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Shonkwiler, Curt. "Humor as Epiphanic Awareness and Attempted Self-Transcendence." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:14226070.
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The starting premise of this dissertation is that the formal techniques of comedy make the comic novel a distinct form within the category of the novel, not just in terms of content, the way one novelistic genre is distinct from another, but also in terms of form, similar to the way poetry is distinct from prose. The argument is that the formal structures of comedy, such as set-ups, punchlines, and comic rhythm, combine to constitute a formally rigorous, almost rule-bound art form. These techniques are explored through close readings of various 20th century comic novels, in particular Voyage au bout de la nuit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Le Sabotage amoureux by Amélie Nothomb, Moskva-Pethushki by Venedikt Erofeev and Catch-22 Joseph Heller.
The further extension of this argument is that these formal structures create certain fundamental characteristics the comic novel, which in turn instantiate spiritual and emotional functions of the comedy on a structural level. The most important of these functions are that comedy serves creates a sudden, epiphanic awareness of reality, a sense of self-transcendence, and an instant bond between people. Finally, the dissertation considers the limitations of these functions. For example, comedy creates awareness of that which was previously latently grasped, but rarely substantively new knowledge. The sense of self-transcendence it is real but momentary, fleeting. And the connection it fosters between people is instant but limited by its own basic impersonality.
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Hatt, Graceanne M. "Recreating identity: Acts of transcendence and resistance in Native American literature." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/2409.
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The Native American novel is inherently a “cross-cultural” device with roots both in the
western written tradition and Indigenous oral tradition; a mix that oftentimes makes these novels
difficult for readers, especially non-Native ones. What makes these texts particularly challenging is
that the need for clarification in what and who an American Indian is becomes central to the text,
and the way in which myth is enmeshed within the text plays a crucial role in answering that
question.
In this thesis essay, I examine two broad reoccurring thematic trends that emerge from
Native American literature to help illuminate the ways in which myth is used in the project of
recreating identity. Through the use of literary illustrations that represent each of these broad
trends or strains, I will examine the means through which movement either away from or towards
the larger cultural narrative aids the reader in recognizing the issues connected with each of these
strains, and how that movement achieves the ends of either healing or subversion. Next I compare
the two strains showing how myth as part of oral tradition is interwoven into a palatable western
literary form, or how through the use of postmodern devices it is used as part of historical
revisionism. The result of this analysis reveals recreating identity is not just a project for Native
Americans, but non-Natives as well, as the reader is confronted with issues about the “other” that
is a part and a genesis of our own heritage.Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English
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Howell, Joanne Elizabeth. "Immanence and transcendence : aesthetic responses to 'madness' in women's literature from 1892." Thesis, Durham University, 2003. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1066/.
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Hawkins, Stephen R. ""Recurring in This Body": James Dickey and the Quest for Transcendence." W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626115.
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Bould, Mark Douglas. "Cyberpunk in retrospect : postmodernism and transcendence in science fiction after 1980." Thesis, University of Reading, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297701.
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Leo, Amy Lynn. "A Moment of Transcendence: Encountering Each Other In and Beyond the Fiction of Raymond Carver." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1411138438.
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Aymar, Lindsay Ellyn-Megan. "Performing transcendence| Tracing the evolution of the jazz aesthetic in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10102591.
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Music has always been an essential part of the African American experience and takes center stage in Ralph Ellison?s Invisible Man. Musicality flows through every line of the novel and the impact the jazz aesthetic has on the text is undeniable. This project seeks to examine the various ways in which specific elements of the jazz aesthetic appear in the text and represent the emotional journey of the novel?s narrator. Focusing specifically on the techniques of vamping, call and response, and improvisation, this project will trace the ways in which these techniques assist the narrator in overcoming the trauma he has suffered as an African American man in a bigoted American society.
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Phillips, Marion Jane. "Charlotte Bronte's concepts of transcendence and of authority in religion as manifested in her correspondence." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1991. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/charlotte-brontes-concepts-of-transcendence-and-of-authority-in-religion-as-manifested-in-her-correspondence(ce24cb7e-bdbd-4d80-8f6d-989de33888fc).html.
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Sigvardson, Joakim. "Immanence and transcendence in Thomas Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon" : a phenomenological study /." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39265658c.
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Page, Rosalyn. "The Marquis de Sade and the cinema of transcendence." Connect to this title online, 2002. http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN20021210.152101/index.html.
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Ruutu, Hanna. "Patterns of transcendence : classical myth in Marina Tsvetaeva's poetry of the 1920s /." Helsinki : Dep. of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, 2006. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0803/2007465568.html.
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Page, Rosalyn Geraldine Media & Communications UNSW. "The Marquis de Sade and the Cinema of Transcendence." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Media and Communications, 2002. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/18656.
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This thesis is an enquiry into the Marquis de Sade, his writing and the perversion known as sadism. The narrower focus of this thesis investigates the problem of the meeting of violence and language in Sade's novels and the implications for cinema. The procedure has been to adopt the Critical and Clinical approach to philosophy that brings together both the literary style of Sade and the clinical symptoms of sadism. This method canvasses a number of Sades novels to consider the psychoanalytical definition of sadism before moving on to discuss the expression of sadism through language. Finally, the model of sadism and language is then applied to a number of films to discuss how violence within the context of sadism functions through language within cinema. The general results show how speech and action can be defined as equivalent forms of sadian violence when expressed through language in both literature and cinema. This occurs, furthermore, through the transcendent model of violence where both speech and action refer to a higher order of violence and this is put at the service of the senses through language. The major conclusions reached suggest that language in literature and cinema can be a demonstrative form of the higher order of violence. Sadism draws out the violence and excess of the world by reflecting it within language. In doing so, violence is designated with a quality of the erotic through this excess. Finally, each act of violence within literature and cinema is an attempt to overcome taboos through transgression. The breaking of a taboo creates an amount of excess but also reinstates the taboo in what becomes an empty act of transgression. The excess is expressed through violence within language and deed according to a transcendent function of language in literature and cinema.
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Isaksen, David Erland. "Indexing and Dialectical Transcendence: Kenneth Burke's Critical Method." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3091.
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Kenneth Burke has been described as arguably the most important rhetorician and critical theorist of the twentieth century, and yet an important part of his scholarship has been generally overlooked by the academic community. The pentad has become the most prominent "Burkean" framework for analyzing texts, yet Kenneth Burke himself preferred "a more direct" way of approaching texts which he named "indexing." This thesis recreates this method from the pieces found in his scholarly writing, personal correspondence, and the papers his students produced for the class he taught at Bennington College. Kenneth Burke believed indexing could uncover the "pattern of experience" or "motivational structures" a text embodies, and thereby help people become aware of the persuasive power different texts have. The method of indexing has two parts: 1. Finding the implicit equations in a text, and 2. Tracking the hierarchies of terms and God-terms in those equations. Identifying equations in a text starts with finding "key terms" in a text, meaning terms which carry special significance as indicated by their intensity and frequency of usage. One then tracks the context of these terms throughout a text to find which other words frequently occur together with these words. The second step, tracking hierarchies of terms, is done by finding how the terms in the equations relate to each other in a hierarchy. We start with specific and move upward to more general terms. On the top of the pyramid we find the God-term, which is the driving motivation and ground of all possibility in the text. Kenneth Burke hoped his method of indexing could help us understand the power language and motivational structures have to drive human action, and that we could question our own motivational structure as well as that of others and of the communities we operate in.
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Taylor, Stephanie Abigail. "Expunging Father Time the search for temporal transcendence in the novels of Aldous Huxley and Tom Robbins /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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Northcraft, Teresa Ann. "E Unibus Omnem: New Sincerity and Transcendence in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1544614667543305.
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Stokes, Jasie. "Ghouls, Hell and Transcendence: The Zombie in Popular Culture from "Night of the Living Dead" to "Shaun of the Dead"." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2010. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd3501.pdf.
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McLeod, Deborah S. "Beauty, Objectification, and Transcendence: Modernist Aesthetics in The Picture of Dorian Gray and Pale Fire." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002060.
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Byrne, Christopher Ryan. "The moon is not the moon : non-transcendence in the poetry of Han-shan and Ryōkan." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98916.
