Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-09-28Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:27:00Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 santini_gt_me_assis.pdf: 2671152 bytes, checksum: c85e6af2ecd0c18094758b31423fc4d2 (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / A presente dissertacao de mestrado visa a um estudo analitico de parte da obra de Alvares de Azevedo e de parte dos textos da recepcao critica sobre este autor, com o proposito de apontar uma possivel consciencia literaria do poeta na elaboracao de sua producao artistica. Ou seja, o que se pretende neste trabalho e retomar parte da fortuna critica da obra alvaresiana, observando as conclusoes levantadas pelos estudiosos e, quando possivel, estabelecer nosso juizo sobre os assuntos desenvolvidos por eles, bem como realizar uma leitura, analise e critica dos seguintes textos: os prefacios de Lira dos Vinte Anos – com uma maior enfase no prefacio a segunda parte deste livro e alguns poemas – e os ensaios “Literatura e Civilizacao em Portugal”, “Alfredo de Musset / Jacques Rolla” e “George Sand / Aldo o Rimador”. Com isso, a nossa preocupacao e desenvolver um trabalho de natureza critica acerca da obra de Alvares de Azevedo, a fim de ressaltar a consciencia do fazer literario presente nos escritos deste poeta. Deste modo, buscamos abarcar nao so a observacao de uma coerencia entre o poeta e critico, mas tambem a constatacao de um procedimento critico explicito em sua propria obra, que contribuiu para nortear o desenvolvimento e organizacao de seu projeto literario e de sua concepcao de poetica. / The present dissertation aims an analytic study of part of Alvares de Azevedo’s work and of part of the texts of criticism reception about this author, with the intention of showing the poet’s possible literary conscience in the elaboration of his poetical works. In other words, our purpose in this dissertation is to approach part of the criticism reception of Alvares de Azevedo’s work, observing the conclusions pointed by the critics and, when possible, to establish our judgement about the subjects developed by them, as well as to carry out a reading, analysis and criticism of the texts: the prefaces of Lira dos Vinte Anos – emphasizing the preface of the second part of this book and some poems – and the essays “Literatura e Civilizacao em Portugal”, “Alfredo de Musset / Jacques Rolla” and “George Sand / Aldo o Rimador”. In addition, our concern is to develop a critical study about Alvares de Azevedo’s work, in order to emphasize the conscience of the literary process in the texts of this poet. This way, we search to comprise not only the observation of coherence between the poet and the critic, but also the observation of an explicit critical procedure in his own literary work, which contributed to guide the development and organization of his literary project and of his conception of poetics.

Orientador: Luiza Helena da Silva Christov / Banca: Antonio Januzelli / Banca: Juliana Jardim Barboza / Resumo: Esta é uma pesquisa sobre a experiência do encontro com o outro em situação dialógica: a conversa; inserida numa dimensão relacional na esfera da vida e da arte, numa perspectiva da estética relacional - teoria do crítico Nicolas Bourriaud, em torno da palavra experiência a partir de uma conversa com os filósofos Jorge Larrosa e Giorgio Agamben, para propor uma radicalização da experiência da conversa como obra da efemeridade (a obraencontro) e como possibilidade de experiência com qualidade estética, no sentido de fazer e falar sobre aquilo que se vive com sentido e significado. Tendo como objeto algumas práticas de conversas e a produção de uma escrita literária como registro narrativo destas experiências, realizadas por um pequeno grupo de pessoas, entre estas, estudantes de teatro, graduandos em História, graduados em Turismo, atores; a partir de encontros nas ruas da cidade de São Paulo, nos anos de 2013 a 2015. Estas ações foram propostas a partir de dinâmicas de encontros entre pessoas que não se conheciam para verificar que narrativas estas conversas podiam gerar. Que experiências foram transformadas em palavras? / Resumen: Esta és una investigación sobre la experiencia del encuentro con el outro en situación dialogica: la conversación; insertada en una dimensión relacional - teoría del crítico Nicolas Bourriaud, en torno a la palabra experiencia a partir de una conversación con los filósofos Jorge Larrosa y Giorgio Agamben, para proponer una radicalização de la experiência de la conversación como obra de la efemeridade (la obraencuentro) y como posibilidad de experiencia con calidad estética, en el sentido de hacer y hablar sobre aquello que se vive con sentido y significado. Teniendo como objeto algunas prácticas de conversiacónes y la producción de una escritura literaria como registro narrativo de estas experiências, realizadas por un pequeño grupo de personas, entre estas, estudiantes de teatro, graduandos en Historia, graduados en Turismo, actores; a partir de encuentros en las calles de la ciudad de São Paulo, los años de 2013 a 2015. Estas acciones fueron propuestas a partir de dinámicas de encuentros entre personas que no se conocían para verificar que narrativas estas conversaciones podían generar. Que experiencias fueron transformadas en palavras? / Mestre

