The Old Testament story of Joseph is common to the Christians, Muslims, and Jews of medieval Spain, and each group drew upon its own and other exegetical traditions to produce literary versions of the biblical tale. After the expulsion of the latter two groups, several Hispanic playwrights, including such notable figures as Lope de Vega, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, continued to produce theatrical versions of the Josephine legend throughout the Golden Age. Most of these plays attained a great deal of popularity. In spite of the importance of these works in early Spanish culture, recent scholarship has paid comparatively little attention to them. The present study is meant to remedy that situation. By drawing upon the theoretical concepts of Edward Said, Amin Maalouf, Jonathan Z. Smith, and others regarding identity and Otherness, I demonstrate how each adaptation of the story constructs or evaluates religious and national identity. Medieval prose and poetic adaptations written by representatives of each of the three monotheistic faiths reveal an attempt to maintain the boundaries of religious identity within a multicultural context. Sixteenth-century theatrical versions deal with the post-expulsion identity crisis by proposing a more inclusive attitude towards New Christians. Finally, under the Baroque influence of the late seventeenth century, adaptations of the Joseph story become increasingly metatheatrical. This literary self-reflection serves to interrogate the nature of identity and reveal its constructedness. Given the importance of identity issues in current scholarship, this analysis suggests the need for increased critical attention to be paid to the Spanish Josephine tradition. / text

Erst durch Jacob Brucker ist die Geschichte der Philosophie als ganze auch methodisch reflektiert dargestellt worden. Daß seine Geschichtsschreibung zugleich ein Anwendungsgebiet für die Urteilskraft (iudicium) ist, wird vor allem durch die Art und Weise deutlich, wie Brucker das antike Modell der Sektenabfolge modifiziert und kompensiert. Wesentlich für das Gelingen seiner Neuordnung der Philosophiegeschichte mittels einer Grobgliederung in drei Perioden und einer Kleingliederung nach (häufig monographisch behandelten) Philosophen und Philosophengruppen ist bei Brucker die Berufung auf die "eklektische Philosophie", die in der Vorrede und in den letzten beiden Bänden ganz unübersehbar auch seinen eigenen Anspruch ausdrückt. Die Präferenz für "das Eklektische" dient dabei keiner philosophischen Parteilichkeit, die das Bruckersche Urteil gelegentlich zum Kommentar werden läßt, vielmehr scheint sie sowohl die historische Gesamtansicht, die Gliederung und auch die kritische Analyse im einzelnen zu regieren. Mit einer Untersuchung dessen, was bei Brucker "eklektisches Philosophieren" heißt, kommt man daher den Baugesetzen des monumentalen historischen Werkes nahe, das Brucker in deutscher Sprache als "Kurtze Fragen aus der philosophischen Historie" (8 Oktavbände 1731-37) und lateinisch als "Historia Critica Philosophiae" (5 Quartbände 1742-44, ein Ergänzungsband 1767) veröffentlicht hat: Eine bis ins 19. Jahrhundert äußerst einflußreiche und im 18. Jahrhundert unübertroffen gebliebene Aufarbeitung des historischen Wissens über Philosophie und Philosophen.

Humboldt-Univ., Diss,--Berlin, 2004.

Author's Thesis (Ph. D.)--Universität-Gesamthochschule Paderborn. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-222).

Zugl.: Vallendar, Philos.-Theol. Hochsch., Diss., 2005.

Mémoire (M.A.)--Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 2005. / Comprend des réf. bibliogr.: f. [121]-128. Également disponible en format microfiche et PDF.

