Cette thèse consacrée à Die Ausgewanderten de W.G. Sebald (1992) procède à une étude microscopique et détaillée de l’écriture dans sa singularité, une radiographie du texte et de sa matérialité hétérogène. L’étude montre la structure binaire sous-jacente de l’ouvrage, la complexité des stratégies stylistiques et narratives, la manière dont le signifiant se soumet à l’impératif catégorique du signifié mais aussi la prééminence de signes tangentiels et obliques ; elle s’intéresse également à la singularité de l’enchaînement des discours rapportés et met en lumière le geste mélancolique du narrateur sébaldien. Il apparaît que l’intertextualité revêt une spécificité particulière puisque la polyphonie sébaldienne est orientée différemment de celle envisagée par M. Bakhtine. La deuxième partie s’attache à étudier la critique de la civilisation (Kulturkritik) dans une œuvre fortement marquée par la constellation idéologique de l’École de Francfort et plus précisément par « La Dialectique de la Raison » de Horkheimer et d’Adorno. La prose allemande muséale de l’auteur, qui rappelle celle d’Adalbert Stifter mais aussi, par ses emboîtements narratifs, emprunte la virtuosité bernhardienne, est incrustée de « moments » de bonheur ou de beauté qui mettent en évidence et soulignent l’inouï du monde concentrationnaire. Les thématiques de l’exil et du pays natal sont au centre des intérêts de la troisième partie. L’étude s’attache à montrer que l’ouvrage réécrit en quelque sorte une littérature de l’exil que l’auteur, professeur de littérature de langue allemande, a eu l’occasion de fréquenter mais aussi d’analyser. C’est un « chœur d’exilés » qui se fait entendre dans Die Ausgewanderten et qui manifeste la tragédie de l’homme moderne. / This thesis on The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald (1992) focuses on a microscopic and detailed study of Sebald’s writing in its specificity, a radiography of the text and of its heterogeneous materiality. The study pays attention to the binary structure of the work, the complexity ot the stylistic and narrative strategies, the way the signifier obeys the categorical imperative of the signified and the primacy of tangential and oblique signs ; it also deals with the singular linking of reported speech and underlines the melancholic gesture of the narrator. It appears that intertextuality owns a particuliar specificity because the polyphony it creates differs from the Bakhtinian model. The second part deals with cultural criticism (Kulturkritik) which owes a lot to the ideological model of the Frankfurt School and to Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment in particular. The museum-like German prose of the author, which recalls that of Adalbert Stifter, but also, thanks to narrative nesting, emulates the virtuosity of Thomas Bernhard, is embellished with happy or beautiful “moments” which underline and emphasize the unprecedentedness of the extermination camps. The third part will set out the themes of exile and the native country. The study underlines that The Emigrants reconstructs a literature of exile that the author, a professor of German literature, has perused, studied and analysed. The chorus of emigrants that can be heard imparts what the tragedy of modern man amounts to. / Diese Dissertation über Die Ausgewanderten von W.G. Sebald (1992) führt eine mikroskopische Untersuchung der Schreibweise, ein “Röntgenbild” des Textes und dessen heterogener Materialität durch. Die Studie legt die binäre Struktur des Werks an den Tag, beschreibt die Vielschichtigkeit der stilistischen und narrativen Strategien, die Unterordnung des Signifikanten unter den kategorischen Imperativ des Signifikaten, aber auch den Vorrang des tangentialen und indirekten Zeichens. Sie kommentiert ebenfalls die sonderbare Einschachtelung der direkten Rede und den melancholischen Gestus des Erzählers, und arbeitet die eigenartige Dimension der Intertextualität im Rahmen der vom Bachtinschen Modell stark abweichenden sebaldischen Polyphonie heraus. Der zweite Teil geht auf die kulturkritische Dimension ein, die durch die ideologische Konstellation der Frankfurter Schule, beziehungsweise durch die Dialektik der Aufklärung von Horkheimer und Adorno tief geprägt ist. Die museale deutsche Prosa des Schriftstellers, die an diejenige Adalbert Stifters, infolge der narrativen Einschachtelungen aber auch an die Virtuosität Thomas Bernhards erinnert, ist mit Glücks- oder Schönheitsmomenten verziert, die das Unerhörte der Shoah umso mehr unterstreichen. Im dritten Teil steht die Thematik von Exil und Heimat im Mittelpunkt des Interesses. Es wird deutlich, dass W.G. Sebald eine Literatur des Exils umschreibt, mit der er Umgang und geistigen Austausch gepflegt hat, die er erforscht und kommentiert hat. Hier ist ein “Chor von Ausgewanderten” zu hören, der die Tragödie des modernen Menschen zum Ausdruck bringt

