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<p>"Reading the Street" chronicles the rise of black pulp fiction in the post-civil rights era from the perspective of its urban readership. Black pulp fiction was originally published in the late 1960s and early 1970s; it consisted of paperback novels about tough male characters navigating the pitfalls of urban life. These novels appealed mainly to inner-city readers who felt left out of civil rights' and Black Power's promises of social equality. Despite the historic achievements of the civil rights movement, entrenched structural inequalities led to America's ghettos becoming sites of concentrated poverty, rampant unemployment, and violent crime. While mainstream society seemed to turn a blind eye to how these problems were destroying inner-city communities, readers turned to black pulp fiction for the imaginative resources that would help them reflect on their social reality. In black pulp fiction, readers found confirmation that America was not on the path toward extending equal opportunities to its most vulnerable citizens, or that the rise of Black Power signaled a change in their fortunes. Yet in black pulp fiction readers also found confirmation that their lives as marginalized subjects possessed a value of its own, and that their day-to-day struggles opened up new ways of "being black" amid the blight of the inner city.</p> / Dissertation

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:47:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lisiane Sias Manke_Tese.pdf: 37056350 bytes, checksum: 16981f8ac8ab45d83f6cf1a24e740f2c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-04-09 / The theme of this thesis is the study of the trajectories of readers who come from the rural area; its main objective is to understand the development of reading practices through the analysis of individual structures, by investigating: a) the social circumstances of the past which contributed in the process of incorporating reading inclination.; b) the means and the modes of reading and the reading appropriation of six rural actors. The theoretical tenets which guided the analysis are related to the history of reading studies, regarding the proposals of Roger Chartier, and the sociology of reading and the culture concepts discussed by Bernard Lahire. The investigation was performed with individuals living in the southern region of Rio Grande do Sul State, known in their locale as assiduous readers. They are six readers, four men and two women born and raised in the rural area, over 70 years old, with poor schooling and daily reading in a non-professional way. The methodological approach is related to the proposal of sociology on an individual scale, in which the individual must be deeply investigated, to apprehend the inner plurality of unique individuals. Thus, from four to six interviews were taken profoundly with each one of the readers investigated. The analysis of these readers trajectories made possible the outline of an image of reading practices in the social world, evincing the reader as unique individual in the social field, pervaded by sociability relations which constitute him. In doing so, this research results demonstrated that different instances of socialization contribute to the process of incorporating reading inclination, and that the readers experience different relations with reading during their life trajectory, by being subordinated to internal forces (inclinations) and to external forces (contexts) which interfere in action. Considering the modes of reading, the analysis evinced silent and extensive reading practices, i.e., lonely and silent readings of a significant number of texts, except the reading practice of a Bible reader . Referring to the modes of appropriation of texts, it was possible to notice some ethic-pratical inclinations, in which one may assume participation, identification with the read text, related to a sociohistorical identity of the readers. / Esta tese tem como tema o estudo da trajetória de leitores oriundos do meio rural, com o objetivo principal de compreender o desenvolvimento das práticas de leitura através da análise das estruturas individuais, ao investigar: a) as circunstâncias sociais do passado que contribuíram no processo de incorporação da disposição à leitura; b) os meios e os modos de ler e a apropriação da leitura de seis atores rurais. Os pressupostos teóricos que nortearam a análise estão vinculados aos estudos da história da leitura, a partir do que propõe o historiador Roger Chartier, e aos conceitos da sociologia da leitura e da cultura, discutidos por Bernard Lahire. A investigação foi realizada com indivíduos moradores na região sul do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, reconhecidos na localidade onde residem como leitores assíduos. Trata-se de seis leitores, quatro homens e duas mulheres, que nasceram e cresceram no meio rural, possuem pouca escolarização, têm mais de 70 anos de idade, e leem cotidianamente, de forma não profissional. O aporte metodológico esteve vinculado à proposta da sociologia à escala individual, na qual o indivíduo deve ser investigado profundamente, de modo a apreender a pluralidade interna dos indivíduos singulares. Sendo assim, foram realizadas de quatro a seis entrevistas em profundidade com cada um dos leitores investigados. Ao analisar a trajetória destes leitores foi possível esboçar uma imagem das práticas de leitura no mundo social, evidenciando o leitor como indivíduo singular no campo social, permeado por relações de sociabilidade que o constituem. Neste sentido, os resultados desta pesquisa demonstraram que diferentes instâncias de socialização contribuem no processo de incorporação da disposição leitora, e que os leitores vivenciam diferentes relações com a leitura durante a trajetória de vida, por estarem submetidos a forças interna (disposições) e a forças externas (contextos) que interferem na ação. Em relação às maneiras de ler, a análise evidenciou práticas de leitura silenciosas e extensivas, ou seja, leituras solitárias e em silêncio, de um significativo número de textos, com exceção da prática de leitura de uma leitora da Bíblia . Ao que se refere aos modos de apropriação dos textos, foi possível perceber disposições ético-práticas, nas quais se pressupõe uma participação, uma identificação com o texto lido, vinculada a identidade sócio-histórica dos leitores.

