This dissertation is a study of the comic intermezzo’s literary origins and musical practice in the years before Pergolesi’s La serva padrona (1733). It begins with a chronological examination of Italian comic plays and operas written between 1660 and 1723. During these years comic playwrights adopted a style of writing speech from the improvised theatre which makes use of what Richard Andrews (1993) refers to as “elastic gags.” This style of comedy flourished under Medici patronage in Florence in the last decades of the seventeenth century and then spread to Venice, Rome and Naples during the first years of the intermezzo’s development. It is a style of comedy shared with the plays of Molière, and other contemporaneous French authors. This dissertation examines several scenes based on French works which have previously not been identified as having earlier sources. The decision to adapt these earlier sources for the intermezzo did not occur in a vacuum. The practice of comedy in the intermezzo was conditioned by the artistic, social and political climate of Italy. This study investigates the relationship between intermezzos and the milieus which produced them. The success of some intermezzos, like Il marito giocatore (1719), resulted from a combination of their artistic merit and their broad social appeal, while others, like Albino e Plautilla (1723), were musically adept but remained obscure because their humour was specific to the world they satirized. Both intermezzos are indebted to earlier French sources. Many others which are metatheatrical in nature draw on contemporary debates about opera. A final section examines selected arias from the intermezzo repertory using incongruity theory. Comic theory makes clear that the intermezzo’s musical language was not a new development. Just as librettists drew on earlier written traditions to form the literary text of the intermezzo, composers drew on existing musical practices to create humour. The intermezzo was therefore not naively comic—a portrait of the genre which is all too common—but rather a repertory which was thoroughly enmeshed within contemporary artistic practice and a wider social and cultural world.

Estudio comparado de los ensayos de José Ortega y Gasset relacionados con la teoría estética y la obra ensayística de Luigi Pirandello, en especial "L´Umorismo", considerada síntesis de la poética del escritor. La tesis afronta la problemática del ensayo como género literario. Una vez delimitado éste dentro de los géneros narrativos, se propone el análisis comparado de los ensayos seleccionados de Ortega y Pirandello dentro del panorama de crisis finisecular de ambas culturas, la española y la italiana; así como las distintas apuestas estéticas de ambos autores en relación con los tratamientos del humor, la belleza, la retórica y el arte moderno. El trabajo aporta información sobre la recepción de ambos autores en Italia y España a lo largo del siglo XX, además de la traducción de un texto pirandelliano inédito titulado "Un supuesto poeta humorista del s, XIII". / This PHD thesis about Comparative Literature is entitled: Modern Essay: Pirandello and Ortega e Gasset, and it proposes a comparative study of four masterpieces of this genre: L´Umorismo from Italian author Luigi Pirandello and Meditaciones del Quijote, Ideas sobre la novela and Deshumanización del arte from the Spanish writer José Ortega y Gasset. Textual comparison of those works in of the philology features is completed with a reception prospective of them in each national or international culture. It is important for the author a critic consideration about similarities and also differences between aesthetic and poetic ideas of both writers, specially on behalf of the developing of modern essayism as a central literary form of thinking during the last century.