abstract: This thesis analyzes how several well-known biographies of popular nineteenth-century British literary figures overturned and upset the usual heroic literary biographies that typified the genre during the Victorian era. Popular public opinion in the nineteenth century was that literary biographies existed as moral guideposts--designed to instruct and edify readers. Richard D. Altick's theory of biographical conventions of reticence--which contends that ultimately literary biographies were committed to establishing or preserving an idealized image of the author--is utilized to explore the nuances of how certain radical biographies in which the biographer is forthright about the subject's private life displeased and disturbed the public. In order to illustrate this study's central argument, several literary biographies that were considered among the most radical of the late Victorian period--John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens, James Anthony Froude's Life of Carlyle, Mathilde Blind's George Eliot, and John Cordy Jeaffreson's The Real Shelley--are analyzed as case studies. These biographies of writers' lives made heroic figures appear human, vulnerable, petty, et cetera by exposing private life matters in a public biography--something that was not done in an age that called for discreet biographies of its literary icons. Victorian periodicals such as magazines and newspapers assist in ascertaining just how the British public reacted to these biographies, and the ramifications they possessed for worshipping literary idols. Additionally explored are the implications that candid literary biographies had for Victorian author-worship and the role of literature, authors, and biography in British society. This study concludes with a discussion of the implications that these candid literary biographies had into the early twentieth century with the publication of Lytton Strachey's "deflated" biography, Eminent Victorians, published in 1918, and summarizes overall findings and conclusions. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. History 2011

The topic of the following thesis is an analysis of the changing perception of Šumava as a space in selected Czech and German texts that belong to the literature of the Šumava district. The basis of the thesis is the theory of spatial turn which was developed during the 1980s and is particularly associated with Michel Foucault's concept of "different spaces". Within the framework of this theory, the thesis deals with the arrangement of spaces that are typical of the Šumava region: the space of forest, mountains and borders. Šumava as a literary space is then characterised as a background scenery, a space influencing the plot and a personified space. In the last section of the thesis, two tendencies of landscape representation are highlighted: the fantastic and the realistic. Part of the thesis is also devoted to a literary overview of Czech and German literature from the Šumava district written in the period from the 19th century to the present day.

Using some of the tools developed mainly for authorship authentication, this study develops a toolbox of techniques towards enabling computers to detect aesthetic qualities in literature. The literature review suggests that the style markers that indicate a particular author may be adapted to show literary style that constitutes a "good" book. An initial experiment was carried out to see to what extent the computer can identify specific literary features both before and after undergoing a "corruption" of text by translating and re-translating the texts. Preliminary results were encouraging, with up to 90 per cent of the literary features being identifi ed, suggesting that literary characteristics are robust and quanti fiable. An investigation is carried out into current and historic literary criticism to determine how the texts can be classified as "good literature". Focus groups, interviews and surveys are used to pinpoint the elements of literariness as experienced by human readers that identify a text as "good". Initially identified by human experts, these elements are confirmed by the reading public. Using Classics as a genre, 100 mainly fiction texts are taken from the Gutenberg Project and ranked according to download counts from the Gutenberg website, an indicator of literary merit (Ashok et al., 2013). The texts are equally divided into five grades: four according to the download rankings and one of non- fiction texts. From these, factor analysis and mean averages determine the metrics that determine the literary quality. The metrics are qualified by a model named CoBAALT (computer-based aesthetic analysis of literary texts). CoBAALT assesses texts by Jane Austen and D. H. Lawrence and determines the degree to which they conform to the metrics for literary quality; the results demonstrate conformity with peer reviewed literary criticism.

