In 1991, British novelist Patricia Barker published Regeneration, the first of three novels that portrayed the exploits of both factual and fictional characters during the darkest days of WWI. Barker's Eye in the Door (1993), followed by The Ghost Road (1995) for which she won the Booker Prize for Fiction, completed the series that explored the effects of combat on the human psyche. What emerges as a dominant feature of Barker's war novels is her depiction of the ocular sense. Reminiscent of Orwellianism, Barker's texts contain a seemingly ubiquitous ocular presence. For example, neurasthenic patients are scrutinized by army psychiatrists, objectors and subversives are spied upon or imprisoned so that their activities may be observed, and combatants are faced with the challenge of reconciling the horrifying events they have witnessed in combat. This study investigates the role and importance of Pat Barker's depiction of eyes and visuality in her war trilogy. The overreaching goal of the thesis to examine Barker's aestheticized notion of ocularity. It is my aim to come some conclusions about how vision / ocularity signal the emergence of a few central themes in the texts such as power relationships, objectification, exposure and the transgression of boundaries. The social and linguistic theories of Michael Foucault, Roland Barthes, Georges Bataille, Martin Jay and others who have addressed the themes of perception and ocular symbolism will be introduced into my discussion with the aim of providing a theoretic foundation to many of my assertions. Chapters will begin with an interpretation of a piece of theoretical writing by one of these authors followed by an analysis of Barker's texts that incorporates the major tenets of that theory. These tenets will serve as a basis to my discussion and it is my hope that, through the creative application of theoretical writing, I will address a number of aspects of Barker's work, especially in relation to her ocular imagery, that that have thus far gone unexplored.

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Robert Lepage’s play The Dragons’ Trilogy stretches across space and time, travelling through three generations and three major Canadian cities, each section named for a dragon in the Chinese game Mahjong. The Blue Dragon continues the story of Pierre Lamontagne twenty years later, and in doing so, rounds out and completes the cycle of the three Dragons of The Dragons’ Trilogy. This thesis studies the evolution of Lepage’s treatment of the Other and the Self in The Dragons’ Trilogy and The Blue Dragon. Grouping these two plays together should be a foregone conclusion, because of the titles of each section and the character of Pierre Lamontagne, who appears in both plays, but it has in fact been discussed very little. This thesis thus examines the transformation of characters such as Pierre, who, from one play to the other, and through language and space, find the Other in the Self. To address this issue, the second chapter explores the question of plurilingualism, in order to show how the plurality of languages in the plays and among the characters promotes the ideal of communication and communion with the Other. In the third chapter, the thesis examines the theatrical space of the two plays; from the closed-off city of Québec during the 1930s in The Green Dragon to Pierre Lamontagne’s intimate and modern loft in The Blue Dragon, the imagined worlds perfectly mirror the interior journeys of the characters. Finally, the last chapter, which studies the characters, focuses on the question of stereotypes, the quests for identity, and the role artistic creation plays within these quests. Ultimately, this thesis demonstrates that in The Dragons’ Trilogy and The Blue Dragon, although Otherness may at first appear to be the opposite of Self, it is in fact found within identity. / Thesis (Master, French) -- Queen's University, 2012-12-20 17:04:10.317

Esta dissertação aborda a poética do artista multimídia Eduardo Kac, conhecido internacionalmente por suas obras inovadoras e polêmicas e pela atuação como professor, crítico e pesquisador de modalidades artísticas contemporâneas que envolvem o uso das novas tecnologias, incluindo algumas criadas por ele mesmo, como é o caso da holopoesia, da arte da telepresença e biotelemática e da arte transgênica. Consideramos a idéia da criação presente nos trabalhos, principalmente as relações entre esta e uma concepção mística de linguagem, baseada em conceitos e técnicas da Cabala judaica. A partir das obras de arte transgênica que compõem sua Trilogia da Criação: Gênesis (1999), GFP-Bunny (2000) e O Oitavo Dia (2001), buscamos iluminar as referências e procedimentos criativos que conectam o corpo de conhecimento bastante antigo e tradicional (a Cabala) com a reflexão sobre a criação e suas relações com a linguagem, na tradição cabalística e na arte contemporânea / This dissertation approaches the poetics of the multimedia artist Eduardo Kac, internationally known for his innovative and controversial works and for his performance as a professor, critic and researcher of contemporary artistic modalities that involve the use of new technologies, including some that were developed by himself, such as the holopoetry, the telepresence and biotelematic art and the transgenic art. We consider that the idea of creation in his works, mainly the relationship between this creation and a mystical conception of language, is based on concepts and techniques of the Jewish Kabbalah. By analyzing the transgenic art works that compose the Creation Trilogy: Genesis (1999), GFPBunny (2000) e The Eighth Day (2001), we intend to highlight the references and creative procedures that connect the ancient and traditional structure of knowledge (the Kabbalah) with the analysis of creation and its relationship with language in the kabbalistic tradition and contemporary art.

