Esta tese apresenta e analisa excertos da minha tradução não publicada de The Solid Mandala, de Patrick White, em português brasileiro, considerando seus aspectos sóciohistóricos e culturais em três níveis: como tradutor, como revisor da tradução e como crítico literário. A teoria dos polissistemas de Itamar Even-Zohar é adotada para justificar a importância de (re)introduzir Patrick White como representante da Literatura Australiana em nosso sistema literário brasileiro por meio da tradução. Como suporte às capacidades necessárias para realizar a tarefa, o modelo de competências de Amparo Hurtado Albir é apresentado. Quanto aos aspectos culturais, a teoria dos itens específico-culturais de Javier Franco Aixelá é empregada. As traduções publicadas em francês, italiano e espanhol são contrastadas com a minha a fim de identificar inconsistências e/ou soluções, bem como chamar a atenção para desafios que não foram contemplados. A versão em português brasileiro é proposta por meio de excertos selecionados, com os três níveis estando em funcionamento durante o processo de revisão da tradução. Ao buscar fazer a obra de Patrick White ser redescoberta não somente no Brasil, mas também na América Latina e em outros países de língua portuguesa, por meio da tradução, esta tese oferece uma contribuição inédita aos Estudos de Tradução. / This dissertation presents and analyzes excerpts from my unpublished translation of Patrick White’s The Solid Mandala into Brazilian Portuguese considering its socio-historical and cultural aspects at three levels of reading: as a translator, as a revisor/proofreader of the translation and as a literary critic. Itamar Even-Zohar’s Polysystems Theory is adopted to justify the importance of (re)introducing Patrick White as a representative of Australian Literature into our Brazilian system via translation. Supporting the abilities necessary to perform the task, Amparo Hurtado Albir’s model of competences is presented. In regards to cultural aspects, Javier Franco Aixelá’s culture-specific items theory is used. The translations into French, German, Italian and Spanish are contrasted to mine, so as to identify inconsistencies and/or solutions and call attention to challenges which were not addressed. The version in Brazilian Portuguese is conveyed in this dissertation via selected excerpts, with the three levels being at work during the proofreading process of the translation. By attempting to make Patrick White’s oeuvre be rediscovered not only in Brazil, but also in South America and in other Portuguese-speaking countries, through translation, this dissertation presents an innovative contribution to Translation Studies.

Summary: The aim of this paper has been to analyse and categorize Patrick Süskind’s short story Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer (English title: The Story of Mr Sommer (1991)). To this end, the distinctive features of two categories of literature, children’s literature and postmodern narration for adults, have been examined. The formal elements of the text, narrator, structure and language, as well as the thematical elements of the text, have been analysed using a hermaneutic method and concepts of narratology. The analysis has shown that Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer presents several elements representative of the two catagories of literature – literature for children and literature for adults. As a result, it can be ascertained that this short story should be regarded as a text of hybrid structure, thus placing it, not in one of these categories, but in both.

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Dans cette étude nous avons choisi d’aborder la question de la filiation dans la société antillaise en mettant en concordance la psychanalyse et la littérature. Nous nous référons à trois auteurs : Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant et Patrick Chamoiseau qui ont marqué le XXe siècle par trois mouvements : la Négritude, l’Antillanité et la Créolité. L’approchepsychanalytique se réfère aux théories de Freud et de Lacan. À partir des oeuvres poétiques et romanesques nous remontons à l’origine et à ses mythes, nous explorons les traces de la filiation dans les noms, les lieux, les langues, nous visitons les généalogies de la Mère-Afrique aux Pères fondateurs : le Rebelle, le Marron primordial et le Conteur. Le dessein des trois auteurs est de permettre à tout un peuple de se réconcilier avec son Histoire dont la généalogie a été interrompue par la traite et l’esclavage. Les personnages des oeuvres théâtrales et romanesques prennent à leur charge le travail d’élaboration du traumatisme, de la remémoration et de la transmission. La psychanalyse nous montre que ce qui est transmis ce n’est pas seulement une histoire mais aussi des contenus inconscients. Les peuples antillais nés du système esclavagiste héritent d’une double filiation antagoniste représentée par les figures du maître et de l’esclave. L’économie de l’esclavage a mis la mère au centre de la structure familiale et a abandonné le père au rôle de géniteur. Nous avons examiné le drame oedipien dans cette organisation matrifocale. / In this study we chose to address the issue of filiation in Antillean society by matching psychoanalysis and literature. We refer to three authors: Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau that marked the twentieth century by three movements: the Negritude, the Caribeanness and the Creoleness. The psychoanalytic approach refers to theories of Freud and Lacan. From the poetry and fiction we go back to the origin and myths, we explore the traces of filiation in names, laces, languages, we visit the genealogies of Mother Africa to the Founding Fathers: the Rebel, the primordial Maroon and the Storyteller. The purpose of the three authors is to enable a people to come to terms with its history whose genealogy was interrupted by the slave trade and slavery. The characters and theatrical fiction shall bear the work of developing the trauma, of remembering and transmission. Psychoanalysis shows us that what is transmitted is not only history but also unconscious contents. The Antillean peoples born of the slave system inherit a double antagonist filiation represented by the figures of master and slave. The economics of slavery put the mother at the center of family structure and abandoned the father to the role of genitor. We examined the Oedipal drama in this matrifocal organization.