This thesis examines Gaelic poetry and the military between 1756 and 1856. While previous studies have collated and analysed the poetry of two of the other major impacts on Gaelic society at this time, clearance and emigration, there has so far been no concerted attempt to examine and place in context the corpus of Gaelic military material of the period – despite this verse being widespread in the poetic record. This poetry has been largely neglected by scholars of Scottish history, and, though selected pieces have been examined by scholars of Celtic Studies, it has not received the fullness of attention that such a major concern in the poetic record deserves. This thesis therefore directly addresses this gap in previous scholarship. The study first considers the historical and literary context for this corpus of poetry, in order to establish the background to Gaelic military verse in the post-Culloden period. A chronological approach is taken to consider this poetry over the course of five chapters. The first period explored is that between the outbreak of the Seven Years’ War and the French Revolutionary War (1756-93). Two chapters cover the period of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793-1815), focussing respectively on verse by soldiers and non-combatants. The next chapter has as its focus the period between the British Victory at Waterloo and the end of the Crimean War (1815-56). The last chapter takes a different chronological approach to those which preceded it, examining women’s poetry and the military across the one-hundred year time period. Each of these chapters explore the background to, contemporary context for, and content of this corpus of Gaelic military verse from 1756 to 1856. A full database of the corpus of 178 poems is also included. There is a focus throughout the thesis on the manner in which poets drew from and utilised their poetic tradition to contextualise the British military and its influence. Another major strand of the research is its examination of loyalty as expressed or revealed in the poetic record. The thesis contends that this corpus of poetry deserves a central place in the military historiography of the Highlands and Gaelic literary criticism.

This thesis examines the depiction of the country estate in English women’s poetry, 1650-1750. The poems discussed belong to the country house genre, work with or adapt its conventions and tropes, or belong to what may be categorised as sub-genres of the country house poem. The country house estate was the power base of the early modern world, authorizing social status, validating political power and providing an economic dominance for the ruling elite. This thesis argues that the depiction of the country estate was especially pertinent for a range of female poets. Despite the suggestive scholarship on landscape and place and the emerging field of early modern women’s literary studies and an extensive body of critical work on the country house poem, there have been to date no substantial accounts of the role of the country estate in women’s verse of this period. In response, this thesis has three main aims. Firstly, to map out the contours of women’s country house poetry – taking full account of the chronological scope, thematic and formal diversity of the texts, and the social and geographic range of the poets using the genre. Secondly, to interrogate the formal and thematic characteristics of women’s country house poetry, looking at the appropriation and adaptation of the genre. Thirdly, to situate the selected poetry both within and against the extensive and formally published male-authored canon and the more general literary and historical contexts of the early modern period. Across these related strands of discussion, the study has two important implications for our understanding of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century poetry: it adds to our knowledge of women’s poetic practices of the period and extends and complicates our understanding of the country house genre. Each chapter highlights a particular engagement with the genre responding to a complex of historical contexts, literary trends and personal circumstance. Chapter one will explore the contexts which prompt the emergence of the country house poem and the shape and detail of the genre, 1600–1650. It also examines where the specific gendered contexts of women’s writing practices are relevant to the selection of texts. Chapter two focuses on the thematic and formal interplay in Katherine Austen’s manuscript miscellany ‘Book M’ and role the country house genre plays in exploring and negotiating women’s relationship to property. Chapter three shares many of the same historical and literary contexts but from a different religio-political standpoint and focuses on Lucy Hutchinson’s manuscript collection ‘Elegies’. Chapter four examines the appropriation and re-positioning of the country house genre in the poetry of Anne Finch and Jane Barker, arguing that as the post- Restoration period began, the motivation to explore the country house as a symbol of legitimate political power, a location and symbol of retirement and retreat and the site of financial and cultural investment did not wane, but was reworked by Finch and Barker to explore their political sympathies for the Stuart monarchy. Chapter five explores the use of the country house genre by poets associated with Whig political sympathies: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Anne Ingram. Largely unaffected by socio-economic or political marginalisation, both Montagu and Ingram enter into a public, and politically inflected, debate on the importance of taste. Chapter six explores two writers, Mary Leapor and Mary Chandler, who belong to an emerging body of writers of mercantile or labouring class. The discussion will focus on Leapor’s ‘Crumble-Hall’ and Chandler’s A Description of Bath and the contexts of consumerism and tourism to which both poems respond.

