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Op soek na nuwe roetes : persoonlike versamelings as kartering van 'n selfRust, Zahn 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a personal, poststructuralist study of the researcher’s mapping of the self. The researcher
refers to her art practice as an action of research and at the same time, a process of reality production.
The images that are created through the art making processes, feeds back into reality. The argument
for the production of reality images, relies specifically on the non-representational ‘model’ of Deleuze
and Guattari. The foundation of this study is based on a theoretical and practical study of the role of
personal space and objects in this complex network of production. This thesis argues for the
consideration of self as an ‘open’ map and to expand the fiction and idea of representation. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis is persoonlike, poststrukturalistiese ondersoek na die navorser se kartering van die
self. Die navorser verwys veral na haar kunspraktyk as aksie van ondersoek en tergelykertyd ’n
proses van werklikheidsproduksie. Die beelde wat deur die kunsmaakpraktyk/-proses geskep word,
voer terug na die werklikheid. Die argument vir die produksie van werklikheidsbeelde steun veral op
Deleuze en Guattari se nie-representasionele ‘model’. Teoretiese en praktiese studie van die rol van
persoonlike ruimtes en objekte in hierdie komplekse produksienetwerk vorm die grondslag waaruit
die studie voortspruit. In hierdie tesis word uiteindelik geargumenteer vir die beskouing van die self
as ‘oop’ kaart ten einde die fiksie en idee van representasie oop te maak en uit te brei.
kartering, objekte, roetes, versamelings, werklikheidsbeelde, poststrukturalisme, beelde, tekening
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Organet lever! : Kropp, ting och performativitet i Erik Beckmans roman Inlandsbanan (1967) / The liver is alive! : Body, thing and performativity in the novel Inlandsbanan (1967) by Erik BeckmanNyström, Filip January 2017 (has links)
The works of Erik Beckman (1935-1995) are quite unique within the Swedish literary scene. His texts convert the experimental language of the concretists of the sixties into a new form of fabulation that undermines our understanding of what literature can be, ranging from novels and poetry to theatre pieces and radio theatre. His literary style has been discussed by critics, but the depths of it are yet to be fully explored. There is a lot to gain from combining contemporary theories of materiality and corporeality with his self-proclaimed materialistic poetics. The novel Inlandsbanan (1967) is a fragmentary account of an inland train going through Sweden, with characters coming and going in a frustrating tempo. The text is filled with word games, narrative constructs and a language that brings forth the material aspects of communication that push the boundaries of literary interpretation. This thesis examines Beckman’s novel through the lens of theoretical concepts of thingliness and corporeality developed by the likes of Judith Butler, Karen Barad, and Andrew Pickering in order to elaborate an analysis that goes beyond the surface of its experimental and materialistic use of literary language. Using bodily themes, I analyze specific passages in the novel in order to find a new understanding of its semantic functions. By doing this through the concept of performativity, not only can I identify a thematized corporeality, but beyond that a literary form and a language that problematizes the very notion of the written text as a body and highlights a material agency in literature. This method enables an interpretation of the novel that can illuminates important aspects at play that previously have not been explored.
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Ett hål i känseln : Om språkupplevelsens fenomenologi i Ann Jäderlunds författarskapWiklander, Osvald January 2019 (has links)
This thesis aims to analyze and interpret a number of central works – Vimpelstaden (1985), Som en gång varit äng (1988), Blomman och människobenet (2003), I en cylinder i vattnet av vattengråt (2005) and Vad hjälper det en människa om hon häller rent vatten över sig i alla sina dagar (2009) – by the Swedish poet Ann Jäderlund (1955-) in the context of phenomenology and affect theory. The analysis consists of three chapters and proceeds chronologically with technical scrutinies of separate phases of Jäderlund’s œuvre – from the aphasic-like treatment of established phraseologies in Vimpelstaden and frozen expressions of the botanical discourse in Som en gång varit äng, to the uncanny focus on perceptual patterns as such in her later works. Throughout these analyses the thesis observes a series of techniques with which the author presents us with a kind of sensory paradox, through a) creating language-based complex appearances, non-appropriable by means of the normal perceptual patterns of embodied perception, while still b) simulating, and thus implicitly emphasizing, these appearances as something already concretely looked at and felt. In short, to experience what cannot be experienced, to live the unlivable. Many of these technical observations made are pinned down analytically using concepts from the field of cognitive poetics, namely George Lakoff and Mark Johnsons findings of experiential image schemata underpinning spoken phraseologies and their influential theories on conceptual metaphors. The interpretative conclusion following these observations is that Jäderlund handles her writing aesthetically as a kind of sensory material in a very literal sense, a “being of sensation” in the terminology of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Not as means of experiential or intellectual representation, not as some sort of critical enterprise through mere language-gaming of free- floating signifiers – but as a material able to preserve and perform sensory processes immanent to its own material compilation, a tendency that earlier research fails to grasp or simply ignores altogether. Thus the affectivity immanent to the literary material – often being the starting point of studies in affect theory and cognitive poetics – is here proven to be a characteristic, thereby playing the role more of a conclusion than a field of inquiry. The aesthetics of interrogating the limits of sensory experience, introducing a sort of crisis to embodied perception through the experience of poetic language – and the experience of it as having a “metaphysical significance”, as French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau- Ponty puts it – is articulated in the thesis against the background of influential readings of modern art carried out by Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze.
