"Memoire présenté pour l'obtention de la maîtrise d'Enseignement de lettres modernes." / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-108).

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This thesis deals with David Hume's conception of resemblance, chiefly in the context of his theory of association of ideas. There, resemblance has a great theoretical significance for explanation of, besides other things, general ideas (or concepts). With connection to them the principal problem dealt with in this thesis shows itself best: If we interpret resemblance as sharing of properties, then by using it in explanation of concepts (that means properties as well) we are begging the question. One of the claims of this thesis is that Hume understands resemblance neither solely, nor primarily as sharing of properties but he regards it as a primitive relation, whose place is mainly in the imagination. It is therefore "perceived" resemblance. Hume's theory of association consequently presupposes "form" of the given, one aspect of which is resemblance (or similarity) in the abstract which is a "condition of possibility" of perceived resemblances. Particular resemblances fill this form with various content, which means that resemblance is in this sense relative (different individuals can perceive the resemblance between the same things differently). It appears that Hume's conception of resemblance is, according to this interpretation, basically in agreement with Nelson Goodman's conception of similarity, in...

Este trabalho discute as especificidades da poesia seiscentista produzida em Portugal e no Brasil Colônia, propondo a noção de amor agudo para caracterizar sua variada lírica amorosa. Em busca desse objetivo, a leitura dos poemas segue os caminhos da imitação, termo fundamental para se compreender a produção retórico-poética dos séculos XVI e XVII. Os poemas líricos dos quais partem as análises, ou seja, tanto aqueles autorizados (ainda que, muitas vezes, com atribuições de autoria questionáveis) pelos nomes de reconhecidos poetas seiscentistas, como Antônio Barbosa Bacelar, D. Francisco Manuel de Melo, Frei Antônio das Chagas, Gregório de Matos, Jerônimo Baía, Manuel Botelho de Oliveira e Violante do Céu, quanto aqueles ditos anônimos ou de autoridades poéticas menos constituídas, como Bernardo Vieira Ravasco e Manuel de Faria e Sousa, todos eles, enquanto imitações, exigiam dos leitores ou ouvintes cultos da época o reconhecimento de seus modelos poéticos; por isso, este estudo recorre, frequentemente, a Camões e Góngora, por exemplo. Porém, imitar as auctoritates para se fazer auctoritas, no século XVII, não era apenas copiar servilmente; os poetas seiscentistas emulavam seus modelos, elaborando composições engenhosas e agudas mais adequadas ao decoro dos tempos. Desse modo, a agudeza é noção central na preceptiva retórico-poética seiscentista e, portanto, também o é neste estudo. Como se procura demonstrar, dessa poesia aguda decorre a confecção de um amor igualmente agudo, isto é, um amor que não é expressão subjetiva e original de indivíduo algum, mas que aparece em poemas cujos efeitos inesperados são retórica e poeticamente construídos. Fruto de imitações, o amor agudo é ovidiano, cortês, petrarquista, camoniano, marinista, gongórico; miscelânea de doutrinas, é platônico, estoico, epicurista, cristão; definindo-o, nesta tese, pretende-se reunir a variedade poética da lírica amorosa seiscentista, feito agudo caule que sustenta cultas flores / The present work articulates the specificities of 17th-century poetry produced in Portugal and in Colonial Brazil as it proposes the notion of witty love to characterize its diverse love lyric poems. Pursuing this perspective, the reading of these poems follows the path of imitation, a fundamental term to understand the rhetorico-poetic production of the 16th and 17th centuries. The lyric poems from which the analyses depart, that is, both those penned (despite a questionable attribution of authorship in many cases) by well-known 17th-century poets such as Antônio Barbosa Bacelar, D. Francisco Manuel de Melo, Frei Antônio das Chagas, Gregório de Matos, Jerônimo Baía, Manuel Botelho de Oliveira, and Violante do Céu, and those deemed anonymous or with a less constituted poetic authorship, such as Bernardo Vieira Ravasco and Manuel de Faria e Sousa, all these poems, as imitations, demanded that the learned readers or listeners of the time recognize their poetic models; for this reason, this study often draws from Camões and Góngora, for instance. In any event, in the 17th century imitating the auctoritates to forge auctoritas did not only mean to copy obsequiously; 17th-century poets emulated their models, crafting ingenious and witty compositions that were more suitable to the decorum in vogue. Thus wit is a central notion in 17th-century rhetorico-poetic precepts, and it will also be so in this study. As I will demonstrate, from this wit poetry ensues the crafting of an equally witty love, that is, a love that is not the subjective and original expression of any individual, but one which is present in poems whose unexpected effects are rhetorically and poetically forged. The fruit of imitations, witty love is Ovidian, courtly, Petrarchan, Camonian, Marinist, Gongorian; miscellanea of doctrines, it is Platonic, Stoic, Epicurean, Christian; by defining it in this dissertation, I intend to gather the poetic variety of 17th-century love lyric, like an acute stem that supports learned flowers

