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New, old novels, contemporary fictions that parody the forms, conventions, and devices of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels, form a significant and increasingly popular subclass of postmodernist fiction. Paradoxically combining realistic and metafictional conventions, these works establish an ironic dialogue with the past, employing yet simultaneously subverting traditional fictional techniques. / In this dissertation, I subject five new, old novels--John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor and LETTERS, Erica Jong's Fanny, T. Coraghessan Boyle's Water Music, and John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman--to a detailed analysis, which compares the parodic role of archaic devices in each contemporary novel to the serious use made of such devices in the past. I argue that new, old novels, by juxtaposing old and new world views, foreground the ontological concerns of fiction and suggest that literary representation is constitutive rather than imitative of reality. Their examination of the relationship between fiction and reality places them at the centre of contemporary concern.

本論文主要是在探討薩曼、魯西迪在東，西小說中如何運用以第三空間為策略在二元對立的世界中找到出口。由於魯西迪漂泊離散的身分，他選擇將自己置於曖昧矛盾的第三空間中以避免被挾制於特定論述或意識形態中。因此魯西迪藉由能夠模糊政治、語言、以及文學方面界線的第三空間為策略，來顯示他如何以曖昧矛盾的處世態度在二元對立的世界中取得自身的主導權。 本論文將會分為三個部分(包括漂泊離散空間、語言第三空間、文學第三空間)來探討魯西迪如何在此小說中使用三種不同的第三空間，以達到抵抗文化身分、標準英語、以及文學經典等霸權。首先，論文第二章最主要在介紹漂泊離散的空間；在此空間中，漂泊離散者能夠依舊保有他們曖昧矛盾的獨立身分並免於被收編或同化於特定的身分中，並且藉此擁有能夠重新定義自己身份的權利與自由。第二，在第三章中魯西迪利用語言中第三空間的觀點來質疑傳統文化翻譯以及標準英語的純正性，為長久以來被曲解、壓抑的東方文化取得發聲的機會；讀者也可藉由文本中語言的挪用來了解認識異文化。最後，於第四章中，我將藉由巴赫汀所闡述存於小說中的新空間和後設小說的戲謔諧擬來分析魯西迪如何創造一個文學第三空間，揭櫫寫作人為的本質；並將社會時事與文學批判結合於小說文類中。總結來說，此三種不同的第三空間不僅反應出魯西迪拒絕選擇而將自身置於矛盾曖昧中的空間中，同時也為二元對立的世界中注入新動力。 / The aim of the thesis is to scrutinize how Salman Rushdie finds an outlet in the dichotomous world by means of the third space in East, West. Due to his diasporic identity, Rushdie decides to stay in an ambivalent space, avoiding being confined in specific ideology or discourse. As a result, using the strategy of the third space, which blurs political, linguistic, and literary boundaries, Rushdie shows how he earns agency in the dichotomous world. This thesis deals with three kinds of third space: diaspora space, linguistic space, and literary space. Each chapter unfolds how Rushdie uses the strategy of the third space to resist hegemonic discourse on human identity, the Standard English, and literary canons. Chapter II begins with an introduction of the diaspora space, by which diasporans are able to maintain their unique identities without being co-opted into a specific subject position. In Chapter III, both traditional cultural translation and the Standard English are questioned in terms of the linguistic third space. By means of the linguistic space, Rushdie challenges the monolithic cultural representation and pureness of the Standard English. The space also helps the distorted and misrecognized eastern culture articulate by appropriation of English. In Chapter IV, I will take metafictional parody and Bakhtin’s new zone of the novel to analyze how Rushdie creates a literary third space to lay bare the fabricated nature of writing and at the same time to combine social and literary critiques within the novel. To sum up, the three types of the third space in East, West not only reflect Rushdie’s refusal to taking sides but also bring dynamics to the dichotomous world.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-02-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:47:16Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 cordeiro_fhc_me_sjrp.pdf: 623421 bytes, checksum: 39d3a582f4ed130fa53c55bc33d451d6 (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Este trabalho propõe-se a estudar Balada da Praia dos Cães (1982), de José Cardoso Pires, sob a perspectiva da paródia do romance policial, tendo em vista que essa obra utiliza-se de procedimentos típicos desse gênero para, a partir de dentro, subvertê-lo. A subversão manifesta-se, principalmente, pelo desvio no foco da narrativa, que deixa de ser a resolução do enigma, como no romance policial clássico, e passa a ser a construção do texto/inquérito por parte do detetive e do narrador, ou seja, a obra não tem como foco principal descobrir quem, como e por que ocorreu o crime, mas sim desvendar o processo de composição narrativa. Nesse sentido, pode-se dizer que o romance cardoseano engendra uma reflexão metalingüística que se desdobra em dois planos: por um lado, vemo-nos diante de um texto que nos revela os próprios mecanismos que o