Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Orison Marden Bandeira de Melo Junior.pdf: 5418428 bytes, checksum: 84bf1841112fead6609a0f0bd2716b78 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In general, the teaching of literature written in foreign languages at Brazilian universities faces a big challenge: Letras freshmen with limited knowledge of the foreign language find it difficult to analyze literary works in the original texts. Therefore, this research is justified by the need to discursively and pragmatically help students better analyze literature works. In order to do that, the theoretical discussion was based upon the works of the Bakhtin Circle [Bakhtin (2002, 2003, 2010), Bakhtin/Volochínov (2010), Voloshinov/Bajtin (1997), Voloshinov (1983), Medviédev (2012)] and of the pragmaticist Jacob Mey (2000, 2001, 2007). 68 Letras undergraduate students from a private university in the Eastern area of São Paulo were invited to participate in the research, which was approved by the Ethics Committee of PUC-SP under protocol number 054/2011 and whose data were generated in three different phases: The first one was related to literary analyses based on concepts from Pragmatics, such as from Micropragmatics (reference, verb tenses, presuppositions, implicatures and speech acts), from Macropragmatics (pragmatic presuppositions and pragmatic acts) and from Literary Pragmatics (speech and voice); the second phase involved literary analyses based on concepts from the Dialogical Discourse Analysis (DDA), such as utterance, genre, text, understanding, and dialogism; in the the third and last phase students did literary analyses based on the concepts from Pragmatics and DDA. The research corpus comprised three sets: (1) Letras DCN (National Curriculum Guidelines); (2) literary analysis activities done throughout the three phases, and (3) students stimulated recall reports. As to the literary works analyzed, they were nine short stories by Alice Walker. They were chosen by the researcher, who was also the students professor, due to their short length, their social role, and the dialogic relations there could be established between them. Based on the notion that texts are not autonomous, the only literary activities analyzed were the ones done by the students who had done the stimulated recall reports. Based on the understanding that the contextualized meanings produced by the students could not go beyond the fixity of meaning of the utterances, it was necessary to verify if students answers were potencially coherent with the plots and with the discourses that penetrate them. Moreover, as the research focused on students with limited knowledge of the target language, i.e., English, only the results of basic and intermediate level students were verified. It was possible to find that in the first phase, basic and intermediate students were able to coherently answer one fourth of the questions of the literary activities and, in the second phase, one third. However, in the third phase, this number significantly increased to two thirds. It was possible to conclude, thus, that the study of Pragmatics as the first step to the study of the concepts from DDA helped students with a limited knowledge of the English language to better understand and analyze literary works written in English and, consequently, to develop their linguistic skills / O ensino de literatura em língua estrangeira (LE) em universidades brasileiras, em geral, tem enfrentado um grande desafio: alunos ingressantes no curso de Letras com conhecimento limitado de LE, o que dificulta a execução de análises de objetos literários na língua original. Essa pesquisa justifica-se, portanto, pela necessidade de auxiliar o aluno a analisar textos literários discursiva e pragmaticamente. Para tal, buscamos, nos estudos do Círculo [Bakhtin (2002, 2003, 2010), Bakhtin/Volochínov (2010), Voloshinov/Bajtin (1997), Voloshinov (1983), Medviédev (2012)] e do pragmaticista Jacob Mey (2000, 2001, 2007), uma discussão teórica referente à linguagem e ao discurso. Para participar da pesquisa, foram convidados, em diferentes momentos, 68 alunos do curso de Letras de uma universidade particular na zona leste de São Paulo. A geração de dados da pesquisa, aprovada pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da PUC-SP, sob o número de protocolo 054/2011, compreendeu três fases: a primeira envolveu análises literárias a partir do estudo dos conceitos da Pragmática, como os da Micropragmática (referência, tempos verbais, pressupostos, subentendidos e atos de fala), da Macropragmática (pressupostos pragmáticos e atos pragmáticos) e da Pragmática Literária (discurso e voz); a segunda, análises literárias a partir do estudo dos conceitos da Análise Dialógica do Discurso (ADD), como enunciado, gênero, texto, compreensão e dialogismo; a terceira, por