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Platt, Martin Brewster. "Regionalism and modern Thai literature." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252095.
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Silva, Victor Leandro da. "A margem e o tempo: subjetivismo, universalidade e ficção." Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 2016. http://tede.ufam.edu.br/handle/tede/5171.
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This work is a study of universalism concepts and literary regionalism and its implications in the study of Novel.The novelistic narratives have often been categorized either as regionalist, or as universal.However, this classification is usually made arbitrarily, since the basis under which these concepts are applied are not consistent, which paves the way for the claim that these are used exclusively with marginalization purposes of certain literary manifestations. On this, the research seeks to establish other ways in which the local and the universal can be thought of in the novel, making use of the opportunities provided by the reflections of the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur about the narrative which allow us to think the novel as having dimensions that include both private as universalizing aspects of the plot. In order to check the consistency of the analysis, the study will turn to the literary works Relato de um certo Oriente, by Milton Hatoum, Beiradão, by Alvaro Maia, and Galvez Imperador do Acre by Márcio de Souza, that, wheter they have been compiled by authors from outside the major centers, they have elements that allow align them to the general panorama of the novel, while guarding features that approximate their original context of accomplishment.
Este trabalho consiste num estudo dos conceitos de universalismo e regionalismo literários, bem como suas implicações no estudo do Romance. As narrativas romanescas têm sido frequentemente categorizadas ora como regionalistas, ora como universais. No entanto, tal classificação costuma ser feita de forma arbitrária, uma vez que as bases sob as quais esses conceitos são aplicados não são consistentes, o que abre caminho para a afirmação de que estes são usados exclusivamente com fins de marginalização de certas manifestações literárias. Em visto disso, a pesquisa aqui realizada procura estabelecer outras formas pelas quais o local e o universal podem ser pensados no romance, utilizando para isso as perspectivas abertas pelas reflexões do filósofo francês Paul Ricoeur acerca da narratividade, as quais permitem pensar o romance como dotado de dimensões que abarcam tanto os aspectos particulares quanto universalizantes da trama. A fim de verificar a consistência da análise, o estudo irá voltar-se para as obras Relato de um certo Oriente, de Milton Hatoum, Beiradão, de Álvaro Maia, e Galvez imperador do Acre, de Márcio Souza, que, independente de terem sido elaboradas por autores de fora dos grandes centros, apresentam elementos que permitem alinhá-las ao panorama geral do romance, ao passo que guardam características que as aproximam de seu contexto original de realização.
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Cecchin, Aline Brustulin. "Poetas em "reunião" : o grupo matrícula e a consolidação de um sistema literário regional na serra gaúcha." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2014. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/849.
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O tema da presente dissertação consiste na investigação acerca da contribuição do Grupo Matrícula para a consolidação de um sistema literário regional na Serra Gaúcha. Ao compreender a literatura como um sistema particular, serão analisados elementos de produção, publicação e circulação em relação ao Grupo. Sob esse viés, fazem parte do sistema escritores, leitores e obras, e também editoras, universidades, livrarias, bibliotecas, análises críticas e outros. Será ainda observado o ambiente literário em que surge a antologia, assim como o ambiente que emerge após a sua publicação. À luz da sociologia da literatura, parte-se da totalidade de um sistema literário e, gradativamente, reduz-se ao sistema literário regional da Serra Gaúcha, para, finalmente, verificar o papel do Grupo Matrícula na consolidação desse sistema. Para tanto, servirão como aporte teórico os estudos sobre região cultural, regionalidades, literatura regional e sistemas literários. Os fatores sociais e culturais específicos de uma região, que agem sobre a produção e recepção da literatura, as instituições que constituem uma paisagem literária regional, assim como as condições de leitura e público literário são elementos investigativos da pesquisa em questão que contribuem para que se compreenda a vida literária na Serra Gaúcha, entre os anos de 1950 e 1980.Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2014-12-04T18:02:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Aline Brustulin Cecchin.pdf: 3666954 bytes, checksum: ee39bd1860c65405bb91911eca676040 (MD5)
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The topic studied in this master’s thesis is the investigation about the contribution of Grupo Matrícula to consolidate a regional literary system in Serra Gaúcha. Understanding the literature like a particular system, elements of production will be analyzed, as the publication, and diffusion in relation to the group. Writers, readers, books, publishing houses, universities, libraries, bookstores, and critical analysis are part of this system. The literary landscape, where the anthology arises, will be observed, and, also, the literary configuration after that. Based on the sociology of literature, this research is firstly developed considering a literary system in its totality, and, gradually, it reduces to the regional literary system in Serra Gaúcha, and, finally, it verifies the role of the Grupo Matrícula in the consolidation of a system. The studies about cultural region, regionalities, regional literature and literary systems will be used as theoretical basis. The social and cultural factors of a region that act on the production and reception of literature, the institutions that constitute a regional literary landscape, and, also, the conditions of reading and the literary public are investigating elements of this work. They contribute to understand the literary life in Serra Gaúcha, between 1950 and 1980.
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Costa, Ginegleyson Amorim da. "A LUTA PELA TERRA NO ROMANCE ―A TERRA E AS CARABINAS: REPRESENTAÇÕES E SENSIBILIDADES." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2013. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/3375.
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Previous issue date: 2013-12-18This paper makes an analysis of the Elis Literature Engaged in Bernardo, particularly his novel written in the late 1940s, "The Earth and Carbines". It was published in booklet form periodically in the Official State of Goiás observed that this literature was made for a specific purpose, since the author was active in the Brazilian Communist Party, reflecting its ideals in such work. The work is supported theoretically in Cultural History, which enables to use literature as a source of historical research. In the first chapter we demonstrate how the historian can use literature as a document; as some writers have become regionalist, do a quick story about how it came to literature engaged. In the second, expose briefly the life and works of Bernardo Elis, as well as their engagement in PCB reflected in the literature they produced. In the final chapter, we make a possible intersection between literature as "fiction" and its power of symbolization of the historical reality of the struggle for land.
Este trabalho faz uma análise da Literatura Engajada em Bernardo Élis, particularmente sua novela, escrita nos fins da década de 1940, A terra e as carabinas. Ela foi publicada em forma de folheto, periodicamente, no Jornal Estado de Goiás. Observamos que essa literatura foi feita para um objetivo específico, visto que o autor estava ativo no Partido Comunista Brasileiro, refletindo seus ideais na referida obra. O estudo apoia-se teoricamente na História Cultural, o que possibilita utilizar a literatura como fonte histórica de pesquisa. No primeiro capítulo demonstramos como o historiador pode usar a literatura como documento, como alguns escritores assumiram o tom regionalista e relataremos como surgiu à literatura engajada. No segundo, exporemos de forma resumida a vida e as obras de Bernardo Élis e como seu engajamento no PCB refletiu-se na literatura que produziu. No capítulo final, fazemos uma intersecção possível entre a literatura enquanto ficção e seu poder de simbolização da realidade histórica da luta pela terra.
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Lo, Yun-Fang. "Translators' and target readers' reconstruction of regionalism in Taiwan's regional prose literature." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1457.
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The object of this research is to investigate the dynamic nature of identity construction of a regional place in English translations. The study focuses on the analysis of Wang Zhenhe’s works in translation. The Regional Prose Literature of Taiwan was developed when writers began to examine their identity and sense of belonging under Japanese colonization (1895-1945) and later the rule of the Nationalist government under Martial Law (1949-1987) by using narrative and descriptive prose as a vehicle for presenting the distinctiveness of the island. The dialects, the colonial language, local customs and scenes which regional writers created in their stories brought out what they saw as the uniqueness of Taiwan identity. However, Taiwan, like Hong Kong, has been categorized by many scholars as part of the Han-Chinese-influenced region, which shares the same cultural identity. Translating Taiwan, therefore, depends on how a translator understands and (re)constructs its cultural and political discourse in translation. This thesis uses a cognitive-pragmatic model (CPM) to describe how a translation of regional prose literature communicates to readers of the target culture. The CPM in translation studies looks at translation from the aspects of literary communication and the comprehension process. It enables the researcher (1) to study the textual signals of a place which readers used to construct the text of the source cultural world; (2) to examine how these signals were conveyed in the target text; (3) to study the likely effects on specific readers who have little or no knowledge of the source text culture. The major finding of this study is that communication through translated literature depends not only on the translator’s roles as a reader and a rewriter, but also on target readers’ processing effort and literary competence. Textual analysis shows that the translators’ decisions on conveying regional signals in translations often affect readers’ comprehension of the target text (TT). When the translation is too literal and the cultural signal is unfamiliar to the target readers, those who have little or no knowledge of Taiwan have more difficulties understanding the text. Reader response studies also show that the use of footnotes in the literary translation is not always unacceptable by the readers when specific regional elements are preserved in the TT. Target readers’ reception of cultural signals relies firstly on their existing knowledge and secondly on the information they receive from the translation. Effective communication therefore results from a translator’s assumption of target readers’ schemas and efforts in making the translation comprehensible and coherent, especially when there are regional elements in the translation.
