Zugl.: Neubiberg, Universiẗat der Bundeswehr München, Diss., 2005.

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Functional neuroimaging studies of autobiographical memory have grown dramatically in recent years. These studies are important because they can investigate the neural correlates of processes that are difficult to study using laboratory stimuli, including: (i) complex constructive processes, (ii) recollective qualities of emotion and vividness, and (iii) remote memory retrieval. Constructing autobiographical memories involves search, monitoring and self-referential processes that are associated with activity in separable prefrontal regions. The contributions of emotion and vividness have been linked to the amygdala and visual cortex respectively. Finally, there is evidence that recent and remote autobiographical memories might activate the hippocampus equally, which has implications for memory-consolidation theories. The rapid development of innovative methods for eliciting personal memories in the scanner provides the opportunity to delve into the functional neuroanatomy of our personal past. / Dissertation

Bakgrund: Patienter med bipolär sjukdom har episoder med depression och manier. Vid dessa episoder försvåras patientens förmåga att hantera känslor, arbete samt ekonomi. Genom en ökad förståelse kring sjukdomen kan tabubeläggning om bipolär sjukdom minskas. Syfte: Syftet är att beskriva patienters upplevelser av att leva med bipolär sjukdom. Metod: Kvalitativ innehållsanalys användes för att analysera fem självbiografiska böcker som är skrivna av patienter som lever med bipolär sjukdom. Resultat: I resultatet framkom olika teman som beskriver hur patienter upplever att leva med bipolär sjukdom. De teman som framkom var: Viljan att få hjälp, att acceptera bipolär sjukdom och betydelsen av anhörigas stöd samt känslan av att vara annorlunda. Slutsats: Patienter med bipolär sjukdom behöver stöd från anhöriga och bli mer uppmärksammad i sin sjukdom från sjukvårdspersonal. Vid tidig diagnostisering kan behandling sättas in som minskar risk för suicidförsök och självskadebeteende hos patienten. Ökad förståelse om bipolär sjukdom kan leda till att patienter mer accepterar sin sjukdom. / Backround: Patients with bipolar disorder/disease has episodes with depression and mania. During these episodes the ability to manage emotions, work and economy becomes more difficult. With increased understanding of their disorder, the taboo subject of bipolar disorder can decrease. Aim: The aim to this study was to describe patient´s experiences of living with bipolar disorder. Method: A qualitative research was used to analyze five biographies, which are written by patients living with bipolar disorder. Result: In the result different themes emerged which describe patient´s experiences living with bipolar disorder/disease. The themes which stood out were: The desire to get help, to accept bipolar disorder and the importance of relatives support and the feeling of being different. Conclusion: Patients with bipolar disorder needs support from relatives to get more attention from medical staff to view the entirety of the patient´s disease. Early diagnosis, treatment can be initiated which reduces the risk of suicide attempts and self harm in the patient. Increased knowledge about bipolar disorder can lead to a better working life for the patients.

A dramatic shift in tone in the final letter of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer reveals Farmer James' conflicting attitudes about an independent America. When the letters are juxtaposed with a Western myth of origin such as Virgil's Aeneid, it becomes clear that Crèvecoeur is forcing his narrating persona to repeat a pattern of civilization – destruction, renewal – on which all of Western civilization is based. The sudden pessimism that erupts in the penultimate "Distresses of a Frontier Man" is symptomatic of James' anxiety about the American Revolution and the resulting disruption in his bucolic way of life.

