Thesis (M.A. in English) -- University of Dayton. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed 06/23/10). Advisor: Albino Carrillo. Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-75). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:19:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elton.pdf: 1296575 bytes, checksum: 639f5161a19057d5ef80cbbe8ea1b29d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-02 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This essay studies the centrality of the human existence as the expression of religion in Clarice Lispectors work. The notion of religion used derives from the concept of theology of culture proposed by the german-american philosopher and theologist Paul Tillich and its consequences, as the concept of the courage to be, faith, revelation, non-being and being-itself. The study is based on short stories and novels published by Clarice Lispector, covering several thematic as body, sexuality, gender, poverty, identity, belonging and otherness. The thesis defended is that exist religious preoccupations at Clarice Lispectors literature, considering Tillichs notion. This problematic is expressed both in short stories as in novels by the thematics as well as the textual structure. Clarice Lispectors work exhibit a huge questioning about existence considering the origin, the ending, the purpose and meaning of existence, approaching the religious foundation of cultural expression. This religious foundation appears as a constant, a continuous line from which can be understood in a deeper way both the sense of unity of the complete work of the Brazilian writer as well as the particularities of the narratives according to different perspectives. Our hypothesis is that there is, in Clarices literature, a moment when the characters experience an event that makes them face their existential situation in a new or different way. These events are basically the shock with the non-being, the encounter with the nothingness that is in the basis of the literary construction of the characters. / O presente trabalho estuda a centralidade da existência humana como expressão de religião na obra de Clarice Lispector. A noção de religião trabalhada deriva do conceito de teologia da cultura proposta pelo filósofo e teólogo teuto-estadunidense Paul Tillich e de seus desdobramentos, como o conceito de coragem de ser, fé, revelação, nãoser e Ser-em-si. O estudo é feito sobre os contos e romances publicados por Clarice Lispector, passando por diversas temáticas tangentes, como corpo, sexualidade, gênero, pobreza, identidade, pertença e alteridade. A tese que se defende é de que existem preocupações existenciais em sentido profundo que podem ser consideradas preocupações religiosas na literatura de Clarice Lispector, considerando o sentido tillichiano. Tal problemática se expressa tanto nos contos quanto nos romances clariceanos, a partir tanto das temáticas quanto das estruturas textuais. A obra de Clarice Lispector exibe amplo questionamento existencial, sobretudo aqueles que se dão de maneira profunda, como a questão da origem, do fim, da finalidade e da significação da existência, tocando assim no fundamento religioso da expressão cultural. Esse fundamento religioso se apresenta como uma constante, uma linha contínua a partir da qual pode se entender de maneira mais profunda tanto o sentido de unidade da completude da obra da escritora brasileira quanto as particularidades de suas narrativas sobre diferentes temáticas. Partimos da hipótese de que há, na literatura clariceana, um momento no qual as suas personagens experimentam um evento que as fazem encarar de maneira nova ou diferenciada as suas situações existenciais. Esses eventos são basicamente o choque como nãoser, a experiência de encontro com o nada que há na profundidade da construção literária das personagens.

In introducing the four novels under discussion as a “History of Confession”, this study explores the resistance to the dominant discourse of ‘history’ offered by the sustained confessions of individuals. In examining Coetzee’s oeuvre it is possible to delineate the outline of a dialogue between cynicism and grace, and the effects of these on the process of confession in each of the works Chapter One, dealing with Age of Iron, draws on Levinas’ theory of ‘the Other’ in order to elucidate the role played by the interlocutor or confessor in the process of confession.The recognition of the passage of the self through the Other is integral to the attainment of a state of grace, without which confession cannot be brought to an end The countermanding claims of the writer's will-to-write and duty to society are illuminated as a source of cynicism which overwhelms the intervention of grace. The Master of Petersburg, discussed in Chapter Two, is a confession of the guilt and despair faced by the writer who sacrifices his soul to answer the urge to write. Chapter Three, which examines Coetzee’s excursion into autobiography, represents a continuation of the confessional trend. The distance between the narrator and protagonist of Boyhood illustrates the convolutions of self-deception in the process of confession. The chapter which deals with Disgrace identifies a new trend in Coetzee’s writing:the concern with animals. Levinas’ theory, which identifies the encounter with the Other as necessary to precipitate an intervention of grace, is again useful in explaining how Coetzee has postulated the unassimilable otherness of animals as primary to human ethical development. This chapter also concludes that Disgrace represents a high point in the recovery of both grace and agency in Coetzee’s oeuvre.The concluding chapter suggests that the accumulation of meanings to the term ‘grace’enables its definition as a semi-religious abstraction. Coetzee suggests that belief in its existence has the power to affect interactions on the physical plane, especially those between the self and the Other.