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Rivas-Rojas, Raquel. "The Venezuelan identity tale (1935-1941) from Criollismo to populist regionalism." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368704.
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Tillis, Antonio Dwayne. "Manuel Zapata Olivella : from regionalism to postcolonialism /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9988703.
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Gano, Geneva Marie. "Continent's end literary regionalism in the modern West /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1467886391&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Ceccarello, Vera Helena Picolo 1984. "A alegoria do dualismo brasileiro na obra "Dois irmãos" de Milton Hatoum." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/278901.
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Orientador: Marcelo Siqueira RidenaDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: Esta pesquisa analisa relações existentes entre a literatura brasileira e seu contexto histórico, a partir da obra Dois irmãos, de Milton Hatoum, importante escritor contemporâneo. Especialmente no século XX, início do romance, a sociedade brasileira sofreu um processo de industrialização que, aparentemente, separou o Brasil em regiões modernas e atrasadas, dando origem ao assim chamado dualismo brasileiro. A trajetória dos irmãos Yaqub e Omar, oriundos de uma família libanesa em Manaus, exemplifica, de maneira singular, a alegoria do dualismo brasileiro e do desenvolvimento desigual, especialmente a partir da década de 1950. O romance é narrado por Nael, filho da empregada da casa com um dos gêmeos, que reconstrói a história daquela família a partir de suas memórias. Assim, através da mencionada obra de Hatoum propõe-se uma análise da sociedade brasileira a partir de suas características e contradições
Abstract: This research examines the relationships between the brazilian literature and its historical context, from de the book Dois irmãos, by Milton Hatoum, an important contemporary writer. Especially in the twentieth century, beginning of the novel, brazilian society started a process of industrialization which apparently broke the country in modern and archaic regions, giving rise to the brazilian dualism. The trajectory of the twin brothers Yaqub and Omar, from a lebanese family in Manaus, exemplifies the allegory of brazilian dualism and uneven development, especially since the 1950s. The novel is narrated by Nael, son of the servant of the house with one of the brothers, which reconstructs the history of that family from their memories. Through this Hatoum's novel this work proposes an analysis of Brazilian society from its characteristics and contradictions
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Baptista, Michele Marques. "Língua e cultura regional : um estudo léxico-semântico da obra A casa das sete mulheres, de Leticia Wierzchowski." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2015. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/1053.
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Alguns elementos da realidade histórica e cultural, identificados em obras de ficção que tratam do Rio Grande do Sul, contribuíram e ainda contribuem para a construção de um imaginário social e de uma identidade regional, seja nas representações do ambiente em que se passa a narrativa ou na própria linguagem utilizada pelo escritor. Partindo do pressuposto de que as escolhas lexicais do escritor, em seu texto, são fatores relevantes para a configuração do contexto histórico de uma determinada época, este trabalho analisa as relações entre o léxico do romance A casa das sete mulheres (2002), de Leticia Wierzchowski, e a cultura regional gaúcha. Para atingir os objetivos, a presente dissertação desenvolve uma análise léxico-semântica da representação das características histórico-culturais e sociais do Rio Grande do Sul a partir da seleção de lexias, organizadas em campos lexicais conforme a teoria de Coseriu (1979). Utiliza-se como aporte teórico os Estudos lexicais, Lexicologia, Lexicografia e Terminologia, enfatizando o léxico relacionado a aspectos de cultura e regionalidade.Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2015-11-03T13:16:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Michele Marques Baptista.pdf: 246208 bytes, checksum: e3ccda1d95afef563893a6922c1ab239 (MD5)
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Some elements of historical and cultural reality, identified in fiction about the State of Rio Grande do Sul, have contributed and still contribute to the construction of a social imaginary and of a regional identity, whether in representations of the environment in which the narrative takes place or in the language used by the writer. On the assumption that the writer’s lexical choices are relevant factors to setting the historical context of a given season, this paper aims to examine the relation between the lexicon of the novel called “The House of Seven Women”, by Leticia Wierzchowski (2002) and regional culture. To achieve these goals, this dissertation develops a lexical-semantic analysis of the representation of the historicalcultural and social characteristics of Rio Grande do Sul from the selection of lexias, organized into lexical fields according to Coseriu's theory (1979). As theoretical contribution it was used the lexical studies, Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology, emphasizing the lexicon related to culture and regional aspects.
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Cattle, Graham. "Other Englands: Regionalism in Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1999. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1217.
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This dissertation examines the representation of England in the plays of the first tetralogy. Arguing that a large number of studies of Shakespearian drama have tended to gloss over the inherent differences within the English nation. I suggest that regionalism and regional identity play a pivotal role in Shakespeare's dramatisation of English history from the accession of Henry VI to the death of Richard Ill. In this thesis I propose that the first tetralogy is not only a representation of the past, but an expression of the political, cultural and geographical divisions within England during the period of the plays first production. While Shakespeare's first tetralogy forms part of an interconnecting discourse of nationhood -- contributing to what has been termed the discovery of England -- I explore how the plays also serve to highlight the extent to which regionalism and regional diversity remained powerful factors within English society. By drawing attention to the proliferation of geographical references in the tetralogy, I discuss how the localisation of scenes and the identification of characters with specific places represents an encounter with the kingdom beyond the confines of the theatre. In a series of plays that appear to be principally concerned with the struggle between rival dynasties for control of the realm, the various regional references can be read as the site of competing voices and sectional interests: an acknowledgment of not one England, but various other Englands. While the image of the regional world in these plays is largely informed by the chronicle sources, this study considers how Shakespeare's fashioning of regional identity was governed by the need for Elizabethan acting companies to secure and maintain the protection of powerful and influential patrons, by censorship, company rivalry, and the demands placed on theatre companies by touring. With this in mind, I argue that the manner in which certain characters and regions are presented in the tetralogy is an indication that these plays may have been performed throughout England. After a theoretical overview, chapter one presents an examination of regionalism as a social, cultural, political and economic phenomenon in early modem England. It is followed by a discussion of the various ways in which a sense of place was projected on the Elizabethan stage. Appropriating William Harrison's division of the late Tudor kingdom into four distinct provinces, this dissertation interrogates the role and representation in the first tetralogy of the area south of the Thames (chapter two), the midlands (chapter three), Wales and the English border counties (chapter four), and northern England (chapter five).
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Coelho, Elisa Domingues 1988. "As frutas bravas do Norte : os romances não canônicos na produção literária de 1930." [s.n.], 2013. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269909.