Cette étude est consacrée aux procédés narratifs du récit de voyage de Nerval, du point de vue de l’intertextualité et de l’autobiographie. Dans la première partie, nous abordons le récit de voyage en général, en centrant l’attention sur le voyage littéraire subjectif et autobiographique : son statut spécifique en tant que genre littéraire, son évolution chronologique, ses formes, son intertextualité et son caractère autobiographique. Dans la deuxième partie, nous étudions la spécificité du récit de voyage de Nerval sur le plan narratif, sur celui de l’intertextualité et sur celui de l’écriture autobiographique, selon les différents types des voyages nervaliens : voyage réaliste (Voyage en Orient, Lorely), voyage excentrique (Les Faux Saulniers), voyage parodique (Les Nuits d’octobre), voyage autobiographique (Promenades et Souvenirs) et voyage intérieur (Aurélia). Enfin, dans la troisième partie, nous analysons la poétique du voyage littéraire de Nerval dans la perspective de la modernité de son écriture, en considérant le mélange des formes, les pratiques intertextuelles (référence, réécriture et recomposition), l’originalité du voyageur fantaisiste, le récit poétique et dialogique et l’écriture réaliste. / This study focuses on the narrative processes of travel story of Nerval, in terms of intertextuality and autobiography. In the first part, we discuss of the travel story in general, with a focus on the subjective and autobiographical literary travel : its special status as literary genre, its chronological develpment, its forms, its intertextuality and its autobiographical nature. In the second part, we study specificity of the travel story of Nerval on the narrative level, that of intertextuality and that of autobiographical writing, according to diffrents types of Nerval’s travels : realistic travel (Voyage en Orient, Lorely), eccentric travel (Les Faux Saulniers), parodic travel (Les Nuits d’octobre), autobiographical travel (Promenades et Souvenirs) and interior travel (Aurélia). Finally, in the third part, we analyse the poetics of travel writing of Nerval in the context of the modernity of his writing, considering the mixture of forms, the intertextual practices (reference, rewriting and reorganzation), the originality of fanciful traveler, the poetic and dialogic stroy and realistic writing.

O presente projeto de pesquisa debruça-se sobre o livro Vida (Companhia das Letras, 2013), de Paulo Leminski. Trata-se do volume que reúne as únicas quatro biografias escritas pelo poeta entre os anos de 1983 e 1986: Cruz e Sousa o negro branco (1983), Bashô a lágrima do peixe (1983), Jesus a.c (1984), Trótski a paixão segundo a revolução (1986). Os livros foram publicados esparsamente entre 1983 e 1986 pela editora Brasiliense. Os três primeiros compunham uma coleção chamada Encanto Radical, enquanto o último integrou a coleção Antologias & Biografias. A proposta da editora pedia um texto próximo a referências contemporâneas, capaz de conversar com seu tempo. Leminski fez isso a seu modo, poético e errático. O objetivo desta pesquisa é investigar os fragmentos autobiográficos presentes nas obras e com isso testar uma hipótese: poderia o livro Vida conter uma autobiografia fragmentária do poeta? Esta pesquisa deseja mapear o que há de cada biografado em Leminski, bem como o que há de Leminski em cada uma das biografias que escreveu. É possível que esse percurso nos dê pistas sobre a natureza do texto que o poeta produziu nestas obras, pois notoriamente não estamos falando de um texto biográfico convencional (seria Vida uma série de biografias poéticas, um conjunto de ensaios biográficos, uma biografia criativa, ou apenas breves perfis literários?) / This research is focused on the book titled Vida (Companhia das Letras, 2013), written by Paulo Leminski. It is the volume which brings together the only four biographies written by the poet between the years 1983 and 1986: Cruz e Sousa o negro branco (1983), Bashô a lágrima do peixe (1983), Jesus a.c (1984), Trótski a paixão segundo a revolução (1986). These books were published sparsely between 1983 and 1986 by publisher Braziliense. The first three books made up a collection called Encanto Radical, while the last one integrated the collection Antologias & Biografias. The proposal of the publishing company demanded a text close to contemporary references, and able to dialogue with its time. Leminski did it by his own way, poetic and erratic. The objective of this research is to investigate the autobiographical fragments of the book and thereby test an hypothesis: could Vida encompass a fragmentary autobiography of the poet? This research want to map out what exist of each biographee in Leminski, as well as what exist of Leminski in every biography that he wrote. Moreover, this journey may bring us some clues about the nature of the text that the poet has produced on these works, because notoriously we are not talking about a conventional biographical text (what is Vida: a serie of poetic biographies, a collection of biographical essays, one creative biography, or only brief literary profiles?)

Thesis advisor: Susan Michalczyk / In nineteenth-century England, women were struggling to find an outlet for the intelligence, emotions, and creativity that the patriarchal society around them continuously stifled. For women such as Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, writing served as an opportunity to defy restrictive social structures and offered a needed public voice. By expressing their own thoughts and frustrations, Austen and Brontë helped to overcome the anonymity imposed upon women of their time, as they illuminated the female experience. The following paper takes a look at the ways in which Austen and Brontë imparted autobiographical elements to their female characters, as both authors underwent important catharses and inspired the women around them. To this day, their literature provides critical insight into the troubled existence of the nineteenth-century woman, while revealing their own struggles with their constricted identities. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: English. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

