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Lou, Sabrina. "Paradise girls : contemporary realistic young adult fiction /." Access resource online, 2009. http://scholar.simmons.edu/handle/10090/12593.

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Rheams, Genevieve A. "We Will Plant Birds of Paradise." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2703.

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Palmer, Kelly. "Belonging at the end of the world: (Re)imagining paradise through narratives of low-income locals on the Gold Coast." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/198040/3/Kelly_Palmer_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis includes a story collection and an exegesis that complicate ideas that the Gold Coast is simply a holidayworld with a criminal underbelly. Cultural texts imbue the Gold Coast with an otherworldly aura—one that mythologises the city as jointly being paradise and paradise lost. Low-income and disenfranchised locals simultaneously embody a sense of alienation and belonging in their lived experience of the Gold Coast. Their anxieties become projected onto the sea and the sky, where memories of invasion and evidence of climate change amplify their internal struggles.
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Ostrowidzki, Eric A. "The bunkerfication of paradise : heterotopias, closed spaces, and the pathological geographies of exclusion in J. G. Ballard's fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38543.

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In response to theoretical inquiries into the decline in the production of utopian literature, this dissertation argues that the decline or, rather, the "postmodern" loss of faith in utopian literature and utopian thinking results from the neo-liberal globalization of capitalism and its material and discursive/ideological appropriation of global space. To demonstrate this thesis, the dissertation examines the invariably dystopic imaginative geographies in the fiction of J. G. Ballard. By analyzing the historical-geographical discursive context of Ballard's imaginative geographies, the dissertation attempts to locate and recover those absent spaces that might have served as probable sites of Utopia.
The first part of this dissertation examines Ballard's "Concentration City," "Report on an Unidentified Space Station," "The Enormous Space," "The Overloaded Man," and the novel High-Rise. This section concludes generally that the imaginative geographies inscribed within those texts are closed, insular, homogeneous, pathological and exclusionary social spaces that are antithetical to a Postmodern Utopia whose socio-cultural inclusiveness would be predicated upon a "politics of difference."
The second half of the dissertation examines Ballard's later works, such as Rushing to Paradise (1994), Cocaine Nights (1996), and Super-Cannes (2001). By discursively analyzing the similar yet more ideologically transparent imaginative geographies in these recent works, the dissertation concludes that it is not exclusively the material and ideological conquest of social space by global capital that poses the greatest threat to Ballard's "utopian" socio-spatial imaginary. Rather, it is also the postcolonial threat of the dislocations and mass immigrations of the Indigenous Other precipitated by globalization. It is the emergence of the de-territorialized Other that impels Ballard's imaginative geographies to recoil inwardly into "Privatopias," "white enclaves" and "imperial ghettos" demarcated by neocolonial pathological geographies of exclusion.
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Arès, Mathieu. "A paradigm of Earth : traduction performative et science-fiction queer." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/11595.

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L’utopie constitue l’un des genres de prédilection de la littérature féministe et queer, parce qu’elle permet de redéfinir certaines catégories, comme celle des représentations de sexe et de genre. La science-fiction, mégagenre dans lequel, selon moi, s’inscrit l’utopie, fait appel à une « distanciation cognitive » [cognitive estrangement] (Suvin, 2010 : 68), concept qui, dans le cas de l’utopie féministe et queer, participe à la déconstruction du binarisme dans le genre : elle introduit ce que l’on peut nommer un novum, un élément qui a pour socle la réalité créée par l’auteur, partagée par le lecteur, et qui vise à déstabiliser (Suvin, 2010 : 68). Le novum constitue un procédé narratologique qui domine la fiction à un point tel que tout aspect narratif de chaque oeuvre de science-fiction dérive de celui-ci (Csicsery-Ronay, Jr, 2008 : 49); le novum possède une influence, par le fait même, sur le plan traductif, puisque la traduction doit l’inscrire dans un contexte différent de celui du départ. Alors que le peu d’études disponibles sur la traduction de la science-fiction queer sont en général consacrées à la réception des stratégies traductives utilisées (Bérard, 2015), le présent mémoire se situe dans une perspective performative de la traduction. L’acte traductif est performatif, non neutre, et ainsi octroie une existence, une viabilité identitaire au texte, selon le contexte d’arrivée. En prenant pour exemple le roman de science-fiction queer A Paradigm of Earth (2001) de l’auteure canadienne Candas Jane Dorsey, mon mémoire a pour objectif d’examiner, en s’inspirant de la généalogie de la traduction féministe (Lotbinière-Harwood, 1991; Simon, 1996; Von Flotow, 1997 et 1999) et des travaux sur la traduction du queer (Louar, 2008; Larkosh, 2011; Casagranda, 2013), de quelle manière s’effectuent certains changements de paradigme sur le plan traductif. La réflexion sur les désignations de genre dans le roman de Dorsey découle de Blou, l’alien au genre indéterminé, qui personnifie en quelque sorte le novum. D’où l’intérêt de proposer une approche performative de la traduction visant à faire éclater le binarisme de la langue française.
Abstract : Utopia is often used in feminist and queer literature, because it is a genre which questions some categories such as sex and gender representations. Science fiction concerns utopia since it provides cognitive estrangement, a concept that deconstructs gender binarism in feminist and queer utopias. Cognitive estrangement introduces a novum, a destabilizing element based on the author’s created reality, and shared by the reader (Suvin, 2010 : 68). The novum is a narratological device that so dominates its fiction that every science fiction narrative aspect derives from it (Csicsery-Ronay, Jr, 2008 : 49); this novum influences the translation process because the translator must reinsert it in a new context. Since the only studies which can be found today on translation in queer science fiction are generally dedicated to the reception of translation strategies (Bérard, 2015), this work situates translation within a performative approach. Translation is performative; it provides a viability to the text in another language-culture, another context. In studying an excerpt of Canadian Candas Jane Dorsey’s queer science fiction novel A Paradigm of Earth (2001), as well as my translation of it, my objective with this thesis is to consider how some translation paradigm shifts can be made according to feminist (Lotbinière-Harwood, 1991; Simon, 1996; Von Flotow, 1997 et 1999) and queer translation precepts (Louar, 2008; Larkosh, 2011; Casagranda, 2013). This work takes into consideration gender designations, which in Dorsey’s novel ensue from the character Blue, the ungendered alien; Blue represents the novum in A Paradigm of Earth, which allows the translator to take a performative approach in order to deconstruct gender binarism in French.
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Saward, Melanie A. "Down in the river: Marcia's identity status paradigm in the cult novel." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/136517/1/Melanie_Saward_Thesis.pdf.