- Aj In this work we focused on the literary genre of the fantastic short story, a genre that has its specific features, working with mystery and ambiguity, and relying on the interactive relationship between the reader and the text. We looked at terms fantastic literature, fantastic short story and we studied which attributes are typical for this literature (such as individual motifs, composition, atmosphere and language-specific resources). Than we were looking for the presence of these attributes in individual works of selected authors. The most important representatives of Czech fantastic stories were compared with selected German Romanticists who were the inception for our authors who followed them and in whose work we find the fantastic phenomena. Then we tracked the similarities and differences in work of these authors. We found, that despite substantial conformity in the use of specific attributes of fantastic stories, the individual works of our authors differs significantly, not only in the frequency of use of these attributes, but also in the overall tone of the work and its effect on the reader. To better understand all the work, we have included in addition to the parts of the works and typically observed phenomena, the key biographical details of all authors, because as it was finally...

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Isabel dos Santos Silva.pdf: 788688 bytes, checksum: 9f107dd30f7e64d8ca2e9bd984d105aa (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work aims at proposing an analysis on Antonio de Alcântara Machado s piece Brás, Bexiga e Barra Funda (1927), considering it a register-narrative of Italian-paulistano factory-hands quotidian and the cartography of São Paulo in the 1920 s. Thereunto we chose three narrative elements that proved to be essential to the register-narrative elaboration: the author aesthetic project - (documental prose), the presence of a city s space documentarist narrator and the register of the Italian-paulistano labourers quotidian life. The opening chapter captures Alcântara Machado s point of view on the 1920 s Literature and presents the documental prose principles, a project coined and made real by the author in Brás, Bexiga e Barra Funda. The documentarist narrator is shown on the second chapter, where São Paulo s cartography is taken as a privileged fictional spot to the narrative-register documentation, as well as Italian-paulistano customs, traditions and habits. The final chapter is focused on the analysis of the short stories Gaetaninho, Lisetta and Carmela from the social-historic perspective, highlighting the Italian-paulistano workers quotidian register, captured in their drama and aspirations put in focus by oppression caused by the irreversible city modernization / Este trabalho faz a leitura e análise dos contos da coletânea Brás, Bexiga e Barra Funda (1927), de Antonio de Alcântara Machado, sob o foco de uma narrativa-registro do cotidiano do operário ítalo-paulistano e da cartografia da cidade de São Paulo, na década de 1920. Para isso, selecionamos três elementos que se mostram essenciais para a elaboração do registro-narrativo: a prosa documental, a presença de um narrador documentarista do espaço da cidade e o registro da vida cotidiana dos operários ítalo-paulistanos. O capítulo inicial, recupera o ponto de vista de Alcântara Machado a respeito da literatura dos anos 20 e apresenta os princípios da prosa documental, projeto estético cunhado pelo autor e concretizado em Brás, Bexiga e Barra Funda. O narrador documentarista ganha lugar no segundo capítulo, no qual a cartografia da cidade de São Paulo é tomada como lugar ficcional privilegiado para a documentação do registro-narrativo. O capítulo final analisa, do ponto de vista literário-histórico-social, os contos: Gaetaninho, Lisetta e Carmela, evidenciando o registro do cotidiano dos operários ítalo-paulistanos, flagrados em seus dramas e desejos postos em foco pela opressão gerada pela irreversível modernização da cidade

