Critics from Virginia Woolf and David Cecil to Lyn Pykett and U. C. Knoepflmacher, among others, have been mesmerized by the eccentric but transcendent world of Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and the Gondal poems. Despite allusions and references to various modernist elements in Emily Brontë’s novel and poetry, there has not been extensive analysis of her work in connection to modern writers of the early twentieth century. I believe that a multi-themed analysis of such components is necessary to reassess her position in the canon and establish her as a precursor to the modernists. This dissertation examines Brontë’s deliberate invitation of, and simultaneous resistance to, interpretation—qualities that align her novel and verse more with Modernist literature than that of her contemporaries. I argue that Emily Brontë had an unusual and forward-looking focus that is revealed in her treatment of children, women, and the struggles of isolated beings in the dark, foreboding and often impressionistic world of Gondal and Wuthering Heights. Her elucidation of the gap between the mundane and the spiritual, the use of farcical elements against the sublime are also precursory to modernism. This dissertation assesses the various themes, angles and techniques that Brontë employs in presenting a strange atmosphere that is representative of a future world.

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The majority of critics interested in the religious elements of Flannery O'Connor's fiction argue that her texts illustrate her professed Catholic faith. For many of these scholars, the author's nonfiction figures predominately in their interpretations of her fiction. This thesis highlights the presence of Evangelical theology in O'Connor's short fiction by utilizing an approach that is underrepresented in scholarly examinations of her works: reading O'Connor's texts without considering the author's personal beliefs. Through this approach, the Evangelical dimensions of O'Connor's short stories become apparent. This thesis contends that each of the six short stories discussed exemplifies Evangelical theology as they emphasize the fallen nature of humanity, depict the action of grace as transformative, and suggest that willful cooperation is not necessary to salvation. By demonstrating that O'Connor's short fiction reproduces Evangelical theology, this thesis aims to provide scholars with a basis for reconsidering the relationship of her works to the literary tradition of the largely Protestant South.

Abstract Johnny Golightly Comes Home is a nonfiction novel about the writing of two books by Pat Hopkins. In particular it is an account of the author’s often troubled interaction with artist John Anthony Boerma, who once took on the persona of Johnny Golightly after reading Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It is a story about illusion and fantasy in the creation of a work of conceptual art. As the lies are stripped away, so a new character emerges – that of Johnny Gochristly, the messiah sent to take away the parameters of the world. And in this latter-day passion play the unwitting writer has the role of Judas. The accompanying reflexive essay reviews the themes as they appear in the book – especially those of epiphany brought on by trauma, which leads to a divine mission often associated with extreme eccentricity. It concludes with a section on the writing process.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:35:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Wanderleia Silva Nogueira.pdf: 4214116 bytes, checksum: f25e17c09afce74455f70de5047f9cc5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-11 / This is a final year dissertation entitled The Feast of Epiphany Festival in Quirinópolis: Place of Memory 1918-2010. Presented to the Masters course at PUC- Pontifical Catholic University of Goias This is a work of cultural history whose object of investigation Memory is the place of the Feast Epiphany Festival and objective perceive the changes in the practices and cultural representations of this region due to its economic and social development. As a model empirical analysis of this region was chosen Stone Lisa, which show the richness of cultural practices and religious still "untouched" by the scientific work in Quirinópolis. The work aims to understand Epiphany Festival through their performance characteristics and symbols, as its elements remain in memory and their possible changes. Moreover, this work also intends to examine the party studied as significant instrument that exceeded the limits of past, thus confirming the hypothesis that the party is a place of memory demarcated from the practices and representations inherent culture marked by popular religiosity. It displays images by imageticas using photography as an element of support maintained by oral traditions. This research claims from literature always keeping the perspective of the key concepts memory, performance and daily and covers mainly various aspects of popular culture, specifically in With respect to the practice of popular religiosity as expression of that culture. / Esta é uma dissertação de final de curso intitulada A Festa de Folia de Reis em Quirinópolis: Lugar de memória 1918-2010. Apresentada ao curso de Mestrado da PUC-Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás. Trata-se de um trabalho de História Cultural cujo objeto de investigação é o lugar de memória da Festa Folia de Reis e objetiva perceber as mudanças ocorridas nas práticas e representações culturais dessa região em decorrência do seu desenvolvimento econômico e social. Como modelo empírico desta análise foi escolhida a região da Pedra Lisa, a qual evidencia a riqueza das práticas culturais e religiosas ainda intocadas pelo trabalho científico em Quirinópolis. O trabalho almeja compreender a Folia de Reis por meio de suas características de performance e símbolos, como seus elementos permanecem na memória e suas possíveis mudanças. Por outro lado, este trabalho pretende, ainda, examinar a festa estudada como significativo instrumento que ultrapassou os limites do passado, assim confirmando a hipótese de que a festa é um lugar de memória demarcado a partir das práticas e representações inerentes a cultura marcada pela religiosidade popular. Apresenta imagens imagéticas por meio da fotografia como elemento de sustentação das tradições mantidas pela oralidade. Esta pesquisa se sustenta a partir de levantamento bibliográfico conservando sempre a perspectiva dos conceitos principais de memória, performance e cotidiano e abarca, sobretudo, diversos aspectos da cultura popular, especificamente no que tange à prática da religiosidade popular enquanto expressão dessa cultura.

