This article will present a short story which appeared in the newspaper Mzalendo on the 15th January 1978, but it took twenty-six years before it was published in a book. Presumably it was written in the same period as both the play Kaputula la Marx and probably also as some of Kezilahabi’s poems from the second collection Karibu ndani (1988). It is a period of his most critical works. In Mayai – Waziri wa Maradhi the author blames, in a highly symbolic manner, the leading classes of his country who became rich at the expense of common citizens during ten years of Independence, symbolized by ten emaciated ghostly children.

Thèse (Ph.D.)--Université Laval, 1997. / Comprend des réf. bibliogr.

Edgar Allan Poe has long been recognized as one of American literature's most intriguing authors, usually for reasons other than his writing. Most literary studies examine one or two of his tales and perhaps one or two comments he made about the short tale. This dissertation will instead look at the work Poe did while involved in the world of early-American magazines for the last seventeen years of his life. It will explore how the magazine world affected his writing and his theories, especially his theories on the genre of the short story, a genre that Poe essentially described and formed in the magazines, but a genre he did not name. Poe worked with many magazines in his career: one magazine, Graham's under George Graham, owner and editor, will be examined to see how Poe worked within this medium to shape short fiction.

This study examines the interpretive possibilities in the shorter fiction of Post-War German literature. The corpus includes works by Rolf Hochhuth, Friedrich Durrenmatt and Martin Walser. The historical framework of the theory of the novella and short story provides a basis for a discussion of genre, extended to include the coordinates of metaphor and metonymy. With the exception of one text designated as a novel, these works demonstrate interlocking and restricted motif complexes, repetitive and parallel structure and the integration of most narrative components. They project a tenor of hermetic plurality from a vehicle of abbreviated and truncated referential discourse. They use myth and intertextuality to show general principles to be extrapolated from specific contexts. Metafiction complements the theme of the subject not at one with itself. A partial resolution to the incertitude of existence, rendered according to Freud and Lacan, is offered through the emerging role of women as a stabilizing factor.

The problem with which this thesis is concerned is the relationship between literature and politics. By means of a biographical and historical study two significant writers of the 1930s/40s I examine the ways in which the pressures of Depression, the threat of fascism and the onset of war influenced Australian writing. In particular, I ask whether the political issues of the period affected what these authors wrote and how they wrote it. My conclusion is that pressure of political concern caused significant personal, philosophical and political changes in Barnard and Davison, and that it affected both the genre in which they wrote and the content of their fiction. They turned from fiction to cultural commentary, historical writing, political pamphleteering and activism. They utilised short fiction as a means of discussing their worries about the state of the world and in order to promote values they felt threatened. When they returned to longer fiction their work bore, to differing degrees, in its ideas, arguments and imagery, the influence of their political engagement. More generally, I conclude that liberal humanism was the major animating philosophy of writers in the 1930s and that their concern with political issues grew from their conviction that western liberal democracy was the most fruitful soil for the production of art, a climate of freedom which they felt threatened by both fascism and war. This anxiety is the most important factor in both their politicisation and the work they did under the latter???s influence.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2008. / Thesis directed by María Rosa Olivera-Williams for the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. "March 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 206-215).

As escritas íntimas passaram por diversas mudanças no decorrer da história das sociedades e também da literatura. Acompanhando as mudanças sofridas pelo sujeito e a forma como o mesmo se relaciona com o mundo, as escritas íntimas se integraram e se modificaram, associando-se, mais recentemente, às novas modalidades de comunicação e à atuação das variadas mídias, que colaboram com o delinear da conjunção entre os elementos públicos e os privados. Na literatura, essas alterações foram percebidas e aproveitadas como forma de produção. A crônica aparece como foco de análise deste trabalho, pois ganha destaque no cenário atual por ser um formato capaz de atender ao dinamismo contemporâneo e se estruturar associando a fala pessoal ao coletivo, integrando os espaços íntimos aos públicos e construindo a relação de proximidade entre autor e leitor, comum na atualidade. Como visualização dessas características, surge aqui a análise de crônicas da autora contemporânea Martha Medeiros / The intimate writings passed through several changes during the history of societies and also literature. Following the changes undergone by the individuo and how it relates to the world, written close to integrated and changed, joining more recently, the new forms of communication and the performance of various media, collaborating with the outline of the conjunction between the public and private elements. In literature, these changes were perceived and used as a means of production. The chronicle appears as an analytical focus of this work, as is highlighted in the current format to be able to mee the contemporary dynamics and structure associating the personal speech to the collective, integrating public and intimate spaces to building the close relationship between author and reader, which is common nowadays. How to display these characteristics, here comes the analysis of contemporary chronicles of the author Martha Medeiros

In the first part, the thesis focuses on the thematic analysis of Vítězslav Kocourek's (1920-1995) Sportovní povídky with respect to the overall tendencies displayed in Czech short stories written in late 1950s and early 1960s. For the purpose of comparison, we have chosen the following representatives of the short story genre: Arnošt Lutisg's first three collections Noc a naděje (1958), Démanty noci (1958) and Ulice ztracených bratří (1959), Josef Škvorecký's Sedmiramenný svícen (1964), Ivan Klíma's Bezvadný den (1960) and Milenci na jednu noc (1964), and finally Milan Kundera's Směšné lásky (1963) and Druhý sešit směšných lásek (1965). The second part of the thesis contains the inventory of Kocourek's personal fond, deposited in the Museum of Czech Literature Literary Archive. Archival materials (period reviews, early proses and reactions in correspondence) related to Sportovní povídky and found in Kocourek's fond have been used. Keywords: Kocourek Vítězslav, sport, short stories, themes, personal fond, inventory, archive

As escritas íntimas passaram por diversas mudanças no decorrer da história das sociedades e também da literatura. Acompanhando as mudanças sofridas pelo sujeito e a forma como o mesmo se relaciona com o mundo, as escritas íntimas se integraram e se modificaram, associando-se, mais recentemente, às novas modalidades de comunicação e à atuação das variadas mídias, que colaboram com o delinear da conjunção entre os elementos públicos e os privados. Na literatura, essas alterações foram percebidas e aproveitadas como forma de produção. A crônica aparece como foco de análise deste trabalho, pois ganha destaque no cenário atual por ser um formato capaz de atender ao dinamismo contemporâneo e se estruturar associando a fala pessoal ao coletivo, integrando os espaços íntimos aos públicos e construindo a relação de proximidade entre autor e leitor, comum na atualidade. Como visualização dessas características, surge aqui a análise de crônicas da autora contemporânea Martha Medeiros / The intimate writings passed through several changes during the history of societies and also literature. Following the changes undergone by the individuo and how it relates to the world, written close to integrated and changed, joining more recently, the new forms of communication and the performance of various media, collaborating with the outline of the conjunction between the public and private elements. In literature, these changes were perceived and used as a means of production. The chronicle appears as an analytical focus of this work, as is highlighted in the current format to be able to mee the contemporary dynamics and structure associating the personal speech to the collective, integrating public and intimate spaces to building the close relationship between author and reader, which is common nowadays. How to display these characteristics, here comes the analysis of contemporary chronicles of the author Martha Medeiros

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-05-31Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:02:24Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 rossi_ad_dr_arafcl.pdf: 1612665 bytes, checksum: 053b9c4cd5ce5c33933f4a76fcbed737 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / 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 / 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