Ce mémoire porte sur la question du stéréotype féminin dans sa valeur construite et normative. Plus spécifiquement, nous aborderons ce type de catégorisation d'identité de genre mis en relief de manière critique par l'utilisation de stratégies du grotesque dans la série Fashion de Cindy Sherman. En substituant un canon grotesque à la représentation de la féminité à l'intérieur du champ de la photographie de mode haute couture, l'artiste met en évidence les structures qui régissent la création et le maintien d'un tel stéréotype. En premier lieu, nous procéderons à la définition de la notion de stéréotype produit dans le domaine de la représentation médiatique pour démontrer comment celui-ci est naturalisé et partagé culturellement. À l'aide de théories féministes, nous ciblerons la particularité du stéréotype dans sa version « féminine » en tant que sujet passif et soumis à un regard de type masculin. En nous basant sur la pensée foucaldienne, nous verrons qu'un ensemble de règles et de codes identitaires sera intégré à titre de normes dans une discipline du corps féminin. Dans un deuxième temps, nous cernerons de manières conceptuelle et historique la particularité de la mode qui, bien que faite de changements subits et aléatoires, sous-tend une vision statique de la différence des sexes en catégories de genre. Également, nous définirons le vêtement en tant que symbole de mascarade de la féminité qui exige la participation de la femme au jeu de la séduction. Enfin, nous verrons que les stratégies visuelles humoristiques permettent d'appuyer les discours critiques et politiques des pratiques artistiques contemporaines par la déconstruction des structures de la représentation. En dernier lieu, nous observerons les œuvres Fashion de Cindy Sherman, en analysant l'impact qu'elles créent sur les habitudes du corps-regardant par l'insertion de personnages qui défient les conventions de la féminité en mode. En transgressant les limites du présenté et du présentable en photographie de haute couture, l'artiste démontre que la femme est confinée à une logique de domination qui régule sa conduite par diverses instances externes et internes : le regard de l'autre, le rire, l'association de la féminité à la moralité, l'enveloppe vestimentaire, la maîtrise des limites du corps. Au terme de ces recherches, les stratégies du grotesque observées dans l'œuvre de Sherman nous apparaissent comme étant des outils particulièrement efficaces pour permettre une déconstruction de la vision stéréotypée du genre féminin ainsi qu'une mise en évidence des structures qui conditionnent le regard du spectatorat. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : art contemporain, Cindy Sherman, Fashion, stéréotype, genre, féminisme, représentation, mode, humour, grotesque.

Texte remanié de: Th.--Strasbourg, 1989. / Bibliogr. p. 427-434. Index.

Text in English / As some criticism and hesitations have been expressed with regard to the implementation of provocation in psychotherapy, this study aimed to explore the experiences of clients and a therapist who participated in provocative psychotherapy. In order to do this, a concise theoretical description of the nature of provocative psychotherapy was provided along the lines of the work of Frank Farrelly and Maurizio Andolfi. Participants' experiences of provocation in psychotherapy were consequently presented by means of three case studies. A description of the experience of provocation in psychotherapy was co-created through the identifying of certain themes underlying of the three client groups' and the therapist's descriptions of their experiences. This was done by employing a qualitative research methodology to describe the experiences of clients and a therapist who participated in provocative individual-, couple- and family psychotherapy. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology)

L’objet de cette étude est d’offrir une vision à la fois d’ensemble et particulière sur les revues satiriques publiées durant les dernières années du franquisme et pendant Transition démocratique. En effet, de nombreux bouleversements politiques et sociaux s’opèrent entre 1970 et 1982, ce qui représente objectivement une période relativement courte mais très riche en événements dans l’histoire de l’Espagne et de la Catalogne. En ce qui concerne la presse, l’entrée en vigueur de la Ley de Prensa e Imprenta en mars 1966 marque un point d’inflexion car elle supprime la censure préalable et permet le développement de publications beaucoup plus critiques et irrévérencieuses au début des années 1970, tels que Mata Ratos, Barrabás ou Por Favor. Très imprégnées