This dissertation offers readings of novels by Pierre Guyotat, Georges Perec, Patrick Modiano and other lesser-known French authors of the twentieth and twenty-first century, analyzing the representation of the “appelés d’Algérie,” the last citizens of France to be mobilized in a wartime draft. Dating back to the Third Republic, military service played a key role in turning both metropolitan and colonial populations into Frenchmen, though clearly not under the same conditions or in the same way. A historically informed account of military service’s role in citizenship formation can provide a useful analytic frame for clarifying literary engagements with contemporary French “identity-talk,” i.e. political and discursive deployments of identity and identity politics, as well as debates around laïcité, universalist assimilationism, and “communautarisme.” In early literary responses to the Algerian War, the character of the conscript serves to criticize the rising tide of consumerism and Americanization in postwar France. In novels by Daniel Anselme and René-Nicolas Ehni, draftees participate in a homosocial republicanism in which “fraternité” trumps both atomized individualism and the normative heterosexual couple, a locus of consumption. In novels by Perec and Modiano, resistance to conscription enables a critique of universalist citizenship, as the figure of the insubordinate or ambivalent conscript provides an opportunity to reckon with Jewish identity and French anti-Semitism. My analysis addresses the unequal and uneven distribution of political rights based on “identity” factors as well as the asymmetrical deployment of the term “communautarisme.” Certain of Guyotat’s texts are perceived to respond politically and aesthetically to the Algerian War, even though they refuse the conventions of realism, verisimilitude, and even representation. Using Foucault to read Guyotat, my analysis of his work provides an opportunity to address twentieth-century French debates concerning engaged and autonomous art, as well as the relationship of radical politics to radical form. I turn in my last chapter to recent novels by the prize-wining French novelists Alexis Jenni, Laurent Mauvignier, Jérôme Ferrari, and Alice Ferney. Set in part during the Algerian War, these novels draw explicit parallels between colonial violence and race-based violence in France today. These rhetorical parallels can obscure historical contingency and complexity, such as the evolving construction of the concept of “race.” Likewise, these novels contrast a virile, homogenous military and an effeminate, fractured republic and can be read as parables for the rise of the Front National in contemporary France. My analysis shows how these works can both participate in and critique particular racialized and gendered views of the French republic.

This dissertation Michael Novak and Patrick Buchanan as Major Representatives of Contemporary American Political Catholicism compares the political thought of two faces of contemporary American political Catholicism represented by the neoconservative Michael Novak and the paleoconservative Patrick J. Buchanan. The first part deals with the context of contemporary political Catholicism and its historical background. The comparison thematizes five problem fields: the issue of democracy and American political system, economic problems, question of foreign policy, the issue of religion and Catholicism and, finally, the conflict over the basis of conservatism. To accomplish the given objective, I analyse the work of both authors, compare their respective ideological positions and set them in the context of other major authors in the given areas and in the context of established political theories. The comparison shows that they both emphasize the significance of the religious and moral aspect of democracy, especially in the American context, however, they do not agree on the universal reach of democratic ideals. In the field of economics, they stand for different views: Novak is an economic neoliberal, while Buchanan a radical economic nationalist. Similarly in relation to foreign policy, Novak...

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Among the founders of the science of town planning at the beginning of the twentieth century, Scotsman Patrick Geddes introduced methods of investigation commensurate with other sciences. A biologist, trained by Thomas Huxley, Geddes borrowed the practices of the microscopical laboratory in creating the Outlook Tower in Edinburgh, Scotland which served as a model for an approach to the study of cities. His method was like that of a field botanist studying a species, and assumed an interdependent relationship between place, work and folk. Embracing the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin, Geddes proposed subtle town planning interventions as a means by which cities could adaptively respond to change over time. He advocated the employ of a graphic device, which he called his "thinking machines," and which served as a paradigmatic strategy to forge new relationships within sets of ideas. Such an approach aligned him with the taxonomic strategies in practice in the formation of museum collections and display of the nineteenth century. This work examines the archival evidence of the principles underlying Geddes' methods in the hope that they may be recovered in contemporary town planning. / Ph. D.