fim, análises literárias a partir do estudo dos conceitos da Pragmática e da ADD. O corpus da pesquisa é formado de três conjuntos: (1) as Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais de Letras, (2) exercícios de análise literária (exercícios AL) feitos durante as três fases da pesquisa e (3) relatos escritos finais (stimulated recall). Quanto aos textos literários analisados pelos alunos, nove contos da autora afro-americana Alice Walker foram escolhidos pelo pesquisador, que também era professor dos alunos pesquisados, devido à sua pequena extensão, ao seu papel social e às relações dialógicas que pudessem ser estabelecidas entre eles. Diante da concepção de texto como não autônomo adotada nesta pesquisa, somente os exercícios AL dos alunos que fizeram o relato final foram analisados. A partir do entendimento de que os sentidos construídos pelos alunos nas suas respostas não poderiam extrapolar a estabilidade de significação dos enunciados sob análise, buscamos determinar se as respostas dadas nos exercícios AL eram potencialmente coerentes com os enredos dos contos e com os discursos que os perpassam. Ademais, por ser o foco da pesquisa alunos com conhecimento limitado da língua-alvo, i.e., a Língua Inglesa, atentamos para os resultados dos alunos em nível básico e intermediário. Percebemos que, na primeira fase, os alunos em nível básico e intermediário conseguiram responder a cerca de um quarto das perguntas e na segunta fase, a um terço. No entanto, na terceira fase, esse número aumentou substancialmente, já que os alunos nesses níveis responderam a cerca de dois terços de todas as perguntas. É possível concluir, portanto, que o estudo dos conceitos da Pragmática como um primeiro passo para os da ADD possibilitou uma melhor compreensão e análise de textos literários escritos em Língua Inglesa por alunos com conhecimento limitado dessa língua estrangeira e, consequentemente, o desenvolvimento de seu conhecimento do idioma

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:21:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Emmanuel Goncalves Guimaraes Lisboa.pdf: 228461 bytes, checksum: 7e3294fe4617c0127fbd8025112d7957 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-27 / The following work treats about God's images in the contemporary poetry. Thereunto, we have selected Glauco Mattoso, a native of São Paulo poet who passes through several faces of the recent brazilian poetry. Of his vast production, we analyze, in this work, only the sonnets, without a cutting of composition or phase - we worry about the presence of God in his sonnets collection. To do so, we have read, written up and cataloged three thousand sonnets, and twenty-nine of them found the presence of God with real meaning to the content. However, we have analyzed carefully only a small part of these sonnets. For the analysis, we have anchored on the concepts of literary criticism coming from Iumna Maria Simon and Vinicius Dantas, the reflections of Hugo Friederich, and on sociological relationships of men with God studies, by Roger Bastide. The work is divided into three chapters. The first, "Um exercício de história" (A History Exercise), tries to situate the contemporary Brazilian poetry and insert Glauco Mattoso in this scenario. Also in this chapter, relevant and influential artists appear in Glauco's literary education and in the formation of pornographic and accursed tradition of portuguese language. The second chapter, "De onde vem e como vemos" (Whence it comes and how we see it), is the theoretical framework we use to read Glauco's poetry. Initially, we present Iumna Maria Simon's and Vinícius Dantas's theories, and then Hugo Friederich's. After that, these concepts are applied separately in some Glauco's poems with a distinct theme from the one we have investigated. Finally, we discuss the sociological categories defined by Roger Bastide. In the last chapter, the poems are analyzed following four different categories, but similar with regard to the theme. We ascertain the poems in it's interpretation about the divine figure, the poems in which God acts, or is claimed to act in the political, egocentric, and reversal horizons. Throughout the work, we try to understand the ways how the divine figure is treated in Glauco's poetry, and by extension, we try to point out the relations of man and God in today's society / O trabalho que ora se apresenta versa sobre a presença das imagens de Deus na poesia contemporânea. Para tanto selecionamos Glauco Mattoso, poeta paulistano que passa por diversas fases da recente poesia brasileira. Em sua vasta produção analisamos neste trabalho apenas os sonetos, sem um recorte de obra, ou de fase preocupamo-nos com a presença de Deus em seu sonetário. Para tanto, foram lidos, fichados e catalogados três mil sonetos e em vinte e nove deles encontramos a presença de Deus