Literature Studies

Ce mémoire propose d’étudier la relation qu’entretient la série télévisée Fargo (FX 2014) avec le film éponyme dont elle est inspirée (Coen 1996). Il naît du constat que les études sur ce nouveau phénomène – les adaptations de films en séries – sont isolées et peu nombreuses. L’objectif de cette recherche est d’interroger les modalités de penser les contacts transfictionnels et les transformations opérées par la circulation de contenus entre les médias en proposant une approche spatiale. L’espace conçu en tant qu’abstraction ou matière permettra de compléter les méthodes d’analyse des séries télévisées présentant le temps comme matière principale soumise à la dilatation et entrera en dialogue avec les nouvelles réflexions concernant la notion d'espace au cinéma. Simultanément, l’espace sera la pierre angulaire méthodologique d’une réflexion qui vise à organiser et visualiser les mécanisme complexes d’un phénomène non linéaire. Sur la piste d’une sensation de familier, le mémoire porte une attention particulière aux notions d’itération, de variation et de continuité, centrales dans les études télévisuelles.

This thesis analyzes the relationship between the TV show Fargo (FX, 2014—) and the eponymous film that inspired the series (Coen, 1996), and is a starting point to answering to the lack of studies on this phenomenon – the adaptation of films into TV series. The goal of this research is to examine the modalities of thinking transfictional connections and transformations that emerge from the circulation of contents across distinct media, from a spatial approach. The notion of space conceived as an abstraction or as a material component of the series will add to the existing methods of analysis of TV series. In fact, current methods generally consider time as the main element involved in seriality: this thesis suggest another way to study TV series, dialoguing with the recent reflections based on the notion of space in cinema. Simultaneously, space will act as the methodological cornerstone of an analysis that intends to organize and make the complex mechanisms of a non-linear phenomenon visible. Following a sensation of familiarity experienced during the viewing of the show, this thesis pays particular attention to the ideas of iteration, variation, and continuity, which are essential to Television Studies.

Throughout the nineteenth century, Maskilic journals increased their publication of anti-Hasidic satires. From the eighteen-sixties onward, this literature came primarily as a response to the revival in the publishing of Hasidic hagiography and to the spread of Hasidism into new territory. To this point, no complete review or even general survey has been performed on this extensive polemical literature, despite the fact that it has much to teach us about Hasidism and the Haskalah in those years. We are not speaking of an insignificant bibliographical lacuna, but of a disregard for an entire field of research which would shed light not only on a forgotten chapter of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature but also on an important chapter in the relationships between Maskilim and Hasidim in that period and the genesis and development of the different streams of Hasidism. This Maskilic literature intended to do more than eradicate Hasidism; it aimed to strengthen the self-consciousness of the individual Maskilim who found themselves alone in Hasidic territory. Paradoxically, the literature documented the very movement it intended to eradicate from the world. The distorted reflection displayed in the anti-Hasidic literature does more than present a caricature of its subject -- it conceals hitherto unknown elements about the nature and development of the Hasidic movement. The present article deals with one such case, a satire on Bratslav Hasidism from 1863, which has at its core a Maskilic satirical text written by Yehiel Meller on pilgrimage to the grave of R. Nahman of Bratslav in Uman.





כתבי עת של משכילים לאורך המאה התשע עשרה הרבו לפרסם סאטירות בגנותה של החסידות. משנות הששים ואילך באה ספרות זו בעיקר כתגובה להתעוררות הדפסת ספרות השבחים החסידית ולהתפשטות החסידות במרחבים חדשים. לא קיימת עד עתה סקירה שלימה, ואף לא מיפוי כללי, של אותה ספרות פולמוסית ענפה, על אף שיש בה ללמד הרבה על דרכי החסידות וההשכלה באותן שנים.  לא מדובר רק בחסרון ביבליוגרפי שאין לו משמעות, אלא בהתעלמות משדה מחקר רב עניין שעשוי להאיר לא רק על פרק נשכח בספרות עברית ויידיש החדשה אלא גם על פרק חשוב ביחסים בין משכילים לחסידים באותה תקופה, ועל דרכי צמיחתם, פיצולם והתפתחותם של זרמים שונים בחסידות. הייתה זו ספרות שיותר מאשר נועדה לבער את החסידות נועדה לחזק את תודעתם העצמית של המשכילים הבודדים במרחבים החסידיים; ספרות שבאופן פרדוקסלי תיעדה תנועה אותה חפצו לבער מן העולם. הבבואה המעוותת בה התהדרה הסאטירה האנטי חסידית לא רק הציגה דימוי – אלא טומנת בחובה הצבעה על אלמנטים חדשים ועל התפתחויות בחסידות. במקרה אחד ממין זה הנוגע לחסידות ברסלב בשנות השישים של המאה התשע עשרה עוסק המאמר. שלפנינו - שעיקרו מהדורה של טקסט משכילי שכתב יחיאל מלר - בשנת 1863 - על העלייה לקבר ר' נחמן מברסלב באומן
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The study of Buddhist texts can inform us of the way scriptures were composed , as well as illuminate the reasons behind their production. This study examines the phenomenon of borrowing and reusing portions of texts without attributing them to their 'legitimate authors' within the Buddhist world of contemporary Tibet. It shows that not only is such a practice not at all infrequent and is often socially accepted, but that it is used in this case as a platform to advance specific claims and promote an explicit agenda. Therefore , rather than considering these as instances of plagiarism, this essay looks at the practice of copying and borrowing as an exercise in intertex-tuality, intended as the faithful retransmission of ancient truths, and as an indication of the public domain of texts in Tibet.