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The Zen (Ch'an) poets Han-shan (circa 6th-9 thC.) and Ryokan (1758-1831) participate in literary activity, reclusion, and ordinary emotions in a manner that questions their typical image as models of transcendence. They participate in literary activity without attachment to either linguistic adequacy or a dualistic notion of "beyond words," and poetry serves as their mode of communication from reclusion. Reclusion is a context to realize the nature of the conventional world rather than a means of transcendence to an ultimate realm and is significant as a social and political act. Interpreted through the functional model of language, the poets' expressions of sorrow experienced in their reclusive lives embody the Zen ideal of selflessness. Ultimately, the poetry of both Hanshan and Ryokan supports a non-transcendent, or trans-descendent, ideal consistent with the nondual logic of Zen Buddhism and contrary to scholarship that assumes a dualistic view of Zen enlightenment.
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Reisenwitz, Erica. "Transcendence Through Taste: The Relationship of the Preparation and Sharing of Meals to the Perfection of Human Nature as Evidenced by Literature." Thesis, Boston College, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/567.
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Thesis advisor: Mary J. HughesThesis advisor: Brian J. Braman
Drawing different people with unique tastes into relationships with one another, the dinner table acts as an anchor for the human community. Though a daily practice for most, can we mark one meal as being more significant, or more influential, or more artistic than another? While we may not consciously realize the forces at work while attending a dinner ourselves, examining the retelling of the shared human experience with meals and meal preparation allow us to analyze more objectively the multi-faceted meanings behind the event. One way in which to do this is through examining the role that mealtime has played in literature. Virginia Woolf's novel, To the Lighthouse, Isak Dinesen's short story Babette's Feast, and Frances Osbourne's biography Lilla's Feast explore the unique human transformation present as their heroine hostesses go beyond simply feeding to truly cater to their guests. Although three very different narratives, the works share the same heart as their presentation of grandiose meals, creative spirit, mystical energy, and ultimate human transcendence express the unique power each hostess has to create warmth in even the coldest of homes.Yet, what about each hostess' artistic, culinary masterpieces, their mode of self-expression, allow those who partake in their creations to better themselves? Can the meal, like art, do anything for the soul? Our psyches can be affected by the ritual act of dining. Through reflection on the communal culinary experience, as presented to us in ready-to-analyze literature, we may almost spiritually experience the art and its encouragement of the perfectibility of our own human natures
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2008
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Philosophy
Discipline: College Honors Program
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White, Barbara A., and mikewood@deakin edu au. "'Beyond God the father' : The metaphysical in a physical world." Deakin University. School of Literary and Communication Studies, 2002. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050825.154051.
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Braga, Hermide Menquini. "Resistência para viver: as estratégias da condição humana a partir de vidas secas, em seus horizontes de transendência." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2006. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1994.
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Resistance to live: the strategies of the human condition in Vidas Secas , within its horizons of transcendence is a work based on the drama Vidas Secas , by Graciliano Ramos. It caught our attention for showing some tension between the attachment to life and the difficulties to obtain the primary resources for maintenance. The organization of societies and the élan that moves men toward intellectual development cause resistance to live. On the literary analysis of the book we shall emphasize the characteristics of each character and the close relations among Fabiano s family members, who present identical signs of social retreat, boldly shown by the difficulty of verbal expression. The content of the novel sends these characters to the big city, a place where they expose their inadequacy. This reality becomes cruel when Fabiano, the cowboy, suffers material harm due to hi9s lack of argument, not because of intellectual inability, but mainly because of the subordinate position demanded by his living situation, settled in his boss land. Through the analysis of the structures of Christian anthropology, it is possible to understand the strategies of men s spirit to keep living. The flow that connects human life to outer world and the transcendence give us examples of hope coming from our comprehension about what the mankind is. Supported by Henrique C. L. Vaz theory of Philosophical Anthropology, by Alfredo Bosi s notions of resistance literature, and still some knowledge about metaphor philosophy from Franklin Leopoldo e Silva s study of Bergonian thought, the notion of irony in Graciliano s book is understood. This resistant porture links the text Vidas Secas to Socrates dialectic. This opposition between life and death, dryness and flood, understanding and alienation, enhances human communication capability with the exterior and with the transcendental life. It identifies the natural mysticism and the Christian mysticism, which are different but progressive stages in human clarification.
Resistência para viver: as estratégias da condição humana a partir de Vidas Secas , em seus horizontes de transcendência é um trabalho que nasceu inspirado no drama Vidas Secas, de Graciliano Ramos. Despertou-nos a atenção por apresentar certa tensão entre o apego à vida e as dificuldades de obtenção de recursos primordiais para sua manutenção. As causas decorrentes da organização das sociedades e o elã que predispõe o homem à intelectualidade produzem resistência para viver. Na análise literária da obra destacamos as características de cada personagem e a relação estreita dos membros da família de Fabiano que apresentam traços idênticos de retração social, marcadamente destacada pela dificuldade de expressão verbal. O teor do romance remete esses personagens à cidade, local onde expõem sua inadaptação. Essa realidade torna-se cruel quando o vaqueiro Fabiano sofre prejuízo material em virtude de sua falta de argumentação, nem tanto por impossibilidade intelectual, mas principalmente pela subserviência exigida por sua situação de assentamento em terras do patrão. É nesse contexto que, por meio da análise das estruturas da antropologia cristã, conseguimos compreender as estratégias do espírito na manutenção da vida. O fluxo que liga a vida humana ao mundo exterior e à transcendência nos confere exemplo de esperança provinda da compreensão do que é o homem. Respaldados pela teoria da Antropologia Filosófica de Henrique C. L. Vaz, pela noção de literatura de resistência de Alfredo Bosi e ainda algumas noções da filosofia da metáfora, estudo de Franklin Leopoldo e Silva do pensamento bergsoniano, atingimos a noção de ironia na obra graciliana. Essa postura resistente aproxima o texto de Vidas Secas da dialética socrática. É essa oposição entre a vida e a morte, entre a seca e a cheia, entre a compreensão e a alienação que ressalta a capacidade de comunicação humana com o exterior e o transcendente , identificando a mística natural e a mística cristã, estágios diferentes, mas progressivos na iluminação dita humana.
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DeSoto, Barbara Luisa. "Violence, Transcendence and Spectacle in the Age of Social Media: #JeSuisCharlie Demonstrations and Hollande's Speech after the 2015 Terrorist Attacks." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6472.
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This study examines the reactions — both in real life and on social media — to two terrorist attacks in Paris: satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in January 2015 and the Bataclan shooting in November 2015. Using Richard Sennett's Fall of Public Man and Antonin Artaud's Le théâtre et son double to explore these reactions as theater, this approach reveals the religious nature of supposedly secular reactions to religious extremism.
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Downing, Lea L. "Roadside." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1791.
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Roadside deals with themes of self-discovery, transcendence, and the search for camaraderie in modern America. Many of the stories take place on or adjacent to the road: that eternal path of transience and transformation. Whether metaphorically or literally on the "roadside," many of the characters contained within are marginalized in their own lives and communities. It is through their grasping and searching for greater meaning in their lives that they come to gain understanding of their places in the world.
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Lopes, Delvanir [UNESP]. "Dizer com claridade o que existe em segredo: uma leitura poético-filosófica de Solombra." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103655.
