Winterreise et Die sieben Todsünden : un regard sur l’aliénation du sujet moderne

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L'évolution de la représentation des Perses Sassanides dans les sources écrites de l'Antiquité tardive, d'Ammien Marcellin à Procope de Césarée.

Ce mémoire explore le lien entre les relations politiques entretenues par l’empire romain et le royaume sassanide et la représentation que faisaient des Perses les auteurs de l’antiquité tardive. Une tradition littéraire défavorable aux orientaux est en effet perceptible tout au long de l’antiquité : les Perses, notamment, sont ainsi cruels, lâches, efféminés, paresseux et perfides. Ces topoi, dont les racines se retrouvent dès le 5e siècle avant J.-C., évoluent-ils à la fin de l’antiquité, lorsque la puissance des Sassanides rivalise avec celle des empereurs? S’appuyant sur les travaux des dernières années sur l’altérité et sur l’ethnographie antique, ce mémoire s’efforce d’autre part de mieux comprendre les Romains en eux-mêmes en faisant l’analyse de leur rapport à leurs voisins.

Développement d’un nouveau modèle murin expérimental de sclérodermie

La sclérodermie (SSc) est une maladie rare affectant les personnes génétiquement prédisposées d’une réponse immunitaire défectueuse. Malgré les derniers avancements et développements dans le domaine, l’étiologie et la pathogénèse de la maladie demeurent peu comprises. Par ailleurs, il y a un ralentissement dans la compréhension de cette maladie à cause du manque de modèle animal représentatif de la SSc humaine. Malgré plusieurs lacunes, les souris traitées avec la bléomycine ou portant des modifications génétiques (TSK-1) sont très utilisées dans les études précliniques de la SSc mais elles ne présentent pas toutes les caractéristiques de cette maladie. Pour contribuer à la recherche sur la SSc, la stagiaire postdoctorale Dre Heena Mehta a développé dans le laboratoire du Dre Sarfati en collaboration avec le Dr Senécal, un modèle de souris expérimental induit par l’immunisation de cellules dendritiques (DCs) chargées de peptides de la protéine topoisomérase I (TOPOIA et TOPOIB). Dans le but de caractériser ce modèle murin et d’établir un profil immunitaire, j’ai concentré mes analyses principalement sur les caractéristiques de la SSc telles que la fibrose, l’inflammation, l’hyper-γ-globulinémie polyclonale, la vasculopathie ainsi que de l’expression de cytokines. Brièvement, l’immunisation de souris avec les DCs chargées avec la topoisomérase I (TOPOI) a induit l’inflammation pulmonaire et cutanée, en plus de la fibrose sous forme diffuse (dcSSc). Les souris présentaient également des symptômes de la vasculopathie ainsi que des taux élevés d’anticorps polyclonaux. Les résultats démontraient que les peptides TOPOIA étaient efficaces dans l’induction de la fibrose et de la réponse inflammatoire alors que les peptides TOPOIB étaient surtout impliqués dans la fibrose cutanée. En plus de nos résultats, les observations préliminaires sur le profil de cytokines tissulaires suggéraient que ce modèle pourrait remplacer ou complémenter les autres modèles animaux de SSc.

El discurso sobre el actual proceso de paz en la revista Semana (2012-2014)

Este artículo presenta un análisis sobre el discurso del actual proceso de paz en la revista Semana entre los años 2012 a 2014, dada la relevancia de la participación de los medios de comunicación en un proceso trascendental para el futuro del país y la reconciliación de la sociedad. El objetivo es describir qué estrategias argumentativas usa la revista a partir de las noticias sobre el proceso de paz durante este periodo. La metodología utilizada se basó en los esquemas argumentativos (topoi), los cuales se identificaron de acuerdo con la estrategia argumentativa que propone Ruth Wodak. Partiendo del análisis de los topoi se encontró que de manera general el discurso de la revista frente a los diálogos de paz maneja un tono positivo y a favor del proceso, incluso antes de que se hiciera el anuncio formal de las negociaciones, además se evidenció que frecuentemente se trata de resaltar y visualizar la labor del gobierno del presidente Juan Manuel Santos.

