En 1351 le moine bénédictin Jean le Long d’Ypres, abbé de Saint-Bertin en Saint-Omer, a traduit du latin en français six œuvres concernant les voyages et la connaissance de l’Orient (Hayton, Odorico da Pordenone, Wilhelm von Boldensele, Lettres de Togon Temür, De statu). Nous avons choisi d’étudier et d’éditer la traduction du Liber peregrinationis de Riccold de Monte di Croce, frère dominicain de Florence qui a visité la Terre Sainte, la Turquie, l’Arménie et a vécu à Bagdad entre 1288 et 1300. Dans la première partie nous avons étudié le texte latin, sa diffusion manuscrite et sa réception, ainsi que les deux traductions italiennes du 14e s. Ensuite, le texte français a retenu notre attention. La traduction a été transmise par six manuscrits et un imprimé, qui conservent également les autres cinq traductions de Jean le Long. L’étude des questions textuelles et de la diffusion manuscrite montrent deux voies de diffusion : l’une qui semble avoir circulé parmi la bourgeoisie picarde, l’autre qui a intéressé la haute aristocratie française (Jean sans Peur, Jean de Berry, Charles d’Orléans ; l’un de ces manuscrits contient en outre le Roman de Mélusine de Jean d’Arras). L’analyse linguistique, les questions traductiologiques et l’étude du lexique (régionalismes, orientalismes et mots rares) de l’auteur montrent bien son travail de « mise en roman » de ces textes, opération qui semble annoncer le Livre des merveilles de Jean de Mandeville de 1356. Nous avons donc proposé l’édition critique du texte français avec la source latine en face, suivi par un apparat des variantes et un glossaire. / In 1351 Jean le Long d’Ypres, abbot of Saint-Bertin in Saint-Omer, translated six works concerning the East and the knowledge of the Asiatic continent, namely of the Mongol Empire (Hayton, Odorico da Pordenone, Wilhelm von Boldensele, Lettres de Togon Temür, De statu). I studied and published the translation of Riccold de Monte di Croce’s Liber peregrinationis. The Florentine Dominican friar travelled from the Holy Land to Turkey, Armenia and Bagdad (he lived there for ten years) between 1288 and 1300. In the first part, I have studied the Latin text, its manuscript tradition and his reception; I added a study on the two Italian translation made in the 14th century. In the second part, I have studied the French translation. Six manuscript and a 16th century print transmit the six Jean le Long’s translation. The philological study and the manuscript tradition show two ways of circulation: one way concerning the Picard bourgeois, the other one concerning the French aristocrats (Jean the Fearless, Jean duke of Berry, Charles duke of Orleans; one of these manuscripts also contains Jean d’Arras’ Roman de Mélusine). The linguistic analysis, the traductological and the lexicological study (regionalisms, orientalism and rare words) allow me to affirm that Jean le Long has “mis en roman” the six Latin texts, few years before the redaction of Jean de Mandeville’s Livre des merveilles (1356). Finally, I prepared the critical edition of the Latin source and of its French translation, followed by a critical apparatus and a glossary.