Essa tese nasceu da pesquisa que iniciamos em uma dissertação de mestrado. Naquele momento tínhamos questionamentos sobre como a teologia podia dialogar com a arte, mais especificamente com a literatura. Como resposta encontramos dois pontos de convergência entre teologia e literatura: teologia com teoria literária e fé com estética literária. Porém, também descobrimos que tanto na linguagem como no gênero literário, teologia e literatura se encontram em relações desequilibradas. Partimos então para uma tese de doutoramento em Ciência da Religião, na PUC de São Paulo, pondo o método teológico em nova perspectiva e sob a suspeita de que o mito podia ser um ponto de convergência ou de partida mais equilibrado para o diálogo entre teologia e literatura. Assim, encontramos a mythodologia de Gilbert Durand como uma mitohermenêutica razoável para dar conta do mito como ponto de partida tanto da teologia como da literatura. Porém, na atual tese, nosso questionamento foi: quais as implicações desse método teológico-literário baseado em uma mitohermenêutica para uma educação teológica devedora das tradições culturais de identidade latino-americana mestiça e híbrida encontradas na literatura? Realizamos então a aplicação da mythodologia nos contos de um dos melhores representantes da literatura latino-americana e modelo de escritor sob a égide do conto fantástico, especificamente do realismo maravilhoso: Jorge Luis Borges. Escolhemos os contos das obras Ficções e O Aleph. Nesses contos descobrimos que o mito condutor é hermesiano, de imaginação sintética, o que se adequa bem à identidade híbrida e mestiça da arte e da literatura latino-americanas. Também observamos que os mitemas dos contos estão intimamente relacionados com as metáforas-mitos que Borges elegeu como imagens arquetípicas que perpassam todos os seus contos. / This thesis was born from the research we started in a master\'s thesis. At that moment we had questions about how theology could dialogue with art, more specifically with literature. In response we find two points of convergence between theology and literature: theology with literary theory and faith with literary aesthetics. But we also find that both in language and literary genre, theology and literature find themselves in unbalanced relationships. We then set out for a doctoral thesis in the Science of Religion at PUC in São Paulo, putting the theological method in a new perspective and under the suspicion that the myth could be a more \"balanced\" starting point for the dialogue between Theology and literature. Thus we find Gilbert Durand\'s \"mythodology\" as a reasonable \"myth-hermeneutic\" to account for myth as a starting point for both theology and literature. However, in our current thesis, our question was: what are the implications of this theological-literary method based on a \"myth-hermeneutic\" for a theological education that owes the cultural traditions of Latin American mestizo and hybrid identity found in literature? We then apply the mythodology in the short stories of one of the best representatives of Latin American literature and model of writer under the aegis of the fantastic story, specifically the magical realism: Jorge Luis Borges. We chose the short stories from the works Fictions and O Aleph. In these tales we discover that the guiding myth is \"Hermesian\", of synthetic imagination, which is well suited to the hybrid and mestizo identity of Latin American art and literature. We also note that the \"mitema\" of short stories are closely related to the \"metaphors-myths\" that Borges chose as archetypal images that permeate all his tales.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-03-15T13:33:57Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rogério Gonçalves de Carvalho.pdf: 1575028 bytes, checksum: 449ebef308a3c3886d779436507a420b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-15T13:33:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rogério Gonçalves de Carvalho.pdf: 1575028 bytes, checksum: 449ebef308a3c3886d779436507a420b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This thesis was born from the research we had left in the master's thesis. At that moment we had found two points of convergence between theology and literature. The first point is the theoretical (theology and literary theory) and the second the experiential point (faith and literary aesthetics). However, we also find that both in language and literary genre, theology and literature find themselves in unbalanced relationships. In language because of the nature of theology, which is explanatory, and the nature of literature, which is experiential. In the literary genre because these languages change their relations depending on the type of literary work. Our suspicion about myth is a point of convergence or a more “balanced” departure from the old relations of theology and literature to its mythic-symbolic nature. Thus we find Gilbert Durand's “mythodology” as a reasonable “myth-hermeneutic” to account for the myth as a starting point. If we can not have a balanced relationship at the end of the line, at a point or points of convergence, perhaps we can have a more balanced relationship at a starting point, at the “genetic” beginning of theology and literature. Mythodology, a hermeneutical task divided into two phases, a “mithanálisys” and a “mithocriticism”, was carried out in one of the best representatives of Latin American literature and model of writer under the aegis of the fantastic story, specifically of wonderful realism: Jorge Luis Borges. We chose the short stories from the works Fictions and The Aleph. In these tales we discover that the guiding myth is “Hermesian”, of synthetic imagination. We also note that his “myths” are closely related to the metaphors that Borges chose as archetypal images that permeate all his tales / Essa tese nasceu da pesquisa que tínhamos deixado na dissertação de mestrado. Naquele momento tínhamos encontrado dois pontos de convergência entre teologia e literatura. O primeiro ponto o teórico (teologia e teoria literária) e o segundo o ponto experiencial (fé e estética literária). Porém, também descobrimos que tanto na linguagem como no gênero literário, teologia e literatura se encontram em relações desequilibradas. Na linguagem por causa da natureza da teologia, que é explicativa, e da natureza da literatura, que é experiencial. No gênero literário porque essas linguagens mudam suas relações dependendo do tipo de obra literária. Nossa suspeita sobre o mito ser um ponto de convergência ou de partida mais “equilibrado” se deu pelas antigas relações da teologia e literatura com a sua natureza mítico-simbólica. Assim, encontramos a “mitodologia” de Gilbert Durand como uma “mitohermenêutica” razoável para dar conta do mito como ponto de partida. Se não podemos ter uma relação equilibrada no fim da linha, em um ponto ou pontos de convergência, talvez possamos ter uma relação mais equilibrada em um ponto de partida, no início “genético” da teologia e da literatura. A mitodologia, tarefa hermenêutica dividida em duas fases, uma “mitanálise” e uma “mitocrítica”, foi realizada em um dos melhores representantes da literatura latino-americana e modelo de escritor sob a égide do conto fantástico, especificamente do realismo maravilhoso: Jorge Luis Borges. Escolhemos os contos das obras Ficções e O Aleph. Nesses contos descobrimos que o mito condutor é “hermesiano”, de imaginação sintética. Também observamos que seus “mitemas” estão intimamente relacionados com as metáforas que Borges elegeu como imagens arquetípicas que perpassam todos os seus contos

In accordance with cultural and literary theology the purpose of the study is to research Leonardas Andriekus’ (1914-2003) personality, his cultural and literary activities. In this work there are used biographical, cultural theology, literary theology and correlation methods. Searching for an appropriate theoretical base it was chosen Lev Karsavin’s (1992) a theory of a personality, philosopher Maceina’s considerations and theoretical insights while analysing Christian universalism and theology of culture (1991, 1993), Joseph Ratzinger's (1999) concept of death and eschatology as well Paul Tillich’s (1995) theology of culture. In the study there has been examined the formation of Christian universalism and concept of a universal personality in Lithuania, a paradigm of theology of culture, concepts of the theologies of art and literature. Andriekus’ life since his birth till the magazine “Aidai “ was moved into Lithuania also has been analysed. There