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The thesis consists of three main sections: the Introduction, the text (with apparatus), and the Commentary. The Introduction begins with a survey of the available evidence for the poem’s date and authorship, before moving on to consider its generic affiliations and influences, focusing on two particular areas: its links with the ill-defined genre of παρῳδία, and its relationship to animal-narratives elsewhere in ancient literature (particularly fable) and visual art. This is followed by a detailed analysis of the poem’s style and metre, a brief tour of its Nachleben up to the 13th century, and a summary of the notoriously tangled manuscript tradition. The text is new, and differs substantially from both that of Allen (in the OCT) and of West (the most recent English edition). The apparatus, as explained in more detail on p. 117, is somewhere between the two: it takes into account the readings of only nine MSS from the 80-100 extant, and does not attempt to represent every single textual variation even among these nine, but it is much fuller than the minimalist apparatus of the Loeb. It aims to provide a useful source for scholars interested in the poem’s many and serious textual cruces, while remaining more succinct and user-friendly than the dense and sometimes baffling apparatus of Ludwich’s monumental 1896 edition. The text is followed by an English prose translation: this makes no claims to beauty, and is simply intended as a relatively literal guide to the sense of the Greek. The Commentary, finally, is twofold. Any commentary on the Batrachomyomachia will inevitably spend much space and ink on purely textual issues, and on the fundamental task of unearthing meaning from the dizzying range of wild and nonsensical variants available. Interspersed with these textual points, however, this commentary includes considerations of the poem not as a mechanics problem but as a sophisticated Hellenistic work of art – exploring its intertextualities, its characterisation, its dramatic effects, its dry sense of humour, and subjecting it to the serious literary analysis it has often been denied.

Cette thèse intéresse la critique textuelle et concerne le chapitre 58 du Livre d’Isaïe. Ce chapitre du Trito-Isaïe se caractérise notamment par des termes rares et un thème unique dans le corpus isaïen, à savoir celui du jeûne. Notre étude porte sur six témoins textuels représentés par le texte hébreu (1QIsaa et TM), la Septante et les traditions textuelles de la Vetus latina, la Vulgate et enfin le Targum. Composée de quatre chapitres, sur la base d’une structure thématique qui rappelle le plaidoyer prophétique, la thèse intègre une approche statistique, une analyse syntaxique, l’étude des champs lexicaux et enfin les perspectives théologiques propres à chaque témoin textuel. Ainsi, chaque témoin textuel reflète une autre étape de la pensée théologique, de même qu’un contexte socio-politique différent. Le texte hébreu fait appel à des termes rares, parfois difficiles à expliquer. Les traductions anciennes se heurtent non seulement aux exigences rédactionnelles propres à chaque langue, mais témoignent aussi de choix rédactionnels. Si la Vulgate montre une grande fidélité au texte hébreu, la Septante s’en écarte notablement. Le rédacteur alexandrin fait preuve d’une réelle originalité en modifiant la rhétorique du texte hébreu, en introduisant des figures de style, mais aussi en simplifiant le vocabulaire. Quant au rédacteur targumique, il introduit des modifications significatives pour éviter de prêter à Dieu des caractères anthropomorphiques ou lorsque sa toute-puissance pourrait être prise en défaut. Il accentue également le caractère explicatif du texte par l’introduction de syntagmes. Enfin, chaque traducteur introduit des perspectives théologiques qui lui sont propres. / This thesis deals with textual criticism and is dedicated to chapter 58 of the Book of Isaiah. This chapter of the Trito-Isaiah is particularly characterized by infrequent words and a topic present only in these verses: the theme of the fast. Our study deals with six textual witnesses represented by the Hebrew text (1QIsaa and MT), the Septuagint and the textual traditions of the Old Latin, the Vulgate and the Targum. Based on four chapters with a thematic structure which recalls the prophetic plea, this thesis involves a statistical approach, a syntactical analysis, the study of lexical fields, and finally theological tendencies specific to each textual witness. Thus, each textual tradition reflects another step of the theological thinking and also a different socio political context. The Hebrew text contains rare terms, sometimes difficult to explain. The ancient traditions meet with editorial requirements specific to each language, and also reveal editorial options. If the Vulgate shows a great fidelity to the Hebrew text, the Septuagint is quite different. The Alexandrian redactor demonstrates a real editorial originality by changing the rhetoric of the Hebrew text, introducing stylistic device and simplifying the vocabulary. The targumic redactor, for his part, introduces significant modifications, either to avoid giving the Lord anthropomorphic characters or when his omnipotence could be put into question. He also emphasizes the explicative nature of the text with syntagma insertions. Finally, each translator introduces his own theological perspectives.

