seismic reflection data (~700-4.000 Hz; ~70 ms penetration) acquired on the inner-mid shelf (up to ~50-60 m depth) offshore Sepetiba bay estuarine system, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, revealed the occurrence of a 15-20 m preserved sedimentary succession, seismically interpreted as representing fluvio-estuarine to shallow marine environments. These series overly the most upper regional unconformity recognized at shelf scale, named surface S3. This surface is eroded by numerous fluvial incisions, which suggest erosive processes associated to prolonged subaerial exposure of the continental shelf during marine isotopic stage 2 (MIS2), globally dated at ~20 ky B.P.. Preservation of such presumable Upper Pleistocene-Holocene cut-and-fill estuarine units on the inner-mid shelf (up to ~30km away from the coast) evidence for the first time in the area the existence of a rather developed paleo river system and dominant denudation processes in the upstream catchment basin that presently nourishes Sepetiba bay. As well as that, a series of seismic architectural elements within this estuarine succession, such as retrogressive tidal channels, record the evolution of the paleo estuarine system from an open to a partially-protected system during the Holocene transgression. The formation and erosion of a succession of isolated barrier islands and tidal channels during transgression persisted until the development of an upper stratigraphic surface in the area, interpreted as the maximum flooding surface (MFS) in the stratigraphic record. The present day barrier island (restinga da Marambaia) progrades over the MFS as a regressive depositional feature, pointing to an age younger than about ~5 ky B. P., dating of the maximum transgression in the area, according to the available literature.

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar a situação da vida da mulher durante o século XIX, na Inglaterra e nos Estados Unidos da América, através de duas obras do século XIX: Wuthering Heights (1847) de Emile Brontë e The Awakening (1889) de Kate Chopin. Objetivamos, na presente dissertação, apontar a crítica dos discursos patriarcal e das práticas de poder social que tornaram o contexto social das mulheres representadas nos romances citados, propício para a anulação da expressão erótica e repressão. O objeto da análise restringiu-se às duas personagens principais dos romances, Catherine Earnshaw e Edna Pontellier; personagens cujas subjetividades foram reprimidas através da imposição e desempenho de papéis sociais que não as satisfaziam como mulheres / The present work aims at analyzing the situation of women's lives during the nineteenth-century in England and the United States of America, in two nineteenth-century novels: Wuthering Heights (1847), by Emile Brontë and The Awakening (1889), by Kate Chopin. Our objective in this study is to point out the patriarchal discourses and practices of social power that made the social context of the women represented in the mentioned novels, suitable for the annulment of erotic expression. The object of the analysis was restricted to the two main characters of the novels Catherine Earnshaw and Edna Pontellier, whose subjectivities have been suppressed through the imposition and performance of social roles that do not fulfil them as women

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:19:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LindinesGB.pdf: 916578 bytes, checksum: 5fc85be6fabb31d50e69bab72b301e47 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-25 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This dissertation establishes a viewpoint in the Social Cience Field of the Nymphs image in the romanesque construction of the twentieth century based in modern archaeology. Our literary corpus is constitututed by the book of the russian author callled Wladimir Nabokov entlited Lolita and the book Presen?a de Anita, from a brazilian author called Mario Donato. Both works had a singular repercussion involving an erotic conception wich was faced as pornographic and baffling. We appeal to Georges Bataille‟s and Foucault‟s discussion in order to observe it through an erotic viewpoint from an inner experience not submitted to normalizations. Such experiences provoke a feeling of something unknown and it reflects wild singularities proposed by Foucault and related with many misunderstanding things presented in institutions and cultures. Furthemore Bataille‟s conception about erotism will give us conditions to analyze nymphs‟ bodies in order to see themselves from their main characteristics, such as seduction and tempting and maligning forces. We still aim to focus the paradigm of mankind and nature in the direction presented by Edgar Morin. He analyzes some feelings that nymphs provoke and their relation between men and death. In adittion, we present in this issue some questions between culture and biology, focusing on the initial period of larva (wich means the beggining), bringing up what is ready to be born, a mythical and significant body shown in the media. Lolita in the cinema and A Presen?a de Anita in the TV was disturbing in society and it projected the possibility of a syntaxes of desire. It can has a symbolic purpose or it can be a kind of social and cultural phenomenon, wich is an object of representation. Our purpose is to immersion/emerge in the Nimphs‟s body with adventure and its risks at the same time in wich we are crossing frontiers / Esta disserta??o estabelece uma leitura, no campo das ci?ncias sociais, com base numa arqueologia moderna, da figura da ninfeta, na constru??o romanesca do s?culo XX. O livro do autor russo Wladimir Nabokov, intitulado Lolita, constitui nosso corpus liter?rio, juntamente com o autor nacional, M?rio Donato, Presen?a de Anita. Tais obras tiveram uma repercuss?o ?mpar, envolvendo uma concep??o er?tica tomada como pornogr?fica e desconcertante. Recorremos ? discuss?o de Georges Bataille e Foucault, a fim de observar atrav?s de um olhar constituinte de uma eroticidade, reconhecida enquanto experi?ncia interior, n?o submetida ? normatiza??o, ? normaliza??o, ao disciplinamento. Tal natureza de experi?ncia, provoca uma esp?cie de n?o-saber, refletindo a configura??o das singularidades selvagens, propostas em Foucault, relacionadas com aquilo ainda inassimil?vel pelas institui??es e pelas culturas. A concep??o de Bataille sobre o erotismo nos dar? condi??o de margear os corpos ninf?ticos para ver neles emergir a vertigem, a sua forma de abismo, o seu ser visto como mal?fico, a sua for?a tentadora e de sedu??o. Visamos, ainda, ao enfoque do paradigma do homem e a natureza perdida, na dire??o abordada por Edgar Morin, na procura do estranhamento que as ninfetas provocam, imbu?das da problematicidade entre o homem, a morte e seu duplo. Trazendo interroga??es entre a cultura e a biologia, remetendo ao est?gio elementar de larva, evocando o que h? de latente e pronto a se manifestar. Um corpo carregado de mitos e significa??o, tornando-se um corpo como m?dia. Lolita no cinema, e Presen?a de Anita na tv, perturbadoras dos sistemas, desorganizadoras de uma sintaxe social fechada, projetando a possibilidade de uma sintaxe do desejo. Motivo simb?lico, fen?meno social e cultural, objeto de representa??es. Propomos esta imers?o/emers?o no corpo ninf?tico, com o tudo de aventura discursiva e riscos que possam envolver-nos, ao atravessar fronteiras