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Cecília Meireles é escritora da vida, procurando descrever, de modo poético, a existência humana. No jogo de palavras-cifras, a autora busca encontrar respostas ou apontar caminhos às suas próprias indagações, que no fundo, são universais. Solombra é um dos veículos eleitos pela poetisa para esse desvelamento do ser. Desvelamento que é a ―síntese final e plena de toda a trajetória filosófica e mística idealizada muito antes de Viagem‖ pela autora, segundo Boberg (1989). Última obra ceciliana (1963) publicada em vida torna-se peculiar mesmo ao tratar de temas já caros à autora: estar-no-mundo, efemeridade, ser-para-amorte e angústia diante da vida. Solombra mostra o ser em conflito que, em oposição às situações concretas e angustiantes em que vive, vê a possibilidade de transcendência. Estes traços ―existenciais‖ são o que permeiam os objetivos desse estudo, uma vez que a poesia ceciliana possui a capacidade de colocar o ser em relação direta com o Ser, posição que outrora já fora privilegiada pelo Simbolismo, e que também está no filósofo Heidegger, que nos dá uma nova chave de leitura para os poemas. Preocupação é tirar da sombra à claridade os segredos. Isso se dá implicitamente, nos símbolos e enigmas que a escritora nos lança a todo o momento. Filosofia é apenas suporte teórico. A intenção primeira é fazer um estudo literário, ou seja, o suporte reflexivo do existencialismo é útil na medida em que amplia o horizonte do leitor e as possibilidades de leitura, além de mostrar um traço da modernidade de Cecília. Heidegger admite que a completa alétheia do ser se dá na linguagem poética, única autêntica para ele, por ser a ―casa do ser‖, ponto de partida para iluminação de toda existência e verdade. E a poesia ceciliana colabora nesse desvelamento
Cecília Meireles is a writer of life, who wants to describe, in a poetic way, the human existence. In her code words play, she search find answers or show ways to her own indagations, which are, actually, universal questions. Solombra is one of the vehicles elect by the poetess to that alétheia of being. That is ―the final and complete synthesis of the entire mystic and philosophical trajectory which was idealized by her still before Viagem‖, according Boberg (1989). Last cecilian work (1963) published in life, it becomes peculiar even when it treats beloved themes to her: being-in-the-world, ephemerality, being-to-thedeath and aguish in front of life. Solombra shows the being in conflict that, in opposition to the concrete and anguish situations in what it lives, sees the transcendence possibility. Those ―existential‖ treats are what permeate the objectives of this work, since poetry has the capacity of put the being in direct relation to the Being, position that in former times was privileged by Symbolism and that are also into Heidegger´s thoughts, who give us a new reading key to her poems. A preoccupation is bring out by shadows to the clarity the secrets. This is given implicitly, in symbols and enigmas that the writer cast to us all moments. The philosophy is just a theorical instrument. The first intention is realize a literary study, or better, the existentialism reflexive support is useful when amplify the reader horizon and the possibilities of reading, besides to show a Cecilia Meireles modern treat. Heidegger admits that the complete being alétheia happens in the poetry language, unique and authentic to him, because it the ―being house‖, start point to the illumination of all existence and truth. And the cecilian poetry collaborates in that clarification
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Piedade, Amir Aparecido dos Santos. "O sagrado em literatura infantil brasileira de 1950 1985." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2006. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1981.
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Previous issue date: 2006-05-19This work analyses the Brazilian Children s Literature in between 1950 and 1985, and has as main objective to identify in which authors whose works are still published we can find references to the Sacred, whether in poetry or prose. The methodology used was a research in publications of Children s Literature and hermeneutics from the works of the selected authors. The hypothesis is that the Sacred s marks left by the authors never should be seen like evangelization and catechesis, but like a childish and loving engagement with the Transcendent. And also, it can be used as an orientation to the new authors and to the editorial business, that there is no problem in publishing texts that contains representations, symbols or Sacred manifestations to children, on the contrary, it helps them to see the experience with the Sacred as an integral part of their formation and it can follow them, with no problems, throughout life, contributing to the individual and collective formation, and the search for understanding of great questions of humanity
Este trabalho analisa a Literatura Infantil brasileira no período de 1950 a 1985 e tem como objetivo principal identificar em quais autores, cujas obras estão publicadas até hoje, se encontram referenciais ao Sagrado, seja em poesia ou prosa. A metodologia utilizada foi a pesquisa em publicações de Literatura Infantil e a hermenêutica das obras dos autores selecionados. A hipótese é que as marcas do Sagrado deixadas pelos autores em nenhum momento devem ser vistas como evangelização e catequese, mas como encontro lúdico e amoroso com o Transcendente. E, também, podem servir de orientação para os novos autores e para o mercado editorial que não há problema algum em publicar textos que contenham representações, símbolos ou manifestações do Sagrado para crianças, pelo contrário, ajudaas a vivenciarem a experiência com o Sagrado como parte integrante de sua formação e que pode acompanhá-las, sem nenhum problema, pela vida afora, contribuindo à formação individual e coletiva e a busca de compreensão para os grandes questionamentos existenciais da humanidade
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Cumpsty, Rebekah Lindiwe Levitt. "'Lean[ing] into transcendence' : transformations of the sacred in South African, Zimbabwean and Nigerian literatures." Thesis, University of York, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13953/.
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Enchantment is a defining feature our postcolonial, globalised world and the literary is where much of this wonder is registered and celebrated. Thus this thesis attends to the postcolonial dynamic of sacred and secular experience as it is represented in contemporary African literatures. Debates around the secular and postsecular are long standing in the fields of religious studies, anthropology and philosophy, but as yet underappreciated in literary studies. I develop a hermeneutic of the imminent sacred as a way to read the constitutive and recuperative gestures subjects make as they assert a sense of belonging in spaces of globalised modernity. The texts are grouped thematically. In response to Chris Abani and Yvonne Vera’s work I articulate how the ritual dimensions of lyrical prose and ritual attention to the corporeal form sacralises the body. Phaswane Mpe and Teju Cole incorporate African epistemologies into the resignification of their cities and with Ivan Vladislavić, the streets are sacralised. Marlene van Niekerk and J. M. Coetzee convey the anxieties of settler colonialism and a love of land reinscribed as sublime. Collectively, the novels I discuss reflect patterns of existential anxiety that emerge from difficulties of belonging, and I trace the ritualised and sacralising strategies of incorporation that seek to locate the subject. These novels radically disrupt the epistemological and ontological modalities of globalised ‘secular’ literary production and intervene in the recuperation of the sacred as a mode of incorporation and resistance. Recent scholarship in African literatures has overlooked these distinctly postsecular negotiations and the ways in which the sacred is reinvested in contemporary African fiction in order to instantiate intimate, local alternatives to the teleology of secular modernity. Thus I use the imminent sacred as a reading strategy that foregrounds these postsecular negotiations and the interrelations of care and vulnerability that motivate sacralisation.
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Rocha, Alexandre Caroli. "A poesia transcendente de Parnaso de alem-tumulo." [s.n.], 2001. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269864.
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Orientador: Haquira OsakabeDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: O livro de poemas mediúnicos Parnaso de além-túmulo, do médium mineiro Francisco Cândido Xavier (Chico Xavier), composto por 259 poemas atribuídos a 56 poetas brasileiros e portugueses, é o objeto de estudo desta dissertação. A intenção do trabalho é levantar algumas questões, do interesse da teoria literária, suscitadas por esse tipo de literatura, como a autoria, o pastiche, o estilo, os limites do literário. A dissertação é formada por três capítulos. O primeiro trata do histórico das edições de Parnaso; dos poetas apresentados como os autores espirituais; dos conteúdos da antologia e das repercussões de Parnaso no meio espírita e na imprensa em geral. O segundo capítulo é formado por cinco estudos que procuram verificar, a partir de algumas referências críticas, que tipos de pontos em comum existem entre poemas de Parnaso e a obra de autores a quem são atribuídos. Para essa análise, selecionei um corpus de cinco poetas: três portugueses, João de Deus, Antero de Quental e Guerra Junqueiro, e dois brasileiros, Cruz e Sousa e Augusto dos Anjos. Os resultados desses cotejos sugerem que os poemas de Parnaso não seriam o produto de uma simples imitação literária. O último capítulo, à guisa de conclusão, é um desdobramento dos resultados obtidos nas duas primeiras partes do trabalho. Intitulado "O contexto literário de Parnaso", estudam-se neste capítulo os seguintes temas: a configuração autoral e a intenção probatória da antologia; alguns pressupostos do entendimento espírita de arte; a inspiração literária e o espiritismo; Chico Xavier e a psicografia e, por fim, os propósitos persuasivos da literatura espírita
Abstract: Francisco Cândido Xavier's book of mediumistic poems, Parnaso de além-túmulo [Parnassus Beyond the Tomb], containing 259 works attributed to 56 Brazilian and Portuguese poets, is discussed in this dissertation within such categories relevant to Literary Theory as authorship, pastiche, style and the limits of literary geme. The first chapter of three that make up the dissertation analyzes the publication history of Parnaso and the content of the various editions, the poets represented in the anthology as spiritual authors, in addition to the repercussions of publication within the Spiritist community and the press in general. The second chapter consists of five studies that on the basis of the critical bibliografy attempt to ascertain the commonalities between the works of the poets and the poems of Parnaso. A corpus was selected ftom the works of three Portuguese poets (João de Deus, Antero de Quental e Guerra Junqueiro) and two Brazilians (Cruz e Sousa e Augusto dos Anjos). The analysis suggests that the poems of the anthology are not a product of simple literary imitation. The final chapter presents certain implications of the analysis. Entitled, "The Literary Context of Pamassus," the following questions are taken up: configurational aspects of authorship and the probative intentions of the anthology; presuppositions for a Spiritist understanding of art; literary inspiration and Spiritism; Chico Xavier and psychography; and, to conclude, persuasive elements in Spiritist literature
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Kelly, Joseph L. "William Shakespeare's Parable of "Is" and "Seems": Ironies of God's Providence in Hamlet and Measure for Measure." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/89.
