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Villareale, Rachel Margaret. "An examination of major works for wind band and brass ensemble: “Legacy” by Mark Camphouse, “Concert Variations” by Claude T. Smith, and “Romance for Band” by John Zdechlik." Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32647.
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Master of MusicDepartment of Music, Theatre, and Dance
Frank C. Tracz
The following report provides a comprehensive analysis of and teaching guide for one work for brass ensemble and two works for wind band: Legacy by Mark Camphouse, Concert Variations by Claude T. Smith, and Romance for Band by John Zdechlik. A chapter is included for each work, supplying essential information needed to properly prepare the conductor for teaching and rehearsing the work in question. Information is included regarding the composer, the composition, historical perspective, technical considerations, stylistic considerations, musical elements, form and structural analysis, listening suggestions, and a suggested seating arrangement. Outlines of rehearsal plans used by the author are included with self-evaluations of each rehearsal, in addition to a detailed score analysis grid as presented by Dr. Frank Tracz in Mark Walker's book, The Art of Interpretation of Band Music. Chapters are also devoted to the author’s philosophy of music education and philosophy of quality literature selection. All materials are included with the hope that this research can assist in preparation of these works by other conductors and ensembles, as well as to promote a more active programming of these quality, lesser-known works.
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Suplizio, Jean. "Evolutionary Psychology: The Academic Debate." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28478.
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This dissertation examines the academic debate that surrounds the new field called "Evolutionary Psychology." Evolutionary psychology has emerged as the most popular successor theory to human sociobiology. Its proponents search for evolved psychological mechanisms and emphasize universal features of the human mind. My thesis is that in order to flourish evolutionary psychologists must engage other researchers on equal terms -- something they have not been doing. To show this, I examine the stances of practitioners from three other social science fields whose claims have been shortchanged by evolutionary psychology: Barbara King in biological anthropology, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in empirical linguistics and Annette Karmiloff-Smith in developmental psychology. These researchers are also involved in cognitive science investigations that bear on evolutionary psychology's key claims about the mind and how it works.
Evolutionary psychologists make three key claims about the mind. The first (1) is that the mind is massively modular; the second (2) is that this massively modular mind has been shaped by the processes of natural selection over evolutionary time; and the third (3) is that it is adapted to the Pleistocene conditions of our past. Evolutionary psychologists seek to elevate these three claims to the status of meta-theoretical assumptions making them the starting place from which our deliberations about human cognition ought proceed. These claims would constitute the framework for a new paradigm in the ultimate sense. I argue that elevating these claims to such a status is not only premature, but also unwarranted on the available evidence. This result is justified by evidence produced outside evolutionary psychology by those disciplines from which evolutionary psychologists explicitly seek to distance themselves.Ph. D.
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Smith, Mark T. "Engineering Cell-Free Systems for Vaccine Development, Self-Assembling Nanoparticles and Codon Reassignment Applications." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4449.
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This dissertation reports on the technology of cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) including 1) stabilized lyophilized cell-free systems and 2) enhanced heterogeneous cell extracts. This work further considers applications of CFPS systems in 1) rapid vaccine development, 2) functional virus-based nanoparticles, 3) site-specific protein immobilization, and 4) expanding the language of biology using unnatural amino acids. CFPS technology is a versatile protein production platform that has many features unavailable in in vivo expression systems. The primary benefit cell-free systems provide is the direct access to the reaction environment, which is no longer hindered by the presence of a cell-wall. The “openness” of the system makes it a compelling candidate for many technologies. One limitation of CFPS is the necessity of freezing for long-term viable storage. We demonstrate that a lyophilized CFPS system is more stable against nonideal storage than traditional CFPS reagents. The Escherichia coli-based CFPS system in this work is limited by the biocatalytic machinery found natively in E. coli. To combat these limitations, exogenous biocatalysts can be expressed during fermentation of cells prepared into extract. We demonstrate that simple adjustments in the fermentation conditions can significantly increase the activity of the heterogeneous extract. Towards virus-based particles and vaccines, we demonstrate that the open nature of CFPS can be utilized for coexpression of virus proteins and self-assembly of virus particles. This technique allows for the rapid production of potential vaccines and novel functional virus-based nanoparticles. Unnatural amino acids expand the effective language of protein biology. Utilizing CFPS as an expression system, we demonstrated that the incorporation of a single specific unnatural amino acid allows for site-specific immobilization, thus stabilizing the protein against elevated temperatures and chemical denaturants. Current unnatural amino acid incorporation technologies are limited to one or few simultaneous incorporations and suffer from low efficiency. This work proposes a system that could potentially allow for upwards of 40 unnatural amino acids to be simultaneously incorporated, effectively tripling the protein code. These projects demonstrate the power and versatility of CFPS technologies while laying the foundation for promising technologies in the field of biotechnology.