Esta dissertação trata da poética de Adélia Prado. Procurei destacar, dentro da vasta obra da autora, sua ligação com o divino a partir da dessacralização de uma linguagem que a este se atribui. A meu ver, a poeta transfere para o cotidiano toda a carga semântica relativa ao sagrado: espiritualiza o concreto e daí constrói sua abstração, reformulando a escrita do corpo originalmente marcada pala imagem de pecado. O corpo representa a possibilidade de concretização da experiência com o divino. Assim, surge uma linguagem que se dobra sobre si mesma e recompõe seus significados para satisfazer as necessidades de um gênero híbrido evidenciado pelo trânsito entre o poético e o prosaico / The subject of this dissertation is Adélia Prados poetics in relation to the modernity that surrounds it. I tried to point out, inside the vastness of the author's work, its connection to the divine, starting with the desacralization of the language that involves it. In my point of view, the poet transfers to the daily, to the ordinary, all significations concerning the sacred: she spiritualizes the concrete and from there builds the concept of abstract. Therefore, she reformulates the writing of the body, originally marked with the image of the sin, so that the body represents the possibility of concretion of the experience with the holy. Thus, emerges a language that folds on itself and restructures its meanings to satisfy the needs of a hybrid sort of genre, made evident by the fusion between the lyrics and the prose

Orientador: Luiz Gonzaga Marchezan / Banca: Maria Dolores Aybar-Ramirez / Banca: Elaine Cristina Cintra / Resumo: Nossa pesquisa de Mestrado tem como propósito comparar Perto do Coração Selvagem, primeiro romance publicado de Clarice Lispector, e O tempo redescoberto, o romance que finaliza uma das realizações literárias mais importantes dos últimos tempos, a obra Em busca do tempo perdido, de Marcel Proust. Para promovermos tal comparação baseamonos na presença de temas que, de forma imbricada, perpassam as duas obras, nas formas da epifania, o que nos levou a estender a discussão para a reação das personagens diante do impacto do mundo sensível, o tempo e a memória (forma de rememoração). Acontecimentos aparentemente banais, anódinos, ao serem apreendidos pelos sentidos (audição, paladar, tato, visão, olfato), assumem uma complexidade que, percebida somente por instantes, confere-lhes o caráter de revelação. Tanto o narrador-personagem proustiano quanto Joana, a protagonista de Perto do Coração Selvagem, são arrebatados por esses momentos reveladores, que muitas vezes desencadeiam processos de rememoração. O tempo é um elemento de importância fulcral para os romancistas em questão; procuramos analisá-lo no âmbito da interioridade das personagens, tomada por nuances afetivas, existenciais, estratificada no labirinto da memória dos protagonistas e representada de maneiras diferenciadas. Para aprofundarmos nossa visão acerca da idéia de epifania, nós a associamos à questão da experiência estética, perspectiva que nos possibilitou uma compreensão mais aprofundada das obras referidas. / Abstract: Our research of Master's degree has as purpose to compare Perto do Coração Selvagem, first published novel of Clarice Lispector, and O Tempo redescoberto, the novel that ends one of the most important literary accomplishments in the last times, the work Em busca do tempo perdido concludes, of Marcel Proust. For us to promote such comparison we based on the presence of themes that, in an associated form, exists in the two works, in the forms of the epiphany, what took us to extend the discussion for the characters' reaction before the impact of the sensitive world, the time and the memory (remembrance form). Events seemingly banal, inoffensive, apprehended by the senses (audition, palate, touch, vision, sense of smell), they assume a complexity that, only noticed by instants, it checks them the revelation character. So much the narrator-character proustiano as Joana, the protagonist of the Perto do coração Selvagem, they are rapturous for those developing moments, that a lot of times unchain remembrance processes. The time is an element of central importance for the novelists in subject; we tried to analyze it in the ambit of the characters' mind, taken by nuances affective, existential, stratified in the maze of the protagonists' memory and represented in differentiated ways. For us to deep our vision concerning the epiphany idea, we associated it to the subject of the esthetic experience, perspective that gave to us the possibility to a deepened understanding of the referred works. / Mestre

