À partir des autoportraits photographiques de Vivian Maier (1926-2009) et Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), la thèse de ce texte est que la figuration féminine nous transmet un art de disparaître. Si l’on établit que cet art serait présent de manière plus ou moins active dans l’ensemble de l’iconographie du féminin, on montre que c’est un contexte particulier qui en révèle l’existence : celui de l’émancipation des femmes depuis la fin du XVIIIe siècle, de l’invention de la photographie au XIXe siècle et du bouleversement écologique contemporain. En effet, on constate chez Vivian Maier et Francesca Woodman, et plus largement dans l’autoportrait photographique féminin, une écologie poétique déterminée et engendrée par la technique photographique et les mutations modernes dans la vie des femmes, où se rencontrent désormais le destin de la figuration féminine dans l’histoire de l’art et le destin possible de notre espèce. Cette thèse propose de tirer de ces autoportraits un nouveau modèle pour habiter le monde en ce moment de transition historique à l’égard du genre et de la nature. / Drawing from the photographic self-portraits of Vivian Maier (1926-2009) and Francesca Woodman (1958-1981), this thesis argues that feminine figuration conveys an art of disappearing. Establishing that this art is, to a certain extent, at work across the iconography of the feminine, we are showing that it was brought to light within a specific context: the emancipation of women since the end of the 18th century, the invention of photography in the 19th century and the contemporary ecological crisis. Indeed, a poetic ecology emerges through the works of Vivian Maier and Francesca Woodman in particular, and the feminine photographic self-portrait as a whole, determined by the photographic technique and modern changes in women’s lives, where the destiny of feminine figuration in art history converges with the possible destiny of our species. From these self-portraits, this thesis offers to draw a new way of inhabiting the world in this historic moment of transition with regard to gender and nature.

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) a mix of right-wing ideologies existed among the Francoist forces. In sharp contrast with the Republican forces, the Francoist insurgents were successful in banding together despite their ideological differences. However, in the postwar era, this relative unity gave way to a struggle among the different ideological positions, each striving to impose its agenda for the new State. The party Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (FET y de las JONS) assumed power, but was not entirely successful in advancing its totalitarian project, which it had inherited from the prewar FE de las JONS party. Unsatisfied with this outcome, staunch Falangists employed political strategies to squelch the opposition of the military, conservatives, royalists and the Church, whose ideals differed in many ways. The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate how the political strategies used by the Falangists against opposing factions are mirrored in the cultural sphere, especially in literary and cinematographic portrayals of war. The propagandistic nature of these works is reflected in their narrative structures and literary characters, as in what Susan Suleiman refers to as “authoritarian fictions.” This study examines the ways in which Falangists propaganda exploits distinct features of the Rif War, the Civil War, and the Second World War, in order to promote key parts of the Nationalist Syndicalist ideology endorsed by core Falangists. This essay traces the transformation of these authoritarian narrative schemes as the hegemonic political position of National Syndicalism begins to deteriorate. In response to this unwelcome political change, Falangists propaganda becomes increasingly critical toward the other ideological positions of the Francoist Regime. This dissertation thus shows the way in which shifting political tides are mirrored in the cultural production of Falangist propaganda.

The diploma thesis deals with theme of racism and its narrative representation in art. It consists of three main parts. The first part of thesis defines racism and explains essential themes and concepts which bear on racism. It also briefly points out the historical development of racism. In the second part thesis deals with the narratology as theory of narrative. It explains what the story is and shows the main parts of each story - event, character, environment. In the third and last part of thesis, it focuses on analysis of selected film and literary stories where is rasism the important topic. It focuses on the way of picture the racism in narrative structure and its impact on characters and human society. That part describes storyline or characters related to racism.

