The objectives of this thesis are concerned with the peculiar feature of repetitions in the so-called 'Flood-Narrative', Genesis 6-9. The presence of these repetitions has provoked many arguments amongst twentieth century biblical critics as to their origin, their function and even their form. The first objective of the thesis is to review critically a wide spectrum of research done on the repetitive phenomenon, outline the resultant opinions and to weigh the merits or weaknesses of any particular methodology as it relates to how the function of repetitive features is to be understood. The first chapter presents this critical view and finds that up to now, most research done on the text has not been free of methodological bias, with the result that only those repetitions useful to an approach are dealt with, to the exclusion of other repetitive features. The second objective is to catalog and describe the repetitive features of the text in an objective manner, free from methodological or exegetical bias. Chapter II arranges and classifies the repetitions that are evident in Gen. 6-9 and comments on possible patterns or forms suggested by the repetitions. The last objective of the thesis is to look at the repetitions from some perspectives of modern narrative theory to find if this viewpoint can shed any light on the function of repetitive forms. The last chapter of the thesis concludes that explanatory devices from narrative theory which rely on pre-established criteria apart from the text itself, are as well too short-sighted to be useful in corning to grips with repetitive function. However, those approaches which stress certain subjective, exegetical endeavors, or which emphasize a reader's response are found to provide useful insights for the perception of repetitive function. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

This thesis proposes that the ancient Greek novels theorize their readers from within themselves. The novels self-consciously promote and construct a reader who is curious, or polypragmôn, and lead this reader towards a recognition of that fact. The reader becomes aware of his or her experience of reading as a process. Drawing on Plutarch's suggestion that the best way to turn curiosity into a force for good is to turn it on oneself, this thesis puts forward the idea that the novels lead a curious reader to engage with his or her encounter with the text, to identify him or herself as curious, and in so doing come to a position of self-analysis. Attention is drawn to the experience of reading, and the lessons that can be learnt from it, by the embedding of narratives within the novels. Embedded or partial narratives can suggest alternative storylines and encourage the curious reader to pry and collaborate with the narrator. The experience of interior space maps the reader's encounter with the novel, constructing him or her as curious as s/he is encouraged to peep through gaps in doors, follow the narrator through doors, and think about his or her status as voyeur and eavesdropper. Deceptive narratives lead the reader to follow suggested storylines and to interrogate the text to try to discover the 'truth' that may lie behind the narrative. Finally, the presence of female characters incites the curious reader to find out what s/he can about them, pushing the narrative to its limit. In going through this process of interrogating the text and actively striving to find out more by reading between the lines, the reader becomes aware of reading as a process, and of his or her curiosity, thus becoming able to analyse him or herself. The novels thus promote a theory of how their readers approach them.

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Tornou-se necessário efetivar os meios de representação desses textos para fins de recuperação com a etapa sintética da Análise Documental de Conteúdo, por meio do desenvolvendo do produto informacional resumo, contendo elementos do texto importantes e que respondam as necessidades informacionais de usuários potenciais. O problema de pesquisa identificado consistiu em como representar o conteúdo do texto narrativo ficcional infanto-juvenil em resumos, considerando sua estrutura textual e o aboutness proveniente do texto? A hipótese é de que a representação dos textos narrativos ficcionais infanto-juvenis em resumo deve adaptar a estrutura, a temática ou aboutness e os elementos característicos do texto narrativo ficcional para o texto do resumo. A tese consistiu em que os fundamentos teóricos do Percurso Gerativo de Sentido, Semiótica