constroem, principalmente, pela recorrência e subversão do paradigma policial, e, por outro, temos um romance sobre o processo pelo qual o detetive elabora uma narrativa a partir das provas, indícios, etc. Tendo em vista essa configuração, destacam-se as instâncias do narrador e do autor, que instauram no romance uma rede de desconfianças que desestabilizam as noções de “verdade” e “autoridade” a partir do exame e questionamento dos mais diversos discursos que se fazem presentes na obra de Cardoso Pires. / This paper aims at studying Balada da Praia dos Cães (1982), by José Cardoso Pires, from the perspective of the detective novel parody, considering that the novel uses the typical procedures of this genre and then subverts it. Subversion is manifested mainly by diverting the focus of the narrative, which is no longer the puzzle solving, as it is in the classic detective story, but the construction of the text/inquest by the detective and the narrator, that is, the novel is not focused on finding out who, how and why the crime occurred, but to unravel the process of the narrative composition. In this sense, it can be said that the cardoseano novel engenders a metalinguistic reflection that unfolds on two levels: on the one hand, we are faced with a text that reveals its own mechanisms of construction, mainly for the recurrence and the subversion of the detective paradigm, and, on the other hand, we have a novel about the process by which the detective creates a narrative based on the proof, evidences, etc. Given this setting, the highlights are on the instances of the narrator and the author, which introduce in the novel a network of suspicions that destabilize the notions of truth and authority from the examination and questioning of many different speeches that are made present in the work of Cardoso Pires.

Text in English / This study offers a close look at Andrew Niccol’s (b 1964) satirical film S1mOne from a biocultural perspective emphasising the technological simulation of a Hollywood celebrity and the farce ensuing from her creation. The film is based on Niccol’s assumption that the hypertrophied culture into which he places his cultural object will be one in which human traits of sociality will be well advanced and the highly demanding genre of satire will be entertaining, persuasive, and on occasion punitive in its ridicule of Hollywood. The study makes a contribution to the idea that a cultural object/text operates as a rapid mechanism for propagating cognition — it shows how Niccol has adapted to less than optimal conditions in his world of Hollywood — in this case he parodies the role of the director of Hollywood films in the figure of Taransky. Cognition is understood as that series of mental processes which include attention, memory, learning (from mimicry as well as other forms), problem solving, ratiocination, and making decisions. Niccol relies on his audience's embodied capacities and skills of recognition, thinking, feeling, remembering, and accounting for his message to be understood. Niccol’s technical skill in editing his narrative to emphasise the satire of the narrative of Taransky and Simone is a critical part of the film’s success. Interpersonal and social propagation of cognition is achieved through reference to other cultural artefacts recalling a variety of similar ideas used in film and other visual creations. The cultural significance of the simulacrum, Simone, is that she is a vehicle for and a form of socially propagated cognition. The powerful imagistic impression of film helps to structure internalised cognitive artefacts in the viewers who are expected to reflect on their habits of viewing and thinking. When a film, artwork, poem or novel is analysed, then such a cultural object becomes a vehicle of and for propagating cognition. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / D. Litt. et Phil. (Art History)

Cette thèse porte sur Les Fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour, ballet héroïque de Jean-Philippe Rameau sur un livret de Louis de Cahusac, créé le 15 mars 1747 à Versailles à l’occasion du second mariage du Dauphin. L’étude se consacre à l’histoire de l’œuvre, explorant ainsi ses diverses représentations, ses remaniements successifs en passant par le rayonnement de l’opéra sur le spectacle lyrique de l’époque. Elle s’intéresse également à la figure de Louis de Cahusac, à ses théories sur l’opéra et le ballet, aux sources d’inspirations de son livret puisant dans l’égyptologie et la franc-maçonnerie. Elle aborde par ailleurs le traitement musical du compositeur. Pour finir, cette étude propose une édition