com real significado para o conteúdo. Porém analisamos com cuidado apenas uma pequena parte desses sonetos. Para a análise, nos ancoramos sobre os conceitos de crítica literária oriundos de Iumna Maria Simon e Vinícius Dantas e das reflexões de Hugo Friederich. E sobre os estudos acerca das relações sociológicas do homem com Deus de Roger Bastide. O trabalho esta dividido em três capítulos. No primeiro Um exercício de história tentamos situar a poesia contemporânea brasileira e inserir Glauco Mattoso nesse cenário. Aparecem, também, nesse capítulo artistas influentes e relevantes na formação literária de Glauco e da tradição maldita e pornográfica em língua portuguesa. O segundo capítulo De onde vem, e como vemos trata do arcabouço teórico que utilizamos para ler a poesia de Glauco. Inicialmente são apresentadas as teorias de Iumna Maria Simon e de Vinícius Dantas e depois as de Hugo Friederich. Na sequência esses conceitos são aplicados separadamente em poemas de Glauco com temática distinta da que investigamos. Por fim tratamos das categorias sociológicas definidas por Roger Bastide. No último capítulo analisamos os poemas seguindo quatro categorias distintas, mas próximas na temática. Averiguamos os poemas em sua Interpretação acerca da figura divina, os poemas em que Deus age, ou é clamado a agir no horizonte político, os egocêntricos e os inversivos. Ao longo do trabalho buscamos compreender as formas como a figura divina é tratada na poética de Glauco e por extensão tentamos apontar as relações do homem e Deus na sociedade atual

O estudo de obras clássicas literárias japonesas do gênero zuihitsu é um desafio para pesquisadores no Brasil, pois, além das dificuldades trazidas pelas diferenças entre as línguas, incorre em novas conceituações de modalidade de escritos. Apesar de ser considerado em geral como equivalente ao ensaio ocidental, é possível observar divergências que indicam uma necessidade de adequar o olhar crítico ao gênero oriental. Para isso, foram abordadas questões concernentes às definições de gênero literário no ocidente através de um apanhado histórico da crítica, levando em conta a etimologia do termo; e algumas considerações a respeito do caráter linguístico dos conceitos conforme a teoria de Wittgenstein. Em seguida, pretendeu-se esquematizar as abordagens do ensaio enquanto gênero, remontando sua história, através de passagens dos Ensaios de Montaigne, de alguns textos de Bacon, Hume e Adorno, entre outros ensaístas e críticos que versam sobre o assunto, de maneira a delinear características próprias dessa categoria ocidental. Além disso, examinamos, a partir de suas formulações e de sua recepção, a possibilidade de se encontrar uma tradição também no Brasil. Posteriormente, buscamos mapear as origens do zuihitsu em paralelo com as do ensaio. E, então, analisamos alguns textos de Makura no Sôshi em comparação a outros de Tsurezuregusa , duas das três obras consideradas basilares e essenciais à compreensão do gênero japonês. Essa análise comparativa foi feita tendo por base principalmente a presença de certos temas em comum, como a motivação da escrita, certas considerações sobre as quatro estações, sobre os momentos de ócio ou, ainda, sobre os monges. Nosso intuito foi trazer à tona semelhanças e diferenças entre as obras de modo a elucidar características do gênero que o aproximam ou o distanciam dos ensaios e de outros gêneros ocidentais, na esperança de que isso nos levasse à adequação do olhar supramencionada. E, por fim, foi realizado um fechamento a partir de considerações a respeito dos gêneros ocidentais e do ensaio, do zuihitsu e do cotejo das obras clássicas japonesas, que nos leve à conceituação desse gênero japonês. / The study of classic Japanese literatures genre zuihitsu is a challenge for scholars in Brazil, because besides the difficulties about languages differences, it incurs in a new conceptualizations of written genres. Although some scholars consider it as equivalent to Western essays, it is possible to observe some disparitys that indicate a need to adjust our critical view to the Eastern genre. In order to achieve that goal, we had approached some questions about Western genres definitions through a historical and literary overviews, as well as we had taken into consideration the terms etymology, and referred some ponderations about the linguistic character following some of the Wittgenstein theory concepts. After that, we intended to outline a scheme of essays as a literary genre, retracing its history, through passages of Montaigne\'s Essays, of some texts from Bacon, Hume and Adorno, among others essayists and critics that deal with the subject, in order to delineate its characteristics. More than that, we have examined, from its formulations and its reception, the possibility of finding also such a tradition in Brazil. Subsequently, we have