Greimasiana e Teoria da Narrativa contribuíram para subsidiar os elementos macroestruturais e superestruturais importantes a serem usados de modo adaptado nos resumos dos textos narrativos ficcionais infanto-juvenis. A proposição consistiu no estudo dos fundamentos teóricos para elaboração de resumos de textos narrativos ficcionais infanto-juvenis em Análise Documental de Conteúdo, e dos elementos macroestruturais e superestruturais da Linguística Textual, do aboutness proveniente do Percurso Gerativo de Sentido advindo da Análise do Discurso e Semiótica Greimasiana, e dos elementos que caracterizam o texto narrativo ficcional da Teoria da Narrativa. Objetivou-se desenvolver procedimentos de elaboração de resumos de textos narrativos ficcionais infanto-juvenis, no âmbito da Análise Documental de Conteúdo, para fins de representação de seus aspectos estruturais, temáticos ou de aboutness e característicos, entendidos por meio do Percurso Gerativo de Sentido, Semiótica Greimasiana e Teoria da Narrativa. Utilizou-se a metodologia de estudo exploratório, que permitiu analisar diferentes teorias, de diferentes áreas do conhecimento, para o desenvolvimento de procedimentos de elaboração de resumos, a fim de aplicar esses procedimentos em amostra de textos narrativos ficcionais infanto-juvenis. Verificou-se que os procedimentos de elaboração de resumos de textos narrativos ficcionais infanto-juvenis devem considerar a representação segundo os aspectos do conteúdo e estrutura do texto para recuperação da informação, que consistiram em temáticas, personagem, espaço, tempo da história, tipo de narrador, tempo da narrativa e tipos de gêneros literários. A seleção desses elementos textuais norteou os procedimentos de leitura e representação, pois, são procedimentos complementares que têm em comum a utilização dos aspectos importantes da superestrutura e macroestrutura, além do apoio de estratégias metacognitivas. A aplicação dos procedimentos propostos de elaboração de resumos na amostra considerou a adaptação da estrutura e temática dos textos narrativos ficcionais infanto-juvenis para os resumos. Verificou-se ainda que os procedimentos de representação em resumos de textos narrativos ficcionais infanto-juvenis puderam ser desenvolvidos, considerando o embasamento teórico e os procedimentos propostos, respeitando a estrutura e aboutness advindos do texto. / The need to retrieve information of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text led to the development of research that discussed the identification of themes considering aboutness and analytical phase of Documentary Content Analysis. It was necessary to bring about ways of representing those texts for retrieval with the synthetic phase of Documentary Content Analysis, by means of developing the informational product abstract, containing important text elements and answer for information needs of potential users. The problem of the research is how to represent the content of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text in abstracts, considering their textual structure and aboutness from the text? The hypothesis is that the representation of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text in abstract requires adapted structure, theme or aboutness and the characteristic elements of fictional narrative text for the text of the abstract. The thesis considered that the theoretical foundations of the Generative Sense Course, Greimasian Semiotic and Theory of Narrative contributed to subsidize the important macro structural and super structural elements to be used in an adapted way in abstracts of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text. The proposition consisted in the study of theoretical foundations for elaboration of abstracts of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text in Documentary Content Analysis, and macro structural and super structural elements of Text Linguistics, aboutness from the Generative Sense Course, arising from Discourse Analysis and Semiotic Greimasian, and elements that characterize fictional narrative text of the Narrative Theory. The goal was to develop procedures of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text abstracts, in the range of the Documentary Content Analysis for representation of their structural, thematic or aboutness and characteristic aspects, understood through the Generative Sense Course, Greimasian Semiotic and Theory of Narrative. The exploratory study methodology, which allowed analysis of different theories from different knowledge areas, was