A poesia de José Paulo Paes, produzida ao longo de mais de meio século, exibe uma considerável diversidade de formas e conteúdos, desde manifestações líricas a poemas em prosa, de experimentações visuais e fotográficas a brevíssimos textos cômicos. De forma geral, porém, a contraposição entre o desencanto e a utopia é um fundo temático que subsiste em boa parte desta obra, com oscilações entre ambos os polos. O presente trabalho sustenta que, apesar dos momentos em que há de fato um exaurimento da esperança diante do mundo e suas instituições opressoras, a tônica de sua poética é a presença de uma voz utópica, mais definida e clara até os anos 50, e que vai empalidecendo sistematicamente a partir da década seguinte, com a consagração da sociedade de consumo e do capitalismo tardio. Tal vetor de resistência atinge o quase desaparecimento, metaforizado pelos escombros, que, ainda fumegantes, conservam contudo a possibilidade da utopia. Esta, raramente enunciada de forma explícita, expressa-se primordialmente por dois modos distintos, a saber: a) a memória, primeiramente enquanto tentativa de intervenção política por meio da revisitação histórica, e posteriormente como rememoração individual, retorno à infância em uma estética tardia de natureza narrativa, de pouquíssimos efeitos poéticos, que se afasta do estilo consagrado do escritor em livros anteriores; b) o humor, que evolui de uma ironia mais direta e agressiva ao epigrama chistoso, elaborada forma poemática que consiste em obter comicidade a partir de trocadilhos, paronomásias, homonímias, enfim, com o trabalho linguístico. A partir, então, de ambas as estratégias, o poeta, de maneiras diferentes, se aproxima da oralidade, seja no ato de narrar histórias, seja na manipulação lúdica dos significantes, o que remonta às tradições de povos antigos e/ou sem uma cultura escrita. Tal retorno ao passado da humanidade (ou do sujeito, o in fans, aquele que não fala) é uma saída da História, uma negação do nefasto tempo presente e um modo de existir possível à utopia. Tal postura, em Paes, é satírica, bem como política. Por conta disso, a fim de se expandirem as possibilidades de iluminação crítica do período, faz-se ainda um painel acerca da poesia engajada e do chiste no pós-guerra brasileiro. / José Paulo Paes poetry, written throughout over fifty years, displays a considerable diversity of both form and content, ranging from lyric manifestation to prose poems, from visual and photographic experimental poetry to short comic texts. In general terms, however, the opposition discouragement/utopia is the thematic scenery that persists over most of his works, oscillating between both poles. The present dissertation defends that, in spite of several moments in which it is noticeable the fatigue of his hopes due to the world´s oppressing institutions, the major tone of his poetics is the existence of a utopian voice, more defined up to the fifties, that gradually weakens from the sixties on, after the consolidation of late capitalism and the mass consumption society. Such resistance arm practically vanishes away, which is portrayed by the metaphor \"debris\", which, nonetheless, are still \"steaming\", conserving the possibility of utopia. The latter, rarely expressed in an explicit way, is presented basically by two different modes: a) the memory, firstly as an attempt of a political intervention through the historical re-analysis, and, afterwards, by the personal remembrance, the return to childhood in a rather peculiar esthetical form: through narrative verses with no or very few poetic effects, far from the style the author used to have in previous books; b) the humor, which evolves from a more direct and sharp irony to the witty epigram, an elaborate poematic structure that obtains humor from puns, paronyms, homonyms, i.e., with the linguistic handling. Then, both strategies, in different ways, lead the poet to approach the orality in his works, be it in the act of narrating, be it in the joyful work of the signifier, which brings such poetry to the tradition of ancient societies and/or societies with no written culture. Such return to the past of humanity (or of the infant, from the Latin in fans, the one who does not speak) is an exit from History, a negation of the horrid present and a possible mode of existing for utopia. This posture, in Paes, is both satirical and political. Due to that, an after war Brazilian poetry overview has been done concerning both topics, so that they can be enlightened in such generation.