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This thesis examines Hamlet and Measure for Measure as related “problem plays.” In these plays, Shakespeare uniquely combines the genre of parable and the literary device of irony as a means to involve his audience in the experience of ordeal and deliverance that both reorients the protagonists’ personal, political, and ultimately theological assumptions and prompts spiritual insight in the spectator. As in a parable, a spiritual dimension opens subtly alongside each story to inform the play’s action and engage the spectator in the underlying theological discourse. Irony invites the audience to see the disparity between pretended or mistaken reality and the spiritual truth—between what “seems” and what “is.” As these complex dramatized parables unfold, potent tapestries of multilayered thematic irony coalesce into providential irony that exalts, rather than defeats, the protagonists and ultimately determines the outcome.
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Ancona, Alexis Faith. "King Arthur as Transcendent Rhetoric of Anxiety: Examining Arthurian Legends as Sociopolitical Paratexts." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1525102970057973.
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Euzébio, Vilmar Machado. "A morte e as mortes na obra de Juan Rulfo." Florianópolis, SC, 2008. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/91597.
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A presente dissertação realiza uma trajetória pela narrativa de el Llano en Llamas (1953) e Pedro Páramo (1955) de Juan Rulfo. Nessas obras, a morte - grande conflito humano - aparece como tema recorrente. Os personagens de el Llano en Llamas "vivem"ensimesmados na solidão do campo, enquanto os personagens de Pedro Páramo sofrem coletivamente sob o domínio do cacique Pedro Páramo. A proposta literária dessas narrativas possibilita ao leitor engendrar uma nova e insólita visão de mundo, pois nelas o autor reflete as frustrações coletivas do homem. Por viverem esse context de morte-vida, os personagens recorrem a esperança cristã, apresentada pela Igreja Católica. Portanto, nesta dissertação, primeiramente apresenta-se uma visão filosófico/teológica - que é a base da pesquisa. Posteriormente, apresenta-se o tema da morte na arte em geral e na literatura. E, por ultimo, apresentam-se a "vivência" da morte na obra rulfiana e uma possível saída do mundo mesquinho de Comala, como expressão de libertação de conflito maior que é a morte. This dissertation deals with Juan Rulfo´s book of short stories El llano en llamas (1953) and the novel Pedro Páramo (1955). The point at issue of the writings is the predicament of death which epitomizes all other conflicts. The campesinos of the stories live in the loneliness of the wasteland, whereas the dwellers of Comala meet a common fate under the merciless grasp of Don Pedro. A fresh approach to the writings that lay bare human frustrations brings about a new insight. Entangled in a life steadily threatened by death the characters appeal to christian hope, to no avail. The research focuses on the "living" death of Rulfo´s fiction, first by means of a theo-philosophical approach. Then comes death in art, specifically in literature. Lastly we look into death in both Rulfo´s masterpieces, venturing eventually a possible escape from Comala, that is, from the grip of death.
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Giuffré, Salvatore. "German Literary and Philosophical Influences on the Chinese Poetry of Feng Zhi (1905-1993) : the Sonnets." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE3026/document.
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Cette thèse porte sur l’analyse des relations intertextuelles entre des œuvres littéraires et philosophiques allemandes, notamment les textes de Novalis et de Rilke, et le recueil de sonnets de l’écrivain et traducteur chinois moderne Feng Zhi. Le but de cette étude est d’analyser et de discerner dans quelle mesure il est possible d’établir des relations « transtextuelles » entre la littérature primaire, la thèse de doctorat de Feng Zhi, qui a joué un rôle vital dans le développement de sa voix poétique, et son recueil de sonnets. Les textes analysés dans le cadre de cette étude visent à montrer comment certains indices transculturels de la poésie de Feng Zhi définissent la tendance poétique de l’écrivain en tant que postromantique et métaphysique, alors qu’une recherche plus approfondie et d’autres évidences transtextuelles encadrent sa production lyrique parmi les premiers exemples de littérature moderniste chinoise. Les profondes et énigmatiques réflexions contemplatives des sonnets font de Feng Zhi un poète métaphysique. La voix lyrique s'engage avec le monde extérieur et gagne de nouvelles expériences esthétiques à travers l'imagination, la méditation sur l'infini spatial et temporel, la reconnaissance de l'état mutable et permanent de la matière, et une finale réalisation existentielle de l'auto-accomplissement de l'homme à travers son état d'isolement. Cette étude analyse enfin l'idée conceptualisée de l'infini et de la transcendance poétique évoquée par le mysticisme orphique. Cette approche redéfinit la relation du sujet poétique avec le monde extérieur et sa perception constructive finale de sa position au sein de la communauté, de la nature et du cosmos dans son ensembleThe research conducted in this work focuses on the intertextuality between German literary and philosophical works, notably those of Novalis and Rilke, and the sonnet collection of the modern Chinese scholar and writer Feng Zhi. This study analyses the extent to which transtextual elements travel between the primary literature, the author’s own German doctoral dissertation, which ultimately played a vital role in the development of his lyrical voice, and his sonnets. Moreover, the texts analysed in this study attempt to demonstrate how given transcultural elements in Feng Zhi’s poetry define the writer’s apparent poetic tendency as a post-Romantic and metaphysical lyricist, whereas other closer transtextual investigations place his work among the first examples of Chinese modernist writings. The profound and enigmatic contemplative reflections of the sonnets make Feng Zhi a metaphysical poet. The lyrical self engages with the surrounding world and gains new aesthetic experiences through the power of imagination, the meditation on spatial and temporal infinity, the recognition of the changeable and permanent state of matter, and a final existential realisation of man’s self-completion through his state of isolation. This study finally also analyses the conceptualised idea of infinity and transcendence evoked by Orphic mysticism. This approach redefines the poetic subject’s relationship with the outer world, and the subject’s final perception of his position within the community, nature and the cosmos as a whole
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Andrade, Alexandre de Melo. "A transcendência pela natureza em Álvares de Azevedo /." Araraquara : [s.n.], 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/102379.
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Orientador: Antônio Donizeti PiresBanca: Adalberto Luis Vicente
Banca: Karin Volobuef
Banca: Jaime Ginzburg
Banca: Solange Fiuza Cardosos Yokozawa
Resumo: Benedito Nunes, em "A Visão Romântica" (1993, p. 58), afirma que na poesia romântica, "O Eu transcende a Natureza física [...]", pois estabelece com ela um entendimento interno. Sob esse ponto de vista, a Natureza romântica é reveladora, pois exprime a experiência subjetiva do sujeito lírico e contribui para o alcance de uma consciência demiúrgica. Essa poesia referta de analogias será o ponto de partida para a abordagem de um universo onde cada elemento natural seja visto como metáfora de outra realidade superior, intuível pelo projeto poético. Álvares de Azevedo, em Lira dos vinte anos, desenvolve tal intuição panteística, especialmente na Primeira e na Terceira Parte, provocando contraponto em muitos poemas da Segunda Parte, quando substitui a intuição pela dedução irônica do mundo e dos homens. As outras obras do autor nos interessam na medida em que exploram as metáforas do anoitecer, como Macário, Noite na taverna e O Conde Lopo. Porém, entendemos que na Lira, a transcendência pela natureza se realiza mais plenamente, permitindo-nos uma leitura de seus versos por via dessa visada crítica. A intenção da tese é, dessa forma, entender a poética da natureza no jovem autor, de modo que possamos dialogar com a experiência transcendente do sujeito romântico e com os pressupostos da filosofia romântica disseminados a partir do Pré-Romantismo alemão
Abstract: Benedito Nunes, in "A Visão Romântica" (1993, p. 58), claims that in romantic poetry, "o Eu transcende a Natureza física" (the 'I' transcends physical Nature) [...]", for it establishes within itself inner understanding. Under this point of view, romantic Nature is revealing for it expresses the biased experience of the lyrical subject, and contributes to reaching a demiurgic awareness. Such poetry fulfilled with analogies shall be the start point for the approach of a universe where each natural element is seen as a metaphor of another superior reality, intuitable by the poetic project. Álvares de Azevedo, in Lira dos vinte anos, develops such pantheistic intuition, especially in the First and in the Third Part, causing a counterpoint in many poems from the Second Part, when he replaces intuition by the ironic deduction of the world and men. The other works by this author interest to us in what they concern the exploitation of the dusk metaphor, as in Macário, Noite na taverna and O Conde Lopo. Nevertheless, one understands that in Lira, the transcendence over nature is lived to its fullest, allowing us the reading of its verses through this critic look. The aim of this thesis is, thus, understand the poetics of nature in the young author in such a way one can dialog with the romantic subject's transcendent experience and also the assumptions of the romantic philosophy spread since German Pre-Romantism
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Hedenmo, Adam. "A Journey to the Inner World : A Hermeneutic Analysis of Matsuo Bashō’s Prose from a Transcendent-Immanent Perspective." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Religionshistoria, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-411295.