du livret et de la partition accompagnée d’un apparat critique et du catalogue des sources de l’opéra. / This thesis focuses on Les Fêtes de l’Hymen et de l’Amour, an heroic ballet written by Jean-Philippe Rameau with a libretto by Louis de Cahusac, created on March 15th, 1747 in Versailles for the Dauphin’s second wedding. The study is about the history of the piece, exploring its various representations, its successive changes and the influence of this opera on the lyric show of the xviiith century. It is also interested in the figure of Louis de Cahusac, his theories on opera and ballet, the inspirations of his libretto drawing Egyptology and Freemasonry. It also addresses the composer’s musical treatment. Lastly, this study offers an edition of the libretto and the score accompanied by a critical apparatus and a catalog’s sources of the opera.

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Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-26T13:44:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 1003783 bytes, checksum: 3778c74afb684b7a8992a6d39ccd6939 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-11 / This dissertation aims to study the group of the poems The Ark of the Covenant , part of the work The livings , by Carlos Lejar (2011), a Brazilian contemporary poet and literary critic for the bias of studies about post-modern intertextuality. The Ark of the Covenant is a representative work of Brazilian view of modern poetry and this text investigates the discursive intersections between literature and Bible because it dialogues with the two texts. Therefore, it is possible to study about the poetical productivity and the post-modern parody. Furthermore, it is considerate a peculiar literary production because it was made and incorporated to the book during twenty years of poetic growing and maturing. The first work edition was published in 1979 and the 1995 s edition includes 300 new poems as the ones will be studied. Basing on a theoretical support that offers investigative and contemplative about the work possibilities, we intend examine how the poet redesign the religious discourse by transposing it to the literary discourse in the contemporaneity, even though the contemporary poetry study is far from the criticism. Thereby, this subject is interesting once it makes possible a research about how the world is recreated by God s salvation, in a certain faith language heretofore , can express itself in a poetical language?, or how, using poetical initiative, the artist of word recreates and resets a new mythical world order of holy scripture. Thus, researching this subject is motivating and relevant in Literary Studies, which aims to contribute for the amplitude of scientific literary research. / Esta dissertação pretende um estudo acerca do conjunto de poemas A Arca da Aliança , parte integrante da obra Os Viventes, de Carlos Nejar (2011), poeta e crítico literário brasileiro contemporâneo, pelo viés dos estudos sobre intertextualidade pós-moderna. A Arca da Aliança é uma obra representativa do panorama brasileiro da poesia atual e se faz profícuo texto para a investigação das intersecções discursivas entre o literário e o bíblico, por possuir correspondências muito claras entre os dois textos, o que nos leva ao estudo sobre produtividade poética e paródia pós-moderna. Além disso, se configura como ímpar na produção literária do momento por ter sido confeccionada e incorporada ao livro no decorrer de um período de aproximadamente 20 anos de crescimento e amadurecimento poético. A primeira edição da obra foi em 1979, sendo que a edição de 1995 consta de acréscimos de cerca de 300 novos poemas, dentre eles, o conjunto a que nos propomos estudar. Com base em um suporte teórico que nos oferece possibilidades investigativas e contemplativas sobre o tema, almejamos perscrutar como o poeta reelabora o discurso religioso transpondo-o para o literário na contemporaneidade, ainda que o estudo de poesia contemporânea se limite a uma falta de distanciamento crítico. Deste modo, este tema nos interessa a partir do momento em que possibilita uma pesquisa sobre como o mundo recriado pela iniciativa salvífica de Deus, outrora numa certa linguagem da fé, pode exprimir-se, por sua vez, na linguagem de iniciativa poética?, ou como por meio da iniciativa poética, o artista da palavra recria e reconfigura uma nova ordem do mundo mítico da sagrada escritura. Assim, sondar este tema se faz, para nós, um instigante e pertinente trabalho na área dos Estudos Literários, que busca contribuir para o alargamento dos horizontes da pesquisa literária científica.