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Clark, Hilary Anne. "The idea of a fictional encyclopaedia : Finnegans wake, Paradis, the Cantos." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25575.

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This study concerns itself with the phenomenon of literary encyclopaedism, as especially evident in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Philippe Sollers' Paradis and Ezra Pound's Cantos. The study focuses on developing the notion of an encyclopaedic literary mode and on establishing the existence of a genre of fictional encyclopaedias. It finds an encyclopaedic mode in literature to be one comprehending and imitating other literary modes, both mimetic and didactic. Further, the idea of a fictional encyclopaedia is developed through an understanding of the traits of the neighbouring forms of essay, Menippean satire and epic, and through an understanding of the paradoxes associated with the making of the non-fictional encyclopaedia. The fictional encyclopaedia thus comprehends and exceeds the following traits: 1. A tension, characteristic of the essay, between integrated autobiography and impersonal (and ultimately fragmented) exposition of the categories of knowledge. 2. A tension, characteristic of the Menippean satire, between tale and digression, between a single narrating subject and a multiplicity of transient narrating voices. The menippea also contributes a simultaneous preoccupation with the most sacred and the most profane subjects. 3. A totalizing drive characteristic of the epic, a desire--rivalling the urge to tell a story--to list or include all aspects of the culture in the epic past. The fictional encyclopaedia also translates into fiction the following paradoxes associated with the encyclopaedic enterprise: 1. The recognition, implicit in the drive to trace a complete and eternally-perfect circle of the arts and sciences, that encyclopaedic knowledge is always ultimately incomplete and obsolete. 2. The recognition, at the heart of the attempt to produce an objective and unmediated picture of the world, that encyclopaedic knowledge is ideologically shaped and textually mediated. The dominance of the encyclopaedic gesture in Finnegans Wake, Paradis and the Cantos allows us to account for the characteristic length, obscurity and "bookishness" of these works; they absorb the traits and tensions of essay, Menippean satire and epic while yet exceeding these traits in their fictional translation of the encyclopaedic paradoxes noted above. This translation manifests itself in each work as a characteristic parodic hesitation before the authority of totalizing predecessors; it manifests itself in the texts' fascination with images of a paradisiacal completion and timelessness, a tendency that is undercut by a repetitive, digressive or fragmented form which asserts the inevitability of time and incompletion. Further, the Wake, Paradis and the Cantos, in their overt and extensive intertextual activity, emphasize the textual boundaries of encyclopaedic knowledge. Nonetheless, in their foregrounding and valorization of speech rhythms, the works also repeat the challenge that the encyclopaedia brings to its own limited nature as written book.
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King, Liesl Eleyn. "Transforming the Post-patriarchal Paradigm : Alternative Spiritual Vision in Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.515255.

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Dyjas, Antonina [Verfasser]. "Paradisien an der Weichsel. Polnische Science Fiction 1945-1989 im Kontext der literarischen Utopie / Antonina Dyjas." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1042960429/34.

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Amorena, Maria Florencia. "Science, art, fiction : l'image chez Juan José Saer." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 8, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA080143.