L’action extérieure du Parlement écossais est l’objet de notre étude. D’abord, nous avons identifié la capacité opérationnelle de cette institution au sein du système institutionnel britannique, sur la scène communautaire et dans les échanges internationaux. Puis, nous avons détecté les facteurs structurant cette action. Selon notre étude, trois pôles prennent forme dans l’action parlementaire tels que les îles Britanniques, l’Europe qui couvre l’espace géographique européen, l’environnement institutionnel communautaire. Enfin, le troisième pôle est l’espace hors d’Europe, notamment les pays du Commonwealth et les Etats-Unis d’Amérique. Nous avons également établi une certaine spécialisation des méthodes et des moyens d’action dans les trois pôles évoqués. / The focus of my dissertation is the external action of the Scottish Parliament. My study identifies the operational capacity of this institution within the British institutional system, on the European Union arena and in international relations. I have identified the factors structuring the parliamentary action that shaped three poles such as the British Isles, Europe and outside the geographic European space. The pole of Europe covers both Continental Europe and the EC institutional environment. I have also identified the specialisation of methods and tools of action within the above mentioned poles

Este estudo propõe uma leitura sobre a poética arquitetônica nas obras de Luis Barragán, Alvaro Siza e Tadao Ando, a partir do elo que estabelecem no binômio construção-natureza.Tomando de suas produções projetos emblemáticos dessa relação, encontramos \"lugares arquitetônicos puros\" (HUET, 1979) que restituem o caráter ontológico da disciplina ao evocarem, nessa fronteira última da arquitetura, questões primordiais da existência humana. No diálogo que propõem entre localidade e síntese moderna, essas \"construções do lugar\" nos revelam, mais do que posturas críticas, inquietudes - ou obsessões - de seus criadores, as quais se concretizam na experiência fenomenológica das obras, por meio da \"desmaterialização\" da própria arquitetura.Barragán, em Los Clubes (1964-1968) - Cuadra San Cristóbal e a Fuente de los Amantes -, impõe agudos contrastes à paisagem para então dissolvê-los, numa \"realidade fantástica\" que consuma a improvável comunhão entre fé católica e desejo erótico; na Piscina de Leça da Palmeira Siza narra o retorno do Homem à Natureza, num \"discurso da técnica\" que desfaz, no caminho entre a cidade e a praia, o muro de concreto em areia e pedra; no Templo da Água, Tadao Ando estabelece um percurso do profano ao sagrado - da razão ocidental à espiritualidade oriental -, pela transmutação simbólica da forma geométrica, regida por vazios radicalmente disponíveis (Ma).Cada capítulo circunscreve individualmente um arquiteto e sua obra por meio de três aproximações sequenciais: inicia com as impressões da visita à obra; passa a pela genealogia da imaginação e formação da linguagem; e fecha o ciclo retornando ao projeto, analisado a partir dos desenhos e dos dados coletados ao longo da pesquisa. Pretendemos, assim, criar uma ponte entre o desígnio projetivo e a expressão obra, para identificar, nesse trajeto, os recursos poético-arquitetônicos utilizados. Na conclusão, são gerados cruzamentos horizontais entre as diferentes manifestações desses recursos nas obras - percurso, muro, água, luz etc. - como tentativa de contribuir para o léxico poético da disciplina. / This study proposes a reading of architectural poetics on the works of Luis Barragán, Alvaro Siza and Tadao Ando, departing from the link that each of them establish on the binomal construction-nature. Considering among their productions the emblematic projects of such a relationship, we can find pure architectonic places (HUET, 1979) that restore the ontological character of the discipline, evoking, through this last frontier of architecture, universal issues of the human existence. In the dialogue they propose between place and modern synthesis, those \"site constructions\" thus reveal rather than critic positions, but basic and primordial disquietudes - or obsessions - from their creators. Those disquietudes become concrete in the phenomenological experience of the place, in the very same \"dematerialization\" of architecture.Barragán, in Los Clubes (1964-1968) - Cuadra San Cristóbal and Fuente de los Amantes -, imposes sharp contrasts to the landscape to then dissolve them in a \"fantastic reality\" that consummates the unlikely match between catholic faith and erotic desire; in Leça da Palmeira Swimming Pool, Siza tells, by a \"technical speech\", the return of Man towards Nature, in a liturgic procedure that undoes, between the city and the beach, the concrete wall into sand and stone; on the Water Temple, Tadao Ando establishes a path from the profane towards the sacred - from the occidental reasoning to the oriental spirituality -, through the