This thesis targets the British sound film especially comedies from 1930{\crq}s till mid 1970{\crq}s because after this period there is greater TV production which took over feature film production. There is described the production of the main studios such as Gainsborough Pictures and Gaumont-British, Ealing Studios and Rank Organisation. I aim then to classify some film styles such as farce, slapstick, burlesque, screwball and romantic comedy, satire and parody. The last target is to find some famous Czech film makers or actors, who worked or are still involed within the British film production. There are name such as Herbert Lom and Anny Ondráková.

La présente étude revient sur le concept de théâtralité souvent employé à propos du Satyricon pour tenter d’enpréciser les manifestations et les modalités. Car derrière l’apparente simplicité du terme et la banalisation de sonemploi à propos de cette oeuvre, se cache une pluralité de procédés. La théâtralité du Satyricon revêt trois formes.Elle se définit spontanément comme la réutilisation de codes propres aux genres dramatiques comiques auxquelsPétrone emprunte situations, thématiques et procédés linguistiques. Cette théâtralité première est complexifiéepar son ancrage dans un univers narratif orienté, dont les préoccupations recoupent celles du genre satirique. Lerecours à des éléments théâtraux dessine les contours d’une société excessive et inauthentique, et se voit doncfiltrée par le topos du monde décadent : cette théâtralité seconde devient le moyen d’exprimer l’outrance desindividus et de leurs comportements. Et c’est précisément parce que dans le monde du Satyricon les valeurstraditionnelles sont caduques que la littérature classique est obsolète. S’ouvre alors la voie à une théâtralitétroisième, intrinsèquement liée à la parodie. Elle est principalement portée par la voix du narrateur, chez qui lapratique excessive de la déclamation a entraîné une projection systématique dans un au-Delà fictionnel. Lafracture existant désormais entre la réalité et sa perception a une double conséquence : d’une part toutes lessituations du quotidien s’assimilent à des représentations de scènes littéraires de référence ; d’autre part elledéconstruit la littérature traditionnelle en en exhibant les clichés. Cette théâtralité permet à Pétrone de renouvelerla littérature et de jeter les bases du genre romanesque. / The present study reexamines on the concept of theatricality often used about the Satyrica to try to specifyappearances and methods. For behind the visible simplicity of the term and the everyday acceptance of its use inrelation to this work, there hides a plurality of processes. The theatricality of the Satyrica takes on three forms. Itdefines itself spontaneously as the re-Use of codes particular to the funny dramatic genres from which Petroniusborrows situations, themes and linguistic processes. This first theatricality is complicated by its anchoring in adirected narrative universe, whose concerns it shares with those of the satiric genre. The falling back on theatricalelements outlines an excessive and inauthentic society, and thus sees itself filtered by the decadent world topos.And it is exactly because in the world of the Satyrica the traditional values are null and void that classicalliterature is obsolete. The way is then opens to the third theatricality, intrinsically connected to parody. It ismainly carried by the voice of the narrator, to whom the excessive practice of declamation entailed a systematicprojection to a fictional otherworld. The fracture existing from now on between reality and its perception has adouble consequence: on the one hand all the situations of everyday life can be reduced to representations ofliterary reference scenes ; on the other hand it deconstructs the traditional literature through clichés. Thistheatricality allows Petronius to renew literature and to lay the foundations for the novelistic genre.