Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Irene Barbosa de Moura.pdf: 4448519 bytes, checksum: d072d40b0d823ed4e1c12ce7258efc5e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-06-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study analises the means by which the work of the sculptor Victor Brecheret has contributed to transformations in referencials and symbols that guided the socio-cultural environment of São Paulo in the 1920´s and 1950´s These boundaries are important because they have pointed to the development of Modernism in São Paulo, as well as the festivities of the IV Centenary of the Capital. In the context from 1920 until 1950, there has been an attempt to recover the personal and professional trajectory of Victor Brecheret since his insertion in the Modernist Movement until the inauguration of the Monument to Flags, one of his most important sculptures considering its aesthetic value and its importance for the history of São Paulo . The character of bandeirante is essential to comprehend the construction of paulista´s memory and identity, so densely exploited by Brazilian historiography, which added a lot of value to Brazilian historiography at the time of the IV Centenary of São Paulo. Currently, the sculpture took other roles in the city, but without losing the importance and significance of bandeirante´s memory. This way, the search that is based on the connection between history and art, underlined, besides the profile and trajectory of a significant character in two moments, the transformations in the conception of paulista identity , in regional and national political context and it analysed the expansion of the city of São Paulo, in the period that has been focused in this study / Esse estudo analisa a maneira como a obra do escultor Victor Brecheret contribuiu para as transformações nos referenciais que nortearam o ambiente sócio cultural de São Paulo nas décadas de 1920 e 1950. Tais balizas são importantes por terem marcado o desenvolvimento do Modernismo Paulista bem como as festividades do IV Centenário da capital. No contexto de 1920 a 1950, recuperei a trajetória pessoal e profissional de Victor Brecheret desde sua inserção no Movimento Modernista até a inauguração do Monumento às Bandeiras, uma de suas esculturas mais importantes tanto pelo valor estético como para a história de São Paulo. A personagem do bandeirante é essencial para o entendimento das construções da memória e da identidade paulista, tão exploradas pela historiografia brasileira e isso valorizou o Monumento às Bandeiras na época do IV Centenário de São Paulo. Atualmente, a escultura assumiu outros papéis na cidade, mas sem perder a importância e o significado da memória bandeirante. Dessa forma, a pesquisa que está embasada na relação entre história e arte, sublinhou, além do perfil e da trajetória de um personagem significativo nos dois momentos, as mudanças na concepção de identidade paulista, no cenário político regional e nacional e analisou a expansão da cidade de São Paulo, no período estudado