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Orientador: Antonio Arnoni PradoDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: A década de 30 teve uma movimentação literária ímpar na história da nossa literatura não apenas por sua vasta produção, mas por ser fruto das inovações estéticas da década anterior e da polarização política de seu tempo. Este trabalho se ocupa de uma pequena parte dessa produção, em sua maioria esquecida pela crítica, para tanto o percurso do estudo resumiu-se a lê-la e situá-la junto aos romances que ficaram como símbolo desse tempo. Sendo assim, a partir de um estudo mais geral sobre a personagem da ficção, percebe-se essa componente do romance como síntese do dilema entre a representação e a criação, que sintetiza a grande questão dos escritores de 30. Por isso, foi escolhido esse foco para as análises, atentando, mais precisamente, para a personagem feminina tanto no romance canônico quanto no não-canônico. Os romances escolhidos foram: Paracoera; Rua do Siriry; Três sargentos; Badú; Menino de engenho; O Quinze; Capitães da areia e Vidas secas, analisando primeiramente cada um isoladamente para depois olhar a recepção crítica e relacioná-los
Abstract: In the Brazilian History of Literature, the 1930s are known not only as a decade of a vast number of novels published, but also as a period when the writers were concerned about politics and the aesthetic innovations of 1922's Brazilian Modernism. Via a more general study on the fictional character, element in which it is possible to realize the dilemma between representation and creation - one of the greatest issues to 30's novelists -, this master thesis aims to compare the role of the female characters in both canonical and non-canonical novels of that time. From the first group we analyzed Menino de Engenho, O Quinze; Capitães da areia and Vidas Secas, from the second Paracoera, Rua do Siriry, Três Sargentos and Badú
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Abrams, Sean Michael. "My Ántonia and Willa Cather's Reciprocal Regionalism and W.T. Benda's Illustrations." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2016. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/530.
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This thesis explores regionalism as a fictional genre and Willa Cather's experimentations and innovations in her 1918 novel My Ántonia. In it I argue that Cather employs what I will be calling reciprocal regionalism, which expands upon the regionalist relationship between the land and the characters in the story. In My Ántonia and later novels of Cather's, reciprocal regionalism functions in how characters survive, prosper, or perish in the region; the relationship needs to be fluid and adaptable.
Using regionalist criticism and close textual analysis of Willa Cather's novels, essays, and letters, I argue that Cather believes in an inherent essentialist relationship between the artist and the muse, the character, and the region. When the relationship falters and fails, the art and the character dies. Furthermore, Cather's commissioning of illustrations for the novel by W.T. Benda illustrate that the relationship between material and personal experience is foremost in truthful representation.
This thesis aims to fill a gap in Cather criticism that has so far neglected in studying Cather's fourth novel My Ántonia as a regionalist text, while also exploring how Cather served as an intermediary and experimenter in a rather traditional female written form by questioning its place in the literary canon and revising it as a modernist author.
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Cormier, Audrey M. "Regionalism in the fiction of Alistair MacLeod, Alden Nowlan, and David Adams Richards." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ65482.pdf.
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ROSA, Denilson Pereira. "Arte, educação e literatura: o regionalismo universal de Eli brasiliense e frei confaloni." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2012. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2024.
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Previous issue date: 2012-04-29This dissertation, developed at the Research Line: Culture and Educational Processes Program of Graduate Studies in Education of the Federal University of Goias, addresses the issue of intrinsic relations between education, visual arts and literature. To develop it we chose a qualitative approach, similar to bibliographic research using methodological assumptions of the historical survey of art and culture of Goias in an aesthetic standpoint and also local. We analyzed Eli Brasiliense novels and works of Frei Nazareno Confaloni, looking for ideas about man and nature, the world of school, modern art, the popular religion, work and courage of the frontiersman and his connection to the land. For this analysis, we used the references of Barbosa, Candido, Palacin, Olives, Borges, Cavalcanti and Sabino Junior. In conclusion, it was realized that the culture, like possibility of education, goes beyond the art education of formal teaching, and yet the languages of literature and the visual arts are interrelated and are essential in human development.
A presente dissertação, desenvolvida na Linha de Pesquisa: Cultura e Processos Educacionais do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Goiás, aborda a temática das relações intrínsecas entre educação, artes visuais e literatura. Para desenvolvê-la, optou-se por uma abordagem qualitativa nos moldes da pesquisa bibliográfica, utilizando pressupostos metodológicos da pesquisa histórica da arte e da cultura goiana em uma perspectiva estética e também regional. Foram analisados romances de Eli Brasiliense, bem como obras de Frei Nazareno Confaloni, buscando as ideias sobre o homem e a natureza, o mundo da escola, a arte moderna, a religiosidade popular, o trabalho e a coragem do sertanejo e sua ligação com a terra. Para tal análise, foram utilizadas as referências de Barbosa, Cândido, Palacin, Olival, Borges, Cavalcanti e Sabino Junior. Como conclusão, percebeu-se que a cultura, como possibilidade de educação, vai além da arte-educação do ensino formal, e ainda que as linguagens da literatura e das artes visuais estão interligadas e são essenciais na formação humana.
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Rocha, Karen Gomes da. "Representações do sujeito feminino em presença de Thalia, de Ruth Laus : regionalidade, cultura e subjetividade." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2015. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/1084.
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A presente dissertação focaliza as representações da figura feminina em Presença de Thalia (1989), da escritora catarinense Ruth Laus, dialogando e relacionando com questões inerentes à identidade e ao espaço das representações ficcionais entre gênero, o sujeito feminino enquanto produtora de textos e personagem ficcional, assim como avalia a interferência da ideologia patriarcal presente na obra. Para buscar resposta ao questionamento do que é o feminino, pela análise do mascullino e do feminino, entre outras possibilidades combinatórias, viabiliza-se uma visão crítica por meio de pesquisa e análise, acerca da ruptura, ou não, do modelo mítico do patriarcado. Para tanto, analisa-se a configuração regional e as suas interrelações culturais na obra, primeiramente, a partir de pressupostos teóricos sobre região e regionalidade; depois, aliados à perspectiva da crítica feminista, utilizam-se como subsídios os estudos de Showalter (1994) e dos antropólogos Bruner (1986) e Geertz (1989), com o intuito de, ao evidenciar o texto de autoria feminina, isto é, sua expressão, no que concerne à avaliação do campo social familiar e as estruturas de poder estabelecidas ficcionalmente, desvelar as estruturas conceptuais e interpretar as “teias de relações” ficcionais; e, finalmente, embasando as reflexões sobre representação, identidade e subjetividade, os pressupostos de Chartier (2002) e Weedon (2003), revelar como são concebidos os sujeitos femininos.Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2015-12-15T11:29:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Karen Gomes da Rocha.pdf: 1905682 bytes, checksum: 15957982653c10d6aa5cc7d638920b0a (MD5)
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This dissertation focuses on the representations of the female figure in Presença de Thalia (1989), by Ruth Laus, a writer from Santa Catarina, dialoguing and relating to issues inherent to the identity and the space of fictional representations of gender, the female subject as a producer of texts and fictional character, as well as evaluates the interference of patriarchal ideology present in the novel. To seek answers to the question of what is the feminine, the analysis of masculine and feminine, among other combinatorial possibilities, enables a critical view through research and analysis, on breaking, or not, the mythical model of patriarchy. Therefore, it is analyzed the regional setting and its cultural interrelations in the novel, first, from theoretical assumptions regarding the region and regionality; then, combined with the perspective of feminist criticism, are used as subsidies the studies of Showalter (1994) and the anthropologists Bruner (1986) and Geertz (1989), in order to, by focusing on the female authorship text, that is, her expression, regarding the evaluation of family court and social power structures established fictionally, to unveil the conceptual structures and interpret the culture's fictional web of symbols; and, finally, basing the discussions on representation, identity and subjectivity with the assumptions of Chartier (2002) and Weedon (2003), reveal how female subjects are conceived.
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Ulrich, Aline. "Guilherme de Almeida e a construção da identidade paulista." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-03042008-132431/.
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Este trabalho tem como foco principal a observação da gente e da terra paulista como ponto artístico na literatura de G.A.. Engloba as reflexões do poeta sobre a identidade cultural do paulista e sobre São Paulo no jornal O Estado de S. Paulo, enfatizando a diferença entre a São Paulo cosmopolita e a São Paulo tradicionalista em sua obra. Para tanto, observa-se a produção literária do autor depois do movimento Modernista e a sua transformação estética e ideológica, constatando as tensões reveladas por essa mudança em sua literatura: olhar cosmopolita e tradicionalista, a preocupação do autor em compreender o brasileiro, tipificando o paulista, e a introdução do autor na linha bandeirantista e a mitificação do bandeirante.This research has as main focus the observation of land and of people from São Paulo as being the artistic point on Guilherme de Almeida\'s literature. It comprehends poet\'s reflections about the cultural identity of people and about the city itself, based on articles from the newspaper \"O Estado de S. Paulo\", by emphasizing the difference between the cosmopolitan and the traditionalist São Paulo. For that purpose is analyzed in his literary production after the Modernism movement and its esthetical and ideological transformation as well, and the strains revealed by that change are evidenced: the cosmopolitan and the traditionalist views, the author\'s concerns in understanding the people from Brazil by defining the people from São Paulo, and the introduction of author on a Bandeirante line and the creation of the Bandeirante mith.
