Abstract This study is a comparative analysis of selected poems from Jacques Prévert’s Paroles (1946/1947). It is an application of a mainstreamed theoretical paradigm comprising deconstruction, hermeneutics and relevance. The overall aim is to show how each translator of Jacques Prévert derived latent and relatively obvious semantic possibilities from the ST. This objective is attained through a descriptive analysis of the translation process, and an attempt to interpret the findings thereby revealed, primarily according to the tenets of deconstruction, and according to the tenets of hermeneutics and relevance if possible. The theoretical model that grounds the study is a non-reductionist, non-prescriptivist and non-evaluative. That is the reason why the traditional terminology associated with some of the theoretical aspects mainstreamed in the model have been adapted to fit in with the general aim of the study. Actual reading experiences hardly entail a consecutive reading of more than one text. But this research is like a laboratory experiment; it tests the applicability of integrated [theoretical] formulae to a hypothetical case, the consecutive reading of selected poems from Paroles (1946/1947) and their English translations.

Este trabalho analisa o Mangue como um fenômeno cultural que se distingue temporal e espacialmente de outras manifestações culturais que ocorrem nos âmbitos local, nacional e mundial. Como suas características podem ser pensadas como alguns dos aspectos culturais que marcam nosso tempo presente, suas possibilidades de distinção são analisadas a partir de duas perspectivas: a formação de identidades e a relação com a indústria fonográfica. Parto da hipótese de que o Mangue apresenta facetas modernas, pós-modernas e globalizadas, discutindo-as da perspectiva da arte e sua relação com a economia e a política. A análise sugere, ao final, que estas diferentes temporalidades não são mutuamente excludentes, mas, antes, combinam-se, rearranjando as relações entre as partes para que o todo continue em funcionamento / This research analyzes the Mangue [Mangroove] as a cultural phenomenon that distinguishes itself from other local, national and world cultural activities in relation to time and space. As Mangues characteristics may be thought in the same fashion of other cultural aspects that characterize our present time, its possibilities of distinction are analyzed from two distinct perspectives: the formation of identities and the relation between Mangue and the phonographic industry. I assume the hypothesis that the Mangue presents modern, post-modern and global facets, and discuss them from the perspective of arts and the relation between arts, economy and politics. Finally, the analysis suggests that these different temporalities are not mutually exclusive, but concur with each other, rearranging the relation between the parts in order to keep the whole at work

Este trabalho analisa o Mangue como um fenômeno cultural que se distingue temporal e espacialmente de outras manifestações culturais que ocorrem nos âmbitos local, nacional e mundial. Como suas características podem ser pensadas como alguns dos aspectos culturais que marcam nosso tempo presente, suas possibilidades de distinção são analisadas a partir de duas perspectivas: a formação de identidades e a relação com a indústria fonográfica. Parto da hipótese de que o Mangue apresenta facetas modernas, pós-modernas e globalizadas, discutindo-as da perspectiva da arte e sua relação com a economia e a política. A análise sugere, ao final, que estas diferentes temporalidades não são mutuamente excludentes, mas, antes, combinam-se, rearranjando as relações entre as partes para que o todo continue em funcionamento / This research analyzes the Mangue [Mangroove] as a cultural phenomenon that distinguishes itself from other local, national and world cultural activities in relation to time and space. As Mangues characteristics may be thought in the same fashion of other cultural aspects that characterize our present time, its possibilities of distinction are analyzed from two distinct perspectives: the formation of identities and the relation between Mangue and the phonographic industry. I assume the hypothesis that the Mangue presents modern, post-modern and global facets, and discuss them from the perspective of arts and the relation between arts, economy and politics. Finally, the analysis suggests that these different temporalities are not mutually exclusive, but concur with each other, rearranging the relation between the parts in order to keep the whole at work