par la tradition satirique catalane (comme Xut!, El Be Negre ou ¡Cu-Cut!), les revues de cette époque sont aussi influencées par la presse française, américaine et anglaise (Hara Kiri, Charlie Hebdo, National Lampoon, Punch, etc.). Peu à peu, elles réussirent à fissurer le carcan de la censure au prix de nombreuses mises sous séquestre, jugements, suspensions et condamnations. Après deux années troublées entre 1976 et 1978 où les menaces d’attentats contre les rédactions sont de plus en plus oppressantes, l’avènement de la démocratie est le point de départ d’un nouveau type d’humour plus général et incarné par El Jueves, et basé sur des faits de société ou d’actualité. De par leur style particulier et les thèmes qu’elles abordent, ces revues satiriques marquent profondément la société et le moment politique dans lequel elles évoluent. Leur impact est toujours perceptible aujourd’hui puisqu’El Jueves continue d’être publiée en 2017. / The purpose of this thesis is to provide both an overview and an analysis of the satirical journals published during the last years of Francoism and the Democratic Transition. Indeed, the country underwent many dramatic political and social changes between 1970 and 1982, which objectively represents a relatively short, extremely eventful period in the history of Spain and Catalonia. As concerns the press, the coming into effect of the Ley de Prensa e Imprenta in March 1966 marked an inflection point by suppressing prior censorship and paving the way for much more critical and irreverent publications, such as Mata Ratos, Barrabás or Por Favor, at the beginning of the 1970’s. Very much in debt to Catalan satirical tradition (e.g. Xut!, El Be Negre or ¡Cu-Cut!), the publications of the time were also influenced by the French, American, and English press (Hara Kiri, Charlie Hebdo, National Lampoon, Punch, etc.). Gradually, they succeeded in breaking the straitjacket of censorship at the cost of numerous confiscations, trials, suspensions and condemnations. Following two troubled years between 1976 and 1978, when editorial offices were subject to increasingly oppressive threats of attack, the advent of democracy was the starting point of a new, more general type of humor embodied by El Jueves and based on societal and current events. Due to their specific style and to the themes they dealt with, these satirical journals made a deep mark on society and on the political period. Their impact has endured, since El Jueves is still published in 2017.

Submitted by WALKIRIA FRANÇA VIEIRA E TEIXEIRA null (walkiriateixeira@bol.com.br) on 2016-03-15T14:26:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Doutorado-WalkiriaTeixeira.pdf: 7185012 bytes, checksum: cde9f5b330243bb444a632477fa3b7bf (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Juliano Benedito Ferreira (julianoferreira@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-03-15T14:58:07Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 teixeira_wfv_dr_sjrp.pdf: 7185012 bytes, checksum: cde9f5b330243bb444a632477fa3b7bf (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T14:58:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 teixeira_wfv_dr_sjrp.pdf: 7185012 bytes, checksum: cde9f5b330243bb444a632477fa3b7bf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar a manutenção do humor no texto midiático, a partir da compilação e análise de três corpora paralelos das legendas em inglês e de suas respectivas traduções para o português dos episódios de três temporadas de cada uma das sitcoms Seinfeld, Friends e The Simpsons. Buscamos analisar elementos que pudessem contribuir para desencadear o humor nas sitcoms, e levantar se as ocorrências de humor seriam recorrentes aos diferentes tipos de sitcoms. Abordamos os estudos sobre humor desenvolvidos por Raskin (1979, 1985), Attardo e Raskin (1991), Attardo (1994, 2002, 2008) e Vandaele (1999b, 2010); os estudos sobre a Tradução do Humor Audiovisual feitos por Gottlieb (1992, 1998, 2005), Martinez-Sierra (2003, 2004), Carvalho (2005), Díaz-Cintas e Sánchez (2006), Díaz-Cintas e Remael (2007) e Veiga (2006, 2009). Apoiamo-nos na abordagem interdisciplinar adotada por Camargo (2007, 2008), a qual se fundamenta no arcabouço teórico-metodológico dos Estudos da Tradução Baseados em Corpus lançados por Baker (1993, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2004), para a investigação de ocorrências dos vocábulos, além da metodologia da Linguística de Corpus adotada por Berber-Sardinha (2004). Contamos com o auxílio dos programas computacionais WordSmith Tools e Align Assist para auxiliar no levantamento dos dados. Os resultados