Em fins do século XIX um jovem empresário estadunidense fundou uma empresa exportadora de bananas na República da Costa Rica: a United Fruit Company. Mesmo que o comércio de bananas e outras frutas tropicais tenha representado apenas uma parte dos produtos exportados pelos países da América Central a exportação de café, por exemplo, sempre foi mais significativa , as companhias bananeiras foram eternizadas por diversos romancistas em alguns dos países centro-americanos em que atuaram. Este trabalho pretende mostrar a trilogia bananeira: Viento fuerte (1949), El Papa verde (1954) e Los ojos de los enterrados (1960) do escritor guatemalteco Miguel Angel Asturias, como uma possibilidade de representação da história da United Fruit Company na Guatemala. Utilizando romances como fonte histórica e realizando a articulação entre o discurso literário e o discurso histórico, a intenção é mostrar a interpretação de Asturias sobre a ação desta multinacional em seu país. Problematizando o encontro entre ambos os discursos e fazendo dialogar a informação histórica sobre o ocorrido e o tratamento literário que Asturias dá a esses mesmos fatos em sua trilogia bananeira. / In the end of the XIX Century a young American enterpreneur founded in the Republic of Costa Rica a company to export banana: the United Fruit Company. Even though the banana commerce and other tropical fruits had represented only a part of the exported products by the Central America countries the coffee export for instance has always been more significant the companies that traded bananas were eternalized by a great variety of novelists in some Central American countries were they acted. This work aims to show, as a possibility to represent the History of the United Fruit Company in Guatemala, the books that composes the Banana Trilogy: Viento fuerte (1949), El Papa Verde (1954) and Los ojos de los enterrados (1960) from the Guatemaltec writer Miguel Angel Asturias. Using novels as a historic source and accomplishing the joint between the literary and historic speech, the intention is to show the interpretation of Asturias concernig the action of this muitinational company in his country, to open debate between both speeches and to articulate the historic information and the treatment that Asturias gives to this information in his Banana Trilogy books.

Through Close reading of the two trilogies The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and The Engelsfors trilogy by Sara Elf Bergsmark and Mats Strandberg this thesis aim is to examine the popular literary theme with a young girl who saves the world.  This thesis approach this through Michel Foucault’s theories of both discourse theory and analysis of power. By using discourse theory this thesis first examines what it means to be a girl, in both the literary worlds and our own. The result shows that the girls have very different approaches to what it means to be a girl. What they do have in common is that they all relate to an understanding of a concept of the right way to be a girl, as if there was a blueprint version of the true girl. In the second part the girls approach to power and how they find ways to show resistance is studied. Foucault argues that power is a part of all human relationships and that power always is possible to change. By exanimating everyday life experiences where power and control is exercised, different ways in which the girls lives that were shaped by this power was revealed. The analysis show that the power influences their lives in even the smallest ways and affect what they say, their dreams and their thoughts. By becoming more aware of how their societies are constructed they find ways to fight back and show resistance. Collaborations between people of different background and class is an important element in both trilogies and through the girls commitment they become aware of how they can be a part of and lead their societies to change. In both books, the worlds the girls live in is changed for the better.

