The non-fiction introduction to The Wyvern’s Tale: A Thought Experiment in Bakhtinian Dual Chronotope Occupation documents the evolution of the novel, The Wyvern’s Tale, from the ideas that inspired it to its current incarnation as a full-length novel intended for an adult audience. It comprises an explanation of the novel’s main concept, Bakhtinian dual chronotope occupation, as well as an idea-focused account of the creative-writing process. Detailed in the introduction’s theoretical premise is the relationship between Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of chronotope and the carnivalesque and the ideal of the divided union in Chalcedonian Christology. This relationship revolves around the state of existing in two time-spaces at once. The novel, The Wyvern’s Tale, explores this dual existence imaginatively using the setting of parallel worlds – the every-day world and a fictional world called Wyvern – as well as a protagonist, who functions in the fictional world as a Christ-figure. Particular thematic emphasis is placed on differing perceptions of truth and reality, and on the transformative power of costumes. The novel’s outcome, dependent on the reader’s decision as to whether dual chronotope occupation is possible or impossible, is respectively either hopeful or tragic. It attempts to reflect the outcome of the life and death of Christ depending on whether his co-existence as God and man was real or imagined.

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Thèse : Lettres : Uppsala : 1991. / Résumé en Anglais.

The study sets to establish trends with regard to the role of the praise singer, the changes with regard to the traditional praise singer's rendition/performance and the material or content of his/her poetry. Thus the study highlights the distinction observed between the praise singer of the past and the present praise singer. The study also shows that the praise singer's performance, in terms of his/her role and content, is in the state of flux. The study also demonstrates that the singer of the past and the present praise singer have the same role and their chants or poetry or songs have the same effect. It also highlights situations where praises are chanted in modern times. These are graduation ceremonies, weddings, political gatherings and traditional ceremonies, for example, the annual rain making ceremonies. These events or occasions are inextricably linked to traditional praises. The study also highlights the fact that traditional praises present the history and heroic deeds of members of the clan to which the beneficiary belongs. They also express the deep feeling of royalty and loyalty. Like in the past they boost morale. / African Languages / M.A. (African Languages)

This study gives the Zulu's views and ideas about celestial bodies and associated natural phenomena and how they illustrate features in both the oral and written literature. It sketches various focussing mainly on The concentration is conceptions about the whole universe celestial bodies and natural phenomena. on the sun, moon, stars, thunder and lightning in poetry and prose both modern and traditional. Emphasis is on the fact that Zulus do not perceive celestial bodies as mere bodies but assign certain beliefs and philosophies to them. In examining these different conceptions, Western as well as African literary theories have been used in this study. I~ ~r=rli~ional izibongo amakhosi are associated with the sun, the moon as well as the stars. Their warriors' attack is associated with the thunderstorm. These celestial bodies are also used as determinants of time in terms of day and night, seasons and different times for different daily chores. In modern poetry these bodies are mainly associated with God and in some instances they are referred to as God himself. In prose they are used as determinants of time and are also used figuratively to describe certain circumstances. The study gives an idea of how Zulus in general perceive these celestial bodies and natural phenomena. / African Languages / D.Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

