Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:48:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vania Grim Thies_Tese.pdf: 10034266 bytes, checksum: 6aaa1e8cf0ec564bbc50abdf4154d9f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-04 / This study analyzes the diaries written by three farmer brothers and how their lives have been aesthetically engaged in the act of writing in a rural routine. Its main theoretical-methodological reference was the Bakhtin Circle, besides other authors studies which have been based on the Bakhtinian theory. This dissertation is supported by the presuppositions regarding the aesthetic and responsible act which may enable interaction between two worlds: the world of life and the world of theory. Therefore, the diaries were problematized as an aesthetic and responsible act with which the farmers developed interaction between both worlds in their daily routines. Twenty one diaries written by three Schmidt brothers in different moments of their lives, from 1972 to 2007, were analyzed. Aldo started his writings in 1972, got married in 1976 and has kept writing his diaries with his new family so far whereas Clemer was asked - by his father - to carry out the family s collective writings; thus, it was a family s diary, rather than a personal diary like Aldo s. Clemer only wrote while he was single and lived in his father s home. He got married in 1979, moved in with his new family and stopped writing but left the diaries in his father s home so that his brothers could go on writing. Unlike his brothers, Clenderci started writing his diary after getting married in 1983 and kept writing until 1992. This dissertation shows that there is interaction between the world of theory and the world of life through the unique and responsible act of diary writing. Each brother s ownership shows how similar the compositional forms of the diary organization are; however, they are different regarding their architectural aspects. Each author has his own architectural project, writes down everyday utterances in agreement with his axiological position, registers facts in his own way, organizes them aesthetically according to his authorcreator, and, consequently, produces different senses in his writing. Therefore, the aesthetics of life is existence itself: the existence of the authors-creators Aldo, Clemer and Clenderci in the act of writing their diaries which represent the succession of acts they go through in their rural lives. / Este estudo analisa os diários de três irmãos agricultores e como eles inscrevem as suas vidas, esteticamente, no ato da escrita do cotidiano rural. O referencial teóricometodológico principal do estudo foi o Círculo de Bakhtin e demais autores que possuem estudos baseados na teoria bakhtiniana. A tese está ancorada no pressuposto do ato ético e responsável como interação possível entre os dois mundos: mundo da vida e mundo da teoria. Os diários foram problematizados, portanto, como ato ético e responsável nos quais os agricultores realizam a interação entre os dois mundos nos registros cotidianos. Foram analisados vinte e um diários produzidos pelos três irmãos Schmidt em diferentes momentos da vida de cada um, entre o período de 1972 a 2007. Aldo iniciou a escrita de diários em 1972. Em 1976, casou-se e permaneceu escrevendo os diários com a nova família, perpetuando a prática até os dias atuais. Já Clemer foi encarregado pelo pai para realizar a escrita coletiva da família, os diários; portanto, não eram registros pessoais como os de Aldo, mas apontamentos da família. Clemer escreveu somente na casa do pai, enquanto solteiro. Em 1979, casou-se, constituiu nova família e parou de escrever, deixando os diários na casa paterna para que os demais irmãos continuassem escrevendo. De maneira diferente da de Clemer e de Aldo, o irmão Clenderci deu início aos diários depois que se casou, em 1983, escrevendo até o ano de 1992. A tese mostra que há a interação entre o mundo da teoria e o mundo da vida por meio do ato único e responsável da escrita dos diários. A autoria de cada um dos três irmãos reflete como a forma composicional da organização dos diários é semelhante; porém, em seus aspectos arquitetônicos, são diferentes. Cada autor tem seu projeto arquitetônico e escreve os enunciados do dia de acordo com sua posição axiológica, registrando à sua maneira e organizando esteticamente segundo seu autor-criador, criando sentidos diferentes na sua produção. Portanto, a estética da vida é a própria existência dos autores-criadores Aldo, Clemer e Clenderci no ato da escrita dos diários, representando a sucessão de atos vividos no cotidiano da vida rural.

The non-fiction introduction to The Wyvern’s Tale: A Thought Experiment in Bakhtinian Dual Chronotope Occupation documents the evolution of the novel, The Wyvern’s Tale, from the ideas that inspired it to its current incarnation as a full-length novel intended for an adult audience. It comprises an explanation of the novel’s main concept, Bakhtinian dual chronotope occupation, as well as an idea-focused account of the creative-writing process. Detailed in the introduction’s theoretical premise is the relationship between Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of chronotope and the carnivalesque and the ideal of the divided union in Chalcedonian Christology. This relationship revolves around the state of existing in two time-spaces at once. The novel, The Wyvern’s Tale, explores this dual existence imaginatively using the setting of parallel worlds – the every-day world and a fictional world called Wyvern – as well as a protagonist, who functions in the fictional world as a Christ-figure. Particular thematic emphasis is placed on differing perceptions of truth and reality, and on the transformative power of costumes. The novel’s outcome, dependent on the reader’s decision as to whether dual chronotope occupation is possible or impossible, is respectively either hopeful or tragic. It attempts to reflect the outcome of the life and death of Christ depending on whether his co-existence as God and man was real or imagined.

This thesis analyzes the major theme of ‘postcolonial genealogy’ in portraying the African bending under the weight of colonial history in Le vieux nègre et la médaille, Une vie de boy of Ferdinand Oyono and Le Chercheur d’Afriques of Henri Lopes. Being a product of a colonial Genesis, the African character runs behind the colonizer’s mirror through his Civilizing Mission. René Girard’s ‘double bind’ theory explains how this cultural assimilation is, in Le vieux nègre et la médaille and Une vie de boy, a dead end because the colonizer needs a subordinate and not an equal. The cohabitation of a black housewife with the French Commander in Le Chercheur d’Afriques should be seen as simply an allegory of postcolonial Africa’s dependency on the West. The consequences of the feminization of the African continent are enormous in the post-colonial imaginary. While the colonizer had conquered Africa with his Herculean body, in Oyono’s novels, his Fall is obtained through the aesthetics of Bakhtinian ‘rabaissement’ which degrades his ‘grotesque body’ to that of the colonized. The colonizer and the colonized are neutralized and leveled in their perishable bodies, thus, making futile the Civilizing Mission that operated by ranking races. Power is never total. It is always imperfect, and can never destroy a subjectivity that resists it. In Oyono’s novels, the Fall of the colonial Father is also obtained through the inquisitive gaze that the colonized return back to the colonizer, and through their ‘subversive mimicry’ that parodies his codes. In Une vie de boy and Le Chercheur d’Afriques, the ‘son-Father’ relationship between the hero and the colonial Father, is also symbolic of the ‘Africa-West’ rapports. Living under the specter of the Father, the son has to negotiate his survival between weaning and parricide. The biological miscegenation in Le Chercheur d’Afriques is a metaphor of the ‘rhizome identity’ of the postcolonial African who renounces both the Fathers of Negritude and those of the Civilizing Mission. / Thesis (Ph.D, French) -- Queen's University, 2011-06-24 12:43:30.006