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Le devenir-imperceptible de l'urbaniste : une lecture de l'éthique chez Gilles Deleuze : expérimentation sensible du pont Jacques-Cartier à MontréalBanville, Marie-Sophie 05 1900 (has links)
No description available.
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Polyphony, Dialogism and Verbal Interaction in French Caribbean Novels: A Study of Texaco, Mahagony, L'Isolé soleil, and L'Autre qui danse.White, Joseph Dua 10 August 2022 (has links)
No description available.
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Den resonanta kroppens performativitet. : En diskussion kring det terapeutiska som performativ konstnärlig strategi utifrån Lygia Clarks verk ”Structuring the Self”.Guarino Werner, Sarah January 2010 (has links)
Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka Lygia Clarks verk ”Structuring the Self” utifrån begreppet per- formativitet, men det är först i samband med att jag relaterar det performativa till Suely Rolniks idéer om en resonant kropp, och den mer vitalistiska begreppsapparat som detta begrepp relaterar till, som jag tycker att idén om det terapeutiska som en performativ konstnärlig strategi blir intressant och relevant. Tanken är att utvidga idén om det performativa genom att relatera begreppet till den vitalistiska tradition hennes arbete från början grundar sig på, och visa på att dessa två begrepp kan mötas och eventuellt berika varandra just genom den terapeutiska metoden. Den övergripande frågan gäller vår möjlighet att ”bli” någonting som ligger utanför den av samhället konstituerade subjektiverings-processen. Rolnik talar i sina texter om en ”resonant kropp”, en kropp, en subjektivitet i ständig förvandling, en kropp som är både insida och utsida samtidigt. Min läsning av Lygia Clarks verk ”Structuring the Self” är således att denna specifika ”kroppslighet” möjliggör en alldeles specifik form av performativitet som är knuten till och siktar direkt på kroppens affektiva nivåer. Som jag förstod saken lyckades Lygia Clark aktivera denna resonanta kropp via sina ”terapeutiska” metoder. Det ”terapeutiska” fungerar just precis som en metod för att komma åt detta resonanta tillstånd, och i linje med Suely Rolnik väljer jag att se Lygia Clarks metod som en konstnärlig strategi som i slutändan går utöver både konst och terapi: vi har att göra med ett aktiverande av livets kreativa process i sig själv. Jag anser att Lygia Clarks ”Structuring the Self” visar att det vore relevant att välkomna nya frågeställningar i samband med det performativa. Det behöver inte finnas en konflikt mellan ett performativt tankesätt och ett vitalistiskt synsätt, mellan ”no doer behind the deed”, och ett vitalistiskt synsätt där den kreativa impulsen kommer ”inifrån”.
