This study documents the problematic translator-publisher relationship in the case of the English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe. The socio-historical investigation of the case study demonstrates that the 1953 translation was complicated by several factors: the translator’s lack of philosophical knowledge, the editor’s demands to cut and simplify the text, the publisher’s intention to emphasize the book’s scientific cachet, and Beauvoir’s lack of cooperation. The investigation focuses on two aspects: the translator’s subservience and the involvement of multiple actors. Primarily concerned with the interaction between the translator and other actors, this study seeks answers that require investigation into historical documents and the work of other scholars critical of The Second Sex. In this enquiry, more than one hundred letters between the translator, H. M. Parshley, and the publisher, Knopf, are thoroughly analyzed. The study combines Bruno Latour’s and Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological concepts in order to provide a more detailed and encompassing examination within the context of Translation Studies. The letter correspondence is the primary evidence on which the study’s conclusions are based. / Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

A covariant Wigner-Weyl quantization formalism on the manifold that uses pseudo-differential operators is proposed. The asymptotic product formula that leads to the symbol calculus in the presence of gauge and gravitational fields is presented. The new definition is used to get covariant differential operators from momentum polynomial symbols. A covariant Wigner function is defined and shown to give gauge-invariant results for the Landau problem. An example of the covariant Wigner function on the 2-sphere is also included.

