Thesis (Doctoral)--Université Paris X Nanterre, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universidad de Oviedo, 1978. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-357).

Thesis (Doctoral)--Université Paris X Nanterre, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1962. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [298]-308).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1961. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Scholarship on medieval contrafacture has long been engaged in the Kontrafakturjagd, the hunt for songs whose textual and structural similarities suggest they might also share melodies. By making melodies freely exchangeable, this practice has tended to treat the music of medieval song as if it were an empty vessel, overlooking the ways in which contrafacta might construct musical meaning to serve various political, devotional, or aesthetic ends. Rather than making a case for contrafacture among songs whose shared melodies are questionable, this dissertation provides a context rich perspective on certain groups of 'close contrafacta' - songs whose status as contrafacta is already known and supported by strong musical, textual, and contextual evidence. In five case studies, all of which take at least one song from the trouvère repertory, and which represent the most common contrafact genres - political serventois, Marian song, and crusade song - I consider the ways in which their melodies could signify. More specifically, I examine the interrelated layers of the melody's performed sound structures, its cuing of previous texts on the listener, and its integration of old and new contexts. The case studies reveal a culture that cared about melodic association and used it in sophisticated ways. In the first two chapters, which address political contrafacture, the music's textual associations form a background against which the contrafact text reacts ironically, while its melodic origins evoke precise geopolitical loyalties or antagonisms. The third and fourth chapters on Marian song, conversely, point toward efforts to intensify and develop a song's meaning through contrafacture, while the fifth chapter's contrafact text cites its own affective reason for melodic re-use. In all case studies, not only does the music cue text and context synoptically; its performed structures also intensify and subvert textual meanings, showing how music can enrich literary interpretations of medieval song.

Dans la littérature arabo-islamique médiévale, le thème de l’amour a été traité par un grand nombre d’ouvrages en prose. Un véritable genre littéraire des traités d’amour courtois s’est développé à partir du IIIe/IXe siècle. Si les débuts et l’“âge d’or” du genre ont déjà fait l’objet d’études, ses développements tardifs demeurent encore inexplorés. Le Wāḍiḥ al-mubīn fī ḏikr man ustušhida min al-muḥibbīn, écrit par Muġulṭāy (762/1361), présente à ce titre des caractères originaux. A travers l’analyse littéraire de ce texte, il apparaît en effet que le Wāḍiḥ, tout en s’appuyant sur le patrimoine littéraire sur l’amour courtois qui le précède, se fait porteur d’une conception tout à fait nouvelle du Ýišq (amour-passion) ainsi que d’une théorie originale du martyre par amour. Par les déclarations mêmes de son auteur, de même que par sa structure et par son contenu, l’ouvrage se présente comme un manuel de comportement à suivre. La conception de l’amour que l’ouvrage sous-tend constitue donc un véritable tournant dans l’histoire du genre. Le Wāḍiḥ est le seul ouvrage de ce type à avoir été censuré. Les raisons de l’hostilité que l’ouvrage a rencontrée auprès des autorités mameloukes sont à rechercher dans la “théorie de l’amour” prônée par Muġulṭāy. Elle ne se dégage pas seulement de sa longue introduction, mais transparaît aussi dans la comparaison entre les notices du Wāḍiḥ et celles d’autres ouvrages du patrimoine arabo-islamique médiéval. Tout en rapportant des aḫbār très connus, Muġulṭāy réussit à les refondre de manière novatrice. Il présente ses histoires d’amour et de mort comme matière à édifier ses lecteurs. Le comportement des amants mentionnés dans le Wāḍiḥ, qu’ils soient les victimes de l’amour profane (hétérosexuel ou homosexuel) ou de l’amour de Dieu, est toujours présenté comme exemplaire. Ses martyrs deviennent dès lors des modèles de conduite à suivre par tout bon musulman. / In medieval Arabic Islamic literature, the topic of love was treated in a quite big number of prose works. A true literary genre of courtly love treatises started to develop from the 3rd/9th century. While the first period and the “golden age” of this genre have already been quite intensely studied, its later development remains still unexplored. The al-Wāḍiḥ al-mubīn fī ḏikr man ustušhida min al-muḥibbīn written by Muġulṭāy (762/1361), even though it has its place among the treatises of this genre, has its own special features. The analysis of the text shows that, even if it is based on the traditional literary background of courtly love, the Wāḍiḥ defends a very new notion of passionate love and an original theory of martyrdom of love. Muġulṭāy presents his work as a handbook of good behaviour. A confirmation of this intention is to be found in the structure and the content of his treatise. Muġulṭāy’s approach of courtly love represents then a real turning point in the history of the gender. The Wāḍiḥ is the only courtly love treatise that has been censored by political and religious authorities. The reasons of the interdiction that has stricken the book are probably to be sought in Muġulṭāy’s theory of love. The author explains his theory’s main features in the introduction, but also in lover’s stories as the comparison between the aḫbār in the Wāḍiḥ and others books of Arabic literature shows. Even if the stories are very well known and have been told again and again, the fact that Muġulṭāy is presenting his histories like edification matter for his reader changes them in something really new. No difference is made between his lovers who can be the victims of God love as well as of profane love (heterosexual or homosexual). They are all martyrs and became the models of the behaviour that has to be followed by every good Muslim.