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Lindsay, David C. "New river strain, locating the author and the narrator in David Adams Richards' Miramichi trilogy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq24865.pdf.
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McLaughlin, Don James. "Off the beaten path how naturalism, regionalism, and feminism converged in American women's writing, 1915-1950 /." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1855923231&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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MacLeod, Alexander. "Between a rock and a soft place : postmodern-regionalism in Canadian and American fiction." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=19527.
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This study calls for a re-evaluation of contemporary regionalist literary theory. It argues that traditional models of the discourse have been too heavily influenced by nineteenth century realist aesthetics and political ideologies. Because most scholars continue to interpret regionalist texts according to a resolutely empirical reading of geography, literary regionalism has fallen out of touch with the new kinds of "unrealistic," generic landscapes that now dominate North American culture in the postindustrial era. Drawing heavily on recent work by postmodern geographers such as Edward Soja, David Harvey, Michael Dear and Derek Gregory, this project updates regionalist theory by "re-placing" the artificially stabilized reading of geography that dominated the nineteenth century with a more self-consciously spatialized reading of what Soja calls our contemporary "real-and-imagined" places. By grafting together traditional regionalism and postmodern spatial theory we improve on both contributing discourses. In a "postmodern-regionalist" literary criticism, traditional regionalism sheds its reputation for theoretical naivete, while the elusive abstractions of postmodern theory gain a real-world referent, and a specific geographical index. When we "read postmodernism regionally" - - when we aggressively interrogate where this kind of fiction comes from and the places it represents - - we realize that the canons of postmodern fiction in Canada and the United States have been influenced by two very different spatial epistemologies. Rather than being "determined" by their real geographies, Canadian and American postmodernism have been more directly influenced by two different readings of geography. Works by Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, and Don DeLillo demonstrate that American postmodernism often interprets social space according to what Henri Lefebvre calls the idealistic "the illusion of transparency," while texts by Canadian postmodernists such as Robert Kroetsch, Wayne Johnston and Guy Vanderhaeghe tend to fall under Lefebvre's more materialistic "illusion of opacity." The ambiguous figure of Douglas Coupland - - a Canadian writer most critics treat as an American - - puts the spatial conventions of postmodernism in both countries in sharp relief. In an American postmodernism, dominated by generic suburban settings, regions will almost always be seen as imaginary projections, while in a Canadian postmodernism, dominated by the Prairies, regions will almost always retain some sense of their material reality.
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Chaguri, Mariana Miggiolaro 1983. "Do Recife nos anos 20 ao Rio de Janeiro nos anos 30 : Jose Lins do Rego, regionalismo e tradicionalismo." [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/281503.
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Orientador: Elide Rugai BastosDissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas
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Resumo: Esta pesquisa pretende recuperar a partir dos romances do Ciclo da Cana-de-Açúcar e das crônicas de José Lins do Rego (1901-1957), os contextos intelectuais e os processos sociais envolvidos na dinâmica de decadência dos engenhos e de ascensão das usinas na zona canavieira nordestina. Para tanto, reconstrói as ambiências intelectuais vivenciadas pelo autor nos anos 20 no Recife (dando particular atenção ao Regionalismo e ao modo como este perpassa a obra de José Lins) e no Rio de Janeiro durante os anos 30 e 40 (o lugar e o momento da consagração literária do romancista). Desse modo, são analisadas as polêmicas estéticas e políticas travadas pelo romancista ao longo da década de 20. São mapeadas, ainda, as críticas literárias aos romances do Ciclo da Cana-de-Açúcar tomando-as como um fio condutor que nos permite explorar a hipótese do Regionalismo nordestino ser compreendido como uma operação pela unidade nacional. Finalmente, a pesquisa dedica-se ao estudo dos romances do Ciclo da Cana-de-Açúcar explorando as nuances e os impasses envolvidos no processo de modernização da zona canavieira nordestina
Abstract: This research aims at reconstructing some aspects of José Lins do Rego's intellectual trajectory between the late 1920s and the late 1940s, with a focus on his novels the Ciclo da Cana-de-Açúcar and on his chronicles. The analysis starts with the reconstruction of the intellectual¿s contexts lived by the author in the 1920s in Recife (giving particular attention to the Regionalism and to the way as this get importance on the José Lins¿s novels and on his chronicles) and in Rio de Janeiro between the late 1930s and the late 1940s (the place and the moment of the literary consecration of the author). Following this, the esthetic and politics controversies in which the author was involved throughout the 1920s are analyzed. In the same way, the literary review is also analyzed and taken as a conductor wire that allows exploring the hypothesis of the Regionalism as an operation for the national unit. Finally, the research dedicates itself at study the Ciclo da Cana-de- Açúcar's novels exploring the deadlocks of the process of modernization of the sugar cane¿s farming in Brazil¿s northeastern
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Rocha, Elisangela Aparecida da. "Claridade - o canto e o louvor de um povo no percurso da construção identitária: o diálogo como regionalismo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8156/tde-02072015-160121/.
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Claridade - revista de letras e artes é considerada um dos principais marcos do desenvolvimento literário no arquipélago de Cabo Verde. O lema fincar os pés no chão crioulo fulgurou como estratégia na busca de temas que refletissem a realidade social das ilhas. O contato com escritores brasileiros (modernistas e regionalistas), a partir dos anos de 1930, foi a força motriz para o desenvolvimento e modernização literária cabo-verdiana. Nesse processo, os estudos de Gilberto Freyre, notadamente o Manifesto Regionalista, foram especialmente significativos por oferecerem o arcabouço teórico e metodológico para a valorização das raízes culturais das ilhas e de sua formação social. O presente trabalho estrutura-se na análise das ações envolvendo o grupo claridoso, questionadoras da identidade cultural e literária do arquipélago, por meio da valorização dos aspectos regionais, cujos registros figuram nas publicações de Claridade, entre os anos de 1936 e 1960.Claridade - literature and arts journal - is considered a landmark in the literary development of Cape Verde. The motto set feet into creoule ground remained a strategy in the search of themes that reflected the social reality of the islands. The contact with Brazilian writers (modernists and regionalists), from the 1930s on, was a driving force to the development and modernization of Cape Verde literature. Gilberto Freyre\'s works, particularly his Regionalista Manifesto, played a significant role since they provided a theoretical and methodological framework to the acknowledgment of cultural roots and the islands\' social formation. This study centers on the analysis of Claridadoso group, whose activities questioned the Literary and cultural identity of the islands by taking into account the regional aspects, as shown by Claridade editions from 1930s to 1960s.
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Souza, Soraya Maria Siqueira de. "O léxico regional em Vidas Secas: subsídios para um dicionário da ficção de Graciliano Ramos." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2013. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=7321.
