This dissertation highlights the position of the violin works in Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s oeuvre. The violin was an integral part of this composer’s life from an early age. Despite this, his compositions for the violin have received little critical attention. My project is the first full-length treatment of Nielsen’s repertoire for violin. I approach the subject with the goal of examining Nielsen’s position in the early twentieth century through the notions of temporal consciousness and tradition. I address the interplay of these ideas as signifiers within the works, particularly the Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 35 and the Præludium og Tema med Variationer, Op. 48. This interplay enables us to view Carl Nielsen as a participant on the world stage of Western music as a modernist, despite his apparent ties to tradition. I also address the issue of accessibility in Nielsen studies by including a complete translation of Hungarian violinist Emil Telmányi’s Vejledning til Instudering og Fortolkning af Carl Nielsen’s Violinværker og Kvintet for Strygere [Guide to the Study and Interpretation of Carl Nielsen’s Violin Works and Quintet for Strings]. The Carl Nielsen narrative is framed by his symphonies and his status as a nationalist composer. Through this study, I expose the importance of this overlooked repertoire in the current revision of the Nielsen narrative.

My main thesis is that Baroque can be considered not only as an aesthetic or historical period in the seventeenth century; it is also a way of producing knowledge that puts into dynamic interaction diverse genres, disciplines and historical contexts. I visualize my project under the rubric of a cabinet of curiosities, and I reframe the continued juxtaposition of objects, machines, instruments and artwork that characterize the baroque cabinet to offer an explanatory construct of the early modern Hispanic world and modern Latin American literature and culture. In the first chapter of the dissertation, I contextualize the extensive theoretical discussion on Baroque and Neo-baroque within the studies of collection and curiosity. My main goal with this approach is to create a specific bibliography and understanding of Baroque as a complex process of collecting and displaying different kinds of knowledge through emotions such as wonder and marvel. In the second chapter I examine the impact of the New World on the stable "tower of knowledge" of humanists at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth centuries. One definitive consequence of this impact was the questioning of the liabilities of ancient text and the need to arrange the new information, which was coming from different resources, into collections of distant and peculiar objects. Expanding this historical frame, I analyze how letrados in the seventeenth century, such as Favián, Sigüenza y Góngora, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Espinoza Medrano, and Arzans Orsúa, were displaying the New World as the biggest collection of curiosities as a way of constructing an emergent criollo subjectivity. After grounding the project in the theoretical and colonial Baroque, my study turns, in the third chapter, to the modern Neo-baroque. I argue that modernity in Latin America is generated by the assimilation of the Enlightenment into a Baroque system. Therefore, Baroque in Latin America represents more than a simple or "erroneous" copy; it is rather a process of "cannibalization" and counterconquest, as José Lezama Lima proclaimed in his literary essay "Baroque Curiosity" (1957). This dissertation is written in Spanish. / 2015-07-11

This thesis provides a history of the sense of touch in modern Britain. Seeking out fugitive intimacies and incidental brushes of lover and stranger alike, it argues that far from being a natural constant, what, how, and why people touched, and what they felt when they did, has a history. Through five case studies of different domains - the mind sciences, visual impairment, public transport, law, and commercialized leisure - it explores how these uses changed, and how they transformed Britons' understandings and experiences of their bodies. Both as a practice and a metaphor, from making space on the bus to keeping 'in touch', touch established the distinctions that Britons made between their bodies and the world and themselves and others. In doing so, touch crucially shaped histories of law, labour relations, scientific experiment, education, and love in the early twentieth century. But it also reformulated the very distinctions of selfhood - distinctions of inner self and outer body, person and thing - on which our accounts of modernity are based. By tracing a history of touch, then, this thesis turns touch into a means of critique. It challenges histories of modernity for which selfhood is a substance rather than produced only through particular social relationships. But it also proposes a new way of thinking about selfhood as an immanent relationship the self has with itself through use of the body. Through historically specific ways of touching, early twentieth-century Britons shaped not only their experience of themselves as bodies, but also the boundaries defining them as selves. Their selfhood was, in short, what they did with the body through touch. By exploring the history of touch between 1870 and 1960, this thesis therefore offers an alternative account of British modernity and a way of re-examining histories of selfhood within and beyond modern Britain.