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The following study investigates the impact of the secular processes present in Early Modern Japan on Matsuo Bashō's prose. The theoretical basis for exploring this development is found in Durkheim’s distinction between the transcendent and the immanent, as well as the theoretical framework for secularism. The exploration of Bashō's writings is conducted through several key themes: self-presentation, people, religious concepts, nature and aestheticisms. From these categories a complex pattern emerges. It illustrates the enduring nature of the contemporary world-views through numerous references to and descriptions of existing systems of thought. Bashō's response to the dynamic societal changes of his time is an outright rejection of the new developments; instead he turns to nature and romanticism steeped in existing tradition.
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Lopes, Delvanir. ""Dizer com claridade o que existe em segredo" : uma leitura poético-filosófica de Solombra /." Assis : [s.n.], 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/103655.
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Orientador: Ana Maria Domingues de OliveiraBanca: Leila Carolina Vilas-Boas Gouvêa
Banca: Guacira Marcondes Machado Leite
Banca: Ana Maria Lisboa de Mello
Banca: Paulo César Andrade da Silva
Resumo: Cecília Meireles é escritora da vida, procurando descrever, de modo poético, a existência humana. No jogo de palavras-cifras, a autora busca encontrar respostas ou apontar caminhos às suas próprias indagações, que no fundo, são universais. Solombra é um dos veículos eleitos pela poetisa para esse desvelamento do ser. Desvelamento que é a ―síntese final e plena de toda a trajetória filosófica e mística idealizada muito antes de Viagem‖ pela autora, segundo Boberg (1989). Última obra ceciliana (1963) publicada em vida torna-se peculiar mesmo ao tratar de temas já caros à autora: estar-no-mundo, efemeridade, ser-para-amorte e angústia diante da vida. Solombra mostra o ser em conflito que, em oposição às situações concretas e angustiantes em que vive, vê a possibilidade de transcendência. Estes traços ―existenciais‖ são o que permeiam os objetivos desse estudo, uma vez que a poesia ceciliana possui a capacidade de colocar o ser em relação direta com o Ser, posição que outrora já fora privilegiada pelo Simbolismo, e que também está no filósofo Heidegger, que nos dá uma nova chave de leitura para os poemas. Preocupação é tirar da sombra à claridade os segredos. Isso se dá implicitamente, nos símbolos e enigmas que a escritora nos lança a todo o momento. Filosofia é apenas suporte teórico. A intenção primeira é fazer um estudo literário, ou seja, o suporte reflexivo do existencialismo é útil na medida em que amplia o horizonte do leitor e as possibilidades de leitura, além de mostrar um traço da modernidade de Cecília. Heidegger admite que a completa alétheia do ser se dá na linguagem poética, única autêntica para ele, por ser a ―casa do ser‖, ponto de partida para iluminação de toda existência e verdade. E a poesia ceciliana colabora nesse desvelamento
Abstract: Cecília Meireles is a writer of life, who wants to describe, in a poetic way, the human existence. In her code words play, she search find answers or show ways to her own indagations, which are, actually, universal questions. Solombra is one of the vehicles elect by the poetess to that alétheia of being. That is ―the final and complete synthesis of the entire mystic and philosophical trajectory which was idealized by her still before Viagem‖, according Boberg (1989). Last cecilian work (1963) published in life, it becomes peculiar even when it treats beloved themes to her: being-in-the-world, ephemerality, being-to-thedeath and aguish in front of life. Solombra shows the being in conflict that, in opposition to the concrete and anguish situations in what it lives, sees the transcendence possibility. Those ―existential‖ treats are what permeate the objectives of this work, since poetry has the capacity of put the being in direct relation to the Being, position that in former times was privileged by Symbolism and that are also into Heidegger's thoughts, who give us a new reading key to her poems. A preoccupation is bring out by shadows to the clarity the secrets. This is given implicitly, in symbols and enigmas that the writer cast to us all moments. The philosophy is just a theorical instrument. The first intention is realize a literary study, or better, the existentialism reflexive support is useful when amplify the reader horizon and the possibilities of reading, besides to show a Cecilia Meireles modern treat. Heidegger admits that the complete being alétheia happens in the poetry language, unique and authentic to him, because it the ―being house‖, start point to the illumination of all existence and truth. And the cecilian poetry collaborates in that clarification
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Apelgren, Rikard. "En dröm i Lagarnas hus : Ögonblicket, människan och det transcendenta. Studier i Stig Dagermans diktning." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och idéhistoria, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-27777.
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The main aim of the dissertation is to examine the importance of the moment in relation to human experience and to the narrative in the writings of Stig Dagerman (1923-1954), primarily the novels Ormen (The Snake, 1945), De dömdas ö (The Island of the Doomed, 1946), Bränt barn (A Burnt Child, 1948), Bröllopsbesvär (Wedding Worries, 1949), the short stories "Den hängdes träd" (The Hanging Tree, 1945) and "De röda vagnarna" (The Red Wagons, 1946). The dissertation shows the moment as being of crucial importance by serving as the point of time for the fictional character’s critical experience. The moment also functions as a structuring principle for the narrative. In this, the discussion is supported by the theories on the chronotope found in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. With the ideas of Michael Riffaterre as the principal theoretical basis in the study, the reading of the texts focuses on a matrix common to the works discussed. The reading goes from a description of the primarily profane subject matter of the narrative to an understanding of the religious discourse in the works. This interpretation receives additional support in the theories on religious and mystical experiences found in Rudolf Otto. Finally, the dissertation focuses on man’s sensitivity to, and longing for, a transcendental entity or a God in the broadest sense – a longing which manifests itself in different ways in these texts and is set against the human predicament of being. Man’s desperate religious longing for a transcendental entity or a God are ultimately understood as the significance or principle of unity in the texts under discussion.
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Andrade, Alexandre de Melo [UNESP]. "A transcendência pela natureza em Álvares de Azevedo." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/102379.
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Benedito Nunes, em “A Visão Romântica” (1993, p. 58), afirma que na poesia romântica, “O Eu transcende a Natureza física [...]”, pois estabelece com ela um entendimento interno. Sob esse ponto de vista, a Natureza romântica é reveladora, pois exprime a experiência subjetiva do sujeito lírico e contribui para o alcance de uma consciência demiúrgica. Essa poesia referta de analogias será o ponto de partida para a abordagem de um universo onde cada elemento natural seja visto como metáfora de outra realidade superior, intuível pelo projeto poético. Álvares de Azevedo, em Lira dos vinte anos, desenvolve tal intuição panteística, especialmente na Primeira e na Terceira Parte, provocando contraponto em muitos poemas da Segunda Parte, quando substitui a intuição pela dedução irônica do mundo e dos homens. As outras obras do autor nos interessam na medida em que exploram as metáforas do anoitecer, como Macário, Noite na taverna e O Conde Lopo. Porém, entendemos que na Lira, a transcendência pela natureza se realiza mais plenamente, permitindo-nos uma leitura de seus versos por via dessa visada crítica. A intenção da tese é, dessa forma, entender a poética da natureza no jovem autor, de modo que possamos dialogar com a experiência transcendente do sujeito romântico e com os pressupostos da filosofia romântica disseminados a partir do Pré-Romantismo alemão
Benedito Nunes, in “A Visão Romântica” (1993, p. 58), claims that in romantic poetry, “o Eu transcende a Natureza física” (the ‘I’ transcends physical Nature) [...]”, for it establishes within itself inner understanding. Under this point of view, romantic Nature is revealing for it expresses the biased experience of the lyrical subject, and contributes to reaching a demiurgic awareness. Such poetry fulfilled with analogies shall be the start point for the approach of a universe where each natural element is seen as a metaphor of another superior reality, intuitable by the poetic project. Álvares de Azevedo, in Lira dos vinte anos, develops such pantheistic intuition, especially in the First and in the Third Part, causing a counterpoint in many poems from the Second Part, when he replaces intuition by the ironic deduction of the world and men. The other works by this author interest to us in what they concern the exploitation of the dusk metaphor, as in Macário, Noite na taverna and O Conde Lopo. Nevertheless, one understands that in Lira, the transcendence over nature is lived to its fullest, allowing us the reading of its verses through this critic look. The aim of this thesis is, thus, understand the poetics of nature in the young author in such a way one can dialog with the romantic subject’s transcendent experience and also the assumptions of the romantic philosophy spread since German Pre-Romantism
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Ferreira, Anna Cláudia Passani. "A TRANSCENDÊNCIA POÉTICA EM ADÉLIA PRADO." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2009. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/3280.