The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of sexually aggressive behavior through the examination of humor appreciation among male undergraduates. As compared to nonaggressive males, sexually aggressive males showed a significantly greater appreciation for humor which negatively stereotyped females, portrayed prejudicial views of rape-and rape victims, and contained content related to male sex drive and virility. Differences in humor appreciation were also found for males with high sex drive. Additional findings included correlations between aggressive drive and sexually aggressive status, as well as between sex drive and likelihood to rape.

Le vieux différend entre le philosophe et le poète, entre logos et mythos, peut être converti en accord à condition de changer de point de vue. Alors que Platon n’a voulu voir dans leurs différences qu’une source de discorde et de division, Aristote en a tiré une poétique et une rhétorique, les poètes de la Renaissance une philosophie poétique et Vico une anthropologie du langage et une archéologie de la pensée. Ce qui est pour les modernes une « pensée sauvage » a longtemps été considéré par les anciens comme une sagesse archaïque, qui s’exprimait par figures et « traduisait en langue des dieux » les voix de la nature.On se propose ici de réévaluer les notions de pensée poétique et de pensée mythique en adoptantle point de vue des poètes de la Renaissance et de l’âge baroque, qui identifièrent l’une et l’autre à la pensée ingénieuse productrice de métaphores, de figures et de fictions. Mais il faut remonter aux sources antiques pour pouvoir rendre compte de l’active polysémie des anciennes méthodes d’interprétation des mythes qui, loin de séparer les points de vue de la physique, de la morale et de la théologie, les associaient en une « science poétique » qui faisait la synthèse de tous les savoirs du monde, et qui est désormais une science fossile. / The old dispute between the Philosopher and the Poet, which leads to the dichotomy betweenLogos and Mythos, can be turned into a settlement as long as one changes one’s viewpoint. WhilePlato only considered their difference as a source of discord and division, Aristotle drew from it aPoetic and a Rhetoric, the Renaissance poets a Poetical Philosophy, and Vico a language’sAnthropology and an Archeology of the Thought. What is considered by the Moderns to be a « wildthinking » was seen by the Ancients as an archaic wisdom, expressed through figures and« translating the voices of nature into the language of gods ».The purpose here is to reassess the concepts of Poetic and Mythic thought by adopting theviewpoint of the poets of the Renaissance and the Baroque era. Those cleary identified these twospecific thinkings with the wit’s power to produce metaphors, figures and fictions. In order to achievethis research, it is important to revisit the antic sources, so as to enlight the effective polysemysupporting the ancient ways used to interpret myths. Far from categorising the stance of the physics,the morals and the theology, the Ancients used to gather them into a comprehensive « poeticscience » : it reunited the synthesis of all knowledge but has become a fossilised science