symbolic transmutation of the form along radically available spaces (Ma). Each chapter individually circumscribes one architect and his work through three sequential proxies: it begins with the impressions obtained in site visits; then goes through a genealogy of the imagination and the formation of the language; and closes the circle returning to the project, aproached through the drawings and data collected during the research. The goal then, is to create a bridge between the project intentions and the expression of the work, to identify, along this path, the poetic architectural resources that were used. In the conclusion, horizontal crossings are created between different expressions of those resources on the constructions - pathway, wall, water, light etc. - as a way to try to contribute to the poetic lexicon of the discipline.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:48:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elisio Benedito Jamine.pdf: 1887673 bytes, checksum: 569139184931bb3d6fcc968b91454d25 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-01-11 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This study addresses the current trend of new regional international blocks creation from the point of view of the experience of the Southern African Development Community Comunidade para o Desenvolvimento da África Austral (SADC). We intend to understand its historical development, politic-economics dynamics on the challenges and opportunities for continuous developing and consolidation of this regional block, within regional and continental context. We argue that the past of cooperation between region States and the emergence of the Southern African Development Coordination Conference Conferência de Coordenação para o Desenvolvimento da África Austral (SADCC) was largely in response to trends of South Africa political and economic domination based on its domestic and regional policy of apartheid and on the alliances inserted in the Cold War. While the SADC emerges as an economic-commercial approach than politics, in light of regional challenges and that of the new international order, whose answers are based on regional integration. The study aims to contribute to the understanding of the past and present cooperation and integration in Southern Africa. The approach includes the period from 1980 to 2008 / Este trabalho aborda a atual tendência à constituição de novos blocos de integração regional a partir do ponto de vista da experiência da Southern African Development Community Comunidade para o Desenvolvimento da África Austral (SADC). Busca-se compreender o seu desenvolvimento histórico, sua dinâmica político-econômica sobre os desafios e oportunidades para o contínuo desenvolvimento e consolidação deste bloco regional em seu contexto regional e continental. Argumenta-se que o passado da cooperação entre os Estados da região e a emergência em 1980 da Southern African Development Coordination Conference Conferência de Coordenação para o Desenvolvimento da África Austral (SADCC) foi em larga medida em resposta as tendências de dominação político-econômica sul-africana alicerçadas a sua política interna e regional baseada no apartheid e nas alianças inseridas no contexto da Guerra Fria. Enquanto que em 1992 a SADC emerge como uma vertente economicista-comercial que política, em função dos desafios regionais e da nova ordem internacional estabelecida no pós Guerra Fria e cujas respostas se baseiam na integração regional. O trabalho pretende contribuir na compreensão do passado e presente da cooperação e integração na África Austral. A abordagem compreende o período que vai de 1980 à 2008

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:20:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Arlete Fonseca de Andrade.pdf: 3808359 bytes, checksum: fc9f03750c109e884cd87527a55b7d29 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research refers to the artistic and cultural production of Cornelius Pires (1884-1958) and the historical context of the country from the effects of colonization in the socio-economic and cultural, the presence of different ethnic groups and their inter-relations that have contributed to the formation of the regional culture paulista, the rustic. This background is relevant in the light of the stigmas attached to the rustics in view of "poverty" of São Paulo and its inhabitants by the end of the nineteenth century compared to other national locations and the downside of these distorted views with the resumption of popular culture on the part of intellectuals and artists by means of movements such as regionalism and the Modernism in search of a possible national identity. The justifications of these questions relate to historical tension that exists between popular culture and erudite culture and in the mediation of these two notions the contribution of laughter, humor as a way to smoothen the communication and