Orientador: Marcos Aparecido Lopes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T03:34:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Roque_MauraVoltarelli_M.pdf: 1840200 bytes, checksum: 6b7c506e1fe78869236b908ac33c4565 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esta dissertação de mestrado realiza um estudo da obra da poeta contemporânea brasileira Dora Ferreira da Silva, buscando compreender alguns de seus procedimentos poéticos fundamentais a partir da análise crítica de sua obra. Dentre esses procedimentos está a realização de um "diálogo com o invisível" por meio do qual a poeta chama e afirma imagens míticas, de um tempo outro, afirmando-as no presente contra a sua desaparição. Neste sentido, sua poética realiza a sobrevivência dessas imagens que voltam e se fazem novamente possíveis no presente, esse tempo de carência, ausente de deuses. Na realização de tal diálogo com o invisível, buscamos também mostrar a constituição do que pensamos ser um lugar fundamental na construção de sua poética: o espaço do entrelugar, essa zona de indefinição, situada em um intervalo, onde a poeta, em um duplo movimento, se situa entre potências opostas, como mito e logos, sombra e luz, morte e vida, que coexistem em sua obra poética, deixando que ela se mostre em sua materialidade, na artesanal operação sobre as palavras, e não se deixe ver, ou não se deixe dizer totalmente, em sua proximidade com o mito. Nesse entrelugar que faz dela, antes de tudo, moderna, a poesia de Dora Ferreira da Silva confunde e indetermina e, como diria Vilém Flusser, fascina, como tudo que ainda não foi descoberto / Abstract: This dissertation realizes a study of the work of contemporary Brazilian poet Dora Ferreira da Silva, trying to understand some of their basic poetic procedures from critical analysis of her work. Among these procedures is the realization of a "dialogue with the invisible" through which the poet calls and affirms the mythical images of another time, stating them at the present against their disappearance. In this sense, her poetic realizes the survival of these images, they come back and become again possible in our time, this time of poverty and penury, absent from the gods. In the realization of the dialogue with the invisible, we also try to show the constitution of what we think is a fundamental place in the construction of her poetry: the space of the between-place, this area of uncertainty, situated in a interlude, where the poet, in a double movement, is between opposing powers such as myth and logos, shadow and light, death and life, that coexist in her poetic work, letting it show in its materiality, artisan operation on the words, and do not get to see, or do not be mean totally, in its proximity to the myth . In this between-place, that makes it, above all, modern, the Dora Ferreira da Silva's poetry confounds and indeterminate and, like say Vilém Flusser, fascinates, as all that has not yet been discovered / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestra em Teoria e História Literária

L’omniprésence du thème du vieillissement dans la poésie de Philippe Jaccottet a déjà été relevée par de nombreux critiques. Mais elle n’avait encore jamais fait l’objet d’une analyse spécifique. Cette thèse de Ludivine Moulière, rédigée sous la direction d’Isabelle Chol, au sein du laboratoire Arts-Langage / Transitions et Relations de l’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, et intitulée Le Poète tardif, mélancolie, vieillesse et poétique du déclin dans l’œuvre de Philippe Jaccottet, entreprend de combler cette lacune en analysant, dans l’œuvre poétique et critique, les représentations de la vieillesse. Pour ce faire, comme y invite la théorie humorale exposée dans Saturne et la mélancolie (Klibansky, Panofsky, Saxl), le vieillir a été mis en lien avec la mélancolie, comprise dans plusieurs de ses acceptions. Ordonnant d’abord l’imaginaire de l’œuvre à la lumière de l’iconologie mélancolique, sont exposés les liens qu’entretient la représentation des éléments avec celles des âges de la vie, des saisons et des tempéraments. Cela permet de dégager l’humeur mélancolique qui informe la perception du monde en une structure bipolaire ou antithétique. Cette approche iconologique et phénoménologique laisse ensuite la place à une approche plus historique et sociologique. L’analyse des représentations de l’urbain et du jardin montre que la nostalgie, en contredisant l’héritage des Lumières et son idéal progressiste, donne au mouvement de l’histoire la forme d’un déclin graduel, qui rapproche l’historiographie jaccottéenne de l’historiographie romantique. Enfin, le commentaire de la poétique ou de la « poéthique » (Pinson) de Philippe Jaccottet montre de quelle manière l’écriture est infléchie par l’expérience du temps et de la vieillesse. La figuration du poète en « grave vieillard falcifère » (Steinmetz) s’avère ainsi participer d’une conversion axiologique à la fois de la vieillesse et de la mélancolie, en en faisant d’une part la condition d’une aspiration vers l’infini et d’un retour vers la finitude, et d’autre part le principe d’élaboration de l’éthopée jaccottéenne aussi bien que l’aboutissement de la quête lyrique de son identité. / Many critics have already noticed the omnipresence of the theme of old age in Philippe Jaccottet’s work, yet it has never been the object of a specific analysis. Ludivine Moulière’s thesis, entitled The Late Poet, Melancholy, Old Age and Poetic of Decline, written under the direction of Isabelle Chol at the laboratory Arts-Language / Transitions and Relationships of the University of Pau, fills this gap by analyzing the representations of old age within poetic and critical works. Ageing is linked to melancholy as understood in several of its meanings, along the lines of humoral theory as developed in Saturn and Melancholy (Klibansky, Panofsky, Saxl). Firstly, the work’s imaginative realm is organized through the melancholic iconology model in order to show relationships between the representation of the elements and the ages of life, seasons and temperaments. As a result, a melancholic mood is shown to shape perception into a bipolar or antithetic structure. This iconological and phenomenological approach is followed by a more historical and sociological one. The analysis of the representations of urbanity and gardens shows that nostalgia gives the form of a gradual decline to the movement of history, unlike the Enlightenment Legacy and its idea of progress, bringing Jaccottet’s historiography closer to romantic historiography. Finally, the commentary on Jaccottet’s poetic or « po-ethic » (Pinson) shows how his writing is tempered by experience of time and old age. The image of the poet as a « grave old man carrying a sickle » (Steinmetz) proves to fall within an axiological conversion of both old age and melancholy making it, on the one hand, the condition of an aspiration towards infinity and a return to finitude, and on the other hand the elaboration of the Jaccottean ethopoeia as well as the outcome of the lyrical quest for his identity.

