Etapa inicial de uma investigação sobre as cidades imaginárias. A configuração de Macondo em Cem anos de solidão de Gabriel García Márquez; a construção da verossimilhança e o estatuto do imaginário. O conteúdo mítico da narrativa; relações entre a História, a Antropologia e a Literatura. A universalidade de um espaço regional. / Etapa inicial de una investigación sobre las ciudades imaginarias. La configuración de Macondo en Cien años de soledad de Gabriel García Márquez; la construcción de la verosimilitud y el estatuto del imaginario. El contenido mítico de la narrativa; relaciones entre la Historia, la Antropología y la Literatura. La universalidad de un espacio regional.

I denna kandidatuppsatts redovisas och analyseras arbetet med att översätta fem sånger av Juan Gabriel från spanska till svenska (Ya lo sé que tú te vas, Hasta que te conocí, Vienes o voy, Abrázame muy fuerte och Yo te recuerdo) genom en översättningsteoretisk kommentar. I kommentaren presenteras en kort översikt av sångöversättningens olika aspekter, sedan analyseras källtexterna och till sist behandlas översättningsarbetet. Teorin utgår ifrån Johan Franzons funktionella sångöversättningsteori. Målet var att skapa sångbara översättningar med syfte att belysa komplexa problem som förekommer inom sångöversättning, speciellt från spanska till svenska. Utmaningar som dök upp under översättandet diskuteras och relevanta skillnader mellan språken presenteras. / In this bachelor’s thesis, the work of translating five songs by Juan Gabriel from Spanish to Swedish (Ya lo sé que tú te vas, Hasta que te conocí, Vienes o voy, Abrázame muy fuerte and Yo te recuerdo) is reported and analyzed through a translation theory commentary. The commentary presents a brief overview of different aspects of song translation, then analyzes the source texts, and then finally proceeds to present the translation work. The theory is based on Johan Franzon's functional song translation theory. The aim was to create singable translations with the purpose to highlight complex problems in song translation, especially from Spanish to Swedish. Challenges that arose during the translation are discussed and relevant differences between the languages are presented.

Hypotheses on the efficiency of evidence-based printed materials can be directed by health communication concepts. These concepts can provide a general framework that goes beyond the traditional vulgarization point of view: instead, it points towards a strategy to obtain health outcomes and provoke behavior change, from a disease prevention, management and health promotion perspective. The present study proposes a comprehensive framework based on concepts from health risk communication, Tarde's theory of social values, usability, readability and plain language. Using the mapping approach, an evaluation grid was applied to printed evidence-based materials with proven effectiveness, in order to reveal the underlying strategy and isolate the characteristics of effective materials. The results allowed us to define two types of printed evidence-based materials, according to the robustness of the evidence they contain and the target audience. It was also possible to identify indicators of notions that are translated into operationalized items, frequent in those materials that might be responsible for their efficiency: clear purpose of the documents, limited scope, learning motivation and correspondence to the logic, experience and language of readers. Effectiveness of printed evidence-based materials could also be correlated to numeracy, objectiveness, standard definitions, constant timeframes and denominators, risks enumerated in order of importance, effective response, and high degree of threat, urgency, novelty and visibility of the disease. It was also possible to identify some missing communication concepts: cultural diversity, narrative, increased easiness of procedures and aesthetic advantage for the patient. In the process of work, the theory of social values emerged as a dynamic component that can bring together and explain many concepts, as well as physician’s acceptance of the guidelines. Value in terms of usefulness and truth plays a major role in cognitive appreciation of the documents. This concept gives a strategic meaning to the whole work and allows us to better understand attitude and behavior change.