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Cette recherche se donne pour objectif d’analyser les images verbales dans l’œuvre de l’écrivain argentin Juan José Saer (Serodino 1937- Paris 2005). Elle s’appuie sur une étude du corpus littéraire ainsi que sur le scénario inédit Las nubes de Magallanes. Elle vise à comprendre dans quelle mesure les images verbales et mentales sont pertinentes dans la construction d’une esthétique et d’une épistémologie saeriennes. A partir d’une analyse des images verbales et mentales dans l’œuvre de Saer, cette étude veut non seulement montrer que description et narration sont intimement liées, mais que leur relation constitue une possibilité pour penser la présence des arts et des sciences dans l’œuvre de Saer autrement que de manière dichotomique. En tant qu'éléments de son programme d’écriture, les arts et les sciences sont insérés dans un ensemble plus vaste. En conséquence, la structure narrative configurée à partir des images vise davantage à la complémentarité des contraires. Elle implique donc également une possibilité pour penser le lien entre l’homme et le monde, ainsi qu’entre les sciences et les arts, à partir d’un système holistique et non dualiste. La clé de cette nouvelle forme narrative sera, non l’opposition, mais au contraire une esthétique de l’empathie
The objective of this thesis is to analyze verbal images in the work of the Argentinian writer Juan José Saer. By analyzing his novels, shorts stories and the unpublished film script Las nubes de Magallanes, we wish to understand the implications of the verbal images in the construction of a specific aesthetics and epistemology.Throughout the analysis of verbal and mental images in the work of Saer, this study has two fundamental aims: first, to show that description and narration are intimately linked; second, that this link enables us to think arts and sciences in the work of Saer in a non-dualistic way. The narrative structure by which we analyze the images seeks the complementarity of the opposites. This allows us to think the connection that man has with the world as well as the link between art and sciences as elements of a holistic system, instead of dualistic. The key to this new form of narration will be an aesthetic of empathy
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Duport, Michelle. "De l’usage de l’altérité dans le management des ressources humaines : entre hétérologie et homologie dans les EIE en Chine." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010MON30062.

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Cette recherche porte sur l’usage de l’altérité par le management des ressources humaines(MRH) dans les filiales de groupes multinationaux implantées en Chine. Elle s’intéresseautant à l’usage discursif de la prise en compte de l’Autre qu’à son effectivité. Elle recherchele sens des pratiques de management à partir d’entretiens menés sur six années entre 2005 et2010. La réflexion est complétée par une approche historique et des regards disciplinairescroisés sur les modes d’organisation des entreprises en Europe et en Amérique du Nordd’une part et en Chine d’autre part. Les résultats de l’analyse mettent en évidence les incohérences observées dans les pratiques de gestion : entre l’approche discursive sur l’altérité et la création d’une culture-fiction sur laChine, entre l’idéologie affichée d’un management interculturel éthique soucieux des différences culturelles et des pratiques de MRH élitistes et discriminatoires, entre un modèle de management universaliste exporté par les sièges et des organisations parallèles qui s’accompagnent de stratégies de dissimulation mises en place par les filiales, entreomniscience des sièges et volonté d’autonomie des filiales. La question centrale est celle des incohérences : sont-elles inhérentes au management ? La thèse montre une refondation possible du modèle managérial occidental par la confrontation des cultures
This research concerns the use of alterity by Human Resources Management (HRM) in subsidiaries of multinational groups implanted in China. It is as interested in the discursive use of consideration of others as in its effectiveness. It looks for a sense of management practices from interviews carried out over six years between 2005 and 2010, and is completedby an historic approach and crossed disciplinary scrutiny of organization patterns of companies in Europe and in North America on the one hand and in China on the other hand. The results of these analysis bring certain incoherencies, observed in management practices, to light: between the discursive approach on alterity and the creation of a fictional cultureabout China; between the ideology displayed by an ethical and cross-cultural management worried about cultural differences and elitist, discriminatory MRH practices; between a model of universalist management imposed by headquarters and parallel organizations which carry with them dissimulation strategies organized by subsidiaries; and between the omniscience of headquarter and the desire of autonomy from subsidiaries. The main questionis the one of incoherencies: are they inherent to management? The thesis shows a possible refondation of a Western management model through this confrontation of cultures
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Amorena, Maria Florencia. "Science, art, fiction : l'image chez Juan José Saer." Thesis, Paris 8, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA080143.

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Cette recherche se donne pour objectif d’analyser les images verbales dans l’œuvre de l’écrivain argentin Juan José Saer (Serodino 1937- Paris 2005). Elle s’appuie sur une étude du corpus littéraire ainsi que sur le scénario inédit Las nubes de Magallanes. Elle vise à comprendre dans quelle mesure les images verbales et mentales sont pertinentes dans la construction d’une esthétique et d’une épistémologie saeriennes. A partir d’une analyse des images verbales et mentales dans l’œuvre de Saer, cette étude veut non seulement montrer que description et narration sont intimement liées, mais que leur relation constitue une possibilité pour penser la présence des arts et des sciences dans l’œuvre de Saer autrement que de manière dichotomique. En tant qu'éléments de son programme d’écriture, les arts et les sciences sont insérés dans un ensemble plus vaste. En conséquence, la structure narrative configurée à partir des images vise davantage à la complémentarité des contraires. Elle implique donc également une possibilité pour penser le lien entre l’homme et le monde, ainsi qu’entre les sciences et les arts, à partir d’un système holistique et non dualiste. La clé de cette nouvelle forme narrative sera, non l’opposition, mais au contraire une esthétique de l’empathie
The objective of this thesis is to analyze verbal images in the work of the Argentinian writer Juan José Saer. By analyzing his novels, shorts stories and the unpublished film script Las nubes de Magallanes, we wish to understand the implications of the verbal images in the construction of a specific aesthetics and epistemology.Throughout the analysis of verbal and mental images in the work of Saer, this study has two fundamental aims: first, to show that description and narration are intimately linked; second, that this link enables us to think arts and sciences in the work of Saer in a non-dualistic way. The narrative structure by which we analyze the images seeks the complementarity of the opposites. This allows us to think the connection that man has with the world as well as the link between art and sciences as elements of a holistic system, instead of dualistic. The key to this new form of narration will be an aesthetic of empathy
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Madell, Jane. "Rapport and subversion : Mesmer's treatment of Paradis and its influence on the fiction of E.T.A. Hoffmann, and, The Cost of Light (a novel)." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2015. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/58490/.