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:46:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leila Maria Mansini Fiamoncine.pdf: 604746 bytes, checksum: 2b3468f3d3a2c923781a7b37b584048e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-08 / Fundo Mackenzie de Pesquisa / The aim of this study is to approach the theme of the double in the dialogical appropriation of the myth of Amphitryon by José Saramago, when writing the post-modern novel O Homem Duplicado . Being deeply rooted in the mythological field and reaching the post-modern times, duplicated individuals have been represented under the most diverse forms the counterparts, the twins, the portrait, the reflection in the mirror and pass through time unveiling the individual and social relationships of each period from the ancient comedies up to the contemporary dramas. With such purpose, this essay will present an introductory research about the concept of myth and its use in the ancient times; then, it will present a research about the double and its diachronic literary evolution. Then the myth of the double will be seen both in the ancient myth of Amphitryon and in the novel by Saramago, with subsequent setting up of the relationships between both works. / Esta dissertação busca abordar a temática do duplo na retomada dialógica do mito de Anfitrião, feita por José Saramago no romance moderno O Homem Duplicado. Com profundas raízes mitológicas até chegar ao romance moderno, indivíduos duplicados foram representados em toda a literatura sob as mais diversas formas - os sósias, os gêmeos, o retrato, o reflexo no espelho - e perpassam o tempo desvendando as relações individuais e sociais de cada época, desde as comédias antigas até os dramas contemporâneos. Com este objetivo, o trabalho apresentará, em primeiro lugar, uma pesquisa sobre o conceito de mito e seu modo de utilização à época da antiguidade clássica. Em seguida, apresentará um estudo do duplo e do modo como esse tema é explorado no mito de Anfitrião e, depois, no romance O homem duplicado. Por último são estabelecidas as relações dialógicas encontradas em ambos os textos.

This thesis focuses on the issue of regional authenticity in Barry Hannah's contemporary southern fiction (1970-2010), in the context of some recent concerns about the validity of regional studies in a postregional moment, and about the efficacy of the authenticity paradigm itself. By examining those Hannah narratives that best encourage some rethinking of conceptual understandings of the post- South and postsouthern literature, this thesis reveals the significant contribution that Hannah's fiction can make to critical apprehensions of the region as an evolving field of enquiry. The metafictional dimension of Hannah's writing is testimony to its unique value, because the putative sense of "southernness" his stories appear to dramatize is complicated by an intense self-reflexivity about the ways in which a sense of place has never been foundational or essential but has always been constructed and performed. Deploying sustained close analyses of the best of Hannah's fiction (the kind of attention it has conspicuously lacked), this thesis argues that the region is constantly (re-)emerging in a process of myth-making, dialogue and performance, rather than having suffered some simple historical shift from southern to postsouthern. Understanding Hannah's fiction in the ways presented is to offer the possibility of some revision in thinking, about whether the concepts "South" and "southern" have survived both the deconstructive and postregional turns of the late twentieth century, and the transnational turn into the "new" southern studies from the early twenty-first century onward. The Hannah texts included here are identified exclusively for their value in reconceptualising those issues in recent southern studies where an impasse is imagined between regional ("southern") and global ("postmodern"), to suggest it is wholly conceivable to "have it both ways."

This thesis is a book length collection of poetry—all original and by the author. The book has three chapters, each with a different mode of expressing the work’s overall theme: the remnants of unfulfilled wishes. The first chapter deals with ordinary or mundane manifestations of the theme. The second chapter covers extraordinary, but still feasible, variations on the theme. The final chapter deals with subconscious versions of these unfulfilled wishes. It is far more surreal than the other two chapters and exists in a sort of dream-reality. The poetry included in this work is all free verse. There are narrative and lyric poems present, along with other experimental modes of poetry. Even though plot threads run through some individual poems, the overall collection shares only thematic unity. The work, as the title implies, seeks to call attention the fragmentation of dead dreams after hope has burned away. In a sense then, this collection could be seen as a post-modern work. The poems are arranged within the chapters to either create groupings around minithemes, or to create sharp contrast. The order represented in this collection is an attempt to maximize impact. The cast of characters in this collection of poems is meant to be representative of the characters present in city life. There are drunks and prostitutes, mothers and fathers, lovers and ex-lovers, husbands and wives, sisters and brothers, schoolchildren, writers, grandparents, lawyers, politicians, photographers, gamblers and even corpses. These characters populate a world where unanswered wishes are as legitimate as minutes and hours as instruments to gauge the passing of lives—a poetic rendering of Earth at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

