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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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It's Alive! The Gothic (Dis)Embodiment of the Logic of Networks

Bennion, Anna Katharine 04 December 2007 (has links) (PDF)
My thesis draws connections between today's network society and the workings of gothic literature in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century. Just as our society is formed and affected by the flow of information, the eighteenth-century culture of sensibility was formed by the merging and flow of scientific "technology" (or new scientific discoveries) and societal norms and rules. Gothic literature was born out of this science-society network, and in many ways embodies the ruptures implicit in it. Although gothic literature is not a network in the same sense as informationalism and the culture of sensibility are, gothic literature works according to the logic of networks on both a microscopic and macroscopic level. These correlations between networks and the gothic potentially illuminate two of gothic literature's strange and signature qualities: the subversive nature of the gothic convention, as well as the incredible—and almost inexplicable, considering its libeled and unpopular reputation—staying power of the genre. In Chapter One, I compare the society of informationalism and the eighteenth-century society of sensibility in order to extrapolate a three-pronged logic of networks: networks are subversive, networks are exclusive, and networks are based on codes. In Chapter Two I trace this logic through eighteenth-century gothic conventions as they are portrayed in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian and Matthew Lewis's The Monk. This shows how the gothic, like network society, depends on the paradox of containing the ideology that it subverts. In Chapter Three I investigate this paradox on a macroscopic level by examining the connections between "tales of terror" in Blackwood's Magazine and gothic literature in both the pre-Romantic and Victorian literature. By both adopting and subverting the conventions of Radcliffean gothic, these tales are a key node in the web of the gothic stretching backwards to into the eighteenth century, forwards into the nineteenth century, and beyond.
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O papel da interação entre a instrução implícita e explícita na produção textual de contos de assombração. / The role of the interaction between the implicit and explicit instructions on the developmet of the textual genre tales of terror.

Borba, Valquíria Claudete Machado 03 June 2009 (has links)
This research investigated the role of the interaction between the implicit and explicit instructions and of the knowledge of the textual genre tales of terror on the development of its written production. We understand the learning through the implicit instruction when it is conducted without emphasizing its characteristics. On the other hand, the learning through the interaction between the implicit and explicit instructions happens when the characteristics of the textual genre in study is emphasized and analyzed. In order to carry out our study, we have chosen subjects from two groups of ninth grade of an elementary school in Maceió. Once we have decided to study the role of the interaction between the implicit and explicit instructions, the role of memory is important. Hence, we proposed the study of the declarative memory, having in mind that the implicit instruction itself does not guarantee the development of the aspects that need to be improved. In our point of view, the interaction between the implicit and explicit instructions é fundamental in this case. We based our theory on the connectionist approach that says learning happens through the experience someone has. According to it, we propose the learning of the textual genre tales of terror in two distinct environments of instruction. Our main hypothesis is that the learning through the interaction between the implicit and explicit instructions is more helpful than the learning through the implicit instruction. We hope our study may help in the studies about cognitive processes involved in the textual production. / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Nosso estudo consistiu em verificar o papel da interação entre a instrução implícita e explícita e do conhecimento do gênero textual conto de assombração no desenvolvimento da produção textual desse gênero textual. Partimos da compreensão de que a aprendizagem através da instrução implícita acontece quando o trabalho de determinado gênero textual é conduzido sem que suas características sejam explicitamente destacadas. Já a aprendizagem através da interação entre a instrução implícita e explícita acontece quando há destaque e reflexão explícita sobre os constituintes do gênero textual em questão. Para a realização da nossa pesquisa, escolhemos sujeitos de duas turmas de nona série do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola municipal de Maceió. Ao estudar a questão da interação entre a instrução implícita e explícita, o papel da memória é fundamental para justificar esse tipo de abordagem. Por isso, propomos o estudo do papel da memória declarativa, partindo da hipótese de que a instrução implícita apenas não garante o desenvolvimento de aspectos que precisam ser desenvolvidos na produção textual de forma a levar o aluno a se tornar um escritor proficiente. Defendemos que a interação entre a instrução implícita e explícita é fundamental nesse caso. E, para sustentar nosso estudo, nos apoiamos na teoria conexionista, que compreende que a aprendizagem da linguagem acontece a partir da experiência do indivíduo no ambiente que o circunda. Seguindo essa premissa, propomos a aprendizagem do gênero textual conto de assombração em dois ambientes distintos de instrução. Nossa hipótese central foi a de que o ensino baseado na interação entre a instrução implícita e explícita favorece mais o desenvolvimento da produção textual do que o ensino baseado só na instrução implícita. Assim, com base no referencial teórico conexionista, o objetivo geral da nossa investigação sobre o papel da interação entre instrução implícita e explícita e do conhecimento do gênero textual conto de assombração no desenvolvimento da sua escritura pretende contribuir para os estudos sobre os processos envolvidos na produção textual.

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