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Previous issue date: 2009-12-17Cette dissertation a le but de montrer que la transcendence a une importance spéciale dans la constitution et dans la manifestation de la poésie, et por examiner cett importance, le point de départ est Adélia PRADO (1935...) dont son oeuvre indique une attitude poétique neuve, singularisée par la transformation de la vie quotidienne. Pour cela, il a été nécessaire chercher um support théorique dans le but de montrer le pouvoir expressif de l oeuvre adellienne : comme l auteur transfigure le quotidiene au momente de présenter un savoir-faire pótique dessine à partir d images symboliques, de l élaboration artistique... Ce support a été racheté, principallement, de l expérience sensorielle de Gaston BACHELAR avec d autres importants théoriques, comme Suzanne LANGER et Carlos BOUSOÑO, pour qu on puísse éprouver combien l ímaginaire poétique est crucial pour la constrution du genre lyrique. De cette manière, nos cherchons de présenter cette transcendence à partir du pouvoir expressif des images et des rêveries construites pendant ce savoir-faire poétique dans la lirique adellienne .
Esta dissertação objetiva mostrar que a transcendência tem uma importância especial na constituição e na manifestação da poesia. Para examinar essa importância, o ponto de partida é Adélia Prado (1935...), cuja obra indica uma atitude poética nova, singularizada pela transformação da vida cotidiana. Para tanto, foi necessário buscar um suporte teórico com o propósito de mostrar o poder expressivo da obra adeliana: como a autora transfigura o cotidiano ao apresentar um fazer poético desenhado a partir de imagens simbólicas, da elaboração artística... Esse suporte foi resgatado, principalmente, da vivência sensorial de Gaston Bachelard, juntamente com outros importantes teóricos, como Suzanne Langer e Carlos Bousoño, para se comprovar o quanto o imaginário poético é crucial para a construção do gênero lírico. Dessa forma, buscamos apresentar essa transcendência a partir do poder expressivo das imagens e dos devaneios construídos ao longo desse fazer poético na lírica adeliana.
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Wyner, Garret B. "The Wounded Healer: Finding Meaning in Suffering." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1355854266.
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Araujo, Maria Claudia. "O livro do desassossego e as máscaras de Deus em Fernando Pessoa." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14926.
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Previous issue date: 2009-11-11This research investigates lhe masks of God in lhe work of Fernando Pessoa, andespecially its various manifestations in lhe ambit heteronomy and polyphonicof lhe poetic Pessoa. The corpus used is lhe Book of Unquietness, written overlhe life of Pessoa, signed by lhe semi-heteronyms Bernardo Soares, and dialoguewith lhe personalities of his main heteronymous: Alberto Caeiro, lhe objectivistpoet, Alvaro de Campos, lhe poet subjectivist, and Ricardo Reis, lhe classical poet. Further dialogue with lhe Book, not just lhe characters of lhe heteronymous, but also lhe major poems by Alberto Caeiro, among which stands out lhe poem VIII of The Keeper of Flack af Sheep. The Triumphal Lyrical of Alvaro de Campos and lhe classic Iyrical of Ricardo Reis also supports lhe dialogue with lhe Book of Unquietness. Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos and RicardoReis have an immanent conception of divinity, while lhe look of Bernardo Soares and lhe own Fernando Pessoa is predominantly mystic and transcendentalist. In this theatrical static, lhe heteronomous characters, diverted, lhe dream narrative fragmented, as well' as lhe process of literary production of FernandoPessoa, feed a sei of multiple masks that point to lhe polyphony and lhe different faces of lhe divinity in Pessoa's work
Esta pesquisa investiga as máscaras de Deus na obra de Fernando Pessoa e, especialmente, suas diferentes manifestações no âmbito heteronímico e politônico da poética pessoana. O corpus adotado é o Livro do Desassossego, escrito ao longo da vida de Pessoa, assinado pelo semi-heterônimo Bernardo Soares, e que dialoga com as personalidades de seus principais heterônimos: Alberto Caeiro, o poeta objetivista; Álvaro de Campos, o poeta subjetivista; e Ricardo Reis, o poeta clássico. Dialogam ainda com o Livro, não apenas os caracteres dos heterônimos, mas também os principais poemas de Alberto Caeiro, dentre os quais se destaca o poema VIII, de O Guardador de Rebanhos. A Ode Triunfal de Álvaro de Campos e as odes clássicas de Ricardo Reis também sustentam o diálogo com o Livrodo Desassossego. Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos e Ricardo Reis têm uma concepção imanente da divihdade; ao passo que o olhar de Bernardo Soares e o do próprio Fernando Pessoa é, predominantemente, místico e transce~dentalista. Nesse teatro estático, as personagens heteronímicas, desfuncionalizadas, a narrativa onírica fragmentada, bem como o processo de produção literária de Fernando Pessoa, alimentam um jogo de máscaras múltiplas que apontam para a polifonia e as diferentes faces da divindade na obra pessoana
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Pacheco, Katie. "The Buddhist Coleridge: Creating Space for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner within Buddhist Romantic Studies." FIU Digital Commons, 2013. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/937.
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The popularization of academic spaces that combine Buddhist philosophy with the literature of the Romantic period – a discipline I refer to as Buddhist Romantic Studies – have exposed the lack of scholarly attention Samuel Taylor Coleridge and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner have received within such studies. Validating Coleridge’s right to exist within Buddhist Romantic spheres, my thesis argues that Coleridge was cognizant of Buddhism through historical and textual encounters. To create a space for The Rime within Buddhist Romantic Studies, my thesis provides an interpretation of the poem that centers on the concept of prajna, or wisdom, as a vital tool for cultivating the mind. Focusing on prajna, I argue that the Mariner’s didactic story traces his cognitive voyage from ignorance to enlightenment. By examining The Rime within the framework of Buddhism, readers will also be able to grasp the importance of cultivating the mind and transcending ignorance.
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Johnson, Gabrielle R. "No Hope For Rousseau in Tomorrowland: Limits of Civil Religion in E.L. Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel: A Novel (1971)." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/564.
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Current scholarly work on E.L. Doctorow’s (1931-2015) novel The Book of Daniel: A Novel (1971) often ignores the narrator Daniel Isaacson’s implicit critique of Rousseau’s civil religion. This paper will show the importance of civil religion within the novel despite its being overlooked by most scholars. In The Book of Daniel, Daniel frequently examines instances of American civil religion and even goes as far as to describe it as inevitable and intrusive on freedom. Daniel implies throughout the novel that the American government models their civil religion on Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s (1712-1778) conception as described in his treatise The Social Contract (1762). Daniel suggests that Rousseau’s approach to civil religion creates a false dilemma between the ideals of civil religious soldier and enemy. Daniel’s critique shows a limitation within Rousseau’s and possibly America’s understanding of civil religion. Despite there being evidence supporting his critique, Daniel’s extreme intersectional approach to identity makes his critique impossible to implement within societal, political, or legal realms since it allows people to be both soldier and enemy at the same time.
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Marais, Michael John. "Towards a Levinasian aesthetic : the tension between implication and transcendence in selected fiction by J.M. Coetzee." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/6424.