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A reinterpretation of urban space in PretoriaVan der Klashorst, Elsa 2013 February 1900 (has links)
Various potential modes of interpreting the urban space in the inner city of Pretoria is evaluated in this study with the purpose of expanding discourse around spatial production in the city. Production of meaning through formal and structural means produced a city that served as administrative capital and ideological base for Afrikaners until the arrival of a democracy in 1994. The contemporary urban space is produced by people through everyday life, as theorised by Henry Lefebvre, rather than through formal means such as name changes. This study evaluates the way that identity and belonging is created by referring to everyday life practices, rhythmanalysis and daily activities as performances. Urban space is evaluated from a phenomenological perspective through the eyes of an artist and resident and expressed in an art exhibition. The way artists Julie Mehretu and Franz Ackermann dealt with urban space in their art is also referenced. / Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology / Master of Visual Arts
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A reinterpretation of urban space in PretoriaVan der Klashorst, Elsa 02 1900 (has links)
Various potential modes of interpreting the urban space in the inner city of Pretoria is evaluated in this study with the purpose of expanding discourse around spatial production in the city. Production of meaning through formal and structural means produced a city that served as administrative capital and ideological base for Afrikaners until the arrival of a democracy in 1994. The contemporary urban space is produced by people through everyday life, as theorised by Henry Lefebvre, rather than through formal means such as name changes. This study evaluates the way that identity and belonging is created by referring to everyday life practices, rhythmanalysis and daily activities as performances. Urban space is evaluated from a phenomenological perspective through the eyes of an artist and resident and expressed in an art exhibition. The way artists Julie Mehretu and Franz Ackermann dealt with urban space in their art is also referenced. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / M.A. (Visual Arts)
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"Minds will grow perplexed": The Labyrinthine Short Fiction of Steven MillhauserAndrews, Chad Michael 25 February 2014 (has links)
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Steven Millhauser has been recognized for his abilities as both a novelist and a writer of short fiction. Yet, he has evaded definitive categorization because his fiction does not fit into any one category. Millhauser’s fiction has defied clean categorization specifically because of his regular oscillation between the modes of realism and fantasy. Much of Millhauser’s short fiction contains images of labyrinths: wandering narratives that appear to split off or come to a dead end, massive structures of branching, winding paths and complex mysteries that are as deep and impenetrable as the labyrinth itself. This project aims to specifically explore the presence of labyrinthine elements throughout Steven Millhauser’s short fiction.
Millhauser’s labyrinths are either described spatially and/or suggested in his narrative form; they are, in other words, spatial and/or discursive. Millhauser’s spatial labyrinths (which I refer to as ‘architecture’ stories) involve the lengthy description of some immense or underground structure. The structures are fantastic in their size and often seem infinite in scale. These labyrinths are quite literal. Millhauser’s discursive labyrinths demonstrate the labyrinthine primarily through a forking, branching and repetitive narrative form.
Millhauser’s use of the labyrinth is at once the same and different than preceding generations of short fiction. Postmodern short fiction in the 1960’s and 70’s used labyrinthine elements to draw the reader’s attention to the story’s textuality. Millhauser, too, writes in the experimental/fantastic mode, but to different ends. The devices of metafiction and realism are employed in his short fiction as agents of investigating and expressing two competing visions of reality. Using the ‘tricks’ and techniques of postmodern metafiction in tandem with realistic detail, Steven Millhauser’s labyrinthine fiction adjusts and reapplies the experimental short story to new ends: real-world applications and thematic expression.
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Arboreal thresholds - the liminal function of trees in twentieth-century fantasy narrativesPotter, Mary-Anne 09 1900 (has links)
Trees, as threshold beings, effectively blur the line between the real world and fantastical alternate worlds, and destabilise traditional binary classification systems that distinguish humanity, and Culture, from Nature. Though the presence of trees is often peripheral to the main narrative action, their representation is necessary within the fantasy trope. Their consistent inclusion within fantasy texts of the twentieth century demonstrates an enduring arboreal legacy that cannot be disregarded in its contemporary relevance, whether they are represented individually or in collective forests. The purpose of my dissertation is to conduct a study of various prominent fantasy texts of the twentieth century, including the fantasy works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Robert Holdstock, Diana Wynne Jones, Natalie Babbitt, and J.K. Rowling. In scrutinising these texts, and drawing on insights offered by liminal, ecocritical, ecofeminist, mythological and psychological theorists, I identify the primary function of trees within fantasy narratives as liminal: what Victor Turner identifies as a ‘betwixt and between’ state (1991:95) where binaries are suspended in favour of embracing potentiality. This liminality is constituted by three central dimensions: the ecological, the mythological, and the psychological. Each dimension informs the relationship between the arboreal as grounded in reality, and represented in fantasy. Trees, as literary and cinematic arboreal totems are positioned within fantasy narratives in such a way as to emphasise an underlying call to bio-conservatorship, to enable a connection to a larger scope of cultural expectation, and to act as a means through which human self-awareness is developed. / English Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (English)
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