This project seeks to address the recurring theme of revenge within war as exhibited in the recent upsurge of war crimes within the past ten years. To begin, I present an overview of Emile Durkheim’s perspective on punishment from The Division of Labor in Society. I argue that contemporary punishment is still primitive in nature and maintains a retributive form. This synopsis opens the discussion of two key factors within punishment: revenge and responsibility. To analyze these key elements, I conduct a content analysis utilizing courts-martial transcripts not readily available to the public for the recent cases of Operation Iron Triangle, the Baghdad Canal Killings and the Afghan Kill Team murders. As a historical comparative to the latest war crimes, I also analyze the My Lai case from Vietnam, using documentary transcripts with veterans involved in that operation. Throughout the analyses of all four cases, I employ the work of Paul Fauconnet’s Responsibility which further develops Durkheim’s ideology of revenge and augments our own understanding of collective and individual responsibility in society. I close this project with a discussion on Fauconnet’s “law of war” and its implications for soldiers enlisted in war time.

This paper makes an attempt to explain the construction of a newly developed genre called revenge porn flourishing in new media. The study analyzes the patterns of production and display of revenge porn content as well as the mechanisms of the site that archives such materials. The results of this study suggest that the development of such a genre cannot be attributed only to liberatory and/or victimizing effects of the electronic space. Rather, social power structures based on discourses like gender, heterosexuality and capitalist patriarchy that exploit the surveillance mechanism of the internet are significantly influencing both individual uses of the internet as well as its apparatus and technologies. These are the major forces contributing to the institutionalization and commercialization of revenge porn in new media. This is a case study based investigation that uses both content analysis and discourse analysis as methods to interpret the revenge porn genre in new media.

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Honors Project--Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 74-76).

Thesis (M.A.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Jun. 4, 2009). Advisor: Christopher Hodgkins; submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-29, p. 54-55).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America. / "List of references": p. 142-158.

In the attempt to enrich classical literary criticism with modern theoretical perspectives, this thesis formulates an interdisciplinary methodological approach to the study of animal metaphors in the tragic depiction of female avengers. Philological and linguistic commentaries on the tragic passages where animals metaphorically occur are not sufficient to determine the effect that Attic dramatists would have provoked in the fifth-century Athenian audience. The thesis identifies the dramatic techniques that Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides deploy to depict vengeful heroines in animal terms, by combining gender studies of the classical world, classical studies of animals and posthumanism. It rejects the anthropocentric and anthropomorphic views of previous classical scholars who have interpreted the animal-woman metaphor in revenge plots as a tragic expression of non-humanity. It argues instead that animal imagery was considered particularly effective to express the human contradictions of female vengeance in the theatre of Dionysus. The thesis investigates the metaphorical employment of the nightingale, the lioness and the snake in the tragic characterisation of women who claim compensation for the injuries suffered within and against their household. Chapter 1 is focused on the image of the nightingale in comparison with tragic heroines, who perform ritual lamentation to incite vengeance. Chapter 2 explores the lioness metaphor in the representation of tragic heroines, who through strength and protectiveness commit vengeance. Chapter 3 examines the metaphorical use of the snake in association with tragic heroines, who plan and inflict vengeance by deceit. Through the reconstruction of the metaphorical metamorphoses enacted by vengeful women into nightingales, lionesses and snakes, the thesis demonstrates that Attic dramatists would have provoked a tragic effect of pathos. Employed as a Dionysiac tool, animal imagery reveals the tragic humanity of avenging heroines whose voice, agency and deception cause nothing but suffering to their family, and inevitably to themselves.

