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Gonzalo, P. Rodrigo. "HPC scheduling in a brave new world." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-132983.
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Many breakthroughs in scientific and industrial research are supported by simulations and calculations performed on high performance computing (HPC) systems. These systems typically consist of uniform, largely parallel compute resources and high bandwidth concurrent file systems interconnected by low latency synchronous networks. HPC systems are managed by batch schedulers that order the execution of application jobs to maximize utilization while steering turnaround time. In the past, demands for greater capacity were met by building more powerful systems with more compute nodes, greater transistor densities, and higher processor operating frequencies. Unfortunately, the scope for further increases in processor frequency is restricted by the limitations of semiconductor technology. Instead, parallelism within processors and in numbers of compute nodes is increasing, while the capacity of single processing units remains unchanged. In addition, HPC systems’ memory and I/O hierarchies are becoming deeper and more complex to keep up with the systems’ processing power. HPC applications are also changing: the need to analyze large data sets and simulation results is increasing the importance of data processing and data-intensive applications. Moreover, composition of applications through workflows within HPC centers is becoming increasingly important. This thesis addresses the HPC scheduling challenges created by such new systems and applications. It begins with a detailed analysis of the evolution of the workloads of three reference HPC systems at the National Energy Research Supercomputing Center (NERSC), with a focus on job heterogeneity and scheduler performance. This is followed by an analysis and improvement of a fairshare prioritization mechanism for HPC schedulers. The thesis then surveys the current state of the art and expected near-future developments in HPC hardware and applications, and identifies unaddressed scheduling challenges that they will introduce. These challenges include application diversity and issues with workflow scheduling or the scheduling of I/O resources to support applications. Next, a cloud-inspired HPC scheduling model is presented that can accommodate application diversity, takes advantage of malleable applications, and enables short wait times for applications. Finally, to support ongoing scheduling research, an open source scheduling simulation framework is proposed that allows new scheduling algorithms to be implemented and evaluated in a production scheduler using workloads modeled on those of a real system. The thesis concludes with the presentation of a workflow scheduling algorithm to minimize workflows’ turnaround time without over-allocating resources.Work also supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) and we used resources at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, supported by the Officece of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy, both under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
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Kretzer, Leonilda Campestrini. "Brave new world & 1984: a comparison." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2013. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/106253.
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Chizmar, Paul Christopher. "Miranda's Dream Perverted: Dehumanization in Huxley's Brave New World." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1335827209.
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Kylin, Sebastian. "Brave New World : Blind Perception of the Early 20th Century." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-66354.
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Huxley’s Brave New World portrays a futuristic hyperbole of mankind’s future as a result of technological advancements. From a New Historical perspective, this essay examines how BNW satirizes contemporary society by satire where the audience is both a part of the problem and solution. Through the use of satire Huxley’s novel successfully portrays horrific examples of how human life in a not so distant future may find that the technology which revolutionized our lives actually enslaves us. Post-novel examples such as Hitler and his Nazi regime is a real life example of the type of totalitarian regime that is possible as a direct result of scientific progress in many fields. In this paper, however, posterity is excluded from the analysis. Instead this essay focuses on the contemporary society as depicted in early 20th century literature and how it reflects identifiable satirical elements in BNW. The analysis depicts how several discourses of contemporary industrialized Britain such as rationalism, socialism, industrialism, freedom, religion and political indifference are reflected in the novel. Ultimately, Huxley’s dystopian reflection of human future taunts us, the audience, by directly and indirectly illuminating the dangers of blindly accepting scientific advancements in the name of progress. The one, perhaps most relevant question the novel raises is – are we truly free when we are free to have the most wonderful time?
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Bai, Di. "A feminist brave new world : the cultural revolution model theater revisited." Connect to resource, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1129217899.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 1997.Advisors: Kirk Denton and Marlene Longenecker, Interdisciplinary Program. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 196-202). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Larsson, Mats. "Brave New World. : The Paths towards a Neolithic Society in Southern Scandinavia." Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, KV, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-24676.
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The building of a house, or a monument, involves an important change, which significantly alters people’s roles in the landscape and their view of it. Places could be seen as unique and socially constructed. The naming of places confirms the significance of particular locations. Since the 1980´s a mass of new Early Neolithic material has been uncovered. One of the most important discoveries has been the long houses. After 1986, when the first one was excavated at Mossby in southernmost Scania several similar houses have been identified. Many of the earliest Funnel Beaker sites like Oxie, Svenstorp, Värby and Månasken are made up of different types of pits and almost nothing else The pits, like on for example the large site Svenstorp and Månasken in SW Scania, are often layered meaning that they were actually recut and reused. Large amounts of flints debris are found in the pits, but also obviously unused implements like flake axes, flake scrapers and in some cases even complete axes and vessels.NW Europe in Transition
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Illerhag, Erik. "Life or Death: Biopower and Racism in Huxley´s Brave New World." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Engelska, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-26762.
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Aldous Huxley´s Brave New World describes how a totalitarian power has taken control over both body and mind of the whole population. A hierarchical caste system, where a person´s role in society is predetermined long before birth, maintains stability together with brain-washing methods and propaganda. Huxley expressed his fears of what might happen if science was used for the wrong purposes, and wrote his futuristic novel Brave New World in the beginning of the 1930s, inspired by the turbulent world around him. It was a time preoccupied with race and classification of populations, which ended in the disastrous Holocaust. Huxley´s novel is equally important today when eugenics is on the comeback and democracy is challenged by nationalist and populist movements. This essay will consist of a close reading of Brave New World, analyzed from the perspective of the theories of French philosopher Foucault. He launched his concept of biopower in the 1970s, where he linked a negative use of controlling citizens with state racism. The focus of this essay will be to explore how biopower and racism are used by the totalitarian state in the novel to maintain control of the population. The argument will be made that racism, internal division and exclusion are vital tools to achieve that purpose.
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Janney, Michael William. ""A brave new world?" a study of the disappearing boundaries between entertainment and hard news /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2007. https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=5438.
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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2007.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 108 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-108).
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Franzén, Martin. "Deconstructing Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World’s Ambiguous Portrayal of the future." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-70827.
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This research presents a deconstructive analysis of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World. As a literary work, it is most commonly considered a dystopian visualisation of the future of modern civilisation. This essay reveals a more ambiguous reading of Brave New World by deconstructing and presenting the aspects of the novel which pertain to the classification of the novel as both dystopian and utopian simultaneously. This conclusion of ambiguity is presented to negate any notion that the novel can be classified as a definitive representation of either a utopian or a dystopian portrayal of the future.
