Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:32:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elias Ferreira Veras.pdf: 871249 bytes, checksum: 98528e8cc85d4f90fbd3bc8163a4b2b9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-09 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This work aims at understand the role of the religious journal The Voice of Religion in Cariri among the father Ibiapina s missions, in province of Ceara from 1860 s to 1870 s, taking the press as cultural practice, constituted by numerous religious experiences of the characters: journal readers, missions listeners and the Apostle of Charity s devouts. The french historian Roger Chartier s reflections about representation, cultural practices and cultural appropiations guide this work. Apart from the journal The Voice of Religion in Cariri , source and subject matter this research, other sources were used like: corrrespondences, chronicles, memories, other texts published by father Ibiapina and others journals published in the same period / O presente trabalho tem por objetivo compreender o lugar do jornal religioso A Voz da Religião no Cariri, na dinâmica das missões do padre Ibiapina, na província do Ceará entre os anos de 1860 e 1870, tomando por referência a imprensa como prática cultural, constituída pelas múltiplas experiências religiosas dos sujeitos: leitores do jornal, ouvintes das missões, devotos do Apóstolo da Caridade . As reflexões do historiador francês, Roger Chartier, sobre representações, práticas culturais e apropriações culturais nortearam nossa escrita. Além do jornal A Voz da Religião no Cariri, fonte e objeto de estudo do presente trabalho, foram utilizadas outras fontes de pesquisa, tais como: correspondências, crônicas, memórias, escritos diversos produzidos pelo padre Ibiapina, assim como outros jornais publicados no mesmo período

This thesis looks at a number of Jakob Wassermann’s novels and the ways in which society is depicted in them. Seen as a whole, Wassermann’s oeuvre can therefore be understood as an attempt to portray (mostly) German society at different historical stages. The periods in question are Biedermeier Germany, the Wilhelmine era, the years of the Great War and finally the Weimar Republic, the depiction of all of which reveal Wassermann as a fierce critic of his time. In addition to this interest in society, this thesis will examine Wassermann’s concern with various outsider figures which complement his portrayals of society. The outsider figures Wassermann seems to be mostly interested in are the Jew, the woman, the child and the homosexual man. However, Wassermann is not just interested in these outsiders on their own but also draws extensive parallels between the various forms of exclusion they experience in a society dominated by the Gentile man or, as in the case of the child, by the adult. These parallels have proven to be revelatory and have led to new insights into Wassermann’s works. The dynamic of the outsider vs. society is, however, in many ways no longer applicable to those novels written during and after the Great War. Instead Wassermann now combines his interest in the figure of the outsider with an interest in the depiction of character. At the same time character becomes a mirror not only for the society Wassermann portrays in his writing but also for the society he lived in. This makes for an altogether more complex but also more intriguing structure of his later writing. This thesis will examine how all these different elements when combined offer new ways of looking at Wassermann’s writing.

Masters of Art / study analyses the concept of al-Karāmah al-Sūfīyah (the Sufi Saintly Miracle) in both its religious and literary dimensions. The researcher will shed more light on this genre of narrative literary phenomena by developing its definition and placing it in the social and historical context of the Sufi thought as a whole. Many communities in the Islamic world embrace and practice the Sufi doctrine and also believe in the Ṣūfī Sheikhs’ saintly miracles and its paranormal aspects, which they also consider to be parallel in its sacredness to the miracles of the Prophets. Furthermore, in this study the researcher will not only focus on the religious significance of the saintly miracle but also on their literary approach and aesthetic dimensions. In fact many of the contemporary Arab scholars and Litterateurs categorize this narrative discourse to fall under the cloak of al-Adab al-‘ajāibī (miraculous literature) due to the nature of its narrative style and structure from which it achieves its goals, such as: Myth – Legend – Superstition – Storytelling, etc. The study will be mainly qualitative. It is a content analysis study in the sense that the researcher will analyse the stylistic, formal and rhetorical techniques of the saintly miracles’ discourse with specific reference to extracts taken from al- Sheikh al-Hassan al- Shadili and al-Sheikh Abdelssalam Bin Machich. The study will use an eclectic theoretical and conceptual framework which combines the historical approach with the reception theory.