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31	Cognitive rationality and indeterminism in the contemporary detective novel, with special reference to the work of Umberto Eco, Carlo Emilio Gadda and Stanislaw Lem Van der Linde, G. P. L. (Gerhardus Philippus Leonardus) 06 1900 (has links) The study examines cognitive rationality as to()l for problemsolving within the context of a movement from determinism and monolithic universal Reason towards indeterminism and plurality. It is contended that theories of literature do not provide an adequate conceptual framework, and therefore, extensive use is made of pluralist fallibilism (Popper, Helmut Spinner) and chaos theory. The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche is viewed as a decisive influence in the shift towards plurality and scepticism. In chapter 2, Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, a novel by Agatha Christie and Gaston Leroux's Le mystere de Ia chambre jaune are discussed as examples of optimistic rationalism. Chapter 3 indicates that Eco's II nome della rosa emphasizes the conjectural nature of truth and objective knowledge, underpinned by a 'soft' rationalism which amounts to monopolistic pluralism. Chapter 4 analyses the defeat of cognitive rationality by the complex interaction of a multiplicity of independent causal series. The detectives' relationship with the feminine exemplifies the interpenetration of rationality and the instinctual, while the mystery of the feminine is a metaphor for impenetrable complexity. Chapter 5 shows that hypotheses concerning random complex systems remain inconclusive. However, as the trajectory of a complex system can be regulated, so reason can be viewed as the underlying regulative pattern (strange attractorl for an infinite proliferation of hypotheses. Thus, despite .shifting conceptions of rationality and order, all the detectives in the study accept objective truth as regulative principle and are involved in a search for objective knowledge / Afrikaans & Theory of Literature / D.Litt. et Phil. (Theory of literature) Rationality Plurality Chaos theory Fallibilism Detective novel Indeterminism Rrandomness Sherlock Holmes Umberto Eco Carlo Emilio Gadda Stanislaw Lem 809.387209 Gadda Rationalism in literature Cognition in literature
32	Cognitive rationality and indeterminism in the contemporary detective novel, with special reference to the work of Umberto Eco, Carlo Emilio Gadda and Stanislaw Lem Van der Linde, G. P. L. (Gerhardus Philippus Leonardus) 06 1900 (has links) The study examines cognitive rationality as to()l for problemsolving within the context of a movement from determinism and monolithic universal Reason towards indeterminism and plurality. It is contended that theories of literature do not provide an adequate conceptual framework, and therefore, extensive use is made of pluralist fallibilism (Popper, Helmut Spinner) and chaos theory. The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche is viewed as a decisive influence in the shift towards plurality and scepticism. In chapter 2, Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, a novel by Agatha Christie and Gaston Leroux's Le mystere de Ia chambre jaune are discussed as examples of optimistic rationalism. Chapter 3 indicates that Eco's II nome della rosa emphasizes the conjectural nature of truth and objective knowledge, underpinned by a 'soft' rationalism which amounts to monopolistic pluralism. Chapter 4 analyses the defeat of cognitive rationality by the complex interaction of a multiplicity of independent causal series. The detectives' relationship with the feminine exemplifies the interpenetration of rationality and the instinctual, while the mystery of the feminine is a metaphor for impenetrable complexity. Chapter 5 shows that hypotheses concerning random complex systems remain inconclusive. However, as the trajectory of a complex system can be regulated, so reason can be viewed as the underlying regulative pattern (strange attractorl for an infinite proliferation of hypotheses. Thus, despite .shifting conceptions of rationality and order, all the detectives in the study accept objective truth as regulative principle and are involved in a search for objective knowledge / Afrikaans and Theory of Literature / D.Litt. et Phil. (Theory of literature) Rationality Plurality Chaos theory Fallibilism Detective novel Indeterminism Rrandomness Sherlock Holmes Umberto Eco Carlo Emilio Gadda Stanislaw Lem 809.387209 Gadda Rationalism in literature Cognition in literature
33	Mezi literárními rovinami (próza Umberta Eca a Dana Browna) / Between the literary planes (prose by Umberto Eco and Dan Brown) Blažková, Klára January 2018 (has links) The topic of this diploma thesis is the analysis of three novels (Il pendolo di Foucault and Numero zero by Umberto Eco and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown) with usage of triadic model of literature. The thesis is based mainly on the concept of triadic model published by Umberto Eco in his study Apocalittici e integrati. The usage of his model is made difficult by the fact that the specific characteristics of the middle literary plane are not defined. Therefore we supplement Eco's concept with several additional studies. We hypothesized that Il pendolo di Foucault, Numero zero and The Da Vinci Code belong to the high, middle and low literary planes respectively. The results of this diploma thesis support our hypothesis. However, it is clear that the classification of Numero zero into the middle literary plane can be a matter of the discussion, while the specific characteristics of this plane are not yet strictly defined. The confirmation or refutation of the above mentioned hypothesis was not the only aim of this study. Additional aim was to focus on the novel which could belong to the middle literary plane and through the comparison with other novels contribute to the delimination of this literary plane. To this end, we found that the novel classified into middle literary plane uses very similar...