apontaram que a frequência de Advérvios de Negação, Intensificadores e Interjeições presentes nas legendas das sitcoms podem se caracterizar como elementos constitutivos do humor. / The objective of this study was to analyze the maintenance of humor in the media text, starting from the compilation and analysis of a parallel corpus of English subtitles and their translations into Portuguese, from the episodes of three seasons of each sitcoms: Seinfeld, Friends and The Simpsons. We analyze the elements that could contribute to trigger the humor in the sitcoms, searching if the occurrences of humor would be recurring to the different types of sitcoms. We based our research in the studies of humor developed by Raskin (1979, 1985), Attardo and Raskin (1991), Attardo (1994, 2002, 2008) and Vandaele (1999b, 2010); the studies of Audiovisual Humour Translation made by Gottlieb (1992, 2001, 2005), Martinez-Sierra (2003, 2004), Carvalho (2005), Díaz-Cintas and Sánchez (2006), Díaz-Cintas and Remael (2007) and Veiga (2006, 2009). We rely on the interdisciplinary approach adopted by Camargo (2007, 2008), which is based on the theoretical and methodological framework of Corpus-Based Translation Studies proposed by Baker (1993, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2004), as well as the Corpus Linguistics methodology adopted by Berber-Sardinha (2004), in order to investigate vocabulary occurrences. We rely on the assistance of computer softwares WordSmith Tools and Align Assist to help with data collection. The results pointed that the frequency of Denial Adverbs, Intensifiers and Interjections present in the sitcoms subtitles’ can be characterized as humor elements’ constituents.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:13:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2606.pdf: 930592 bytes, checksum: f4756c2d671b859733477486438959b2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-06 / The research is an investigation about the phenomenon of the Laugh, from the studies of Henri Bergson and Sigmund Freud up to today's research on neuroscience, gelotology and several other studies on human behaviour. In order to better understand the Laugh, an accurate evaluation of the book " Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic", by Henri Bergson is made as an attempt to better understand the main considerations set by the author, in his interpretation of this phenomenon as a Social Gesture and all the implications originated by such fact. In the second chapter of this study, Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious , by Sigmund Freud, are closely analyzed in details, comparing Freud s and Bergson s approaches and analyzing the mechanisms proposed by Freud concerning the way the Joke works, pointing out the reasons why they would be told to others. The reading and analysis of this book are directed specifically to the study of the Laugh, not approaching any other aspect, relevant to the reading of Freud s work as a whole, which however, would deviate the focus of this work. All the efforts were dedicated to the comprehension of the jokes mechanisms studied by Freud as well as ways to obtain pleasure through them. At the end updated research is verified, such as the one from Richard Wiseman s Laugh Laboratory, that accomplished a worldwide research selecting which would be considered the funniest jokes by people. Also as an object of study there is the role of the mirror-neurones, an important finding that allows a clearer vision about primates and human s social behaviors. The possibility of the laughter to be a behaviour similar to the grooming of the primates is also raised, since both would be related to the exchange of pleasure among individuals viewing the benefit of the group. Following this line, a study is presented defining the laughter as a specific characteristic of the male gender, who would use this feature as an approach aiming at attracting a mate. There isn't a conclusive result, there is not a final word about the laughter because it is clear that in many circumstances the term ranges similar phenomena, which are not exactly the same. In the same way that there is multiple laughter, there are multiple areas that study the distinct variations of the Laugh. / A pesquisa é uma investigação sobre o fenômeno do Riso, partindo dos estudos de Henri Bergson e Sigmund Freud até as pesquisas atuais da neurociência, da gelotologia e dos variados estudos sobre o comportamento humano. Para compreender melhor o Riso, é feita uma avaliação detalhada do livro O Riso , de Henri Bergson, buscando compreender as considerações fundamentais