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Winter, Mark [Verfasser], Andreas von [Akademischer Betreuer] Tiedemann, Petr [Akademischer Betreuer] Karlovsky, and Elke [Akademischer Betreuer] Pawelzik. "Halmbasis- und Wurzelkrankheitserreger an Weizen (Trititcum aestivum L.) in Energiefruchtfolgen und Bedeutung des Halmbasisbefalls mit Fusarium culmorum (W. G. Smith) Sacc. und Fusarium graminearum (Schwabe) für die Mykotoxin-Kontamination der Pflanze / Mark Winter. Gutachter: Petr Karlovsky ; Elke Pawelzik. Betreuer: Andreas von Tiedemann." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2013. http://d-nb.info/104441426X/34.
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Saiyar, Aydin. "Study on difference and analogy of Smithian and Marxian ideas on work, as the wealth of the society." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21763.
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This paper reflects and explores the grand narrative on work set by Adam Smith and Karl Marx during the early and later modernity. It tires to push forward the idea that Marx and Smith are one of the major influencers to the contemporary notion on work. It also tries to show the major differences and similarities between these two authors. Moreover, this paper seeks to point out the failures of idealism on work and tries to put forward critics of contemporary society. Maybe in this conduct idealism could be overcome in future and the world could be built on material, actual, needs, not on ideology.
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Chakravarti, Debnita. "The heart's interpreters : exploring love as a theme in the poems of Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Mary Tighe, Amelia Opie and Letitia Landon." Thesis, University of Reading, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.409288.
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Sterza, Beatrice. ""Don't You Wonder, Sometimes?" Proposta di traduzione della raccolta poetica Life on Mars di Tracy K. Smith." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020.
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The aim of this dissertation is to propose a translation into English of ten poems extracted from the collection Life on Mars by African American author Tracy K. Smith. Conceptually originating from the death of Smith’s father, an aerospace engineer who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, the book explores the ways in which the experience of mourning can function as a telescopic lens capable of putting into perspective the grand questions about existence, afterlife and the nature of the divine.
The work of translation is preceded by a study of the recent history of American poetry – with a particular focus on circumscribing the literary landscape where Smith’s work came into being – and a close analysis of the book. More specifically, Chapter 1 offers a general framework of the main poetic tendencies that developed in the wake of Modernism and investigates how they influenced the hybrid scenario of contemporary American poetry; subsequently, it zooms on the recent history of African American poetry, and in particular on the post-soul experiences of the Dark Room Collective and the Cave Canem Foundation, of whom Smith was an active member. Chapter 2 provides a brief biography of the author and explores the collection Life on Mars on different levels (genre, structure, meter, themes and style), attempting to highlight the connections that the work entertains with the context previously outlined and the sensible aspects that will successively prove relevant during the translation process. Chapter 3 outlines the selection criteria adopted for the choice of the ten poems that make the object of this work and presents their Italian translations side by side with the original texts. Finally, Chapter 4 deals with notions related to the practice of translating poetry, initially from a theoretical point of view and then focusing on the concrete issues encountered during my work of translation and the strategies applied to solve them.
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Tual, Cécile. "La littérature des Appalaches : polyphonie des constructions identitaires chez Mary Lee Settle, Lee Smith et Denise Giardina." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012REN20057.
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Cette recherche propose de rendre compte de l'invention des Appalaches en tant que région « étrange et particulière ». Les écrivains « couleur locale » du dix-neuvième siècle ont contribué à ancrer dans la conscience nationale l'image oxymorique de l'Appalachien à la fois bon sauvage, mais surtout hillbilly dégénéré. A partir de l'entre-deux-guerres, puis à la fin des années 60 lors de la « Renaissance Appalachienne », des écrivains autochtones, parmi lesquels Mary Lee Settle, Lee Smith, Denise Giardina, se sont dressés pour réfuter cette identité prescrite. Ces trois voix singulières sont celles de femmes rebelles liées par un même combat : dans une démarche de type postcolonial, elles ont revisité l'histoire régionale afin de faire voler en éclats un siècle de représentations essentialistes et de dénoncer la destruction environnementale infligée aux montagnes appalachiennes par l'industrie houillèreThe aim of this research is to look into the invention of Appalachia as a « strange and peculiar » region. Nineteenth-century « local color » writers contributed to etching the oxymoronic image of the Appalachian as – the good savage, but mostly as the degenerate hillbilly – in the national consciousness. Starting in the interwar period, then in the late 1960s during the « Appalachian Renaissance », native writers rose up to reject this prescribed identity, among whom Mary Lee Settle, Lee Smith and Denise Giardina. These three singular voices belong to rebel women united in a common fight: using a postcolonial approach, they have revisited the regional history to shatter century-old essentialist representations and to denounce the MTR devastation caused by the coalmining industry in the Appalachian Mountains
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Neesham, Cristina. "Human and social progress : projects and perspectives /." Connect to thesis, 2004. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000962.