The art of reading and its application to knowledge acquisition and innovation by elites have been largely neglected by historians of print culture and reading in late imperial China (1368-1911). Unlike most studies, which are concerned more with the implied reader and individual reading experience, the present study assumes that the actual reader and the social, cultural and epistemic dimensions of reading practices are the central issues of a history of reading in China. That is, while the art of reading was internalized by the individual, his learning and application of it had social, cultural and epistemic features. At a time when secular reading practices in Renaissance England were informed by Erasmian principles, Ming literati, regardless of their different philosophical stances, were being trained in an art of reading proposed by Zhu Xi (1130-1200), whose Neo-Confucian philosophy had been esteemed as orthodox since the fourteenth century. Transformations and challenges in interpreting and applying his art did not hinder its general reception among elite readers. Its common employment determined the practitioner’s epistemic frame and manner of knowledge innovation. My dissertation consists of five chapters bracketed with an introduction and conclusion. Chapter One discusses Zhu’s theory of reading and the implied pattern of acquiring and innovating knowledge, based on a careful reading of his writings and conversations. Chapter Two describes the transmission of Zhu’s theory from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. During its transmission, Zhu’s art was reedited, rephrased, and even readapted by both government agencies and individual authors with different intentions and agendas. Chapter Three focuses on the reception of Zhu’s theory of reading by 1500 and argues that the moral end of reading eventually triumphed over the intellectual one in early Ming Confucian philosophy. Chapter Four explores the affinity of Ming philosophers of mind with Zhu’s theory in their reading concepts and practices from 1500 to the mid-seventeenth century. Despite their attempts to separate themselves intellectually from the Song tradition, Ming philosophers of mind followed Zhu’s rules for reading in their intellectual practices. Chapter Five outlines the reading habits and knowledge landscape based on a statistical survey of extant Ming imprints. Despite some deviations, the Ming reading habits and knowledge framework largely accorded with Zhu’s theory and its Ming adaptations. The continuity of reading habits from Zhu’s time to the seventeenth century, I conclude, inspires us to rethink the Ming apostasy from the Song tradition. The particularity of scholarly knowledge acquisition and innovation in Ming-Qing China by the eighteenth century was not invented by Ming-Qing scholars but anticipated by Zhu through his theory of reading. With respect to late imperial China, the history of reading, together with the history of knowledge, is yet to be fruitfully explored. With this dissertation, I hope to be able to make a contribution to the understanding of the East Asian orthodox habit of reading as represented by Zhu’s admirers. By placing my investigation in the context of the history of knowledge, I also hope to contribute to the understanding of the relationship of reading to the way that knowledge evolved in traditional China. Intellectual historians tended to consider the Ming Confucian tradition as having broken off from the Cheng-Zhu tradition, but at least in reading habits and practices Ming elite readers perpetuated Zhu’s theory of reading and the knowledge framework it implied.