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Edson Adelio Tagliaferro.pdf: 901361 bytes, checksum: deae6f41cb8c1ba961ab948e2082591e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The purpose of our study is to analyze one of the deepest questions of humanity, which is the question about the meaning of life. Concerning this issue, we find contrary and favorable positions to the possibility that life has a meaning and, so, there are people who believe that it s not possible to be found, and the ones who believe that without finding it we fall in an empty existence, where neuroses are generated. Among these is Victor Emil Frankl, founder of Logotherapy and existential analysis. We associate this issue with the thinking and acting of Christianity, which is a generating source of meaning and an axiological promoter within the social relations. Thus, this work tends towards finding the interface between these two propositions, in other words, to reflect on the dynamics of the Christian spirit from the practice of Jesus and how this may influence the discovery of meaning, necessary for psychical equilibrium and singular for becoming man, according to the theory of Frankl. While for him it s a possibility of cure for mental problems, for Christians it is a gift and mission, acknowledging and valuing, however, the spiritual dimension of human beings, common to both positions. The hypothesis that man / woman, influenced by scientific knowledge and by the comfort and consumerism generated by post-modernity, have rejected the institutional religions does not dismiss a serious reflection on the human spiritual dimension, both through the many ways this spirituality has appeared in groups of diverse spiritualities and the analysis of the dimension of the spirit, which, being essentially dynamic, has motivated in many ways the search for human transcendence. Thus, this study, in its first chapter, deals with the life and theory of Victor Emil Frankl, helping us understand the emergence of existential emptiness, which is a strong impression in the historical period in which he lived with the two world wars and the consequences of philosophy with the idea of the death of God, besides the creation of his psychotherapy, whose goal is to find meaning. In the second chapter we write about the spiritual practice of Jesus, who, with his life and actions, reveals through the Gospels how we can live the question of meaning in human existence, despite the suffering, pain and even death, and the role it plays in the life of Christians. In the third chapter we analyze the importance of Christianity as meaning-generating spirituality and the tangible effects that can be felt in the lives of those who embrace such spirituality / A proposta deste nosso trabalho é fazer uma análise de um dos mais profundos questionamentos da humanidade que é a pergunta sobre o sentido da vida. Com respeito a esta questão, encontramos posições tanto contrárias como favoráveis à possibilidade de que a vida tenha um sentido e, desta forma, há pessoas que julgam não ser possível encontrá-lo, e há os que julgam que sem encontrá-lo caímos no vazio existencial, onde as neuroses são geradas. Entre estes encontrase Victor Emil Frankl, criador da Logoterapia ou análise existencial. Associamos a esta questão o pensar e o agir do cristianismo, o qual é uma fonte geradora de sentido e promotor axiológico dentro das relações sociais. Desta forma, o presente trabalho tende a encontrar a interface entre estas duas proposições, ou seja, refletir sobre a dinâmica do espírito cristão a partir da prática de Jesus e como isso pode influir no encontro do sentido, necessário para o equilíbrio psíquico e singular para o devir do homem, segundo a teoria de Frankl. Se para ele é a possibilidade de cura de problemas psíquicos, para o cristãos é dom e missão, reconhecendo e valorizando, porém, a dimensão espiritual do ser humano, a qual é comum a ambas as posições. A hipótese de que o homem / mulher influenciado pelos conhecimentos da ciência e pelo conforto e consumismo gerados pela pós-modernidade, têm rejeitado as religiões institucionais, não dispensa uma séria reflexão sobre a dimensão espiritual do ser humano, tanto pelas inúmeras maneiras como estas espiritualidades tem aparecido em forma de grupos de espiritualidades diversas como pela própria análise da dimensão do espírito que, dinâmico em sua essência, tem motivado, de diversas formas a busca do ser humano pela transcendência de si mesmo. Desta maneira, esta dissertação, em seu primeiro capítulo, trata da vida e teoria de Victor Emil Frankl, ajudando-nos a compreender o surgimento do vazio existencial, forte marca do período histórico em que viveu com as duas guerras mundiais e as consequências da filosofia com a ideia da morte de Deus, além da criação de sua psicoterapia que tem como meta o encontro do sentido. No segundo capítulo discorremos sobre a prática espiritual de Jesus que com sua vida e sua atuação revela pelos evangelhos como podemos viver a questão do sentido na existência humana, apesar do sofrimento, da dor e até mesmo da morte e que papel tem isso na vida dos cristãos. No terceiro capítulo analisamos qual a importância do cristianismo como espiritualidade geradora de sentido e quais os reflexos concretos que podem ser sentidos na vida dos que abraçam tal espiritualidade

Esta dissertação é composta de duas partes: a primeira delas traz um breve estudo introdutório onde se analisam os dois últimos capítulos do manual retórico de Caio Júlio Vítor (séc. IV d.C.). A seleção de apenas dois capítulos de obra tão vasta deveu-se ao fato de que os temas ali tratados (conversação e epístola) até então, sempre apartados do sistema retórico são introduzidos num manual de retórica. A segunda parte desta dissertação, que se constitui primeira em importância, apresenta uma tradução integral e inédita da obra. / This dissertation is divided into two parts. The first consists of an introductory study on part of the Rhetoric Manual by Gaius Julius Victor (4th century). More specifically, we focus on the chapters devoted to conversation and epistle, two themes never before encompassed in a rhetoric manual. The second part, which is first in importance, is a novel and full translation of Gaius rhetoric manual into Portuguese.