This thesis attempts to clarify how the authors incorporated their theological beliefs in their writing to more clearly discover, although modern audiences often enjoy both authors, why Charlotte Bronte was unimpressed with Jane Austen. The thesis is an examination of the ways in which Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte interact with the Evangelical Reformation within the Anglican Church in their novels Mansfield Park and Jane Eyre, respectively. Both authors, as daughters of Anglican clergymen, were aware of and influenced by the movement, but at varying degrees. This project begins with a brief explanation of the state of the Anglian Church and beginnings of the Evangelical Reformation. The thesis then examines George Austen's influence on his daughter and the characters and text of Mansfield Park to observe the ways in which traditional Anglicanism and tenets of Evangelicalism are discussed in the novel, revealing more clearly where Austen's personal beliefs aligned. Similarly, the project then analyzes Patrick Bronte's influence on Charlotte Bronte and evaluates the characters and text of Jane Eyre to mark the significance of the Evangelical movement on Charlotte Bronte. After studying these works and religious components of their lives, the thesis argues that Austen's traditionally Anglican subtlety with the subject of religion did not appeal to Bronte's passion for the subject, clearly inspired by the Evangelical Reformation. / Master of Arts / Charlotte Brontë was unimpressed with the writing of Jane Austen, which is surprising as the audience for one author usually also enjoys the other author as well. Although the specific reason for Brontë’s distaste for Austen is unknown, this thesis proposes that Brontë disagreed with how Austen portrayed Evangelicalism. Both Brontë and Austen were Anglican clergymen’s daughters, and they both grew up with an awareness of the Evangelical Reformation occurring in the Anglican Church. Brontë was influenced by the movement more, which this thesis shows after first outlining the Evangelical Reformation, exploring Austen’s relationship with it and how it appears in Mansfield Park, and then examining Brontë’s relationship with the Reformation and how it appears in Jane Eyre as well. This thesis contains brief historical and biographical sketches of the authors and their families, literary examinations of the novels Mansfield Park and Jane Eyre to study how the authors interacted with the Evangelical ideals, and an analysis that looks at faith in these two novels in a comparative way to explain why Brontë might have disagreed with and therefore disliked Austen’s writing.

En nous fondant sur six romans de Patrick Chamoiseau, Ken Bugul et Marie NDiaye, cette thèse examine la profondeur de la pratique métatextuelle qui alimente les textes. De ces œuvres et auteurs d’une grande diversité, la constante repose sur une réflexion sur l’art du roman au sein de la fiction : pourquoi et comment le commentaire critique s’articule-t-il ? Quel est son statut dans la fiction ? Quels enjeux pour ces romans qui se regardent fonctionner ? Cette recherche aborde ces questions à travers l’analyse de romans dont la double réflexion sur la société et la littérature est dense. Ces auteurs martiniquais, sénégalais et français nous amènent à réfléchir sur l’essence de la fiction, les jeux et enjeux de discours et les implications sociales de leur prise de parole. Le métatexte interroge donc la complexité et le fonctionnement de l’œuvre et médite sur les aspects principaux de sa littérarité. Toutefois, la critique du roman et du regard de l’auteur pratiquée dans ces textes contient des visions précises et singulières de l’apport de la fiction à l’examen de la société. Les quatre chapitres de la thèse sont guidés par des théories de la sociologie institutionnelle et de l’analyse discursive. Ce cadre méthodologique permet d’observer l’articulation entre le contexte socio-historique extérieur aux romans et les procédés discursifs à l’intérieur de leurs pages. Des visions du genre romanesque entrent en concurrence dans les champs littéraires antillais, africain et français dans lesquels Chamoiseau, Bugul et NDiaye participent. De même, ces auteurs développent une idée du roman au sein de leurs œuvres de fiction. Cette articulation, rendue possible par une pratique autoréflexive du roman, montre la prépondérance dans leurs œuvres de l’hybridité générique, de la pluralité (de discours, de savoirs et de points de vue), de l’opacité, de l’ambivalence et de la conscience critique du texte et de ses procédés. Cette thèse montre en quoi, pour Chamoiseau, Bugul et NDiaye, l’histoire du roman est inséparable d’une enquête sur l’auteur, l’écriture, le langage, le référent et le monde des lettres. / This thesis examines metatextual practices in novels by Patrick Chamoiseau, Ken Bugul and Marie NDiaye. Among the great diversity of their works, a major constant is the reflection on writing and the novel. Why and how is a critical commentary expressed in the novels? What is its status in a work of fiction? What is at stake in these novels that observe their own functions and practices? These questions are answered through the analysis of novels containing a rich reflection on both society and literature. These authors from Martinique, Senegal and France bring the reader to reflect on the essence of fiction, the consequences of discourse and the social implications of their writing. The novel’s metatext therefore interrogates the complexity and the functioning of the work, as well as the principle aspects of what makes it literature. Furthermore, the critique of the novel and of the author’s gaze practiced in these texts contains precise and singular visions on the advantages of fiction in the analysis of society. The four chapters of this thesis are guided by theories on institutional sociology and discourse analysis. This methodological framework allows for the observation of the links between the novel’s socio-historical context and its discursive practices. While competing visions of the novel as a genre populate the Caribbean, African and French literary landscapes, the authors also develop an idea of the novel in their works of fiction. This research examines how the expression of an “idea of the novel” is made possible through self-reflexive practices. It also looks at the preponderance in the texts of generic hybridity, plurality (of discourses, types of knowledge and viewpoints), the opaque, ambivalence and a critical consciousness of the novel and its practices. This thesis demonstrates how, for Chamoiseau, Bugul et NDiaye, the novel’s story is inseparable from an inquiry into language, writing, the author, the referent and the literary world.