Romancier, journaliste, érudit et bibliophile, Paul Lacroix alias le bibliophile Jacob (1806-1884) traverse le XIXe siècle à l’aune d’une trajectoire qui oscille entre écrivain-journaliste et conservateur de la bibliothèque de l’Arsenal à partir de 1855. À la faveur du double mouvement de reconfiguration de l’historiographie et du champ littéraire, dont il est un acteur au croisement des obsessions du temps entretenues par le romantisme, son oeuvre imposante et protéiforme tente une réunion des plumes de l’historien et du romancier soutenue par l’énigmatique et habile pseudonyme, gage de son succès en 1830. Il s’empare sous la monarchie de Juillet d’une écriture du passé vouée à en dresser l’inventaire, soumise aux modalités fluctuantes offertes par le récit comme aux injonctions économiques dépendantes des mutations de la librairie et du journal. Si sa production se défend de tout esprit de système, résumée par la course à la fabrication d’un grand « roman-histoire », elle interroge pourtant les conditions de définition d’un rapport au temps ébranlé après la Révolution. Le « Walter Scott français » sacrifie à la vogue du Moyen Âge pour la décliner sous la forme d’une histoire autant héritièrede l’érudition antiquaire qu’elle participe de la fondation d’un récit des origines tributaire d’une écriture spéculaire de l’histoire. Son histoire s’égrène au rythme de médaillons romancés cristallisant couleurs, intrigues, travers des temps médiévaux et modernes séparés par une frontière poreuse qui interroge les conséquences de la rupture révolutionnaire. Avers et revers de ces médaillons posent dans leur alternance les jalons d’une expérience de mise en ordre du temps. / A novelist, writer, scholar and book-lover, Paul Lacroix, aka bibliophile Jacob (1806-1884), went through the nineteenth century as both a writer-journalist and a librarian at the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal from 1855 on. Influenced by the deep changes affecting both historiography and literature, in which in actively participated and the obsessions of its times nurtured by the romantic movement, his abundant and multifaceted work tried to melt the historian’s and the novelist’s approaches, materialised by the mysterious, clever pen name, the token of his success in 1830. Under the July Monarchy, he undertook to take an inventory of the French historical past; his writings were submitted to the fluctuating possible modalities provided by the narrative as well as the economic imperatives resulting from the transformations of bookshops and libraries. Though his works did not try to set up a closed and coherent system, which was illustrated by the race for the ultimate roman-histoire, they questioned French people’s relationship with time, which was seriously undermined by the Revolution. The so-called « French Walter Scott » followed the taste for the Middle-Ages and wrote historical novels thatreminded one of the specialists of the Antiquity and contributed to founding a narrative of the origins based on a speculative approach of history. His historical narratives is pervaded with fictionalised cameos crystallising the colours, plots and pitfall of both medieval and modern times, separated by a porous border, thus questioning the consequences of the French Revolution. The two faces of those cameos paved the way for a rearrangement of historical time/events.