O estudo da literatura e de objetos artísticos, por um viés da teoria Semiótica greimasiana, prevê que todo sentido é gerado a partir de articulações semióticas que arquitetam um discurso presente em todo e qualquer texto. Desse modo, o presente trabalho propõe uma análise semiótica da autobiografia em quadrinhos de Alison Bechdel, Fun Home:Uma tragicomédia em família. Por meio da metodologia da Semiótica francesa, a presente análise descreve os artifícios discursivos de persuasão do gênero autobiográfico utilizados pela quadrinista norte-americana para convencer o leitor de que está diante de uma história real. Tais artifícios apontam para uma aproximação da realidade por meio de efeitos de sentido predominantemente referenciais. No entanto, Bechdel (2007b) complexifica tal aproximação, ficcionalizando seus personagens por meio da literatura, não só pela própria natureza do enunciado, mas também como artifício discursivo no interior do texto. Além do gênero autobiográfico, analisa-se a estrutura dos quadrinhos e os efeitos de sentido produzidos pelo sincretismo inerente ao gênero, isto é, a relação entre texto verbal e texto visual. Também é analisada a temática lésbica que permeia todo o enunciado e a rede discursiva polêmica que problematiza. Na obra de Bechdel encontram-se, portanto, as relações entre o gênero autobiográfico, a sua textualização por meio do sistema dos quadrinhos e a pertinência entre eles para a literatura que abrange a temática lésbica. / The study of literature and art objects from the standpoint of the Greimasian Semiotic Theory indicates that all meaning is generated from semiotic articulations that construct a discourse in any given text. Thus, this study proposes a semiotic analysis of Alison Bechdels graphic autobiography Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Through the methodology of French semiotics, this analysis describes the discursive devices of persuasion of the autobiographical genre used by the North American cartoonist to convince the reader that they are faced with a real story. Such devices point to an approximation of reality through predominantly referential meaning effects. However, Bechdel (2007b) complicates such an approximation, fictionalizing her characters through literature, not only due to the nature of the utterance, but also as a discursive device within the text. Besides the autobiographical genre, we analyze the structure of comics and the meaning effects produced by the syncretism inherent in the genre, that is, the relationship between verbal text and visual text. Also analyzed are the lesbian issues that permeate the whole utterance and the controversial discursive network that it examine. The proposal is to open a dialogue between language studies, sexuality studies and gender studies. In Bechdel\'s work there is, therefore, the relationship between the autobiographical genre, its textualization through the system of comics and their relevance for a literature encompassing lesbian issues.

Atualmente somos educados para termos saúde. Não há quem nos ensine a conviver com uma doença. Numa sociedade que, com seus avanços tecnológicos e biomédicos se acredita poder controlar tudo e que há uma cura para todo o mal, ter de aprender a viver e conviver com a dor e a doença é um grande desafio. Nessa tese, analiso blogs de pessoas que vivem em condição crônica de doença como uma forma de educação para a doença. Vejo esse espaço de comunicação, educação e partilha também como um construtor identitário a partir da narrativa autobiográfica. Realizando esse estudo, a partir dos Estudos Culturais em educação e comunicação, construo, primeiramente uma revisão bibliográfica sobre os principais temas concernentes à pesquisa: saúde, doença, identidade, narrativa autobiográfica e internet. Após, realizo uma análise, a partir de um ponto de vista netnográfico, de cinco blogs brasileiros de pessoas em situação crônica de doença (artrite reumatoide, lúpus, espondilite anquilosante, diabetes e doença de fabry). Os blogs se apresentam não apenas como espaço para a escrita da experiência pessoal, mas como um lugar político e de resistência, não só de posicionamento dos blogueiros que os escrevem mas como um modelo de conduta para seus leitores. / Nowadays we are educated to have health. No one teaches us to live with a disease. In a society that, with its technological and biomedical advances we believe to control everything and that there is a cure for all evil, have to learn to live and live with the pain and illness is a big challenge. In this thesis I analyze blogs of people living in chronic disease condition as a form of education for the illness. I see this space of communication, education and sharing as well as an identity builder from the autobiographical narrative. Realizing this study from the Cultural Studies in Education and Communication, I construct, first a literature review on the main issues concerning the research: health, disease/illness, identity, autobiographical narrative and internet. Then, realize an analysis from a netnographic view, of five Brazilian blogs of people with chronic disease condition (rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, ankylosing spondylitis, diabetes and Fabry disease). This Blogs are presented not only as a space for writing from personal experience, but as a political place and resistance, not only positioning of bloggers who write them but as a role model for your readers.