Figure majeure de l’histoire des relations coloniales franco-algériennes, l’émir Abdelkader est généralement présenté par ses compatriotes comme le modèle politique, militaire et religieux du résistant au colonialisme français du 19ième siècle. L’historiographie officielle algérienne en véhicule l’image du chef religieux qui a initié al-jihad de résistance conforme aux règles exotériques de la chari’ia. Il est décrit comme un guerrier loyal et magnanime, fin stratège, dont la défaite militaire a paradoxalement marqué la fondation de l’Algérie moderne en tant que Nation et État. La construction sociopolitique postcoloniale de ce mythe a permis de légitimer les différents régimes politiques, qui se sont succédé dans l’Algérie indépendante et qui ont toujours tenu, dans le cadre d’une lecture littérale de l’Islam. Ceci dans le but de taire la dimension spirituelle d’Abdelkader disciple, héritier et commentateur de l’œuvre du magister Magnus soufi, IbnʻArabî. Fascinés dès le début de l’occupation par cet adversaire hors du commun, les français, de plus en plus sécularisés, en ont érigé une image utilitaire, l’aliénant ainsi de ses compatriotes coreligionnaires et le découplant de sa foi islamique. Les mémoires concurrentes de l’ancienne puissance coloniale et de son ex-colonie, l’Algérie, ont généré plusieurs débats contemporains en ce qui a trait à l’écriture de l’histoire de la colonisation. Le personnage d’Abdelkader a été instrumentalisé par les uns et les autres. Deux évènements controversés de sa biographie sont devenus les objets d’une polémique souvent âpre et amère entre auteurs chercheurs algériens et français : l’adhésion de l’émir à la franc-maçonnerie française et sa séparation d’avec celle-ci. Nous allons présenter que la prémisse d’auteurs algériens, selon laquelle Abdelkader n’aurait pas pu adhérer au Grand Orient de France, pour cause d’incompatibilité doctrinale musulmane, est inconsistante. Nous essayerons de démontrer au contraire, que son initiation à la maçonnerie telle qu’elle s’était présentée à lui était en accord avec sa vision soufie et légaliste du dogme islamique. En nous basant sur le choix de la franc-maçonnerie française pour la laïcité au moment de la réception supposée de l’émir dans la fraternité, nous montrerons qu’il s’en éloigna pour des raisons de doctrine islamique. En effet, l’élimination de toute référence déiste des textes constitutifs du Grand Orient de France fut inacceptable pour le musulman qu’était Abdelkader, vaincu militairement mais raffermi spirituellement par sa proximité grandissante avec son maître spirituel IbnʻArabî. L’humanisme des francs-maçons français avait motivé une refondation basée sur les droits de l’homme issus de la révolution française. Tandis que celui de l’émir Abdelkader prenait sa source dans l’Unicité de l’Être, concept-cadre Akbarien de la compréhension de la relation de Dieu avec ses créatures. Nous allons montrer que les polémiques franco-algériennes sur les relations d’Abdelkader avec la franc-maçonnerie française, masquent un autre débat de fond qui dure depuis des siècles dans le monde musulman. Un débat opposant deux herméneutiques légalistes des textes islamiques, l’une exotérique s’incarnant dans l’œuvre du théologien musulman Ibn Taymiyya et l’autre ésotérique se trouvant au cœur des écrits du mystique IbnʻArabî. / A major figure in the history of Franco-Algerian colonial relations Emir Abd-el-Kader is usually presented by his countrymen as the political, military and religious model of resistance to French colonialism in the 19th century. The official Algerian historiography conveys the image of Abd-el-Kader as the religious leader who launched a jihad resistance complying with the exoteric rules of sharî’a, loyal and magnanimous warrior, strategist, whose military defeat ironically marks the founding of modern Algeria as a nation and state. The postcolonial sociopolitical construction of this myth has helped to legitimize the different political regimes that have succeeded in independent Algeria that have under an exoteric reading of Islam, always silenced the spiritual dimension of Abd-el-Kader disciple-heir and commentator on the work of magister Magnus Sufi IbnʻArabî. Fascinated since the beginning of their colonization by this uncommon enemy the increasingly secularized French built a of Abd-el-Kader utilitarian image alienating his fellow countrymen. As this image took shape, it increasingly decoupled Abd-el-Kader from his Islamic faith. Competing memories between the former colonial power and its former colony have generated several contemporary debates in regard to writing the history of colonization. The character of Abd-el-Kader was exploited by all sides. Two controversial events of his biography have become the subject of often rough and bitter controversy between Algerian and French authors-researchers: the accession of the Amir to the French Freemasonry and his separation from it. In this thesis, we demonstrate that Algerian authors' premise that Abd-el-Kader could not have joined the Grand Orient de France because of a supposed incompatibility with Islamic doctrinal concerns is in contradiction with his initiation into Masonry as it was presented to him, when it was still in agreement with his legalistic and mystical vision of Islamic dogma. Basing our analysis careful periodization of the process of secularization of French Freemasonry during the period of the alleged reception of the Emir into the masonry, we show that he later withdrew from it for reasons of Islamic doctrine. The elimination of any deist reference in texts constituting the Grand Orient de France subsequent to Abd-el-Kader’s entrance could only make his participation eventually unacceptable as a Muslim defeated militarily but humanist spiritually strengthened by his growing proximity with his spiritual master IbnʻArabî. French Freemasonry had carried out an overhaul based on human rights stemining from the French Revolution, while Emir Abd-el-Kader is humanism had its source in the Unity of Being which is the Akbarian conceptual framework of understanding the relationship of God with its creatures. We show that Franco-Algerian controversies regarding Abd-el-Kader’s relations to French Freemasonry mask another substantive debate that has lasted for centuries in the Muslim world: that of two legalistic hermeneutics of Islamic texts, one exoteric embodied in the work of the famous Muslim theologian Ibn Taymiyya and the other at the heart of esoteric writings of the mystic IbnʻArabî.

This study documents the problematic translator-publisher relationship in the case of the English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe. The socio-historical investigation of the case study demonstrates that the 1953 translation was complicated by several factors: the translator’s lack of philosophical knowledge, the editor’s demands to cut and simplify the text, the publisher’s intention to emphasize the book’s scientific cachet, and Beauvoir’s lack of cooperation. The investigation focuses on two aspects: the translator’s subservience and the involvement of multiple actors. Primarily concerned with the interaction between the translator and other actors, this study seeks answers that require investigation into historical documents and the work of other scholars critical of The Second Sex. In this enquiry, more than one hundred letters between the translator, H. M. Parshley, and the publisher, Knopf, are thoroughly analyzed. The study combines Bruno Latour’s and Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological concepts in order to provide a more detailed and encompassing examination within the context of Translation Studies. The letter correspondence is the primary evidence on which the study’s conclusions are based. / Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