34	Conspiracy Theory and Conspiracism in Postwar Literature Abu Shal, Abdulrahman Faisal 14 July 2020 (has links) No description available. African American Studies African Americans American Studies American Literature Black Studies Literature European Studies Conspiracy Theory Conspiracism Postwar Literature Thomas Pynchon Ishmael Reed Umberto Eco The Crying of Lot 49 Gravitys Rainbow Mumbo Jumbo Foucaults Pendulum American Literature Italian Literature Cultural Studies Postmodernism
35	A hidden life : how EAS (Era Appropriate Science) and professional investigators are marginalised in detective and historical detective fiction Dormer, Mia Emilie January 2017 (has links) This by-practice project is the first to provide an extensive investigation of the marginalisation of era appropriate science (EAS) and professional investigators by detective and historical detective fiction authors. The purpose of the thesis is to analyse specific detective fiction authors from the earliest formats of the nineteenth century through to the 1990s and contemporary, selected historical detective fiction authors. Its aim is to examine the creation, development and perpetuation of the marginalisation tradition. This generic trend can be read as the authors privileging their detective’s innate skillset, metonymic connectivity and deductive abilities, while underplaying and belittling EAS and professional investigators. Chapter One establishes the project’s critique of the generic trend by considering parental authors, E. T. A Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Émile Gaboriau and Wilkie Collins. Reading how these authors instigated and purposed the downplaying demonstrates its founding within detective fiction at the earliest point. By comparing how the authors sidelined and omitted specific EAS and professional investigators, alongside science available at the time, this thesis provides a framework for examining how it continued in detective fiction. In following chapters, the framework established in Chapter One and the theoretical views of Charles Rzepka, Lee Horsley, Stephen Knight and Martin Priestman, are used to discuss how minimising EAS and professional investigators developed into a tradition; and became a generic trend in the recognised detective fiction formula that was used by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Freeman Wills Crofts, H. C. Bailey, R. Austin Freeman, Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell and P. D. James. I then examine how the device transferred to historical detective fiction, using the framework to consider Ellis Peters, Umberto Eco and other selected contemporary authors of historical detective fiction. Throughout, the critical aspect considers how the trivialisation developed and perpetuated through a generic trend. The research concludes that there is a trend embedded within detective and historical detective fiction. One that was created, developed and perpetuated by authors to augment their fictional detective’s innate skillset and to help produce narratives using it is a creative process. It further concludes that the trend can be reimagined to plausibly use EAS and professional investigators in detective and historical detective fiction. The aim of the creative aspect of the project is to employ the research and demonstrate how the tradition can be successfully reinterpreted. To do so, the historical detective fiction novel A Hidden Life uses traditional features of the detective fiction formula to support and strengthen plausible EAS and professional investigators within the narrative. The end result is a historical detective fiction novel. One that proves the thesis conclusion and is fundamentally crafted by the critical research.
36	Pier Vittorio Tondelli: Letteratura Minore e Scrittura dell'Impegno Sociale Gastaldi, Sciltian 20 March 2014 (has links) Abstract This thesis illustrates the social engagement in the literary writings of Pier Vittorio Tondelli, an Italian gay author whose works have been described by many Catholic, Materialists, and gay critics as frivolous and disengaged. The dissertation summarizes the mutation of the Italian literary concept of impegno from Neorealism to Postmodernism, through a selection of the texts of Elio Vittorini, Italo Calvino, Franco Fortini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Leonardo Sciascia, and Umberto Eco. It shows how Tondelli’s interpretation of the role of the writer falls within the definitions given by Calvino and Eco. Moreover, the thesis demonstrates that Altri libertini and Pao Pao satisfy the characteristics of littérature mineure established by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, though Tondelli’s oeuvre is socially engaged instead of being politically engaged because of his lack of a political ideology. The dissertation highlights the core of Tondelli’s social commitment in his passionate defense of the outcasts in: Altri libertini where drug addicts, homosexuals, transsexuals, and bums are the protagonists; Pao Pao where a group of gay soldiers is described in its grotesque and camp attempt to “homosexualize” their barrack; Rimini where the Riviera Adriatica