Drawing from literary criticism, ecological philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the wisdom of the female principle - or what Paula Gunn Allen perceives as "Her presence," the "power to make and relate"- this interdisciplinary study challenges dominant assumptions that habitually prevail in western cultural thinking. Let Them Run Wild investigates alternative, "buried" articulations which emerge in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century narratives that especially engage an audience of both children and adult readers. Recognizing the fictions inherent in linear-driven thought, these articulations celebrate narrative moments where reason is complicated and reconjectured, where absence is affirmed as presence, and where tale-tellers disappear behind the messages they relate. By spotlighting legendary characters, Chapter One, "The Jowls of Legend," explains how "wild consciousness" resists legendary status. Chapters Two and Three discuss the interweaving journey of the wild arabesque in the Arabian Nights and untamed desire within Anne's transformative language in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables. Chapter Four, examining the death drive in Frank Norris's The Octopus, describes how it is reconceived in E. Nesbit's The Railway Children. Lastly, the Epilogue explores Juliana Ewing's "Lob Lie-By-the-Fire," tracing the manifestation of the female principle through its most wild activity - not hindered by gender - of service rendered through mystery and adventure. Wild consciousness advances through the collective identity of what Frederic Jameson has called the "political unconscious"and commissions older, better approximations of ideology through willing, spontaneous service. / It acknowledges Homi K. Bhabha's articulation of "cultural hybridity," while, simultaneously, it directs such hybrid constructions of history, space, and negotiation outward toward a wild feminist critic Elaine Showalter has characterized as the "wild zone," customarily understood as a borderland space, is further reinterpreted as a borderless, expressive, timeless calling forth of receptive minds to engage in wildly compassionate, nonsensical acts and cunning, non-heroic feats in order to transform the inert, polemic systems that define our western collective mind. In short, this study refigures what Vandana Shiva identifies as cultural "patents on life," where "civilization" becomes small - a mere idea in a forest's deep heart. / by Val Czerny. / Vita. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

The following manuscript is a novel intended to explore the confusing nature of butch lesbian gender identity and the unique bonds of friendship butch women often share with one another. Lesbian culture, today, sometimes puts pressure on the term butch and pushes butch women to choose between transgender, femme and androgynous. The lead character in this novel, Sarah, struggles to come to terms with her own sexual identity amidst all this pressure to conform. She watches her friends and searches for a model of what butch is and is not but she continues to feel emotionally and physically cut off from the people she cares about. Ultimately, Sarah realizes she can move fluidly between many genders. When she stops trying to be a stereotype, she is finally able to connect with the people she cares about. / by Elizabeth Andrea Norberg. / Signature page unsigned. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

