A noção de rede social e os métodos em análise em redes sociais (ARS) tem atraído considerável interesse e curiosidade para a comunidade científica nestas últimas décadas, assim como a crescente fascinação pública sobre as relações mais complexas da sociedade moderna. A ARS está baseada na importância de relações entre a interação de unidades. Numa análise de rede social a observação dos atributos sociais de um ator pode ser entendida como padrão ou como uma estrutura de relação entre as unidades. Desta forma, quando empregados a uma perspectiva de rede, é possível estudar os padrões de estruturas relacionais diretamente, sem referência a atributos dos indivíduos envolvidos. Na análise convencional de redes sociais a distância geográfica (ou geoespacial) não tem efeito mapeado na rede. Quando utilizada, esta informação normalmente adquire caráter de um atributo complementar associado individualmente a cada ator (ou aglomerados de atores) da própria rede. O objetivo deste trabalho é demonstrar, numa escala local (de maneira mais granular) como o posicionamento geoespacial dos atores, considerado como elementos da rede, pode desvendar aspectos significativos do comportamento destes que não seriam revelados em análises convencionais. No estudo de caso utilizou-se ainda conceitos de outras disciplinas, como a Matemática e a Física, para verificar a capilaridade do fluxo da informação da rede em três perspectivas distintas: a social, a espacial e a socioespacial. O trabalho descreve o campo emergente de pesquisa em ARS, abordando também questões fundamentais sobre como estas diferentes perspectivas podem trazer resultados mais assertivos para orientar uma tomada de decisão no mercado. / The notion of social network and methods of analysis in social networks (SNA) has attracted considerable interest and curiosity to the scientific community in recent decades, as well as a growing public fascination about the more complex relationships of modern society. ARS is based on the importance of relations between the interaction of units. In social network analysis the observation of the attributes of a social actor can be understood as standard or as a structure of relationship between the units. Thus, when used at a network perspective, one can study the patterns of relational structures directly, without reference to attributes of the individuals involved. In the conventional analysis of social networks, geographical distance (or geospatial) has no effect on the mapped network. When used, this information usually takes the character of an additional attribute associated with the individual actor (or clusters of actors) of the network itself. The objective of this study is to demonstrate a "local level" (in a more "granularity") as the geospatial positioning of the actors, considered as elements of the network, can unlock significant aspects of their behavior that would not be revealed in conventional analysis. In the case study is also used concepts from other disciplines such as mathematics and physics, to verify the capillary flow of network information in three different perspectives: social, geospatial and sociospatial. The paper describes the emerging field of research in ARS, also addressing fundamental questions about how different perspectives can bring results more assertive for making initial decision.

Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade, Departamento de Economia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Economia, 2016. / Submitted by Fernanda Percia França (fernandafranca@bce.unb.br) on 2017-02-20T16:01:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_VeruskadaSilvaCosta_Parcial.pdf: 1971337 bytes, checksum: cc42edcc32ecb7f158ed4fdbe8b33005 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana(raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2017-04-06T21:32:57Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_VeruskadaSilvaCosta_Parcial.pdf: 1971337 bytes, checksum: cc42edcc32ecb7f158ed4fdbe8b33005 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-06T21:32:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_VeruskadaSilvaCosta_Parcial.pdf: 1971337 bytes, checksum: cc42edcc32ecb7f158ed4fdbe8b33005 (MD5) / O Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea) é uma fundação pública vinculada ao Ministério do Planejamento. Suas atividades de pesquisa e planejamento apoiam o governo na implementação de políticas públicas. Sabe-se que estudar a constituição, a dinâmica e o funcionamento da comunicação cientifica torna-se estratégico para países como o Brasil. Essa é uma importante ferramenta de estudo e análise, que pode contribuir para que possamos nos deslocar da chamada zona periférica da ciência, onde estamos localizados hoje, para a zona central da ciência. Estudos dessa natureza são relevantes para países em desenvolvimento como o Brasil, pois desnuda as relações entre “produtos e insumos” da pesquisa científica no mundo e demonstram como países desenvolvidos, que detém o fluxo da comunicação científica no mundo, têm se comportado. O trabalho analisa a produção do Ipea com base na série periódica “Textos para Discussão” (TD). Este trabalho teve como objetivo o estudo da série periódica em relação a três aspectos: aspectos formais; aspectos quantitativos e aspectos qualitativos. Este estudo caracteriza-se pela utilização do método quantitativo descritivo, e teve a realização de entrevistas com o objetivo de melhorar os resultados em termos qualitativos. O estudo baseou-se na análise da série temporal, construída ao