Albania is a young democratic country that is still learning how to move forward. Albania has lived under regimes not democratically chosen for centuries: the Ottoman Empire before and the Communist regime than. These impositions have not allowed it to create an identity as a nation, this is the reason why they believe into the only code not forced from the high and that dates back to the Middle Age. The Kanun of Lëke Dukagjini is a customary code of laws that has ruled Albanians lives before the Ottoman Empire conquered the country. The Kanun influences everyday life still today. Albania remains tied to old traditions but on the other hand looks at the European Union as a role model. Albania is a country in between, traditions on one hand and progress on the other. The desire to be included in the Union has dramatically increased over the last decade. In these years, the government has been trying to satisfy the applications of Brussels hoping to get the candidacy. In 2014 Albania obtained the candidacy. Through the realization of laws in all fields, the government seems inclined to reach the standards of the European countries. In spite of all these progresses and changes, for Albanian population nothing seems different and everything appear just a way to show improvement to EU and EU countries but in everyday life it seems as same as always. It seems not possible to eradicate the mentality of citizens. Gender inequality and blood feuds are still a reality. The questions that guide this research are: how is it possible that a customary law is still so strongly present in Albanians lives? Is this a possible obstacle towards the European process of inclusion?

Using recent scholarship on intersubjectivity and cultural cognitive narratology, this project explores the disruption and reformation of early modern identity in Elizabethan revenge tragedies. The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate how revenge tragedies contribute to the prevalence of a dialogical rather than monological self in early modern culture. My chapter on Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy synthesizes Debora Shuger’s work on the cultural significance of early modern mirrors--which posits early modern self-recognition as a typological process--with recent scholarship on the early modern dialogical self. The chapter reveals how audiences and mirrors function in the play as cognitive artifacts that enable complex experiences of intersubjectivity. In my chapter on Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, I trace how characters construct new identities in relation to their shared suffering while also exploring intersubjectivity’s potential violence. When characters in Titus imagine the inward experience of others, they project a plausible narrative of interiority derived from inwardness’s external signifiers (such as tears, pleas, or gestures). These projections and receptions between characters can lead to reciprocated sympathy or violent aggression. My reading of John Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge explores revenge as a mode of competition. Marston suggests a similarity between the market conditions of dramatic performance (competition between playwrights, acting companies, and rival theaters) and the convention of one-upmanship in revenge tragedy, i.e. the need to surpass preceding acts of violence. While other Elizabethan revenge tragedies represent reciprocity and collusion between characters as important aspects of intersubjective self-reintegration, Marston’s play emphasizes competition and rivalry as the dominant force that shapes his characters. My final chapter provides an analysis of Shakespeare's Hamlet. I argue that recent scholarship on intersubjectivity and cognitive cultural studies can help us re-historicize the nature of Hamlet’s “that within which passes show.” Hamlet’s desire for the eradication of his consciousness explores the consequences of feeling disconnected from others in a culture wherein identity, consciousness, and even memory itself depend on interpersonal relations.

FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Cearà / A Internet nos proporciona o acesso Ãs informaÃÃes em tempo real, possibilita as mais variadas conexÃes de conhecimentos. Com todas essas facilidades, a Internet proporciona tambÃm perigos, os chamados Crimes Virtuais, que sÃo caracterizados por delitos praticados atravÃs do meio virtual, podem ser enquadrados no CÃdigo Penal Brasileiro e os infratores estÃo sujeitos Ãs penas previstas na Lei. O intuito do ensaio à problematizar as PrÃticas Educativas Digitais (PEDs) relacionadas com os crimes virtuais, em especial a Pornografia de vinganÃa. Esta Ãltima tem se revelado um problema recorrente entre os jovens, logo, importa entender como as PEDs podem colaborar com a prevenÃÃo da exposiÃÃo de adolescentes na WEB. O objetivo da pesquisa em tela à compreender como as PrÃticas Educativas Digitais podem mediar Ãs aprendizagens no uso das redes virtuais minimizando os crimes virtuais e a pornografia de vinganÃa. Para realizar a pesquisa foi necessÃrio utilizar conceitos sobre as PEDs, redes sociais on-line, a pornografia de vinganÃa, bem como situar esta Ãtilma na ConstituiÃÃo da RepÃblica, uma vez que, tratamos das penalidades para o crime virtual. A pesquisa à amparada teoricamente em estudiosos como: Foucault 1996, Virilio 1996, Castells 2003, Alfradique 2006, JÃnior 2006, Pinheiro 2006, Kenski 2007, Burke 2008, Lemos 2010, Maingueneau 2010, Grillo 2011; dentre outros. Utiliza-se a metodologia da HistÃria Oral TemÃtica, logo, a coleta e dados foram realizadas por meio das entrevistas orais livres, com duas garotas vÃtimas da exposiÃÃo nas redes sociais. TambÃm se utilizou de questionÃrios mistos com alunos, professores e um representante da direÃÃo com vistas a ampliar o entendimento acerca da compreensÃo dos jovens sobre a pornografia de vinganÃa. Ensejando ouvir os jovens, permitiu-se constatar que a prÃtica à muito conhecida entre eles ainda que o termo pornografia de vinganÃa traduzisse um certo estranhamento. Os resultados tambÃm exprimiram que dentre quarenta e quatro participantes do estudo, vinte e um alunos jà conheceram alguÃm que foi vÃtima de exposiÃÃo e dezesseis destes alunos jà receberam materiais pornogrÃficos caracterizados com a pornografia de vinganÃa. Discute-se que, com a expansÃo da Internet e a facilidade de comunicaÃÃo por meio das mensagens instantÃneas, como aplicativo WhatsApp, hà o aumento da divulgaÃÃo de material pornogrÃfico. Este fato enseja a necessidade de efetivar aÃÃes para proteger o pÃblico vÃtima da exposiÃÃo, em especial meninas por serem mais prejudicadas no Ãmbito social. As leis tem sido brandas e dificilmente alguÃm à punido por cometer pornografia de vinganÃa, pois as fotos sÃo divulgadas por meio do aplicativo WhatsApp, que dificulta consideravelmente o autor da postagem. SÃo diversas as pessoas que compartilham os post vexatÃrios e contribuem para a disseminaÃÃo da pornografia de vinganÃa, dificultando desta maneira, a puniÃÃo dos envolvidos na divulgaÃÃo das fotos. / The Internet gives us the access to information in real time and also allows the most varied content connections. With all these facilities, the Internet also provides dangers, called Virtual Crimes that are characterized by crimes committed through the virtual environment. They can be framed in the Brazilian Penal Code and violators are subject to penalties under the law. The test purpose is to discuss the Digital Educational Practices (DEPs) related to cybercrime, especially revenge porn. This has been a recurring problem among teenagers, so understanding how the DEPs can collaborate with the prevention of exposure teens on the web. The goal is to understand how the Digital Educational Practices may mediate the learning in the use of virtual networks, minimizing cyber crime and pornography for revenge. To conduct the research, was necessary to use concepts of DEPs, revenge porn and the Republic Constitution, since we treat the penalties for cybercrime. The research methodology is a study supported in literature searches as: Alfradique 2006, Burke 2008, Castells 2003, Grillo 2011 Junior 2006, Kenski 2007, Lemos and Maingueneau 2010, Pinheiro 2006 and Virilio 1996. It is based on oral plan, aimed to collect data in order to appropriate the historical facts. Through interviews, as one of the methodological procedures, all lines were recorded, as a way to approach the history of the subject, in other words, to seek a greater understanding of the vestiges of the past. In addition to interviews, we apply questionnaires with the students, teachers and a management representative. Those questionnaires proposed a more comparative and qualitative analysis. Trying to understand the occurrence of pornography related to young people, we clarify that the practice is well known among them, but the revenge of pornography term brings strangeness. So, between the results, it is concluded that between forty-four students, twenty one students met someone who was a victim of exposure and, at least, sixteen students have received pornographic materials, characterized with pornography for revenge. Currently, the expansion of the Internet and the facility of communication through instant messaging, such as WhatsApp application, have contributed to the increased dissemination of pornographic material. The fact is that something must be done to protect girls who are victims of exposure. The laws have been mild and hardly anyone is punished for committing the acts, because the photos are released through the application WhatsApp and are several people share and contribute to the dissemination of the material to a very large number of users, making it difficult in this way, the punishment of those involved in the release of the photos.