Percepciones, valoraciones e intereses de distintos actores y organizaciones sociales de Mendoza (Gran Mendoza y Malargüe), Argentina, en torno a las temáticas ambientales

El proyecto aborda la problemática relacionada con las percepciones, valoraciones e intereses en torno a las temáticas ambientales de distintos actores y organizaciones sociales del Gran Mendoza y Malargüe. Se ha entrevistado a representantes de seis grupos de actores sociales. Se trabajó con muestras teóricas, se aplicó entrevistas semiestructuradas, se abordó la metodología de trabajo del análisis del discurso, con la identificación de los principales topoï. Los grupos han respondido sobre conceptos de ambiente, preocupación por él y sus problemáticas, propuestas de mejora, identificación de los responsables de la Educación Ambiental, influencia de la información en la vida laboral, participación en organizaciones de protección del medio ambiente y acceso a los programas de educación ambiental. Se analizaron distintos Programas de Educación Ambiental presentes en Internet, de manera de visualizar componentes comunes y no comunes que en general expresan las propuestas. Los resultados obtenidos manifiestan las distintas percepciones de los grupos sociales en torno al ambiente, el posicionamiento epistemológico, los modos y medios de acceso a la información.

Diálogo teológico-cosmogónico egípcio

Embora historicamente as diferentes versões-interpretações míticas, parciais ou globalizantes, tenham evoluído de forma relativamente independente entre si e apesar de, na maioria dos casos, nos terem chegado através de alusões esparsas, incompletas ou truncadas e, por isso, muitas vezes, incompreensíveis ou de difícil compreensão, o discurso literário-teológico egípcio conheceu áreas de síntese, de intersecção ou justaposição que, pelos seus denominadores comuns e pelo seu vocabulário concreto, nos permite salientar os topoi literários essenciais (termos e noções) desse mesmo pensamento.

Perceived discrimination in Mapuche discourse : contemporary racism in Chilean society

This paper documents the experiences of perceived discrimination by Mapuches, the largest aboriginal group in Chile, focusing on their oral discourse about the phenomenon. As part of a national research project, 100 Mapuches were interviewed about their perception of discrimination toward them. These interviews were analyzed using the four-level method developed by Merino, which is mainly based on local semantic strategies and argumentative sequences and topoi. The analysis suggests that racism is experienced in everyday interethnic interactions by means of four modes: verbal, behavioral, institutional and macro-social. Verbal racism includes name-calling (e.g. 'indio' [Indian]) and stereotyping (e.g. 'primitive'), and prejudiced remarks. Behavioral racism includes looking, ignoring, avoiding, segregating and denial of identity. In the institutional mode, denial of opportunities and discrimination in various public offices, private institutions and services are frequent, with perpetrators acting on behalf of the institution for which they work. The macro-social mode includes cultural dominance of the economic and educational systems, and an ethnocentric perspective of history. The findings suggest the presence of a racist ideology underlying Mapuche's discursive reproduction of the way Chileans talk and think about them and behave toward them.

Os modos de enunciação nos manuais de ensino para professores de História

Este artigo consiste em um estudo sobre os modos de enunciação dos Manuais de Ensino para professores de História. Tomando como fontes de pesquisa os livros recomendados pelo Programa Nacional do Livro Didático de 2008 (PNLD-2008), o texto examina a configuração discursiva desse recurso didático. Os modos de enunciação nos Manuais do Professor são analisados considerando o gênero dos textos, a intenção discursiva dos autores e o modelo de docente; eles também são analisados como práticas de representação do ensino e da aprendizagem.