longo de 37 anos e na análise de coautoria, com base na Análise de Redes Sociais (ARS). Os resultados obtidos demonstraram que a série temporal pode ser utilizada pelo Ipea como um indicador de produção, de forma a entender o seu desempenho ao longo dos 37 anos de existência da série. O Ipea, ao observar os picos e quedas de sua produção, a partir desta variável que nomeamos Produção Anual de Textos para Discussão (PATD), pode entender melhor como o seu desempenho é influenciado por outras variáveis e agir corretivamente. Os resultados relacionados a análise formal da série fornecem um conjunto de características comuns relacionadas a periódicos que podem auxiliar o Ipea no aprimoramento deste importante canal de comunicação. Como resultado da análise de coautoria, o estudo apresenta os resultados que se inserem no escopo de estudos e pesquisas que utilizaram a Análise de Redes Sociais (ARS) aplicada à área de Ciência da Informação, mais especificamente à Comunicação Científica, e apresenta os resultados relacionados às redes de colaboração em pesquisa ou colaboração científica, a partir de um grupo central de autores vinculados ao Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea). / The Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea) is a public foundation linked to the Ministry of Planning. Its research activities aid the government in planning and implementing public policies. It is known to study the formation, dynamics and functioning of scientific communication is strategic for countries like Brazil. This is an important study and analysis tool that can help us to move in the so-called peripheral zone of science, where we are located today to the central area of science. Such studies are relevant to developing countries such as Brazil, as denuded relations between "products and inputs" of scientific research in the world and demonstrate how to developed countries, which holds the flow of scientific communication in the world, have behaved. The paper analyzes the production of IPEA based on periodic series "Discussion paper". This work aimed to study the periodic series on three aspects: formal aspects; quantitative aspects, and qualitative aspects. This study is characterized by the use of descriptive quantitative method, and had interviews with the aim of improving the results in qualitative terms. The study was based on analysis of time series, built over 37 years and co-author of the analysis, based on the Social Network Analysis (SNA). The results showed that the time series can be used as an indicator IPEA production in order to understand its performance over the 37 years of the existence of the series. Ipea can to observe the peaks and troughs of its production from this variable that we named Annual Production of Texts for Discussion (PATD), and can better understand how their performance is influenced by other variables and act correctively. The results related to formal analysis of the series provide a common set of characteristics related to journals that can help the IPEA in the improvement of this important channel of communication. As a result of co-authorship analysis, the study presents the results fall within the scope of studies and research using the Social Network Analysis (SNA) applied to the area of Information Science, specifically the Scientific Communication, and presents the results related collaborative networks for research or scientific collaboration, from a core group of authors linked to the Institute for Applied Economic Research (Ipea).

Submitted by Aelson Maciera (aelsoncm@terra.com.br) on 2017-10-25T18:10:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DissWAO.pdf: 2144900 bytes, checksum: 1ae2b51ca6cabfb039762c2dbf9522d6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (producaointelectual.bco@ufscar.br) on 2017-10-31T11:20:14Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissWAO.pdf: 2144900 bytes, checksum: 1ae2b51ca6cabfb039762c2dbf9522d6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ronildo Prado (producaointelectual.bco@ufscar.br) on 2017-10-31T11:20:23Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DissWAO.pdf: 2144900 bytes, checksum: 1ae2b51ca6cabfb039762c2dbf9522d6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-31T11:45:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissWAO.pdf: 2144900 bytes, checksum: 1ae2b51ca6cabfb039762c2dbf9522d6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-30 / Outra / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / The present study has the objective to investigate the network conformation of scientific collaboration's postdegree program in Sducation located in Brazil's Southwest. Use it in two methodologies, the social media analysis and the bibliometry. The scientific production was collected in lattes plataform deriving from curriculum of accredited teachers in 15 postdegree programs. Considering datas by two last tests of CAPES (triennia 2007-9 2010-2). The bibliographic records was extracted between scriptlattes software. The Vantage Point® software and UCINET was used to systematization and analysis of the results. Found that the area published on average 60% of articles in collaboration and there is a decrease (5%) in articles with authors individual. there is a uniform distribution of articles between the strata Qualis, ranging from 10% to 15%. according to the Qualis area, 14% of articles not total score for the program. there is a diversity in the profile of collaboration of the programs, some have more than 70% of its production