O presente estudo parte do impasse em uma experiência formativa no âmbito da licenciatura em filosofia, representado pela questão do outro na educação especial. Para respondê-la, os registros da Modernidade como fato histórico e da Modernidade como experiência subjetiva orientam o argumento. Busca-se, na história das ideias, compreender o surgimento da educação especial a partir da lógica de um mundo partido por uma corrente de dualismos e dicotomias, ocorrendo a principal delas entre o self e o outro. Procura-se refletir sobre como essa problemática se desenvolve no âmbito educacional, intersubjetivo por excelência, mas principalmente naquele nomeado como especial, onde a questão do outro é potencializada. Em resposta ao primado da subjetividade e ao ocultamento do outro estabelecido na Modernidade, é introduzido o tema do reconhecimento. A tese é que o reconhecimento é central nas questões de escolaridade e educação, servindo como lente para contextualizar as perspectivas que engendram e circunscrevem a educação especial – tais como a caritativa, a médica e a político-legal, de viés inclusivo. A pesquisa vincula a questão da alteridade às situações concretas em que ela é vivenciada, com efeitos nos campos da moral, da ética e do agir pedagógico. / This essay has its starting point on the impasse that occurs in an educational experience in the scope of the licentiate in Philosophy – the question of the other in special education. In order to respond to that question, records of Modernity as an historical fact and also as a subjective experience are used to guide the argument. Based on the history of ideas, this essay aims to comprehend the emerging of special education through the logical thought of a world divided by a stream of dualisms and dichotomies – being the main one that between the self and the other. The study seeks to reflect about how that problematic is developed in the educational scope (intersubjective par excellence) and especially in the special education scope, in which the question related to the other is potentialized. Answering the primacy of subjectiveness and to the hiding of the other established in Modernity, the recognition matter is introduced. The thesis is that recognition has a central role in issues related to schooling and education and works as a lens to contextualize the perspectives that engender and circumscribe special education, such as the charitable, the medical and the political perspectives, with inclusive bias. This essay links the alterity matter to the concrete situations in which it is experienced, with effects on the fields of moral, ethics and pedagogical act.

Les diverses formes de l'intertextualité (citation, allusion, résumé, traduction), appliquées aux mécanismes du premierdes genres (l'épopée), et analysées chez un auteur imprégné de révolutions, vont bien au-delà d'un simple exerciced'érudition. Interrogé dans un traité à vocation apologétique comme le Génie du christianisme, puis dans le rejetonpoétique de deux épopées capitales, Les Natchez et Les Martyrs, l'intertexte épique moderne- car c'est la modernitéqu'il faut construire au tournant de l'Ancien Régime à la Révolution et de cette dernière à l'Empire- dessine une grillede lecture qui relève à la fois du statut générique et de l'histoire des mentalités. Les poètes convoqués parChateaubriand dans le tissu textuel de l'épopée deviennent alors les interlocuteurs idéaux pour développer un discourssur l'Histoire. En suivant une démarche tripartie suggérée par l'auteur (sujet, caractères/passions, paysages), lamosaïque intertextuelle de Chateaubriand s'assemble tantôt pour révéler une connivence culturelle, tantôt pour ouvrirune contestation à la fois poétique et politique. L'analyse de ces mêmes tensions nous aide enfin à construire l'image laplus représentative du poète dans son Temps. / The different types of intertextuality (quotation, allusion, summary, translation), applied to the mechanisms of the firstgenre (epie), and analysed through the works of an author grappling with various revolutions, are much more than anerudite practice. Examined in an apologetic treatise such as the Génie du christianisme, then in the poetic extension oftwo primary epie works, Les Natchez and Les Martyrs, the modern epie intertext - since modernity is what must beconstructed at the passage from the Old Regime to the French Revolution and from this one to Napoleon's Empiretracesout a point of view depending both on the rhetoric structure and on the history of mentalities. The poetsChateaubriand recalls in the texture of epie th us become the ideal interlocutors to work out a discourse on History.Following a three-terms approach, suggested by the author himself (tapie, characters/passions, landscapes), theintertextual mosaic of Chateaubriand sometimes reveals a cultural connivance sometimes inaugurates a poetical andpolitical contestation. The analysis of these tensions finally helps us to construct the most representative image of thepoet in his Time.