used to develop procedures for abstracts elaboration, in order to apply these procedures in sample of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text. The elaboration procedures of abstracts for infant-juvenile fictional narrative text should consider the representation according to the aspects of text structure and content for information retrieval of theme, character, story space, story time, narrator, time of narrative and types of literary genres, should also be considered. The selection of these textual elements guided the reading and representation procedures, for they are complementary procedures that have in common the use of the important aspects of the superstructure and macrostructure, besides the support of metacognitive strategies. The application of procedures for elaboration of abstracts in the sample considered the adjustment of structure and theme for these abstracts of infant-juvenile fictional narrative text. Procedures for representation in abstracts for youth fictional narrative text could be developed, considering theoretical basis and proposed procedures, respecting the structure and aboutness following the text. / FAPESP: 2012/24229-4

Mgr. Klára Soukupová Autobiography in the Context of the Positioning Theory Abstract This doctoral thesis is a theoretical and an interpretative study that deals with the genre of autobiography, its position in the contemporary literary theory and problems related to an interpretation of autobiographical texts. Autobiography as a genre of non-fictional literature refers to real characters and events, but at the same time it is a literary work of art, a verbal construct in which the representation of reality is subject to the intentions of the author and to the rules of construction, that are close to the compositional techniques of fictional texts. The first part of the thesis concentrates on the theory of autobiography and its interdisciplinary context. It summarizes the development of theory of autobiography from the late 19th century to the present. Also, the concepts of the memory studies (especially the concept of collective memory) and the problem of distinguishing fiction and non-fiction (discussed in philosophy of history in 1970s and 1980s, fictional worlds theory, pragmatics of fiction, etc.) are taken into account. The theoretical chapter critically reflects P. Lejeune's definition of autobiography, based on the concept of the autobiographical pact. In relation with the problem of how to define...

Um interkulturelle Interaktionen verstehen und erklären zu können, bedarf es eines Ansatzes, der offen für die Selbst- und Weltverhältnisse aller beteiligten Interaktanden ist und sich dementsprechend emischer, nicht etischer, Beschreibungen von Handlungen und damit verknüpften Bedeutungszuschreibungen verpflichtet fühlt. Auf Basis (1) eines Kulturbegriffs, der von der Kulturdurchdrungenheit jeglichen Handelns einerseits und der (an individuelles Handeln gebundenen) Handlungsbedingtheit von Kultur andererseits ausgeht, wie dies in der Kulturpsychologie der Fall ist, und (2) qualitativ-sinnverstehender Methodologie und Methoden empirischer Sozialforschung ist dies möglich. Da das Verstehen von (kulturell fremden) Handlungen als Grundlage interkulturell kompetenten Handelns gelten kann, kommt der Lehre hermeneutisch-sinnverstehender Ansätze in der Ausbildung interkultureller Kompetenz somit eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Diesen Zusammenhängen widmet sich die in drei Großkapitel gegliederte – teilkumulative – Dissertation. Im ersten Teil der Arbeit werden die Symbolic Action Theory Ernst E. Boeschs, die handlungstheoretisch und kulturpsychologisch fundierte Relationale Hermeneutik Jürgen Straubs und der Grounded Theory-Ansatzes (Glaser/Strauss) im Hinblick auf ihre Eignung für die Erforschung und Lehre interkultureller Kommunikation und Kompetenz beleuchtet, ihre besondere Nützlichkeit für diesen Kontext begründet und zum Verfahren der ‚pragma-semantischen Analyse’ verdichtet. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit sind die acht eingereichten Schriften in Originalfassung abgedruckt. Eine Zusammenfassung der zentralen Inhalte und Forschungsergebnisse sowie eine Darstellung der inhaltlichen und entstehungsgeschichtlichen Zusammenhänge der einzelnen Schriften findet sich in Kapitel 1.3. Vor dem Hintergrund des zentralen Themas der Erforschung und Lehre interkultureller Kommunikation rücken in Teil 2 konkrete Handlungsfelder (Tourismus, internationaler Schüleraustausch und Hochschule) in den Blick, die im Rahmen von Forschungs- und Lehrforschungsprojekten untersucht wurden. „Pragma-semantische Analysen zur Erforschung interkultureller Kommunikation“ (2.1) ist eine Studie, die am Beispiel eines reisebiographischen Interviews – in konsequenter Fortsetzung des ersten Teils der Arbeit – die Leistung des komparativen Vorgehens vorführt. Dem Zusammenhang zwischen touristischen Reisen und interkultureller Kommunikation und Kompetenz ist der Handbuchartikel „Tourismus“ (2.2) gewidmet. Die Studie „Touristische Begegnungen aus der Perspektive einer Psychologie interkulturellen Handelns“ (2.3) basiert auf vom Autor erhobenen Beobachtungs- und Gesprächsdaten in Ladakh (im indischen Teil des Himalaya). Die Studie „Experiences and Coping Strategies of Host Families in International Youth Exchange“ (2.4) basiert auf im Rahmen eines Lehrforschungsprojekts erhobenen narrativ-biografischen Interviews und analysiert Erfahrungen und Umgangsstrategien der Gasteltern im Hinblick auf kulturelle Differenz. Mit der programmatischen Betrachtung „Interkulturell ausgerichtete Studiengänge“ (2.5) beginnt der dritte Themenkomplex (Hochschule), der sich der Fruchtbarmachung der in Teil 1 und im Kapitel 2.1. dargestellten Theorien und Methoden für die Lehre im Bereich ‚Interkulturelle Kommunikation’ sowie für die Ausbildung interkultureller Kompetenz widmet. Im Kapitel „Akteure\" (2.6) wird dies mit Bezug u.a. auf die Anforderungen an Studierende, das Lehrpersonal und an die involvierten Institutionen konkretisiert. Der Text „Lehrforschung und Lehrforschungsprojekte“ (2.7) sowie die aus einem Lehrforschungsprojekt entstandene „Bedarfsanalyse“ (2.8) demonstrieren beispielhaft die enge Verzahnung von Forschung und Lehre, Theorie und Praxis und zeigen, wie das in den Kapiteln 2.5 und 2.6 formulierte Programm in der Lehre umgesetzt werden kann. In Teil 3 der Arbeit werden die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse für die Ausbildung im Bereich interkultureller Kommunikation und Kompetenz an der TU Chemnitz fruchtbar gemacht. Insbesondere der ermittelte Bedarf (2.8) an interkulturell ausgerichteten Studienangeboten an der TU Chemnitz sowie die in Kapitel 3.1 vorgenommene vertiefte Analyse der konkreten Standortfaktoren ermöglicht die empirisch und theoretisch fundierte Entwicklung eines detaillierten Konzepts zur Ausbildung Interkultureller Kommunikation und Kompetenz an der TU Chemnitz, das in Kapitel 3.2. dargestellt ist. / If one views intercultural competence not as a set of – ultimately parameter-based – skills, but as a result of an understanding of otherness, intercultural competence cannot be taught as such. What can be taught, however, is the way one can make sense of otherness, hermeneutics. Understanding and explaining intercultural interactions requires an approach that is open to the self and world relations of interactants and thus committed to emic, not etic, description of actions and ascription of meaning to actions. This necessitates an understanding of culture that views culture as a result of individual action and all action as steeped in culture. Methodologically, this calls for qualitative interpretive methods. This – partially cumulative – dissertation consists of three parts. The first part discusses in detail two hermeneutic approaches to interculturality: Ernst E. Boesch’s Symbolic Action Theory and Jürgen Straub’s Relational Hermeneutics. Using Grounded Theory (Glaser/Strauss), these two approaches can be turned into a highly useful tool for the investigation of intercultural phenomena: Pragma-Semantic Analysis. The second part contains eight papers and articles. Starting with three papers demonstrating the usefulness of pragma-semantic analysis if applied to authentic ethnographic data, this part also explores interculturality in host families in international youth exchange and the intercultural systematics of tourism. The other four papers address various aspects of teaching the subject of Intercultural Communication at universities – degree structures, teaching/research projects and needs analysis. The recurring theme in these four papers is the necessity of a close interrelation between research and teaching as well as theory and practice. The third part, based on a case study from the second, outlines challenges and opportunities for the development of intercultural study programmes at the University of Chemnitz. The methodology employed here is pertinent to all universities wishing to implement intercultural studies programmes that suit their particular local and institutional requirements.