seek mapping zuihitsu origins in confrontation to the essays ones. In addition, thereafters, we have analysed some texts from Makura no sôshi and compared them to others from Tsurezuregusa, two of the three masterpieces which are considered basic and essential to understanding the Japanese genre. This comparative analysis was done by means of their common themes, such as the written motivations, some considerations of four seasons, moments in idleness or even monks. Our aim was to bring out similarities and differences between them to elucidate genre characteristics that bring them nearer or make them apart of essays, hoping that this would lead us doing some adjustments of our critical view. Finally we have finalized this dissertation by referring some considerations on the Western genre, the essays, the zuihitsu, and the comparison of Japanese classical pieces, which lead us to conceptualyze the Japanese genre.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:47:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leandro Antonio de Lima.pdf: 2560703 bytes, checksum: fab355d9dad62241982f2c450f18345f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-11-14 / The book of Revelation ascribed to the Apostle John, is the last book of the Biblical Canon, and one of the most read and researched throughout History, from both popular and academic perspectives. Its symbolisms and catastrophic descriptions greatly influenced the western world, gave name to a specific genre of ancient literature (apocalyptic literature), and were object of studies, illustrations and romance themes for almost two thousand years. In spite of the book s popularity it wasn t much examined for its literary qualities and the art of its narrative, except by some critics who were more interested in fragmenting it in disconnected sources rather than understanding the richness of its literary production. Even among the scholars who detected the complex recapitulation theory of the book, the literary analyses didn t get far, and was more focused on providing subsidies for theological systems or answers for the distresses of its interpreter s times. A thorough analysis of its literary resources, however, reveals the greatness of its style, the sense of its purposes and the unity of the book. There are rich intertextual relations with the Old Testament, especially with Genesis and Daniel, as there are common features such as repetition, numerology, and cross-references. The book of Revelation also develops a cyclic plot in which the idea of God as a cosmic sovereign who guides the world to the fulfillment of his purposes excels; as well as interpretations for the enemy, the Dragon that opposes to him, thus explaining the paradoxical reality of first century Christianity which was under persecution by the Roman Empire. By considering the art in the narrative text of Revelation not only does the book get much more extraordinary for the reader, but its theological and moral meanings become more accessible. / O livro do Apocalipse atribuído a João, o Apóstolo, o último livro do Canon Bíblico, é um dos mais lidos e pesquisados ao longo da história, tanto da perspectiva popular quanto da acadêmica. Por seus simbolismos e descrições catastróficas causou grande influência no mundo ocidental, deu nome a um gênero específico de literatura antiga (a literatura apocalíptica), e foi objeto de estudos, ilustrações e temas de romances por quase dois mil anos. Apesar de toda essa popularidade , o livro foi pouco avaliado a partir de suas qualidades literárias e da arte de sua narrativa, a não ser através de estudos críticos que estiveram mais preocupados em fragmentá-lo em fontes desconexas do que em entender a riqueza de sua confecção literária. Mesmo entre os estudiosos que detectaram a complexa estrutura recapitulativa, a análise literária não foi além, e se preocupou mais em fornecer subsídios para sistemas teológicos ou respostas para angústias dos tempos em que viveram seus intérpretes. Uma análise cuidadosa de seus recursos literários, contudo, revela a grandiosidade de seu estilo, o senso de seus propósitos e a unidade da obra. Nas ricas relações intertextuais com o Antigo Testamento, especialmente Gênesis e Daniel, usando recursos como repetição, numerologia, referências cruzadas, o Apocalipse desenvolve um enredo cíclico em que se sobressai a ideia de Deus como o Soberano cósmico que dirige o mundo para o cumprimento de seus propósitos; como também a interpretação do inimigo, o dragão que se lhe opõe, explicando assim, espiritualmente, a paradoxal realidade do Cristianismo do primeiro século, que enfrentava toda a perseguição do Império Romano. Ao se considerar a arte da narrativa do texto do Apocalipse, não só o livro fica muito mais extraordinário para o leitor, como seus significados teológicos e morais se tornam mais acessíveis.

