In his Truth and Method, Gadamer explains that subjectivity is the everyday understanding that allows us to engage with the world. Gadamer identifies three main aspects that effect our understanding, namely history, language and dialogue. Dystopian fiction is in a unique position to portray how systems of societal control affect and effect understanding, and thus subjectivity, because dystopian fiction primarily explores societies rather than only individuals. This dissertation applies Gadamer’s framework of subjectivity to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World to analyse their portrayals of subjectivity critically. Huxley’s imagined world of test-tube births, rampant consumerism, feelies and orgy-porgies depicts a subjectivity that is nearly completely controlled through the manipulation of history, language and dialogue, with the exception of a few rebellious characters. But Orwell’s Oceania is far grimmer, and the systems of control in place to manipulate history, language and dialogue create a harsh environment in which Winston Smith, the protagonist, struggles to assert his individuality, his own subjectivity, until the liberating sexual relationship he has with Julia. Although both novels depict stringent measures of control, the possibility of rebellion is present in the worlds depicted in both novels, suggesting that despite the manipulation around subjectivity’s three main pillars, as identified by Gadamer, something else provides the impetus for the characters’ understanding of rebellion. Therefore, the study also analyses the characters’ pre-understandings, as explained by Nietzsche and Heidegger, as sources for a wider framework. Through the novels’ portrayals of rebellion, these pre-understandings are shown to complement and inform Gadamer’s framework of subjectivity. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2015. / English / MA (English) / Unrestricted

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Orientador: Maria de Fatima Morethy Couto / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T11:45:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vicente_AndreiaMariaFarah_M.pdf: 19556829 bytes, checksum: 686cc2c66a287ef5728caa7f985b6a90 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Este trabalho analisa o processo de inserção no cenário artístico nacional dos artistas plásticos João Câmara e Siron Franco - que, através da linguagem da pintura oriunda da técnica em óleo sobre tela, se destacaram no cenário artístico nas décadas de 60 e 70, época em que se discutia intensamente - tanto no Brasil como no exterior - a crise do suporte artístico tradicional em detrimento das novas linguagens artísticas. Como fator importante neste processo, destacamos a criação de Salões competitivos em outras capitais do Brasil nos quais as obras desses dois artistas foram selecionadas ou premiadas. A representação da figura humana é o principal eixo condutor da trajetória das obras de João Câmara e Siron Franco, sendo o corpo espaço metafórico para reflexões sobre os problemas humanos, críticas à sociedade e/ou ao momento político em que o país se encontrava no período acima citado. / Abstract: This dissertation analyses the insertion of the artists João Câmara and Siron Franco - artists that through the language of painting build up from the technique oil painting over canvas have appeared into the artistic scenario in the decades of 1960 and 1970. In this time it was discussed - in Brazil and abroad - the crisis of the traditional artistic support, taking only in consideration the new artistic languages. As an important factor of this process we point out the creation of competitive Art Salons in others main cities of Brazil, in which the works of those two artists were selected and won thefirst prizes. The representation of the human figure is the main axis of the trajectory of the works of João Câmara and Siron Franco, taking into account that the body is the metaphorical space for the reflections upon human problems, critics to the society and/or, to the political moment of the country related to the aforementioned decades. / Mestrado / Artes / Mestre em Artes

The main aim of the dissertation is to examine the importance of the moment in relation to human experience and to the narrative in the writings of Stig Dagerman (1923-1954), primarily the novels Ormen (The Snake, 1945), De dömdas ö (The Island of the Doomed, 1946), Bränt barn (A Burnt Child, 1948), Bröllopsbesvär (Wedding Worries, 1949), the short stories "Den hängdes träd" (The Hanging Tree, 1945) and "De röda vagnarna" (The Red Wagons, 1946). The dissertation shows the moment as being of crucial importance by serving as the point of time for the fictional character’s critical experience. The moment also functions as a structuring principle for the narrative. In this, the discussion is supported by the theories on the chronotope found in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. With the ideas of Michael Riffaterre as the principal theoretical basis in the study, the reading of the texts focuses on a matrix common to the works discussed. The reading goes from a description of the primarily profane subject matter of the narrative to an understanding of the religious discourse in the works. This interpretation receives additional support in the theories on religious and mystical experiences found in Rudolf Otto. Finally, the dissertation focuses on man’s sensitivity to, and longing for, a transcendental entity or a God in the broadest sense – a longing which manifests itself in different ways in these texts and is set against the human predicament of being. Man’s desperate religious longing for a transcendental entity or a God are ultimately understood as the significance or principle of unity in the texts under discussion.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed December 16, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-219).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 2006. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-395). Also issued online.

The aim of this thesis is to compare two distinct principles of making new linguistic style and their role in fictional society. The thesis will present both novels (Burgess' A Clockwork Orange and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four) and then it will focus on function and principles of making neologisms used in these novels. In the end the thesis will focus on summarization of both principles and it will analyze the language role in both novels.