insertion of the popular space in hegemonic society. Thus did Cornelius Pires, with his style facing the rural theme plus the humor in its production and penetrated hegemonic spaces allowing communication between the antagonisms present in our society such as: rural and urban, tradition and modernity, popular and erudite / A presente pesquisa refere-se à produção artística e cultural de Cornélio Pires (1884-1958) e ao contexto histórico do país a partir dos efeitos da colonização no campo socioeconômico e cultural, da presença de diferentes etnias e suas inter-relações que contribuíram para a formação da cultura regional paulista, a caipira. Essa contextualização é relevante em função dos estigmas atribuídos ao caipira em vista da pobreza de São Paulo e seus habitantes até fins do século XIX, comparado a outras localidades nacionais e o reverso dessas concepções distorcidas com a retomada da cultura popular por parte de intelectuais e artistas por meio de movimentos como o Regionalismo e o Modernismo, na busca de uma possível identidade nacional. As justificativas dessas questões referem-se à tensão histórica que existe entre cultura popular e cultura erudita e na mediação dessas duas concepções, a contribuição do riso, do humor como forma de suavizar a comunicação e inserção do popular no espaço hegemônico da sociedade. Assim fez Cornélio Pires, com seu estilo voltado para a temática rural acrescido do humor em sua produção, adentrando espaços hegemônicos e possibilitando a comunicação entre os antagonismos presentes em nossa sociedade como: rural e urbano, tradição e modernidade, popular e erudito

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:53:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Arlete Fonseca de Andrade.pdf: 3808359 bytes, checksum: fc9f03750c109e884cd87527a55b7d29 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research refers to the artistic and cultural production of Cornelius Pires (1884-1958) and the historical context of the country from the effects of colonization in the socio-economic and cultural, the presence of different ethnic groups and their inter-relations that have contributed to the formation of the regional culture paulista, the rustic. This background is relevant in the light of the stigmas attached to the rustics in view of "poverty" of São Paulo and its inhabitants by the end of the nineteenth century compared to other national locations and the downside of these distorted views with the resumption of popular culture on the part of intellectuals and artists by means of movements such as regionalism and the Modernism in search of a possible national identity. The justifications of these questions relate to historical tension that exists between popular culture and erudite culture and in the mediation of these two notions the contribution of laughter, humor as a way to smoothen the communication and insertion of the popular space in hegemonic society. Thus did Cornelius Pires, with his style facing the rural theme plus the humor in its production and penetrated hegemonic spaces allowing communication between the antagonisms present in our society such as: rural and urban, tradition and modernity, popular and erudite / A presente pesquisa refere-se à produção artística e cultural de Cornélio Pires (1884-1958) e ao contexto histórico do país a partir dos efeitos da colonização no campo socioeconômico e cultural, da presença de diferentes etnias e suas inter-relações que contribuíram para a formação da cultura regional paulista, a caipira. Essa contextualização é relevante em função dos estigmas atribuídos ao caipira em vista da pobreza de São Paulo e seus habitantes até fins do século XIX, comparado a outras localidades nacionais e o reverso dessas concepções distorcidas com a retomada da cultura popular por parte de intelectuais e artistas por meio de movimentos como o Regionalismo e o Modernismo, na busca de uma possível identidade nacional. As justificativas dessas questões referem-se à tensão histórica que existe entre cultura popular e cultura erudita e na mediação dessas duas concepções, a contribuição do riso, do humor como forma de suavizar a comunicação e inserção do popular no espaço hegemônico da sociedade. Assim fez Cornélio Pires, com seu estilo voltado para a temática rural acrescido do humor em sua produção, adentrando espaços hegemônicos e possibilitando a comunicação entre os antagonismos presentes em nossa sociedade como: rural e urbano, tradição e modernidade, popular e erudito