has been disclosed Andriekus’ personality formation and his determination to the priesthood, which later was leading him towards the cleric path. There also have been highlighted Andriekus’ cultural ties with compatriots. In the work there is also being analysed his relationship with Lithuanian artists, writers and other representatives of culture. There have been presented his activities as a leadership of Lithuanian Writers' Society. There has been analysed his relationship with the magazine “Aidai” where he was working... [to full text] / Tyrimo tikslas remiantis kultūros teologija ir literatūros teologija ištirti Leonardo Andriekaus (1914-2003) asmenybę, jo kultūrinę veiklą bei literatūrinę kūrybą. Darbe naudojamasi biografiniu, kultūros teologijos, literatūros teologijos ir koreliacijos metodais. Ieškant tinkamo teorinio pagrindo, buvo pasirinktos Levo Karsavino (1992) asmenybės teorija, filosofo Maceinos svarstymai bei teorinės įžvalgos analizuojant krikščioniškąjį universalizmą ir kultūros teologiją (1991; 1993), Josepho Ratzingerio (1999) mirties ir eschatologijos samprata bei Paulo Tillicho (1995) kultūros teologija. Tyrime išnagrinėtas krikščioniškojo universalizmo formavimasis ir universalios asmenybės samprata Lietuvoje; išanalizuota kultūros teologijos paradigma, meno teologijos ir literatūros teologijos samprata. Ištirtas Andriekaus gyvenimas nuo jo gimimo iki žurnalo „Aidai“ perkėlimo į Lietuvą. Atskleistas asmenybės susiformavimas ir apsisprendimas kunigystei, kuris vėliau vedė link dvasininko kelio. Išryškinti Andriekaus kultūriniai ryšiai su tėvynainiais. Analizuoti jo santykiai su lietuvių menininkais, rašytojais, kultūrinininkais. Pristatyta jo veikla vadovaujant Lietuvių rašytojų draugijai. Analizuoti jo santykiai su žurnalu „Aidai“, kuomet jis buvo bendradarbis ir vyr. redaktorius. Išnagrinėta Andriekaus publikuota ir nepublikuota poezija. Analizuotas universalus laikas per kairos ir chronos prizmę; sakralios erdvės, kur įvairūs Palestinos vietovardžiai siejami su Lietuvos vietovardžiais... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

[pt] O presente trabalho tem como objeto material da pesquisa a busca de sentido da vida ou patodiceia inspirada na logoteoria de Viktor Emmil Frankl, (1905-1997) e o que a teologia tem a contribuir com a questão, verificando a sua capacidade de recepção sensível à problemática a partir da construção de uma teopatodiceia, no qual a teologia é vista como pergunta pelo sentido [logos] de Deus [Theós] na busca de sentido humana, tendo por base a lógica de conhecimento existencial extraída da teologia dos Exercícios Espirituais de Santo Inácio de Loyola, na perspectiva de Karl Rahner (1904-1984), como forma de explicitar a dimensão da existência cristã presente em sua antropologia teológica. Também é parte da proposta deste trabalho encontrar critérios para formular uma razão literária como elemento formal adequado à proposta da patodiceia, e consequentemente, da teopatodiceia, resultando assim naquilo que chamamos de pensamento poético teológico, como forma de desvelamento de sentido, ou ainda, o elemento existencial das fórmulas teológicas, por um empréstimo de pensamento da Literatura. / [en] The aim of this present research is examine the relation between of the meaning of life other the pathodicy inspired by the Viktor Emmil Frankl s logotheory (1905-1997) and what contribution the theology can make about the question. The Theopathodicy theoretical construction results from the Theology s openness to issue understanding as theo-logy the query about the meaning [logos] of God [Theós], in the human search for meaning. The theological basis of the work is the logic of existential knowledge present in Karl Rahner s (1904-1984) Theology of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, as a way to see the Theological Anthropology in the form of Christian existence. Also, a second aim, as long as part of this proposed study, is find criteria to develop a literary reason, as far as formal element concerned to pathodicy, and consequently even the theopatodicy. And thus resulting in what we call poetic theological thought as a way of uncovering meaning, as well a proper way to make explicit the existential element of theological formulas for a loan thinking of Literature.