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Vidas Secas, de Graciliano Ramos é considerada uma obra prima da ficção regional da Literatura Brasileira da Geração de 30. O romance é um documento sobre a vida miserável de uma família de retirantes nordestinos, que sofrem as consequências da seca no sertão. O estudo do vocabulário que permeia a trajetória dessa família gerou as bases para elaboração deste trabalho que tem como objetivo principal a formação de um glossário de termos regionais nordestinos presentes na obra em estudo, a fim de contribuir com um dicionário da ficção do referido autor. Para isso, faz-se necessário discorrer sobre a linguagem literária no Brasil a partir do Romantismo até o Modernismo. Expor a curva evolutiva da tradição regionalista brasileira, na ficção, do Romantismo até o Modernismo, enfatizando autores e obras que participaram do processo de criação e evolução do gênero em focoVidas Secas, by Graciliano Ramos, is considered a masterpiece of regional fiction of Brazilian Literature of the generation of 1930. The novel is a document about the miserable life of a family of northeasterner migrants, who suffer the consequences of drought in backlands. The study of vocabulary that permeates the trajectory of this family originated the bases for the preparation of this work, which has as its main objective the training of a glossary of regional terms present in the work focused in this study, in order to contribute with a dictionary of the referred authors fictional and autobiographical works. For this reason it is necessary to discuss the literary language in Brazil from Romanticism to Modernism and expose the evolutionary curve of Brazilian regionalist tradition in fiction of Romanticism to Modernism, emphasizing authors and works that participate in the process of creation and evolution of the genre in focus
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Pearce, Jason. "Writing home : regionalism, distance, and metafiction in four novels by Wayne Johnston /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq25875.pdf.
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Weber, Raquel. "Pós-modernismo e regionalidade no romance Glaucha." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2009. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/407.
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Este estudo tem como objetivo investigar aspectos do fenômeno pós-modernista na literatura por meio da análise do romance Glaucha, de Paulo Ribeiro. Discute-se o contexto que permitiu o surgimento dessa tendência contemporânea, explorando sua condição de continuidade e ruptura em relação ao movimento que a antecedeu, o modernismo. Juntamente com a análise do romance, são exploradas as características atribuídas à tendência pós-modernista, ressaltando-se a forte presença da intertextualidade e da paródia. Estuda-se, também, sua relação com conceitos de cultura e de identidade regional, propondo-se a presença da regionalidade como característica constituidora do discurso pós-modernista.Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-28T16:34:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Raquel Weber.pdf: 4682234 bytes, checksum: 8377ceda95fbe0e25229a74622ffaf41 (MD5)
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This study intents to investigate the postmodernist phenomenon´s aspects in literature through the analysis of the novel Glaucha, by Paulo Ribeiro. It is argued the context that allowed the appearing of this contemporary trend, exploring its condition of continuity and rupture in relation to the movement that preceded it, modernism. The characteristics attributed to the postmodernist trend are explored with the analysis of the novel, standing out the strong presence of the intertextuality and the parody. It is studied also its relation with culture and regional identity concepts, considering the presence of the regionality as a constitutive characteristic of the postmodernist speech.
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Surgeoner, Joanna Christine. "Books and worlds : a literary cartographer of the Canadian north /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5674.
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Conde, Gustavo. "Piadas regionais : o caso dos gauchos." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270379.
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Orientador: Sirio PossentiDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Com base na análise do discurso (Pêcheux, 1975; Maingueneau, 1986, 1987,1990,1993), na teoria semântica dos scripts (Raskin, 1985) e no estudo sobre os chistes de Freud (1905) analisa-se um determinado corpus composto por um conjunto de piadas. São as chamadas piadas regionais que veiculam estereótipos de mineiros, paulistas, cariocas e gaúchos. A articulação entre corpus e teorias do discurso e lingüística busca dar conta dos vários níveis de intelecção emaranhados numa piada como os detalhes cenográficos, o contrato enunciativo, as ambigüidades lexicais, sintáticas e fonológicas, o ethos e a dispersão discursiva que condiciona direções interpretativas. As análises permitiram a formulação de uma abordagem pragmática mais sistemática, isto é, de uma leitura das teorias de humor afetada pela AD, foi possível esboçar uma pragmática para o discurso humorístico e começar a dar corpo a uma teoria discursiva do humor
Abstract: Based in the French discourse analysis (Pêcheux, 1975; Maingueneau, 1986, 1987,1990,1993), in the Semantic Theory of Humor (Raskin, 1985) and in the book of Freud Jokes and Their Relationship to the Unconscious (1905) a set of jokes is analyzed. They are regional jokes that propagate stereotypes of gauchos. Some dimensions of the jokes are analyzed like the scenographic details, the lexical, syntactic and phonological ambiguities, the discoursive ethos and the discoursive dispersion that conditions interpretations. A model of pragmatic analysis was considered as well as the sketch of a Discoursive Theory of Humor
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Manavalli, Krishna K. "Invented traditions and regional identities --- a study of the cultural formations of South India --- 1856-1990s." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2008.
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Chalykoff, Lisa. "Space and identity formation in twentieth-century Canadian realist novels : recasting regionalism within Canadian literary studies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ56523.pdf.
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Danese, Viviane Michelline Veloso. "Os entre em as margens e os cimos: estudos do espaço em João Guimarães Rosa." Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 2014. http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4879.
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Previous issue date: 2014-04-11The present work consists in a research that turns around the meanings that the fictional space assumes in the Brazilian literature since its first manifestations and during colonial periods, until the third modernism's stage that corresponds to the generation of 45 that is inserted in the work of João Guimarães Rosa. In this sense, it is exposed a panoramic view of regionalism at Brazilian literature from the theoretical route presented by Antonio Candido that approaches the way how the fictional texts assume the space in its literal or symbolic dimension. In this last meaning, the range of the spatial focus incorporates proper elements from modernity as: the narrator, language and reader space. These elements are discussed in perspective of Rosa's work in a general way and more specifically in the short stories As margens da alegria e Os cimos, the first and last respectively from the book Primeiras estórias (1962). In the case of short stories, it is done a comparative analysis highlighting common aspects, notable in the structural composition; and differences evoked by the perception of childish character regarding space. The space is characterized as element that allows to conceive the immersion of the childish character as perceptive subject in a world socially shared. The character's displacement, as physical as internal, evokes the imagination and gives a sign to an existential learning. On the other hand, in the case of short story as genre, the narrative assumes an ambiguity associating fictional poetic and reality. Thus, it is also discussed aspects related to the production context of Guimarães Rosa's work, spatially linked to a more urban perspective, from a Brazil that had a strangeness of the modernization. The perception of the environment by the childish character emphasizes the study of fictional space in the short stories of Joao Guimarães Rosa.
O presente trabalho consiste numa pesquisa que gira em torno das acepções que o espaço ficcional assume na literatura brasileira desde suas primeiras manifestações ainda em períodos coloniais, até a terceira fase do modernismo, que corresponde à geração de 45, na qual está inserida a obra de João Guimarães Rosa. Nesse sentido, é explanado um panorama do regionalismo na literatura brasileira a partir do percurso teórico apresentado por Antonio Candido que aborda a forma como os textos ficcionais pressupõem o espaço seja em sua dimensão literal ou simbólica. Nessa última acepção, o leque do enfoque espacial abarca elementos próprios da modernidade, a saber: o espaço do narrador, o da linguagem e o do leitor. Esses elementos são debatidos na perspectiva da obra rosiana de uma forma geral e mais especificamente nos contos As margens da alegria e Os cimos, primeiro e último, respectivamente, do livro Primeiras estórias (1962). Em se tratando dos contos, é feita uma análise comparativa evidenciando aspectos em comum, notáveis na composição estrutural; e diferenças evocadas pela percepção da personagem infantil no que tange ao espaço. O espaço caracteriza-se como elemento que possibilita conceber a imersão da personagem infantil, enquanto sujeito perceptivo, em um mundo socialmente partilhado. O deslocamento da personagem, tanto físico quanto interno, evoca a imaginação e acena para um aprendizado existencial. Por outro lado, em se tratando de conto enquanto gênero, a narrativa assume uma dubiedade associando ficção poética e realidade. Assim sendo, também são discutidos aspectos relacionados ao contexto de produção da obra de Guimarães Rosa, vinculados espacialmente a uma perspectiva mais urbana, própria de um Brasil que passava por um surto de modernização. A percepção do entorno pela personagem infantil referencia o estudo do espaço ficcional nos contos de João Guimarães Rosa.
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Allison, Michael David. "The individual is everything or the world is nothing, morality and regionalism in the novels of David Adams Richards." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ62338.pdf.