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No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertação - Jamescley A. de Souza.pdf: 928740 bytes, checksum: 89a8482bfd499273fb86c19958ecabef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-24 / Chuva branca is the novel of greater repercussion of the Jew Amazonian Paulo Jacob, greeted with enthusiasm by authors such as Jorge Amado, Antônio Olinto, and Assis Brasil. It was the work through which Paulo Jacob achieved to overcome some regional barriers and made an appearance at a national level. Based on documentary regionalism, he represents a typology of Amazonian man from his disappointments and his fight against poverty, from his beliefs and culture. This research, when investigating the intertextuality, has as its general objective to track an Amazonian library which should have exercised power of modeling over the writing for Chuva branca, as well as trying showing specifically: that the themes about Amazon reality which appear with expressiveness come from the Amazon riverside, that is, man in Amazon, poverty, imagery, sacred, and indigenous culture; that, although intertexts cannot always be of easy detection, it is possible to make inter-textual relations with works belonging to the Amazon library, probable readings of Paulo Jacob, as in the case of some works linked to Sociology and Anthropology; that Paulo Jacob’s discursive construction, by trying to represent the man in Amazon from his dramas and fights, ended up having documentary nature with the objective of divulgating the culture and showing a significant part of an isolated and unknown region; that reading Chuva branca nowadays, about 50 years later, it known that between the novel’s horizon of expectation and our reading there are profound economic, historic, and social changes that took place not only in Amazon reality but also in world reality. This fact shows that the Amazon which was represented in Chuva branca is certainly less isolated and rural, as well as is permeated by technology and by the urbanization, and the reader’s look about the novel, while going through the timeframe, was renovated. It has to be said that my research is substantiated on the aesthetic reception theory, linked to Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser, its main exponents. Obviously, the research do not remain itself within all limits of methodology suggested by this theory, but relates to it through some key concepts, such as horizon of expectation and fusion of horizons. Finally, I defend that what some author of the Amazonian library, such as sociologists and anthropologists, make with their sciences with respect to the documentation of the Amazonian man and his conditions, Paulo Jacob makes it through the representation, through the discursive construction, and his characters. He ends up divulgating to Brazil a significant part of its own face. / Chuva branca é o romance de maior repercussão do escritor judeu-amazonense Paulo Jacob, saudado por autores como Jorge Amado, Antônio Olinto e Assis Brasil. Foi a obra por meio da qual ele conseguiu transpor algumas barreiras regionais e chegou a ensaiar uma aparição em nível nacional. Empregando o regionalismo documentarista, Paulo Jacob representa uma tipologia de homem amazônico a partir de seus dramas e de sua luta contra a pobreza, a partir de suas crenças e cultura. Este trabalho, ao investigar a intertextualidade, tem como objetivo geral tentar rastrear a biblioteca amazônica que teria exercido poder de modelização sobre a escritura de Chuva branca, mostrando especificamente: que os temas sobre a realidade amazônica que aparecem com expressividade no romance vêm da Amazônia ribeirinha, a saber, o homem na Amazônia, a pobreza, o imaginário, o sagrado e a cultura indígena; q ue, embora o intertexto nem sempre seja de fácil detecção, é possível fazer relações intertextuais com obras pertencentes à biblioteca amazônica, prováveis leituras de Paulo Jacob, como é o caso de algumas ligadas à Sociologia e Antropologia; que a construção discursiva de Paulo Jacob, ao tentar representar o homem na Amazônia a partir de seus dramas e lutas, acabava tendo cunho documentarista com o fim de divulgar a cultura e de mostrar uma parte significativa de uma região isolada e desconhecida; e que lendo Chuva branca hoje, cerca de 50 anos depois, sabemos que entre o horizonte de expectativa da obra e a nossa leitura erguem-se profundas mudanças econômicas, históricas e sociais ocorridas não somente na realidade amazônica como na realidade mundial. Isso evidencia que a Amazônia que foi representada em Chuva branca é certamente menos isolada, menos rural e permeada pela tecnologia e pela urbanização, e o olhar do leitor sobre o romance, ao passar pelos seus contextos temporais, renovou-se. É oportuno dizer que a minha pesquisa encontra-se fundamentada na teoria da Estética da Recepção, ligada a Hans Robert Jauss e Wolfgang Iser, seus principais expoentes. Obviamente que a pesquisa não se mantém dentro de todos os limites da metodologia sugerida pela teoria, mas relaciona-se com ela por meio de alguns conceitos fundamentais, como horizonte de expectativas e fusão de horizontes. Por fim, defendo que o que alguns autores da biblioteca amazônica, tais como sociólogos e antropólogos, fazem com as suas ciências no tocante à documentação do homem amazônico e das suas condições, Paulo Jacob o faz por meio da representação, da construção discursiva e de seus personagens. Ele acaba divulgando, ao Brasil, uma parte significativa de seu próprio rosto.

