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Os paratextos das antologias brasileiras de contos de Edgar Allan Poe no século XXI
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Tradução, Florianópolis, 2014.Esta tese analisa elementos paratextuais em antologias brasileiras de contos de Edgar Allan Poe lançados ou reeditados nos doze primeiros anos do século XXI, verificando de que forma o autor e sua obra são apresentados ao leitor através desses paratextos. Para tanto, analiso quartas capas, orelhas, prefácios, posfácios e notas. O nível de participação do tradutor na utilização desses elementos é também examinado, para que se possa averiguar até que ponto esse intermediador de culturas teve visibilidade nas publicações. A referida análise é norteada, principalmente, pelos fundamentos teóricos de Gérard Genette, sobretudo em seu livro intitulado Paratextos Editoriais (2009), do original Seuils (1987).Abstract : This thesis analyzes paratextual elements in Edgar Allan Poe's Brazilian anthologies of short stories published or reprinted in the first twelve years of the 21st century, observing how the author and his fictional writings are presented to the reader through those paratexts. Thus, I analyze back pages, flaps, forewords, afterwords, and notes. The use the translator made of those elements is examined in order to assess the translator's visibility in the published editions. The referred analysis is grounded mainly on Gérard Genette's theory, especially in his book entitled Editorial Paratexts (2009) from the original Seuils (1987)
The Author of Waverley
No full textMedium: engravingprintssigned and dated."The Author of Waverley" [2017.0032.000.000], Goodall, Edward, Allan, WilliamArtist and Role: Goodall, Edward,Artist and Role: Allan, William, ArtistExtent: shee
Allan, Jonathan A.
No full textcurrentDr. Allan is a Canada Research Chair in Men and Masculinities and Professor in the Faculty of Arts at Brandon University. He is the author of Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus (University of Regina Press, 2016; Zed Books, 2016; Japanese translation, Ohta-Shuppan, 2018), Men, Masculinities, and Popular Romance (Routledge 2019); and Men, Masculinities, and Infertilities (Routledge 2022). He is also one of the editors of Virgin Envy: The Cultural (In)Significance of the Hymen (University of Regina Press, 2016; Zed Books, 2016).
During his Canada Research Chair, Dr. Allan is working on the critical study of men and masculinities in a variety of spaces in the social sciences and the humanities. Dr. Allan is interested in the ways in which masculinity is lived, enacted, and embodied in everyday life.
His current research project is called, Men, Masculinity, and the Procreative Realm, for which he received a SSHRC Insight Grant. One of the research outcomes from this project, Men, Masculinities, and Infertility (Routledge 2022), is a book-length study of cultural representations of men’s infertility. Drawing on ideas of storytelling, this book explores how stories of infertility are told across popular fiction, canonical fiction, men’s memoirs of infertility, and film and television. A second project coming out of this research is a cultural study of vasectomy. Snip Snap will be an interdisciplinary study of the vasectomy, how it is represented in popular culture, and what the vasectomy means for sexuality and masculinity. This book will consider the history and the mainstreaming of vasectomy, as well as vasectomy reversal and post-vasectomy pain syndrome.
Dr. Allan is Series Editor of The Exquisite Corpse Series at University of Regina Press and he is one of the editors of Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
Book review : Five hundred million children by Stewart MacPherson
No full textReview of: Stewart MacPherson. Five hundred million children. Sussex: Wheatsheaf Books, 198
Letter from Allan R. Bosworth, Captain, U.S. Navy, to Michi Weglyn
No full textA letter from Allan R. Bosworth to Michi Weglyn in which Bosworth states that he will not read Weglyn's book "Years of Infamy: the Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps" because he believes that story has already been told.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
To what extent may the unfavorable viewpoints of critics on E. A. Poe's use of horror and social satire in his stories be refuted by examples from and analysis of the author's eight short stories?
No full textWith numerous short stories and poems, Edgar Allan Poe is considered to be the piquant and
astounding milestone of the American Literature. Yet, his style and achievements have always
been interpreted antagonistically by large numbers of critics. This study analyzes the features
unique to Edgar Allan Poe in his short stories “Murders In The Rue Morgue”, “The Fall of
The House of Usher”, “A Tale of Jerusalem”, “The Pit and The Pendulum”, “The System of
Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether”, “A Cask Of Amonillado”, “The Masque of Red Death”
and “The Man That Was Used Up” while refuting to chosen examples of negative reviews
about Edgar Allan Poe.
Due to the fact that Edgar Allan Poe is well-known for his usage horror, satire, humor and
fiction in his short stories, these qualities have been criticized mostly by many writers and
philosophers as well. In this sense, the scope of the study will be sharpened on how these
techniques are used in his short stories to make them nonpareil and what was Edgar Allan
Poe’s authorial intention while utilizing these attributes in his works. At this point the analysis
of the characters, themes and plot will be prioritized compared to the language and style that
Edgar Allan Poe uses in his texts.