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Fredriksson, Erik. "The Human Animal : An Ecocritical View of Animal Imagery in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-23625.
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The early twentieth century saw the beginning of modern environmentalism. Intellectuals dreamed up solutions to the world’s problems and hoped for a better future being made possible by advances in science and technology. However, Aldous Huxley produced Brave New World which, as this essay argues, mocks the enthusiasm of his intellectual peers. The dystopian novel depicts a future in which technology dehumanizes the population, and uses a great deal of animal imagery to make this point. This essay analyses the use of animal imagery from an ecocritical perspective arguing that the “pathetic fallacy” is reversed. By examining the use of biotechnology and central planning in the novel, and applying the ecocritical perspective that humanity and nature are part of a whole, this essay argues that society resembles a farm for human animals, which is partly expressed by Huxley’s use of the image of a bee colony. The argument is presented that Huxley satirizes his environmentally concerned peers by depicting a totalitarian state which, though unconcerned with environmental issues, echoes the eco-fascist methods proposed by the author’s friends and family.
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Harris, Clea D. "The Germ Theory of Dystopias: Fears of Human Nature in 1984 and Brave New World." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/699.
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This project is an exploration of 20th century dystopian literature through the lens of germ theory. This scientific principle, which emerged in the late 19th century, asserts that microorganisms pervade the world; these invisible and omnipresent germs cause specific diseases which are often life threatening. Additionally, germ theory states that vaccines and antiseptics can prevent some of these afflictions and that antibiotics can treat others. This concept of a pervasive, invisible, infection-causing other is not just a biological principle, though; in this paper, I argue that one can interpret it as an ideological framework for understanding human existence as a whole. Particularly, I believe that authors of prominent 20th century dystopian novels applied the tenets of germ theory in order to explore the potential “pathogens” that furtively exist within the human mind. These pseudo-germs are various human tendencies that, when left “untreated” by governments, create nonnormative members of society. In the eyes of dystopian regimes, it is precisely this nonnormativity that poses a lethal threat, in that it challenges the continued existence of society with the current ruling body at the helm. In this paper, I trace love (both sexual and familial) and individuation (as a function of social hierarchy, recreational activities, and the use of language) as social disease-causing pathogens in George Orwell’s 1984 and in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
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Arvidsson, Jessica. "I frestarens grepp : En arketypanalytisk undersökning av temat manipulation med utgångspunkt i Karin Boyes Kallocain." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-14380.
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I den här uppstatsen undersöker jag temat manipulation. Jag tittar på vad det har för inverkan på berättelsers utformning samt om det finns andra teman som ofta kombineras med manipulationstemat. Min utgångspunkt är Karin Boyes Kallocain och därifrån kommer jag dra paralleller till William Shakespeares Othello och Aldous Huxleys Brave New World. Genom att vända mig till just de här två berättelserna får jag en inblick i såväl genretillhörighet som temats utveckling över tid. Uppsatsens teoretiska utgångspunkt är C.G. Jungs teori om det kollektiva omedvetna med mänskliga grundläggande urbilder som återkommer i arketyper. Resultatet är ett grundläggande händelseförlopp och en insikt om den djupare mänskliga samhörighet som berättelsernas hjältar först inte vågar tro existerar.
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Desjardins, Olivier. "A BRAVE NEW BUILDING. Réédition expérimentale et design d'information." Thesis, Université Laval, 2010. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2010/27118/27118.pdf.
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Santos, Julio Cezar Colbeich dos. "A Brave new world: formas atuais de distribuição de produtos comunicacionais através da comunidade heroes Brasil." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2011. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/3269.
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A presente pesquisa busca compreender as transformações e adaptações realizadas pelos participantes da Heroes Brasil com intuito de manter, organizar, aumentar o número de usuários e comunicar sobre a comunidade que é um fórum de discussão sobre o seriado televisivo Heroes no Orkut. A pesquisa utiliza-se da Netnografia como metodologia para observar o objeto empírico que tem como um de seus principais atrativos a distribuição dos episódios da série por meio da Internet. Os eixos teóricos estão divididos em Redes Sociais, Convergência de Mídias, Consumo e Identidades. Eles são analisados sob uma perspectiva em que todos interagem entre si. Não havendo importância maior para um eixo específico, nem mesmo sobre os diferentes atores que participam do fenômeno comunicacional, bem como suas adaptações e contradições.
This research seeks to understand the changes and adjustments made by participants of Heroes Brasil in order to maintain, organize, increase the number of users and communicate about community, a discussion forum about the television series Heroes on Orkut. The study utilizes the netnography methodology to observe the empirical object that has as one of its main attractions, the distribution of episodes of the series through the Internet. Theoretical contributions are divided into Social Networking, Convergence Media, Consumption and Identity. The themes are analyzed from a perspective in which all axes interact and the different actors involved in the communicational phenomenon have the same relevance, as well their adaptations and contradictions.
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Burgmann, Mark J. "Fearing an inhuman(e) future the unliterary or illiterate dystopia of Aldous Huxley's Brave new world /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/3612.
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Moors, Amkiram. "“O Brave New World, That Has Such Critics In’t”: An Argumentative Essay on Criticism of The Tempest." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-99794.
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Shakespeare criticism has been a rapidly evolving field of literary studies. Scholars such as Francis Barker and Peter Hulme, Meredith Anne Skura, Stanley Wells, Harold Bloom and Sidney Shanker have continuously developed new theories and dismissed previous theories. In this essay, I discuss the negative results of such attitudes and the problems of “over-reading”, in the critiques which are based on the following theories: the post-colonial, psychoanalytical, biographical and ideological. I elaborate on the relevant arguments and issues within literary critique mentioned by Michael Taylor in his book Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century. To create a common ground for the theories, I have used critical texts concerning William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. I find that while all forms of literary critique have flaws, the theories also contribute valuable insights for further readings. I maintain that combining several forms of literary critique when analysing a text will create a more complex and in-depth reading, impossible to achieve through a singular critical theory.
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Wavre, Robert Andre Auchmuty. "How brave should the new world be? : a study in constructivism, consequentialism and the theory of value." Thesis, University of York, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424581.
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Dündar, Hayri. "Dystopia as a vital peek into the future : The importance of dispatching antiquated morals and establishing new ethics." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-14737.