Essa tese nasceu da pesquisa que iniciamos em uma dissertação de mestrado. Naquele momento tínhamos questionamentos sobre como a teologia podia dialogar com a arte, mais especificamente com a literatura. Como resposta encontramos dois pontos de convergência entre teologia e literatura: teologia com teoria literária e fé com estética literária. Porém, também descobrimos que tanto na linguagem como no gênero literário, teologia e literatura se encontram em relações desequilibradas. Partimos então para uma tese de doutoramento em Ciência da Religião, na PUC de São Paulo, pondo o método teológico em nova perspectiva e sob a suspeita de que o mito podia ser um ponto de convergência ou de partida mais equilibrado para o diálogo entre teologia e literatura. Assim, encontramos a mythodologia de Gilbert Durand como uma mitohermenêutica razoável para dar conta do mito como ponto de partida tanto da teologia como da literatura. Porém, na atual tese, nosso questionamento foi: quais as implicações desse método teológico-literário baseado em uma mitohermenêutica para uma educação teológica devedora das tradições culturais de identidade latino-americana mestiça e híbrida encontradas na literatura? Realizamos então a aplicação da mythodologia nos contos de um dos melhores representantes da literatura latino-americana e modelo de escritor sob a égide do conto fantástico, especificamente do realismo maravilhoso: Jorge Luis Borges. Escolhemos os contos das obras Ficções e O Aleph. Nesses contos descobrimos que o mito condutor é hermesiano, de imaginação sintética, o que se adequa bem à identidade híbrida e mestiça da arte e da literatura latino-americanas. Também observamos que os mitemas dos contos estão intimamente relacionados com as metáforas-mitos que Borges elegeu como imagens arquetípicas que perpassam todos os seus contos. / This thesis was born from the research we started in a master\'s thesis. At that moment we had questions about how theology could dialogue with art, more specifically with literature. In response we find two points of convergence between theology and literature: theology with literary theory and faith with literary aesthetics. But we also find that both in language and literary genre, theology and literature find themselves in unbalanced relationships. We then set out for a doctoral thesis in the Science of Religion at PUC in São Paulo, putting the theological method in a new perspective and under the suspicion that the myth could be a more \"balanced\" starting point for the dialogue between Theology and literature. Thus we find Gilbert Durand\'s \"mythodology\" as a reasonable \"myth-hermeneutic\" to account for myth as a starting point for both theology and literature. However, in our current thesis, our question was: what are the implications of this theological-literary method based on a \"myth-hermeneutic\" for a theological education that owes the cultural traditions of Latin American mestizo and hybrid identity found in literature? We then apply the mythodology in the short stories of one of the best representatives of Latin American literature and model of writer under the aegis of the fantastic story, specifically the magical realism: Jorge Luis Borges. We chose the short stories from the works Fictions and O Aleph. In these tales we discover that the guiding myth is \"Hermesian\", of synthetic imagination, which is well suited to the hybrid and mestizo identity of Latin American art and literature. We also note that the \"mitema\" of short stories are closely related to the \"metaphors-myths\" that Borges chose as archetypal images that permeate all his tales.

The aim of this thesis is a theological reflection of contemporary Czech poetry. Specifically, the thesis deals with collections Úloža by Ivan Martin Jirous, Darmata by Petr Hruška and Osip míří na jih by Marie Iljašenko. It focuses mainly on their concepts of man, the world and transcendence. The work is divided into three chapters, the first two being a necessary prelude for chapter three. The first part of the thesis presents some of the ways in which theology can relate to poetry. Language, imagination and metaphor are presented as common fields of both theology and poetry. Furthermore, this chapter defines two possible theological approaches to poetry: The theological approach to poetry as an object of theology and as a subject of theology. In the second chapter, there is literary analysis of the collections, which is necessary for the third part. In the third part, which is the main focus of this thesis, a theological reflection of selected collections is presented. Its aim is not only to examine whether and how the selected themes in the collections correlate with their conception in theology, but also to present what they may be inspirational for theology.

Thesis (M.A.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008. / Directed by Amy Vines; submitted to the Dept. of English. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jan. 28, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-85).