Madness has long been a popular theme for literature, featuring as a trope of horror, mystery, tragedy and comedy genres in varying degrees of amplitude. The topic has provided a significant access point for analysing historical, socio-political and cultural issues as it addresses controversial themes of alienation and criminality as well as philosophical theories of perception and consciousness. As a result, studies on the representation of madness in literature have been dominated by historical approaches that focus directly on social, political, philosophical and psychoanalytical interpretive models. Comparatively little has been done to analyse madness in literature from a narratological perspective. It is for this reason that I will conduct a narratological study on the impact of madness on narrative and fictional world structures. I am specifically interested in the way in which madness can be embedded across multiple levels of the narrative and the effect that this has on readers’ imaginative and interpretive processes. Close readings of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club (1996) Bret Easton-Ellis’ American Psycho (1991) and John Banville’s The Book of Evidence (1989) will uncover some of the techniques that are used to embed madness into the textual and imaginative structures of a narrative, and will demonstrate how this works to deceive and challenge the reader. I will demonstrate the need for an expansion of terms within the narratological model that can cope specifically with the theme of madness.

This essay argues that the Harry Potter books can be used to analyse various methods and theories regarding pedagogy since the school setting is a major part of the stories. J.K Rowling’s characterisation of the teachers is the basis for the analysis, which focuses on the teaching methods of the teachers at Hogwarts, but also how the pupils are affected by them from the critical perspective of cultural studies. The essay will investigate how the pupils are affected by the boarding schools, examination process as well as the grading system. Certain Professors at Hogwarts will also be analysed based on their teaching methods and these professors are Lupin, Snape, Umbridge, Dumbledore and Lockhart. Different methods have been discovered to work differently on different pupils, but the same methods have also been shown to work differently depending on how they are implemented. Leadership styles in the classroom appear to have a heavy influence on the pupils’ performance. This thesis argues that through a literary analysis of the Harry Potter books with a focus on the portrayal of the school setting by using cultural studies as well as pedagogical theories will demonstrate the impact of various teaching methods in the EFL-classroom as well as the regular classroom. In the EFL-classroom, knowledge of how certain methods and theories work can be very beneficial. The ability to provide confidence to pupils has been discussed and that is a part of EFL-teaching that is highly relevant, since it can be difficult for some pupils to find the courage in order to learn.

Esta pesquisa abordará o processo criativo no cinema de ficção e as transformações operadas ao longo de toda sua produção; do embrião da idéia à primeira forma do roteiro; do roteiro ao material filmado, montagens de imagem e som, até o filme pronto. O foco desta pesquisa será o trabalho do diretor ao longo de todas as etapas e o caminho percorrido por suas tomadas de decisões, como o fio que conduz todo o processo até a cristalização na forma final do filme. Nesta pesquisa analisaremos o trabalho de outros chefes de equipe e técnicos do cinema, tratados aqui do ponto de vista cooperativo com suas interferências e colaborações, interpretadas dentro do processo de tomada de decisão pertinente ao trabalho do diretor/ realizador. Pretende-se, para tanto, utilizar neste projeto de pesquisa os filmes A Via Láctea (2007) de Lina Chamie e Hotel Atlântico (2009) de Suzana Amaral, como objetos principais de estudo. Serão considerados como fonte de pesquisa: anotações e arquivos referentes à confecção do filme, entrevistas com as diretoras e os making ofs dos mesmos. Neste projeto serão utilizados os conceitos apresentado por Paul Valéry e René Passeron no que diz respeito à Poética e o processo que envolve a criação artística. Também norteará este projeto A Teoria dos Cineastas de Jacques Aumont no que toca reflexões desenvolvidas pelos próprios cineastas sobre o ofício da realização. / This study is about the filmmaking creative process of fictional movies and transformations occurred all long a film production; from its embryonic idea to its first screenplay, from the screenplay to its shootings, from the images and sounds to its first edition until the film is done. We will focus on the craft of the film director, through the entire realization of a feature film. We\'ll track his process of taking decisions that leads the consolidation of a film project into its final format. In this research we\'ll investigate the craft of other heads of department and crewmembers under the perspective of their contributions and interferences on the director\'s work and creative process. For that purpose, we\'ll to analyze the features films The Milky Way (2007) by Lina Chamie and Hotel Atlântico (2009) by Suzana Amaral. There will be considered manuscripts, rough drafts referring to these films productions, as well as, interview with the directors and making of material. The concepts presented by Paul Valéry and René Passeron about Poetics and the process that embraces the art creation\'s process will guide our research. Also, we\'ll consider Jacques Aumont\' Theories of Filmmakers and David Bordwell\' On the History of Film Style concerning the reflections elaborated about they own craft.