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This essay analyzes and tries to untangle the meaning and intention of dystopian literature, by analyzing two novels (Neal Shusterman‟s “Unwind” and Aldous Huxley‟s “Brave New World”). From this analysis, whether or not the futures portrayed in dystopian literature relate to our own future is riddled out, furthermore the importance of the authors‟ intention is debated and a conclusion is reached. As the dystopian future unravels, ethnicity, gender, class and sexual orientation, to mention a few factors, find their own place in the new world; this essay tries to establish their roles in the new society. When discussing the characters in the novels, Bourdieu‟s theories on fields, habitus and social capital are used to figure out what they are competing for and in what ways they struggle for the reward. Furthermore, the development of dystopian imagining is discussed and its function as a reflection of contemporary society and the state of science. Delineating the roles of social classes in dystopias is an important task in figuring out whether social power still reduces minorities depending on class or gender. Our antiquated morals and ethics aren‟t suitable anymore and need to be reformed; this is discussed based on dystopian literature and the image of the future. Furthermore, this essay gets into detail with the reduction of man and by what means we are enslaved and made to believe in the faux utopias. In the end, the conclusion reached is that dystopian literature delivers a hefty and important point that needs to be heeded and used as a rare look into the future.
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Volcato, Jose Carlos Marques. "Piling up logs in a brave new world : brazilian invisibility abroad and the genesis of Shakespeare's The Tempest." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/10759.
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O objetivo desta tese de doutorado é apresentar um mapeamento do texto de A Tempestade, de William Shakespeare, de modo a identificar trechos, desdobramentos do enredo e detalhes intrigantes que possam ser relacionados a uma possível fonte, ou possíveis fontes, a que Shakespeare possa ter tido acesso no processo de elaboração de sua peça, sobre as incursões no Norte da África e no Brasil de Nicolas Durand, Cavalheiro de Villegaignon. Proponho que a ilha de Próspero seja lida como um composto de elementos do Mediterrâneo e do Novo Mundo no qual informações sobre a vida de Villegaignon e sua presença em Argel e na França Antártica (atualmente Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) desempenham papel importante e ainda não completamente explorado pela crítica. Também aponto que o texto de A Tempestade mantém diálogo consistente com fatos biográficos, imagens, o simbolismo e a geografia relacionados à vida do Imperador Carlos V, e a identificação mais completa de Nicolas Durand, Chevalier de Villegaignon pode contribuir para tornar esse nível de referência mais evidente. Também discuto possíveis razões por que uma peça que possui tantos detalhes que se relacionam ao Imperador Carlos V nunca faz referência explícita a esta importante figura histórica. As razões pelas quais tais conexões permaneceram parcialmente despercebidas, ou pelo menos não totalmente exploradas, em um campo de estudo que produz tanto trabalho crítico e editorial como os estudos shakespearianos são apresentadas através do conceito de “invisibilidade brasileira no exterior”, conceito este que caracterizei e busquei formular como uma teoria de recepção cultural de produtos e referências brasileiros no exterior. Busquei ainda uma apresentação de elementos de estudos de fontes anteriores e da fortuna crítica sobre o tema que podem contribuir para uma discussão atualizada das práticas composicionais shakespearianas e de suas repercussões teóricas junto a diferentes vertentes dos estudos shakespearianos como prática de crítica literária. A essa discussão segue-se uma exploração crítica de como o interesse de Shakespeare e sua inquestionável dívida com o ensaio “Sobre os Canibais” de Montaigne poderia ter-se estendido a outros fatos da biografia de Villegaignon que muito provavelmente estavam à disposição do dramaturgo inglês. Minha leitura de A Tempestade foi baseada na única versão da peça de Shakespeare que tem autoridade, aquela publicada no Primeiro Fólio de 1623, e também em contribuições encontradas nas melhores edições críticas modernas da mesma.The aim of this doctoral thesis is to present a mapping of the text of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest so as to establish textual passages, plot developments, and puzzling details that might be related to a possible source or sources on the North African and Brazilian exploits of Nicolas Durand, Chevalier de Villegaignon to which Shakespeare might have had access in the process of writing the play. I propose that Prospero’s island is a composite of Mediterranean and New World elements in which information about the life of Villegaignon and his presence both in Algiers and in Antarctic France (nowadays Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) plays an important and as yet not fully explored role. I also claim that the text of The Tempest is consistently in dialogue with biographical facts, imagery, symbolism and the geography which relate to the life of The Emperor Charles V, and the full recognition of Nicolas Durand, Chevalier de Villegaignon may contribute to make this broader pattern clearer. I also discuss possible reasons why a play that has so many details that relate to The Emperor Charles V never explicitly refers to such an important historical figure. The discussion of reasons why these connections have remained partially unnoticed or at least not fully explored in a field that generates so much critical and editorial work such as Shakespeare Studies is perfected through a presentation of ‘Brazilian invisibility abroad’, a concept that I have characterised and tried to formulate into a theory of cultural reception of Brazilian cultural products and references abroad. I also presented elements found in previous source studies and the critical fortune of the subject which can contribute to an updated discussion of Shakespearian compositional practice and its theoretical repercussions in different approaches to Shakespeare Studies as literary critical practice. This is followed by an exploration of how Shakespeare’s interest in and indisputable indebtedness to Montaigne’s essay ‘Of the Cannibals’ could have extended to other facts of Villegaignon’s biography that are very likely to have been available to the English playwright. I have based my reading of The Tempest in the only authoritative version of the text, that which was published in the 1623 First Folio, as well as in contributions found in the best modern scholarly editions of the play.
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Naudé, Bernard. "The portrayal of subjectivity in selected dystopian novels." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79906.
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In his Truth and Method, Gadamer explains that subjectivity is the everyday understanding that allows us to engage with the world. Gadamer identifies three main aspects that effect our understanding, namely history, language and dialogue. Dystopian fiction is in a unique position to portray how systems of societal control affect and effect understanding, and thus subjectivity, because dystopian fiction primarily explores societies rather than only individuals.
This dissertation applies Gadamer’s framework of subjectivity to George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World to analyse their portrayals of subjectivity critically. Huxley’s imagined world of test-tube births, rampant consumerism, feelies and orgy-porgies depicts a subjectivity that is nearly completely controlled through the manipulation of history, language and dialogue, with the exception of a few rebellious characters. But Orwell’s Oceania is far grimmer, and the systems of control in place to manipulate history, language and dialogue create a harsh environment in which Winston Smith, the protagonist, struggles to assert his individuality, his own subjectivity, until the liberating sexual relationship he has with Julia. Although both novels depict stringent measures of control, the possibility of rebellion is present in the worlds depicted in both novels, suggesting that despite the manipulation around subjectivity’s three main pillars, as identified by Gadamer, something else provides the impetus for the characters’ understanding of rebellion. Therefore, the study also analyses the characters’ pre-understandings, as explained by Nietzsche and Heidegger, as sources for a wider framework. Through the novels’ portrayals of rebellion, these pre-understandings are shown to complement and inform Gadamer’s framework of subjectivity.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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Kringstad, Johan. "From Alphas to Epsilons : A study of eugenics and social caste in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World from a biographicalperspective." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-62645.