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This is a thesis in two parts, a novel and a critical project. Both are about Maria-Theresavon Paradis, a blind and possibly 'hysterical'pianist and composer, and Doctor Franz Anton Mesmer, the founder of Mesmerism, who temporarily managed to cure her with this controversial treatment. In the novel, The Cost of Light, Paradis's confessions to Mesmer allow me to show that her possible hysterical blindness arises from a complex cluster of motives, for example, a refusal to see, and too great a desire to witness, forbidden sights. In this way, the novel demonstrates the malleable nature of eighteenth-century hysteria, which, for Paradis, transforms itself constantly in relation to her psychosocial conditions and familial constraints. Her sudden blindness, her miraculous recovery of sight at Doctor Mesmer's hands and then its subsequent loss could thereforeallbe considered hysterical symptoms. The related critical project, 'Rapportand Subversion: Mesmer's Treatment of Paradis and Its Influence on the Fiction of E.T.A. Hoffmann'is divided into three chapters. 'Chapter 1: The Blind Musician'explores the nature of Paradis'spossibly hysterical blindness and suggests that,for her, blindness may well have had subversive and creative compensations. Her experiences are compared to those of the blind harpist, CharlottaSeuerling,and to those of Beethoven. 'Chapter 2: The Miracle Doctor'argues that the relationship between Mesmer and his famous patient and between othermesmerists and their subjects is one of power and control, reinforcing normativeeighteenth-century gender roles. It examines the effectiveness of Mesmerism in treating Paradis's blindness, and argues that her possible hysteria, and other factors, were potent subversive forces in undermining Mesmer's treatment. 'Chapter3: The Mesmerised Writer'establishes how E.T.A. Hoffmann's characters in'The Sandman','Councillor Krespel'and 'New Year's Eve Adventure'operate as paradigms for the Paradis/Mesmer relationship. This chapter also showshowHoffmann's awareness of Mesmerisminfluenced his short stories, 'Automata','The Magnetiser'and 'The Golden Pot.'
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Béghain, Véronique. "John cheever, ecrivain de la marge. Representation de l'espace et espace de la representation dans l'oeuvre de fiction." Montpellier 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997MON30001.

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Cette these se propose d'explorer les avatars de la marge dans les fictions de john cheever. Elle s'efforce de montrer qu'a une ecriture de la marge, entendue comme la representation de l'excentricite et de l'ambivalence sous des formes diverses, fait pendant une ecriture de la marge, entendue, cette fois, comme un ensemble de procedes rhetoriques et narratifs instituant a l'interieur meme du texte marges et hors-textes. Ainsi les fictions cheeveriennes temoignent-elles de la mascarade incessante a laquelle se trouve contraint l'individu a travers la construction d'un espace codifie, tandis que l'espace litteraire apparait gouverne par les memes exigences de travestissement. La premiere partie de cette these considere la figure de la marge dans son rapport a la representation de l'espace, explorant tour a tour la representation du paradis perdu, l'espace italien, l'espace des banlieues et l'espace domestique. La seconde partie, elle, s'interesse a la figure de la marge dans sa relation a l'espace de la representation et explore tour a tour les rapports de john cheever avec le new yorder, la dimension inter-hypertextuelle de l'oeuvre, la question des digressions et les jeux sur le mode et la voix
This dissertation proposes to explore margins as an essential figure in john cheever's fictional works. It is an attempt to demonstrate that the representation of excentricity and ambivalence under different guises is echoed by rhetorical and narrative strategies involving the constitution of a dual and off-center text. The construction of a codified space in cheever's fictions thus illustrates the endless masquerading to which individuals are subjected. Meanwhile, it is reverberated in the screening and veiling process at work in the literary space itself. The first part of this dissertation examines the figure of the margin in its relation to the representation of space and it explores in turn the paradise lost pattern, the italian space, the suburban space and the domestic space. The second part deals with the figure of the margin in its relation to the space of representation and explores in turn john cheever's relationship with the new yorker, the inter/hypertextual dimension of his works, the question of digressions and the narrative play on modes and voices
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Bureaux, Guillaume. "Union et désunion de la noblesse en parade. Le rôle des Pas d'armes dans l'entretien des rivalités chevaleresques entre cours princières occidentales, XVe-XVIe siècles (Anjou, Bourgogne, France, Saint-Empire)." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMR142/document.

