Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz. / Xerox copy of typescript. Bibliography: leaves 287-299.

Thesis--Göteborgs universitet, 1995. / Thesis t.p. laid in. Includes bibliographical references (p. [384]-398) and indexes.

Thesis (M.A.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed May 6, 2010). Directed by Karen Kilcup; submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-29, 57-60).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008. / Title from title screen (site viewed Feb. 17, 2009). PDF text: vii, 213 p. : ill. ; 7 Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3326859. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

MADEIRO, Soraya Rodrigues. Os matizes entre o dito e o não-dito: mistério silencioso em Bartleby, Billy Budd e Benito Cereno, de Herman Melville. 2011. 97f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Fortaleza (CE), 2011. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-03-31T11:48:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_dis_srmadeiro.PDF: 760693 bytes, checksum: 34a396838112e048094e7b96ad1ef7df (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-03-31T13:56:39Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_dis_srmadeiro.PDF: 760693 bytes, checksum: 34a396838112e048094e7b96ad1ef7df (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-31T13:56:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_dis_srmadeiro.PDF: 760693 bytes, checksum: 34a396838112e048094e7b96ad1ef7df (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / A escrita de Melville, mesmo com o passar do tempo e apesar de tantas análises de suas obras, ainda não deixou de inquietar leitores e estudiosos. Por essa razão, para preservar o que na obra literária faz dela sobrevivente, o objetivo de nosso estudo não é de forma alguma esgotar as visões que as obras permitem; pelo contrário, pretendemos contribuir para a abertura de mais possibilidades de questionamentos e de verdades acerca do dito e do não-dito intrínseco às obras do escritor estadunidense, no que concerne ao estudo de Bartleby, o escrivão, Benito Cereno e Billy Budd. Objetivamos em nossa dissertação investigar na escrita de Herman Melville os aspectos relacionados às personagens, as quais possuem destaque no título de cada obra, mas nunca são narradoras de sua história, de modo que são incapazes de ter domínio sobre ela. Nesse sentido, as personagens mais insinuam do que realmente dizem, estão no limite entre o dito e o não-dito. / L’écriture de Melville, même après tout le temps passé et avec diverses interprétations, alaissé inquiets les lecteurs et la critique. Pour cela, afin de préserver ce qui la permet survivre, nous n’avons pas comme but épuiser les visions possibles de l’oeuvre, bien au contraire, on prétend contribuer à l’overture des possibilités et des vérités à propos du dit e du non-dit présent chez l’oeuvre de l’écrivain américain, en ce que concerne les livres Bartleby, l’écrivain, Benito Cereno et Billy Budd. Dans notre étude, le but central est penser les trois écritures de Herman Melville à partir de leurs personnages-titres, mais qui ne sont pas les narrateurs de l’histoire, de façon à perdre le pouvoir de dominer le destin de l’écriture. De telle façon, les personnages donnent plutôt des indices que des paroles concrètes et sont entre le dit et le non-dit

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Orientador: Álvaro Santos Simões Junior / Banca: Regina Célia dos Santos Alves / Banca: Maria Lídia Lichtscheidl Maretti / Resumo: Esta dissertação é fruto de coleta e reflexão a respeito da recepção crítica de Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) no Brasil com vistas a verificar a importância que lhe atribuiu a crítica brasileira, em especial no contexto paulista. Para tanto, o corpus utilizado constituiu-se de fontes primárias recolhidas nas bibliotecas e acervos das cidades de Assis, Marília, Campinas e São Paulo, bem como nos meios eletrônicos (Internet) - nos sites de buscas e outros relacionados ao banco de dados virtuais de acervos afins. Os textos consultados, referentes a Hesse e sua obra, abrangem o período de 1935 até 2005. Trata-se, portanto, de averiguar em que circunstâncias ocorreu o encontro entre a literatura hesseana e os leitores brasileiros, representados pelos jornalistas e pesquisadores acadêmicos, destacando as tendências e as contribuições mais relevantes da crítica em meio a história da leitura de Hesse no Brasil. Como eixo norteador da pesquisa foi elaborada uma lista bibliográfica comentada que permite uma visão circunstanciada de todos os textos localizados. A pesquisa também consta de transcrição dos textos publicados em jornais e revistas informativos de acesso restrito. Ao reunir a bibliografia sobre o escritor, procurou-se ampliar o conhecimento sobre a literatura hesseana e possibilitar o surgimento de novos estudos. / Abstract: This text is about collecting and thinking over Hermann Hesse's reception in Brazil seeking to verify the importance that's been given by the Brazilian critic to him, specially in the state of São Paulo. For this, the corpus used has been built from primary sources collected in the libraries and collection from the cities of Assis, Marilia, Campinas and São Paulo, as well as through electronic methods (internet) - in the sites of searching and others related to the virtual data of collections. The consulted texts, referring to Hesse and all his work, involve the period from 1935 to 2005. This is all about verifying then in which circumstances occurred this encounter between the Hesse's literature and the Brazilian readers, represented by the journalists and academic researchers emphasizing the tendencies and the most important contributions of the critic concerning the story of Hesse's reading in Brazil. As guiding axis of this research a bibliographic list with comments has been made allowing a circumstanced view concerning all the texts found. The research also contains transcription of the texts published in newspapers and magazines which have its access restricted. When reunited the bibliography about the writer, the knowledge concerning Hesse's literature has been increased making possible the appearance of new studies. / Mestre