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AbstractThis essay discusses the concepts of eugenics and social caste in Brave New Worldin relation to Aldous Huxley, from a biographical perspective. The essay analyzes how events and personal relationships of Aldous Huxley have influenced the depiction of the concepts social caste and eugenics in his novel Brave New World. Using sources which recount the travels and the personal encounters that Aldous Huxley made throughout his life, this essay makes comparisons and draws conclusions as to how these eventsand relationshipshave affected the depiction of social caste and eugenics in Brave New World
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Buchiu, Cristian. "Welcome to the brave new world inquiries on the gains and losses of modernity from a post-Byzantine Orthodox perspective /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Rebelo, Maria Raquel de Gouveia Durão Pina. "Entre a civilização e a selvajaria : os estereótipos do nativo americano e o selvagem de Brave New World de Aldous Huxley." Master's thesis, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/14514.
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A presente dissertação apresenta, num primeiro momento, um estudo dos estereótipos do Ameríndio - nomeadamente o Bom-Selvagem e o canibal feroz e amoral -, formados pela mente branca europeia e americana numa atitude de contraponto entre culturas. Este estudo, baseado em textos representativos de várias épocas, serve de base à deconstrucção satírica que aldous Huxley faz desses estereótipos e à subversão das categorias discursivas oposicionais nas quais eles assentam e que levaram à distinção entre a selvajaria e um mundo dito civilizado. Através da personagem John, the Savage na obra em estudo, o autor irá relativizar os conceitos de primitivismo e progressivismo, bem como as idealizações e posições extremistas quanto à américa e seus nativos.
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Kringstad, Johan. "From Alphas to Epsilons : A study of eugenics and social caste in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World from a biographical perspective." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-62584.
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Rebelo, Maria Raquel de Gouveia Durão Pina. "Entre a civilização e a selvajaria : os estereótipos do nativo americano e o selvagem de Brave New World de Aldous Huxley." Dissertação, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 1999. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000101358.
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A presente dissertação apresenta, num primeiro momento, um estudo dos estereótipos do Ameríndio - nomeadamente o Bom-Selvagem e o canibal feroz e amoral -, formados pela mente branca europeia e americana numa atitude de contraponto entre culturas. Este estudo, baseado em textos representativos de várias épocas, serve de base à deconstrucção satírica que aldous Huxley faz desses estereótipos e à subversão das categorias discursivas oposicionais nas quais eles assentam e que levaram à distinção entre a selvajaria e um mundo dito civilizado. Através da personagem John, the Savage na obra em estudo, o autor irá relativizar os conceitos de primitivismo e progressivismo, bem como as idealizações e posições extremistas quanto à américa e seus nativos.
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Rowland, Steffanie. ""One is not born a women; one becomes one" : perpetuating gender roles in the dystopian novels Brave New World and The Giver." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-4877.
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Casagrande, Eduardo Vignatti. ""Each one of us goes through life inside a bottle" : a reading of Brave new world in the light of Zygmunt Bauman's theory." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/141236.
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Esta dissertação propõe uma leitura do romance Admirável Mundo Novo (1932) de Aldous Huxley sob a luz dos conceitos de Zygmunt Bauman da Modernidade Líquida. A narrativa ocorre em uma Londres futurística no século 26, no ano 2540 de nossa Era Comum, ou – na narrativa no ano 632 AF (Após Ford). Subjacente ao cenário distópico de avanço tecnológico e organização altamente desenvolvida, porém, os temas discutidos no romance remetem à circunstância do tempo e lugar de sua produção, o início dos anos 1930, em um contexto de desenvolvimento industrial, tensão política e crise econômica. Nesta pesquisa, eu busco a resposta para a seguinte pergunta: “De quais maneiras a ficção de Huxley antecipa o tipo de sociedade seus leitores vivem no tempo presente, três-quartos de século após sua publicação? Com ajuda das teorias do Professor Zygmunt Bauman, eu construo minha interpretação das metáforas encontradas no romance, que prognosticam as atuais condições de capitalismo de mercado livre, consumismo, obsolescência programada que determinam a ética, a estética e a forma de pensar de nosso tempo presente. As hipóteses de Bauman concernem a liquidez do mundo atual, no qual nada deve durar muito. Esta premissa gera um grande número de consequências, tais como: fragilidade dos laços humanos, pensamento crítico superficial e supremacia dos contatos virtuais sobre ocontato de fato entre as pessoas. A dissertação está dividida em quatro capítulos. No primeiro, eu contextualizo o conceito de distopia. No segundo, eu trago a contextualização necessária sobre o tempo, a obra e o autor. No terceiro, eu introduzo os conceitos de Bauman sobre modernidade sólida e líquida e os conecto com o estudo de Admirável Mundo Novo. No capítulo IV, apresento minha leitura da obra. Ao final da pesquisa, espero encontrar respostas para a questão proposta estabelecendo inter-relações entre os aspectos ficcionais do romance e os traços sociais de nosso tempo atual.The present thesis proposes a reading of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) in the light of Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of Liquid Modernity. The plot of the novel unfolds in the futuristic London of the 26th century, in the year 2540 of our Common Era, or – in the narrative – in the year 632 AF (After Ford). Underlying the dystopian scenario of technological advancement and highly developed organization, however, the themes discussed in the novel actually address the circumstances of the time and place of its own production, the beginning of the 1930’s, in a context of developing industrialization, political tension, and economic crises. In this research, I pursue the answer to the following question: “In what ways does Huxley’s fiction anticipate the kind of society its readers would be living in at our present time, three quarters of a century after its publication?” With the help of Professor Zygmunt Bauman’s theories, I build my interpretation of the metaphors found in the novel, that prognosticate the current conditions of free-market capitalism, consumerism, programmed obsolescence, that determine the ethics, the aesthetics and the ways of thinking of our present times. Bauman’s assumptions concern the liquidity of the contemporary world, where nothing is meant to last long. This premise generates a number of consequences such as overconsumption, frail human bonds, superficial critical thought, and supremacy of online over factual contacts among people. The thesis is devised in three chapters. In the first, I contextualize the concept of dystopia. In the second, I bring the necessary contextualization about the time, the work and the author. In the third, I introduce Bauman’s concepts of solid modernity and liquid modernity and connect them with the study of Brave New World. Finally. In Chapter IV, I present my reading of the novel. At the end of the research, I expect to find the answers to the posed question by establishing critical interrelations between the fictional aspects of the novel and the social features ongoing in our present time.