This thesis explores the nature of contemporary sculptural practices in relation to the broader field of installed sculpture (which deploy articulated, interrelated, but autonomous components) and in the context of recent approaches to both curation and display. The artistic work and attendant commentary constitute a response to the issues of sculptural agency and display raised by both the practice-based outcomes and key works of several contemporary artists: Gabriel Kuri, Gedi Sibony, Melanie Counsell, Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Michael Dean. In a number of exhibitions ‘post-installation’ practices and the function of ‘montage’ sculpture is examined. Through outlining the current landscape of sculptural production and medium specificity a progressive notion of the monument is established. The sculptural artwork is seen to retain a political resistance, as both art-object and thing in the world. An assessment is made of how sculptures produce space within and through their exhibition context, directly related to the production of space as a whole (a social morphology posited by Henri Lefebvre). Applying a conception of time in reference to spatial production opens up the artwork’s potential to draw on complex codes of mnemonic function, which can potentially generate emancipatory agency from ideological issues in late-capitalism. Re-readings of key installed works by Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Mark Dean, through contexts derived from Nietzsche and Mark Fisher, reveal how sculptures can activate specific mnemonic codes, or collective memory. Such art works utilise a ‘forgetful memory’ – a reflexive process of positing, junking and reimagining relationships to cultural information. The body of artistic work produced for this research, intertwined with its critical reflection, makes an original contribution to knowledge by interrogating theoretically and experientially the potentials of ‘the sculptural’, as part of the plural production of art and exhibition-making. By means of practice and its outcomes, the research engages the current dynamics of spatial production and radicality of sculptural objecthood. The work examines the complex relationships between social memory and historicity, with which sculpture in an exhibition environment can engage.

Tsang, Tak Fai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-168). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Dedication --- p.iv / Contents --- p.v / Chapter Chapter 1 - --- Introduction / Postmodernism and the poststructuralist view of enunciation / Chapter A.) --- What is Postmodernism? - Three Dimensions --- p.1 / Chapter B.) --- What constitutes a problem with Postmodernism? --- p.26 / Chapter C.) --- What is an alternative framework? --- p.33 / Chapter D.) --- Conclusion --- p.41 / Chapter Chapter 2 - --- Complementary relationships between discourses and subjects / One Hundred Years of Solitude - solitudes longing for dialogue / Chapter A.) --- Introduction - a Poetics of Contest --- p.42 / Chapter B.) --- The Insufficiency of Contest and Subversion --- p.60 / Chapter C.) --- One Hundred Years of Solitude - a longing for dialogue --- p.69 / Chapter D.) --- Conclusion: Dialogism and Liberal Humanism --- p.83 / Chapter Chapter 3 - --- Subject and History / Midnight's Children - dialogues of individual and national unity / Chapter A.) --- Hutcheon's view of subjectivity and history --- p.84 / Chapter B.) --- Hypothesis: a dialogical structure of discourses in Midnight's Children --- p.93 / Chapter C.) --- Conclusion: re-defining the liberal humanist subject --- p.115 / Chapter Chapter 4 - --- Subject and Politics / Beloved 226}0ؤ Agency and the articulation of a favourable identity for ex-slaves / Chapter A.) --- p.117 / Chapter B.) --- Problems of Hutcheońةs framework in Beloved --- p.131 / Chapter C.) --- "Modifying Hutcheońةs framework: Dialogism, Centres and Discourses" --- p.137 / Chapter D.) --- Conclusion: redefining postmodernist subjectivity --- p.149 / Chapter Chapter 5 - --- Conclusion / Reconfiguring Liberal Humanism - an enunciative basis / Chapter A.) --- Significance --- p.151 / Chapter B.) --- "The Enunciating Subject, The Enonce and Power" --- p.152 / Chapter C.) --- From Epistemology to Ethics --- p.156 / Chapter D.) --- Opening the Dialogue - the Performative --- p.158 / Chapter E.) --- A Forward Glance: Dialogue in a Postmodernity --- p.160 / Epilogue --- p.162 / Bibliography / Works Cited --- p.163 / Works Consulted --- p.167

A presente tese visa analisar um grupo específico de poemas de Dante Gabriel Rossetti (os chamados poemas de imagens), e pinturas e gravuras de sua autoria, a fim de mostrar como a ligação entre desejo físico e devoção espiritual ilustra a expressão de Rossetti como artista, e como ela ajuda a colocá-lo como uma figura de transição no sistema literário britânico. O desejo físico e a devoção espiritual são duas forças antagônicas que ocupam um espaço predominante na literatura e na imaginação vitoriana, e na obra de Rossetti temos o momento em que a Poesia Romântica Inglesa converge para o Modernismo experimental britânico. A tese deste estudo, portanto, é de que trabalhando com essas duas forças, Rossetti tornou-se um precursor do Modernismo na Grã-Bretanha. Este trabalho investiga, desse modo, como a tensão