in collaboration, and others with a maximum of 40%. the protagonists in collaboration scientific are programs level 6 (ufscar-and and) and level 5 (ufscar). the level 7 and most of the level 6 do not appear prominently. there are no greater approach between teachers of the programs for publication, for having higher level. the higher the average articles by program, the greater the possibility of publication joint. specific areas of education with other areas of knowledge (psychology, health, biology, etc.), impact the shape of the scientific production. / O presente estudo teve como objetivo investigar a configuração das redes de colaboração científica dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Educação localizados no Sudeste do Brasil. Utilizou-se de duas metodologias, a Análise de Redes Sociais e a Bibliometria. A produção científica foi coletada na Plataforma Lattes oriunda dos currículos de docentes de credenciados em 15 programas de pós-graduação considerando dados das duas últimas avaliações da Capes (triénios 2007-9 e 2010-2). Os registros bibliográficos de 4.826 artigos foram extraídos através do software ScriptLattes. Os softwares Vantage Point® e UCINET foram usados para sistematização e análise dos resultados. Constatou que a área publicou em média 60% dos artigos em colaboração e há uma diminuição (5%) nos artigos com autores individuais. Há uma distribuição uniforme dos artigos entre os estratos Qualis, com variação entre 10% e 15%. De acordo com o Qualis da área, 14% dos artigos não somam pontuação para o programa. Existe uma diversidade no perfil de colaboração dos programas, alguns possuem mais de 70% da sua produção em colaboração, e outros com no máximo 40%. Os protagonistas na colaboração científica são os programas nível 6 (UFSCar-EE) e nível 5 (UFSCar). Os de nível 7 e maioria do nível 6 não aparecem com destaque. Não há uma maior aproximação entre os docentes dos programas para publicação, por terem maior nível. Quanto maior a média de artigos por programa, maior a possibilidade de publicação conjunta. Áreas específicas da educação com outras áreas de conhecimento (psicologia, saúde, biologia, etc.), impactam a forma da produção científica.

A noção de rede social e os métodos em análise em redes sociais (ARS) tem atraído considerável interesse e curiosidade para a comunidade científica nestas últimas décadas, assim como a crescente fascinação pública sobre as relações mais complexas da sociedade moderna. A ARS está baseada na importância de relações entre a interação de unidades. Numa análise de rede social a observação dos atributos sociais de um ator pode ser entendida como padrão ou como uma estrutura de relação entre as unidades. Desta forma, quando empregados a uma perspectiva de rede, é possível estudar os padrões de estruturas relacionais diretamente, sem referência a atributos dos indivíduos envolvidos. Na análise convencional de redes sociais a distância geográfica (ou geoespacial) não tem efeito mapeado na rede. Quando utilizada, esta informação normalmente adquire caráter de um atributo complementar associado individualmente a cada ator (ou aglomerados de atores) da própria rede. O objetivo deste trabalho é demonstrar, numa escala local (de maneira mais granular) como o posicionamento geoespacial dos atores, considerado como elementos da rede, pode desvendar aspectos significativos do comportamento destes que não seriam revelados em análises convencionais. No estudo de caso utilizou-se ainda conceitos de outras disciplinas, como a Matemática e a Física, para verificar a capilaridade do fluxo da informação da rede em três perspectivas distintas: a social, a espacial e a socioespacial. O trabalho descreve o campo emergente de pesquisa em ARS, abordando também questões fundamentais sobre como estas diferentes perspectivas podem trazer resultados mais assertivos para orientar uma tomada de decisão no mercado. / The notion of social network and methods of analysis in social networks (SNA) has attracted considerable interest and curiosity to the scientific community in recent decades, as well as a growing public fascination about the more complex relationships of modern society. ARS is based on the importance of relations between the interaction of units. In social network analysis the observation of the attributes of a social actor can be understood as standard or as a structure of relationship between the units. Thus, when used at a network perspective, one can study the patterns of relational structures directly, without reference to attributes of the individuals involved. In the conventional analysis of social networks, geographical distance (or geospatial) has no effect on the mapped network. When used, this information usually takes the character of an additional attribute associated with the individual actor (or clusters of actors) of the network itself. The objective of this study is to demonstrate a "local level" (in a more "granularity") as the geospatial positioning of the actors, considered as elements of the network, can unlock significant aspects of their behavior that would not be revealed in conventional analysis. In the case study is also used concepts from other disciplines such as mathematics and physics, to verify the capillary flow of network information in three different perspectives: social, geospatial and sociospatial. The paper describes the emerging field of research in ARS, also addressing fundamental questions about how different perspectives can bring results more assertive for making initial decision.

