A contemporary narrative of the proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler, prosecuted for sorcery in 1324 /

Printed from Harleian ms., no. 641. cf. Introd.

Um passeio pelos bosques ficcionais de Antonio Tabucchi

The Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi (Pisa-1943, Lisbon-2012) is considered by the critic as one of the most representative voices in the contemporary European literature. The Literature, according to Tabucchi, exerts a fundamental role in society and it, still according to the writer, must cause disquietude, evoke doubts, raise questions and not tranquilize people’s mind. Thereby, it’s noticed that it’s one of the reasons why the tabucchian narrative incessantly dialogues with Luigi Pirandello’s and Fernando Pessoa's poetics, establishing a great fictional game in wich the people, the truths, the history and the world are shown, at the least, duplicated.

The third transformation of Japan: An institutional narrative on agglomeration economies in abenomics

Objective of the study The aim of this study is to understand the institutional implications in Abenomics in a spatial context, the contemporary economic reform taking place in Japan, which is to finally end over two decades of economic malaise. For theoretical perspective of choice, this study explores a synthesis of institutionalism as the main approach, complemented by economies of agglomeration in spatial economics, or New Economic Geography (NEG). The outcomes include a narrative with implications for future research, as well as possible future implications for the economy of Japan, itself. The narrative seeks to depict the dialogue between public discourse and governmental communication in order to create a picture of how this phenomenon is being socially constructed. This is done by studying the official communications by the Cabinet along with public media commentary on respective topics. The reform is studied with reference to historical socio-cultural, economic evolution of Japan, which in turn, is explored through a literature review. This is to assess the unique institutional characteristics of Japan pertinent to reform. Research method This is a social and exploratory qualitative study – an institutional narrative case study. The methodological approach was kept practical: in addition to literature review, a narrative, thematic content analysis with structural emphasis was used to construct the contemporary narrative based on the Cabinet communication. This was combined with practical analytic tools borrowed from critical discourse analysis, which were utilized to assess the implicit intertextual agenda within sources. Findings What appears to characterize the discourse is status quo bias that comes in multiple forms. The bias is also coded in the institutions surrounding the reform, wherein stakeholders have vested interests in protecting the current state of affairs. This correlates with uncertainty avoidance characteristic to Japan. Japan heeds the international criticism to deregulate on a rhetorical level, but consistent with history, the Cabinet solutions appear increasingly bureaucratic. Hence, the imposed western information-age paradigm of liberal cluster agglomeration seems ill-suited to Japan which lacks risk takers and a felicitous entrepreneur culture. The Japanese, however, possess vast innovative potential ascribed to some institutional practices and traits, but restrained by others. The derived conclusion is to study the successful intrapreneur cases in Japanese institutional setting as a potential benchmark for Japan specific cluster agglomeration, and a solution to its structural problems impeding growth.

À la cheville des temps : la construction du présent dans la littérature narrative française au tournant du XXIe siècle

Cette thèse de doctorat met en lumière les stratégies narratives déployées dans le récit français actuel pour représenter et construire son présent. L’hypothèse principale que cette recherche vérifie est la suivante : la littérature narrative d’aujourd’hui, par le recours à une énonciation entremêlant discours et narration ainsi que par une utilisation critique et pragmatique du passé, réplique au « présentisme » observé par François Hartog, cette perspective sur les temps dont le point d’observation et le point observé sont le présent. Les écrivains contemporains mettent en place un régime de temporalités où passé et avenir sont coordonnés au présent pour pacifier le rapport entre les trois catégories temporelles et faire apparaître un présent qui, sinon, demeure narrativement insaisissable ou soumis à l’autorité d’un passé ou d’un avenir qui dicte ses actions. En distinguant leurs textes du genre romanesque et du mode narratif qui le compose, Pierre Bergounioux, François Bon, Olivier Cadiot, Chloé Delaume, Annie Ernaux, Jean Echenoz et Olivier Rolin, entre autres, s’inscrivent dans la tradition énonciative du récit, ici entendu comme genre littéraire où l’énonciation et le texte en formation sont à eux-mêmes leur propre intrigue. Le sujet d’énonciation du récit contemporain cherche à élucider son rapport au temps en ayant recours à des scènes énonciatives qui ont à voir avec l’enquête et l’interlocution, de manière à ce que d’une anamnèse personnelle et intellectuelle, de même que de la confrontation d’une mémoire avec son récit jaillissent les caractéristiques d’une expérience du présent. Or, une des caractéristiques du présent expérimenté par le sujet contemporain semble être une résistance à la narration et au récit, rendant alors difficile sa saisie littéraire. Cette opposition au récit est investie par des écrivains qui ont recours, pour donner à voir l’immédiateté du présent, à la note et au journal, de même qu’à des genres littéraires qui mettent en échec la narration, notamment la poésie. En dépit de leurs efforts énonciatifs pour extraire le présent de l’opération qui le transforme en passé, ces écrivains font tout de même l’expérience répétée de la disparition immédiate du présent et de leur incapacité à énoncer littérairement un sentiment du présent. Le seul moyen d’en donner un aperçu reste alors peut-être de chercher à construire le présent à partir du constat répété de l’impossibilité d’un tel accomplissement.