Text in Afrikaans / Hierdie navorsing berus op die idee dat die tekste in die oeuvre van sommige skrywers op so 'n manier met mekaar verbonde is dat 'n mens dit as 'n eenheid kan begin lees en ervaar. Met Derrida se begrip van genealogiese verwantskap van tekste as vertrekpunt, het ek daardie intertekstuele verbande in J.C. Steyn se oeuvre nagegaan waardeur sy hoorspelteks, poesie- en prosatekste tot 'n verwikkelde weefsel ontwikkel het. Dit het gou duidelik geword dat daar twee hoofstrominge in Steyn se tekste aan die orde kom: 'n motief van persoonlike tekortkominge wat deurwerk na 'n groter sosiale groep toe is van vroeg af duidelik skering en inslag daarin. Reeds in "Die skuldige: 'n hoorspel" (1974) staan die homo­ erotiese geneigdheid van die sentrale karakter in noue verband met die sosio-ekonomiese vraagstuk van die gesin wat al hulle aardse besittinge verloor. Die gedigte in die eerste helfte van Die grammatika van liefhe (1975) word gekenmerk deur die digterspersoonlikheid se sterk weersin teen sy eie tekortkominge; in die laaste gedeelte gaan sy persoonlike gemoeidheid oor in 'n besorgdheid oor die Afrikaner en die voortbestaan van Afrikaans. Van Op pad na die grens (1976) af, oor Dagboek van 'n verraaier (1978) en Die verlore vader (1985) tot en met Hoeke Boerseuns ons was (1991) neem die hoofstrominge van Steyn se tekste duideliker vorm aan: aan die een kant is daar die nasionale problematiek waar hy voortbou op C.J. Langenhoven se Die pad van Suid-Afrika, en die bestaanstryd van die Afrikaner volg tot in die huidige tydsgewrig; aan die ander kant worstel die karakters van sy tekste met persoonlike vraagstukke waaronder veral 'n homo-erotiese geneigdheid waarmee hulle hul nie kan versoen nie. Oorkoepelend vertel Steyn die verhaal van die Afrikaanse elckerlijc wat hom as gevolg van teenstrydige sosiaal-politieke invloede toenemend in 'n toestand van leed, verwarring en geestelike ontreddering bevind. Ten slotte wys ek hoe Steyn deur middel van defiksionalisering in sy tekste homself en die Afrikaner ontmasker. Die invloed daarvan is heilsaam: op persoonlike vlak is dit suiwerend en die stukrag van sy kuns; in die geval van die Afrikaner vervul hy daarmee die rol van die Afrikaner se kollektiewe gewete. / This research is based on the theory that the texts in the oeuvre of certain writers are related to each other in such a way that one can read and experience them as a unity. Using Derrida's concept of the genealogical relationship of texts as a point of departure, I have examined those intertextual relationships in J.C. Steyn's oeuvre in which his radio play, poetry and prose texts have developed to a complicated fabric. It soon becomes clear that two main streams emerge in Steyn's texts: a motif of personal defect which percolates to a larger social group. Already in "Die skuldige: 'n hoorspel" (1974) the homoerotic disposition of the central figure is closely related to the socio-economic problems of the family who lose all their material possessions. The poems in the first half of Die grammatika van liefhe (1975) are characterised by the poetic personality's strong aversion to his own imperfections; in the final part, his personal concern about the Afrikaner and the continued existence of Afrikaans emerge. From Op pad na die grens (1976), through Dagboek van 'n verraaier (1978) and Die verlore vader (1985), up to and including Hoeke Boerseuns ons was (1991), the main streams of Steyn's texts become more clearly discernible: on the one hand, one encounters the national concerns in which Steyn develops themes found in C.J. Langenhoven's Die pad van Suid-Afrika and follows the Afrikaner's struggle for survival to the present juncture; on the other hand, the characters of his texts struggle with personal difficulties such as a propensity to homoeroticism to which they cannot reconcile themselves. An overarching concern of Steyn's is the story of the Afrikaans Everyman who, as a result of conflicting socio-political influences, increasingly finds himself in a state of sorrow, confusion and spiritual collapse. Finally, I reveal how Steyn exposes himself and the Afrikaner in his texts by means of defictionalisation. Its influence is beneficial: at a personal level, it is purifying and is the impetus of Steyn's art; and, in the case of the Afrikaner, it fulfils the role of the Afrikaner's collective conscience. / Afrikaans & Theory of Literature / D. Litt et Phil. (Afrikaans)

Text in Afrikaans / Spanning tussen stad en platteland is 'n belangrike tema in die oeuvre van S.J. Pretorius. In sy digkuns vergestalt hy en kom die ontwortelde, oorwegend landelike Afrikaanssprekende na die depressie en oorlogsjare aan die woord. Voortdurend word beelde van die "heerlike, gesonde" platteland gevolg deur beelde van die "bedrukkende" stad met al sy sleur en ellendes en die negatiewe uitwerking wat dit op sy inwoners het. As gevolg van die skrille kontraste groei die spanning in intensiteit. Sedert 1953 vind daar 'n mate van houdingsverandering plaas by die sprekers in Pretorius se poesie. Die digter aanvaar in die periode die stad as deel van die Afrikaner se aardse bestel en ontdek die landelike in die stad. vanaf 1963 word nie meer op nostalgiese wyse ge1dealiseer nie, maar word dit gemeld om aan te toon dat die Christelike heilsboodskap hol klink midde die ellende wat in die stad heers. / The tension that exists between country and city is a characteristic theme of the poetry of S.J. Pretorius. In particular, he deals with the "physical-concrete" destiny of the Afrikaans speaking people of the platteland in the city, Johannesburg. Images of a "beautiful and healthy" countryside are contrasted with the "dejected" city, full of tedium and misery. The negative portrayal of the latter serves to heighten the tension between the two. The year 1953 marks a slight change in attitude. From then on the poet accepts the city as part of the Afrikaner identity and strives to find the country within the city. The former is no longer idealized in a nostalgic way. Instead, the poet exposes the hollowness of the Christian promise of salvation in the face of urban poverty and tribulation. / Afrikaans & Theory of Literature / M.A. (Afrikaans)