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Apparus en 1428 en Espagne, le Pas d’armes est un parfait exemple de l’indéniable intérêt porté par la noblesse, de la fin du Moyen Âge et du début de la Renaissance, aux arts martiaux, littéraires et théâtraux. Il s’agit, en réalité, d’une évolution de la joute et du tournoi au cours duquel un ou plusieurs chevaliers est volontaire pour garder un carrefour, une porte ou tout autre lieux symbolique. Pour différencier ces exercices des joutes, les organisateurs publient des chapitres, ou lettres d’armes, plusieurs mois en avance. Ils sont souvent constitués de deux parties, la première venant placer les chevaliers assaillants et défenseurs dans un univers magique et fantastique, le seconde présentant les règles du jeu. Notons également que la majeure partie des Pas plonge les chevaliers dans un monde fictionnel, en particulier inspire de la légende arthurienne, grâce aux chapitres, aux décors et, naturellement, aux costumes. Témoignages des contacts transculturels existent entre les cours d’Anjou et de Bourgogne avec celles d’Espagne, les Pas d’armes sont organisés à des moments décisifs pour les cours, qu’il s’agisse de mariages, de traités de paix ou d’un temps d’après-guerre ; et tous remplissent un rôle commun : mettre en lumière l’unité chevaleresque autour du Prince et de son pouvoir. Invariablement, c’est le Prince qui sort vainqueur des événements qui ont lieux au sein de sa cour. Il s’agit essentiellement pour le prince de mettre en scène son pouvoir dans ce « jeu-mimique » où l’important n’est pas tant le combat que le spectacle et la mise en lumière du pouvoir princier, tant culturel, financier que militaire
Appearing in 1428 in Spain, the Pas d’Armes are a real example of the undeniable interest held by the nobility of the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance in the arts of warfare, in literature, and theater. It is in reality an evolution of the joust and tournament in which one or several knights volunteer to keep a crossroad, a door or another symbolic place. To differ from the joust, the organizers publish chapters, or letters of weapons, several months in advance. They consisted of two parts, the first one coming to place the knights defenders and aggressors in a magic and fantastic universe, the second containing rules to be followed. It is also necessary to note that the great majority of Pas place the knights in a fictional world, in particular regarding Arthurian legend, by means of chapters, present scenery around the lists and, naturally, costumes. Testimonies of transcultural contacts between the Valois ‘courts of Anjou and Burgundy and Spanish courts, the Pas d’armes are organized at courtly decisive moments like marriages, treaties of peace or just after a war, all the Pas d’armes had a common role : to highlight the unity of knighthood around the Prince and his power. On each occasion is the Prince who emerges victorious from all the entertainment organized at his court. Essentially, it is a way for the prince to dramatize his power in this “game – mimicry” where the important thing was not so much the fighting but the scenery and the highlighting of cultural, financial and military power of the court
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Ardoin, Myriam. "Le discours de la méthode selon G. K. Chesterton : l'itinéraire d'une pensée." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0372.

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Partant du constat que le monde dans lequel nous vivons requiert, pour le comprendre, l’élaboration d’une pensée critique efficace, cette thèse analyse, par le biais du mode littéraire du récit de détection, l’itinéraire de la pensée de Chesterton comme méthode de raisonnement et ensemble de stratégies intellectuelles. De la même manière que Descartes proposait d’exposer sa méthode « pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences » (Discours de la méthode), nous exposons ici les mécanismes d’une manière de penser originale. En convoquant son imagination et sa « philosophie des contes de fées », Chesterton redécouvre ce qui lui était familier, voit au-delà des apparences et échappe à la folie, qu’il redéfinit comme la conséquence de l’isolement de la raison pure. Sa pensée visuelle, progressant par métaphores, analogies et paradoxes, est une pensée visionnaire, capable de renverser les perspectives pour mieux voir le monde et en saisir le sens. La pensée chestertonienne, fuyant toute forme d’isolement et de solipsisme, se construit sur différents modes dialogiques : Chesterton pense toujours avec ou contre d’autres sujets pensants, d’autres formes de pensée, et invite son lecteur à le suivre dans ce cheminement intellectuel
As Critical thinking appears more and more vital to understand the world we live in, this study resorts to detective fiction considered in its literariness to analyse the itinerary of Chesterton’s mind, both as a method of reasoning and a set of intellectual strategies. In the same way as Descartes set out his method “of rightly conducting one’s reason and of seeking truth in the sciences” (The Discourse on the Method), we intend to show the mechanisms underlying an original way of thinking. By summoning his imagination and his “ethics of elfland”, Chesterton rediscovers the things he was familiar with, sees beyond appearances, and avoids madness, which he redefines as the consequence of the isolation of pure reason. His visual mind, which progresses by way of metaphors, analogies and paradoxes, is a visionary mind that can reverse perspectives in order to see the world better and grasp its meaning. By keeping away from any form of isolation or solipsism, the Chestertonian way of thinking operates according to different dialogic modes – Chesterton always thinks with or against other thinking subjects or other forms of thinking, and invites his reader to follow him on this intellectual path
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Prelorentzou, Renato Brighenti. "À sombra de um livro: história e ficção na leitura de \'Amphitryon\', de Ignacio Padilla." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-30072008-112522/.