L’objectif principal de cette thèse a été d’expliquer les raisons du succès du poème en prose dans les revues littéraires belges du dernier quart du XIXe siècle ;en particulier, nous nous sommes penchés sur les périodiques les plus prestigieux de la période :La Jeune Belgique (1881-1897) et La Wallonie (1886-1892).La première partie du travail a été consacrée aux difficultés relatives à la délimitation du corpus en question. Sous ce nom, les auteurs de l’époque ont fait paraitre des œuvres très dissemblables et la critique académique qui s’est penchée sur la question n’est jamais parvenue à fournir une définition cohérente du genre. Nous avons mis en évidence surtout comment il n’existe aucune solution de continuité entre le poème en prose et ce que Bertrand Vibert a appelé dans ses études « le conte poétique » symboliste.La deuxième partie de la recherche s’est alors portée sur la délimitation du corpus et sur la description des formes, des thèmes et des motifs les plus récurrents. Les principaux auteurs dont nous nous sommes occupés sont Hector Chainaye (1865-1913), Charles Delchevalerie (1872-1950), O. G. Destrée (1867-1919), Jules Destrée (1863-1936), Maurice des Ombiaux (1868-1943), Arnold Goffin (1863-1934), Charles Van Lerberghe (1861-1907) et Émile Verhaeren (1855-1916). Dans la partie finale, nous avons vu pour quelles raisons ce genre a été aussi souvent pratiqué par des écrivains fraichement entrés en littérature ;accepté tant par les Parnassiens qui occupaient à l’époque le pôle dominant du champ littéraire, tant par l’avant-garde symboliste, le poème en prose apparaissait comme le choix stratégiquement le plus sûr pour parvenir à la consécration. Nous verrons que ce genre ayant déjà « fait date », ce choix n’a pas été toujours payant. / Doctorat en Langues, lettres et traductologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Doctor of Philosophy(PhD) / This study investigates the poetic foundation of David Malouf’s poetry and prose published from 1960 to 1982. Its purpose is to extend reading strategies so that the nature of his poetic and its formative influence are more fully appreciated. Its thesis is that Malouf explores and tests with increasing confidence and daring a poetic imagination that he believes must meet the demands of the times. Malouf’s work is placed in relation to Wallace Stevens’ belief that the poetic imagination should “push back against the pressure of reality”, a view discussed by Seamus Heaney in “The Redress of Poetry”. The surprise of the poetic as “unpredicted aesthetic value” (García-Berrio, 1989) is significant to his purposes and techniques, as it creates idea-images and feeling-values (Jung, 1921) that bring together apparently opposite ways of knowing the world. In seeking to represent the meeting of inner and outer perceptions, Malouf’s work shows the influence not only of Stevens but also Rilke and contemporary American poetry of “deep image”. The Australian context of Malouf’s work is considered in relation to Judith Wright’s essay “The Writer and the Crisis” and the poetry of Malouf’s contemporaries. Details of the manuscript development of his first four novels show Malouf’s steps towards a clearer representation of his holistic, post-romantic vision. His correspondence with the poet Judith Rodriguez provides useful insights into his purposes. Theories and research about brain functions, the nature of intelligence and learning provide an important international context in the 1960s and 1970s, given Malouf’s interest in how meaning forms from perception and experience. Jean Piaget’s view of intelligence and David Kolb’s theory of experiential learning (1984) offer frameworks for reading Malouf that have not yet been considered. The thesis offers a model of poetic learning that highlights the interplay of dialectically opposed ways of forming meaning and points to the importance for Malouf of holding diverse states of mind together through the poetic imaginary.

