Partindo de um percurso pela cidade de São Paulo, a pesquisa identifica o ornamento de arquitetura. Tem o propósito de aprofundar a discussão a respeito da permanência do ornamento enquanto um dos elementos constitutivos da arquitetura e de contribuir para o aprofundamento e a ampliação das abordagens para a sua investigação. Através da discussão desenvolvida a partir de articulações de uma seleção de conceitos propostos, a pesquisa busca identificar como acontece o comparecimento do ornamento de arquitetura em diferentes circunstâncias de espaços e culturas. Assume como premissa que o significado associado ao objeto ornamental ultrapassa o âmbito da estética e impõe o conhecimento de outras abordagens, em articulação. Após o percurso pela cidade, outros percursos, agora conceituais, são desenvolvidos, no quais o objeto ornamental comparece de modos diferentes na história, no tempo, na sociedade e nos projetos de arquitetura. Este percurso não tem um ponto de chegada: visa a trazer elementos para subsidiar novas pesquisas. / Starting from a journey through the city of São Paulo, the research identifies the architectural ornament. It aims at deepening the ongoing academic debate on the continuance of ornament as a constituent element of architecture and at helping intensify and broaden the approaches to its examination. Throughout the discussion, held out of the articulation of selected propounded concepts, the research tries to identify manners of presentation of the architectural ornament under different circumstances in space and culture. It is assumed that the meaning associated to the ornamental object exceeds the sole scope of aesthetics, and it demands knowledge from other subject areas in an articulated way. After that city journey, other ones - this time conceptual journeys - are taken, in which the ornamental object arises differently in history, time, society and the architectural designing. This path leads to no point of arrival: this inquiry intends to supply additional supportive elements for further research.

The present dissertation argues that more fully than any other fictional work in the latter third of the nineteenth century, Harold Frederic's _The Damnation of Theron Ware_ illuminates the cultural controversies within fin de siecle America. Given the inconsistent nature of its subsequent critical examination, Theron Ware lends itself to a type of new as well as traditional forms of historicist inquiry. While recent efforts by Lisa MacFarlane and Donna Campbell have broadened earlier perspectives to include the gender and theological controversies of the post bellum era, Theron Ware remains unexplored by still another vehicle that Frederic provides (127-143; 80-81). Within a complex and repeated series of episodes, Frederic uses standards of personal etiquette enunciated through a century-long series of published manuals to ponder both the inevitability and the likely consequences that will result from these "compendium of intellectual currents" (Campbell 80).

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[pt] Através da leitura crítica de experimentos contemporâneos de historiografia literária, a tese Historiografia literária contemporânea: experiências cruzadas desenvolve um modelo teórico que reflete a expansão do fenômeno literário e a produção de conhecimento multidisciplinar nas áreas dos Estudos de Literatura e de História. Considerando o espaço híbrido ocupado pela historiografia literária, que une em sua escrita discursos científicos e narrativas literárias, a investigação enfatiza a dinâmica complexa dos processos interativos entre corpo, mente e ambiência. Nesta ótica, avalia-se o descompasso entre a criatividade experimental de historiografias (literárias) atuais em sua configuração estrutural e temática e a oferta de repertórios teóricos atentos aos cruzamentos da percepção sensível e do pensamento inteligível. Os experimentos historiográficos analisados demandam pressupostos epistemológicos alinhados com formas de conhecimento atravessadas por sensibilidades e intuições que orientam as relações entre texto e contexto, entre história e literatura, entre observador e objeto observado. Eles são investigados em vista da elaboração de novas ferramentas que enfatizam processos de retroalimentação entre afecções do corpo, processos cognitivos e experiências situadas. Este cruzamento de múltiplos saberes e olhares, de ideias e afetos na percepção sensorial e na reflexão racional, encontra apoio, entre outros, em propostas desenvolvidas por António R. Damásio acerca das relações entre corpo e mente no campo das neurociências, na concepção da cultura como hipertexto apresentada por Stephen Greenblatt no contexto do ideário do New Historicism e no projeto não-hermenêutico de Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, contrapondo à hegemonia da cultura de sentido uma cultura de presença, com acento sobre a materialidade da comunicação. Em suma, a presente tese, propondo uma reflexão nos interstícios do corpo e da mente, representa uma contribuição oportuna para uma inovação e ampliação significativa de formas e estratégias de construção de conhecimento na área dos Estudos de Literatura, a partir do diálogo multidisciplinar marcado pela mediação entre reflexão teórica e prática literária, que caracteriza historiografias literárias contemporâneas. / [en] Through critical reading of contemporary experiments in literary historiography, the thesis Contemporary Literary Historiography: Crossed Experiences develops a theoretical model that reflects the expansion of the literary phenomenon and the production of multidisciplinary knowledge in the areas of Literary Studies and History. Considering the hybrid space occupied by literary historiography, which links scientific discourses and literary narratives in its writing, this study emphasizes the complex dynamics of the interactive processes among body, mind and ambience. In this perspective, the mismatch between the experimental creativity of current (literary) historiographies in their structural and thematic configuration and the proposal of theoretical repertoires attentive to the intersections of sensible perception and intelligible thought is evaluated. The historiographical experiments analyzed require an epistemological framework aligned with forms of knowledge traversed by sensitivities and intuitions, which guide the relationships between text and context, between history and literature, between observer and observed object. The experiments are investigated in view of the development of new tools that emphasize feedback processes between bodily affections, cognitive processes and situated experiences. This intersection of multiple knowledges and views, of ideas and affections in sensorial perception and rational reflection, finds support in proposals developed by António R. Damásio, among others, about the relations between body and mind in the field of neurosciences, in the conception of culture as hypertext presented by Stephen Greenblatt in the context of the ideology of New Historicism and the nonhermeneutic project of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, opposing the hegemony of the culture of meaning to a culture of presence with an emphasis on the materiality of communication. In summary, this thesis, proposing a reflection in the interstices of body and mind, represents a timely contribution to an innovative and significant expansion of forms and strategies of knowledge construction in the area of Literary Studies, based on the multidisciplinary dialogue marked by the mediation between theoretical reflection and literary practice, which characterizes contemporary literary historiographies.