Notre travail s'inscrit dans la lignée de l'étude de la réception sur la fiction sérialisée initiée par Elihu Katz et Tamar Liebes dans différents pays en 1990. Il vise à explorer le quotidien des spectateurs de l'Afrique de l’Ouest francophone, pour saisir comment ils interprètent et décodent les séries américaines et françaises. Quelles pratiques et quels usages ils en font et comprendre l'influence à court et à long terme de ces séries sur leur croyance et leur opinion. Et surtout décrypter comment le contexte politique, économique et socio-culturel interfère sur la réception dans cet espace post colonial. / In the tradition of the study of the reception of the serialized fiction initiated by Elihu Katz and Tamar Liebes in different countries in 1990, the objective of my researches is to identify the different mediations across which French-speaking Africans decipher American and French TV series and to what extent those series influence their beliefs and opinions. It aims to explore and to grasp how they interpret and decode television fiction. What practical and what uses they make of series. How cultural socio economic policy environment interferes with reception in this post colonial space.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A pesquisa surgiu a partir de investigações e experiências próprias com a escuta, a produção de sonoridades, a criação de ambientes e a realização de derivas intersensoriais. A articulação se dá segundo uma perspectiva transdisciplinar e em relação a alguns trabalhos artísticos e textuais especialmente significativos. A construção do sensorial e das subjetividades e suas possibilidades de transformação e emancipação, através de uma arte vinculada à vida, são questões centrais. Os conceitos de fabulação, linhas, cartografias e desterritorializações desenvolvidos por Deleuze, a ecosofia de Félix Guattari e a noção de corpos vibráteis em Suely Rolnik são fundamentais, assim como as observações de Lygia Clark e Hélio Oiticica a respeito de suas próprias experiências. Estudos históricos e culturais dos sentidos, como os de Constance Classen e David Howes, além de observações de teóricos distintos como Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Michel Serres e Jacques Ranciére auxiliam a traçar um panorama inicial do constructo sensorial no Ocidente moderno e contemporâneo. Questões relativas a som, silêncio e ruído levaram à utilização de conceitos como escuta e ressonância em um sentido ampliado, que não se restringe a fenômenos sonoros ou físicos. A articulação entre escuta, intersensorialidade, imaginação e memória contribuiu para o desenvolvimento inicial do conceito de terceiro som aqui presente. A percepção do texto como ativador de sensações e devaneios, as relações entre conceito e concreto e o relato não-realista de acontecimentos levaram às ficções experimentadas. O ato da deriva relaciona-se ao desregramento de todos sentidos e implica a vivência de margens, desvios e extremos, fronteiras em dissolução, diásporas nos interstícios. Poéticas e políticas da alteridade, da diferença e do estranhamento fazem-se presentes em experiências de um ambiente-vivo, paisagem-corpo-outro. Tais questões atravessam meus trabalhos, que são realizados de diferentes maneiras, em cartografias e rituais que podem incluir sons, textos, desenhos, objetos, fotografia, vídeos, vestimentas, ações, situações, etc. A abordagem das questões presentes se dá através de algumas passagens por escritores como Rimbaud, Borges e Italo Calvino; teóricos de diferentes áreas, como Guy Brett, Douglas Kahn, De Certeau, Michel Onfray, James J.Gibson e Donna Haraway; e trabalhos e textos de diversos artistas fundamentais, como Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, George Maciunas e o Fluxus, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Gordon-Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Bill Viola, Cildo Meireles e Lygia Pape, entre outros / The research grew out of personal investigations and experiences with the act of listening, the production of sounds, the creation of environments and the conduction of intersensory drifts. The articulation occurs according to a transdisciplinary perspective, and in relation to some especially meaningful artistic and textual works. The construction of the sensory and the subjectivities and its possibilities of transformation and empowerment, through an art linked to life, are the central issues. The concepts of fable, lines, cartography and deterritorializations developed by Deleuze, the ecosophy of Félix Guattari and Suely Rolniks notion of vibrating bodies are fundamental, just like Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticicas observations about their own experiences. Historical and cultural studies of the senses, such as the ones by Constance Classen and David Howes, and the observations of distinct theorists like Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Michel Serres and Jacques Rancière help to give an initial overview of the sensory construct in the modern and contemporary West. Questions regarding sound, silence and noise led to the use of concepts such as listening and resonance in an extended