A proposta desta tese é comprovar o número expressivo da obra ficcional de Tennessee Williams, relativamente extensa por abranger cerca de cinquenta contos, que representou de formas variadas a gênese ficcional de peças posteriores, além de apontar casos de peças vistas como matrizes que prefiguram a matéria ficcional de contos ou até mesmo de roteiros cinematográficos criados pelo autor. A predominância dos episódios em que os contos se colocam como matrizes ficcionais de importantes trabalhos dramatúrgicos do escritor foi constatada através do levantamento e da análise da produção dramatúrgica e ficcional de Tennessee Williams. Ao empreendermos o estudo analítico de três peças em um ato e uma peça em três atos [peça longa], foi possível estabelecermos a relação entre as peças e a estrutura ficcional dos contos, assim como apresentar um entendimento mais profundo dos processos formais e dos elos compositivos ligando sua ficção curta e a dramaturgia: The Dark Room [O Quarto Escuro, peça e conto, de aproximadamente 1939/1940], Something Unspoken [Algo não Dito, peça de 1953] e Happy August the Tenth [Feliz Dez de Agosto, conto de 1970]; Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton [Vinte e sete Carros de Algodão, conto de 1935] e a peça em um ato de mesmo título [escrita antes de 1946] e The Night of the Iguana [A Noite do Iguana: conto escrito entre 1946-48 e peça de mesmo título, em um ato, de 1959 e em três atos, de 1961]. Dessa forma, o diálogo entre diversos tipos de arte foi mapeado e as representações da história na dramaturgia e em sua ficção curta investigadas. / The purpose of this thesis is to prove the expressive number of short stories by Tennessee Williams, relatively high to be composed of around fifty short stories which represented in various manners the genesis of later theater plays, besides highlighting cases of plays seen/ considered sources of short-story telling or even screenplays written by the author. The supremacy of episodes in which the short stories are seen as fictional sources of dramaturgic works by the writer was confirmed by verifying and analyzing the theater and the production/creation of short stories by Tennessee Williams. By doing the analytical study of three theater plays in one-act and a three-act play [fulllength play] it was possible to establish the relationship between the theater plays and the structure of the short stories as well as present a more profound understanding of the formal processes and the links between the plays and his short stories: The Dark Room [O Quarto Escuro, theater play and short story, approximately 1939/1940], Something Unspoken [Algo não Dito, play, 1953] and Happy August the Tenth [Feliz Dez de Agosto, short story, 1970]; Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton [Vinte e sete Carros de Algodão, short story, 1935] and the one-act play with the same title [written before 1946] e The Night of the Iguana [A Noite do Iguana: short story written between 1946-48 and the play with the same title, in one act, in 1959 and in three acts, in 1961]. Therefore, the dialogue among various types of art was studied, besides the sources of inspiration of the playwright and the representations of history on drama and in his short stories investigated.