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Kosiba, Sara A. "A Successful Revolt?: The Redefinition of Midwestern Literary Culture in the 1920s and 1930s." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1183804975.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2007.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 19, 2009). Advisor: Robert W. Trogdon. Keywords: midwestern literature, midwest, regionalism, modernism. Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-197).
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Silva, Angelise Fagundes da. "Aldyr Schlee e o entrelugar: A questão da fronteira em Uma Terra Só." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2010. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/9819.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorThis thesis analyses the short stories from Uma Terra Só (1984) and intends to verify how the motifs related to the bordering space are manifested in this book, considering them from the perspective of making of characters, fictional space, narrative voice and, mainly, of the subject matter. The culture, the language, the literature, the frontier man, the history of both sides of the border line which passes by Rio Grande do Sul state and Uruguay are elements which attest a limit, however, they do not demarcate it in a precise and clear-cut way. On the contrary, such aspects configure this territory as a cultural continuum . This work aims at studying this conception of the physical and social space as well as its evident relation with the aesthetic project which we find in the so called puebleros short stories by Aldyr Schlee.
Esta dissertação analisa os contos de Uma Terra Só (1984) e busca verificar como os motivos relacionados ao espaço fimbrio manifestam-se no corpus em estudo, tomando-os, na obra, pela via da construção de personagens, do espaço ficcional, do narrador e, principalmente, da temática. A cultura, a língua, a literatura, o homem fronteiriço, a história dos dois lados da linha divisória que perpassa o Rio Grande do Sul e o Uruguai são elementos que atestam um limite sem, no entanto, demarcá-lo de modo nítido e firme. Pelo contrário, tais aspectos configuram esse território como um continuum cultural . Busca-se estudar essa forma de conceber o espaço físico e social e a sua evidente relação com o projeto estético que localizamos nos cognominados contos puebleros de Aldyr Garcia Schlee.
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Risley, Kristin Ann. "Vikings of the midwest : place, culture, and ethnicity in Norwegian-American literature, 1870-1940 /." Columbus, Ohio Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1056041378.
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Gram, Margaret Hunt. "Matters of State: American Literature in the Civil Rights Era." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11083.
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"Matters of State: American Literature in the Civil Rights Era" argues that American writers engaged with the American civil rights movement as it unfolded by turning their attention to the state and the state's relationship to its subjects and by imagining new forms for both. Postwar American literary culture, then, understood racial inequality not solely as a problem of identity and difference, nor simply as an economic problem, but as a problem of formal citizenship. Between around 1948 and around 1968, that problem as such spurred diverse and unruly literary inquiries into a range of matters of state, each taken up in dialogue with American constitutional law and each also a meditation on the particular capacities of literary art as a site for political thinking. William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor tried to reimagine the structure of federalism; James Baldwin and Harper Lee interrogated the real workings of democracy; Chester Himes and Sam Greenlee asked whether social movements ought to collaborate with the existing U.S. state in the first place; Norman Mailer, William Styron, Amiri Baraka, and others reoriented literary culture toward a new, post-civil-rights set of questions. Read as one archive, the novels and plays and essays that they produced tell a new story about American literature at midcentury: a story about literature's quasi-autonomous engagement with the political-theoretical questions that racial inequality had rendered urgent. They remind us of the complexity of history itself, and of the difficulty and uncertainty obscured by triumphalist narratives of democratic liberalism's inevitable civil-rights redemption. And they afford a glimpse into the kaleidoscopic legal worldmaking for which literary art in general can be an arena.
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Brabon, Benjamin A. "Darkness and distance : Gothic cartography and the mapping of Great Britain 1764-1820." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1694.
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The embryonic ideas for this thesis began to form in two seminars I attended in 2000 while studying for a Masters at the University of Chicago. The first of these, W. J. T. Mitchell's 'Verbal and Visual Landscapes', must be given credit for introducing me to a short essay by Martin Heidegger entitled 'Die Kunst und der Raum' ('Art and Space'), which got me thinking about the 'special character' of space (Heidegger 1973: 4). In addition, Professor Mitchell's specific approach to landscape, that it should be considered as a verb rather than a noun, made me consider the ontological implications of the relationship between space and power that is witnessed both in and through landscape when approached as 'a process by which social and subjective identities are formed' (Mitchell 1994: 1).
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Arthur, Jason G. "Thinking locally provincialism and cosmopolitanism in American literature since the Great Depression /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4823.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on January 29, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Rozotto, David F. "Región y Nación en Guatemala: La Obra de Virgilio Rodríguez Macal." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23662.
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The writer Virgilio Rodríguez Macal, through his essays, narratives, and journalistic chronicles, actively participated in the great debates about the fate of the Guatemalan nation during and after the socialist governments of the Revolution (1944-1954). This thesis delves into a neglected oeuvre the study of which sheds light on an original perspective about a national period with continental repercussions. I study his regionalist novels Carazamba (1953), Jinayá (1956) and Guayacán (1962) within the framework of Guatemala and Latin America’s intellectual, literary and socio-political history. This approach, in combination with a close textual analysis, allows me to show that Rodríguez Macal, with a firm footing in the Latin American lettered tradition of political commitment to the construction of the nation, propounds narrative worlds that amount to national integration programs centered around the northern region of the country. I demonstrate that Rodríguez Macal adopts a regionalist aesthetic to postulate a Guatemalan autochthonous essence based on the discourse of narrators who act as discerners of that same essence based on a scientific knowledge derived from disciplines such as anthropology, historiography and sociology. Lastly, I reveal that this literary project is the expression of an independent intellectual trajectory preoccupied with proposing alternative projects for the modernization and territorialization of the nation.
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Wyile, Herb 1961. ""Now you might feel some discomfort" : regional disparities and Atlantic regionalism in the writings of David Adams Richards." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65552.
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Chaguri, Mariana Miggiolaro 1983. "As escritas do lugar : regiões e regionalismo em José Lins do Rego e Erico Veríssimo." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/280294.
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Orientador: Elide Rugai BastosTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: Partindo da premissa de que escritores se encontram no ofício comum da escrita, este estudo toma o Ciclo da cana-de-açúcar de José Lins do Rego O tempo e o vento de Erico Verissimo para investigar a produção e a circulação de ideias como região e regionalismo. Para tanto, analisa os caminhos trilhados pelos autores na consolidação da literatura como suas profissões, bem como as editoras que lhes deram suporte. Num segundo momento, o estudo reconstrói os debates em torno da região e do regionalismo produzidos em Pernambuco e no Rio Grande do Sul com vistas a investigar o contexto de produção de ideias com o qual os escritores dialogam, estabelecendo um repertório de temas e problemas comum a ambos que, contudo, são equacionados de maneiras diversas. Diferenças que são exploradas no estudo das obras literárias que procura evidenciar de modo que a tensão entre particular e singular; entre local, regional e nacional estrutura as narrativas e produz os nexos de sentido entre forma literária e processo social. Observa-se, assim, um deslocamento que faz da região o problema enfrentado e não apenas o tema narrado e do regionalismo uma discussão política, estética e social que dá forma às narrativas
Abstract: Assuming that writers share the craft of writing, this work analyses the Cycle of sugar cane by José Lins do Rego and Time and wind by Erico Verissimo to investigate the production and circulation of ideas as region and regionalism. It is analyzed the publishers who gave them support for became professional writers. The work also rebuilds the debates around the region and regionalism produced in Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Sul establishing a repertoire of themes and problems common to both writers, despite being equated in different ways. The tension between particular and singular, between local, regional and national guides the study of the novels, investigating if region and regionalism structures the narrative and sense makes the connections between literary form and social process
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Stengel, Julia. "Die ,globale Provinz' ? Der Globalisierungsdiskurs am Beispiel von Arnold Stadlers Roman Ein hinreissender Schrotthändler (1999) und Andreas Maiers Roman Klausen (2002)." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2815.