Orientador: João Wanderley Geraldi / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T20:42:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oda_LucasKiyoharuSanches_M.pdf: 1592289 bytes, checksum: 2e58e28abebea558a9cd9d5f15698c53 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Podemos voltar vários olhares para a Idade Média, no entanto, somente um deles é o que aqui será apresentado. Partindo do conceito bakhtiniano da dialogia, essa dissertação discute sobre como os discursos sobre o sexo, o pecado e a mulher foram se constituindo no ocidente ao longo da história, desde a Grécia antiga, até o século XII, quando ressurgiram os textos clássicos e uma nova forma de amor foi inventada: o amor cortês. Para tanto, aqui é analisado o Tratado do Amor Cortês de André Capelão, clérigo da corte de Champagne, que condensa os vários discursos sobre o sexo e as mulheres, a eles respondendo, polemizando ou pactuando, fornecendo aos discursos que o sucederam um novo discurso com o qual polemizar ou pactuar. Para que conseguisse entender, de fato, quais são os sentidos que podemos atribuir a esse tratado, sem que ignore que ele foi escrito por um homem que respondia a seu tempo, foram narradas aqui várias histórias de vida que, aliadas aos discursos que as constituíram, nos fornecem uma imagem muito mais nítida daquela época que nos escapa pelo tempo que dela nos separamos. Nesse afã, entramos em contato com os discursos da filosofia grega que criaram um novo mundo, sustentado na razão, que extirpava de si o prazer; discursos esses que legavam ao homem o cuidado de si, de sua vida, de sua alma e de seu corpo. Vemos também como esses discursos são compactuados pela Igreja que os transforma aos seus desígnios e assume para si o cuidado de si dos homens, criando técnicas e saberes para exercer seu poder que foi consolidado, por fim, com a confissão obrigatória e com a criação do Santo Ofício / Abstract: One is able able to turn several different views backwards to the Middle Ages, here, however, we chose only one to be presented. Bearing in mind the Bakhtinian concept of dialogism, this dissertation discusses how the discourses about sex, sin, and women have been built in the west throughout the History, from the ancient Greece to the twelfth century, when the classical texts returned and a new way of loving was reinvented: the courtly love. To do it so, it is here analyzed the The Art of Courtly Love by Andreas Capellanus, a clergyman of the court of champagne. This book condenses several discourses about sex and women, responding to them either bringing controversies or supporting. To be able to fully understand, which are the senses one can attribute to this treaty, without overlooking the fact that it was written by a man who responded to his time, there has been narrated a variety of life stories. These stories, together with the discourses that constituted them, helped us to overcome the gap of time that separates us from them, giving us a much neater image of such period. With this purpose, we went through the Greek philosophy discourses. The new world created by them was sustained by reason, eliminating personal pleasure; these discourses bore the idea of self-caring. Men would take care of their lives, souls and bodies. We can notice how these discourses are supported by the church, that transforms them according to its wishes and interests/rules. The church assumes, then, the role of assisting men¿s self-caring, by creating techniques and knowledge to execute its power, which was consolidated, at last, with the compulsory confession and with the creation of the Inquisition / Mestrado / Mestre em Linguística

In this project, I examine the relationship between female masochism, performance, and spectatorship in Michael Haneke’s film La Pianiste (2001). The film stages a relationship to sexuality that structures the subject’s excruciating negotiations with the other as always mediated by the law, the letter, or the body as instrument, which is allegorized by the protagonist’s occupation as a piano teacher. In my analysis, I identify the ways in which the film paradoxically offers a critique of mediation’s effect on the feminine position while encouraging viewers to confront the possibility that desire is only possible through these mediations. Contributing to feminist theory and psychoanalytic film theory, I foreground the way in which the film’s complex portrayal of female masochism produces indeterminacy via masochistic spectatorship. Ultimately, I argue that the unmarked position of feminine masochism, which is historically, psychoanalytically, and literarily reserved for male subjects, challenges the spectator to take enjoyment into account when approaching mediations of violence and sexuality.

The variety of scholarly approaches to the Middle High German poem Das Nibelungenlied has generated a wide range of conflicting analyses of the character of Hagen, a figure who plays a key role in both the plot and the interpretation of the work. This thesis proposes that viewing Hagen’s relationship with Siegfried in relation to the poem’s central theme of loyalty (triuwe) allows for an analysis that integrates both the positive and negative aspects of Hagen’s character. By examining the depiction of courtly rivalry in four contemporary Middle High German works (Herzog Ernst B, Wolfdietrich A, Tristan, and Parzival), I outline the basic features of this common medieval narrative structure and then apply the same framework to a close reading of the relationship between Hagen and Siegfried in the Nibelungenlied. I also argue that the incorporation of the courtly rivalry motif as a unifying theme of the text allows the poet to take a stance on the broader issue of loyalty conflict, a topic which appears frequently in contemporary literature and had particular relevance within the political climate of medieval Germany. My reading of the character of Hagen can thus hopefully shed new light on the thematic structure of the Nibelungenlied as well as on the relationship between the poem and the literary and historical context in which it was written.