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Harris, David P. Forstater Mathew. "Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, Peter Kropotkin, and Catholic Social Teaching on work, wages, and the role of technology." Diss., UMK access, 2008.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Economics and Social Science Consortium. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2008."A dissertation in economics and the social science consortium." Advisor: Mathew Forstater. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Feb. 6, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-193). Online version of the print edition.
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Shin, Hyun-Tak. "La grille de lecture de l'économie de marché et du capitalisme chez Aristote, A. Smith, K. Marx et F. Braudel." Thesis, Paris 10, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA100058.
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Notre travail consiste à faire une grille de lecture de nos principaux pères fondateurs de l'économie politique, en l'occurrence, Aristote, A.Smith et K.Marx et ceci, à travers un historien français, F.Braudel, de ses outils conceptuels et de ses problématiques défendues, en particulier, son schéma de tripartition de l'économie, - la vie matérielle, l'économie de marché et le capitalisme -, dans son ouvrage «Civilisation Matérielle, Economie et Capitalisme XVe-XVIIIe siècle». Nous effectuons une sorte de relecture ou revisite braudélienne dans la source de l'économie politique et de ses trois principaux fondateurs cités ci-dessus. Nous cherchons à vérifier certaines interprétations sur les conceptions de l'«économie de marché» de nos trois auteurs de l'économie politique. L'essentiel de notre travail consiste à saisir la présence du lien entre l'économie et la morale sociale chez nos fondateurs de l'économie politiqueOur study is an reading grid of our main founders of political economy, Aristotle, and this A.Smith and K.Marx and this, through a French historian, F.Braudel, his conceptual tools and problematic issues, in particular, the tripartite of the Economy - Material life, Market economy and Capitalism – he has defended in his book "Material Civilization, Economy and Capitalism XVth-XVIIIth century." We perform a braudelian proofreading or revisits in the source of political economy and of its three main founders mentioned above. We try to verify certain interpretations of theirs concepts of "Market Economy". Our study focus on the relation between the Economics and the Social ethics in our founders of political economy
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Chikvaidze, Mari [Verfasser], and Jeremy C. [Akademischer Betreuer] Smith. "Understanding structure, dynamics and function of escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase by molecular modelling and simulations / Mari Chikvaidze ; Betreuer: Jeremy C. Smith." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1177148617/34.
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Roncone, Natalie Maria. "Jackson Pollock, 1930-1955 : the influence of the Old Masters." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3048.
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The imagery in Jackson Pollock's three extant sketchbooks which date from c.1934-1939 is dependent on that of other artists, especially El Greco, Rubens and Tintoretto. By 1947 however, the painter achieved a mature synthesis, distinctly his, which influenced contemporary painting, and was seminal for the work of a number of artists of the succeeding era. This dissertation is an attempt to document the phases of Pollock's artistic style from the early 1930s through to the middle 1950s, and to investigate the forces which may have catalyzed his temperament and precipitated his late style. The early sketchbooks begun in c.1934 represent Pollock's engagement with the art of the Old Masters and the teaching techniques of Thomas Hart Benton that utilized works from the Renaissance. The third sketchbook from c.1937-1939 induced him to re-examine the work of the Old Masters in a dialectical approach which incorporated new masters with old, but remained preoccupied with the sacred imagery found in the first two books. It is a resolution of these seemingly opposing modes of representation which produced several influential paintings in the early 1940s, including Guardians of the Secret and Pasiphae. At the same time these works display structural emulations related to those of Old Master paintings that would become increasingly prominent in Pollock's art. The canvases of 1947-1950, produced in what is commonly termed the “Classic Poured Period,” appear to represent a quantum leap beyond the concerns of Old Master works and European precedents. By this point Pollock had developed a fluency and assurance in his use of color and line that seems to extend further than the studied paradigmatic repetitions of his early sketchbooks. However, despite the radically new technique his paintings still exhibit pictorial and formal infrastructures derived from Renaissance paintings which were absorbed into Pollock's new idiom with surprising ease. In 1951 Pollock enters what Francis V.O'Connor termed as ‘his fourth phase'. The Black paintings of 1951-1953 betray a further exploration and adaptation of Old Master ideas, both iconographic and aesthetic and were created in Triptychs and Diptychs, typical altarpiece formats. With these paintings Pollock's forms acquired a confident plasticity and invention derived from the sculptural practices of Michelangelo, and progressively fewer individual images are quoted verbatim. An understanding of Pollock's early preoccupation with old Master painting is essential to comprehend the formation of the aesthetics of much of his later art. Significantly the underlying infrastructure remains fixed to old Master precedents and it was precisely these models of Renaissance and Baroque art which became the medium through which his mature synthesis was achieved.