Os dados espaciais têm sido utilizados para o monitoramento ambiental de consequências de acidentes com produtos químicos no transporte de produtos perigosos. A Infraestrutura de Dados Espaciais (IDE), que foi criada para a disponibilização e uso de dados espaciais, esbarra na ausência de políticas para dar suporte a essa realização. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é explorar o uso da teoria de Análise de Rede Social (ARS) para diagnosticar a articulação entre as organizações do setor, e discutir as políticas e acordos institucionais vigentes e criar um esquema conceitual de uma IDE para gerenciamento de acidentes relacionados ao Transporte Rodoviário de Produtos Perigosos (TRPP). Neste contexto, esta pesquisa identificou as instituições que tratam do tema TRPP, para que informações sobre o interesse no uso e compartilhamento de dados espaciais através de uma IDE pudessem ser coletadas através de entrevistas, e desta forma, consolidadas. As entrevistas foram aplicadas de forma presencial em 39 instituições. A aplicação da teoria Análise de Rede Social (ARS) pôde diagnosticar o fluxo dos dados entre as instituições através da representação gráfica das redes de disponibilização e utilização de dados espaciais entre as organizações participantes. A partir de então, foram analisados e discutidos os acordos vigentes para compartilhamento de dados espaciais. Os resultados compilados permitiram propor um esquema conceitual de uma IDE para apoio a desastres envolvendo o TRPP, para, então, prover a elaboração de metodologia para o suporte ao diagnóstico da articulação entre os diversos atores de uma IDE. A finalidade é a possível a formulação de políticas para disponibilização de dados espaciais para tomada de decisões preventivas e de enfrentamento de desastres. Os resultados indicaram que as 39 instituições compartilham dados espaciais entre si, ainda que nem sempre por acordos formais preestabelecidos. Constatou-se ainda que há um grande anseio por parte das instituições que fazem o gerenciamento de acidentes envolvendo o TRPP para que haja mecanismos legais para compartilhamento de dados estruturantes para planejamento territorial - para que o uso desses dados possa auxiliar na preparação, prevenção, gerenciamento e socorro imediato aos incidentes que envolvem o TRPP. / Spatial data have been used for environmental monitoring of chemical accidents on the road transportation of dangerous goods. The Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) has been created to availability and use of spatial data, however, it emphasizes that there are no policies to support this realization. The main aim of this work is to create a conceptual scheme of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for management of transport of Dangerous Goods by road, focusing on the political context. It was identified the institutions that deal with the subject of road transportation of hazardous materials, Moreover the interviews could be consolidated. The interviews were administered by face, in 39 institutions. Interview data were ran in software UCINET, 2000 to obtain metrics related to centrality measures. The application of the theory of Social Network Analysis (ARS) could recognize the flow of data between institutions through the enrolled institutions. Furthermore, it was analyzed the network availability and use aspects of spatial data sharing between the organizations. Besides, the compiled results allowed to propose a conceptual scheme of a SDI to support technological disasters with road transportation of hazardous materials throw the SNA theory applied to investigation of spatial data sharing between different stakeholders to make prevention and risk management of the sector. Therefore, the analysis of the theory of Social Network Analysis (ARS) found that 39 (thirty-nine) institutions share spatial data between themselves, but not always in formal agreements previously established. It was further observed that there is a great desire on the part of the institutions that make the management of the accidents of this kind of transportation mode, so there are legal frameworks for data sharing for land cover uses, as a result the use of such data can be shared between different stakeholders to assist the preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery from incidents related to road dangerous goods transportation.