is portrayed as a place where everyone passes by and no one belongs; Camere separate through the love story of a gay couple in which one partner has to survive his lover’s death, due to an illness that is demonstrated in this thesis to be AIDS, while fighting against the homophobia of their families, institutions, society, and religion. Most of Tondelli’s socially excluded characters are introduced to the reader through an internal homodiegetic point of view. Another important component of Tondelli’s impegno is his open defense of both pop-culture and counter-cultures: gay, hippies, rockers, experimental theatre, street artists and alternative radio, which are central in all his writings. Pier Vittorio Tondelli Italian Literature Gay Literature 20th Century Italian Literature Minor Literature Engagement Social Engagement Camp Gay Studies Queer Studies Queer Theory Literary Criticism Impegno Elio Vittorini Impegno e letteratura Impegno e intellettuali Pier Paolo Pasolini Italo Calvino Franco Fortini Leonardo Sciascia Umberto Eco Alberto Arbasino Letteratura del XX secolo Letteratura italiana contemporanea Impegno sociale Letteratura minore Critica letteraria Letteratura del '900 Antonio Gramsci Homophobia Gender Studies Omofobia AIDS Literature HIV Literature Commitment Homoerotic Literature Separate Rooms Camere separate Other Libertines Altri libertini Dinnery Party Rimini Pao Pao Il diario del soldato Acci Correggio Reggio Emilia Narratori delle pianure Emilia Romagna Italia Italy Jesuit School Gesuiti Catholicism Cattolicesimo Beat Literature Pop Literature Noir Postmodernismo Postmoderno Postmodern Postmodernism Federico Fellini Eugenio Bolongaro Gary Cestaro Antonio Spadaro Fulvio Panzeri Religione Religion Pop Culture Mass Culture 1977 DAMS Bologna Movimento del '77 Michel Foucault Esther Newton 0298 0313 0401 0291 0318
37	Pier Vittorio Tondelli: Letteratura Minore e Scrittura dell'Impegno Sociale Gastaldi, Sciltian 20 March 2014 (has links) Abstract This thesis illustrates the social engagement in the literary writings of Pier Vittorio Tondelli, an Italian gay author whose works have been described by many Catholic, Materialists, and gay critics as frivolous and disengaged. The dissertation summarizes the mutation of the Italian literary concept of impegno from Neorealism to Postmodernism, through a selection of the texts of Elio Vittorini, Italo Calvino, Franco Fortini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Leonardo Sciascia, and Umberto Eco. It shows how Tondelli’s interpretation of the role of the writer falls within the definitions given by Calvino and Eco. Moreover, the thesis demonstrates that Altri libertini and Pao Pao satisfy the characteristics of littérature mineure established by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, though Tondelli’s oeuvre is socially engaged instead of being politically engaged because of his lack of a political ideology. The dissertation highlights the core of Tondelli’s social commitment in his passionate defense of the outcasts in: Altri libertini where drug addicts, homosexuals, transsexuals, and bums are the protagonists; Pao Pao where a group of gay soldiers is described in its grotesque and camp attempt to “homosexualize” their barrack; Rimini where the Riviera Adriatica is portrayed as a place where everyone passes by and no one belongs; Camere separate through the love story of a gay couple in which one partner has to survive his lover’s death, due to an illness that is demonstrated in this thesis to be AIDS, while fighting against the homophobia of their families, institutions, society, and religion. Most of Tondelli’s socially excluded characters are introduced to the reader through an internal homodiegetic point of view. Another important component of Tondelli’s impegno is his open defense of both pop-culture and counter-cultures: gay, hippies, rockers, experimental theatre, street artists and alternative radio, which are central in all his writings. Pier Vittorio Tondelli Italian Literature Gay Literature 20th Century Italian Literature Minor Literature Engagement Social Engagement Camp Gay Studies Queer Studies Queer Theory Literary Criticism Impegno Elio Vittorini Impegno e letteratura Impegno e intellettuali Pier Paolo Pasolini Italo Calvino Franco Fortini Leonardo Sciascia Umberto Eco Alberto Arbasino Letteratura del XX secolo Letteratura italiana contemporanea Impegno sociale Letteratura minore Critica letteraria Letteratura del '900 Antonio Gramsci Homophobia Gender Studies Omofobia AIDS Literature HIV Literature Commitment Homoerotic Literature Separate Rooms Camere separate Other Libertines Altri libertini Dinnery Party Rimini Pao Pao Il diario del soldato Acci Correggio Reggio Emilia Narratori delle pianure Emilia Romagna Italia Italy Jesuit School Gesuiti Catholicism Cattolicesimo Beat Literature Pop Literature Noir Postmodernismo Postmoderno Postmodern Postmodernism Federico Fellini Eugenio Bolongaro Gary Cestaro Antonio Spadaro Fulvio Panzeri Religione Religion Pop Culture Mass Culture 1977 DAMS Bologna Movimento del '77 Michel Foucault Esther Newton 0298 0313 0401 0291 0318

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