sense, not restricted to sounding or physical phenomena. The relationship between listening, intersensoriality, imagination and memory contributed to the initial development of the concept of third sound present here. The perception of the text as an activator of feelings and reveries, the connections between concept and concrete and the non-realistic account of events led to the experienced fictions. The act of drift is related to the "derangement of all senses" and implies the experience of margins, deviations and extremes, dissolving boundaries, diasporas in the interstices. Poetics and politics of otherness, of difference and strangeness are present on the experiences of a living environment, a landscape-body-other. Such questions go through my work that are performed in different ways, in cartographies that may include sound, text, drawings, objects, photographs, videos, clothing, actions, situations, etc. The approach to these issues happens through a few passages by writers like Rimbaud, Borges and Italo Calvino; theorists from different fields, like Guy Brett, Douglas Kahn, De Certeau, Michel Onfray, James J. Gibson and Donna Haraway; and works and texts from various key artists like Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, George Maciunas and Fluxus, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Bill Viola, Cildo Meireles and Lygia Pape, among others

This thesis explores representation of the Iraq War in selected Anglo-American and Iraqi novels, examining how several authors have employed this theme in their narratives. The featured novelists are chosen from many writers who focus their efforts and their writing on this conflict. Criterion for selection included offering a critique of the diverse perspectives from which the conflict was perceived, the texts‘ engagement with the political conundrums underpinning war and its approach, how such fiction engages with a contemporary audience and what perspective are deployed to do so. Their public visibility provides the basis of one interpretative strand of the thesis. This study also explores and conceptualises how this conflict has entered the cultural consciousness and to what degree the novels fictionalise the conflict as their main subject, and assesses through which thematic emphases. The texts chosen and to be analysed are pivotal to our understanding of contemporary Iraq and its recent history. It will be argued that the thematic content of these texts contextualise modern war‘s multiple effects within not only the fictional textual world, but as well as their imaginative characters these representations become part of the experience at least vicariously of the audiences who read them. The texts discussed in subsequent chapters are either originally written in, or translated into English (for publication), and therefore all available in English, one major criterion of textual selection. It is interesting to examine the theme of the Iraq War and the historical and pragmatic vein and cultural point of reference from which authors write and has come to dominate the discourse of some contemporary novelists. The goal is to critically explore how the war has become a focal point and the framework of their narratives. The thesis will attempt to analyse how such novels depict the effects of political violence and why they are drawn to powerfully articulate the gruelling reality and experience of those fictionally engaged by and/or affected by it. It will be proposed that novels of and about this conflict are essential to study, understand, and engage with because of the content and the message they attempt to convey which is so crucial to understanding contemporary faultiness in socio-cultural histories, and the critical themes they utilize in writing and the dynamics through which they fictionalize their stories. Such fictional representations of this war serve an important societal, cultural, aesthetic and symbolic function. Thus the study encapsulates how novels of and about the Iraq War reveal and recapture the physical, psychological, and interpersonal losses that are felt by the civilians and military alike.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A pesquisa surgiu a partir de investigações e experiências próprias com a escuta, a produção de sonoridades, a criação de ambientes e a realização de derivas intersensoriais. A articulação se dá segundo uma perspectiva transdisciplinar e em relação a alguns trabalhos artísticos e textuais especialmente significativos. A construção do sensorial e das subjetividades e suas possibilidades de transformação e emancipação, através de uma arte vinculada à vida, são questões centrais. Os conceitos de fabulação, linhas, cartografias e desterritorializações desenvolvidos por Deleuze, a ecosofia de Félix Guattari e a noção de corpos vibráteis em Suely Rolnik são fundamentais, assim como as observações de Lygia Clark e Hélio Oiticica a respeito de suas próprias experiências. Estudos históricos e culturais dos sentidos, como os de Constance Classen e David Howes, além de observações de teóricos distintos como Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Michel Serres e Jacques Ranciére auxiliam