Os rascunhos do romance O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis (1984), do escritor português José Saramago (1922-2010), oferecem uma boa oportunidade para o estudo do método criativo do autor à luz da Crítica Textual e Genética. Por meio do levantamento, organização e interpretação das marcas de edição deixadas no documento pelo escritor acréscimos, supressões, substituições, inversões de palavras e enunciados, etc. é possível entrar em contato com o processo editorial que deu origem à obra. De modo que, sob a forma de uma edição crítico-genética e fac-similar, a comparação entre o texto dos rascunhos e o texto da primeira edição (editio princeps) ajuda a estabelecer os critérios que norteiam as intervenções do autor sobre o texto, mostrando que nem todas as alterações previstas no original foram acatadas pela versão impressa. / The drafts of the novel The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984), by the portuguese writer José Saramago (1922-2010), offer a good opportunity to study the author\'s creative method in the light of Textual and Genetic Criticism. Through the gathering, organization and interpretation of editing marks left on the paper by the writer additions, suppressions, substitutions, inversions of words and statements, etc. it is possible to approach the editorial process that gave rise to the work. So that, in the form of a genetic and critical edition with facsimiles, the comparison between the original text and the text established in the first edition (editio princeps) helps to define the criteria that guided the interventions of the author, showing that not all changes in the original document were accepted by the printed version.

Abstract This thesis is, on the one hand, an investigation into Matthew Arnold’s (1822–1888) literary communications and, on the other hand, an attempt to mediate between his writings and a twenty-first century readership. Arnold’s oeuvre is substantial and varied, but this study focuses on his epic poetry, which has remained a neglected part of his body of work despite its significance both to the author himself and to developing an understanding of Arnold’s development as a poet, cultural critic, and iconic ‘Victorian sage’. Furthermore, it is his epic poetry that seems to most fully address the theme of communication, and thus these longer poems function as points of orientation for a broader inquiry into Arnold’s communications. Arnold himself was keenly aware of the complicated status of communicative acts, but these complications have not always been acknowledged by the generations of criticism that have emerged since his death. Critics have thus produced images of Arnold which have not always done justice to the complexity of his communications. Based on an understanding of ‘communicative’ as a position of mediation between writers and readers, this thesis addresses the need for a more balanced communicative framework for mediating between Arnold’s writings in general — and his epic poetry in particular — his critics, and present audiences. / Tiivistelmä Tässä väitöskirjassa tarkastellaan Matthew Arnoldin (1822–1888) kirjallista kommunikaatiota, pyrkien välittämään hänen kirjoitustensa merkityksiä 2000-luvun yleisölle. Arnoldin kirjallinen tuotanto on runsas ja monipuolinen, mutta tässä tutkimuksessa keskitytään erityisesti hänen runoepiikkansa tulkintaan. Tämä osa hänen työstään on jäänyt tutkimuksessa verrattain vähäiseen asemaan huolimatta siitä, että Arnoldin kaksi lyhyttä runoeeposta olivat tärkeitä paitsi hänelle itselleen, mutta erityisesti osana hänen kehitystään runoilijana, kulttuurikriitikkona ja ikonisena viktoriaanisen ajan julkisena intellektuellina. Arnoldin runoepiikka vaikuttaa myös tutkivan kommunikaation teemaa laajemmin kuin hänen muut runonsa, ja toimii myös tällä tavoin keskiönä hänen oman kommunikaationsa laajemmalle tarkastelulle. Arnold oli varsin tietoinen kommunikaatiopyrkimystensä haasteista, mutta näitä ongelmia ei ole hänen kuolemansa jälkeen ilmestyneessä kritiikissä aina otettu huomioon. Näin on syntynyt monia Arnold-käsityksiä, jotka eivät välttämättä tee oikeutta hänen kommunikaationsa monivivahteisuudelle. Tämä väitöskirja pyrkii tuottamaan tasapainoisemman kommunikatiivisen lähestymistavan toimiakseen välittäjänä Arnoldin kirjoitusten, eritoten hänen eepostensa, ja nykylukijan välillä. / Original papers The original publications are not included in the electronic version of the dissertation. Alarauhio, J.-P. (2012). Towards a Dialogical Approach to Matthew Arnold. In Sell, Roger D. (Ed.) Literary Community-Making: The dialogicality of English Texts from the Seventeenth Century to the Present. (131 - 142) Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Alarauhio, J.-P (2007). Sohrab and Rustum and Balder Dead – Communicating about Communication. In Nordic Journal of English Studies Volume 6, No. 2 (2007), 47 - 64. Alarauhio, J.-P (Forthcoming). Sohrab and Rustum – Matthew Arnold’s Spectacle.