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Fegert, Kai. ""...to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled" : the role of science and technology in Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and Nineteen Eighty-Four /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 2000. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arf295.pdf.
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Berrios-Ayala, Mark. "Brave New World Reloaded: Advocating for Basic Constitutional Search Protections to Apply to Cell Phones from Eavesdropping and Tracking by Government and Corporate Entities." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1547.
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Imagine a world where someone’s personal information is constantly compromised, where federal government entities AKA Big Brother always knows what anyone is Googling, who an individual is texting, and their emoticons on Twitter. Government entities have been doing this for years; they never cared if they were breaking the law or their moral compass of
human dignity. Every day the Federal government blatantly siphons data with programs from the original ECHELON to the new series like PRISM and Xkeyscore so they can keep their tabs on issues that are none of their business; namely, the personal lives of millions. Our allies are taking note; some are learning our bad habits, from Government Communications Headquarters’ (GCHQ) mass shadowing sharing plan to America’s Russian inspiration, SORM. Some countries are following the United States’ poster child pose of a Brave New World like order of global events. Others like Germany are showing their resolve in their disdain for the rise of tyranny. Soon, these new found surveillance troubles will test the resolve of the American Constitution and its nation’s strong love and tradition of liberty. Courts are currently at work to resolve how current concepts of liberty and privacy apply to the current conditions facing the privacy of society. It remains to be determined how liberty will be affected as well; liberty for the United States of America, for the European Union, the Russian Federation and for the people of the World in regards to the extent of privacy in today’s blurred privacy expectations.B.S.
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Santee, Daniel Derrel. "Modern utopia : a reading of brave new world, nineteen eighty-four, and woman on the edge of time in the light of More's utopia." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 1988. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/75596.
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Nesta dissertação discutem-se as mudanças ocorridas no gênero utópico, a partir da "Utopia" de Tomas Morus, através da análise de três romances modernos: "O Admirável Mundo Novo" de Aldous Axley; "1984", de George Orwell; e "Woman on the Edge of Time", de Maarge Piercy, todos embasados na "Utopia", de Tomas Morus. Na conclusão discute-se o gênero utópico como uma forma sutil de crítica social.
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Touzani, Hamza. "Itinéraires d'Aldous Huxley et de George Orwell à travers l'étude de Brave new world et de Nineteen eighty-four et leurs rapports au contexte actuel." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040205.
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Cette thèse concerne les carrières d'A. Huxley et de G. Orwell à travers l'étude en commun de leurs deux ouvrages respectifs Brave new world et Nineteen eighty-four. Elle incorpore trois parties : la première est consacrée à l'étude des contenus des deux ouvrages. Le premier chapitre étudie les personnages de Brave new world et de Nineteen eighty-four. Le deuxième chapitre traite des valeurs, des visions du monde et des institutions des sociétés futures qu'ils contiennent. La deuxième partie est, elle, consacrée à l'étude des contextes dans lesquels G. Orwell et A. Huxley ont écrit leurs deux romans en question. Le premier chapitre porte sur les biographies des deux auteurs et sur l'influence des contextes socio-politiques sur Brave new world et Nineteen eighty-four. Le deuxième chapitre contient l'étude des influences écrites : littéraires, scientifiques, politiques et philosophiques sur A. Huxley et G. Orwell et leurs œuvres. La troisième partie étudie les rapports de Brave new world et de Nineteen eighty-four au contexte actuel. Le premier chapitre contient une sorte de diagnostic de la société moderne à la lumière des mises en garde et des anticipations de Huxley et d’Orwell ; le deuxième incorpore des solutions et des alternatives (tout en les comparant avec celles des deux écrivains en question) aux diverses crises de la société industrielleThe thesis deals with a study of the literary and intellectual itineraries of Aldous Huxley and Georges Orwell through the analysis of two of their literary works: Brave new world and Nineteen eighty-four. The thesis is divided into three parts, the first of which presents an analysis of the two novels's contents. A discussion of the plots and the characters of brave new world and nineteen eighty-four was provided. In addition to this, a study of the values, visions of the word and the institutions of the futures societies imagined by A. Huxley and G. Orwell has been largely discussed. Concerning the second part which is in itself divided into two chapters, it discusses the social and historical context in which the two authors have written their two novels. More explicitly we find a study of the biographies of the two writers as well as the impact of the socio-historical context on Brave new world and Nineteen eighty-four. Equally important, I have discussed the literary, scientific, philosophical and political influences on A. Huxley and G. Orwell and on their literary products. A study of Brave new world and Nineteen eighty-four's relation to the contemporary society is the theme of the last part. It consists of a diagnostic of the modern society compared to A. Huxley and G. Orwell's anticipations in Brave new world and Nineteen eighty-four
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Kuzmina, Irina. "Inscription du mythe dans le roman français, anglo-saxon et russe du XXe siècle." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005VERS005S.
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La thèse Inscription du mythe dans la littérature française, anglo-saxonne et russe du XXe siècle (" L'Emploi du temps" de Michel Butor, " Brave New World " d'Aldous Huxley et " Lolita " de Vladimir Nabokov) est consacrée à la présence du mythe relevant du sacré dans la littérature occidentale du XXe siècle. Il s'agit d'une étude comparative de la figure du labyrinthe, dont une marque est l'écriture labyrinthique, qui se substitue à trois autres mythes repérés dans les œuvres du corpus : Saturne, représentant l'héritage gréco-romain, Lilith, issue de la culture judéo-biblique et l'Utopie ou la Cité idéale, archétype universel qui connaît bien des avatars en Occident. Une telle comparaison devient possible dans le cadre des études sémiotiques considérant le mythe, système sémiologique second, qui, comme tout langage, se fonde sur le caractère paradigmatique du signeThe thesis Presence of Myth in 20th Century French, American and Russian Literature (Michel Butor's “L'Emploi du temps”, Aldous Huxley's “Brave New World” and Vladimir Nabokov's “Lolita”) is consecrated to the presence of myth referring to the sacred in modern western literature. It is a comparative study of the labyrinth image transcribing itself, in particular, through labyrinth writing, which substitutes itself to three other myths found in the analised novels – Saturn coming from the Latin heritage, Lilith stemming from Biblical and Judaic culture, and Utopia, universal archetype with its countless metamorphosis in Western culture. Such a comparison is possible within the framework of Semiotic studies considering myth, like any language, as a secondary semiological system basing on the paradigmatic nature of the sign
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Wilson, Mark Robert. "Historicizing Maps of Hell." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1115503544.