This dissertation asks how it came to be that Amina Lawal, a peasant woman from Northern Nigeria, was sentenced to death by stoning in 2002 for committing the crime of zinā, or illegal sexual activity, three years after full Islamic sharīah penal law began to be implemented there by way of massive grassroots demand. Each chapter examines a factor I deem necessary to explore this question. Drawing on ethnographic evidence gathered during fieldwork in Northern Nigeria, I first examine "sharīah as social text," concluding that sharīah is thought to offer the radical societal ordering and historical and cultural legitimacy necessary to combat the corruption and poverty associated with the Federal State structure. However, the integration of the stoning punishment into the formative period of Islamic law (1st-3rd AH/ 7th-10 CE centuries), taken up in Chapter two, reveals stoning to have presented theological problems, challenging its reception in contemporary Nigeria as a symbol of stability. Chapter three traces the slow integration of Hausaland into a legalistic milieu identified with an eastward Arab-Islamic epistemic tradition by the eighteenth century, culminating in the Sokoto Caliphate's (r. 1809 - 1903) identification with the Mālikī school of Islamic law. The British arrival in the late nineteenth century ended the Caliphate, changed Islamic penal law, and promulgated the "Native Courts Proclamation," which outlawed the stoning punishment despite its absence during the Sokoto Caliphate. This history is often recalled in contemporary Northern Nigeria, but only recently, as the State weakens and the Muslim north loses political power. Chapter four analyzes Lawal's trial as the stage where the boundaries and mandates of post-1999 sharī'ah are delineated. I call several features of legal argumentation endemic of "post-modern Islamic law": legal reductionism, reliance mainly on primary texts, combining Islamic and constitutional arguments, and eschewing the jurisprudential tradition. These factors combine to make it easier (relative to Islamic history) to mete out stoning. Finally, I examine gender and the Western reaction to the case, arguing that these discourses collude to ironically elide the voice of Amina Lawal, Nigerian women more generally, and the stoning punishment per se.

Abstract Headline: Young trouble and teenage love (Fjortisgrubbel och tonårskärlek) Number of pages: 37 Author: Annika Ilmoni Tutor: Amelie Hössjer Course: Media and communication C Period: Autumn 2007 University: Division of Media and Communication, Department of Information Science, Uppsala University Purpose/aim: The purpose of the work was to produce a comparing study of two Swedish teenage films from different periods of time, 1970 and 2005. An analysis was to be made of how love between teenagers as well as the heterosexual relationship in general was depicted in each of the films and further investigate the gender construction in both films. Material/method: With the intention of narrowing down the complexity and make the evaluation more lucid 5 scenes from each film were used for comparison, these were chosen through the Anglo Saxon dramaturgy. To make the scenes more comparable 4 factors were used for analysis in each scene, these were: clothes, recreational activities, behaviour and environment. Beside the above given factors the heterosexual relationship were analysed and compared in each of the scenes through the theory of dominance in dialogue. Main results: The gender construction occurs obliviously in the older film from 1970 while taking place in a more conscious way in the film from 2005. Further on the heterosexual relationship is perpetually depicted in the 70’s film with a submissive girl and predominant boy, the same dominance is easily seen in the more recent film but with a higher rate of equality as the girl is portrayed as the dominant character in almost half of all scenes. A general note for the comparison of the two films is that a consciousness of gender construction does not lead to a direct elimination of these. Keywords: Teenage movie, post-modern feminism, gender construction, heterosexual relationship