This study takes a structuralist approach to the development of the novel, arguing that eighteenth-century writers build progressive narrative by rendering abstract, then conflating, literary theories of gendered time that originate in the Renaissance with seventeenth-century scientific theories of motion. I argue that writers from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century generate and regulate progress-as-product in their narratives through gendered constructions of time that corresponded to the generation and regulation of economic, political, and social progress brought about by developing capitalism.

This paper seeks to explore the dialogue between postmodern thought and Christian theology. The dialogue will be grounded in four postmodern novels: Toni Morrison's Beloved, Ian McEwan's Atonement, Jill Paton Walsh's Knowledge of Angels, and Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. In many Church circles, it has often been said that postmodernism, as it manifests itself in popular culture, is a threat to the Christian faith. However, I will be arguing that the opposite is the case, and that postmodernism has allowed for new ways of thinking about the self that has great resonance with certain theological conceptions of the self. It will be argued that the postmodern subject is one that seeks to make sense of 'the other' without risking the exploitation of the other, and that this lies very close to the theological concept of relationship, based on the idea of covenant. The self as responsible to an other and as a participant in community will be explored, from both the postmodern and theological perspectives. Before exploring issues of the self, this thesis will contextualize the dialogue by exploring postmodern conceptions of space and time. It will examine how ideas around space and time have been imagined throughout human history, thereby contextualizing the emergence of postmodern thinking. It will then show how this emergence of a postmodern space and time in fact creates new possibilities for the Christian faith to reexpress itself in ways that are more relevant to the 21st century. The concluding chapter of this thesis brings to light the longing within our postmodern reality for a place we can call home, a place where we can belong, and find healing. Such a place, such a homecoming, is offered to us in the spaces opened up to us by the dialogue between the Christian faith and postmodernity, and is found within a community of people who are learning that, as, postmodern philosopher Emmanuel Levinas states, "there is something more important than my life, and that is the life of the other" (in Beavers, 1996,16). / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2004.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In his novels Slaughterhouse-five and The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut explores issues of cultural identity in technologically-advanced societies post-World War II. With the rise of globalization and rapid technological advancements that occurred postwar, humans worldwide were mitigating the effects of information overload and instability in cultural identity. The influx of cultural influences that accompany a global society draws attention to the fluidity and inevitability of cultural change. A heightened awareness of cultural influences—past and present—creates anxiety for the generation living postwar and before the dawn of the Information Age. This generation suffers from “cultural schizophrenia”: a fracturing of the psyche characterized by anxiety over unstable cultural identities and agency. With the characters of Billy Pilgrim and Winston Niles Rumfoord, Vonnegut explores the different reactions to and consequences of cultural schizophrenia. His unique writing style is an effective hybrid of science fiction conventions and the complexities of human culture and society. Ultimately, Vonnegut explores the dangers of detachment and the complicated nature of agency with novels that are both innovative and accessible.