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Hachtel, Julia. "Die Entwicklung des Genres Antiutopie : Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood, Scott McBain und der Film "Das Leben der Anderen" /." Marburg : Tectum-Verl, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3008882&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Wood, Tanya Caroline. "Brave new worlds?, the gender politics of Margaret Cavendish's primary and secondary realms." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ58971.pdf.
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Leth, Corina. "What is the Meaning of Meaningless sex in Dystopia?" Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-16223.
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The aim of this essay is to provide an answer to the question "What is the Meaning of Meaningless sex in Dystopia?". It will show that meaningful concepts such as sexual satisfaction, pleassure, passion, love, bonding, procreation and family are handled as threats in dystopian societies described in well-known novels as We, Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four . It will explain how the conflict between the collective and the individual influences peoples' sexuality. It will also show how leading powers in the three dystopian societies use different methods to remove the significanse and functions of sex. It will suggest meaningless sex is a means to control the masses in a collective and that meaningful sex is an act of rebelion against the state..
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Bessa, Maria de Fatima de Castro. "Individuation in Aldous Huxley's Brave New Word and Island: Jungian and Post-Jungian Perspectives." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-73QMQ3.
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Aldous Huxley´s novels Brave New Word (1932) and Island (1962) share utopian/dystopian tradition, depicting imaginary societies and solutions for the basic problems of the human existence, with Brave New Word showing a catastrophic view of a society of the future and Island an optimistic one. Both novels present a marked concern for the way the social organisation affects the indiviual and his quest for self-realisation. This point allows us to analyse them using C.C Jung´s theory of archetypes and examine how far the novels ilustrate the process of individuation. This process, accoridng to Jung, conducts us towards becoming whole individuals, and eache of its steps is associated with a certain archetype that presents specific characteristics. The archetypes of indiviuation are the persona, the shadow, the wise old man and wise old woman, and the self, and since it is the ego that deals with the problems these archetypes raised, it has been included in the analysis as well. The investigation compares the features of these archetypes with certain elements in the novels, notably characterisation, plot, and setting, and shows that there are similarities as well as discrepancies. According to classical Jungian tehory, is possible to establish thar Island showd a better illustration of a person's journey towards indifviduation than Brave New Word. Post-Jungian theorists have revised some of Jung's concepts, giving a different view of the archetypes and of the process of individuation itself, and in this case, Island seems to be closer to these new formulations than Brave New Word. Individuation, ins this case, does not refer to an ain to be achived at end of your life, but to a series of meaningful experiences throughout life. Finally, it is also possible to establish a connection between the way the process of individuation is show in the two novels and the social context in which they were written .
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Dunphy, Patricia. "Den nya generationen: Dystopisk reproduktion : En tematisk genusanalys av Karin Boyes Kallocain, Aldous Huxleys Du sköna nya värld och George Orwells 1984." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-5700.
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The three dystopian novels Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Kallocain by Karin Boye and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell have been highly discussed amongst literary critics and scholars. Although these works are well-known, some themes have had very little or no recognition. Biological reproduction is a recurring subject in dystopian literature. Although it is not the main theme in the novels, it is a very important part in dystopian culture and dystopian society. By focusing on reproduction and the structure of gender roles in these three dystopias, I hope to bring to light something that's been in the shadows for a long time i.e. the women of dystopian society. I will address the role of nature and technology in terms of reproduction by using Pia Maria Ahlbäck's theory of the heterotopia. Later, I will discuss the problems and possibilities of the role of women in biological reproduction.
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Wojciekowski, Mauricio Moraes. "Utopia/distopia e discurso totalitário : uma análise comparativo-discursiva entre Admirável Mundo Novo, de Huxley, e A República, de Platão." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/17521.
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Esta Dissertação de Mestrado examina o tema Utopias/Distopias e o discurso totalitário em duas obras de caráter e gênero distintos: A República, de Platão (Filosofia), e Admirável Mundo Novo, de Aldous Huxley (Literatura). Tendo como objetivo principal a comparação de elementos narrativos, temáticos e ideológicos encontrados nessas duas obras, utiliza como metodologia a análise embasada em referenciais da Literatura Comparada e da Teoria da Literatura (Narratologia e a Tematologia), da Análise do Discurso Francesa, dos estudos da obra de Platão e de estudos sociológicos. Esta análise segue a sequência de apresentação dos pressupostos teóricos, análise das obras de Platão e de Huxley (em seus aspectos internos e externos), para, finalmente, apresentar um quadro comparativo com os discursos totalitários retirados dessas obras - discursos esses que são analisados em pormenores. Por fim, esta Dissertação culmina com a compreensão de que o tema utopia/distopia, e os discursos acerca dele, não se restringe somente à literatura ficcional, mas pode ser encontrado em estudos filosóficos e políticos, e no nosso dia a dia.This thesis examines the theme of Utopia/Dystopia and the totalitarian discourse in two works of different nature and genre: Plato's Republic (a work of Philosophy) and Brave New World (a work of Literature) by Aldous Huxley. The thesis' main objective is to compare narrative, thematic and ideological elements. In order to perform this analysis, the author will make use of methodologies taken from Comparative Literature, Literary Theory (Narratology and Thematology), the French school of Discourse Analysis, studies on Plato's works and sociological studies. After presenting and explaining those theoretical references, the author shall perform an analysis of Plato's and Huxley's works, considering their internal and external aspects; afterwards, a final analysis shall be performed, comparing the totalitarian discourses contained within those works. After examining minutely those discourses, the thesis concludes by stating that the theme of Utopia/Dystopia is not restricted to fictional literature; it can be found, also, within the frame of philosophical and political studies, and in our day-to-day lives.
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Lupold, Eva Marie. "Literary Laboratories: A Cautious Celebration of the Child-Cyborg from Romanticism to Modernism." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1339976082.
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sofi, karlsson, and Thorkatla Dagny Thorarinsdottir. "Development and preliminary validation of a new brace appearance questionnaire : A new instrument to investigate, if idiopathic scoliosis patient’s perception of appearance of their Boston corset would influence their compliance and whether it is in a positive or negative way. (A mixed method study)." Thesis, Hälsohögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, HHJ. Ortopedteknisk plattform, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-45290.