This thesis spans two fields – South African dance and the philosophy of humour – and attempts to link them through an understanding of their formal mechanisms. I attempt to establish two main ideas: that there is a need for a critical praxis in South African dance, and that humour in dance can be part of this process. In Chapter One, I discuss elements of the South African dance and theatre industries pre- and post-1994 towards arguing my first point (that South African dance would benefit from a critical praxis). I probe some of the challenges facing artists and describe how choreographers are dealing thematically and stylistically (but not formally) with the concept of the ‘New’ South Africa. Through an investigation of concerns voiced by critics regarding choreographic form in the country, I argue that South African dance would benefit from critical formal investigations in dance-making. Finally, I discuss traditional views of humour in South African dance/theatre and in philosophy, which suggest that humour is predominantly seen as frivolous and unworthy of serious attention. Chapter Two, I offer a defence for humour’s more profound critical aspects, suggesting that humour can in fact be seen as critical ‘thinking in action’. A discussion of theories about humour reveals that the basis for humour is the incongruous. A subsequent discussion of form in theatre and dance shows how the incongruous might work within dance form to create meta-dance. In this way, I attempt to link the two fields of humour and South African dance and to make the connection between the critical capacities of meta-dance and those of humour. I suggest, in other words, that humour in dance can create a critical awareness, of the likes advocated in Chapter One. In Chapter Three, I discuss aspects of two works: my own This part should be uncomfortable (2008) and Nelisiwe Xaba’s Plasticization (2004). The two analyses differ from each other as does the humour in both works. Despite the differences, I argue that humour in both works is operating on a critical level that includes a meta-level of signification.

This thesis spans two fields - South African dance and the philosophy of humour - and attempts to link them through an understanding of their formal mechanisms. I attempt to establish two main ideas: that there is a need for a critical praxis in South African dance, and that humour in dance can be part of this process. In Chapter One, I discuss elements of the South African dance and theatre industries pre- and post-1994 towards arguing my first point (that South African dance would benefit from a critical praxis). I probe some of the challenges facing artists and describe howchoreographers are dealing thematically and stylistically (but not formally) with the concept of the 'New' South Africa. Through an investigation of concerns voiced by critics regarding choreographic form in the country, I argue that South African dance would benefit from critical formal investigations in dance-making. Finally, I discuss traditional views of humour in South African dance/theatre and in philosophy, which suggest that humour is predominantly seen as frivolous and unworthy of serious attenfion. In Chapter Two, I offer a defence for humour's more profound critical aspects, suggesting that humour can in fact be seen as critical 'thinking in action'. A discussion of theories about humour reveals that the basis for humour is the incongruous. A subsequent discussion of form in theatre and dance shows how the incongruous might work within dance form to create meta-dance. In this way, I attempt to link the two fields of humour and South African dance and to make the connection between the critical capaci~ies of meta-dance and those of humour. I suggest, in other words, that humour in dance can create a critical awareness, of the likes advocated in Chapter One. In Chapter Three, I discuss aspects of two works: my own This part should be uncomfortable (2008) and Nelisiwe Xaba's Plasticization (2004). The two analyses differ from each other as does the humour in both works. Despite the differences, I argue that humour in both works is operating on a critical level that includes a meta-level of signification.

Theories and research in the field of disparaging humor were reviewed, and sexist humor was studied as representative of this field. The relationships of sex-role identification, self-esteem, and attitudes toward women to the judgement of humor in sexist material were investigated. The Scale of Sexist Humor, developed for this investigation, utilized a set of 50 cartoons and jokes devised to approximate overlapping standard curves on the dimensions of sexist content and humor. Subjects were 57 males and 70 female undergraduate students. Each subject performed a forced Q^-sort of the cartoons and jokes, thereby rating them on a five-point scale of funniness, then completed instruments designed to evaluate sex-role identification (the Personal Attributes Questionnaire), self-esteem (The Texas Social Behavior Inventory), and attitudes toward women (the Attitudes Toward Women Scale), A demographic information sheet was also obtained from each subject to utilize in ancillary analysis.