Les rejets urbains par temps de pluie constituent un problème majeur pour les gestionnaires de l'eau en région parisienne. Une meilleure caractérisation des matières organiques rejetées par temps de pluie permet de mieux évaluer la désoxygénation du milieu récepteur, la Seine. Un bassin versant expérimental a été choisi en proche banlieue parisienne pour étudier les eaux usées par temps de pluie. Les résultats montrent que les flux sont une fonction du cycle journalier des eaux usées et de l'intensité des pluies. En journée par temps sec, les teneurs en polluants et les débits sont plus élevés que pendant la nuit. Les flux des polluants déversés pendant la journée sont ainsi supérieurs aux flux rejetés la nuit à pluie égale. Dans les réseaux de petite taille et de faibles pentes, un dépôt de temps sec peut être remis en suspension par des pluies intenses et augmenter temporairement la charge polluante. Les matières organiques du réseau en temps sec sont mieux et plus rapidement dégradables qu'en temps de pluie. La biodégradabilité des matières en suspension dans le réseau diminue avec l'intensité des pluies en raison d'un apport de carbone faiblement dégradable par les eaux de ruissellement et les dépôts en réseau. L'effet toxique des rejets urbains de temps de pluie sur le milieu récepteur a été étudié au laboratoire sur une population mixte du phytoplancton de la Seine. Nos études montrent que les rejets peuvent diminuer la production primaire de la Seine de l'ordre de 60% après une dilution au cinquième, cette inhibition est principalement due aux micropolluants organiques et partiellement aux métaux lourds, dont le zinc. Les effets varient fortement avec la composition des rejets, la toxicité des métaux en particulier dépendant de leur état de complexation. Le comportement de la matière organique et des bactéries hétérotrophes rejetées par temps de pluie dans le milieu récepteur a été étudié en Seine après d'importants rejets du principal déversoir de la région parisienne. Lorsque la dilution du rejet est inférieure à 10%, les effets sur le milieu sont peu sensibles. Les masses d'eau usée ont pu être suivies in situ à l'aide de la conductivité et des concentrations d'oxygène. Une relation entre la quantité de carbone organique dissous biodégradable rejetée et le déficit d'02 a pu être établie. La matière organique fixée aux matières en suspension sédimente très rapidement et ne participe pas directement à la désoxygénation. La désoxygénation in situ est principalement due aux bactéries allochtones, apportées par le rejet, de taille supérieure à 1µm. Leur croissance est plus élevée que celle des bactéries fluviales, mais leur vitesse de disparition l'est aussi. Les polluants toxiques du rejet sont susceptibles de diminuer la production du phytoplancton et d'aggraver ainsi les déficits de près d'un milligramme d'oxygène voire plus en période de forte production. Ces données permettent des simulations détaillées de l'évolution de l'oxygène dissous en Seine suite aux principaux rejets de l'agglomération parisienne.

This thesis discovers the spiritual and aesthetic vision of poet-journalist Robert Grendon (c. 1867–1949), a man of Irish-Herero parentage. It situates him in the wider Swedenborgian discourse regarding African ‘regeneration’. While preserving the overall diachronic continuity of a literary biography, it treats his principal thematic preoccupations synchronically. The objective has been to show the imaginative ways in which he employs his rich and diverse religio-philosophical background to account for South Africa’s social problems, to pass judgement upon the principal players, and to point out an alternative path to a brighter future. Chapter 1 looks at Emanuel Swedenborg’s mystical revelations on the heightened spiritual proclivity of the ‘celestial’ African, and the consequences of New Jerusalem’s descent over the heart of Africa, which Swedenborg believed to be taking place, undetected by Europeans, around 1770. It also examines how those pronouncements were received in Europe, America, and—most particularly—in Africa. Chapter 2 examines the circumstances surrounding Grendon’s birth and childhood in what is today Namibia. It takes note of a family tradition that Joseph Grendon married a daughter of Maharero, a prominent Herero chief, and it looks at Robert Grendon’s views on ‘miscegenation’. Chapter 3 deals with Grendon’s schooling at Zonnebloem College, Cape Town. Chapter 4 describes his cultural, sporting, and political activities in Kimberley and Uitenhage in the 1890s, bringing to light his editorship of Coloured South African in 1899. It also considers his conception of ‘progress’. Chapter 5 looks at some early poems, including the domestic verse-drama, ‘Melia and Pietro’ (1897–98). It also contextualizes a single, surviving editorial from Coloured South African. Chapter 6 treats Grendon’s tour de force, the epic poem, Paul Kruger’s Dream (1902), as well as his personal involvement in the South African War, and his spiritualized account of the ‘Struggle for Supremacy’ in South Africa. Chapter 7 relates to Grendon’s fruitful Natal period, 1900–05: his headmastership of the Edendale Training Institute and of Ohlange College, and his editorship of Ilanga’s English columns during the foreign absence of the editor-in-chief, John L. Dube, from February 1904 to May 1905. Chapter 8 analyzes some of the shorter and medium-length poems written in Natal, 1901–04. Chapter 9 is a close examination of the poem, ‘Pro Aliis Damnati’, showing its Swedenborgian basis, and how it dramatizes Swedenborg’s concept of ‘scortatory’ love. Chapter 10 describes Grendon’s early years in Swaziland from 1905. Chapter 11 deals with his period as editor of Abantu-Batho in Johannesburg, 1915–16. Chapter 12 describes his last years in Swaziland, and his relationship with the Swazi royal family. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

