El objetivo en esta investigación es analizar los diversos intentos que han tenido lugar a partir de la década de 1980. El proceso de negociación de paz exige, según el debate académico, tres...Show moreEl objetivo en esta investigación es analizar los diversos intentos que han tenido lugar a partir de la década de 1980. El proceso de negociación de paz exige, según el debate académico, tres condiciones esenciales: los conceptos de legitimidad, justicia y actores internacionales. Este análisis hace referencia a estos tres conceptos de acuerdo a lo elaborado por diferentes autores, aclarando que se trata de entender cómo estos tres conceptos se presentan en otros casos y específicamente en el caso de las FARC.Show less
Throughout time, the legend of King Arthur has been adapted and exploited to meet the needs of each era; each era has its own King Arthur. In this thesis the focus will be on how the legend lends...Show moreThroughout time, the legend of King Arthur has been adapted and exploited to meet the needs of each era; each era has its own King Arthur. In this thesis the focus will be on how the legend lends itself to such manipulation and adaptation and in what ways the legend has been adapted to suit changing political times. From the start of the Early Middle Ages, the legend of King Arthur was firmly established in society and many medieval writers embellished the legend. Authors like Chretien de Troyes and Thomas Mallory enriched the legend, subtly imposing the conflicts of their time onto the legend. After falling from popularity in the Early Modern era the legend was to experience a revival of interest in the 19th and 20th centuries. The portrayal of Arthur throughout each era differs spectacularly and sheds light on contemporary political issues, as the outside world feeds into the view. This in turn calls attention to my research question; how does the portrayal of Arthur in different eras relate to the outside political world and concerns of the time? My provisional thesis statement is that the legend of Arthur has been adapted throughout time to express and relate the needs and concerns of different eras. In order to answer my research question I will make use of several primary texts from the Middle Ages, Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae, Thomas Mallory’s Le Morte D’Arthur and the poem the Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle and compare them with texts from the 19th and 20th century. In particular, Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Tennyson’s Idylls of the King and T.H. White’s The Once and Future King. I will carry out a historically and culturally contextualised analysis of the portrayal of Arthur and his knights in each era that will explain the differing ways in which they are presented.Show less
Corruption is a popular topic subject to much generalisation and debate over issues of morality, democracy and economy, but rarer are true categorisations that seek to label different types of...Show moreCorruption is a popular topic subject to much generalisation and debate over issues of morality, democracy and economy, but rarer are true categorisations that seek to label different types of corruption and analyse them as having the potential for good and bad. This paper devises four categories of corruption: selfish, political advantage, economic advantage, and functional, then studies their impact and response to anti-corruption measures within Southeast Asia.Show less
Deze masterscriptie bestaat uit inleidende hoofdstukken en een diplomatische en geannoteerde editie van ‘Journael Van mijne reijse door Duijtslant, ende Jtalien, naer Vranckrijck Ao. i666 en i667’....Show moreDeze masterscriptie bestaat uit inleidende hoofdstukken en een diplomatische en geannoteerde editie van ‘Journael Van mijne reijse door Duijtslant, ende Jtalien, naer Vranckrijck Ao. i666 en i667’. Een reisverslag waarvan de schrijver onbekend is. Als eerste is er gekeken of de beschreven reis een 'grand tour' is. Daarnaast zijn er aanknopingspunten gezocht om de auteur te achterhalen. Daarvoor is gebruik gemaakt van een onderzoek naar de provenance, aanwijzingen in de tekst en taalkundige kenmerken. Er zijn fonologische en morfologische kenmerken bekeken om de regio van herkomst aan te wijzen.Show less
In daily life, we speak of ‘waiting for inspiration’, for instance when starting with a new work of art. However, it is not clear what this means. Is it possible to lie on a couch and literally...Show moreIn daily life, we speak of ‘waiting for inspiration’, for instance when starting with a new work of art. However, it is not clear what this means. Is it possible to lie on a couch and literally wait for inspiration to come? And if inspiration is indeed such a passive process, what does this tell us about our own responsibility? This thesis therefore focuses on inspiration and its relation to control and (moral) responsibility. Firstly, I will discuss the phenomenon ‘inspiration’ by means of the multi-disciplinary literature search that I conducted. Secondly, I will place the subject of inspiration in the debate on control and (moral) responsibility. I will conclude that popular notions (such as ‘alternative possibilities’ or ‘reason-responsiveness’) are difficult to apply to inspiration. Inspiration seems to be a ‘curious case’; the relation to control and responsibility is not easily defined.Show less
De mirakelboeken van St. William of Norwich zijn in het derde kwart van de twaalfde eeuw samengesteld door de Benedictijner monnik Thomas of Monmouth. De mirakelverhalen die hierin zijn opgenomen...Show moreDe mirakelboeken van St. William of Norwich zijn in het derde kwart van de twaalfde eeuw samengesteld door de Benedictijner monnik Thomas of Monmouth. De mirakelverhalen die hierin zijn opgenomen kunnen iets vertellen over het dagelijks leven van de middeleeuwse mens. Met behulp van een analyse van de mirakelverhalen, staan in dit onderzoek ziekte en genezing centraal.Show less