Esta tese indica as fontes textuais de Memória Histórica da Capitania de São Paulo e analisa os procedimentos de modificação textual operados por Manuel Cardoso de Abreu na adaptação dessas fontes para a elaboração de sua obra. A Memória Histórica, de Manuel Cardoso de Abreu, oficial maior da Secretaria da Capitania de São Paulo, é um manuscrito do século XVIII preservado no Arquivo do Estado de São Paulo, composto principalmente a partir de textos dos historiadores setecentistas Pedro Taques de Almeida Paes Leme História da Capitania de São Vicente; Notícia Histórica da Expulsão dos Jesuítas do Colégio de São Paulo e Nobiliarquia Paulistana Histórica e Genealógica e Frei Gaspar da Madre de Deus Memórias para a História da Capitania de São Vicente. Apesar da comprovação da reprodução integral de muitos trechos e parágrafos de tais obras, o manuscrito não se configura como uma cópia literal de suas fontes, uma vez que Manuel Cardoso interveio intencionalmente nos textos que lhe serviram de modelo para a construção de sua Memória, operando, para tanto, uma série de alterações, que deram origem a um novo texto. No início do século XX, depois da aquisição dessa obra pelo Arquivo do Estado, historiadores como Capistrano de Abreu e, especialmente, Afonso dEscragnolle Taunay, levantaram a questão da sua autenticidade, amparados nas noções de autoria e propriedade intelectual. Assim, a Memória Histórica foi julgada como um caso de plágio, sem que, contudo, houvesse uma discussão em torno da motivação e finalidade dessa apropriação textual, da relação desse texto com os seus textos-fonte e das práticas de escrita e de cópia à época. Este trabalho, que se fundamenta nos princípios teóricos e metodológicos da Crítica de Fontes, da Filologia e da Crítica Textual, parte da pesquisa, exame e colação das fontes da Memória Histórica, com o objetivo de estabelecer a categorização dos mecanismos de filtragem de tais fontes. Desse modo, objetiva-se identificar quais as modificações, voluntárias e involuntárias, operadas por Manuel Cardoso de Abreu no processo de elaboração de sua obra. / This work through the establishment of the sources used on the paper titled Memória Histórica da Capitania de São Paulo, seeks to analyze the textual transformation in the passage from one text to another. The Memória Histórica, of Manuel Cardoso de Abreu, higher official of the Secretariat of the Province of São Paulo, is an eighteenth century manuscript deposited in the Archive of the State of São Paulo, composed mainly of texts of the eighteenth century texts written by historians, as Pedro Taques de Almeida Paes Leme Leme História da Capitania de São Vicente; Notícia Histórica da Expulsão dos Jesuítas do Colégio de São Paulo e Nobiliarquia Paulistana Histórica e Genealógica and Frei Gaspar da Madre de Deus Memórias para a História da Capitania de São Vicente. Despite the confirmation of the full reproduction of many sections and paragraphs of such works, the manuscript is not configured as a literal copy of his sources, since Manuel Cardoso intentionally intervened in the texts which served as a model for the construction of his Memória, implementing to this end, a series of changes that gave rise to a new text. In the early twentieth century, after the acquisition of this works by the State Archives, historians as Capistrano de Abreu and, especially, Afonso dEscragnolle Taunay, raised the question of its authenticity, supported by the notions of authorship and intellectual property. As a consequence, Memória Histórica was judged as a case of plagiarism, without, however, a discussion on the motivation and purpose of textual appropriation, the relationship of that text with their sources and without consideration for writing and copying practices during the period when they were constructed, being held. So, based essentially on theoretical and methodological principles, such as Critical Sources, Philology and Textual Criticism, this research focuses on the examination and collation of the sources from Memória Histórica, and it searches to establish the categorization of filtering mechanisms for these sources, so that it is possible to reveal which variants of Manuel Cardoso de Abreu in the writing process of his work and to what extent was his was intentional intervention.