Este trabalho discute a incorporação de novos materiais pela escola através do estudo da leitura de impressos de RPG (role-playing games, ou jogos de interpretação de papéis). Estes impressos (livros e revistas) começaram a surgir no país por volta de 1990 e no decurso da década se diversificaram bastante, inclusive graças a uma volumosa produção de títulos nacionais. Em 2001, quando uma estudante foi assassinada em Ouro Preto e o crime foi associado à prática dos role-playing games, dois aspectos aparentemente contrários tornaramse evidentes por um lado, a presença de jogos que parodiam temas religiosos e aos quais se atribuiu influência sobre o comportamento criminoso, e por outro, a existência de livros dedicados a assuntos do currículo escolar. Com base numa aliança entre preceitos da História Cultural, da Lingüística e da Psicanálise, este trabalho procura compreender esse trajeto, pensando particularmente no problema de como surgem novos sentidos na leitura e como esses sentidos passam a ser negociados uma vez que se instauram no discurso. Através da descrição de impressos de RPG e da análise de diversos aspectos da sua leitura, manuseio e circulação, o trabalho visa discutir as formas como a linguagem não apenas manifesta, mas efetivamente sustenta e realiza as relações de poder através das quais um determinado tipo de material pode se constituir como objeto de relevância para a escola. / This work discusses the adoption of new materials in school by studying the reading of RPG (role-playing game) publications. These publications (books and magazines) first appeared in Brazil around 1990 and throughout that decade became very diverse also due to a voluminous production of national titles. By 2001, when a student was murdered in the city of Ouro Preto and the crime was reputed to role-playing game pratices, two apparently contrary aspects became evident: on the one hand, the presence of games that parody religious themes and to which an influence upon criminal behavior was attributed, and on the other hand the existence of books dedicated to school subjects. Based on concepts from Cultural History, Linguistics and Psychoanalysis, this work attempts to explain this trajectory, considering particularly the problem of how new meanings occur in reading and how these meanings are dealt with once they are installed in a discourse. By describing RPG publications and analysing how they might be read, handled and passed on among readers, this works discusses how language not only manifests, but rather supports and effects power relations by which a certain type of material may become an object of relevance from the schools perspective.

Este trabalho discute a incorporação de novos materiais pela escola através do estudo da leitura de impressos de RPG (role-playing games, ou jogos de interpretação de papéis). Estes impressos (livros e revistas) começaram a surgir no país por volta de 1990 e no decurso da década se diversificaram bastante, inclusive graças a uma volumosa produção de títulos nacionais. Em 2001, quando uma estudante foi assassinada em Ouro Preto e o crime foi associado à prática dos role-playing games, dois aspectos aparentemente contrários tornaramse evidentes por um lado, a presença de jogos que parodiam temas religiosos e aos quais se atribuiu influência sobre o comportamento criminoso, e por outro, a existência de livros dedicados a assuntos do currículo escolar. Com base numa aliança entre preceitos da História Cultural, da Lingüística e da Psicanálise, este trabalho procura compreender esse trajeto, pensando particularmente no problema de como surgem novos sentidos na leitura e como esses sentidos passam a ser negociados uma vez que se instauram no discurso. Através da descrição de impressos de RPG e da análise de diversos aspectos da sua leitura, manuseio e circulação, o trabalho visa discutir as formas como a linguagem não apenas manifesta, mas efetivamente sustenta e realiza as relações de poder através das quais um determinado tipo de material pode se constituir como objeto de relevância para a escola. / This work discusses the adoption of new materials in school by studying the reading of RPG (role-playing game) publications. These publications (books and magazines) first appeared in Brazil around 1990 and throughout that decade became very diverse also due to a voluminous production of national titles. By 2001, when a student was murdered in the city of Ouro Preto and the crime was reputed to role-playing game pratices, two apparently contrary aspects became evident: on the one hand, the presence of games that parody religious themes and to which an influence upon criminal behavior was attributed, and on the other hand the existence of books dedicated to school subjects. Based on concepts from Cultural History, Linguistics and Psychoanalysis, this work attempts to explain this trajectory, considering particularly the problem of how new meanings occur in reading and how these meanings are dealt with once they are installed in a discourse. By describing RPG publications and analysing how they might be read, handled and passed on among readers, this works discusses how language not only manifests, but rather supports and effects power relations by which a certain type of material may become an object of relevance from the schools perspective.