Les pays d'Asie du Sud-Est ont, très tôt dans leur période post-coloniale, envisagé de se regrouper pour former une organisation régionale : l’Association des nations d’Asie du Sud-Est, dénommée l’ANASE ou, plus communément appelée par son sigle anglais, ASEAN. En nous appuyant sur l’exemple de l’ASEAN, nous aborderons le concept d’intégration régionale économique sous son angle juridique, en cherchant notamment à le distinguer des vocables contigus de régionalisme, régionalisation ou encore de coopération économique. Quelles sont les caractéristiques d'une intégration régionale? Ses manifestations? En dépit de l'hétérogénéité des organisations régionales ayant pour objectif de construire une intégration économique dans une région donnée, quels sont les points communs qu’un juriste peut observer? Comment décrypter l’ASEAN grâce au processus d’intégration économique qu’elle conduit et à la stratégie qu’elle a choisie? Quelles sont ses particularités? Quels défis doit-elle relever pour atteindre ses objectifs d’intégration à travers les trois dimensions communautaires : économique, politico-sécuritaire et socio-culturelle? De quels soutiens externes l’ASEAN peut-elle bénéficier pour renforcer son processus d’intégration régionale ? Le rapprochement entre pays d’Asie du Sud-Est s’appuie sur l’intergouvernementalité et la sauvegarde absolue de la souveraineté de ses Etats membres qui conduisent à privilégier le recours au droit souple plutôt qu’au droit dur dans leur production normative. L’approche adoptée prendra soin de se différencier de celles de l'économiste, du politiste ou du spécialiste des relations internationales et ouvrira sur des points de vue extra-européens. Les spécificités de l’ASEAN et sa dimension interne seront abordées dans un premier temps, tandis que la seconde partie couvrira la dynamique externe de l’intégration économique de l’ASEAN à partir d’un choix sélectif de partenariats (UE, accords de libre-échange, Banque asiatique du développement, APEC). / The countries located in Southeast Asia have, very soon, during the postcolonial period, foreseen to regroup to forming a regional organization named “ASEAN” (Association of nations of Southeast Asia). We would like to address the concept of economic regional integration from a legal perspective based on the example of ASEAN. This will in particular lead us to distinguish such a concept with other terms similar or very closed, such as regionalism, regionalization and economic cooperation. What are the features of regional integration? What are its manifestations? Despite all the diversity of regional organizations the purpose of which is to build an economic integration within a specific region, what are the common features that a lawyer can observe? How to reveal the ASEAN regional organization through the economic integration process it has launched and strategies chosen by it? What are its peculiarities? What are the challenges it has to face to achieve its integration goals through the following three dimensions: the ASEAN Economic Community, the ASEAN Political &Security Community, and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community? What external support can ASEAN receive to strengthen its regional integration process? Southeast Asian countries look for a closer proximity between themselves on the basis of intergovernmentality and with the deep concern of recognition and protection of their sovereignty that lead to favor Soft law more than hard law in decision-making production. Our approach will be well differentiated from those adopted so far by the economists and political scientists or experts in international relations and will not be reductive to a Eurocentric viewpoint. The main features and the internal dimension of the ASEAN will be addressed in a first part, while the second part will be devoted to the external dynamic of the economic integration of the ASEAN based on a selective choice of partnerships (EU, free trade agreements, Asian Development Bank, APEC).

Les « trois organisations soeurs », à savoir la Commission du Codex Alimentarius (CCA), l’Organisation mondiale de la santé animale (OIE) et la Convention internationale pour la protection des végétaux (CIPV), et les mesures sanitaires et phytosanitaires de l’ASEAN maintiennent une relation mutuellement étroite et des rapports d’interactions complexes et multidimensionnelles, rapports qui peuvent affecter des flux d’activités d’importation et d’exportation de produits agro-alimentaires réglementées surtout par le droit international économique. En envisageant le droit comme processus de décisions, particulièrement le droit international comme processus de communication entre les différents participants de la « communauté mondiale », ces rapports peuvent être mieux identifiés et compris à tous les niveaux : multilatéral, régional, bilatéral et national. Compte tenu de l’intensité et de la fréquence des échanges et du caractère fortement interdépendant du monde d’aujourd’hui, les « trois organisations soeurs » et leurs normes, directives et recommandations sont susceptibles de jouer divers rôles dans la promotion d’une plus grande production et d’un plus large partage des valeurs fondamentales recherchées par l’humanité entière, soutenues par la « New Haven School of International Law ». Non seulement s’agit-il des rôles liés à l’augmentation de