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D.Litt. et Phil.This study explores the tension between politics and ethics in selected novels by J.M Coetzee. It contends that, in this writer's fiction, ethics is conceived of in Levinasian terms as a relation of responsibility for the other which is grounded in an acknowledgement of the other's radical difference to the same. The thesis examines Coetzee's self-reflexive investigation of the problem for novelistic representation posed by this conception of ethics. In order to contextualise this examination, the first chapter of the study establishes that the form and medium of the novel install a relation of correlation between same and other, and that the novel-as-genre therefore routinely forecloses on, rather than maintains a relation of difference to, alterity. Chapter One also traces the various strategies through which Coetzee's novels attempt not only to prevent the medium and form of the novel-as-genre from reducing the other to an object and thereby violating it, but also to impart a sense of that which inevitably exceeds, and so transcends, this genre's representational protocols. By means of such strategies of excession, the study contends, Coetzee's texts endeavour to inscribe a responsible relation to the other. The four remaining chapters of the thesis trace Coetzee's installation of strategies of excession, and therefore of an ethical aesthetic, in Dusklands, Life and Times of Michael K, Foe, Age of Iron and The Master of Petersburg. They also consider these novels' self-conscious articulation of the ethical implications of such strategies. Chapter Four and Chapter Five pay special attention to the inscription in Coetzee's later fiction of a debate on the possible effect on the reader of the individual text's ethical relation to the other. In this regard, the thesis argues that the ultimate purpose of Coetzee's attempt to respond responsibly to alterity in his writing is to enable the other to approach the reader in the course of the literary encounter. It thereby demonstrates that Coetzee's concern with ethics is deeply political: in attempting to contrive an ethical relation between the reader and the other, the individual text seeks to secure a mediation of the political by the ethical.
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"Imagining Unity: The Politics of Transcendence in Donne, Lanyer, Crashaw, and Milton." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/70505.
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"Imagining Unity" investigates how an evolving concept of transcendence in early modern England, influenced by Reformation and counter-Reformation theology, created new ways of responding affectively and philosophically to emerging articulations of national identity in British devotional poetry. My project focuses on a series of politically disruptive moments in the seventeenth century--from the residual trauma of the Protestant Reformation to the Civil War of the 1640's--that troubled England's developing sense of national identity. In the shadow of these troubles, devotional poets reworked ideas of transcendence that they had inherited from medieval Catholicism to provide a sense of national cohesion in the midst of a changing political landscape. This dissertation explores transcendence as it is reconceived by four different authors: John Donne's work translates Catholic iconography to symbolize the ascension of a Protestant England; Aemelia Lanyer's poetry appeals to the exclusivity of religious esotericism as a palliative for the actual exclusion of women from political life; Richard Crashaw's writings reinterpret mystical union to rescue sovereignty from failure; and John Milton's work revises transubstantiation to authorize a new republic. By investigating how early modern poetry reimagines transcendence in response to political events, my project widens ongoing conversations in political theology and "the religious turn" of literary studies, which are often unilaterally focused on the influence that religion had on politics in the course of an inevitable secularization of culture. My contribution to this work, and the underlying premise to my argument, is that literature provides a forum for rethinking religious concepts at the heart of political organization despite the apparent impulse toward secularization. In doing so, literature serves as a cultural medium for testing the conceptual limits of transcendence--its viability as a tool for inspiring and maintaining social unity. This dissertation ultimately witnesses a concerted effort in the early modern period to extend the life of religious ideas within the political imagination through devotional poetry's insistent recasting of transcendence as central to the formulation of the body politic.
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Reid, Cameron. "Gone Critical: Towards A Co-Creative Encounter with the Book." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5050.
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This dissertation follows two interrelated lines of inquiry. The first, I formulate as follows:
(1) How, historically speaking, has the discourse of literary criticism thought the book? How has it represented the book? Used the book? Put simply, what has the book become in the hands of the critic?
Though, of course, answers to such questions will vary widely—especially as they intersect with related matters concerning the critic, herself, and what Henry Sussman refers to as the perceived “task of the critic”—it is my contention that the discourse of literary criticism remains unified by its inability to extricate itself from what I call the transcendent orientation to literature: an orientation that has both ancient and modern coordinates. In Part 1 of the dissertation, I map criticism’s ongoing historical affair with transcendence—an affair that begins as far back as the Platonic dialogues, but that can be traced right up through the twentieth century, in and through the work of any number of critics, and many prominent schools of literary critical thought.
I, then, formulate the second of my two lines of inquiry as follows:
(2) How might the materialist critic, imbued by Deleuzean sensibilities, think the book anew? And, by extension, how might the materialist re-think the role or task of the critic?
In Part 2, I shift the focus from the transcendent to the immanent (or immanentist) orientation; that is, from the logic of representation to what philosopher Gilles Deleuze—a prominent voice within this dissertation—labels “the logic of sensation”; also, from fixed essences (i.e., fixed laws, identities) to potential powers; from being to becoming; from the regulated and scientized practices of the institutional critic (spawning predictable results) to the “co-creative” encounters of the critic-artisan (unleashing pure potentials from the book). In short, Part 2 of the dissertation explores the question of how the book opens up to its own becomings—i.e., its own difference, its own transformation. To that end, I will enter into a number of co-creative relations of my own with various works of American literature (including, Kerouac’s On the Road, Melville’s Moby-Dick, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, and William Gass’s On Being Blue).
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Favreau, Alyssa. "Galactic ecofeminism and posthuman transcendence : the tentative utopias of Octavia E. Butler's Lilith's Brood." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21252.
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Sylvain, Laurence. "Expériences sensibles et suprasensibles, à travers Le bain de Diane de Pierre Klossowski." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13756.
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Le présent mémoire cherche à relever, à travers la lecture du texte Le bain de Diane de Pierre Klossowski, les modalités propres au littéraire pour penser les liens entre les concepts d’immanence et de transcendance. Proposant en premier lieu la mise en place des concepts nécessaires à une telle entreprise, je m’attarde à des auteurs tels que Platon, Apulée, Pierre Hadot, Gilles Deleuze et Michel Foucault, ayant contribué à la conception du démon tel qu’il est décrit chez Klossowski, ainsi qu’au concept de simulacre, concept clé de la pensée de l’auteur à l’étude. En retraçant la création et la représentation de ces concepts dans divers textes, pour ensuite les retracer dans Le bain de Diane, je cherche à montrer l’importance de la figuration littéraire dans le rapport complexe que nous entretenons avec les notions de sensible et de suprasensible.The present thesis seeks to address, in a reading of the text Le bain de Diane by Pierre Klossowski, the specific modalities through which literature aims to understand the complex ties between concepts of 'immanence' and 'transcendence'. To do so, I begin by introducing the concepts necessary for such an undertaking ⎯ reading authors such as Plato, Apuleius, Pierre Hadot, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault, all of whom have contributed to the concept of the 'demon' as described in Klossowski’s work ⎯ and by introducing the concept of 'simulacrum', a key concept in Klossowsi’s writing. By tracing the creation and representation of these concepts in various texts and then identifying them in Le bain de Diane, I attempt to demonstrate the importance of literary figuration in our complex relationship with concepts of the 'sensitive' and the 'suprasensitive'.
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Lapointe, Jean-Michel. "Portrait de l'écrivain en ascète: Ralph Waldo Emerson et la modernité des exercices spirituels." Thèse, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/9831.
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Ce mémoire démontre que la pratique littéraire de l’écrivain américain Ralph Waldo Emerson s’inscrit dans le sillage de la tradition des exercices spirituels mise au jour par l’helléniste Pierre Hadot et qu’elle permet de penser une modernité insoupçonnée par ce dernier. La production de textes littéraires devient alors une manière d’établir « une relation originale avec l’univers » (cf. l’introduction de Nature).
Le premier chapitre explique la spécificité de la spiritualité traditionnelle, où l’écriture consiste à implanter en soi le texte de la tradition. La pratique littéraire de Marc Aurèle, Sénèque et saint Augustin est étudiée afin de montrer comment ils tâchent de vivre conformément à la conception de la transcendance qui est la leur : personnelle chez les stoïciens, institutionnelle chez les chrétiens.
Le deuxième chapitre montre comment Emerson renverse le rapport traditionnel au texte dans la vie de l’esprit en arguant que la révélation du Christ est, à l’origine, une expérience personnelle de la transcendance qui n’est pas institutionnalisable. Il se dégage de cette confrontation romantique avec le christianisme un concept de littérature lié au mysticisme et inséparable d’une compréhension « expressiviste » du langage (Charles Taylor).