The purpose of this thesis is to study the newspaper A Razão, a journal created in Estância, Sergipe, by physician João Vieira Leite and his brother-in-law, the merchant Augusto Ramos Gomes. The temporal cut begins in 1898, year of foundation of the periodical, and 1923, year that corresponds to the death of Augusto Gomes. Aligned with the ideology of civilization, progress and modernity that prevailed during the Old Republic, the press played a prominent role in promoting ideas, formation of ideas and propagating knowledge. In this sense, the general objective of this doctoral research is to analyze the structure of the newspaper, its explicit purposes and, mainly, the relations established by and from it in various areas such as: philanthropy, education, arts, religion, politics and commerce. The extensive participation of the Jornal in the Estância’s society evidenced the use of different strategies in the dispute for the accumulation of more social capital and distinction. For the production of this work linked to Cultural History, I opted for the use of the following concepts: field, capital, habitus and representation, as well as establishing a dialogue with the newspaper A Razão was at the same time an object and source. From the analysis of his writings other sources became necessary as: book of minutes, memories, photographs and reports. The research was carried out in the archive of the Epiphânio Dórea Public Library, in the Historical and Geographic Institute of Sergipe, in the Central Library of the Federal University of Sergipe and in the Journal Library of the National Library. Through the analysis of the structure of the newspaper, different themes will be analyzed, such as: a brief history about the press in Sergipe, the civilizatory mission attributed to the press in the republican period, the relationship between the press and literature, a brief profile of the city of Estância, the evidence of books circulating in the city of Estancia at the time through advertisements in the newspaper, education through the pages of the periodical, encouragement to the arts, notably music, cinema and theater, the feminine condition of writings published and the work of doctors Jessé Fontes and Josafá Brandão in the cultural and educational fields with the press as a vehicle. Thus, considering the data collected in the research, I defend the thesis that, as part of a civilizing and progressive mission, the newspaper A Razão acted as a disseminating vehicle for reading and instruction in the city of Estância, in Sergipe, in the 1898 to 1923. / Cette thèse a pour objet d'étude le journal A Razão, périodique créé à Estância, dans l’état du Sergipe, par le médecin João Vieira Leite et son beau-frère, le commerçant Augusto Ramos Gomes. Le découpage temporel commence en 1898, année de fondation du journal et en 1923, date du décès d’Augusto Gomes. Alignée aux idéologies de civilisation, de progrès et de modernité en vigueur au cours de la República Velha, la presse a joué un rôle de premier plan dans la formation d’idées, dans la diffusion de celles-ci ainsi que dans la diffusion des connaissances. En ce sens, l’objectif général de cette recherche de doctorat est d’analyser la structure du journal, ses buts explicites et surtout les relations établies par et à partir de celui- ci dans divers domaines tels que la philanthropie, l’éducation, les arts, la religion, la politique ou encore le commerce. On a pu observer, avec l’importante participation du journal dans la société estanciana, l’apparition et la mise en place de différentes stratégies dans la lutte pour l’accumulation de plus de capital social et distinction. Pour la rédaction de cette thèse, on a choisi de mettre en avant les concepts suivants: le domaine, le capital, habitus et les représentations. Le journal A Razão était en même temps, l'objet et la source de la recherche et à partir de l'analyse de ses écrits, d'autres sources ont été rendues nécessaires comme: des livres de minutes, des souvenirs, des photos et des rapports.Cette recherche a été menée à partir des archives de la Biblioteca Pública Epiphânio Dórea, de l’Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Sergipe, de la Biblioteca Central de l’Universidade Federal de Sergipe et de l’Hemeroteca Digital de la Biblioteca Nacional.