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Este trabalho explora três possíveis significados para o \"romance histórico\" Amphitryon, de Ignacio Padilla, e, a partir disso, estuda modos de interação entre história e ficção. O primeiro sentido analisa-o como um livro na história, uma obra marcante que se escreveu sob o contexto de um manifesto célebre por tentar reorganizar a tradição literária latinoamericana. O segundo sentido toma-o como um livro de história, um romance que não só se aproxima de um gênero literário afeito aos fatos historiográficos, mas que, sobretudo, articula conteúdos históricos, literários e culturais sob formas narrativas que também derivam do século passado. O terceiro sentido, finalmente, o lê como um livro da história, uma narrativa que, pela disposição de relatos e narradores, simula o próprio mecanismo do fazer histórico. Conduzindo essas argumentações estão os princípios da dialética formaabertura e da interação autor-obra-leitor, derivados de Umberto Eco, a noção de leitura e escritura como forma de conhecer, cara a Jorge Luis Borges, e o paradigma indiciário, de Carlo Ginzburg. A tentativa final é fazer de um exercício de crítica literária uma reflexão sobre a história. Para tanto, insiste-se na analogia entre verificação e interpretação de dados e as mediações livro-leitor-leituras, e adota-se a \"espiral de leituras\" historicizadas como modo operativo que aproxima discursos ficcionais e discursos históricos, esboçando-se, então, paralelos e limites nos percursos da produção historiográfica e da produção ficcional ao longo do século XX.
This work explores three possible meanings for the \"historical novel\" Amphitryon, of Ignacio Padilla, and, from this, it studies ways of interaction between history and fiction. The first meaning analyzes it as a book in history, a remarkable work that was written under the context of a manifest notable for trying to reorganize the Latin American literary tradition. The second meaning takes it as a history book, a novel that not only comes close to the historiographies facts, but, above all, it articulates historical, literary and cultural contents under narrative forms that are also drawn from the last century. The third meaning, finally, reads it as a book of history, a narrative that, for the disposal of stories and narrators, simulates the mechanism of history. As a guide line for these arguments, there are the principles of the dialectic form-opening and the interaction author-work-reader, derived from Umberto Eco, the notion of reading and writing as forms of knowledge, from Jorge Luis Borges, and the evidential paradigm, of Carlo Ginzburg. The final attempt is to make a reflection on history from a literary critical exercise. In such way, one must insist on the analogy between verification and interpretation of data and the relations bookreader- readings, and adopts the historic \"spiral of readings\" as an operative way that approaches fiction and historical speeches, and so, outlining parallels and limits in the course of the historiography and fictional production throughout the 20th century.
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Sprang, Sabine van. "Entre réalité et fiction: les festivités du Papegai en 1615 à Bruxelles de Denijs Van Alsloot (1568? - 1625/1626) et de son collaborateur Antoon Sallaert (1594-1650) :Analyse et mise en contexte d'une suite de tableaux commandés par les archiducs Albert et Isabelle." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210886.

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La thèse a pour objet l'étude approfondie d'une série de huit tableaux monumentaux intitulée "Les Festivités du papegai en 1615 à Bruxelles". Exceptionnelle par le type de sujet et par le format, cette série fut commandée par les archiducs Albert et Isabelle (1598-1621) à leur peintre Denijs van Alsloot (1568 ?-1625/26) afin de célébrer la victoire de l'infante au tir de l'oiseau de bois (le "papegai") du Grand Serment des arbalétriers à Bruxelles. Elle est aujourd’hui incomplète, mais la confrontation des sources écrites avec les tableaux subsistants (en ce compris quelques répliques et variantes) permet d’établir qu’elle se composait à l'origine de six toiles ayant pour objet l’Ommegang communal – qui eut lieu le 31 mai 1615 et fut placé sous le signe de l’exploit de l’infante –, d’une peinture représentant "Isabelle tirant l’oiseau", et d’une toile montrant une "Fête au Vivier d’Oie en présence des archiducs", dans la forêt domaniale de Soignes.

Sans doute en raison de leur aspect descriptif, les tableaux conservés n'ont jamais été soumis à une analyse qui prenne en compte leur spécificité artistique, la plupart des chercheurs s'étant contentés jusqu'à présent d'examiner les spectacles dépeints dans une perspective historique. La thèse propose dès lors une étude qui non seulement repose sur une analyse des sources écrites et cherche à identifier les motifs représentés, mais aussi explore les composantes formelles, techniques et conventionnelles des peintures. Ceci afin, précisément, de mieux définir le rapport entre l’image donnée et la réalité des faits historiques. Car si les "Festivités" n'ont nullement valeur de reportage, leur raison d’être n’en a pas moins été de témoigner par le menu détail de certains événements. Et c’est très exactement la nature de ce témoignage, formulé avec les moyens propres à la peinture, qui est au cœur du questionnement.