Le présent travail étudie un moment d’histoire littéraire et culturelle en langue française – à la charnière des XIIe et XIIIe siècles, autour de Jean Renart et Raoul de Houdenc – sous l’angle du plaisir littéraire. Les œuvres en vers de ces deux auteurs actifs au début du XIIIe siècle, qui révèlent une conscience auctoriale aiguë et que sous-tend une réflexion métadiscursive faisant la part belle au principe du delectare, sont révélatrices des jugements divergents que le Moyen Âge porte sur cette notion problématique. En effet, l’expression littéraire du plaisir se situe à la croisée de plusieurs champs discursifs qui en précisent le sens et éclairent ses enjeux sous des jours contrastés. La poésie se fait d’une part l’écho du discours dominant de l’Église et illustre la complexité de l’attitude des théologiens et des moralistes devant le plaisir littéraire, entre condamnation virulente et légitimation conditionnelle. Elle atteste – et accompagne – également l’épanouissement d’une autre idéologie, aristocratique et profane, bien plus favorable au plaisir puisque l’imaginaire courtois accorde au deduit littéraire une valeur à la fois éthique, sociale et politique. Elle reflète enfin la conception médiévale du Beau littéraire formalisée par les arts poétiques médiolatins qui en établissent le canon et dont le plaisir est le signe. Lieux de confrontation de ces discours souvent discordants, les œuvres littéraires du temps de Jean Renart et Raoul de Houdenc témoignent de la revendication nouvelle d’un plaisir présenté comme une valeur et une exigence. C’est une certaine conception de la littérature en langue vulgaire qui voit le jour autour de 1200. / This work focuses on a short period in French-language literary and cultural history—at the turn of 12th and 13th centuries, around the work of Jean Renart and Raoul de Houdenc—from the standpoint of literary enjoyment. The poetic output of these two early 13th-century authors, who display a keen authorial consciousness underpinned by a meta-discursive reflection that gives more than its due to the principle of delectare, testifies to the diversity of judgements that the Middle Ages pass on this controversial notion. The literary expression of enjoyment is indeed located at the crossing of several discursive fields that specify its meaning and shed contrasting lights on its stakes. Poetry both echoes the dominant views of the Church and epitomizes the complexity of attitudes of theologians and moralists towards literary enjoyment, between outright condemnation and conditional legitimiza-tion. It also bears witness to—and accompanies—the flowering of another ideology, aristocratic and secular, far more favourably disposed towards enjoyment, since the courtly imaginative world grants literary deduit a value that is at the same time ethical, social, and political. Lastly, it reflects the medieval conception of literary Beauty, as formalized by the ars poetica of Medieval Latin, which sets the canons and takes enjoyment as a sign. As a battlefield for these often discordant views, the literary works from the era of Jean Renart and Raoul de Houdenc testify to the appearance of a new claim to pleasure, considered both as an ethical standard and an entitlement. A certain conception of literature in the vernacular was thus born around year 1200.

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Cette thèse traite des statues d'animaux dédiées dans les sanctuaires de Grèce continentale, des îles égéennes et de la côte d'Asie Mineure des périodes archaïque à hellénistique. Les statues, les bases de statues et les éventuelles informations épigraphiques découvertes dans des sanctuaires grecs sont rassemblées dans un catalogue archéologique tandis qu'un catalogue littéraire de sources anciennes le complète. L'étude contextuelle classifie par catégories animalières les statues des deux catalogues. Elle traite du contexte biologique des espèces, des interactions variées entre hommes et animaux, de leur place dans la littérature ancienne et la mythologie, et de leurs représentations dans le contexte religieux. L'étude se poursuit par une étude des sanctuaires receveurs, et une discussion sur le sens des offrandes par catégorie animale. L'importance de certains animaux par leur est aussi prise en considération. Une partie sculpturale s'intéresse à l'esthétique des statues, aux matériaux utilisés, aux prix de ces « anathemata », aux conditions pratiques de réalisation et d'acheminement, au coût du transport, ainsi qu'à l'identité et la spécialité des artistes. Enfin, une analyse systématique des données permet d'établir des liens entre sanctuaires, choix des animaux représentées, divinités honorées, implications géographiques et évolutions diachroniques. L'identité des offrants, publics ou privés, permet d'explorer, au-delà de la démarche religieuse les motivations politiques et implications sociales qui ont motivé les offrandes de statues animalières dans les sanctuaires grecs. / This dissertation focuses on the freestanding statues of animals set as offerings, or “anathemata”, in Greek sanctuaries of the mainland, the Aegean island and the coast of Asia Minor from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. Surviving are gatjeres in a catalogue, along with the bases on which animal statues stood and the epigraphic material linked with freestanding animal dedications. A second catalogue lists the animal statues recorded by ancient travelers. The contextual study treats the represented animals by categories. It questions biological data, interactions between humans and animals, the place of animals in ancient Greek literature and mythology, as well as animal representations in a religious context. The receiving sanctuaries are also examined and the meanings of sculptural “anathemata” of each category is discussed. The importance of some animals by their absence is also ta ken into consideration.Observations on ancient sculpture focus on the aesthetics of animal statues, the materials used, the place of the “anathemata”, the practicalities and cost of their transport, and the identity and specialties of the sculptors. Data drawn from the catalogues are systematically analyzed in order to draw links between sanctuaries, choice of represented animals, receiving deities, geographical implications and the diachronic evolution. A study of the dedicators' identity enables the questioning to extend beyond the religious sphere, to the political motives and social implications connected to the dedication of animal statues.