Orientador: Marco Antonio Alves do Valle / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T03:31:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gregato_MarciaElisadePaiva_D.pdf: 14762088 bytes, checksum: e0c9ad0964bcf746b913cef35276b5b2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: A presente tese apresenta como meta o estudo teórico, crítico e histórico da obra do escultor brasileiro Gastão Manoel Henrique, catalogando os trabalhos produzidos pelo artista a partir da década de cinquenta, investigando suas preocupações expressivas no contexto da história da arte na qual se encontra inserido, bem como analisando a organização formal e espacial das obras e seus procedimentos, comparando-as entre si e também alinhando-as aos trabalhos de outros artistas do período a fim de compreendê-las e classificá-las em distintas sete fases que configuram um recorte da obra do artista até o presente momento. A compreensão desse conjunto de obras se dá através do exame inicial de algumas das questões que marcam a introdução da arte moderna abstrata no Brasil dos anos cinquenta, apontando a Semana de Arte Moderna como marco inicial de nossa tradição artística, passando pela intervenção de Lúcio Costa, na tentativa de modernização da Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, que foi um dos primeiros atos do Governo Vargas com a nomeação dos diretores da área da cultura. Foram analisadas também, por sua relevância, as duas vertentes presentes e formadoras do Movimento Modernista no Brasil, sendo a primeira delas, representada por Graça Aranha, e identificada na obra de Ismael Nery no que diz respeito à aproximação dos artistas cariocas do surrealismo e dadaísmo internacionais; e a segunda, identificada na obra de Candido Portinari e representada por Mário de Andrade, tornando-se hegemônica com a revolução de 1930 e sua vinda para o Ministério da Educação e Saúde Pública - MESP, na gestão Gustavo Capanema. O estudo dessas duas vertentes possibilita a identificação de suas distintas conceituações teóricas, estéticas e ideológicas, bem como o reconhecimento da proximidade que há entre o Modernismo representado por Graça Aranha e os primeiros trabalhos de Gastão Manoel Henrique, nos quais se percebe a relação com outros artistas pioneiros do modernismo internacional, entre os quais se destaca Giorgio de Chirico, de onde se atribui a presença dos motivos arquitetônicos encontrados nos desenhos dos anos cinquenta. Foram também incorporados à tese os relatos do artista acerca das influências recebidas de seu pai, Elmano Henrique, cartazista de profissão e responsável pela educação estética do jovem Gastão, principalmente no que diz respeito ao rigor na fatura artística e conceitual, características identificadas em toda sua produção. Para a compreensão e argumentação das diversas fases, foram necessários ainda o estudo das participações do artista em exposições chaves da neovanguarda brasileira introdutora da arte contemporânea no Brasil; os diálogos múltiplos estabelecidos a partir de meados da década de sessenta entre artistas e espectadores, identificados também na obra de Lygia Clark e iniciados pelo filósofo Merleau-Ponty; e ainda, a partir dos anos oitenta, a influência de Constantin Brancusi, que produziu reverberações tanto em Gastão Manoel Henrique quanto em seu amigo Sergio Camargo. As sete fases identificadas e analisadas a partir desta pesquisa constituem um trabalho inédito que pretende inaugurar na Universidade Brasileira o estudo da obra deste escultor, apontando caminhos para novas pesquisas que possam surgir nacional e internacionalmente / Abstract: A study of the work of Gastão Manoel Henrique: a hypothesis about the different phases The present thesis presents as its goal, the theoretical, critic and historic study of the work from the Brazilian sculptor Gastão Manoel Henrique, cataloguing the works produced by the artist since the fifties, investigating his expressive concerns in the historical context of the art in which he is inserted, as well as analyzing the formal and spatial organization of the works and its procedures, comparing them among themselves and also aligning them with the works of other artists of the same period in order to understand and classify them in seven distinct phases which configure an indention of the artist work until the present moment. The understanding of these set of works is done through the initial examination of some questions that characterize the introduction of the abstract art in Brazil during the fifties, taking the "Semana de Arte Moderna" (Modern Art Week) as the initial landmark of our artistic tradition, passing through the intervention of Lúcio Costa in his attempt to modernize the "Escola Nacional de Belas Artes" (Arts National School), which was one of the first acts of the Vargas Government with the nomination of a director in the area of culture. It was also analyzed, because of its relevance, the two streams present in the formation of Modern Movement in Brazil. The fist one is represented by Graça Aranha, and it is identified in the work of Ismael Nery with respect to the approximation of the artists from Rio de Janeiro to the international Surrealism and Dadaism. The second one is identified in the work of Cândido Portinari and represented by Mário de Andrade, becoming hegemonic with the 1930 Revolution and his coming to the Ministry of Education and Public Health, in the administration of Gustavo Capanema. The study of these two streams made possible the identification of its distinct theoretical conceptions, esthetics and ideologies, as well as the recognition of the proximity between the Modernism represented by Graça Aranha and the first works of Gastão Manoel Henrique, in which it is noticed the relationship with other pioneer artists of the international Modernism, among whom we find Giorgio de Chirico, from whom it is attributed the presence of the architectural motifs found in the drawings of the fifties. It was also incorporated in the dissertation the reports of the artist about the influence he received from his father, Elmano Henrique, cartoonist as a profession and responsible for the esthetic education of the young Gastão, especially in respect to the strength in the artistic fatura and conceptual, identified characteristics in his production. In order to understand and argue the many phases, it was necessary the study of the artist participation in key Brazilian neo-vanguard expositions which were the beginning of the contemporary art in Brazil; and the multiple dialogues initiated in the mid sixties between artists and the audience, also identified on the work of Lygia Clark, and started by the philosopher Merleau-Ponty; and also, beginning in the eighties the influence of Constantin Brancusi, who produced reverberations not only in Gastão Manoel Henrique but also in his friend Sérgio Camargo. The seven phases identified and analyzed on this research constitute a singular work that pretend to inaugurate in the Brazilian University the study of the work of this sculptor, showing ways for new research that might come in the national and international scenario / Doutorado / Doutor em Artes

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