This paper is an attempt to consider the deployment of literary motifs to discuss the representation of identities in the selected works of Kamau Brathwaite and Helene Johnson. The analysis was informed by the need to identify the adherence to the preponderant theme of the quest for identity and the representation of identities in American Literary tradition. This study critically appraised and analyzed the development of the African-American and Caribbean literary traditions within the conscious space of displacement and identity renegotiation. The study revealed that the selected and critically pieces of the writers amplify the similarity or uniformity in the sociohistorical experiences of displacement from the root, search for identity and reinstatement of lost values in the enabling milieus of the writers.

The concept of death is important in Schopenhauer’s philosophy. For him, it is the only certainty. He regards life as a never-ending process of dying. The triumph of death is inevitable and this causes existence to be an absurd tragedy. Influenced in this by Buddhist thinkers, he regards death as the origin of philosophy because it makes us think and search for a solution to counter the futility of existence. This inevitability is discussed in Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Red Death. The paper examines the concept of death in the story and the futile human struggle to avoid it. Our needs and lusts and the desire to satisfy those needs which he called the Will to Live make life a pain.  One of the solutions that Schopenhauer proposed in his philosophy towards consolation and to counter our insatiability is asceticism. Poe’s short story which is a long series of profound symbols replicates Schopenhauer’s philosophy and man’s futile attempts to escape death. The only diversion from...

En este trabajo, se analizan las marcas retóricas en periódicos católicos de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX dirigidos a asociaciones de mujeres, que legitiman un discurso donde la pobreza y a la caridad son presentadas como mercancías y vistas como objetos que homogeneizan el gusto de la sociedad, mediante el uso de una publicidad similar a la que se hace para promocionar bienes de consumo. Esto, contrariamente a lo que el catolicismo predica, conformar una sociedad más equitativa, refuerza el incipiente capitalismo implícito en el discurso liberal en la inevitable transición de la sociedad de un sistema colonial al capitalismo. El estudio muestra que estos discursos codifican las interacciones entre diversos segmentos de la población legitimando la existencia de un escalafón social más mercantilizado que refuerza la dependencia entre clases y categorías, y crea nuevos espacios sociales de convivencia de acuerdo al género. De igual forma se analiza la manera en que estos discursos igualan la educación de la mujer con la de un segmento de la población denominado como “el pobre”, en lo que se refiere a contención de sus pasiones, mansedumbre y sumisión.

In this paper, I review the rhetoric used in Catholic newspapers published in the second half of the 19th-Century aimed at female organizations, a rhetoric that legitimizes a discourse in which poverty and charity are viewed as objects that homogenize the tastes of society and presented as commodities marketed much in the same way as other consumer goods. Contrary to the Catholic goal of a more equal society, this rhetoric reinforces the capitalism implicit in the discourse of liberals during society’s inevitable transition from a Colonial system to capitalism. The analysis shows also how these discourses contribute to codify the interactions between different segments of society, legitimizing a commoditized social hierarchy that reinforces dependency between classes and categories and delimits new spaces for coexistence according to gender. Finally, the paper calls attention to how this rhetoric is used to educate women, like the poor, by training them to be meek and submissive and to keep their passions under control.

Serious Examination of the Use of Language by the Trojan Horse and Other Short Stories is the main objective of this review, which was originally intended to analyze the quality of his artistic work and demonstrate its contribution to literary development. This work aims to serve as a bridge between readers and writers, concentrating on the choice of words and metaphorical methods. The book attempts to examine the strengths and limitations of word use and metaphors, based on the theoretical foundations that have been compiled.

Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan (1956), a quintessential post-colonial novel and a lucid modern classic - is based on the societal conditions and upheavals of during and post-liberation Pak - Indo subcontinent in 1947. Having set the plot of his novel in a fictional Punjabi village 'Mano Majra' - located near to the India - Pakistan border, Singh attempted to analyze how human relationships change in a tormented - apocalyptic society. However, this paper aims at studying how in an overtly masculine society as portrayed in the novel, amidst the fright of religious persecution, sexualized violence, the fallaciousness of mob rule, and formation of new identities via displacement - two of the novel's main female characters - Nooran, who is sexually subjugated within the text, and Haseena Begum, who uses her bodily charm to meet her days ends, stand out differently due to the disparity in their social orientations, and life choices. To explore the posed query, this pa...

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