Le dernier chapitre examine l’ascèse littéraire d’Emerson : sa conception antiscolastique du « scholar » est étudiée puis mise en relief avec sa façon d’arrimer sa pratique de la pensée à une conception fluctuante de l’univers. La dernière section porte sur la façon dont son mode de vie expérimental suppose une conception de la littérature en tant que processus.This master thesis considers how the literary practice of Ralph Waldo Emerson might help us rethink the modern heritage in the tradition of spiritual exercises. The nineteenth century American writer followed the path of this antique tradition that was uncovered by the philosophy historian Pierre Hadot, allowing us to consider anew this tradition within the framework of modernity. It is thus possible to access an unexpected modernity of spiritual exercises, unknown to Hadot himself, characterized by the production of literary texts that convey what Emerson calls, “an original relation to the universe.” The first chapter explains the specificity of traditional spirituality, where writing serves to incorporate traditional text into oneself. It considers the literary practice of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Saint Augustine, who all attempted to live according to their conception of transcendence: personal under stoicism, institutional within Christianity. Chapter two illustrates how Emerson overturns the traditional way of behaving with a spiritual text. His critique of Christian theology shows that the revelation of Christ is, in its origin, a personal experience of transcendence that cannot be instituted. From this romantic dissension with Christianity emerges a theory of literature related to mysticism and in close ties with an “expressivist” conception of language (Charles Taylor). The final chapter examines Emerson’s literary askesis. First explained is the antischolastic conception of the scholar, subsequently showing how his way of thinking is interrelated to a fluxional conception of the universe. Lastly demonstrated is how his experimental way of life relies on a conception of literature as process.
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Vorster, Jan Harm. "Aspekte van die verhouding tussen heerskappy en gemeenskap in die kritiese wysheid van Israel." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17832.
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Text in AfrikaansDie bydrae van die lsraelitiese wysheidsliteratuur word in die teologiese nadenke oor die wese sowel as die regverdigheid van God in 'n groot mate onderbenut gelaat. Dit hoef egter nie so te wees nie. lndien die wysheid van Israel teen die agtergrond of breer konteks van die ontwikkeling in die konvensionele oud-Oosterse wysheid en vanuit 'n toepaslike orienteringspunt benader word, kan die betekenis daarvan histories en eksegeties op so 'n wyse ontsluit word dat die relevansie met betrekking tot die teologiese gesprek oor God en die teodisee aangetoon kan word. In die lig hiervan word die kritiese wysheid van Israel aan die hand van 'n elliptiese ordeningsbeginsel, wat enersyds die heerskappy van God en andersyds die moontlikheid van gemeenskap tussen God en mens as wentelpunte het, histories en eksegeties ondersoek. Verskillende reaksies op 'n gemeenskaplike ervaring van God se transendensie word in die lsraelitiese wysheid gehandhaaf en ontwikkel. Al word die terme 'transendensie', 'immanensie' en 'teodisee' nerens in die wysheidstekste van Israel gebruik nie, kom die motiewe nogtans voor. Die alternatiewe wat gehandhaaf en uitgewerk word, beklemtoon die verband tussen godsbeskouing en die ervaring van God as of verwyderd of immanent. Op soek na die balans tussen die transendensie en immanensie van God, bied die kritiese wysheid van Israel wel 'n perspektief waarin so 'n omvangryke ervaring van die wese van God moontlik is dat die beperkinge van rasionaliteit, en daarom ook vrae wat uit die teodisee-vraagstuk voortvloei, oorkom kan word.
The contribution of the sapiential literature of ancient Israel to theological reflection on both the essence and the justice of God is to a large extent neglected. This need not be the case. If Israelite wisdom is approached from a suitable vantage point and against the background or in the wider context of the sapiential movement in the ancient Near East, it becomes possible to historically and exegetically unravel the meaning and relevance of Old Testament wisdom in theological discussion of God and theodicy. In this light a historical and exegetical exploration of Israel's critical wisdom is undertaken with the aid of an elliptical guiding principle in which the supreme lordship of God is the one focal point, and the possibility of intimate communion between God and humans the other. Different reactions to a common experience of the transcendence of God are maintained and developed in the wisdom of ancient Israel. Although the terms 'transcendence', 'immanence' and 'theodicy' are never used in their wisdom texts, the motifs themselves did occur. The connection between the God concept and the experience of God as either remote or immanent, is emphasized by the alternatives which are developed in both the conventional and critical wisdom. In search of balance between the transcendence and immanence of God, the critical wisdom of Israel does offer a perspective within which comprehensive experience of the essence of God is possible to such an extent that the limitations of rationality, and therefore also the questions emanating from the riddle of theodicy, can be exceeded.
Biblical and Ancient Studies
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Sylvain, Laurence. "La rencontre et ses passages. La singularité de Pierre Klossowski." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/25609.
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Cette thèse examine l’oeuvre et la vie de Pierre Klossowski en les considérant comme figure du
phénomène littéraire. S’intéressant à l’oeuvre de ce dernier en ce que celle-ci, traversant les genres,
les médias et les techniques du XXe siècle et véhiculant une pensée des plus singulière, exemplifie
de façon à la fois concrète et abstraite une économie du littéraire qui est le fond épistémo-critique
de cette thèse. Articulant une conception du littéraire en tant que rencontre se refusant à la simple
dualité, la thèse propose une réflexion épistémologique sur le phénomène littéraire et sur
l’exemplarité de la figure de Klossowski dans un tel contexte, figure dont la thèse, par le fait même,
déploie la formation et la façon dont celle-ci agit sur le littéraire. En prenant en considération la
formation historiquement tardive des institutions actuelles du savoir et leur effet sur la conception
moderne des disciplines, la thèse permet de briser les schèmes actuels des catégorisations
disciplinaires et de repenser la puissance épistémologique du littéraire selon une économie de la
rencontre qu’elle analyse dans les productions transdisciplinaires de Pierre Klossowski.This thesis examines the work and life of Pierre Klossowski as a figure of the literary phenomenon. Klossowski’s work exemplifies, both concretely and abstractly, a particular economy of the literary which is the epistemocritical basis of this thesis, for it crosses the boundaries between genres, medias and techniques of the 20th century. Articulating a conception of the literary as an encounter that refuses to be confined to simple duality, the thesis proposes an epistemological reflection on the literary phenomenon and on the exemplarity of Klossowski’s figure in such a context, a figure whose formation and the way in which it acts on the literary itself are also deployed in the thesis. By taking into consideration the historically late formation of current knowledge institutions and their effect on the modern conception of disciplines, the thesis breaks down the current schemas of disciplinary categorizations and rethinks the epistemological power of the literary according to an economy of the encounter that is analyzed through Pierre Klossowski’s transdisciplinary productions.
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Grenier, Philippe. "Le cri poétique : "Howl" d’Allen Ginsberg dans le contexte de la révolution Beat." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11964.
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Ce mémoire s’intéresse aux transformations littéraires et poétiques mises en œuvre par le mouvement de la Beat Generation au milieu du vingtième siècle en Amérique du Nord. En me penchant sur le recueil de poésie « Howl and Other Poems » du poète Allen Ginsberg, le texte emblématique de cette révolution littéraire, je montre comment le mouvement des Beats représente une transformation dans la tradition littéraire et poétique américaine, occidentale, en ce qui concerne à la fois la forme, les sujets abordés et la pratique d’écriture. Dans un premier temps, j’étudie l’histoire de ces changements en examinant la réception de « Howl », qui a bouleversé les attentes du milieu littéraire de l’époque à cause de son approche inclusive qui accueille tout dans la représentation. Mon deuxième chapitre se penche sur la vision du poète, la vision poétique. Je montre comment la perspective du poète face au monde change chez Ginsberg et les Beats. Au lieu de concevoir la transcendance, l’universel, comme quelque chose d’éloigné du particulier, comme le véhicule la tradition poétique occidentale, les Beats voient l’universel partout, dans tout. Enfin, je m’intéresse à la place du langage dans l’expression de cette nouvelle vision. J’observe comment Ginsberg et les Beats, en s’inspirant de la poésie de Walt Whitman, développent un langage spontané ne relevant plus de la maîtrise de soi.This study investigates the literary and poetic transformations set in motion by the Beat Generation literary movement in mid-twentieth-century North America. In focusing on "Howl and Other Poems" by the poet Allen Ginsberg, the iconic text of this literary revolution, I show how the Beats represent a transformation in the American and Western literary and poetic tradition, with regard to form, theme and writing practice. In the first place, I study the history of these changes by examining the reception of "Howl," which upset the expectations of the literary establishment of the time because of its approach that includes everything, without distinction, in the representation. My second chapter focuses on the poet’s point of view, the poetic vision. I show how the poet’s perspective vis-à-vis the world changes with Ginsberg and the Beats. Instead of conceiving transcendence, the universal, as something far-removed from the particular, as presupposed by the Western poetic tradition, the Beats see transcendence everywhere, in everything. Ultimately, I turn to the place of language in expressing this new vision. I observe how Ginsberg and the Beats, inspired by the poetry of Walt Whitman, develop a spontaneous language no longer emanating from self-mastery.