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Aim: To preliminary validate a questionnaire that was developed in this study. The questionnaire was designed to investigate, if patient’s perception of appearance of their Boston corset influences their compliance, in a positive or negative way. Background: Going through brace treatment brings a lot of feelings for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients. Not having a “perfect body” decreases body image and self-esteem. It is highly likely that by changing the patients’ perspective of their brace into liking the appearance of it; the probability of positive compliance will increase in patients. Method: Mixed method approach was used to develop and validate a new questionnaire. The development and validation were done using literature, expert and patient groups. Qualitative data was evaluated, and quantitative data was analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient and Cronbach alpha. Result: Preliminary validated questionnaire was created. The group used for validation were all idiopathic scoliosis patients, four boys and four girls, between the age of 6 and 15 years old. Conclusion and outlook: Further validation of the questionnaire is required before applying on future studies. Preliminary results indicate that patients who like the way they appear in their brace are also compliant.Syfte: Att preliminär validera ett frågeformulär som utvecklades i denna studie. Frågeformuläret var utformat för att undersöka om patientens uppfattning om deras Boston korsett påverkar deras compliance på ett positivt eller negativt sätt. Bakgrund: Att genomgå korsettbehandling innebär många känslor för ungdomar med idiopatisk skolios. Att inte ha en "perfekt kropp" minskar kroppsbilden och självkänslan. Det är högst sannolikt att genom att förändra patienternas perspektiv på deras korsett till att tycka om utseendet på den; så ökar sannolikheten för compliance med positiva känslor. Metod: Mixed Metod användes för att utveckla och validera ett nytt frågeformulär. Utvecklingen och validering gjordes med hjälp av litteratur, expert- och patientgrupper. Kvalitativa data utvärderades och kvantitativa data analyserades med användning av Pearsons korrelationskoefficient och Cronbach alpha. Resultat: Ett preliminärt validerat frågeformulär skapades. Gruppen som användes för validering var idiopatiska skoliospatienter, fyra pojkar och fyra tjejer, mellan 6 och 15 år gamla. Slutsats: Ytterligare validering av frågeformuläret krävs före användning i framtida studier. Preliminära resultat indikerar att patienter som tycker om hur de ser ut i deras korsett också följer compliance med positiva känslor
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Picot, Jean-Pierre. "Contribution à une étude de l'imaginaire chez quelques écrivains des XIXe et XXe siècles." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988CLF20012.
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Autour des voyages extraordinaires de jules verne, cette contribution envisage un corpus dont la coherence se veut d'ordre psycho-thematique : le voyage comme exploration de la mort, et l'ecriture comme voyage fantasmatique. Des lors, le voyage n'est plus seulement le reve d'epuiser les ressources de la mappemonde, mais aussi un reve d'utopies : utopies de l'ailleurs, de l'amour, du futur, d'un accord nature-societe-utopies qui se voient contraintes, devant les ingerences du siecle, a l'exorcisme paradoxal que constituent les diverses contre-utopies : mal moral explore par le recit policier ou le recit fantastique, souvent associes ; mal politique envisage tant en fonction des blocages imposes au desir, que des trop reelles oppressions d'une histoire titubant a l'aveuglette- tandis que la science-fiction tente d'y voir clair dans la stochastique du futur. D'ou la dilection de notre travail pour les differentes formes de la litterature des limites, celle qui, sachant que le monde n'est que notre representation, se soucie peu des normes d'un pseudo-realisme reducteur. Merveilleux, fantastique, science-fiction, utopie et contre-utopie, poesie et exploration du mal sont donc autant de manieres de dire, non pas l'absurdite, mais le sens infini du monde. Que la transcendance debute par l'ecrit, tel fut peut-etre, du premier au dernier de ces textes, notre fil conducteurThis thesis is a corpus centred round jules verne's voyages extraordinaires and its coherence is meant to be psychothematic : travelling is seen as an exploration of death, and writing as an imaginary journey. Thus, travelling is not merely a dream of exhausting what a map of the world may offer, but also a dream of utopias : the utopias of the extraneous, of love, of the future, of a harmony between nature and society - such utopias are forced into the para- doxical exorcism which the various counter-utopias have formed: a moral evil explored by detective of fantastic narratives, a political evil seen as a repre- hension of desires and as the oppression inflicted by history- meanwhile science-fiction tries to see through a hazardous future. Hence our preference for the various aspects of the literature of limits, which, aware that the world is only our weltanschaaumg, is quite heedless of the rules of a reducing pseudo-realism. Therefore, the wonderful, the fantastic, science-fiction, utopias and counter-utopias, poetry and the exploration of death are as many ways of expressing not the preposterousness but the infinite significance of the world. Let transcendency begin with writing, such was, perhaps, our clew, from the first to the last of these texts
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He, Qi, and 何齊. "Welcome to the Brave New World." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ydmytq.
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This thesis consists of two parts: t "Welcome to the Brave New World" (the whole play)and my self-created report.The play focuses on a very ordinary single-child family and describes two other same ordinary single-child families. These nuclear families are healthy, stable and happy, everyone from it close, equal and loving. But such a good life comes at a price. No matter how steady it is, the family is always full of pressures and a desire of breaking free. In every single second, these emotions keep on producing and effecting. By describing these scenarios, this play attempts to explore three basic questions: what it is to maintain a single-child Chinese family? How does the effects of being and having a "only-child" permeate the society, and perhaps, what it might eventually transform to. My self-created report focuses on the analysis of the play, which includes a critique of the play from a literary perspective and a discussion of how to extend a private problem to a more general human experience.Key word: single-child;China;plays;He Qi;Polotics;
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Hsu, Ya-Ping, and 徐雅萍. "A Study of Brave New World in the Light of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96rkbg.
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a novel published in 1932 that predicted the future of humanity. Building on Plato’s Theory of Forms and his political idea of philosopher kings, Brave New World demonstrates how the utopia of Plato’s Republic can be implemented in practice. The main purpose of this thesis is to apply Wittgenstein’s philosophy to show that the utopian World State that exists in Brave New World can end only in failure. Wittgenstein’s counter-argument to Plato is that awakening, not utopia, is the only way to save the world.
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Chiu, Ya-Ching, and 邱雅菁. "The Affirmative Nightmare:The Dystopian Self-Other Relation in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/71424801942149551635.