a traçar um panorama inicial do constructo sensorial no Ocidente moderno e contemporâneo. Questões relativas a som, silêncio e ruído levaram à utilização de conceitos como escuta e ressonância em um sentido ampliado, que não se restringe a fenômenos sonoros ou físicos. A articulação entre escuta, intersensorialidade, imaginação e memória contribuiu para o desenvolvimento inicial do conceito de terceiro som aqui presente. A percepção do texto como ativador de sensações e devaneios, as relações entre conceito e concreto e o relato não-realista de acontecimentos levaram às ficções experimentadas. O ato da deriva relaciona-se ao desregramento de todos sentidos e implica a vivência de margens, desvios e extremos, fronteiras em dissolução, diásporas nos interstícios. Poéticas e políticas da alteridade, da diferença e do estranhamento fazem-se presentes em experiências de um ambiente-vivo, paisagem-corpo-outro. Tais questões atravessam meus trabalhos, que são realizados de diferentes maneiras, em cartografias e rituais que podem incluir sons, textos, desenhos, objetos, fotografia, vídeos, vestimentas, ações, situações, etc. A abordagem das questões presentes se dá através de algumas passagens por escritores como Rimbaud, Borges e Italo Calvino; teóricos de diferentes áreas, como Guy Brett, Douglas Kahn, De Certeau, Michel Onfray, James J.Gibson e Donna Haraway; e trabalhos e textos de diversos artistas fundamentais, como Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, George Maciunas e o Fluxus, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Gordon-Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Bill Viola, Cildo Meireles e Lygia Pape, entre outros / The research grew out of personal investigations and experiences with the act of listening, the production of sounds, the creation of environments and the conduction of intersensory drifts. The articulation occurs according to a transdisciplinary perspective, and in relation to some especially meaningful artistic and textual works. The construction of the sensory and the subjectivities and its possibilities of transformation and empowerment, through an art linked to life, are the central issues. The concepts of fable, lines, cartography and deterritorializations developed by Deleuze, the ecosophy of Félix Guattari and Suely Rolniks notion of vibrating bodies are fundamental, just like Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticicas observations about their own experiences. Historical and cultural studies of the senses, such as the ones by Constance Classen and David Howes, and the observations of distinct theorists like Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Michel Serres and Jacques Rancière help to give an initial overview of the sensory construct in the modern and contemporary West. Questions regarding sound, silence and noise led to the use of concepts such as listening and resonance in an extended sense, not restricted to sounding or physical phenomena. The relationship between listening, intersensoriality, imagination and memory contributed to the initial development of the concept of third sound present here. The perception of the text as an activator of feelings and reveries, the connections between concept and concrete and the non-realistic account of events led to the experienced fictions. The act of drift is related to the "derangement of all senses" and implies the experience of margins, deviations and extremes, dissolving boundaries, diasporas in the interstices. Poetics and politics of otherness, of difference and strangeness are present on the experiences of a living environment, a landscape-body-other. Such questions go through my work that are performed in different ways, in cartographies that may include sound, text, drawings, objects, photographs, videos, clothing, actions, situations, etc. The approach to these issues happens through a few passages by writers like Rimbaud, Borges and Italo Calvino; theorists from different fields, like Guy Brett, Douglas Kahn, De Certeau, Michel Onfray, James J. Gibson and Donna Haraway; and works and texts from various key artists like Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, George Maciunas and Fluxus, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson, Bill Viola, Cildo Meireles and Lygia Pape, among others

Le constat d’une difficulté est à l’origine de cette thèse : est-il encore possible de parler de clôture de la fiction face au fonctionnement contemporain des franchises fondées sur le développement transmédiatique d’univers transfictionnels ? Cette thèse traite des problématiques de création dans le cadre des industries culturelles : quelles sont les influences de l’industrie sur la création d’une fiction ? Quelles sont les influences de la fiction sur les médiations et les représentations de l’industrie ? Quelles sont les conséquences de l’industrialisation sur les circulations de la fiction ? Comment comprendre la permanence d’une figure d’auteur dans un régime de création collective ? L’étude se structure autour de quatre hypothèses principales, correspondant à autant de parties : tout d’abord, il est désormais nécessaire de parler de « fictions industrialisées », dans la mesure où la fiction, ses formes et ses contenus sont façonnés par l’industrie. Réciproquement, on constate l’émergence d’une « industrie narrativisée » : l’industrie participe de la création culturelle mais devient aussi objet culturel marqué par les codes de la fiction. La proposition de la notion de « fiction totale » rend nécessaire de repenser les notions de participation et de convergence qui, paradoxalement, ne sont pas incompatibles avec le concept d’autorité ; ainsi, il semble que l’ouverture de la fiction soit le symptôme d’un verrouillage institutionnel accru. Enfin, cette thèse pose l’hypothèse de l’émergence d’une nouvelle forme d’auctorialité, fondée sur l’assimilation de la figure d’auteur à un triple produit. / One main question originated this PhD Thesis : is it still possible to talk about the closure of a fiction when contemporain franchises work on continual developments and expansions ? This document questions the concept of fiction through the notion of cultural industry. How is the creation of fiction influenced by its industrial environment ? What consequences does fiction have on its industrial environment ? What does industrialisation do to the circulation of fiction ? How does evolve the notion of authorship in this collective environment for creation ? Our study is structured around four main hypothesis, which are each studied in a dedicated part of this thesis : firstly, we underline the relevance of the notion of « industrialised fictions » ; indeed, fictional contents and formats’ evolutions are deeply linked to industrial developments. Furthermore, these contents and formats are sometimes shaped accordingly to their potential industrial developments. Reciprocally, we emphasize the notion of « narrated industry » : industry participates in cultural creation and is a cultural creation contaminated by fiction. A new notion is therefore necessary : the « totalizing fiction ». We worked on a renewed approach for the notions of convergence and participatory cultures which are, paradoxically, strongly linked to the concept of authority : the oppenness of fiction would be the symptom of an institutional lockout. Finally, this thesis defines the appareance of a new form of authority, shaped on the assimilation of authorship to a product : the author is produced as a figure, as a comercial and cultural object and as a self-creation.

Os sistemas Q1 e Q2, desenvolvidos por Andréa Lopari?, perfazem três principais modificações na semântica clássica: primeiramente, o universo do discurso pode não estar limitado aos objetos que pertencem ao domínio de uma dada estrutura; em segundo lugar, a relação de identidade é determinada como a diagonal desse domínio (assim, tal relação pode não ser aplicável a todas as coisas sobre as quais a linguagem possa falar); em terceiro lugar, o quantificador existencial, em Q1, bem como o universal, em Q2, podem alcançar valores que estejam fora do domínio da estrutura. Como consequência, embora definida classicamente, a negação apresenta alguns comportamentos não clássicos - a negação de um predicado numa fórmula atômica, por exemplo, pode caracterizar algo maior que, e não tão bem definido quanto, o complemento da extensão desse predicado relativamente ao domínio. [...]. / The systems Q1 and Q2, developed by Andréa Lopari?, make up three main changes in classical semantics: first, the universe of discourse can be not limited by the objects that belongs to the domain of a given structure; second, the relation of identity is fixed as a diagonal of this domain (so, it may be not applicable to all things about what the language can speak); third, the existential quantifier in Q1, as well as the universal in Q2, may capture values out of the domain of the structure. As a consequence, although classically defined, the negation presents some non-classical behavior - a negated predicate in an atomic formula, for instance, may characterize something larger and not as well defined as the complement of the extension of this predicate relatively to the domain. [...].

After the Opium War, China has entered a rapid transformation. At the later period of Qing Dynasty, fictions were put to excellent, it was emphasized the actual function of the social. It reflected social conditions and enlighten the people through advocacy fictions. Intellectuals deeply appreciate female issues tightly linked with the fate of the country, and carried out the large-scale feminist movement of the later period of Qing Dynasty. Through against foot-binding, build female schools , promote freedom of marriage, established the independent personality of female, and the liberated women totally. Fictions were written female lives and reflected women' issues at this time. "Huang Hsiu Chiu" reflected female lives and situations very well in many feminist fictions, it was centered foot-binding, female education, women' issues. Miao-Ru Wang had created a a group of new revolutionary female who be strong, be no fear of might by female writing in "Female Prison Flower". These females found themselves in the corresponding relationships of saving the nation, women's rights, and woman's education.