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Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / The relation “I-world-man” is the synthesis of a metaepic trilogy that ontologically part of the word, goes to the poem, arrives to the three mentioned pillars and follows towards the eternity of artworks. Therefore, in view of the epic revival, and under the aegis of an aesthetic, stylistic and structural approach which aims to observe the conception of art in postmodernity, we intend to address some aspects related to the creation of the epic poems of Waldemar José Solha – Trigal com Corvos (2004), Marco do Mundo (2012) and Esse é o Homem: Tractatus Poético-Philosophicus (2013) –, in that, through this study, we can elucidate the filiation of the works to the postmodernist trend in attainment of an epic project whose headquarters is in the preparation of metaepics. Therefore, besides bibliographic search, we propose a comparative analysis of the books that compose the solhian trilogy, to describe the idiosyncrasies of each, and also similarities and differences between them, in order to, thus, we achieve a holistic approach based on five aspects: the metalanguage and the myth of literary creation; the presence epic; the straight-referencing; the autobiographical feature and, lastly, the interartistic dialogue. In this sense, this research part of a triple theoretical and critical line: studies about Art and Aesthetics, such as Aristóteles (1973), Baudelaire (1993), Hegel (2004) and Kant (2010); about postmodernism and postmodernity, such as Jameson (1996), Santos (2001), Lourenço (2002), Lyotard (2009), Lipovetsky & Serroy (2011) and Hall (2011), and also about the epic, such as Bowra (1945), Pollmann (1973), Madelénat (1986), Silva (1987), Silva (2007), Neiva (2009) and Ramalho (2007; 2013). Through research, we noted the update or the absence of categories and composition plans in the epics, besides the evident theme centering in poetic composition made myth; there is also the presence of graphics mechanisms; the profusion of referenced elements that allows several cataloging; the union between experiential world and the encyclopedic knowledge; ultimately, the self, the world and the man are, here, interconnected spheres, tied for poetry, for the events and facts, and expressing the fullness cosmos: word to the universe, from being to do and to be. / A relação “eu-mundo-homem” é a síntese de uma trilogia metaepopeica que ontologicamente parte da palavra, vai até o poema, chega aos três pilares citados e segue na direção da eternidade das obras de arte. Diante disso, na perspectiva do revivalismo épico, ou melhor, sob a égide de uma abordagem estética, estilística e estrutural que visa a observar a concepção de arte na pós-modernidade, objetivamos abordar alguns recursos ligados à criação dos poemas épicos de Waldemar José Solha – Trigal com Corvos (2004), Marco do Mundo (2012) e Esse é o Homem: Tractatus Poético-Philosophicus (2013) –, na medida em que, através deste estudo, poderemos elucidar a filiação das obras à tendência pós-modernista na consecução de um projeto épico cuja matriz se encontra na elaboração de metaepopeias. Para tanto, além de pesquisa bibliográfica, propomos uma análise comparativa entre os livros que formam a trilogia solhiana, para descrevermos as idiossincrasias de cada um, bem como as semelhanças e diferenças entre eles, para, com isso, chegarmos a uma abordagem holística fundamentada em cinco aspectos: a metalinguagem e o mito da criação literária; a presença épica; a hétero-referenciação; o caráter autobiográfico e, por fim, o diálogo interartístico. Nesse sentido, a presente pesquisa parte de um viés teórico-crítico tríplice: estudos sobre Arte e Estética, como os de Aristóteles (1973), Baudelaire (1993), Hegel (2004) e Kant (2010); sobre pós-modernismo e pós-modernidade, como os de Jameson (1996), Santos (2001), Lourenço (2002), Lyotard (2009), Lipovetsky & Serroy (2011) e Hall (2011), e também sobre o épico, como os de Bowra (1945), Pollmann (1973), Madelénat (1986), Silva (1987), Silva (2007), Neiva (2009) e Ramalho (2007; 2013). Por meio da pesquisa, pudemos notar a atualização ou a inexistência de categorias e planos de composição nas epopeias de Solha, além do evidente centramento temático na tessitura poética tornada mito; há, ainda, a presença de recursos gráficos; a profusão de elementos referenciados que permite várias catalogações; a união entre o mundivivencial e o conhecimento enciclopédico; enfim, o eu, o mundo e o homem, aqui, são esferas interligadas, atadas pela poesia, pelos eventos e fatos, e que expressam a totalidade do cosmos: da palavra ao universo, do ser ao fazer e ao existir.

Em fins do século XIX um jovem empresário estadunidense fundou uma empresa exportadora de bananas na República da Costa Rica: a United Fruit Company. Mesmo que o comércio de bananas e outras frutas tropicais tenha representado apenas uma parte dos produtos exportados pelos países da América Central a exportação de café, por exemplo, sempre foi mais significativa , as companhias bananeiras foram eternizadas por diversos romancistas em alguns dos países centro-americanos em que atuaram. Este trabalho pretende mostrar a trilogia bananeira: Viento fuerte (1949), El Papa verde (1954) e Los ojos de los enterrados (1960) do escritor guatemalteco Miguel Angel Asturias, como uma possibilidade de representação da história da United Fruit Company na Guatemala. Utilizando romances como fonte histórica e realizando a articulação entre o discurso literário e o discurso histórico, a intenção é mostrar a interpretação de Asturias sobre a ação desta multinacional em seu país. Problematizando o encontro entre ambos os discursos e fazendo dialogar a informação histórica sobre o ocorrido e o tratamento literário que Asturias dá a esses mesmos fatos em sua trilogia bananeira. / In the end of the XIX Century a young American enterpreneur founded in the Republic of Costa Rica a company to export banana: the United Fruit Company. Even though the banana commerce and other tropical fruits had represented only a part of the exported products by the Central America countries the coffee export for instance has always been more significant the companies that traded bananas were eternalized by a great variety of novelists in some Central American countries were they acted. This work aims to show, as a possibility to represent the History of the United Fruit Company in Guatemala, the books that composes the Banana Trilogy: Viento fuerte (1949), El Papa Verde (1954) and Los ojos de los enterrados (1960) from the Guatemaltec writer Miguel Angel Asturias. Using novels as a historic source and accomplishing the joint between the literary and historic speech, the intention is to show the interpretation of Asturias concernig the action of this muitinational company in his country, to open debate between both speeches and to articulate the historic information and the treatment that Asturias gives to this information in his Banana Trilogy books.