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Lopresti, Bruno José, Vargas Brenda Massarini, and Estrada Ariadna Beatriz Nasisi. "Proyección de algunas teorías económicas modernas en la actualidad." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, 2019. http://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/14327.
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Se desarrolla una investigación sobre conceptos filosóficos y su influencia en el sistema económico actual argentino. En la cual se analizan las teorías económicas de tres pensadores reconocidos a lo largo de la historia, Adam Smith, Karl Marx y Joseph Stiglitz, se proyectan a la realidad argentina y de esta forma poder determinar cuál se encuentra vigente.
Los principales conceptos teóricos a desarrollar son, la concepción e intervención del Estado, la generación de empleo, la influencia de la división del trabajo y el acceso a la información. El enfoque utilizado será mixto, cuantitativo al utilizar datos objetivos de la economía argentina y cualitativo al interpretar las teorías, mediante la consulta de literatura filosófica, fuentes académico-científicas que se pueden encontrar en Internet y artículos periódisticos sobre actualidad.
Al comprender las teorías y observar la realidad se espera que Smith presente las bases del sistema actual con importantes aportes de Marx y Stiglitz.Fil: Lopresti, Bruno José. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas.
Fil: Massarini Vargas, Brenda. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas.
Fil: Nasisi Estrada, Ariadna Beatriz. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas.
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Hanževački, Marko Verfasser], Ana-Sunčana [Akademischer Betreuer] [Smith, and Timothy [Gutachter] Clark. "Computational modeling of glycyl radical enzymes: Novel insights to the mechanism of Pyruvate Formate-Lyase / Marko Hanževački ; Gutachter: Timothy Clark ; Betreuer: Ana-Sunčana Smith." Erlangen : Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 2020. http://d-nb.info/1223175154/34.
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Iguíñiz, Echeverria Javier María. "Pablo Sánchez Garrido: Raíces intelectuales de Amartya Sen. Aristóteles, Adam Smith y Karl Marx, Madrid: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, 2008, 574 pp." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Departamento de Humanidades, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113218.
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Derobert, Laurent. "Le concept de travail dans l'analyse économique : trois études historiques et épistémologiques." Aix-Marseille 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001AIX32072.
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Les trois études qui composent la thèse interrogent le concept de travail à trois moments déterminants de la constitution de l'analyse économique. Quelle est la représentation du travail dans l'oeuvre d'Adam Smith, dans celle de Karl Marx, enfin dans celle de Léon Walras et l'analyse marginaliste qu'il prélude ? C'est le thème du triptyque présenté. La lecture méthodique qui est proposée consiste à analyser le mode d'expression de l'articulation travailleur-travail dans chacune des oeuvres étudiées, c'est-à-dire à examiner la façon dont chaque auteur représente le rapport et la distance entre les deux termes de l'articulation. Les trois moments de la recherche révèlent qu'une rupture analytique travailleur-travail, aussi radicale que fondamentale, se retrouve aux prémisses des trois oeuvres paradigmatiques en question : Smith l'initie dans la théorie ; Marx, tout en la critiquant dans la pratique, l'inscrit au principe de son analyse ; enfin Walras et la modélisation marginaliste, l'instituent comme un postulat. .The thesis is made up of three essays that investigate the concept of labour at three seminal moments in the constitution of economic analysis. What does labour represent in the works of Adam Smith, in those of Karl Marx, and lastly in those of Léon Walras and the marginalist analysis he preluded ? This is the theme of the triptych expounded. The methodical reading proposed consists in analysing the way the labour-labourer articulation is expressed in each work studied, i. E. In examining how each author represents the link and the distance between both terms of the articulation. The three moments of the development show that an analytical cut-off between labour and labourer, radical as well as fundamental, can be found in the premises of the three paradigmatic works in question : Smith initiates it in theory ; Marx, while criticising it in practice, inscribes it in the principles of his analysis ; finally Walras and the marginalist modelling institute it as a postulate. .