Een geannoteerde vertaling van 'Biteki seikatsu wo ronzu' ('Over een esthetisch leven' 1901) van Takayama Chogyu. Voorafgegaan door een inleiding waarin de auteur wordt geintroduceerd en het...Show moreEen geannoteerde vertaling van 'Biteki seikatsu wo ronzu' ('Over een esthetisch leven' 1901) van Takayama Chogyu. Voorafgegaan door een inleiding waarin de auteur wordt geintroduceerd en het artikel binnen de ontwikkelingen in zijn denken wordt geplaatst. Hierbij worden de uiteenlopende invloeden op zijn werk besproken.Show less
Research master thesis | Literary Studies (research) (MA)
open access
Digital games provide a fruitful comparison to ideologies due to their resemblance to ideologies as an organizing structures entered into; as well as due to their serving as a systematic test case...Show moreDigital games provide a fruitful comparison to ideologies due to their resemblance to ideologies as an organizing structures entered into; as well as due to their serving as a systematic test case for alternatively organized (ideological) worlds. They do so perhaps more than linear narrative media, as game-play presents both fictional worlds, systems and spect-actors whom are present as participatory agents. By addressing the structural parallels between ideology and digital games as organizations of quasi-natural conventions, I argue in this thesis that games have the capacity to model, propose and reflect on ideologies. Comparing roughly twenty years of scholarship on ideological play, ludology, narratology, game design, proceduralism and play-centred studies, I argue that games dynamically present stylized simulations of a possible world, occurring to the subject of play in a here-and-now that at once grants autonomy while doing so in a paradoxically rigid structure of affordances, constraints and desires. That subject of play, meanwhile, is split between played subject (the presented avatar and the game’s content); the playing subject as demanded by the ludic power structure of rules; and the interpreting subject that is tasked to understand and inform the process of game-play. Through close analyses of Cart Life, the Stanley Parable and Spec Ops: the Line I argue for game-play as a dialectical process, beyond academic scholarship that posits either games as procedural systems of interpellation or play as mythical unrestrained creativity. An understanding of game-play as dialectical process akin to the relation between subjects and ideological power structures furthermore demands a recognition of the critical potential of game-play. Through theatrical techniques of enstrangement, game-play may reveal uncritical familiarity with the quasi-natural conventions of ideology – be they generic, social or political.Show less
This thesis explores the relationship between censorship of the authoritarian government of early modern Japan and the sharebon and kibyoshi sub-genres of gesaku literature, with reference to M.E....Show moreThis thesis explores the relationship between censorship of the authoritarian government of early modern Japan and the sharebon and kibyoshi sub-genres of gesaku literature, with reference to M.E. Berry's notion of the private public sphere (1998), and compares the situation of these literary sub-genres with the situation of ukiyo-e prints.Show less
This thesis focuses on the Ottoman-Russian diplomatic encounters which took place in Livadia, Crimea in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The welcoming delegations constituted an imperial...Show moreThis thesis focuses on the Ottoman-Russian diplomatic encounters which took place in Livadia, Crimea in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The welcoming delegations constituted an imperial tradition and these diplomatic encounters not only attest the dynastic rivalry of dominance over Black Sea region but also refer to the interactions between the two empires. By revealing the ways in which the bureaucratic encounters reflected the Ottoman-Russian political rivalry, this thesis contributes to the discussion on how the Ottoman Empire’s bureaucratic cadre perceived the Russian Empire and the diplomatic encounters. This research analyzes the implications of the Livadia reports as expressions of foreign relations and their value with respect to the transforming bureaucratic system in the late Ottoman Empire. The thesis also examines the imperial rivalry and symbolism which arises from the Livadia reports in relation to political issues at stake between the two empires. In addition, this thesis identifies two bilateral concerns underlying the imperial rivalry and symbolism; naval concerns and concerns over minorities.Show less
This thesis discusses rehabilitation for the mentally ill in Japan. Though not completely new to Japan, rehabilitation as a method is only slowly progressing despite several researches that have...Show moreThis thesis discusses rehabilitation for the mentally ill in Japan. Though not completely new to Japan, rehabilitation as a method is only slowly progressing despite several researches that have shown positive results come from rehabilitation. A light is shown on the current situation from the viewpoint of the government, the patients and the family in order to clarify the reason for this slow progress of rehabilitation in Japan.Show less
Une des sources utilisées par Jean de La Fontaine pour ses Fables, est le recueil de fables Cento Favole Morali (1570) de l'auteur vénitien Giovan Mario Verdizzotti. Il y a quatre fables de La...Show moreUne des sources utilisées par Jean de La Fontaine pour ses Fables, est le recueil de fables Cento Favole Morali (1570) de l'auteur vénitien Giovan Mario Verdizzotti. Il y a quatre fables de La Fontaine pour lesquelles nous avons pu établir qu’elles ont été inspirées par Verdizzotti : Le Coq et le Renard (II, 15), Le Loup devenu Berger (III, 3), L’Aigle et le Hibou (V, 18) et Le Cochet, le Chat et le Souriceau (VI, 5). Ces fables font toutes partie du premier recueil, Fables choisies mises en vers (livres I à VI). Nous nous sommes proposée de faire une analyse comparative des deux versions de chaque fable. En comparant les textes, il est possible de mieux apprécier l'originalité de La Fontaine, qui réside justement, dans la réécriture.Show less