l’efficacité du processus de réduction de barrières commerciales résultant des mesures SPS protectionnistes, mais aussi de ceux qui sont peu soulignées et qui se précisent suite aux pratiques répétées des décisionnistes de l’ASEAN. Ce sont notamment les rôles en tant qu’inducteurs de performance pour les mécanismes d’encadrement de mesures SPS, afin de s’assurer que celles-ci sont raisonnables par rapport à chaque contexte spécifique et respectueuses de la dignité humaine ; en tant que catalyseurs du régionalisme ouvert ; et en tant que promoteurs de la dimension du développement dans les accords commerciaux régionaux de l’ASEAN. / The « three sisters », namely the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), and SPS measures of ASEAN maintain a mutually close relationship and can interact with one another in complex and multidimensional ways, which can affect flows of import and export activities of agro-food products regulated especially by international economic law. By perceiving law as a process of decisions, and particularly international law as a process of communication among different participants of the « world community », these interactions can be better identified and comprehended at all levels : multilateral, regional, bilateral and national. Considering the intensity and frequency of exchanges and the strong interdependency of today’s world, the « three sisters » and their standards, guidelines and recommendations are likely to play numerous roles in promoting a greater production and wider distribution of fundamental values that all human beings desire to maximize and achieve, as defended by the « New Haven School of International Law ». Not only are these roles related to the promotion of a more efficient process of eliminating trade barriers deriving from SPS protectionist measures, but also those which are insufficiently highlighted, yet becoming more obvious through repeated practices of ASEAN decision-makers. These are notably the roles of the « three sisters » as performance drivers for monitoring mechanisms of SPS measures with a view to ensuring that they are reasonable in each specific context and respectful towards human dignity; as catalysts of open regionalism ; as promoters of the development dimension in regional trade agreements concluded by ASEAN.

Este estudo propõe uma leitura sobre a poética arquitetônica nas obras de Luis Barragán, Alvaro Siza e Tadao Ando, a partir do elo que estabelecem no binômio construção-natureza.Tomando de suas produções projetos emblemáticos dessa relação, encontramos \"lugares arquitetônicos puros\" (HUET, 1979) que restituem o caráter ontológico da disciplina ao evocarem, nessa fronteira última da arquitetura, questões primordiais da existência humana. No diálogo que propõem entre localidade e síntese moderna, essas \"construções do lugar\" nos revelam, mais do que posturas críticas, inquietudes - ou obsessões - de seus criadores, as quais se concretizam na experiência fenomenológica das obras, por meio da \"desmaterialização\" da própria arquitetura.Barragán, em Los Clubes (1964-1968) - Cuadra San Cristóbal e a Fuente de los Amantes -, impõe agudos contrastes à paisagem para então dissolvê-los, numa \"realidade fantástica\" que consuma a improvável comunhão entre fé católica e desejo erótico; na Piscina de Leça da Palmeira Siza narra o retorno do Homem à Natureza, num \"discurso da técnica\" que desfaz, no caminho entre a cidade e a praia, o muro de concreto em areia e pedra; no Templo da Água, Tadao Ando estabelece um percurso do profano ao sagrado - da razão ocidental à espiritualidade oriental -, pela transmutação simbólica da forma geométrica, regida por vazios radicalmente disponíveis (Ma).Cada capítulo circunscreve individualmente um arquiteto e sua obra por meio de três aproximações sequenciais: inicia com as impressões da visita à obra; passa a pela genealogia da imaginação e formação da linguagem; e fecha o ciclo retornando ao projeto, analisado a partir dos desenhos e dos dados coletados ao longo da pesquisa. Pretendemos, assim, criar uma ponte entre o desígnio projetivo e a expressão obra, para identificar, nesse trajeto, os recursos poético-arquitetônicos utilizados. Na conclusão, são gerados cruzamentos horizontais entre as diferentes manifestações desses recursos nas obras - percurso, muro, água, luz etc. - como tentativa de contribuir para o léxico poético da disciplina. / This study proposes a reading of architectural poetics on the works of Luis Barragán, Alvaro Siza and Tadao Ando, departing from the link that each of them establish on the binomal construction-nature. Considering among their productions the emblematic projects of such a relationship, we can find pure architectonic places (HUET, 1979) that restore the ontological character of the discipline, evoking, through this last frontier of architecture, universal issues of the human existence. In the dialogue they propose between place