Grand Parc est une série de 62 photographies de paysage prises entre 2008 et 2012 dans un parc de loisirs situé aux portes de Lyon. Les images révèlent un paysage conventionnel, saisi dans un lieu conçu et aménagé en écho à l'urbanisation croissante d'une grande cité. Elles témoignent également d'un paradoxe: comment l'indifférence éprouvée face à un paysage standardisé accompagne-t-elle malgré tout le sentiment d'être encore touché par le visible ? Un aménagement guidé par des impératifs économiques et écologiques peut-il encore nourrir un regard actif modelé par la peinture et la modernité ? Pour prendre la mesure de ces questionnements, cette thèse d'arts plastiques s'empare du pittoresque. La notion est d'abord étudiée dans sa dimension historique de catégorie esthétique dévalorisée pour être ensuite envisagée comme un outil théorique capable de soutenir un mode actif d'investigation visuelle.Confronté à des codes culturels émoussés, le pittoresque est réinvesti dans une perspective critique et invité à soutenir un regard lucide et néanmoins sensible sur une réalité sociale. / Grand Parc is a series of 62 landscape photographs taken between 2008 and 2012 in a parkland leisure resort close to Lyons. The images reveal a conventional landscape inscribed in a setting designed andadapted to echo the growing urbanization of a major city. They also reflect a paradox : the co-existence of indifference when facing standardized landscapes, and the sentiment of being moved, still, andnevertheless, by the visible world... Is it possible, today, for landscapes charged with economie and ecological imperatives to nourish and inspire beholder's experience even though long shaped by painting and modernity? This PhD thesis in visual arts focuses on the Picturesque as a means of addressing thesequestions. First from a historical perspective - the Picturesque as depreciated aesthetics - and subsequently as a theoretical tool capable of sustaining active visual investigation. ln the face of hackneyed cultural codes, the Picturesque is reinvested with critical perspective and summoned to cast a lucid but nonetheless sensitive eye on social reality.

Orientador: Eduardo Roberto Junqueira Guimarães / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T14:31:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_RosimarReginaRodriguesde_M.pdf: 2536432 bytes, checksum: ca7b38dc4386a7c513d60b225fae24de (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Desenvolvemos este trabalho tendo por fundamento a Semântica da Enunciação, que considera a linguagem na sua relação com a história. Compreendemos os sentidos das palavras progresso e moderno na relação com os sentidos da Marcha para o Oeste em textos jornalísticos da imprensa mato-grossense do século XX. Mais precisamente em publicações do jornal O Estado de Mato Grosso dos anos de 1939 e 1940. A imprensa foi compreendida de acordo com Mariani (1997; 2001) como um lugar de observação dos sentidos. A marcha para o Oeste, pelas relações de determinação, é constantemente relacionada ao progresso e esse progresso é determinado por grandeza, riqueza e luz, havendo no Oeste uma ausência do moderno. A marcha produz para o Oeste um sentido de não civilizado e de um processo civilizatório. Observamos como as palavras marcha para o Oeste, progresso e moderno se comportaram nos textos da imprensa, na relação com outras palavras. Isto foi feito pelos DSDs Domínios Semânticos de Determinação destas expressões, constituídos pelas relações de determinação produzidas pelo acontecimento enunciativo. Apresentamos seus sentidos a partir da noção de designação proposta por Guimarães (1995; 2002). As descrições foram feitas, por meio dos procedimentos de reescrituração e articulação a partir dos quais pudemos compreender em que medida as palavras acima citadas se determinam e são determinadas por outras produzindo sentidos. / Abstract: This work is theoretically based on the Semantics of Enunciation, which considers language in its relation to history. We try to understand the meanings of the words progress and modern in their relation to the meaning of the March to the West as found in journalistic texts of the XXth century press in the state of Mato Grosso (Brazil), more specifically in the newspaper O Estado de Mato Grosso, in 1939-1940. As stated by Mariani (1997; 2001), the press is understood as a place where meanings can be observed. Through determination relations, the March to the West is constantly linked to progress, a progress determined by largeness, wealth and light, while modernity is absent from the West. In the West, the March thus produces a meaning of both uncivilization and civilizing process. We observed how the words: March to the West, progress and modern are used in the press in relation to other words. This was made through DSDs (Semantic Domains of Determination) of these expressions, constituted by the determination relations produced by the enunciative event. We present their meaning based on the notion of designation proposed by Guimarães (1995; 2002). Descriptions were made using rewriting and articulation procedures that helped us understand to what extent the abovementioned words determine and are determined by the meaning of the others. / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestre em Linguística