Esta pesquisa buscou desenvolver um estudo em antropologia simbólica sobre o processo de autoformação do sujeito a partir da análise de um material de ficção autobiográfica. Este material foi elaborado com base no resgate e registro escrito de memórias da própria autora da pesquisa e teve seu início na escrita do memorial acadêmico, que forneceu elementos propícios para a compreensão do processo de formação de um eu-aprendiz. A ficção autobiográfica analisada, escrita anteriormente à pesquisa, tem como personagem principal a menina Alice, que vive suas aventuras em narrativas fantásticas, cujo simbolismo propicia uma análise fenomenológica sobre as emoções e experiências que, ao longo da vida, permitiram a formação do sujeito-autor deste trabalho, considerando-o mais do que um produto do meio social ou ambiental, mas um ser em constante formação, fruto também das suas escolhas e de suas próprias leituras do mundo. As experiências vividas e representadas no mundo simbólico de Alice consideram como parte de sua criação o contato com alguns mestres, que por meio da palavra e do convívio orientaram desejos e influenciaram escolhas ao longo da vida da autora. Para compreender a relação entre mestre e aprendiz vivida por Alice, partimos para o resgate de histórias de vida de dois mestres que tiveram papéis decisivos para a autora. Buscamos encontrar na autobiografia ficcional conexões entre estas histórias de vida, por via da mitohermenêutica, tentando entender como estas vidas foram sendo construídas e em que momento estas pessoas passaram a ser mestres e a autora, aprendiz. Uma busca sobre o eu e o outro que se constitui em mim. / This research aimed to develop an anthropological study about the subject`s self-formation process from the analysis of an autobiographical fiction. This material was elaborate based on the very author`s rescue and written record of memories and had its beginning on the writing of an academic memorial, providing favorable elements for the comprehension of the self-learner formation process. The autobiographic fiction analyzed was written before the research, has as its main subject the girl called Alice, that lived her adventures in fantastic narratives, whose symbolism foments an phenomenological analysis in the experiences and emotions that, during life, allowed the formation of this author-subjects work, considering herself more than a social and environmental media, but someone in constant formation, also a result of her choices and her own readings of the world. The experiences lived and represented in Alice`s symbolic world, consider, as part of her creation, the contact with some masters that through orality and acquaintanceship, determined desires and influenced choices along the authors life. To understand the relation between master and apprentice played by Alice, we start from the rescue of life stories of two masters that had decisive parts for the author-subject. We seek to find connections between these life stories in the fictional autobiography, via mitohermeneutics, trying to understand how these lives were being constructed and in what moment these people passed to be masters, and the author, apprentice. A search about the self, and the other that is constituted in me.

The focus of this study is to analyze in what way the historical novel can be convincing and if the interaction between fictional and factual narration within this genre influences the degree to which it can be convincing. The three novels chosen are Les Naufragés De L’Île Tromelin by Irène Frain, Les Enfants d’Alexandrie by Françoise Chandernagor and Bison by Patrick Grainville, for which all three authors received Le Grand Prix Palatine. In the introduction are presented the general characteristics of the genre as well as its capability of being convincing, outlining that there is a possibility for a fictional work to seem more convincing than a purely factual one. Also defined are differences between the contemporary and the classical historical novel. This is done in order to take into account in the analysis what might be learnt from the contemporary historical novel. The theoretical framework consists of the semantic definitions of fictional versus factual narration as presented by Jean-Marie Schaeffer, as well as theory of how the reader’s immersive experience enables ontological crossings. What the analysis is able to show is that all three novels include four types of truth claims, that the reader can be convinced of all four and that this conviction is connected to the context to which the reader associates the historical/literary character. The analysis also brings forth what can be thought of as the historiographical pact, a term analogous with Philippe Lejeune’s term ‘the autobiographical pact’, which establishes a referential link with history. What is in the end considered the most convincing literary device is the inclusion of factual markers referencing real-world sources. In all three novels, it is also possibly to identify truth claims concerning human nature.

Jag har i mitt projekt jobbat med mönsterformgivning och produktion av vävda möbeltyger, digitaltryckta tapeter- och textilier för en fiktiv hemmiljö. Mina designbeslut grundar sig på en fiktiv karaktär, Mr Chester Jester, hans estetiska preferenser och behov i samrådan med mina egna. Arbetets resultat är en gestaltning av världen han lever i, komprimerad till ett hemma hos reportage på gränsen mellan verklighet och illusion. Jag har jobbat med dubbelhet och speglingar - av mönster, av rummet, av tekniker och mig själv. Jag har undersökt illusionens verklighet och verklighetens illusion.My bachelor project is a work of pattern design and production of woven upholstery fabrics, digital prints on textile materials and wallpaper, made for a fictional home environment. The desicions for the designs are based on a fictional character, named Mr Chester Jester. His preferences and needs combined with my omn are the result of this project. The outcome of the work is a formation of his world, made into a study of his home on the edge of reality and illusions. It is a work of duplicities -of pattern, room, technique and of an alternate side of myself.I have investigated the illusion of reality, and the reality of illusions. / Program: Textildesignutbildningen

Esta dissertação constitui uma reflexão sobre a situação social, política e cultural da Inglaterra na década de 70, especialmente nos anos de 1972 e 1973, como descrita no romance Serena, de Ian McEwan. O objetivo principal desta pesquisa é apresentar como o momento histórico supracitado é narrado no discurso ficcional, a partir da perspectiva da personagem Serena, em comparação com o discurso histórico, de acordo com fontes selecionadas, que narram a história da Inglaterra no contexto da Guerra Fria, dos ataques terroristas do IRA e do funcionamento do Serviço Secreto doméstico inglês, chamado MI5. / This dissertation constitutes a reflection about the social, political and cultural situation of England in the 70s, especially in the years of 1972 and 1973, as described in the novel Sweet Tooth, by Ian McEwan. The main objective of this research is to present how the historical moment mentioned above is narrated in the fictional discourse, from the perspective of the character, in comparison with the historical discourse and from a selection of sources, which narrate the history of England in the context of the Cold War, the terrorist attacks of the IRA and the functioning of the English domestic Secret Service, called MI5.