This thesis examines the hair imagery that runs through the works of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid. Comparative analysis of the elegists’ approaches to the motif, with particular emphasis on determining where and how each deviates from the cultural assumptions and literary tradition attached to each image, sheds light on the character and purposes of elegy as a genre, as well as on the individual aims and innovations of each poet. The Introduction provides some background on sociological approaches to the study of hair, and considers the reasons why hair imagery should have such a prominent presence in elegy. Chapter 1 focuses on the elegists’ engagement with the idea of cultus (‘cultivation’), and their manipulation of the connotations traditionally attached to elaborate hairstyles, of sophistication on the one hand, and immorality on the other, to suit an elegiac context. Chapter 2 looks at how the complexities of the power relationship between the lover and his mistress play out in references to violent hair-pulling. Chapter 3 focuses on the sometimes positively and sometimes negatively spun image of grey-haired lovers, as a reflection of the lover-poet’s own contradictory wishes for his relationship with his mistress; it also considers grey hair as a symbol of physical mortality, as contrasted with poetic immortality. Chapter 4 examines the use of images of loose hair (especially images of dishevelled mourning) to suggest connotations ranging from the erotic to the pathetic, and focuses on the effects the elegists achieve by using a single image to communicate multiple implications. The Conclusion considers the ‘afterlife’ of elegiac hair imagery: the influence that their approaches had on later authors’ handling of similar images.

Part I of this thesis has been written with a view to exploring the relevance a text over 2500 years old has for contemporary ars poetica. From a detailed study of ‘The Book of Job’ I highlight three main tropes, ‘cognitive dissonance’, ‘tĕšuvah’, and ‘dark saying’, and demonstrate how these might inform the working methods of the contemporary poet. In the introduction I define these tropes in their theological and historical context. Chapter one provides a detailed examination of ‘Job’, its antecedents and its influence on literature. In chapters two and three I examine in detail techniques of Classical Hebrew poetry employed in ‘Job’ and argue for a confluence between literary technique and Jobian cosmology. Stylistically, the rest of the thesis is a critical meditation on how the main tropes of ‘Job’ can be mapped onto contemporary ars poetica. In chapter four I initiate an exploration into varying responses to cognitive dissonance, suggesting how the false comforters and Job represent different approaches to, and stages of, poetic composition. A critique of an essay by David Daiches is followed by a detailed study of Seamus Heaney. In chapter five I map the trope of tĕšuvah onto contemporary ars poetica with reference to the poetry of Pilinszky, Popa, and to the poems and critical work of Ted Hughes. The chapter concludes with a brief exploration into the common ground shared between the terms tĕšuvah and versus as a means of highlighting the importance of proper maturation of the work. Chapter six consists of a discussion of how the kind of ‘dark saying’ found in ‘Job’ 38-41 impacts on an understanding of poetic language and its capacity to accelerate our comprehension of reality. I support this notion with excerpts from Joseph Brodsky and a close reading of Montale’s ‘L’anguilla’. Chapter seven further develops the notion of poetry as a means of propulsion beyond the familiar, the predictable or the clichéd, by examining the function of metaphor and what I term ‘quick thinking’, and by referring to two recently published poems by John Burnside and Don Paterson. In chapter eight I draw out the overall motif implied by a close reading of ‘Job’, that of the weathering of an ordeal, and map this onto ars poetica, looking at two aspects of labour, which I identify as ‘endurance’ and ‘letting go’, crucial for the proper maturation of a poem or body of poems. The concluding chapter develops the theme of the temple first discussed in chapter one. I argue for a connection between Job as a temple initiate, who has the capacity to atone for the false comforters, and poetry as a form of ‘at-one-ment’. This notion is supported by reference to Geoffrey Hill and Rilke. Part II of the thesis consists of a selection of my own poems, titled ‘Bedrock’.