This study argues that the interfaith symbolism present in the works of American author Jean Toomer undermines dominant Christian justifications for racism in the United States. It also discusses the ways in which Toomer's interfaith symbolism promotes the establishment of a race Toomer called the "American" race, a group of interracial, interreligious people whom Toomer hoped would change the way race was viewed in the United States. The multireligious references in Toomer's works challenge constricted definitions of both religion and race by highlighting interchangeable religious ideals from several world religions. / by Laura Gayle Fallon. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Within the past two centuries, massive industrialization, technological and scientific advances, wars, diseases, failures in social systems, and religious, ethnic, and political conflicts have produced an existential angst that has saturated the collective consciousness of modern man. The atrocities of World Wars I and II induced European and American authors and artists to confront this state of disillusionment, anxiety, loneliness, fear, and dread; consequently, much of our modern literature reflects this nihilistic darkness. In this state of grave doubts and uncertainties, the modern man finds himself alienated and disconnected from the very essences that ground him. Scholars of literature, philosophy, and the various arts and social sciences, having examined this contemporary dilemma, find just cause to question our western belief that science, technology, and materialism put the world in order. The further indictment is that these rational and materialistic forces have usurped the place of God and dismantled the ancient mythologies that once grounded our existence. This study examines the selected work of Saul Bellow and argues that his recurring themes of suffering, compassion, humanity, and renewal of the human spirit are antithetical to this collective existential angst. My argument introduces the doctrine of Existentialism and then explores the basic existentialist theory of Jean-Paul Sartre. From this platform, I later establish that Bellow takes a stand against this collective nihilism in favor of community and the celebration of life that are defined by a moral framework. Bellow's most representative novel in this vein of existential dislocation is Dangling Man. / From this novel, I argue that there is an inherent flaw in the notion that man's essential existence can only be defined through his agency as an individual, and that man, not God, is ultimately responsible for his actions and destiny. This pursuit of existence based on personal freedom and intellectual synthesis is prone to failure; Bellow's point of view is that the existentialist, having disconnected himself from God and community, plunges into an abyss fraught with angst and turmoil. Bellow's theme of humanity instructs that our redemption lies not in our personal quest, but in our absorption and participation in a community framed by moral precepts and the respect for God. Finally, and from another angle and through Bellow's Herzog, I establish a connection to Buddhism. From these Buddhist allusions, I further affirm that the quest for authentic existence and redemption demands a confrontation with our angst and an acknowledgement of our suffering. / by Jerry Durbeej. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:25:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-06-29Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:53:14Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 divino_le_me_arafcl.pdf: 316312 bytes, checksum: b04a67d25620506838b643550182ef05 (MD5) / O seguinte trabalho consiste em uma análise de um romance, Lucinde, escrito por Friedrich Schlegel em 1799. Este romance situa-se no período literário alemão conhecido como Primeiro Romantismo, em alemão Frühromantik. Tal período encontra-se entre os anos de 1798 e 1804. Um dos principais objetivos do trabalho é estudar a construção do romance de Schlegel, e descrever a alegoria, bem como seu emprego como forma de expressão estética, a qual compete decisivamente para a criação de um romance romântico. Como se vê em Lucinde, os românticos enfatizavam o caráter ficcional da obra literária e a reflexão sobre a criação e o ato criador. Com isso, por meio da alegoria e da poética romântica, estudamos os mecanismos para a formação da poesia romântica: a Poesia Universal Progressiva. A pesquisa também descreve o grupo de Jena, isto é, os Primeiros Românticos alemães e seu programa literário. Além desse estudo, o trabalho busca uma fonte para os principais conceitos presentes no programa literário dos românticos. Assim, a pesquisa descreve acerca dos gregos antigos, e principalmente a respeito de Heráclito de Éfeso, que já ditava os pressupostos para a totalidade da natureza humana, os quais seriam depois descritos na poética dos Primeiros Românticos e no próprio romance de Schlegel, como se vê neste trabalho. / The following paperwork consists of an analysis of a novel, Lucinde, written by Friedrich Schlegel in 1799. This novel is situated in the German literary period know as the Early Romanticism, or Frühromantik in German. That period is found between the years of 1798 and 1804. One of the main goals of this work was to study the building blocks of Schlegel's novel, and to describe the allegory, as well its use as an esthetic way of expression, which was decisive for the creation of a romantic novel. As we can see in Lucinde, the romantics emphasize the fictional character of a piece of work and the reflection of the creation and the creation act. Thus, with the allegory and the romantic poetics we can make a study upon the formation of a romantic poetry: the Progressive Universal Poetry. This paper also describes the Jena group, we mean, the German Early Romanticism and their literary program. Besides this study, this research paper describes a source for the main concepts found in the romantic literary program. This way, the paper describes a little about the ancient Greeks, mainly about Heraclites of Ephesus, who has already talked about the totality of the human nature which was later described by the Early Romantics and can be also found in Schlegel's novel, as we can see in this paper.

Orientador: Odil José de Oliveira Filho / Banca: Helder Garmes / Banca: Sandra Aparecida Ferreira / Banca: Maria Lídia Lichtscheidl Maretti / Banca: Annie Gisele Fernandes / Resumo: O outono foi uma das estações preferidas dos autores da era T'ang (618-907) e de Camilo Pessanha (1867-1926), escritor português, residente, por muitos anos, na China. A China é um país profundamente confucionista, budista e taoísta. Muitos comentadores já aludiram à proximidade entre a poesia de Pessanha e a doutrina de Buda, mas nenhum crítico, que saibamos, aproximou-a da doutrina de Lao-tzu (século VI a.C.). Nosso trabalho, portanto, procura salientar os pontos de contato entre a poesia de Camilo Pessanha e o Tao Te Ching, livro fundador do Taoísmo, provavelmente escrito por Lao-tzu, e fulcral no pensamento chinês, que Pessanha tanto admirava. / Abstract: Autumn was a major theme for T'ang poets (618-907) as well as for Camilo Pessanha (1867- 1926) - Portuguese writer who lived in China for many years. China is profoundly affected by the doctrines of Confucius, Buddha and Lao-tzu (respectively, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism). Many essayists pointed out the resemblances of Buddha in Pessanha's poetry, but none, till now, as we know, pointed out, in his work, the resemblances of Lao-tzu (VI c. B.C.). So, we tried to do this: to make clear how "Taoist" is the poetry of Pessanha, by comparing it with the Tao Te Ching, a major book for Taoism. / Doutor