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Considerando a extensa e intensa abordagem da temática erótica na poesia de Manuel Bandeira, a pesquisa visou à ampliação e ao aprofundamento do estudo desse aspecto de sua obra, com o intuito de complementar os estudos críticos que versam sobre o assunto. Nosso objetivo concentra-se na relevância do conceito de alumbramento, termo empregado em diferentes ocasiões pelo poeta. Essa palavra, que o autor emprega na sua autobiografia e em duas de suas composições, alude, simultaneamente, a uma espécie de revelação divina, capaz de proporcionar a inspiração para a criação do poema, e a uma iluminação resultante do estado de deslumbramento diante da visão da nudez feminina. Dessa forma, com base, sobretudo, nas ideias de Octavio Paz e Georges Bataille, bem como nos apontamentos específicos de Davi Arrigucci Jr. sobre o lirismo bandeiriano, buscamos comprovar, por meio da leitura analítica de poemas exemplares, a associação entre os êxtases erótico, poético e místico, como questão fundamental na obra do poeta pernambucano / Taking into account the extensive and intense presence of the erotic topic in Manuel Bandeiras poetry, this research aims to expand and deepen the study about this aspect of his literary work in order to complement the critical studies that approach this theme. Our objective focuses on the relevance of the concept of enlightenment, a term used by the poet in different contexts. This word, present in the autobiography of the author and in two of his poems, alludes, simultaneously, to a kind of divine revelation capable of providing the inspiration for writing and to an illumination, resultant of a state of dazzle at the vision of a womans nudity. Thus, based mainly on the ideas of Octavio Paz and Georges Bataille, as well as on David Arrigucci Jr.s specific comments about Bandeiras lyricism, we intend to show, by means of an analytical reading of representative poems, the link between the erotical, poetical and mystical ecstasies as a key topic of this authors literary production

Esta dissertação trata da poética de Adélia Prado. Procurei destacar, dentro da vasta obra da autora, sua ligação com o divino a partir da dessacralização de uma linguagem que a este se atribui. A meu ver, a poeta transfere para o cotidiano toda a carga semântica relativa ao sagrado: espiritualiza o concreto e daí constrói sua abstração, reformulando a escrita do corpo originalmente marcada pala imagem de pecado. O corpo representa a possibilidade de concretização da experiência com o divino. Assim, surge uma linguagem que se dobra sobre si mesma e recompõe seus significados para satisfazer as necessidades de um gênero híbrido evidenciado pelo trânsito entre o poético e o prosaico / The subject of this dissertation is Adélia Prados poetics in relation to the modernity that surrounds it. I tried to point out, inside the vastness of the author's work, its connection to the divine, starting with the desacralization of the language that involves it. In my point of view, the poet transfers to the daily, to the ordinary, all significations concerning the sacred: she spiritualizes the concrete and from there builds the concept of abstract. Therefore, she reformulates the writing of the body, originally marked with the image of the sin, so that the body represents the possibility of concretion of the experience with the holy. Thus, emerges a language that folds on itself and restructures its meanings to satisfy the needs of a hybrid sort of genre, made evident by the fusion between the lyrics and the prose

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Considerando a extensa e intensa abordagem da temática erótica na poesia de Manuel Bandeira, a pesquisa visou à ampliação e ao aprofundamento do estudo desse aspecto de sua obra, com o intuito de complementar os estudos críticos que versam sobre o assunto. Nosso objetivo concentra-se na relevância do conceito de alumbramento, termo empregado em diferentes ocasiões pelo poeta. Essa palavra, que o autor emprega na sua autobiografia e em duas de suas composições, alude, simultaneamente, a uma espécie de revelação divina, capaz de proporcionar a inspiração para a criação do poema, e a uma iluminação resultante do estado de deslumbramento diante da visão da nudez feminina. Dessa forma, com base, sobretudo, nas ideias de Octavio Paz e Georges Bataille, bem como nos apontamentos específicos de Davi Arrigucci Jr. sobre o lirismo bandeiriano, buscamos comprovar, por meio da leitura analítica de poemas exemplares, a associação entre os êxtases erótico, poético e místico, como questão fundamental na obra do poeta pernambucano / Taking into account the extensive and intense presence of the erotic topic in Manuel Bandeiras poetry, this research aims to expand and deepen the study about this aspect of his literary work in order to complement the critical studies that approach this theme. Our objective focuses on the relevance of the concept of enlightenment, a term used by the poet in different contexts. This word, present in the autobiography of the author and in two of his poems, alludes, simultaneously, to a kind of divine revelation capable of providing the inspiration for writing and to an illumination, resultant of a state of dazzle at the vision of a womans nudity. Thus, based mainly on the ideas of Octavio Paz and Georges Bataille, as well as on David Arrigucci Jr.s specific comments about Bandeiras lyricism, we intend to show, by means of an analytical reading of representative poems, the link between the erotical, poetical and mystical ecstasies as a key topic of this authors literary production