Magister Artium - MA / This thesis will examine the representation of the figure of Percy Shelley in the text of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818). My hypothesis is that Percy Shelley represents to Mary Shelley a figure who embodies the contrasting and more startling aspects of both the Romantic Movement and the Enlightenment era. This I will demonstrate through a close examination of the text of Frankenstein and through an exploration of the figure of Percy Shelley as he is represented in the novel. The representation of Shelley is most marked in the figures of Victor and the Creature, but is not exclusively confined to them. The thesis will attempt to show that Victor and the Creature can be read as figures for the Enlightenment and the Romantic movements respectively. As several critics have noted, these fictional protagonists also represent the divergent elements of Percy Shelley’s own divided personality, as he was both a dedicated man of science and a radical Romantic poet. He is a figure who exemplifies the contrasting notions of the archetypal Enlightenment man, while simultaneously embodying the Romantic resistance to some aspects of that zeitgeist. Lately, there has been a resurgence of interest in the novel by contemporary authors, biographers and playwrights, who have responded to it in a range of literary forms. I will pay particular attention to Peter Ackroyd’s, The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (2011), which shows that the questions Frankenstein poses to the reader are still with us today. I suggest that this is one of the main impulses behind this recent resurgence of interest in Mary Shelley’s novel. In particular, my thesis will explore the idea that the question of knowledge itself, and the scientific and moral limits which may apply to it, has a renewed urgency in early 21st century literature. In Frankenstein this is a central theme and is related to the figure of the “modern Prometheus”, which was the subtitle of Frankenstein, and which points to the ambitious figure who wishes to advance his own knowledge at all costs. I will consider this point by exploring the ways in which the tensions embodied by Percy Shelley and raised by the original novel are addressed in these contemporary texts. The renewed interest in these questions suggests that they remain pressing in our time, and continue to haunt us in our current society, not unlike the Creature in the novel.

Le Liber de Caesaribus d’Aurélius Victor est une œuvre traitant des vies des empereurs romains à partir d’Auguste jusqu’à Constance II. Examiner des particularités sur les sources et la signification de ce livre, c’est le but de cette thèse. Le chapitre 1 traite de la vie de Victor selon les témoignages littéraires et épigraphiques. Le chapitre 2 parle des manuscrits du Livre des Césars. Nous ne possédons aujourd’hui que deux manuscrits de cette œuvre, mais il y en avait un troisième qui a disparu après XVIème siècle. Le chapitre 3 traite des sources du Livre des Césars en regardant les études précédentes depuis la fin du XIXème siècle. Il a utilisé quelques sources diverses ainsi que la Kaisergeschichte d’Enmann, une œuvre perdue. Le chapitre 4 travaille sur la Kaisergeschichte selon Victor, Eutrope etc. pour prouver son existence. Dans le chapitre 5 on étudie comment Victor décrit Constance II. Son portrait dans ce livre est très élogieux, mais Victor critique ses valets, ses ministres et son entourage à la fin de son œuvre. Le chapitre 6 traite des fonctionnaires critiqués dans cette œuvre. Victor blâme non seulement l’entourage de Constance II mais il critique aussi quelques fonctionnaires et les organisations qui étaient contemporaines de Victor. Le chapitre 7 essaie l’identification des gens que Victor critique dans son livre en concluant que les gens critiqués dans ce livre était connus comme les magistrats corrompus, et que la plupart d’entre eux étaient des ennemis de Julien. Le but de son œuvre était la dénonciation de ces mauvais fonctionnaires. Par conséquent, il a obtenu le poste du gouverneur de la Pannonie Seconde sous Julien. / Aurelius Victor’s Liber de Caesaribus is a historical work of lives of Roman emperors from Augustus to Constantius II. To examine the features of the sources and the signification of this book is the purpose of this thesis. Chapter 1 works on the life of Victor according to other literary works and epigraphic testimonies. Chapter 2 discusses the manuscripts of Liber de Caesaribus. We have now only 2 manuscripts of Liber de Caesaribus, but there was the third one missing after 16th century. Chapter 3 works on sources of Liber de Caesaribus, following earlier studies since the end of 19th century. Victor used various sources as sell as now non-extant Enmann’s Kaisergeschichte. Chapter 4 works on the Kaisergeschichte using the comparisons among Victor, Eutropius and other works to prove its existence. Chapter 5 treats how Victor depict Consantius II. His figure is described with full of praises, but Victor criticizes his servants, his ministers and his entourage in the end of Liber de Caesaribus. Chapter 6 discusses public officials criticized in this work. Victor blames not only the entourage of Constantius II, but also condemned various civil servants and organizations who were his contemporaries. Chapter 7 tries the identifications of people that Victor criticizes in this work, drawing a conclusion that these people were known as corrupted magistrates, and that most of them were enemies of Julien. The purpose of this book is to denounce these incompetent government officials. Thanks to his work, Victor gained the post of governor of Pannonia Secunda under the reign of Julien.