A narratological analysis of D. M. Thoma`s: the white hotel (1981)

“A Narratological Analysis of D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel (1981)” originated within a seminar on British Postmodernist Literature during the first Master’s Degree in “British and North-American Culture and Literature” (2001-04) at the Universidade da Madeira set up by the Department of English and German Studies. This dissertation seeks to present a narratological analysis of Thomas’s novel. The White Hotel stands as a paradigmatic example of the kind of literature that has dominated the British literary scene in the past three decades, commonly referred to as postmodernist fiction, owing to its formal craftsmanship (multiplicity of narrative voices and perspectives, mixing of differing genres and text types, inclusion of embedded narratives) alongside the handling of what are deemed as postmodernist topoi (the distinction between truth and lies, history and fantasy, fact and fiction, the questioning of the nature of aesthetic representation, the role the author and the reader hold in the narrative process, the instability of the linguistic sign, the notion of originality and the moral responsibility the author has towards his/her work), The narratological approach carried out in this research reveals that Thomas’s text constitutes an aesthetic endeavour to challenge the teleological drive that is inherent in any narrative, i. e., the inevitable progression towards a reassuring end. Hence, the subversion of narrative telling, which is a recurrent feature in Thomas’s remaining literary output, mirrors the contemporary distrust in totalising, hierarchised and allencompassing narratives. In its handling of historical events, namely of the Holocaust, The White Hotel invites us to reassess the most profound beliefs we were taught to take for granted: progress, reality and truth. In their place the novel proposes a more flexible conception of both the world and art, especially of literary fiction. In other terms, the world appears as a brutal chaotic place the subject is forced to adjust to. Accordingly, the literary work is deemed hybrid, fragmented and open. So as to put forth the above-mentioned issues, this research work is structured in three main chapters. The initial chapter – “What is Postmodernism?” – advances a scrutiny not only of the seminal but also of more recent studies on postmodernist literary criticism. Following this, in Chapter II – “Postmodernist British Fiction” – a brief overview of postmodernist British fiction is carried out, focusing on the fictional works that, in my opinion, are fundamental for the periodising of British postmodernism. In addition, I felt the need to include a section – “D. M. Thomas as a Postmodernist Novelist” – in which the author’s remaining literary output is briefly examined. Finally, Chapter III – “A Narratological Analysis of The White Hotel” – proposes a narratological analysis of the novel according to the particular Genettian analytical model. To conclude, my dissertation constitutes an approach to D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel as a text whose very existence is substantiated in the foregrounding of the contingency of all discourses, meeting the postmodernist precepts of openness and subversion of any narrative that claims to be true, globalising and all-inclusive.

O padre, o filósofo e o profeta : a América de Simão de Vasconcelos

To build an Portuguese America, after discovering at the beginning of XVI century, the Europeans used the physic, politic colonization and also a space ideological domain using write texts, chronicles, and started making a conceive America that was more European than American. One of those chronicles was the Society of Jesus Chronicle written by father Simão de Vasconcelos, a Jesuit. So our object is recognizing in this chronicle the ways that this father had imagined the America. We are looking to answer how the Jesuit use some references to Classic Antiquity (meanly Aristotle and Samuel) because how this action until happen in the Renascence (XVII century) the intellectual production certainly involve renascent topoi. To get this we used some authors that study Intellectual/ Cultural History like Burckhardt e Ginzburg and some authors from Speech Analyses like Certeau and Foucault, to, in the end, can understand how Simão de Vasconcelos created his Brazil

Para uma leitura em outras direções: arranjos teóricos sobre a Ars amatoria de Ovídio

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Percorrendo o universo de devaneios, distorções e dualidades: considerações acerca da dramaturgia de Qorpo-Santo

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A representação do desejo nos epigramas eróticos helenísticos: estudo do masculino e do feminino nos livros 5 e 12 da Antologia Palatina

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Discurso, retórica e poder na Antiguidade tardia: a construção do ethos político em Sinésio de Cirene

Pós-graduação em História - FCHS