The primary aim of this thesis is to bring Allan Ramsay (1684-1748) and James Thomson (1700-1748) into close critical contact for the first time and, in so doing, deconstruct the paradigm of opposition which has previously attached to these two contemporaries. The thesis posits that the separation of Ramsay and Thomson has been effected, retrospectively, by the twentieth-century Scottish critical tradition. The narrow, cultural essentialism exhibited by this body of scholarship has been effectively challenged in recent decades by the work of Gerard Carruthers, and revisionary ‘Four Nations’ approaches to late eighteenth-century British literature have done much to reinstate the importance of what were previously viewed as marginal or peripheral literary locations. Ramsay and Thomson, however, have never been fully united in literary and cultural terms. This thesis demonstrates that Ramsay and Thomson shared, not only a chronological context, but also a creative context informed by a reciprocal engagement with the work of the other and posits that the relationship between these two lowland Scottish writers can be conceived of in terms of a sustained mutual gaze. James Thomson remains entrenched within an English literary canon, despite the efforts of Mary Jane Scott to reclaim him for his native country. Conversely, Allan Ramsay remains firmly rooted in his native Scottish soil as the father of the vernacular revival and the epitome of literary and cultural resistance to a supposed English cultural hegemony in the wake of the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England. It is true that Ramsay’s and Thomson’s creative trajectories exemplify the literary choices and cultural paths available to a Scottish writer in the years immediately following the Union of Parliaments, but to set them in creative opposition as a result of these choices is a critical commonplace which this thesis challenges. Thomson spent the greater part of his literary career in and around London, whilst Ramsay remained in Edinburgh until his death; clearly the corpora of these two writers were conditioned by the locations of their production. Hence, the thematic structure of this thesis relies on the notion of location, both physical and literary. The first two chapters of this thesis, ‘Edinburgh’ and ‘London’, illustrate the urban contexts of both writers; in so doing they suggest that a mutual gaze was sustained, not only between Ramsay and Thomson, but that a similarly reciprocal relationship and network of influence existed between the literary and cultural centres of Edinburgh and London. The third chapter of this thesis, ‘Nation’, traces the fluid and nuanced literary responses to the concept of nation in a period when national and literary boundaries were in a state of flux. The fourth and final chapter of this thesis, ‘Land’, explores the shifting aesthetic landscape of the period and, with an emphasis on mode and genre, demonstrates Ramsay’s and Thomson’s original contribution to an emerging British poetic, elucidated by an extended analysis of their poetry of place.

This master thesis called Comics Paraphrase of Jules Verne´s Original Book consists of a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part is focused on the personality of Jules Verne, his literary works and his influence on the genre of science fiction. The thesis is also dealing with adaptations of the book Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. The final section of the theoretical part is presenting comics as an art form. The practical part consists of a realization of a set of drawings in the form of a comic book, a documentation of the drawing workflow is a part of annex I. - IV.

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