This dissertation offers the first systematic historical contextualization and literary analysis of the five saints' lives composed by Philotheos Kokkinos (ca. 1300-1378) for his contemporaries Nikodemos the Younger, Sabas the Younger, Isidore Boucheir, Germanos Maroules, and Gregory Palamas. Notwithstanding Kokkinos' prominent role in the political and ecclesiastical scene of fourteenth-century Byzantium, as well as the size and significance of his hagiographic oeuvre, both the hagiographer and his saints' lives have received surprisingly little scholarly attention. My dissertation fills this gap and shows Kokkinos as a gifted hagiographer who played a leading role, both through his ecclesiastical authority and hagiographic discourse, in orchestrating the societal breakthrough of hesychast theology that has remained at the core of Christian Orthodoxy up to this day. The dissertation is structured in three parts. The first, Philotheos Kokkinos and His OEuvre, offers an extensive biographical portrait of Kokkinos, introduces his literary oeuvre, and discusses its manuscript tradition. A thorough palaeographical investigation of fourteenth-century codices carrying his writings reveals Kokkinos' active involvement in the process of copying, reviewing, and publishing his own works. This section includes an analysis of the 'author's edition' manuscript Marcianus graecus 582, and presents its unusual fate. Moreover, Part I establishes the chronology of Kokkinos' vitae of contemporary saints and offers biographical sketches of his heroes, highlighting their relationship to their hagiographer. The second part, Narratological Analysis of Kokkinos' Vitae of Contemporary Saints, constitutes the first comprehensive analysis of Kokkinos' narrative technique. It first discusses the types of hagiographic composition ('hagiographic genre') Kokkinos employed for his saints' lives (hypomnema, bios kai politeia, and logos), and then it offers a detailed investigation that sheds light on the organization of the narrative in Kokkinos' vitae and his use of specific narrative devices. This includes a discussion of hesychastic elements couched in the narrative. Part II concludes with considerations on Kokkinos' style and intended audience. The third part, Saints and Society, begins with a detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of the miracle accounts Kokkinos wove in his saints' lives. This considers the miracle typology, types of afflictions, methods of healing, and the demographic characteristics of the beneficiaries (such as age, gender, and social status), revealing that Kokkinos shows a predilection for including miracles for members of the aristocracy. Second, it presents Kokkinos' view on the relationship between the imperial office and ecclesiastical authority by analysing how he portrays the emperor(s) in his vitae. Moreover, this part addresses the saints' encounters with the 'other' (Muslims and Latins), revealing Kokkinos' nuanced understanding of the threats and opportunities raised by these interactions. Finally, it makes the claim that through his saints' lives Kokkinos offers models of identification and refuge in the troubled social and political context of fourteenth-century Byzantium, promoting a spiritual revival of society. As my dissertation shows, Kokkinos' vitae of contemporary saints sought to shape and were shaped by the political and theological disputes of fourteenth-century Byzantium, especially those surrounding hesychasm. Their analysis offers insights into the thought-world of their author and sheds more light on the late-Byzantine religious and cultural context of their production. The dissertation is equipped with six technical appendices presenting the chronology of Kokkinos' life and works, the narrative structure of his vitae of contemporary saints, a critical edition of the preface of his hitherto unedited Logos on All Saints (BHG 1617g), a transcription of two hitherto unedited prayers Kokkinos addressed to the emperors, the content of Marc. gr. 582 and Kokkinos' autograph interventions, and manuscript plates.

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El objetivo de esta Tesis Doctoral ha sido el estudio de las concepciones amorosas que están presentes en la novela española de la Restauración (tomando como punto de referencia la obra de Benito Pérez Galdós), sobre todo, en lo que respecta a una visión idealista, y en una doble vertiente: 1,- La importancia del discurso amoroso para la conformación estructural y temática de estas obras, por tratarse de un componente esencial en la configuración sentimental, moral e intelectual de los personajes protagonistas de las mismas.2,- Las ideologías subyacentes que, a través de la exégesis y comentario de los textos pertinentes podemos detectar, en su relación con las concepciones amorosas de los autores de la época. Nos hemos fijado en las influencias de las grandes corrientes de pensamiento de finales del siglo XIX (Idealismo, Positivismo, Pragmatismo y Espiritualismo), y su plasmación y desarrollo en la novela de la Restauración española. / The aim of this Doctoral Thesis has been the study of the amorous conceptions which are present in the spanish novel of the Restoration period (taking Benito Pérez Galdós works as a point of reference), especially regarding an idealistic point of view, and considering the following two aspects:1.The importance of amorous speech for the structural and thematic constitution of these works, since it is an essential component in the sentimental, moral, and intellectual configuration of their protagonists.2.The underlying ideologies which can be discovered through the exegesis and the analysis of the relevant texts in their relation to amorous conceptions of the authors of that time. We have focused on the influence of the most important schools of thought at the end of the XIX th. century (Idealism, Positivism, Pragmatism and Spirituality), and on their reflection and development in the Spanish novel in the Restoration period.