This thesis is based on an ethnographic study of the inhabitants of Whiddy Island, and focuses on the change from one form of societal organisation to another on this island. The thesis is not an ethnography proper, but an attempt to link the local perceptions of change and the changes in the islanders' daily lives, to the wider political economy. Throughout the course of the study my original intention of exploring the tension between technology and community was replaced with the wider hypothesis that there is tension between modernity and community. Technology was revealed as both a product and producer of modernity, and modern state capitalist societies as the antonym not the synonym of community. The 40 remaining islanders represent the last of the transient phase in which community disappears and is replaced by society. The changes in the daily lives of the islanders were not total nor revolutionary. Rather the products of modernity - both policies and artefacts, were absorbed into the islanders' daily lives, and once absorbed the products of modernity promoted modernity in the daily lives of those using them. Modernity is thus a circular process, yet it settled on the island in layers. Each layer produced a new set of paradoxes and reformed the old practices and the old ideology to fit the new setting. The settlement of modernity culminated in the replacement of community members with state citizens. By focusing on the interrelationship and dialogue between modernity, the state and the citizen the processes by which modernity settled on this small island are revealed. It settled both as a result of the direct intervention of state policies on education, emigration and employment, and as a result of local decisions to embrace mechanised transport, domestic technologies and the mass media. By accepting the policies and the artefacts of modernity, the islanders were prohibited from resisting their transformation from community members to state citizens. The island citizen, like all citizens to-day, has a direct dialogue with, and relationship to modernity, and an indirect one mediated by the state.

This thesis develops and tests a social network theory of religion to explain the phenomena of religious and secular beliefs in the general population in contemporary Britain. Drawing upon the writings of several historians and upon the work of Giddens (1994a, 1994b), the study is placed in the theoretical context of the debate about the nature of modernity. Due to the various processes of modernization it is argued that personal network links between church attenders and non-church attenders have gradually been severed since pre-modern times. The immediate consequences of this development are twofold. First, the transmission of church religion is greatly restricted. Second, personal overarching religious, or indeed secular, world views are now likely to be formulated, maintained, modified and transmitted by individuals within discrete and geographically dispersed social networks within the private sphere. On the basis of this argument a network dependency hypothesis was formulated, from which twenty-two testable propositions were derived. By employing ego-centred network analysis, the empirical dimension of this thesis reports the testing of each of these propositions against data obtained from a quantitative 500 questionnaire survey of a middle class suburb in the south of England, followed by 39 qualitative focused interviews with informants selected from the initial survey. The data showed that responses to the process of primary socialization had a profound effect on the initial belief formation of ego. This provided a foundation both for religious or secular belief in later life and for the future selection of network alters. With the exception of conversionists, these beliefs generally continued to be maintained by ego within ego's current network. At all stages ego demonstrated a need to reduce cognitive dissonance and to pursue cognitive consonance (Festinger, 1985). The local community did not constitute a plausibility structure and even the local church did not perform this function. Only discrete, dispersed, personal networks in the private sphere functioned to maintain the plausibility of religious and secular beliefs. The findings constituted overwhelming support for the network dependency hypothesis.

Aim: Describe and analyze two of the arguments that supports the secularization theory that Steve Bruce use in his book “God is Dead”. Thesis questions: What argument does Bruce put forth to support the secularization theory? How does Bruce argument for the connection between level of education and secularization and the connection with economic growth and secularization? What empirical enquiries supports that increased education and economy leads towards secularization? What strenghts and weeknesses does these empirical enquiries that supports Bruce argumentation have? How can Bruce pro-secularization argumentation be further developed? Method: Argumentation analysis with foundation in Bruce’s book “God is Dead”. Results: The secularization thesis is comprehensive, it exist much material and arguments both for and against the thesis. But generally speaking if you look about what happens with a population when they get more prosperity and education is that they get more secularized, even though not everything goes straight from religiosity to secularization like the country USA is a living example of. Keywords: Secularization, secularization thesis, religion and modernity.