Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 298-313). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.A.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Eric Walker, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 7, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 43 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

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Dissertation (DLitt)--University of Stellenbosch, 2008. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Η παρούσα εργασία επικεντρώνει το ενδιαφέρον της στην προσέγγιση των διηγημάτων που περιέχονται στα Κείμενα Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας της Α΄ τάξης του Γυμνασίου. Η προσέγγιση αυτή γίνεται με βάση τη «στρουκτουραλιστική εκδοχή» της Αναγνωστικής Θεωρίας και συγκεκριμένα τη θεωρία του Γάλλου σημειολόγου/αφηγηματολόγου Claude Bremond. Γίνεται μια προσπάθεια ανάδειξης της σύνδεσης ανάμεσα στην Αφηγηματολογία και στην ερμηνεία κειμένων που διδάσκονται στο Γυμνάσιο. Η εργασία οργανώνεται σε δύο μέρη. Στο πρώτο κεφάλαιο του πρώτου μέρους εκτίθεται η προβληματική της έρευνας, οι στόχοι και η μέθοδος που ακολουθείται. Στο δεύτερο κεφάλαιο εκτίθεται αναλυτικά το θεωρητικό μοντέλο που προτείνει ο Bremond για την ανάλυση κάθε είδους αφηγηματικών κειμένων. Βασικές έννοιες του μοντέλου του είναι οι ρόλοι δρώντων και πασχόντων υποκειμένων και οι διαδικασίες, οι οποίες συνδέονται μεταξύ τους αλλά και με τους ρόλους. Στο δεύτερο μέρος γίνεται η ανάλυση του λογοτεχνικού υλικού, το οποίο περιλαμβάνει δέκα διηγήματα, σύμφωνα με το θεωρητικό μας εργαλείο. Τέλος, με αφορμή τα συγκεκριμένα διηγήματα γίνονται κάποιες προτάσεις για τη διδακτική αξιοποίηση του μοντέλου του Bremond στο Γυμνάσιο. / The present work focuses on the approach of short stories contained in the Texts of Modern Greek Literature taught at the first class of the Greek High School. This approach is based on the “structuralist version” of the Reader-Response Theory and, specifically, on the theory of the French semiologist/narratologist Claude Bremond. An effort has been made to show the connection between Narratology and the interpretation of texts taught at the Greek High School. The work consists of two parts. In the first chapter of the first part the research problems, the objectives and the used methodology are analyzed. In the second chapter, Bremond’s theoretical model for the analysis of all kinds of narrating texts is examined thoroughly. The basic concepts of his model are the roles of the agents, the roles of the patients and the processes, which are connected with each other as well as with the roles. The second part includes the analysis of the Literature material, which consists of ten short stories, using the theoretical tool. Finally, having in mind these particular short stories, certain suggestions for the educational use of Bremond’s model at the Greek High School are made.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-05-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:15:57Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 andrade_fhd_me_assis.pdf: 448791 bytes, checksum: ea16478491e78d0b9a0f30fb88dd3c8b (MD5) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Este estudo tem como finalidade descortinar, por meio do uso da paródia, o sarcasmo elaborado nos vários “eus-femininos” presente em alguns dos textos de Contos de Amor Rasgados, que são minicontos. Marina Colasanti, escritora mais reconhecida dentro da literatura infanto-juvenil, traz a marca da zombaria enobrecida por meio da re(construção) de textos e personagens clássicos da literatura de autoria masculina, utilizados pela autora como meio de “melhorar” tais textos, de modo a “desamarrar a voz desses vários ‘eus-mulheres’ ”. Tendo em vista a importância desta proposta para as pesquisas acadêmicas e também levandose em conta que as versáteis obras da referida autora ainda não têm o devido destaque no meio acadêmico, este estudo pretende dar luz e voz ao elemento do sarcasmo na formação de paródias criadas a partir de minicontos, em conformidade com a quebra dos paradigmas femininos da mulher “amarrada”, servil, apagada diante de seu marido, construídos pela alteridade patriarcal falocêntrica muito antes das primeiras pegadas feministas no século XIX. Para tanto, dividimos nosso trabalho acadêmico em três capítulos, a saber: no primeiro, “O miniconto colasantiano – a construção de tramas existenciais ‘a pouca tinta’ ”, abordamos o miniconto dentro das teorias do conto e de novíssimos estudos desse tipo de conto curto, de maneira a exaltar as técnicas de escrita de alguns dos minicontos de Marina Colasanti. No segundo capítulo, “O humor corrosivo maquia bocas femininas”, entramos... / This study aims to unveil the elaborated sarcasm, by using parody, found in various “female voices”, which occur in some of the texts from Contos de Amor Rasgados, which are short short stories. Marina Colasanti, a much more renowned writer among children’s literature readers, shows us an ennobled mockery through the (re)creation of texts and classic characters attached to the male authorship, which were employed by that writer as a way of “improving” such texts and “unchaining the voices of those several ‘female speeches’ ”. Considering the importance of this analysis for the academic researches and also taking into account that Colsanti´s skillful writings still have not been properly highlighted in the scientific field, this academic work intends to spotlight sarcasm in the development of parodies from microfictions, according to the deconstruction of feminine paradigms, such as the “tied” women, the subservient ones, blanked out before their husbands; and all of these archetypes were conceived by the phallocentric patriarchic alterity much more before the first feminist steps on the second half of the nineteenth century. Our dissertation is divided in three parts, set as following: in the first one, “The Colasantian microfiction – the development of existential plots ‘low on ink’ ”, in which we analyze the short short story according to theoretical support on the short story, besides very recent studies on that... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-12-20Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:55:20Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigues_ti_me_assis.pdf: 735076 bytes, checksum: 478bbba3540c9c5ec24b41210519a7b9 (MD5) / Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o primeiro livro do escritor-jornalista Rubem Braga (1913-1990), O conde e o passarinho, coletânea de crônicas publicadas em 1936. No decorrer da vida, o escritor capixaba ficou marcado por escrever para jornais quase que exclusivamente textos de crônicas, muitas delas publicadas, posteriormente, em coletâneas ao longo dos anos, inclusive após a sua morte. Nosso estudo buscou respaldo tanto nas teorias literárias a respeito do gênero crônica, sobre suas características, história e processo de “adaptação” no Brasil, como na fortuna crítica do cronista. A análise crítico-interpretativa do corpus procurou evidenciar as estratégias textuais empregadas pelo autor e o diálogo que, muitas vezes, se estabelecia entre os textos da obra. Desse modo, partindo dessas categorias analíticas, tentamos ressaltar as questões mais significativas do objeto artístico estudado, sobretudo a recorrência de alguns temas em seus textos, como a defesa aos menos favorecidos, a descrição da mulher brasileira e seus comentários sobre leis e notícias da época. Também buscamos abordar e analisar as personagens presentes na antologia, bem como destacar as referências culturais utilizadas pelo autor, sejam elas literárias, musicais ou cinematográficas e, por fim, apontar o recurso frequente à metalinguagem na construção de parte das crônicas. A partir desse recorte, nossa análise buscou compreender os aspectos sociais, econômicos e políticos da década de 1930, sobretudo porque a crônica, gênero híbrido, caracteriza-se por transitar entre as esferas do jornalismo e da literatura e também entre o particular, o tempo vivido pelo cronista, e o universal, que permite ao cronista explorar a essência humana / This study aims to analyze the first book of the writer-journalist Rubem Braga (1913- 1990), O conde e o passarinho, a collection of chronicles published in 1936. Throughout life, the writer from Espirito Santo State was marked by writing for newspapers almost exclusively chronicles, many of them published later in collections over the years, even after his death. Our study sought support both the literary theories about the chronic gender, on its characteristics, history and process of adaptation in Brazil, as in the critical fortune of the chronicler. The critical interpretive analysis of the corpus sought to highlight the textual strategies employed by the author and the dialogue that often was established between the texts of the work. Thus, from these analytical categories, we have tried to highlight the most significant issues of the artistic object studied, especially the recurrence of certain themes in his writings, as the defense of the underprivileged, the description of Brazilian women and his comments on laws and news of the that time. We also tried to address and analyze the characters present in the anthology as well as to highlight the cultural references used by the author, whether literary, musical or cinematographic ones and, finally, to point out the frequent recourse to metalanguage in building part of the chronicles. From this side view, our analysis sought to understand the social, economic and political aspects of the 1930s, mainly because chronic, a hybrid genre, is characterized by transitions between the spheres of journalism and literature and also between the private, the time experienced by the chronicler, and the universal, which allows the chronicler to explore the human essence

Resumo: A presente tese de doutorado tem por objetivo investigar as questões do Feminismo e da escritura (écriture) na obra Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904), importante nome do Realismo norteamericano, com especial ênfase em seus contos. Em prévia pesquisa de mestrado [A desarticulação do universo patriarcal em The Awakening, de Kate Chopin (2006)] observou-se que o multiverso literário da autora se articula a partir de uma simultânea construção e desarticulação de significações, as quais vão além e ao mesmo tempo se utilizam das estruturas narrativas presentes em cada texto. Assim, Kate Chopin joga com a competência linguística, cultural e ideológica de seu leitor; joga com suas convicções mais profundas, instaurando uma textualidade que transborda as estruturas narrativas, chega ao leitor e o ultrapassa abarcando também o universo social e político. Há nas obras de Chopin, portanto, um trabalho textual que engloba instâncias textuais e sócio-políticas, em um movimento de significação que se encaminha em direção ao que teóricos e filósofos pósestruturalistas chamarão, sobretudo a partir da década de 1960, de escritura (écriture), processo aberto e infinito, ao mesmo tempo gerador e subversor de significados. Recorrendo ao Feminismo anglo-americano, brasileiro e francês, bem como aos pensamentos de Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes e de demais teóricos da escritura como interfaces teóricas, a proposta fundamental desta tese é demonstrar a ilimitada produtividade significativa desse