The role of the father in post-modern times has changed dramatically and the new challenges posed to fathers due to these changes prompted this study. The aim of this study is to design a theory for a practice that could possibly be used by a Biblical counsellor or therapist to counsel and enrich fathers amidst the challenges of the post-modern world. The research was done on the basis of the practical theological model of Zerfass and contains the following structure: • A meta-theoretical evaluation of fatherhood in related subject areas revealed by literature studies. • The meta-theoretical evaluation was combined with an empirical research by means of interviews with fathers. An applicable questionnaire was used to research the conceptual understanding of fatherhood and practice of post-modern fatherhood with the fathers. . A basic theory on which Scriptural perspectives on fatherhood have been researched. The meta-theoretical research indicated that the main reason for the dramatic changes to fatherhood is not ideological based but due to practical changes in society. Due to the women's very successful entering of the workplace, a predominantly men's territory, many things have changed on the family front. Men were forced to share responsibilities in the practical care taking of children at home. A search for new models to post-modern fatherhood started. The old patriarchal model failed to provide ways of meaningful understanding and processing the new challenges of fatherhood brought on by practical changes in the society of a post-modern world. Linked to this search for new models of post-modern fatherhood is the feminist's struggle against patriarchy. The research indicated that the main pillar of patriarchy was the theological concept of God as Father. The feminist produced a lot of material on the ways and means to free God and society of patriarchy. The basic theory on which Scriptural perspectives on fatherhood have been researched took into consideration the results of feminist's studies. One benefit from the feminist's struggle was the emphasis put on the metaphorical character of theological discourse. God our Father is a metaphorical discourse, which bring into play the hermeneutic process of interpretation. Realising the metaphorical character of theological language we can enhance our understanding of God by reconstructing our concept of God's fatherhood. Through research we rediscovered many other complimenting metaphors of God in a parental capacity (God sometimes acts like a Mother, He gave birth to His people etc.) which can help the post-modern father to come to a better self-expression when it comes to the challenges posed to him today. Very often these new roles were traditionally restricted to the women's territory. The conclusion of the research is that through the process of pastoral hermeneutics the post-modern father can discover the cultured derived practice of his fatherhood and evaluate this post-modern fatherhood in terms of God's fatherhood as it has been revealed through the process of researching the Scripture. The interaction between his understanding of what fatherhood means and of God's fatherhood enables the father to come to a new and meaningful self-expression of his own fatherhood in post-modern times. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.

The role of the father in post-modern times has changed dramatically and the new challenges posed to fathers due to these changes prompted this study. The aim of this study is to design a theory for a practice that could possibly be used by a Biblical counsellor or therapist to counsel and enrich fathers amidst the challenges of the post-modern world. The research was done on the basis of the practical theological model of Zerfass and contains the following structure: • A meta-theoretical evaluation of fatherhood in related subject areas revealed by literature studies. • The meta-theoretical evaluation was combined with an empirical research by means of interviews with fathers. An applicable questionnaire was used to research the conceptual understanding of fatherhood and practice of post-modern fatherhood with the fathers. . A basic theory on which Scriptural perspectives on fatherhood have been researched. The meta-theoretical research indicated that the main reason for the dramatic changes to fatherhood is not ideological based but due to practical changes in society. Due to the women's very successful entering of the workplace, a predominantly men's territory, many things have changed on the family front. Men were forced to share responsibilities in the practical care taking of children at home. A search for new models to post-modern fatherhood started. The old patriarchal model failed to provide ways of meaningful understanding and processing the new challenges of fatherhood brought on by practical changes in the society of a post-modern world. Linked to this search for new models of post-modern fatherhood is the feminist's struggle against patriarchy. The research indicated that the main pillar of patriarchy was the theological concept of God as Father. The feminist produced a lot of material on the ways and means to free God and society of patriarchy. The basic theory on which Scriptural perspectives on fatherhood have been researched took into consideration the results of feminist's studies. One benefit from the feminist's struggle was the emphasis put on the metaphorical character of theological discourse. God our Father is a metaphorical discourse, which bring into play the hermeneutic process of interpretation. Realising the metaphorical character of theological language we can enhance our understanding of God by reconstructing our concept of God's fatherhood. Through research we rediscovered many other complimenting metaphors of God in a parental capacity (God sometimes acts like a Mother, He gave birth to His people etc.) which can help the post-modern father to come to a better self-expression when it comes to the challenges posed to him today. Very often these new roles were traditionally restricted to the women's territory. The conclusion of the research is that through the process of pastoral hermeneutics the post-modern father can discover the cultured derived practice of his fatherhood and evaluate this post-modern fatherhood in terms of God's fatherhood as it has been revealed through the process of researching the Scripture. The interaction between his understanding of what fatherhood means and of God's fatherhood enables the father to come to a new and meaningful self-expression of his own fatherhood in post-modern times. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2005.