Le poète arménien Yéghiché Tcharents (1897-1937) devient victime des répressions staliniennes des années 30. Tcharents est déjà un poète connu lorsque la révolution éclate en Russie. Il voit dans la révolution le sauveur de son peuple au destin tragique. Il croit aux idéaux humanistes de Lénine comme beaucoup de ses contemporains. Cependant, le pouvoir totalitaire de Staline change son regard politique. Sa poésie reflète ses inquiétudes. En 1933, le recueil de poèmes Livre du chemin, un compte-rendu de sa vision poétique de la construction de la nouvelle société, ainsi que de l’éducation de l’homme soviétique, est censuré. Il est publié à nouveau avec des modifications. Tcharents, le poète de tous les combats, ne parvient pas à cacher son désaccord, sa désillusion vis-à-vis du pouvoir politique. Il témoigne à travers sa poésie. Le système répressif ne le laisse plus en paix. Il est inculpé comme contre-révolutionnaire, trotskiste, nationaliste, terroriste. En juillet 1936, il est assigné à résidence. La poésie demeure l’unique espace où il pense et écrit librement. Malade et conscient de l’imminence de sa mort, il survit grâce à sa poésie, dans son univers de visions. L’argumentation de la thèse est construite sur l’analyse littéraire des textes du corpus : le Livre du chemin et les textes poétiques de 1935 à 1937 de Tcharents. Une étude concise du contexte historico-politique de sa poésie et une analyse littéraire de son œuvre avant 1933 sont aussi proposées, permettant de mieux percevoir la complexité des relations entre le poète-individu et son époque, et enfin, de réunir tous les éléments nécessaires de traduction faisant partie de l’objectif de cette étude doctorale. / The Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents (1897-1937) becomes victim of Stalin’s repressions in the Thirties. Charents is already known as a poet when the revolution bursts in Russia. He sees in the revolution the saver of his people with the tragic destiny. Like many of his contemporaries he believes in the humanistic ideals of Lenin. However, the totalitarian power of Stalin changes his political views. His poetry reflects his concerns. In 1933, the collection of poems Book of the way, a report of his poetic vision of the new society, as well as the education of the Soviet man, is censored. It is published with changes. Charents, the poet actively involved in a number of social issues, cannot hide his dissension and disillusion with respect to the political power. He bespeaks through his poetry. The repressive system does not leave him any more in peace. He is accused of being a contra-revolutionist, trotskyist, nationalist, terrorist. In July 1936, he is put under house arrest. Poetry remains the sole space where he thinks and writes freely. Ill and aware of the imminence of his death, he survives in his universe of visions thanks to his poetry.The argumentation of this doctoral thesis is built on the literary analysis of the texts in the corpus: the Book of the way and the poetic texts of 1935 to 1937. A concise study of the historical-political context of his poetry and a literary analysis of his work before 1933 are also proposed. This allows to better perceive the complexity of the relations between the poet-individual and his time and, finally joins all the elements necessary for the translation, which is an objective of this doctoral study.

The paper is concerned with the synchronic analysis of two ancient texts, i. e. 2 Kings 3, and the Mesha´s stele. Both of them mention an Israelite-Moabite conflict, and it is said they contain two different reports of the same event. The purpose of this thesis is to reconsider this assertion. Both texts were analyzed and their respective literary genres were determined. Then the texts were compared with regard to the aforementioned conflict. At the end of the paper the author concludes, it is neither possible to affirm with any certainty, that both texts reflect the same historical event, nor to disprove it.

The Mystery of the Woman and the Beast Rhetorical-Narrative Analysis of Revelation 17:1-18 This diploma thesis called "The Mystery of the Woman and the Beast" seeks to unveil the mysterious message of Revelation 17:1-18 by applying the rhetorical-narrative analysis to the text. This analysis entails a specific methodology drawn from the synthesis of both rhetorical and narrative criticism with special regard to persuasive features. The conception of the thesis is based on understanding the message of the text in its own right communicated primarily to its own implicit audience distancing itself from premature theologizing often done especially when dealing with the book of Revelation. Due to the narrative focus of the thesis, considerable space is devoted to analyzing apocalyptic literary tradition and literary aspects of the book itself. Attention is paid to the origin of the apocalyptic tradition as well as the nature of its genre together with its specific motifs and function. The book of Revelation is seen as a part of long-developing apocalyptic tradition sharing some common traits while still being original in its own right. The unique qualities of Revelation are then fully explored in the following chapter. Of particular importance are the genre, imagery, intertextuality, and structure of the book....