estabelecidas pelo autor, na sua interpretação deste fenômeno como um Gesto Social e todas as implicações que derivam deste fato. No segundo capítulo deste estudo é analisado com detalhes O Chiste e sua relação com o Inconsciente , de Sigmund Freud, comparando as abordagens de Freud e Bergson e analisando os mecanismos propostos por Freud para o funcionamento do chiste e quais as razões pelas quais eles seriam contados. A leitura e análise deste livro são dirigidas especificamente ao estudo do Riso, deixando de abordar outros aspectos, importantes para a leitura da obra de Freud como um todo, mas que desviariam o foco deste trabalho. Todo o esforço foi dedicado à compreensão dos mecanismos do chiste estudados por Freud e das formas de obtenção de prazer através deles. Ao final, pesquisas atuais são estudadas, como as do Laboratório do Riso de Richard Wiseman, que realizou uma pesquisa mundial sobre quais seriam as piadas consideradas mais engraçadas pelas pessoas. Investiga-se também o papel dos neurônios-espelho, importante descoberta que permite uma visão mais clara sobre comportamentos sociais de humanos e primatas. A possibilidade de o riso ser um comportamento semelhante ao grooming dos primatas também é levantada, já que ambas seriam trocas de prazer entre indivíduos visando um benefício dentro do grupo. Nesta linha, é apresentado um estudo que define o riso como uma característica específica do gênero masculino, que usaria o recurso para aproximação da fêmea visando acasalamento. Não há um resultado conclusivo, não há uma palavra final sobre o Riso, pois se torna claro que em muitas circunstâncias o termo abarca fenômenos semelhantes, mas não exatamente iguais. Da mesma maneira que existem múltiplos risos, também existem múltiplas áreas que estudam as distintas variações do Riso.

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Eugène Ionesco est un «nouveau classique» dont la dramaturgie est à la fois en rupture avec la dramaturgie traditionnelle et en progrès sur elle, la dramaturgie ionescienne est alors labyrinthique. Les composants de cette dramaturgie sont également labyrinthiques : la construction dramatique, les personnages, le langage, le temps et l'espace. Ce labyrinthe total mène à une absurdité totale celle de l'indécision et de déséquilibre. Pour envisager cette absurdité, l'homme ionescien a recours à la révolte, à l'indifférence et au rêve, mais il se heurte toujours à sa condition tragique d'un errant sans racines ni buts. Il ne lui reste alors que le rire, d'où la naissance d'un comique à la recherche de son identité. C'est le comique problématique d'Eugène Ionesco. L'aspect problématique de ce comique est dû aux points suivants : premièrement, sa naissance dans une ambiance labyrinthique crée l'absurde qui rend incertaine même l'humanité de l'homme. Deuxièmement, ce nouveau comique s'inspire du comique classique de Molière, mais son essence n'est plus d'instruire, de corriger ou de plaire mais de réfléchir. Troisièmement, ce comique révèle la condition tragique de l'homme par des scènes qui augmentent l'angoisse au lieu de la dissiper. Par conséquent, c'est un comique problématique soit par rapport au tragique, soit par rapport au rire qui devient, à son tour, un effet du tragique. C'est pour cette raison que ce comique reste ouvert à de multiples hypothèses même celle de son inexistence. / Eugene Ionesco is a "new classic" which is both dramatic break with the traditional drama and progress on it, the ionesco's dramatic is so labyrinthine. The components of this dramatic are labyrinthine: the dramatic structure, personages, language, time and space. This total maze leads to the utter nonsense of indecision and imbalance. To consider this absurdity, the ionescien man uses the revolt, indifference and dreams, but he still faces his tragic condition of a rootless wanderer or goals. He is left while laughing, hence the birth of a comic in search of his identity. This is the comic problematic of Eugene Ionesco. The problematic of this comic appearance is due to the following points: first, his birth in a labyrinthine environment creates the absurd makes uncertain even the humanity of man. Second, this new comic inspired by the classic Molière comic, but its essence is not to instruct, correct or pleasing but to reflect. Thirdly, the comic reveals the tragic condition of man by scenes that increase anxiety rather than dissipate. Therefore, this problematic is a comic or tragic compared to or relative to laughter becomes, in turn, an effect of tragedy. It is for this reason that this comic remains open to many assumptions even of its nonexistence.