The thesis investigates the interaction that developed between a major art dealer, Thos. Agnew and Sons (Agnews), and a principal public collection, the London National Gallery, from 1855 to 1928. Agnews played a crucial role in the life of the National Gallery and greatly facilitated the museum accession of important paintings, such as the Madonna Ansidei by Raphael, the Rokeby Venus by Velazquez, the Portrait of Doge Vincenzo Morosini by Tintoretto, and many others. In turn, collaborating with the National Gallery allowed Agnews to penetrate the international Old Masters market and reach for higher social standing. Through the analysis of ten case studies of acquisitions, which are supported by new archival evidence and are contextualised within a broader historical and theoretical framework, this thesis charts the emergence, development and decline of the rapport between the two organisations. It analyses how Agnews and the National Gallery began as two unconnected entities in the mid-nineteenth century, explores how their distinct trajectories turned into a close, collaborative rapport during the 1880s, and finally examines how in the third decade of the twentieth century they separated and initiated a newly detached professional relationship. Appropriating sociological theories by Pierre Bourdieu, Bruno Latour, Viviana Zelizer and others, this study investigates museum acquisitions as resulting from complex interplays of cultural and commercial forces within the field of cultural production. Acquisitions are further enlightened by the analysis of the networks that underpin them, which provide additional evidence on how economic factors are embedded within broader social constructs. By detailing and locating these processes and relationships within the historical context of a broad shift towards commercialisation, yet demonstrating that cultural elements are part of the dealers activities and that commercial values are an intrinsic component of the museum, this study provides an insight into the historical origins of modern-day relationships between museums and art dealers.

Em 1936, teve início, na Espanha, a Guerra Civil Espanhola, que colocou em combate a direita, a qual lutava pela permanência da monarquia, e as distintas vertentes esquerdistas, que almejavam a instalação do Regime Republicano e a modernização do país. Os países latino-americanos viveram situações análogas de luta pela modificação governamental e pela concessão de direitos aos proletários. A grande maioria das tentativas foi infrutífera, como é o caso do Brasil, com a Coluna Prestes e a Intentona Comunista. Por isso, muitos brasileiros, que tinham inclinação republicana, se solidarizaram com a causa dos vermelhos espanhóis e se alistaram como voluntários das Brigadas Internacionais. Esse foi o caso da personagem Vasco Bruno, do romance Saga, de Erico Verissimo, que se destinou à Espanha para auxiliar a República. Durante o período que permaneceu na Espanha, e depois de retornar ao Brasil, Vasco escreve um romance, como forma de catarse para seus traumas e culpas, em que relata os motivos que o levaram a se alistar, as suas tentativas de esquecer o passado para suportar o ambiente hostil da guerra, os acontecimentos trágicos da guerra e, ademais, a sua volta ao Brasil e como era a vida para um intelectual militante. Dessa forma, a presente pesquisa, de caráter bibliográfico, analisa a formação da Memória Cultural da Guerra Civil Espanhola a partir da perspectiva de um voluntário brasileiro, além de verificar a concepção histórica que permeia o romance Saga. Para isso, são utilizados os pressupostos teóricos de Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, Harald Weinrich, Jan Assmann, Paul Ricouer, Walter Benjamin e Martin Heidegger. Contata-se que a elaboração de um romance por um ex-voluntário, que foi uma testemunha dos horrendos acontecimentos, perpetua esta memória e propicia a reflexão sobre as barbáries, das quais somos todos herdeiros. / En 1936, tuve inicio, en España, la Guerra Civil Española, que colocó en combate la derecha, la cual luchava pela permanencia de la monarquia, y las distintas vertentes esquerdistas, que almejavam la instalación del Regime Republicano y la modernización del país. Los países latino-americanos vivieran situaciones análogas de lucha pela modificación governamental y pela concesión de derechos a los proletarios. La grande mayoria de las tentativas fueran infrutíferas, como es el caso de Brasil, con la Coluna Prestes y la Intentona Comunista. Por eso, muchos brasileños, que tenian inclinación republicana, se solidarizaran con la causa de los rojos españoles y se alistaron como voluntarios de las Brigadas Internacionales. Ese foi el caso de la personaje Vasco Bruno, del romance Saga, de Erico Verissimo, que se destinó a España para auxiliar a la República. Durante el período que permaneció, y después de volver al Brasil, Vasco escribió un romance, como forma de catarse para sus traumas y culpas, en que relata los motivos que le levaran a alistarse, las tentativas de olvidar el pasado para suportar el ambiente hostil de la guerra, los acontecimientos trágicos de la guerra, y, además, su vuelta al Brasil y como era la vida para un intelectual militante. De esa forma, la presente pesquisa, de carácter bibliográfico, analisa la formación de la Memoria Cultural de la Guerra Civil Española a partir de la perspectiva de un voluntario brasileño, además de verificar la concepción histórica que permeia el romance Saga. Para eso, son utilizados los presupostos teóricos de Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, Harald Weinrich, Jan Assmann, Paul Ricouer, Walter Benjamin e Martin Heidegger. Constatase que la elaboración de un romance por un ex voluntario, que fue un testigo de los horrendos acontecimientos, perpetua esa memoria y propicia la reflexión sobre las barbáries, de las cuales somos todos herederos.