vitoriana entre devoção espiritual e desejo erótico é representada em pinturas de Rossetti, como as suas vozes poéticas lidam com estas questões, e que soluções são criadas nas obras do poeta-pintor. Para alcançar os objetivos acima, esta tese relata uma pesquisa bibliográfica sobre a interação entre poesia e pintura e uma análise, de cunho psicanalítico, de obras pictóricas e poéticas de Rossetti. O primeiro capítulo apresenta um histórico da discussão sobre a relação entre poesia e pintura e um resumo dos conceitos freudianos a serem utilizados na análise. O segundo capítulo faz uma revisão da fortuna crítica de Rossetti e dos movimentos artísticos e literários aos quais ele é associado. O terceiro capítulo analisa um grupo das “obras duplas” de Rossetti (i.e., quadros e poemas), identificando como são construídas as imagens de devoção e desejo, e como elas se inter-relacionam. A conclusão estabelece a contribuição da obra poética e pictórica de Rossetti para o desenvolvimento dos sistemas literário e artístico britânico, à luz da relação dinâmica entre os aspectos de devoção e desejo presentes na sua obra, e analisa seu papel no cenário vitoriano. Apresenta também o papel de Rossetti na transição do Romantismo ao Modernismo britânico. A tese contém também dois apêndices: a) uma cronologia de fatos relevantes da vida de Rossetti e das obras aqui estudadas, e b) as “obras duplas” analisadas neste trabalho. / This dissertation analyzes a specific group of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poems (the so-called picture poems) and pictures, in order to show how the connection between physical desire and spiritual devotion illustrates Rossetti’s expression as an artist, and how it helps to place him as a figure of transition in the British literary system. Physical desire and spiritual devotion are two antagonistic forces which occupy a predominant space in Victorian literature and imagination, and in Rossetti’s work we have the moment in which Romantic English Poetry melts into experimental British Modernism. The thesis of this study, therefore, is that by working with those two forces, Rossetti became a precursor of Modernism in Britain. This dissertation thus investigates how the Victorian tension between spiritual devotion and erotic desire is represented in Rossetti’s paintings and drawings, how the speakers in his poems deal with these issues, and what solutions are created in Rossetti’s works. In order to reach the objectives above, this dissertation comprises a bibliographical review of the relationship between poetry and painting, and a psychoanalytical analysis of pictorial and poetic works by Rossetti. The first chapter presents a historical account of the discussion on the relationship between poetry and painting, as well as a summary of the Freudian concepts to be used in the analysis. The second chapter reviews Rossetti’s critical fortune and presents the artistic and literary movements with which he is associated. The third chapter analyses a set of Rossetti’s double works (i.e. pictures and poems), identifying how the images of devotion and desire are built and how they interrelate within the works. The dissertation conclusion establishes the contribution of Rossetti’s poetic and pictorial works to the development of the British literary and artistic systems in light of the dynamic relationship between the aspects of devotion and desire in his work, and analyses his role in the Victorian scenario. Rossetti’s role in the development from British Romanticism to Modernism is also presented. The dissertation has two appendixes: a) a chronology of relevant events in Rossetti’s life associated with the works studied here, and b) the double works analyzed in this dissertation.

Este trabalho propõe a geração e fechamento de um proto-oceano e consequente formação de um arco de ilhas durante o Neoproterozóico no Complexo Metamórfico Passo Feio na região de Caçapava do Sul, RS. O Complexo Metamórfico Passo Feio, constituinte do Terreno São Gabriel, consiste em uma sequência metavulcanossedimentar supracrustal neoproterozóica intrudida pelo Granito Caçapava. O estudo utiliza petrografia, química de rocha total e química mineral por microssonda para classificar e identificar a afinidade geoquímica e ambiente tectônico de geração de anfibolitos contidos na sequência metavulcanossedimentar do Complexo Metamórfico Passo Feio. Os resultados são comparados com basaltos e pillow lavas da Formação Arroio Mudador, além de diques intermediários, básicos e ultrabásicos, intrudidos em rochas vulcanogênicas da Formação Hilário. A petrografia com auxílio da geotermometria da clorita, composição dos anfibólios e sua relação núcleo-borda permitiu a classificação da fácies metamórfica em prehnita-pumpeleíta para os basaltos e pillow lavas, xisto verde para os diques e fácies anfibolito inferior para os anfibolitos Os diagramas discriminantes de geoquímica de rocha total e de química mineral indicam afinidade desde toleítica a alcalina para os diques da Formação Hilário. Os basaltos, pillow lavas e anfibolitos possuem composição basáltica a basáltico-andesítica e afinidade toleítica, por vezes transicionando para calci-alcalina, interpretados como derivados de um mesmo protólito basáltico. As diferenças mineralógicas devem-se aos diferentes graus metamórficos. Os