M.A. (English) / This dissertation aims to examine the nature of the unique creative response to the prison experience. Different modes of artistic expression will be analyzed to show that there is no single literary response to incarceration, and to demonstrate the truth of Oscar Wilde's assertion that "technique is really personality".' To this end, autobiographical and existential elements inherent in selected prison writings will be the main focus of this study, since the concern of both the autobiographer and the existential philosopher is with the dynamic, emergent personality. The totalizing prison situation is totalitarian in essence, since this kind of prison regime assumes responsibility for all aspects of the imprisoned human being, its aim being to annihilate the individual self. In the face of this threat, a human being often feels the need to assert his humanity and selfhood. The creative response can provide a means of reinstating the self. The autobiographer, who concentrates upon the 'becoming' self, must needs be a philosopher, existential in essence, in the search for the 'autos', the self, in relation to the 'bios', one's life. This is realized through 'graphe', language, which enables the writer to probe his/her depths and order his/her disparate experiences into some kind of balance, merging past and present. The fragmented world of the prisoner particularly lends itself to creative expression as the writer attempts to impose some order upon his/her broken life.

The work of Kenneth Boulding is sometimes cited as being foundational to the understanding of how the economy interacts with the environment and particularly of relevance to ecological economists. The main reference made in this regard is to his seminal essay using the metaphor of planet Earth as a spaceship. In this paper that essay and related work is placed both within historical context of the environmental movement and developments in the thought on environment-economy interactions. The writing by Boulding in this area is critically reviewed and discussed in relationship to the work of his contemporaries, also regarded as important for the ecological economics community, such as Georegescu-Roegen, Herman Daly and K. William Kapp. This brings out the facts that Boulding did not pursue his environmental concerns, wrote little on the subject, had a techno-optimist tendency, disagreed with his contemporaries and preferred to develop an evolutionary economics approach. Finally, a sketch is offered of how the ideas in the Spaceship Earth essay relate to current understanding within social ecological economics. The essay itself, while offering many thought provoking insights within the context of its time, also has flaws both of accuracy and omission. The issues of power, social justice, institutional and social relationships are ones absent, but also ones which Boulding, near the end of his life, finally recognised as key to addressing the growing environmental crises. (author's abstract) / Series: SRE - Discussion Papers

This thesis examines the narrative situation within Herman Charles Bosman’s “Oom Schalk Lourens” series of stories, focussing on the nature of the relationship between author and narrator. In particular, it seeks to trace the source of the multiple ironies at work in the texts. It has been customary for critics in the past to claim that the irony within the stories stems from Bosman, operating authorially ‘above’ Oom Schalk. In terms of this theory, Oom Schalk is read as being largely unaware of the inconsistencies and contradictions within his narrative. It is the claim of this thesis, however, that Oom Schalk is the self-aware creator of the texts’ ironies much of the time. Chapter 1 commences with an attempt at defining irony, and provides a brief overview of the history of its deployment within South African literature before discussing the literary genre which Bosman was to exploit as his ironic vehicle: the “oral-style” short story. Chapter 2 examines Wayne C. Booth’s notions of “stable” and “unstable” irony: the irony of the Oom Schalk stories has, in the past, been classified as belonging to the former category, but this thesis attempts to show that its inconsistent deployment within the stories consigns it more accurately to the latter. Chapter 3 offers an assessment of the extrinsic contexts relevant to the analysis: the context of the stories’ publication, and the likely composition of Bosman’s reading public. Chapter 4 begins to examine the distance between implied author and implied narrator in the stories. Chapters 5, 6 and 7 subject stories dealing with the themes of art, race and land to detailed analysis in order to examine the shifting – and progressively, though unevenly, diminishing – distance between Bosman and Oom Schalk. The thesis concludes that the degree to which the ironic distance between author and narrator fluctuates within, and between, the stories, results in a narrative situation which must be classified as fundamentally unstable.