trabalho escritural presente na obra da autora, trabalho este pouco estudado pela crítica especializada em suas obras. Dentro desta perspectiva, o corpus que será objeto de investigação limita-se à contística da autora / Abstract: This doctorate thesis intends to investigate Feminism and the concept of writing (écriture) in the works of Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904), an important American Realist writer, with especial attention to her short stories. In a previous Master degree research [A desarticulação do universo patriarcal em The Awakening, de Kate Chopin (2006)] it was concluded that the writer's literary multiverse is carefully crafted in order to simultaneously build and disarticulate significations which go beyond and at the same time make use of the narrative structures in each text. Thus, Kate Chopin plays with the reader's linguistic, cultural, and ideological competences as well as with his deepest convictions to establish a textuality that overflows the narrative structures, reaches the reader and oversteps him also affecting the social and political universes. In doing so, Chopin's works present a textual fabric that weaves textual and sociopolitical instances in a meaning production process that can be understood as what poststructuralist theoreticians and philosophers call, mainly from the 1960s on, writing (écriture), an open and infinite process both meaning-generating and meaning-subverting. Having the Anglo-American, Brazilian, and French Feminisms and the thoughts of Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes and others writing theoreticians as analysis interface, this thesis aims to demonstrate the unlimited signifying productivity of Chopin's fictional work, an aspect mostly unstudied by her critics. Under this perspective, the research corpus that will be investigated is composed especifically by the writer's short stories / Orientador: Alcides Cardoso dos Santos / Coorientador: Nadilza Martins de Barros Moreira / Banca: Rita Terezinha Scmidt / Banca: Maria Conceição Monteiro / Banca: Ana Maria Domingues de Oliveira / Banca: Maria Clara Bonetti Paro / Doutor

This thesis addresses a creative writing approach to exploring reader empathy through the critical analysis of writing devices implemented by contemporary American short fiction writers and through creative experimentation through a written collection of short stories. It explores the ways in which writers can implement specific literary devices to potentially affect a reader's emotional reaction to a character or situation. The specified devices in this research have been utilised by contemporary American authors in their short fiction collections, namely Lydia Davis (The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis), George Saunders (Tenth of December), and David Foster Wallace (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men), who have influenced reader empathy in their short stories. Two categories of devices are in focus: narrative perspective and story format. These categories are signified due to contemporary American authors' experimentation with these devices and due to their inclusion in literary theory on reader empathy and fiction, namely Suzanne Keen's theory of narrative empathy. She focuses on the importance of reader empathy (namely, the effects that fiction can have on a reader in reality) and discusses devices that writers have used to possibly evoke these emotions. Keen explores the relationship between a reader and character identification, with a further emphasis on reader empathy and reader altruism in an inter-disciplinary setting, stating that reader empathy may lead to reader altruism; however, little to no research has been conducted on the creative implementation of writing techniques in regards to reader empathy from the perspective of a creative writer. Through creative application, this thesis aims to show the ways in which devices explored by narrative theorists can create the possibility for reader empathy. Therefore, the thesis takes into account first-, second-, and third-person narrative perspectives and question and answer (Q&A), short-short (a.k.a. flash fiction), and segmented formats through literary analysis of contemporary short fiction and through writing experimentation in the form of a short story collection. The thesis aims to explore the creative use of these devices and their linkage to reader reaction by the production of a short fiction collection entitled Fragmented Perceptions: A Collection of Characters. This creative work intends to implement the specified devices researched in order to experiment with perspective and format in relation to a possible empathetic connection of the reader to a character. Finally, by analysing possible effects on reader empathy through devices employed in the creative work, the thesis explores ways in which authors can use narrative perspective and format to discover various ways in which a writer can implement devices to affect reader empathy through short fiction.

This diploma thesis is focused on the topic of Ch. Baudelaire?s translations of E. A. Poe?s work. The main aim is to show the similarities of these translations and differences between them. It was achieved by using the methods of comparative analysis of the original and the target texts. The motives which led Baudelaire to choose Poe and his work represent the significant role. Last but not least the author reflects the question of Poe?s influence on the work of Baudelaire. The results of the research were achieved with the help of specialised literature, original English texts and their French translations which constitute the basis of the comparative analysis.