diagramas discriminantes de ambientes geotectônicos indicam em sua maioria basaltos de arco vulcânico (e toleítos de arco de ilha que se incluem nessa classificação). Os dados obtidos combinados com dados da literatura permitiram a interpretação de um modelo de evolução onde há uma abertura de um proto-oceano através do rifteamento do Arco da Bossoroca em cerca de 760 Ma, onde houve a formação de um arco de ilha (rochas do Complexo Passo Feio), a precipitação de carbonatos e margas neste proto-oceano, subsequente fechamento, dois eventos de metamorfismo e por fim a intrusão do Granito Caçapava a 562 Ma. / This paper proposes the generation and closure of a proto-ocean and consequently formation of an island arc in the Neoproterozoic Passo Feio Metamorphic Complex, Caçapava do Sul region, southern Brazil. The Passo Feio Metamorphic Complex, São Gabriel Terrane, consists of a Neoproterozoic supracrustal metavolcano-sedimentary sequence intruded by the Caçapava Granite. The study uses petrography, whole-rock geochemistry and mineral chemistry by microprobe to classify and identify the geochemical affinity and tectonic environment of the amphibolites contained in the metavolcano-sedimentary sequence of Passo Feio Metamorphic Complex. The results are compared with the basalts and pillow lavas of Arroio Mudador Formation, besides intermediate, basic and ultrabasic dykes, intruded in nearby volcanogenic rocks of Hilário Formation The petrography with aid of chlorite geothermometry, amphibole composition and its core-rim relation allow the metamorphic facies classification of prehnite-pumpellyite for the basalts and pillow lavas, greenschist for the dykes and lower amphibolite facies for the amphibolites. The whole-rock geochemistry and mineral chemistry discriminant diagrams indicate from tholeiitic to alkaline affinities for the Hilário Formation dykes. The basalts, pillow lavas and amphibolites have basaltic to basaltic-andesite composition and tholeiitic affinity, occasionally transitioning to calc-alkaline, and are interpreted as derived by the same basaltic protolith. The mineralogical differences are due to the different metamorphic grades. The geotectonic environment discriminant diagrams mostly indicate volcanic arc basalts (and island arc tholeiites, included in this classification). The present results combined with literature data allow an interpretation and propose a geotectonic evolution model for the region, starting with a proto-ocean opening through the Bossoroca Arc rifting in about 760 Ma, where occurred the formation of an island arc (Passo Feio Complex rocks), the precipitation of carbonates and marls in this proto-ocean, subsequent closure, two metamorphism events and at last the Caçapava Granite intrusion at ca. 562 Ma.

The present study utilises a Durkheimian approach to study alcohol in society and education, centrally drawing on the sociological works of Emile Durkheim and those of the neo-Durkheimian sociologist, Stjepan Mestrovic. Durkheim�s sociological concepts and commentary, and Mestrovic�s perspective, refashioned, is applied to the present context, of which alcohol is a part. The arument to be advanced, is that in the Durkheimian sense, societal and educational alcohol issues, as part of wider social change, are in a state of excessive anomie and egoism caused by neoliberal philosophy, policy and practice. Mostly, the theory of James M. Buchanan will be drawn upon as standing for neoliberalism. Mestrovic�s interpretation of Durkheim in the light of his view of the indirect influence of Arthur Schopenhauer on Durkheim, particularly with regard to Schopenhauer�s view of will and representation, provides a fresh reading of Durkheim�s work. Mestrovic�s adaptations challenge the received view of Durkheim as a functionalist, and Enlightenment positivist interested in social order. This is explained by noting Mestrovic�s application of those adaptations to some of Durkheim�s central concepts, and, Mestrovic�s identification of the contemporary relevance of Durkheim, culminating in what Mestrovic calls postemotionalism. Mestrovic�s Shopenhauerian Durkheimianism, and Durkheim, can be critiqued from the perspectives of a number of commentators, poststructuralism and, Jennifer Lehmann�s critical structuralism with regard to issues of particularly gender, but also culture, as well as for exhibiting essentialist and liberal strains. Buchanan is also liberal and essentialist, but differently to Durkheim, holds to an economic, individualistic and clearly positivist view of society and education. By comparison with Durkheimianism, however, Buchanan�s perspective is a good representative example of true neoliberalism. Durkheim in particular, is rendered as a liberal - by comparison to Buchanan, a very social democratic liberal thinker, but one still in need of further adaptations over and above those made by Mestrovic for a Durkheimianism relevant to contemporary issues of gender and culture with regard to policy and practice in society and education where alcohol is concerned. Mestrovic�s perspective and Durkheim�s concepts, when modified by way of discussed and synthesised supplementary, high-modern and poststructural, post-Freudian feminist, and semiological, radical theories of gender and culture, is relevant for studying society and education. The