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This thesis demonstrates how two literary works ? Arnold Stadler's Ein hinreissender Schrotthändler (1999) and Andreas Maier's Klausen (2002) ? can be read as part of the globalization discourse. As a theoretical basis for the textual analysis the thesis first develops an understanding of the concept of globalization which forms a background against which the two literary works can be read. By embedding literature into the sociological theories of globalization it is possible to examine to what extent the two novels reflect and/or generate particular aspects of globalization. Both texts are set largely in provincial towns, and the regions themselves play commanding roles in the stories being told. This focus on the provincial takes on an ironic appearance in the era of globalization where one would assume that localities have lost meaning. It is therefore useful to look at theories that broach the issue of the tense relation between globality and locality. Since no universally accepted definition of globalization exists, it is necessary to establish the crucial aspects of the phenomenon to be applied in the analysis of the novels by examining the work of various theorists on the topic.
The prominent model of 'glocalization,' originated by the sociologist Roland Robertson to refer to 'global localization,' offers useful categories for the analysis of the provincial in the era of globalization. In this model the simultaneity of global and local processes is assumed and with it the alleged antagonism of the 'global' and the 'local' is overcome. Claiming those dynamics Robertson's model can serve as a confirmation of the arguments put forward in this thesis which looks at literature about the 'local' through the prism of globalization. Other theories relating to explicit local dynamics are presented to round out the model of 'glocalization. ' In addition, the thesis takes into account normative ideas regarding the province in the global era.
The textual analysis that follows the delineation of the model of 'glocalization' demonstrates how the novels illustrate the global and local processes postulated by the model. The investigation also explains how the literary texts themselves evaluate the provinces portrayed. The results of the examination show that selected aspects of the globalization discourse have found their way into two contemporary German-language novels and therefore into German literary discourse. Even though the two novels deal with different ideas from the discourse, and even reject to a certain extent some of these concepts, they each reveal a particular literary manner of echoing the processes of globalization. Finally, the thesis demonstrates that the globalization discourse is of use for the interpretation of literary texts.
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Stengel, Julia. "Die ,globale Provinz' ? Der Globalisierungsdiskurs am Beispiel von Arnold Stadlers Roman Ein hinreissender Schrotth??ndler (1999) und Andreas Maiers Roman Klausen (2002)." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2815.
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This thesis demonstrates how two literary works ? Arnold Stadler's Ein hinreissender Schrotth??ndler (1999) and Andreas Maier's Klausen (2002) ? can be read as part of the globalization discourse. As a theoretical basis for the textual analysis the thesis first develops an understanding of the concept of globalization which forms a background against which the two literary works can be read. By embedding literature into the sociological theories of globalization it is possible to examine to what extent the two novels reflect and/or generate particular aspects of globalization. Both texts are set largely in provincial towns, and the regions themselves play commanding roles in the stories being told. This focus on the provincial takes on an ironic appearance in the era of globalization where one would assume that localities have lost meaning. It is therefore useful to look at theories that broach the issue of the tense relation between globality and locality. Since no universally accepted definition of globalization exists, it is necessary to establish the crucial aspects of the phenomenon to be applied in the analysis of the novels by examining the work of various theorists on the topic.
The prominent model of 'glocalization,' originated by the sociologist Roland Robertson to refer to 'global localization,' offers useful categories for the analysis of the provincial in the era of globalization. In this model the simultaneity of global and local processes is assumed and with it the alleged antagonism of the 'global' and the 'local' is overcome. Claiming those dynamics Robertson's model can serve as a confirmation of the arguments put forward in this thesis which looks at literature about the 'local' through the prism of globalization. Other theories relating to explicit local dynamics are presented to round out the model of 'glocalization. ' In addition, the thesis takes into account normative ideas regarding the province in the global era.
The textual analysis that follows the delineation of the model of 'glocalization' demonstrates how the novels illustrate the global and local processes postulated by the model. The investigation also explains how the literary texts themselves evaluate the provinces portrayed. The results of the examination show that selected aspects of the globalization discourse have found their way into two contemporary German-language novels and therefore into German literary discourse. Even though the two novels deal with different ideas from the discourse, and even reject to a certain extent some of these concepts, they each reveal a particular literary manner of echoing the processes of globalization. Finally, the thesis demonstrates that the globalization discourse is of use for the interpretation of literary texts.
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Schlecht, Cristiane de V. "Olhares divergentes = Rachel de Queiroz e Graciliano Ramos." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269872.
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Orientador: Adélia Bezerra de MenesesDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: Rachel de Queiroz e Graciliano Ramos são escritores que apresentam muitas semelhanças entre si: ambos são provenientes da região nordeste brasileira e iniciam sua produção ficcional na década de 1930, além de terem sido adeptos de ideologias de esquerda, em particular o comunismo, assim como boa parte da intelectualidade brasileira dessa época. A partir dessas semelhanças, este trabalho propõe um cotejo entre algumas das obras desses escritores: respectivamente O Quinze (1930) e Vidas Secas (1938), de um lado, e João Miguel (1932) e Angústia (1936), de outro. Para tanto, situam-se os dois escritores em face da crítica literária, além de se investigar a importância de cada um deles para o estudo da literatura brasileira até a atualidade. A partir da análise minuciosa de passagens e temas similares nas obras dos dois escritores, pode-se perceber que, apesar das inúmeras semelhanças entre essas obras e seus autores, eles se distanciaram em termos de eficácia estética em seus romances. Essa constatação é feita por meio da análise sobretudo de um elemento ficcional: o foco narrativo. Assim, ao se analisarem os narradores de cada um dos romances, fica explícita a diferença entre Rachel de Queiroz e Graciliano Ramos, chegando-se à conclusão de que este último foi capaz de alcançar, em suas obras, partindo de realidades e temas muito similares ao da escritora, qualidade literária bastante superior
Abstract: Rachel de Queiroz and Graciliano Ramos are writers who have many similarities between them: both are from the Northeast of Brazil and begin their fictional production in the 1930s, and were supporters of leftist ideologies, particularly communism, as well as good part of the intellectual community of that time. From these similarities, this paper proposes a comparison between some of the works of these writers, which are, respectively, O Quinze (1930) and Vidas Secas (1938), on the one hand, and João Miguel (1932) and Angústia (1936), on the other. Therefore, the two writers are situated in the face of literary criticism, and the importance of each to the study of Brazilian literature to the present is focalized. Upon careful examination of passages and similar themes in the works of the two writers, one can see that despite the many similarities between these works and their authors, they drifted apart in terms of effectiveness aesthetics in their novels. This observation is made by analyzing a particular element of fiction: the narrative focus. Thus, when analyzing the narrators of each of the novels, is the explicit difference between Rachel de Queiroz and Graciliano Ramos, and one came to the conclusion that Graciliano was able to achieve in his works, starting from the realities and issues that are very similar to Rachel, higher literary quality
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Literatura Brasileira
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Dunlavey, Amanda. "A song and a slogan : regional influences on Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131458639.pdf.
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Charpentier, Alain. "Sylvain Rivière, écrivain régionaliste contemporain." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82694.
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Quebec knew a long tradition of regionalistic literature since the novel of the soil, tradition with which the writers of Quebec broke for a long time. However, certain writers still practice a regionalistic form of literature, which does not have anything to see with the novel of the soil. Within the literary institution, the regionalistic writers of today seem to belong to a sphere of distinct production. In order to delimit the space occupied by the contemporary regionalistic writers, we based ourselves on the theory of the literary field of Pierre Bourdieu and the theory of the institution of the literature of Jacques Dubois. So as to apply the model of Bourdieu and Dubois to a typical example of contemporary regionalistic writer, we chose to concentrate us on the career of Sylvain Riviere, Gaspesian writer born in 1955. Sylvain Riviere seems to be the regionalistic writer par excellence, who devoted the most part of his work to his region, Gaspesia and the Magdalen Islands. The example of Sylvain Riviere shows us that in spite of his marginality, the regionalistic writer is able to find his place inside the contemporary literary field.
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Skinner, Jeremy. "The Binfords and Mort Publishing Company and the Development of Regional Literature in Oregon." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/156.