Thesis In the Light of Kabbalah: Jewish Mystique in Polish Literature in the Interwar Period deals with different models of reflection of Jewish religious and mystical tradition in the Polish interwar literature (on the example of three authors representing different ways of perceiving their own Jewish roots as well as the processing of themes based on the tradition of Jewish mysticism). Aleksander Wat, originally a futurist, was critical of the Jewish religious tradition - but still cannot his own "Jewishness" escape; prose writer Bruno Schulz offers an unique vision of cosmogony and eschatology reminiscent of - besides other things - selected concepts of Kabbalah; Bolesław Leśmianʼs relationship to this tradition is the looses, but on the other hand his method of working with motives which can interpreted in the context of the Jewish religious tradition is very original. Literary work of all three - as the heirs to the "people of the Book" - is marked by a specific relationship to language and the written word. In addition to this theme we deal with e.g. the Golem motive, the idea of the creation of the world or the idea of God. These analytical chapters are preceded by a theoretical and methodological introduction based on the traditions of literary hermeneutics, but also on selected concepts of...

Orientador: Flávia Arlanch Martins de Oliveira / Banca: Odair da Cruz Paiva / Banca: Zélia Lopes da Silva / Resumo: Nossa pesquisa centra-se na análise dos cadernos que contêm recortes de jornais selecionados por Bruno Giovannetti, imigrante italiano que chegou ao Brasil na década de 1910 e fixou-se na região da Alta Sorocabana, onde desenvolveu várias atividades. Nesses cadernos, ele procurou, por meio de artigos e notas escritos por ele, e também por outros autores, publicados em diferentes jornais, registrar sua memória. A linha condutora do conteúdo presente nesses cadernos põe em evidência a construção positiva de sua imagem, principalmente no que se refere aos aspectos de sua vida profissional e intelectual. Assim, os cadernos, ao todo seis, podem ser compreendidos como a constituição de uma memória de si, pelos quais ele buscava dar um significado especial à sua vida, cujo registro consistia em provar a si próprio, bem como ao futuro, que ela merecia ser (re)vista, e, assim, lembrada. / Abstract: This research aims the analysis of the notebooks that contain newspaper clippings selected by Bruno Giovannetti, an Italian immigrant that arrived in Brazil on the decade of 1910 and settled in the Alta Sorocabana region, where he developed many activities. In these notebooks, Giovannetti intended to register his memory, through the articles and notes written by him and by other writers, published on different newspapers. The conductor line of the content present in these notebooks evidences the positive construction of Giovannetti's image, mainly the aspects of his professional and intellectual life. Thus, the notebooks, on the total of six, can be comprehended as a constitution of self memory. Through these notebooks, Giovannetti aimed to give a special meaning to his life, whose register consisted in proving to himself and to the future that it deserved to be seen (or seen again) and, with this, to be remembered. / Mestre