Orientador: Antonio Alcir Bernárdez Pécora / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T21:49:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AdrianoFilho_Jose_D.pdf: 1483879 bytes, checksum: 1c475d3bebe19bce85cae920677ad45d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: "Combate ao mundo e conquista do paraíso: ficção e alegoria no Compêndio Narrativo do Peregrino da América" têm por objetivo o estudo do ficcional e do alegórico do Compêndio Narrativo do Peregrino da América, em que tratão vários discursos espirituais, e moraes com muitas advertências, e documentos contras os abusos, que se achão introduzidos pela malicia diabólica no Estado do Brasil, escrito por Nuno Marques Pereira, e publicado pela primeira vez em 1728. O livro narra a viagem de um Peregrino da Bahia às Minas de Ouro, e o tema da peregrinação justifica o relato da viagem ao longo da qual o Peregrino se vê diante de espaços e personagens fictícios que são objeto de moralização e servem de pretexto para explicar a doutrina cristã. Sua ideia central é o tema do homo viator, isto é, o ser humano está na terra apenas em peregrinação para o céu, sua verdadeira morada. Esta concepção está também ligada a uma consciência de crise, traduzida na visão do mundo como local desordenado e perigoso, no qual, aquele nele viaja, procura encontrar uma saída para o desconcerto reinante na terra. O Peregrino, em grande luta contra as tentações do mundo, segue adiante o seu caminho guiado pela fé e pela graça de Deus, transformando-se num símbolo de persistência e de vitória da vontade sobre as forças do mal. A narrativa é instrumento de demonstração de ideias e meio de exemplificação de doutrinas com uma função persuasiva clara: o autor recorre às auctoritates, a exemplos retirados da experiência cotidiana do século XVIII, além de adequar as alegorias e exemplos ao diálogo, com o objetivo de atrair os infiéis e pecadores que viviam na Colônia para a doutrina católica, fazendo-os renunciar aos maus costumes e levá-los a alcançar à pátria celestial. O livro deve ser lido tendo como pano de fundo as repercussões que o movimento da Contrarreforma e os ecos do Concílio de Trento tiveram em nível da produção artística no mundo católico, e as intenções pedagógico-didáticas subjacentes à sua composição está fundamentado na crença de que a arte poderia constituir um eficaz instrumento de reconversão dos fiéis e de doutrinamento nos valores da fé católica: docere, movere, delectare, visados pela obra de arte deste período, são também os objetivos que o Peregrino da América almeja alcançar / Abstract: "Combating the World and Conquering Paradise: Fiction and Allegory in the Pilgrim of America]" seeks to investigate the fictional and allegorical nature of the Compêndio Narrativo do Peregrino da América, em que tratão vários discursos espirituais, e moraes com muitas advertencias, e documentos contras os abusos, que se achão introduzidos pela malicia diabolica no Estado do Brasil [A Narrative Compendium of the Pilgrim of America, in which are addressed a sundry of spiritual and moral discourses, with a number of admonitions and documents against the abuses which have been introduced by the devilish evil into the State of Brazil], written by Nuno Marques Pereira, and first published in 1728. The book narrates the travel of a Pilgrim from Bahia to the Golden Mines; and the pilgrimage topic underlies the account of the trip during which the Pilgrim is faced with fictional spaces and characters, used for moralizing purposes and which serve as grounds for explaining the Christian doctrine. Its pivotal idea is the theme of homo viator, which means human beings are on Earth basically as pilgrims towards Heaven, their real abode. Such concept is also linked to a consciousness of crisis, which translates into a view of the world as a disorderly and perilous place, in which those who travel through attempt to find a way out of the reigning disarray on Earth. The Pilgrim faces fierce struggles against worldly temptations, and forges ahead on his path guided by Faith and the grace of God; and he turns into a symbol of persistence and victory of will against the powers of Evil. The narrative is an instrument to demonstrate ideas and a means to exemplify doctrines with a clear persuasive function: the author refers to the auctoritates, to examples drawn from the everyday experiences of the 18th century, and also adapts allegories and exempla to the dialogues with the intent of luring infidels and sinners living in the Colony into the Catholic doctrine, steering them away from bad practices and leading them to the heavenly country. When reading this book one must bear in mind the aftermath of the Counter Reformation movement and the echoes from the Council of Trent; and the repercussions they had on the artistic production in the Catholic world; and that the pedagogical-didactic intents underlying its making are grounded on the belief that art could be an effective tool for reconverting the faithful and for indoctrination in the values of the Catholic faith: docere, movere, delectare, aimed by art works of that period, are also the objectives the Pilgrim of America seeks to achieve / Doutorado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Doutor em Teoria e História Literária

This thesis examines the symbolism of thirty-five slave songs that existed in the pre-Civil War South in the United States in order to gain a more profound insight into the values of the slaves. The songs chosen were representative of the 300 songs reviewed. The methodology used in the analysis was adapted from Ralph K. White's "Value Analysis: The Nature and Use of the Method." The slave songs provided the slaves with an opportunity to express their feelings on matters they deemed important, often by using Biblical symbols to "mask" the true meanings of their songs from whites. The major values of the slaves as found in their songs were independence, justice, determination, religion, hope, family love, and group unity.