application of Durkheimian perspectives, so rendered, means that various issues related to alcohol such as, alcohol and other addictions and dysfunctions, gendered drinking, gendered family relations, alcohol use and abuse, media advertising, research studies philosophies, culture, local and global markets, as well as legislation, can be seen in an alternative way. Following Durkheimian perspectives means that education can be contextualised accordingly. Educational governance, professionalism, teacher training and curriculum reform policies and programmes related and specific to alcohol education, can be interpreted in alternative ways to those currently accepted. Durkheimian perspectives on society and education: highlight the damage caused and the conservatism entailed by neoliberal philosophy, policy and practice, and; provide alternatives to the current societal situation, as well as the current drug education market in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Hypotheses on the efficiency of evidence-based printed materials can be directed by health communication concepts. These concepts can provide a general framework that goes beyond the traditional vulgarization point of view: instead, it points towards a strategy to obtain health outcomes and provoke behavior change, from a disease prevention, management and health promotion perspective. The present study proposes a comprehensive framework based on concepts from health risk communication, Tarde's theory of social values, usability, readability and plain language. Using the mapping approach, an evaluation grid was applied to printed evidence-based materials with proven effectiveness, in order to reveal the underlying strategy and isolate the characteristics of effective materials. The results allowed us to define two types of printed evidence-based materials, according to the robustness of the evidence they contain and the target audience. It was also possible to identify indicators of notions that are translated into operationalized items, frequent in those materials that might be responsible for their efficiency: clear purpose of the documents, limited scope, learning motivation and correspondence to the logic, experience and language of readers. Effectiveness of printed evidence-based materials could also be correlated to numeracy, objectiveness, standard definitions, constant timeframes and denominators, risks enumerated in order of importance, effective response, and high degree of threat, urgency, novelty and visibility of the disease. It was also possible to identify some missing communication concepts: cultural diversity, narrative, increased easiness of procedures and aesthetic advantage for the patient. In the process of work, the theory of social values emerged as a dynamic component that can bring together and explain many concepts, as well as physician’s acceptance of the guidelines. Value in terms of usefulness and truth plays a major role in cognitive appreciation of the documents. This concept gives a strategic meaning to the whole work and allows us to better understand attitude and behavior change.

My purpose in writing this dissertation is to re-evaluate the works of three influential Spanish-Caribbean authors who seem to be remembered more as exceptional historical characters rather than for their literature itself. Although often considered to be important contributors to the Spanish-Caribbean literary canon, these writers have also suffered a measure of marginalization as scholars have relegated them to the status of discursive subjects rather than evaluate them as authorial agents. As a consequence, the majority of their works have not been fully recognized as important factors in nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty first century literary production. I show how in their writings – many of which have been misunderstood, under-evaluated, and/or forgotten altogether – these writers narrated their own precarious situations and lifted their voice in protest against slavery, racism and economic oppression at a time when the dominant discourses and heavy-handed controls of the Spanish colonial government strictly forbid them to do so. These authors are Juan Francisco Manzano, Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido) and Eleuterio Derkes. Because these authors lived in Cuba (Manzano and Plácido) and Puerto Rico (Derkes) as colonial subjects underneath the oppressive structures of their respective plantation and hacienda economies based on sugar production and slave labor, they experienced difficult colonial conditions and as such are able to narrate this life through a unique perspective that other writers associated with the dominant discourses of the time could not. While these brands of hegemony were indeed forced upon them as writers and artists, it did not stop them from narrating and communicating their unique Spanish Caribbean perspective. I show how these authors, as marginalized figures of nineteenth century plantation society, engineered their own discourses around these hegemonic institutions – writing between the lines of hegemony and concurrent with it at the same time – in order to create an alternative image of nineteenth century Spanish Caribbean society that requires further critical consideration and perspective. / text