Em 1936, teve início, na Espanha, a Guerra Civil Espanhola, que colocou em combate a direita, a qual lutava pela permanência da monarquia, e as distintas vertentes esquerdistas, que almejavam a instalação do Regime Republicano e a modernização do país. Os países latino-americanos viveram situações análogas de luta pela modificação governamental e pela concessão de direitos aos proletários. A grande maioria das tentativas foi infrutífera, como é o caso do Brasil, com a Coluna Prestes e a Intentona Comunista. Por isso, muitos brasileiros, que tinham inclinação republicana, se solidarizaram com a causa dos vermelhos espanhóis e se alistaram como voluntários das Brigadas Internacionais. Esse foi o caso da personagem Vasco Bruno, do romance Saga, de Erico Verissimo, que se destinou à Espanha para auxiliar a República. Durante o período que permaneceu na Espanha, e depois de retornar ao Brasil, Vasco escreve um romance, como forma de catarse para seus traumas e culpas, em que relata os motivos que o levaram a se alistar, as suas tentativas de esquecer o passado para suportar o ambiente hostil da guerra, os acontecimentos trágicos da guerra e, ademais, a sua volta ao Brasil e como era a vida para um intelectual militante. Dessa forma, a presente pesquisa, de caráter bibliográfico, analisa a formação da Memória Cultural da Guerra Civil Espanhola a partir da perspectiva de um voluntário brasileiro, além de verificar a concepção histórica que permeia o romance Saga. Para isso, são utilizados os pressupostos teóricos de Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, Harald Weinrich, Jan Assmann, Paul Ricouer, Walter Benjamin e Martin Heidegger. Contata-se que a elaboração de um romance por um ex-voluntário, que foi uma testemunha dos horrendos acontecimentos, perpetua esta memória e propicia a reflexão sobre as barbáries, das quais somos todos herdeiros. / En 1936, tuve inicio, en España, la Guerra Civil Española, que colocó en combate la derecha, la cual luchava pela permanencia de la monarquia, y las distintas vertentes esquerdistas, que almejavam la instalación del Regime Republicano y la modernización del país. Los países latino-americanos vivieran situaciones análogas de lucha pela modificación governamental y pela concesión de derechos a los proletarios. La grande mayoria de las tentativas fueran infrutíferas, como es el caso de Brasil, con la Coluna Prestes y la Intentona Comunista. Por eso, muchos brasileños, que tenian inclinación republicana, se solidarizaran con la causa de los rojos españoles y se alistaron como voluntarios de las Brigadas Internacionales. Ese foi el caso de la personaje Vasco Bruno, del romance Saga, de Erico Verissimo, que se destinó a España para auxiliar a la República. Durante el período que permaneció, y después de volver al Brasil, Vasco escribió un romance, como forma de catarse para sus traumas y culpas, en que relata los motivos que le levaran a alistarse, las tentativas de olvidar el pasado para suportar el ambiente hostil de la guerra, los acontecimientos trágicos de la guerra, y, además, su vuelta al Brasil y como era la vida para un intelectual militante. De esa forma, la presente pesquisa, de carácter bibliográfico, analisa la formación de la Memoria Cultural de la Guerra Civil Española a partir de la perspectiva de un voluntario brasileño, además de verificar la concepción histórica que permeia el romance Saga. Para eso, son utilizados los presupostos teóricos de Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, Harald Weinrich, Jan Assmann, Paul Ricouer, Walter Benjamin e Martin Heidegger. Constatase que la elaboración de un romance por un ex voluntario, que fue un testigo de los horrendos acontecimientos, perpetua esa memoria y propicia la reflexión sobre las barbáries, de las cuales somos todos herederos.

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