and modern synthesis, those \"site constructions\" thus reveal rather than critic positions, but basic and primordial disquietudes - or obsessions - from their creators. Those disquietudes become concrete in the phenomenological experience of the place, in the very same \"dematerialization\" of architecture.Barragán, in Los Clubes (1964-1968) - Cuadra San Cristóbal and Fuente de los Amantes -, imposes sharp contrasts to the landscape to then dissolve them in a \"fantastic reality\" that consummates the unlikely match between catholic faith and erotic desire; in Leça da Palmeira Swimming Pool, Siza tells, by a \"technical speech\", the return of Man towards Nature, in a liturgic procedure that undoes, between the city and the beach, the concrete wall into sand and stone; on the Water Temple, Tadao Ando establishes a path from the profane towards the sacred - from the occidental reasoning to the oriental spirituality -, through the symbolic transmutation of the form along radically available spaces (Ma). Each chapter individually circumscribes one architect and his work through three sequential proxies: it begins with the impressions obtained in site visits; then goes through a genealogy of the imagination and the formation of the language; and closes the circle returning to the project, aproached through the drawings and data collected during the research. The goal then, is to create a bridge between the project intentions and the expression of the work, to identify, along this path, the poetic architectural resources that were used. In the conclusion, horizontal crossings are created between different expressions of those resources on the constructions - pathway, wall, water, light etc. - as a way to try to contribute to the poetic lexicon of the discipline.

This thesis provides a study of book publishing as it contributes to the production of a regional literature, using Western Australian publishing and literature as illustrative examples of this dynamic. 'Regional literature' is defined in this thesis as writing possessing cultural value that is specific to a region, although the writing may also have national and international value. An awareness of geographically and culturally diverse regions within the framework of the nation is shown to be derived from representations of these regions and their associated regional characteristics in the movies, television and books. In Australia, literature has been the primary site for expressions of regional difference. Therefore, this thesis analyses the impact of regionalism on the processes of book production and publication in Western Australia’s three major publishing houses— a trade publishing house (Fremantle Press), an Indigenous publishing house (Magabala Books), and an academic publishing house (University of Western Australia Press). Book history, print culture studies and publishing studies, along with literary studies and cultural studies, roughly approximate a disciplinary map of the types of research that constitute this thesis. By examining regional literature in the context of its 'field of cultural production', this thesis maintains that regionalism and regional literature can avail themselves of a fresh perspective that shows them to be anything but marginal or exclusive. Regionalism has been a topic of peripheral interest, at least as far as scholarly research and academia are concerned, because those who are most likely to be affected by and thus interested in the topic, are also those who are most disempowered as a result of its attendant dynamics. However, as this thesis clearly demonstrates, access (or a lack thereof) to the field of cultural production (which in the case of print culture includes writers, literary agents, editors, publishers, government arts organisations, the media, schools, book clubs, and book retailers, just to name a few) plays a significant role in establishing and shaping an identity for marginalised 3 constituencies. The implications for this research are far-ranging, since both Western Australia and Australia can be understood as peripheries dominated in their different spheres (the 'national' and the 'international', respectively) by literary cultures residing elsewhere. Furthermore, there are parallels between this dynamic and the dynamic responsible for producing postcolonial literatures. The three publishing houses detailed in this thesis are disadvantaged by many of the factors associated with their distance from the traditional centres of book publishing, while at the same time producing a regional literature that serves as a platform from which the state broadcasts its distinctive contributions to the cultural landscape and to a wider understanding of concepts such as space, place and belonging. These publishing houses changed the way in which Australians and others have come to know and think about 'Australia', re-routing public consciousness and the national imagination.