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During the first half of the twentieth century there was a flourishing of publishers in the United States that specialized in books with content targeted for regional audiences. One of the largest regional publishers west of the Mississippi was the Binfords & Mort publishing company of Portland, Oregon. In 1930, Binfords & Mort began publishing works of fiction, history, poetry, children's literature, and natural history by Pacific Northwest authors with content focused on the Pacific Northwest. Between 1930 and 1984, when the Binford family sold the publishing company, Binfords & Mort published around one thousand titles, and became a one of the leading influences on the Oregon literary scene. Although Binfords & Mort did not publish books that received widespread critical praise from national literary critics, its books sold well to Oregon readers. This thesis examines the economic and cultural contexts for Binfords & Mort, and its larger cultural impacts. The thesis also challenges the standard claim that Oregon literature underwent a major shift toward modernism after the publication of H.L. Davis's and James Stevens's critique of Oregon writing, Status Rerum in 1927. Instead, the thesis proposes that by looking at the output of Oregon's most popular publisher, Binfords & Mort, one finds that an older style of writing focused on the pioneer period continued to be popular well into the twentieth century. These publications had a widespread impact on Oregon's cultural development.
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Ferreira, Jos? Luiz. "Gilberto Freyre e C?mara Cascudo: entre a tradi??o, o moderno e o regional." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2008. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16292.
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Previous issue date: 2008-09-23The present work makes some comments on the scattered productions of Gilberto Freyre and Lu?s da C?mara Cascudo, in the period which includes the early years of their intellectual performance, the second decade of the twentieth century. The corpus of the research is delimited on the texts published by Gilberto Freyre, from 1918 to 1926, which were gathered in the book Tempo de aprendiz (1979), and from the ones published by C?mara Cascudo in Natal local newpapers, such as A Imprensa and A Rep?blica, in 1924, 1927, 1928 and 1929. Concerning C?mara Cascudo s texts, the delimitations of these years is due to they had a relevant importance for the literary and cultural history of Rio Grande do Norte. The included discussions in these writers texts mainly happen around the modernist and regionalist ideas that happened restrictively in the Northeast region of Brazil, and are based on the relationships between literature and culture. Thus, the set of collaborations of both writers is useful as a sample of the intellectual thinking of the mentioned region. Besides, it is representative in the way the cultural debate got along in the country, which in turn, demanded the inclusion of the local realities in order to follow the renewing process of the worldwide thinking, and as matter of fact, arrange a new process in the Brazilian literary tradition. In this way, the study goals to set the positions taken by the two writers faced to the new challenges that the Brazilian reality of that moment was imposed on. The theoretical basis of this work is focused on the accumulated studies about the Brazilians modernism, regionalism and literature, pointing out the Candido s texts, (2006, 2004, 2002, 1995, 1993 and 1989), Schwarz s (1999, 1997a and 1997b), Perrone- Moys?s s (2007), Pallares-Burque s (2005), Azevedo s(1996), D Andrea s (1992), Ara?jo s (2006, 1998, 1997 and 1995), among other authors. Therefore, It is relevant the participation of both writers in that moment which highlights the renewing of the national thinking and the formation of the Brazilian cultural modernity, even the positions taken by them reveal, at times, different views concerning literature and tradition without being disagreeing, however
Este trabalho faz uma leitura da produ??o esparsa de Gilberto Freyre e Lu?s da C?mara Cascudo, no per?odo que compreende os anos iniciais da atua??o intelectual dos dois escritores, a segunda d?cada do s?culo XX. O corpus da pesquisa est? delimitado em torno dos textos publicados por Gilberto Freyre, no per?odo de 1918 a 1926, que foram reunidos na obra Tempo de aprendiz (1979), e dos textos publicados por C?mara Cascudo nos jornais natalenses, A Imprensa e a Rep?blica, nos anos de 1924, 1927, 1928 e 1929. No tocante aos textos de C?mara Cascudo, a delimita??o desses anos se d? pelo fato deles terem representa??o significativa para a hist?ria cultura e liter?ria do Rio Grande do Norte. As discuss?es contidas nos textos desses dois escritores se d?o, principalmente, em torno das id?ias modernistas e regionalistas acontecidas no espa?o circunscrito ? regi?o Nordeste e tem por base as rela??es entre a literatura e a cultura. Assim, o conjunto das colabora??es dos dois escritores serve como amostra do pensamento intelectual da regi?o. Al?m disso, ? representativo da forma como se deu o debate cultural no pa?s, o qual, por sua vez, exigia a incorpora??o das realidades locais com vistas a acertar o passo com o processo de renova??o do pensamento mundial e, desse modo, configurar um novo processo na tradi??o liter?ria brasileira. Sendo assim, o estudo objetiva estabelecer as posi??es assumidas pelos dois escritores frente aos novos desafios que se impunham ? realidade brasileira daquele momento. A fundamenta??o te?rica do trabalho est? centrada nos estudos acumulados sobre o modernismo, regionalismo e literatura brasileira, destacando os textos de Candido (2006, 2004, 2002, 1995, 1993 e 1989), Schwarz (1999, 1997a e 1997b), Perrone-Moys?s (2007), Pallares-Burque (2005), Azevedo (1996), D Andrea (1992), Ara?jo (2006, 1998, 1997 e 1995), dentre outros. ? significativa, portanto, a participa??o dos dois escritores naquele momento que marca a renova??o do pensamento nacional e a forma??o da modernidade cultural brasileira, mesmo que as posi??es assumidas por ambos revelem, por vezes, posturas diferentes em rela??o ? literatura e ? tradi??o sem, contudo, serem divergentes
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Herrell, Jasmyn. "Colonialism and Globalism in Two Contemporary Southern Appalachian Novels - Serena (2008) by Ron Rash, and Flight Behavior (2012) by Barbara Kingsolver." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/573.
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In this essay, I investigate how the historic and current economic structures operating in Appalachia from the 1920s to the 2010s are represented in two contemporary Southern Appalachian novels – Serena (2008) by Ron Rash and Flight Behavior (2012) by Barbara Kingsolver. Through the lens of postcolonial theory, I show how Serena represents Appalachia as functioning under the colonial model outlined by Robert Blauner and Helen Mathews Lewis in 1978. Then, still under the theory of postcolonialism, I explore how Kingsolver’s work depicts regional identity in response to a post-colonial environment and the ever-expanding global economy.
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Wegner, John M. (John Michael). "Overcoming the Regional Burden: History, Tradition, and Myth in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279386/.
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In Overcoming the Regional Burden: History, Tradition, and Myth in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy, I contend that McCarthy's literary aesthetic develops and changes as he moves from Tennessee to Texas. McCarthy's conspicuous Southern and Southwestern regional affiliations have led critics to expect his works to recapitulate native history, traditions, and myths. Yet, McCarthy transcends provincial regionalism by challenging the creation of the regional and national myths we confuse with our actual histories and identities. McCarthy's fictions point away from accepted histories and point instead to figures marginalized by society and myth makers. These figures, according to McCarthy, are just as much a part of the creation of myth as those figures indelibly imprinted on our consciousness by
literary and historical tradition. My dissertation, in many respects, focuses on McCarthy's debunking of both literary and historical tradition, and his concomitant revitalization of American identity.
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Hartvigsen, Ann K. "The Terrifying and the Beautiful: An Ecocritical Approach to Alexandre Hogue's Erosion Series." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5695.
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This thesis explores the work of Texan painter Alexandre Hogue, and specifically how his 1930s Erosion Series, paintings of wind-ravaged farms during the Dust Bowl, promotes environmental attitudes long before America had a well developed ecological language. It analyzes the Erosion Series in the context of Hogue's personal land ethics and those of his artistic contemporaries, showing that the 1930s series strives to depict the devastation caused by both drought and aggressive farming practices. A comparison of Hogue's work to Regionalist artists like Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood reveals that Regionalists' depictions of land during the 1930s created an unrealistic portrayal of American farms with eternal abundance. In contrast, Hogue's series explores man's relationship to land and shows how that relationship is often destructive rather than constructive. In many ways, Hogue's work is much more in line with works by FSA photographers and filmmakers who, similar to Hogue, imaged more realistic depictions of Midwestern farms at the time. Ultimately, this thesis asserts that paintings, and the fine arts in general, are an important step to a more environmentally minded future—a future Alexandre Hogue sought to promote through nine ecologically charged works.