A proposta deste trabalho é analisar a forma como se estabelecem as relações de construção de sujeitos ficcionais em alguns romances selecionados. Embora saibamos que haja diversas reflexões que poderiam ser extraídas quando tratamos a respeito de assuntos como literatura, ficção, sujeito, e alteridade e as egoescritas (as escritas de si), optamos pelo recorte que abarca os mecanismos de construção dos sujeitos ficcionais e as interpenetrações dos conceitos literários aplicados a estes dentro de determinados romances nomeadamente, Trilogia de Nova York, O filho eterno, Nove noites e A morte em Veneza , sem, contudo, ignorar esse mesmo recorte quando se refere à poesia e até mesmo ao ensaio, esses últimos tendo Fernando Pessoa como índice máximo da alterpoesia através do heterônimo António Mora. Abordaremos as formas de representação desse sujeito que se constitui a partir da ficção, deixando "rastros" que apontam para a figura do autor do romance, expondo ao leitor os labirintos e interseções entre a literatura e a ficção, a autobiografia, a autoficção, entre outras discussões / The purpose of this paper is to examine how relationships are established construction of subjects in some fictional novels selected. Although we know that there are several considerations that could be drawn about when dealing with subjects such as literature, fiction, subject and otherness and "egoescritas" (the "written itself"), we decided to cut that includes mechanisms for construction of subjects interpenetration of fiction and literary concepts applied to those within certain novels - notably New York Trilogy, The eternal Son, Nine nights and Death in Venice - without, however, ignore that same cut when it comes to poetry and even in the same assay, the latter having Fernando Pessoa as maximum index of "alterpoesia" through heteronym Antonio Mora. We will discuss the forms of representation of this subject that is constituted from fiction, leaving "footprints" that point to the figure of the author of the novel, making the reader raises questions about labyrinths and intersections between literature and fiction, autobiography, self-fiction, among other discussions

Orientador: João Batista Ernesto de Moraes / Banca: José augusto Chaves Guimarães / Banca: Leila Felinto Pinto de Almeida / Resumo: Partindo do questionamento acerca do tipo de informação inerente ao texto narrativo ficcional, a investigação buscou subsídios para análise documental. Foi necessário fomentar um questionamento sobre o aboutness e sua relação com a mímese e a idéia de informação como coisa de Michael Buckland. Chegando assim a evidência temática. Em seguida, conceituou-se o gênero crônica e sua forma como universo documental para a Ciência da Informação. Analisando as crônicas de Plínio Marcos, produzidas entre 1964 e 1980, observou-se a mobilidade da estrutura canônica da narrativa, a saber, manipulação, competência, performance e sanção. A complexidade da estrutura revelou a dificuldade no desenvolvimento de uma metodologia de análise. Como conjetura, aplicou-se o percurso gerativo de sentido, depois de dividir a crônica em episódios. O resultado foi a possibilidade de analisar as crônicas a partir da fragmentação de sua superestrutura e realizar um percurso de temas para encontrar a tematicidade intrínseca do documento narrativo ficcional. / Abstract: Starting from the question about the kind of intrinsical information in the fictional narrative, this research looked for data for documental analysis. It was necessary to develop a question regarding to aboutness and its relation to the mimese and the ideia of information-as-thing by Michael Buckland. Reaching by this way an evidence to a aboutness. After that, chronicle genere was classified and its form as a documental universe for the Information Science. Analysing Plínio Marcos' chronicle, that were produced from 1964 to 1980, it was noticed the mobility of the structure canonisa of the narrative, such as manipulation, competence, performance and sanction. The complexity of the structure showed the difficulty in the development of an analysis'methodology. As a conjecture, it was applied the sense developing way, after dividing a chronicle in episodes. The result was the possibility to analyse the chronicle from the fragmetation of its superstructure and create a way of themes to find the aboutness in the fictional narrative document. / Mestre