La thèse se compose de deux parties. Dans la première partie, l'attention est portée sur la vie et la production de Denijs van Alsloot en général. Le peintre avait en effet été peu ou mal étudié jusqu’à présent. Or, de toute évidence, une meilleure connaissance de l’ensemble des activités artistiques de Van Alsloot permet d’aborder avec plus de justesse l’étude des "Festivités". Plusieurs éléments de la carrière de l'artiste furent en outre déterminants dans le choix d’Albert et Isabelle de faire appel à ses services pour la réalisation de la série.

La seconde partie se concentre sur l'examen des "Festivités". Le premier chapitre fait le point sur ce que les archives nous apprennent à propos de la commande et de l’historique des peintures originales comme des répliques et des variantes. Le second chapitre analyse la technique et le style de chacun des tableaux. Il vise également à reconstituer les étapes préparatoires dans la réalisation des peintures et à définir la nature des rapports entre les tableaux du point de vue de l’exécution. Une attention particulière est en outre portée à l'intervention comme sous-traitant du peintre Antoon Sallaert (1594-1650).

La signification politique des tableaux constitue le thème du troisième chapitre. Sont étudiés d'abord les circonstances historiques qui amenèrent Isabelle à participer au tir du Grand Serment et la cour à commander la série peinte des "Festivités". Le cadre d’origine des toiles est examiné ensuite, afin de mesurer l’influence potentielle de ce cadre sur la forme et le contenu des œuvres. Car si celles-ci contiennent une foule de renseignements valables sur les célébrations, il n’en demeure pas moins qu’il ne peut s’agir d’images objectives. Les "Festivités" servaient des intentions particulières qui ont amené les artistes à opérer des choix et à soumettre les scènes à des structures iconographiques signifiantes. C’est donc à déchiffrer et à interpréter la "rhétorique de l'image" que la thèse s'attache en dernier lieu.

En définitive, par la réévaluation d'un type particulier d'iconographie politique, l'auteure de la thèse espère contribuer aux travaux toujours plus nombreux sur le rôle de l'image dans l'élaboration du discours princier.


Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie
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Whitmus, Kyle J. "Arc Entire." 2016. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/englmfa_theses/54.

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Goldfarb, Nancy D. ""Charity Never Faileth": Philanthropy in the Short Fiction of Herman Melville." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/6298.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
This dissertation analyzes the critique of charity and philanthropy implicit in Melville’s short fiction written for periodicals between 1853 and 1856. Melville utilized narrative and tone to conceal his opposition to prevailing ideologies and manipulated narrative structures to make the reader complicit in the problematic assumptions of a market economy. Integrating close readings with critical theory, I establish that Melville was challenging the new rhetoric of philanthropy that created a moral identity for wealthy men in industrial capitalist society. Through his short fiction, Melville exposed self-serving conduct and rationalizations when they masqueraded as civic-minded responses to the needs of the community. Melville was joining a public conversation about philanthropy and civic leadership in an American society that, in its pursuit of private wealth, he believed was losing touch with the democratic and civic ideals on which the nation had been founded. Melville’s objection was not with charitable giving; rather, he objected to its use as a diversion from honest reflection on one’s responsibilities to others.
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Houle, Patrice. "Paradigme Québec : la science-fiction québécoise." Mémoire, 2010. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/3036/1/M11383.pdf.

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L'uchronie est un sous-genre de la science-fiction qui consiste à réécrire l'histoire en imaginant un événement différemment. Plusieurs auteurs, par exemple, ont imaginé un monde où l'Axe a gagné la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale. Cet exercice littéraire permet de questionner les liens entre les individus et l'histoire afin de mieux la comprendre. Dans le cas mentionné précédemment, si Hitler n'avait pas existé, la guerre aurait-elle eu lieu? En modifiant l'histoire, l'uchroniste met en perspective ces moments afin de saisir l'importance réelle qu'ils ont eu sur le destin de l'humanité. Ce genre est en émergence au Québec depuis quelques années. Quelques auteurs ont imaginé une société québécoise différente de celle que nous connaissons. L'uchronie, particulièrement au Québec, est généralement politique. Les événements altérés sont déterminants dans l'histoire du peuple de l'auteur. L'analyse de deux oeuvres du corpus de SFQ nous permettra de constater si ce genre est bien présent au Québec. Ces romans sont Les Voyageurs malgré eux d'Élisabeth Vonarburg et Chronoreg de Daniel Sernine. Ces deux récits présentent un Québec divergent du nôtre. ÉIisabeth Vonarburg décrit une société québécoise minoritaire au sein de son propre territoire. Suite à la Conquête, une majorité de francophones se sont exilés. Quel sort sera réservé à ceux qui sont restés? Daniel Sernine représente un Québec indépendant suite à la victoire des souverainistes au référendum de 1995. Cette jeune nation est en guerre contre le Canada et Terre-Neuve afin de rapatrier les terres du Labrador qui lui ont été illégalement retirées en 1927. Lorsqu'il sera démontré que ces oeuvres sont uchroniques, nous allons évaluer l'apport qu'elles fournissent aux débats sociaux. Déterminés par leur société d'origine, en quoi les enjeux sociaux québécois concernant l'indépendance nationale influencent-ils la vision du monde exprimée dans ces récits? Puisque l'uchronie consiste à imaginer une société différente, quels sont les choix de ces auteurs et quel constat pouvons-nous faire? ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Uchronie, Uchronie québécoise, Science-fiction, Science-fiction québécoise, Roman québécois, Élisabeth Vonarburg, Daniel Sernine, Les Voyageurs malgré eux, Chronoreg, Indépendance nationale, Québec.
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Song, Ho Rim. "Complex Feedback Loops of Technoscience, Literature, and Culture: Dynamics of the Complexity Paradigm in Scientific Fiction." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-08-8551.