À travers l’analyse de la structure du journal, nous aborderons aussi d’autres thèmes. Tout d’abord, nous ferons un bref historique de la presse au Brésil pour ensuite analyser la mission civilisatrice attribuée à la presse dans la période républicaine. Nous nous pencherons également sur la relation qu’entretient la presse avec la littérature. Après avoir peint un bref profil de la ville d’Estância, nous metrons en avant les preuves qui nous indiquent les livres qui ont circulé dans la ville d’Estância à l'époque, cela à travers les annonces véhiculées dans le journal. On a aussi l’éducation à travers les pages du périodique, l’encouragement aux arts, particulièrement la musique, le cinéma et le théâtre, la contdition féminine par des écrits publiés et le rôle des médecins Jessé Fontes et Josafá Brandão dans les domaines culturel et éducatif avec la presse en tant que véhicule. Ainsi, en vue des données collectées dans la recherche présentée ici, on soutient qu’inséré dans une mission civilisatrice et progressive, le journal A Razão a servi comme véhicule diffuseur de la lecture et de l’instruction dans la ville d’Estância, dans l’état du Sergipe, au cours de la période 1898 à 1923. / A presente tese tem como objeto de estudo o jornal A Razão, periódico criado em Estância, Sergipe, pelo médico João Vieira Leite e seu cunhado, o comerciante Augusto Ramos Gomes. O recorte temporal inicia-se em 1898, ano de fundação do periódico, e 1923, ano que corresponde ao início da mudança na estrutura editorial do jornal, impulsionada pelo falecimento de Augusto Gomes. Alinhada ao ideário de civilização, progresso e modernidade vigente durante a República Velha, a imprensa exerceu um papel de destaque na veiculação de ideias e na propagação do conhecimento. Nesse sentido, o objetivo geral desta pesquisa de doutoramento é analisar a estrutura do jornal, seus propósitos explícitos e, principalmente, as relações estabelecidas por e partir dele em variadas áreas tais como: filantropia, educação, artes, religião, política e comercial. A ampla participação do periódico na sociedade estanciana evidenciou a utilização de diferentes estratégias na disputa pelo acúmulo de mais capital social e distinção. Para a produção deste trabalho vinculado à História Cultural, optei pela utilização dos seguintes conceitos: campo, capital, habitus de Pierre Bourdieu e representação discutido por Roger Chartier, além de estabelecer um diálogo com o jornal A Razão foi, ao mesmo tempo, objeto e fonte. A partir da análise dos seus escritos outras fontes foram se fazendo necessárias como: livro de atas, memórias, fotografias e relatórios. A pesquisa foi realizada no arquivo da Biblioteca Pública Epiphânio Dórea, no Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Sergipe, na Biblioteca Central da Universidade Federal de Sergipe, na Hemeroteca Digital da Biblioteca Nacional, além do arquivo da família Gomes. Através da análise da estrutura do jornal, diferentes temáticas serão analisadas, tais como: um breve histórico acerca da imprensa em Sergipe , a missão civilizatória atribuída à imprensa no período republicano, a relação entre imprensa e literatura, um breve perfil da cidade de Estância, os indícios de livros que circularam na cidade na época por meio dos anúncios veiculados no jornal, a educação por meio das páginas do periódico, o incentivo às artes, notadamente, a música, o cinema e o teatro, a condição feminina pelos escritos publicados e a atuação dos médicos Jessé Fontes e Josafá Brandão nos campos cultural e educacional tendo a imprensa como veículo. Assim, tendo em vista os dados levantados na pesquisa, defendo a tese de que inserido em uma missão civilizatória e progressista, o jornal A Razão atuou como veículo disseminador da leitura e da instrução na cidade de Estância, em Sergipe, no período de 1898 a 1923.

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Since the publication of the book The Screwtape Letters in 1942, ‘C. S. Lewis’ has been a widely recognized name in both Britain and the United States. The significance of the writings of this scholar of medieval literature, Christian apologist and author of the children’s books The Chronicles of Narnia, while widely recognized, has not previously been investigated. Using a wide range of sources, including archival material, book reviews, monographs, articles and interviews, this dissertation examines the reception of Lewis in Britain and America, comparatively, from within his lifetime until the recent past. To do so, the methodology borrows from the history of the book and history of reading fields, and writes the biography of Lewis’s Mere Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia. By contextualizing the writing of these works in the 1940s and 1950s, the evolution of Lewis’s respective platforms in Britain and America and these works’ reception across the twentieth century, this project contributes to the growing body of work that interrogates the print culture of Christianity. Extensive secondary reading, moreover, permitted the investigation of cultural, intellectual, social and religious factors informing Lewis’s reception, the existence of Lewis devotees in America and the lives of Mere Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia in particular. By paying close attention to the historical conditions of authorship, publication and reception, while highlighting similarities and contrasts between Britain and America, this dissertation provides a robust account of how and why Lewis became one of the most successful Christian authors of the twentieth century.