My dissertation argues that fiction produced in England during the frequent financial crises and political volatility experienced between 1770 and 1820 both reflected and shaped the cultural anxiety occasioned by a seemingly random and increasingly uncertain world. The project begins within the historical framework of the multiple financial crises that occurred in the late eighteenth century: seven crises took place between 1760 and 1797 alone, appearing seemingly out of nowhere and creating a climate of financial meltdown. But how did the awareness of economic turbulence filter into the creative consciousness? Through an interdisciplinary focus on cultural studies and behavioral economics, the dissertation posits that in spite of their conventional, status quo affirming endings (opportunists are punished, lovers are married), novels and plays written between 1770 and 1820 contemplated models of behavior that were newly opportunistic, echoing the reluctant realization that irrationality had become the norm rather than a rare aberration. By analyzing concrete narrative strategies used by writers such as Frances Burney, Georgiana Cavendish, Hannah Cowley, and Thomas Holcroft, I demonstrate that late eighteenth-century fiction both articulates and elides the awareness of randomness and uncertainty in its depiction of plot, character, and narrative.

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In 1982, Richard C. Frushell urged the necessity for a critical study of Susanna Centlivre's plays. Since then, only a handful of books and articles briefly discuss herand many attempt wrongly to force her into various critical models. Drawing on performativity models, my reading of several Centlivre plays (Love's Contrivance, The Gamester, The Basset-Table and A Bold Stroke for a Wife) asks the question, "What was it like to see these plays in performance?" Occupying somewhat uneasy ground between literature and theatre studies, I borrow useful tools from both, to create what might be styled a New Historicist Dramaturgy. I urge a re-examination of the period 1708-28. The standard reading of theatre of the period is that it was static. This "dry spell" of English theatre, most critics agree, was filled with stock characters and predictable plot lines. But it is during this so-called "dry spell" that Centlivre refines her stagecraft, and convinces cautious managers to bank on her work, providing evidence that playwrights of the period were subtly experimenting. The previous trend in scholarship of this cautious and paranoid era of theatre history has been to shy away from examining the plays in any depth, and fall back on pigeonholing them. But why were the playwrights turning out the work that they did? What is truly representative of the period? Continued examination may stop us from calling the period a "dry spell." For that purpose, examining some of Centlivre's early work encourages us to avoid the tendency to study only a few playwrights of the period, and to avoid the trap of focusing on biography rather than text. I propose a different kind of aesthetic, stemming from my interest in the text as precursor to performance. Some of these works may not seem fertile ground for theorists, but discarding them on that basis fails to take into account their original purpose: to entertain.

ABSTRACT This thesis examines the representation of trauma and memory in six post-Apartheid plays. The topic is explored through a treatment of the tropes of racial segregation, different forms of dispossession as well as violence. The thesis draws its inspiration from the critical and self-reflexive engagements with which South African playwrights depict the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The dramatists are concerned with the contested nature of the TRC as an experiential and historical archive. Others explore the idea of disputed and seemingly elusive notions of truth (from the embodied to the forensic). Through the unpacking of the TRC, as reflected in three of the plays, the thesis argues that apart from the idea of an absolute or forensic truth, the TRC is also characterised by the repression of truth. Furthermore, there is a consideration of debates around amnesty, justice, and reparations. Underpinning the politics and representations of trauma and memory, the thesis also interrogates the concomitant explorations and implications of identity and citizenship in the dramas. In the experience of violence, subjugation and exile, the characters in the dramas wrestle with the physical and psychological implications of their lived experiences. This creates anxieties around notions of self and community whether at home or in exile and such representations foreground the centrality of memory in identity construction. All these complex personal and social challenges are further exacerbated by the presence of endemic violence against women and children as well as that of rampart crime. The thesis, therefore, explores the negotiation of memory and identity in relation to how trauma could be mitigated or healing could be attained. The thesis substantially blurs the orthodox lines of differentiation between race and class, but emphasises the centrality of the individual or self in recent post-Apartheid engagements.