Excerpt: In a 1988 essay published in the book “Country: The Music and the Musicians,” music scholar Nolan Porterfield observed: "Music historians and others fond of dates and places have a special weakness for 'Bristol, August 1927.' As a sort of shorthand notation, it has come to signal the Big Bang of country music evolution."

Critics mostly dismiss Victor Villasenor's 1991 Rain of Gold—the supposed biography of the author's father who enters the United States during the Prohibition era. Nevertheless, upon closer examination this narrative explores and erodes corroded human categories and racial reductions present in the Southwestern penal system. According to scholars in critical prison studies and critical race theory, the prison functions as a state-sanctioned method for prosecuting criminals and persecuting minority Americans. Juxtaposing Rain of Gold with these two areas of academic research, however, reveals that penitentiaries produce faulty and fallible notions of personhood that are, in part, responsible for the racialization and decimation that occur with incarceration. In resistance, Rain of Gold's protagonist challenges the carceral's ability to overdetermine identity by outmaneuvering criminal labels, redefining oppressive narratives and refusing to accept a dehumanized existence. As a thirteen-year-old in the Tombstone penitentiary, Juan Salvador Villasenor preserves his dream of a better future. While criminals, especially Mexican American criminals, have little room for redemption or rehabilitation under state law, Juan carefully contradicts social normalization by learning to read The Count of Monte Cristo, escaping several cells and trumped-up criminal charges, and practicing the techniques of a successful bootlegger. Juan, then, changes the material condition of his life, and the lives of his family members, as he turns prison's identity play inside out.

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The aim of the thesis is to investigate the standing of Olympic victor statues in Greece and Rome. The major focus is on how the meaning and the perception of the statues become transformed in different contexts. Throughout the study the reception alongside the location and meaning of athletic sculpture are primary points of concern. The standing of the patron and the viewer with respect to transformed models and their perception in relation to context constitute a significant part while formal details of artistic creativity and workmanship are dealt with only as necessary. It is known that Roman victor sculptures go back to Greek models / however remarkable change is revealed in the context and meaning of display &ndash / such as the emergence of statues for the decoration of private villas or public baths &ndash / rather than major stylistic changes in the statues themselves. So, the goal of the study is to understand how the Romans looked to the past and to Greeks in particular. An attempt is made to understand how Romans used their own values to appropriate and transform earlier Greek models, by focusing especially on the display and context.

Der Dresdner Romanist Victor Klemperer (1881–1960), der nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in Halle, Greifswald und vor allem an der Berliner Humboldt-Universität lehrte, wurde von vielen Kollegen, nicht zuletzt aus dem westlichen Teil Deutschlands, belächelt. Sie warfen ihm vor, journalistisch zu schreiben, was in den Kreisen der strengen Wissenschaft keineswegs als Kompliment gemeint war. Keiner von ihnen, und am wenigsten der Gescholtene selber, hätte geglaubt, dass er einmal der weltweit bekannteste Romanist deutscher Zunge werden würde, noch bekannter als Ernst Robert Curtius, Karl Vossler oder Hugo Friedrich. Klemperer verdankt sein Ansehen jedoch nicht so sehr seinen romanistischen Arbeiten, obgleich seine informativ und fesselnd geschriebenen Literaturgeschichten nach wie vor Beachtung verdienen, sondern seinen Tagebüchern, vor allem denen aus den finsteren Jahren 1933 bis 1945. Klemperers bis Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs reichende Autobiographie Curriculum vitae. Jugend um 1900, die 1989 gleichzeitig beim Ost-Berliner Rütten & Loening- und beim West-Berliner Siedler-Verlag erschien, blieb noch relativ unbeachtet. Gleichwohl stand diese doppelte Publikation schon im Zeichen des Mauerfalls, der die beiden Teile Deutschlands näher aneinanderrückte.