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Abstract Revered as one of the most essential writers in the twenty century, Huxley successfully prophesizes a futuristic dystopia to his readers by his masterpiece, Brave New World, where human beings are dehumanized under a post-capitalized society due to “enlightened” high-technology. Through the lens of the Enlightenment, infallible technology serves as the essential catalyst that triggers the death of day-dreaming utopia and causes the birth of nightmarish dystopia. Man’s hubris to surpass God’s power enables Him to appear “man-forsaken.” Yet, the consequence of man playing God resembles the catastrophe of the Tower of Babel, allegorized in the Bible: man eventually receives a devastating blow from God just before accomplishing his goal. One cannot help asking, “When mankind holds the key to the secret of God’s creation, does it entail that God’s mystery is thus unveiled?” Numerous dystopian critics and novelists have gloomily forecasted the opening of this “Pandora’s box,” only this time, along with all the world’s evils, Hope escapes as well. This thesis aims to explore how the Self, a rendering of the progress-worshipping Enlightenment, represses the voice of the Other, and pushes itself to a genuine dystopia. In this satirical futuristic allegory, the very return of the Other demonstrates that the aggrandized novelty of the Self orients the Fordian Society toward “regression,” instead of toward “mature adulthood.” In other words, these “zombies” are happy in that they do not know and will never know how tragic their lives really are; their biggest sorrow resides in their impossible awareness of this sorrow. This thesis uses a three-stage deconstructive approach to investigate the complication and subtlety of the dystopian Self-Other relation in Brave New World. Firstly, the Self triumphs to repress the Other. That is, in this section I will discuss the ways how the enlightened Fordian regime reins in its civilians’ hedonism with ubiquitous domination. The New Worldians are convinced that they live in a utopia, an earthly paradise, which mankind has dreamed of inhabiting for centuries. With the perfect help of technology, they assume that they have succeeded in escaping from all others. Secondly, the hierarchy between the Self and the Other will be reversed. The return of the repressed Other, in the form of the Indian Savage Reservation, enters the picture and through one of its members, John, we are able to gain this new perspective on the Fordian society. The dichotomy exposes the false happiness of the Fordian Society, which is sugarcoated by the totalitarian dystopian government. Finally, this binary-opposition relation will be deconstructed. Here, the interdependent relation between the two is elaborated upon, and the affirmative meaning by the challenge of the Other to the Self is demonstrated. With regard to the mysterious element (time), the boundaries between the fixed binary parallels in this book are blurred. This dystopian Self-Other relation issues a warning via the Self’s response to the singular demand of the Other. In a nutshell, the aim of this thesis is to show that what Brave New World offers us is an “affirmative nightmare” which will continue to haunt our logos-oriented progress and civilization in the 21st century.
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Reinhard, Maria. "Brave New World: The Correlation of Social Order and the Process of Literary Translation." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4146.
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This comparative analysis of four different German-language versions of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) shows the correlation between political and socio-cultural circumstances, as well as ideological differences, and translations of the novel.
The first German translation was created by Herberth E. Herlitschka in 1932, entitled Welt – Wohin? Two further versions of it were released in 1950 and 1981. In 1978, the East German publisher Das Neue Berlin published a new translation created by Eva Walch, entitled Schöne neue Welt. My thesis focuses on the first translations by both Herlitschka and Walch, but takes into account the others as well.
The methodological basis is Heidemarie Salevsky’s tripartite model. With its focus on author and work, commissioning institution and translator, it was developed as a tool to determine the factors influencing the process of literary translation. Within this framework, the translations are contextualized within the cultural and political circumstances of the Weimar and German Democratic Republics, including an historical overview of the two main publishers, Insel and Das Neue Berlin. With reference to letters between Herlitschka and his publisher Anton Kippenberg at the Insel Verlag, secured from the Goethe und Schiller Archiv (Stiftung Weimarer Klassik), titles and subtitles as paratextual elements of the Herlitschka versions are examined. An overview of Lawrence Venuti’s and Hans Vermeer’s approaches to the notions of domesticating and foreignizing provides further theoretical tools to assess the translations. Venuti rejects the technique of domesticating translation as, in his opinion, it constitutes an act of violence against the source language, which is contrast with Vermeer’s perspective, according to which the alternatives are equivalent. In Vermeer’s opinion, both the domesticating as well as the foreignizing translation do not destroy the source culture. Another fundamental theoretical principle is Otto Kade’s claim that the affiliation of a translator to a certain social system and identification with a certain ideology are evident in his or her work.
The thesis includes a study of the afterwords in the East German versions, which display an intent to create distance between the society of the novel and that of the translator. These paratexts function as a tool for censorship and at the same time as a means to circumvent it. Chapters 1-4 and 16 is selected for intensive analysis. It becomes obvious that the different socio-political situations influence the outcome of the translations. One of the most striking differences between them, Herlitschka’s translocation of the original setting, is identified as a parodistic device. An analysis of the themes of gender, race and sexuality further answers what kinds of factors influenced the process of literary translation, what kinds of modifications appear and what causes them. Herlitschka’s work displays a tendency to intensify traces of misogyny and racism, and to tone down descriptions of sexuality, phenomena which could not be found in Walch’s text.
The conclusion links to Margaret Atwood’s introduction to the most recent Canadian edition of Brave New World and identifies the examination of the two key German translations of the novel as an extension of her argument, pointing to the novel’s relevance for contemporary times, transcending geographical and linguistic borders to include readers in all modern societies and cultures.
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Sousa, João Paulo Neves da Rocha e. ""A brave new world": mulheres e os cargos de chefia no sector segurador português." Master's thesis, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/83238.
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Gonçalves, Maria. "O feminismo distópico: as vozes de Brave New World e de The Handmaid's Tale." Master's thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/30493.
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Hsieh, Meng-Tsung, and 謝孟宗. "In the Year of Our Ford:Domination and Resistance in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93599083970630055281.
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碩士國立成功大學
外國語文學系碩博士班
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Aldous Huxley is no novelist, many critics argue. Their biting criticism, however, does not blight Huxley’s reputation as an accomplished writer. In fact, Huxley has become immensely popular to readers, both in and out of academic circles, around the world. Of all Huxley’s novels, Brave New World is most widely read and thus merits sustained scholarly examination. This thesis, focusing on domination and resistance, marks yet another attempt at analyzing this novel of perennial popularity. I will discuss “domination” and “resistance” from aspects like technology, culture, politics, gender, and religion. The three main chapters can be seen as an integral whole, one complementing another. And they can be viewed separately as dealing with specific issues. Chapter II copes with technological domination of the new world government, discussing how such inventions as biotechnological conditioning, sleep teaching, feelies and soma turn human beings into mindless parrots and automatons. It also discusses the Fordean and Freudian ideologies that account for the misapplication of technology. Chapter III deals with cultural domination as symbolized by the new world and the primitive Indian Reservation. And Chapter IV aims to discuss resistance to dehumanizing power, delineating an alternative society to the oppressive worlds in Huxley’s novel. In addition to its thematic concerns about domination and resistance, this thesis also includes discussion on Huxley’s techniques. Moreover, it draws on theorists like Foucault and Said, arguing that it is fruitful to combine Huxley’s 1932 tour de force with modern-day critical theories.
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Sousa, João Paulo Neves da Rocha e. ""A brave new world": mulheres e os cargos de chefia no sector segurador português." Dissertação, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/10216/83238.
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