Contemporary thought of Italy,

Half-title: Library of contemporary thought. General editor: W. Tudor Jones

Déplacement, délocalisation et «dévoyage» dans quelques récits québécois contemporains

Ce mémoire s’intéresse à l’écriture du voyage et du déplacement à travers l’exemple de cinq récits québécois contemporains. Nous étudions ici Voyage en Irlande avec un parapluie et Voyage au Portugal avec un Allemand de Louis Gauthier, Vers l’Ouest de Mahigan Lepage, Dix jours en cargo d’Isabelle Miron ainsi que Le sermon aux poissons de Patrice Lessard. Constatant que les voyages contemporains se sont délestés de l’expérience de l’exotisme et de la découverte, nous faisons l’hypothèse que l’écriture du déplacement se transforme. Nous analysons comment une expérience dysphorique du déplacement s’inscrit dans la description des lieux, la mise en récit et l’identité des narrateurs. À partir des travaux de Michel de Certeau (L’invention du quotidien) et de Marc Augé (Non-lieux : introduction à la surmodernité), nous nous intéressons, dans un premier chapitre, à la perception des lieux et à leur description. Notre parcours nous amène ensuite à examiner plus directement les modalités par lesquelles ces récits de la route produisent une continuité, métaphorique notamment. La troisième partie se concentre sur l’identité des narrateurs, qui tend à se construire ou à se déconstruire par rapport aux espaces qu’il parcourent. En nous servant des analyses d’images de Georges Didi-Huberman, nous examinons en conclusion comment ces différents aspects des textes produisent une « esthétique de la délocalisation », où les paysages et les lieux se constituent en écrans sur lesquels il est désormais possible de se projeter.

A paz tensa da chama fugaz: a configuração do amor no romance contemporâneo, Lygia Fagundes Telles e Lídia Jorge

This thesis A paz tensa da chama fugaz: a configuração do amor no romance contemporâneo, Lygia Fagundes Telles e Lídia Jorge aims to study the configuration of Love in contemporary novels. Their corpuses of study are the novels As horas nuas (1989), by the Brazilian writer Lygia Fagundes Telles; and O vento assobiando nas gruas (2002), by the Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge. The following research tries to understand how the characters from those texts deal with some love questions on the context of the contemporary narrative; it also tries to comprehend the love expression which is formed as a contradictorily fluid feeling and intensely wanted, which are important points concerning the love discourse at the present day. As a critic-comparative study, this research focuses on the problematic concerned love as a synonym of Eros, in other words, the relation between lovers, analyzed through social and philosophical perspective. Through that, this work broadens the study of two contemporary novels, and it also establish connections between the characters from those novels and the literary environment where they are placed, once it focuses on the human and social context presented in this books. The thesis ends calling attention to the dichotomy of love and death, to the image of love which grows through absence and through the longing of completeness of the human being; that is why this work sustains that the Lygia Fagundes Telles and Lídia Jorge update and materialized in their texts the plurality of contemporary love conception, which continues to be contradictory, fragmented and problematic

Investigações acerca do uso da narrativa no teatro contemporâneo

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Literatura e história em Plata quemada, de Ricardo Piglia

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Meu tio Atahualpa de Paulo de Carvalho Neto: o enigma mulher no universo feminino do romance malandro

Pós-graduação em Letras - FCLAS

Teclas paralelas: a dimensão literário-musical em Os teclados, de Teolinda Gersão

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Romance e experimentação com a linguagem em Boquitas pintadas, de Manuel Puig, e Onde andará Dulce Veiga?, de Caio Fernando de Abreu

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

A tradição literária poética e sensorial em Le Clézio

A segunda metade do século XIX mostra-se como um período no qual em cada um dos grandes poetas se abre e se fecha o leque de correspondências da analogia: Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, expressam em sua obra essa tendência à busca da verdadeira vida, do real oculto, movimento em que as sensações desempenham um papel primordial. Atualmente, a obra de Le Clézio vem confi rmar a procura de um mundo completo suscitado pela poesia, o único modo possível de se traduzir em palavras o êxtase sensorial: é o que mostram tanto seus ensaios, quanto suas obras fi ccionais, de L’extase matérielle e L’Inconnu sur la terre a Mondo et autres histoires, Désert, La Quarantaine e Coeur brûle et autres romances, corpus selecionado para a discussão do assunto.

O espaço urbano em Mondo de J. -M. G. Le Clézio: intertextualidade, oralidade, multiculturalismo

This article focus on the urban space to analyze the second narratives that account for the short story “Mondo”, included in the book Mondo et autres histoires by Le Clézio. These narratives sometimes reflect the situation of the eponymous character and the other outsider characters in the city they live, sometimes refer to different cultures that live on the same site.

O jogo de intermediações enunciativas no romance de Alan Pauls

The novel O passado (2003) by Alan Pauls presents many isotopies which would deserve to be investigated: there is a varied construction of loving relationships among the characters, who reveal different feelings, that would allow a mapping of passions to be studied; there is an activity of translation (role performed by Rimini and Carmen) that engenders a very rich reflection on the literary activity which is taking place. There is also the presence of a visual artist, Jeremy Riltse, revealing a poetic work which was created by this discourse. Due to the dimension that a research of this kind would require, it is not possible to deal with all the isotopies. Thus, the last one was chosen to be investigated, that is, to verify how the fictional visual artist and his singular work operate in the novel.