Since the criticism against Poe focus on the usefulness of such features in his short stories and
how they intimidate the reader from the text, the study proves that the gap between Poe and
the reader is a simple issue of reciprocal misunderstanding which is proven to be artificial and
bogus with examples and facts from his short stories
Life at the Margins of Law and Order: James Macpherson – The Scottish Robin Hood
No full textThis chapter will explore how forms of criminality and the individuals who perpetrated it were regarded in early modern Scotland, before the introduction of a centralised judiciary and long before the advent of press sensationalism, which served to hyperbolise deviancy and bad behaviour into an enduring threat. Was seventeenth century crime regarded as a necessary evil to alleviate hardship or distress? Was it universally frowned upon and rooted out by the early Scottish authorities? Or did attitudes to criminality depend on the individual criminal concerned, the type of offences he or she carried out, or even the impact that those offences had on the status, power and persona of the victims affected? To answer these questions, this chapter will focus on the life of the Highland outlaw, James Macpherson. Macpherson was a man who lived at the margins of several aspects of early modern Scottish society due to his heritage, his upbringing, his associates, the locus of his activities, and undoubtedly the nature of his misdeeds and the individuals he targeted. Modern writers have described Macpherson as the Scottish Robin Hood, but he is much more than that, as we know he definitely existed and we know his infamy to be warranted. This chapter will not only explain why his place is the annals of Scottish crime is assured, but it will also explore the impact and legacy that Macpherson had on the shape of Scottish justice and where the margins of right and wrong came to sit as a result of his endeavour and renown. <br/
Life at the Margins of Law and Order: James Macpherson – The Scottish Robin Hood
No full textThis chapter will explore how forms of criminality and the individuals who perpetrated it were regarded in early modern Scotland, before the introduction of a centralised judiciary and long before the advent of press sensationalism, which served to hyperbolise deviancy and bad behaviour into an enduring threat. Was seventeenth century crime regarded as a necessary evil to alleviate hardship or distress? Was it universally frowned upon and rooted out by the early Scottish authorities? Or did attitudes to criminality depend on the individual criminal concerned, the type of offences he or she carried out, or even the impact that those offences had on the status, power and persona of the victims affected? To answer these questions, this chapter will focus on the life of the Highland outlaw, James Macpherson. Macpherson was a man who lived at the margins of several aspects of early modern Scottish society due to his heritage, his upbringing, his associates, the locus of his activities, and undoubtedly the nature of his misdeeds and the individuals he targeted. Modern writers have described Macpherson as the Scottish Robin Hood, but he is much more than that, as we know he definitely existed and we know his infamy to be warranted. This chapter will not only explain why his place is the annals of Scottish crime is assured, but it will also explore the impact and legacy that Macpherson had on the shape of Scottish justice and where the margins of right and wrong came to sit as a result of his endeavour and renown. <br/
The Highlander
No full textThis thesis explores James Macpherson’s The Highlander (1758) in relation to originality, Scottish identity and historiography. It also situates the Ossianic Collections in the context of Macpherson’s earlier poetical and later historical works. There are three parts to it: a biographical sketch of Macpherson’s early life, the annotated edition of The Highlander, and discursive commentary chapters. By examining The Highlander in detail this thesis questions the emphasis of other Macpherson criticism on the Ossianic Collections, and allows us to see him as a writer who is historically minded, very aware of sources, well versed in established forms of poetry and thoroughly, and positively, British. The Highlander stands out among the corpus of his works not because it can give us insights into the Ossianic Collections, which is its usual function in Macpherson criticism, but because it can help us understand what it is that connects Macpherson’s earlier and later works with the Ossianic Collections: history, Britishness, tradition.
Macpherson’s poetical works are united by a desire to translate Scotland’s factual past into sentimental British poetry. In the Ossianic Collections he does so without particular faithfulness to his sources, but in The Highlander he converts historical sources directly into neo-classic verse. This is where Macpherson’s originality lies: his ability to adapt history. In different styles and genres, and based on different sources, Macpherson’s works are early examples of Scotland’s great literary achievement: historical fiction. Instead of accusing him of forgery or trying to trace his knowledge of Gaelic ballads, this thesis presents Macpherson as a genuine historian who happened to write in a variety of genres
Generalizing curriculum policy across boarders : crossing boundaries
No full text"This essay is a critique of the scientific and policy rationales for transnational standardization. It analyzes two examples of policy export: early childhood standards in one of North America’s oldest Indigenous communities and the ongoing development of international standards for university teaching. It examines calls for American education to look to Finland, Canada, and Singapore for models of reform and innovation, focusing on the complex historical, cultural, and political settlements at work in these countries. The author addresses two affiliated challenges: first, the possibility of a principled understanding of evidence and policy in cultural and political-economic context, and second, the possibility of a mediative educational science that might guide policy formation." -- EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHER November 2011 vol. 40 no. 8 367-37
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