The National Library of Canada houses 3.5 meters of textual documents related to the celebrated Quebecois composer, Jacques Hétu (1938-2010). Among the working documents and biographical material donated in 1997 to the Jacques Hétu Fonds are autograph compositional documents relating to Hétu’s Suite pour guitare, Op. 41, written in 1986 (10 folios of sketch material and the composer’s fair copy). After deciphering, transcribing, and ascertaining the chronology of the sketches, an examination of the documents yields a new understanding of Hétu’s compositional process for Op. 41 (including the discovery of an unpublished movement entitled “Prelude II”) and the work’s form and structure. In addition, unpublished writings and correspondence by the composer are explored regarding Hétu’s life, musical style and his reception in Quebec. The study differs notably from traditional sketch studies in its adoption of a theoretical framework and methodology borrowed from critique génétique, or genetic criticism, a French movement of literary criticism originating in the 1970s. As opposed to traditional approaches to “genetic” documents, critique génétique dismisses the notion of a singular definitive text in favor of textual plurality by elevating the status of variants produced during the creative process (i.e. rough drafts or discarded versions). The advantage of a “genetic” approach is that it allows for the preclusion of fundamental theoretical problems associated with the use of a composer’s sketches to analyze a musical work. The extent to which the approach of critique génétique can be applied to music sketch is examined along with the consequences of adopting such a theoretical framework (including those regarding performance, editorial practice, and the ontology of completions of fragmentary works). / Graduate

Os rascunhos do romance O Ano da Morte de Ricardo Reis (1984), do escritor português José Saramago (1922-2010), oferecem uma boa oportunidade para o estudo do método criativo do autor à luz da Crítica Textual e Genética. Por meio do levantamento, organização e interpretação das marcas de edição deixadas no documento pelo escritor acréscimos, supressões, substituições, inversões de palavras e enunciados, etc. é possível entrar em contato com o processo editorial que deu origem à obra. De modo que, sob a forma de uma edição crítico-genética e fac-similar, a comparação entre o texto dos rascunhos e o texto da primeira edição (editio princeps) ajuda a estabelecer os critérios que norteiam as intervenções do autor sobre o texto, mostrando que nem todas as alterações previstas no original foram acatadas pela versão impressa. / The drafts of the novel The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984), by the portuguese writer José Saramago (1922-2010), offer a good opportunity to study the author\'s creative method in the light of Textual and Genetic Criticism. Through the gathering, organization and interpretation of editing marks left on the paper by the writer additions, suppressions, substitutions, inversions of words and statements, etc. it is possible to approach the editorial process that gave rise to the work. So that, in the form of a genetic and critical edition with facsimiles, the comparison between the original text and the text established in the first edition (editio princeps) helps to define the criteria that guided the interventions of the author, showing that not all changes in the original document were accepted by the printed version.

As an alternative to print media, digital media make us newly aware of the materiality of experimental poetic texts and require us to account for their media-specific differences. Although already several theoretical models have been put forward to define these differences, so far few poems have been analyzed in terms of their media-specific textual materiality. This thesis seeks to fill this gap in the applied media-specific analysis of experimental poetry. It combines traditional close reading with a media-specific approach in order to investigate the relationship between the physical characteristics and signifying strategies of four experimental poetic texts in various digital and non-digital media. It critically interrogates the specific use of the given medium in each poem, and illustrates that their respective textual materiality cannot be specified in advance based on general assumptions concerning the medium in question. A digital poem is not inherently more innovative than a non-digital poem. Rather, a poem is perceived as innovative if it resists conventional reading strategies by establishing a particularly complex, dynamic, and effectively anomalous sense of textual materiality, which necessarily only emerges from the direct interplay among text, object, and reader.