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This dissertation explores the emergence of the complexity paradigm in our technoscience culture and proposes "scientific fiction" as a genre of cultural studies based on that paradigm. Throughout this dissertation, I use the terms and concepts of complexity theory developed by new science, which revises the reductionism and linearity of classic science. The complexity paradigm signifies a system of all knowledge that conceives the productivity and creativity of the complexity created by interconnective and interactive dynamics among and within systems. As a literary response to the complexity paradigm, scientific fiction emphasizes the productivity and creativity of the complexity, offering the possibility of the human‘s co-evolution with technoscience. These characteristics of scientific fiction help articulate new ontological, ethical, and aesthetic visions for the posthuman. This dissertation ultimately highlights the strong feedback loops of technoscience, literature, and culture, which promote the complexity paradigm. By comparing Pat Cadigan‘s Synners as a scientific fiction novel and William Gibson‘s Neuromancer as a representative postmodern science fiction novel, Chapter II presents the defining characteristics of scientific fiction, reconfiguring humanity in relation to the technoscience environment. Furthermore, analyzing Greg Bear‘s Blood Music, the chapter claims that the human subject is an adaptive, self-organizing, interconnective system. Grounded in such understandings of humanity and subjectivity, the next chapter examines Marge Piercy‘s He, She and It to offer a new ethical perspective, or the complexity ethics, which establishes the interconnective and interactive relationship between the human and the technological as an evolutionary partner. The complexity ethics describes human behaviors and thoughts in our technoscience culture rather than prescribing a moral guideline. Next, in investigating Shelley Jackson‘s Patchwork Girl, a hypertext novel that rewrites Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein, Chapter IV explores a new aesthetics appreciating the creativity of the complexity produced by interconnective and interactive dynamics. Finally, through the analyses of the scientific fiction novels, this dissertation suggests that scientific fiction is a transdisciplinary field that can offer new cultural visions.
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Gibson, Jennifer Ann. "Artificial perplexities the paradigm of Gothic fiction and its postmodern survival in the work of Nabokov, Pynchon, and Beckett /." 1991. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/24604087.html.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1991.
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Cheok, Jason. "‘Friction’ in cross-cultural service interactions: narratives from guests and service-providers of a five star luxury hotel." Thesis, 2016. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/31820/.

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Service interactions are increasingly cross-cultural as invariably they now involve parties from different cultural groups. Tourism establishments, however, have not always been able to create successful cross-cultural service interactions as negative interactions are widely reported. Negative cross-cultural service interactions affect tourists’ and service hosts’ experiences, and disfavour tourism businesses. Thus, there is a need to understand what factors shape cross-cultural service interactions and how these factors might influence the outcomes of cross-cultural service interactions in international tourism.
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Cederlöf, Henriette. "Alien Places in Late Soviet Science Fiction : The "Unexpected Encounters" of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky as Novels and Films." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-105822.

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This dissertation deals with how science fiction reflects the shift in cultural paradigms that occurred in the Soviet Union between the 1960s and the 1970s. Interest was displaced from the rational to the irrational, from a scientific-technologically oriented optimism about the future to art, religion, philosophy and metaphysics. Concomitant with this shift in interests was a shift from the future to an elsewhere or, reformulated in exclusively spatial terms, from utopia to heterotopia. The dissertation consists of an analysis of three novels by the Strugatsky brothers (Arkady, 1925-1991 and Boris 1933-2012): Inspector Glebsky’s Puzzle (Otel’ U pogibšego al’pinista, 1970), The Kid (Malyš, 1971) and Roadside Picnic (Piknik na obočine, 1972) and two films Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel (Hukkunud alpinisti hotell/ Otel’ U pogibšego al’pinista, Kromanov, 1979) and Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1980).  The three novels, allegedly treatments of the theme of contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence, were intended to be published in one volume with the title Unexpected Encounters. The films are based on two of the novels. In the novels an earlier Marxist utopia has given way to a considerably more ambiguous heterotopia, largely envisioned as versions of the West. An indication of how the authors here seem to look back towards history rather than forward towards the future is to be found in the persistent strain of literary Gothic that runs through the novels. This particular trait resurfaces in the films as well.  The films reflect how tendencies only discernable in the novels have developed throughout the decade, such as the budding Soviet consumer culture and the religious sensibilities of the artistic community.
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