Doctor of Philosophy(PhD) / This study investigates the poetic foundation of David Malouf’s poetry and prose published from 1960 to 1982. Its purpose is to extend reading strategies so that the nature of his poetic and its formative influence are more fully appreciated. Its thesis is that Malouf explores and tests with increasing confidence and daring a poetic imagination that he believes must meet the demands of the times. Malouf’s work is placed in relation to Wallace Stevens’ belief that the poetic imagination should “push back against the pressure of reality”, a view discussed by Seamus Heaney in “The Redress of Poetry”. The surprise of the poetic as “unpredicted aesthetic value” (García-Berrio, 1989) is significant to his purposes and techniques, as it creates idea-images and feeling-values (Jung, 1921) that bring together apparently opposite ways of knowing the world. In seeking to represent the meeting of inner and outer perceptions, Malouf’s work shows the influence not only of Stevens but also Rilke and contemporary American poetry of “deep image”. The Australian context of Malouf’s work is considered in relation to Judith Wright’s essay “The Writer and the Crisis” and the poetry of Malouf’s contemporaries. Details of the manuscript development of his first four novels show Malouf’s steps towards a clearer representation of his holistic, post-romantic vision. His correspondence with the poet Judith Rodriguez provides useful insights into his purposes. Theories and research about brain functions, the nature of intelligence and learning provide an important international context in the 1960s and 1970s, given Malouf’s interest in how meaning forms from perception and experience. Jean Piaget’s view of intelligence and David Kolb’s theory of experiential learning (1984) offer frameworks for reading Malouf that have not yet been considered. The thesis offers a model of poetic learning that highlights the interplay of dialectically opposed ways of forming meaning and points to the importance for Malouf of holding diverse states of mind together through the poetic imaginary.

[Truncated abstract] In this thesis I examine the poetics of Thomas Traherne’s often over-looked Christology through a reading of The Kingdom of God. This work, probably written in the early 1670s, was not discovered until 1997, and not published until 2005. To date, no extended studies of the work have been published. It is my argument that Traherne develops an expansive and energetic poetic expressive of the theme of the ‘Cosmic Christ’ in which Christ is understood to be the source, the sustaining life, cohesive bond, and redemptive goal, of the universe, and his body to encompass all things. While the term ‘Cosmic Christ’ is largely of 20th century origin, its application to Traherne is defended on the grounds that it describes not so much a modern theology, as an ancient theology rediscovered in the context of an expanding cosmology. Cosmic Christology lies, according to Joseph Sittler,“tightly enfolded in the Church’s innermost heart and memory,” and its unfolding in Traherne’s Kingdom of God is accomplished through the knitting together of an essentially Patristic and Pauline Christology with the discoveries and speculations of seventeenth century science: from the infinity of the universe to the workings of atoms. … The thesis concludes with a distillation of Traherne’s Christic poetic The Word Incarnate. The terms put forward by Cosmic Christology are used to explicate Traherne’s intrepid poetic. In his most remarkable passages, Traherne employs language not only as a rhetorical tool at the service of theological reasoning, but to directly body forth his sense of Christ at the centre of world and self. He promises to “rend the Vail” and to reveal “the secrets of the most holy place.” Scorning more “Timorous Spirits,” he undertakes to communicate and “consider it all.”

The topic of the diploma work is the analysis of the theory proze in the second half of the seventeenth century with the title Economical books and its comparizon with the two older works published by the end of the 16th century under the general title The Economist. The first part of the diploma work notices the structure of the separate texts, sees the grafical form of the texts and compares its differences. Next part of the work contains the study and comparizon of the individual areas of the human activities participating on the economy which was reflected by the humanistic writers. A special regard is given to the terms of administrative and economical character and the change in thein use from 16th to the 18th century. The work analyses the prevention of the landed estate running in the imagination of the baroque scholar, time evidence and three model examples: brewery, fishpond cultivation, forestry as the typical branches of the old czech economy.The last part of the work is the vocabulary of the chosen ideas dealing with the area of economy and administration of the landed estate formed and divided by the texts of the individual authors. The aim of the work is to evaluate the development of the language in the economical area and to compare the expected activitiies of the individual participants in the economical life and to make a list of terminological units.