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Gaul, Michael. "Progrès et prix naturels : conceptions de l'Histoire dans la pensée économique de Cantillon à Marx." Thesis, Paris 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA01E025.
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Cette thèse analyse les liens entre la naissance de la notion d’un progrès historique dans la deuxième moitié du dix-huitième siècle et la formation de l’économie politique en tant que science autonome. Contrairement à une idée reçue, l’économie classique post-smithienne et la théorie ricardienne en particulier n’apparaissent pas comme une «science lugubre», mais plutôt comme une théorie pure du progrès. Dans la première partie, nous dégageons les articulations entre conception de l’histoire et théorie économique à l’œuvre chez Richard Cantillon, François Quesnay et Adam Smith. Alors que la théorie de Cantillon exprime une conception cyclique de l’histoire tandis que la théorie physiocratique vise à la suppression de cette conception cyclique de l’histoire, la théorie smithienne se démarque de celles de Cantillon et Quesnay, en fondant une conception progressiste de l’histoire et en affirmant que le progrès est «naturel». Comme la conception progressiste de Smith repose sur une coordination, simple mais novatrice, du changement technique dans le temps et dans l’espace, la deuxième et la troisième partie étudie la théorie classique du progrès technique et du commerce international. C’est ici que Ricardo s’avère être l’économiste smithien le plus rigoureux, en ayant identifié la condition sous laquelle le progrès est, effectivement, «naturel», et en ayant insisté sur le fait que cette condition est approximativement satisfaite par les prix naturels. En conclusion, l’affirmation d’un progrès naturel est à la fois ce qui unit les économistes classiques (post-)smithiens, y compris Marx, et ce qui les distingue des représentants antérieurs de la même approche du « surplus »This thesis analyzes the relations between the origin of the notion of historical progress in the second half of the eighteenth century and the formation of political economy as an autonomous science. In contrast to a traditional view, post-Smithian classical political economy and Ricardian economics in particular appear not as the ‘dismal science’, but rather as a pure theory of progress. The first part deals with the way in which conceptions of history and economic theory are articulated in the works of Richard Cantillon, François Quesnay et Adam Smith. Whereas Cantillon’s theory expresses a cyclical conception of history and physiocratic thought aims at the repression of this cyclical conception, Smith’s theory is opposed both to Cantillon and Quesnay, through its foundation of a progressive conception of history and the affirmation that progress is ‘natural’. Since Smith’s progressive conception of the historical process is based upon a simple, yet novel co-ordination of technical change in time and across space, the second and third parts study the classical theory of technical progress and the classical theory of international trade. It is in this context that Ricardo turns out to be the most radical of the ‘Smithian’ economists: Ricardo identified the condition under which progress is indeed ‘natural’ and insisted upon the fact that this condition is approximately satisfied by natural prices. In the final analysis, it is Smith’s affirmation of natural progress which provides the common framework for post-Smithian classical economists, Marx included, and distinguishes them from earlier exponents of the same ‘surplus approach’ to value and distribution
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Shelton, Joel Trent. "Conditionalizing Conduct: Political Economy and the Limits to Governance in European Union Enlargement." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77062.
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This dissertation argues that European Union membership conditionality operates as a modality of political-economic governance directed at securing the conditions of possibility for a harmoniously functioning political economy of Europe. I argue that conditionality can best be understood not as a series of requirements for EU membership, a set of incentives for rule adoption, or a vehicle for the transmission of European norms to candidate states, but as an ensemble of discursive and material practices – fragile, dispersed circuits of governmental activity directed at a particular strategic ambition. I argue that existing accounts of EU membership conditionality are informed by predominantly rationalist understandings of political economy which work to conceal various cultural, social, and subjective sources of disharmony in political-economic life. Thinking about the political economy of conditionality through rationalist lenses privileges the study of bargaining and negotiation and institutional reform and overlooks the ways that conditionality targets the transformation of problematic socio-cultural and subjective elements of political economy – among them particular habits of culture, patterns of sociality, and subjective qualities and capacities of the person deemed essential to securing order and abundance. Re-reading canonical works in classical and critical traditions of political economy by James Steuart, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx makes clear that political economy as a field of knowledge and practice has long been concerned with understanding the political, legislative-legal, institutional, socio-cultural, and subjective conditions of possibility for securing order and abundance and has long reflected on the potential and limits of governance to secure these conditions in a world of shifting circumstance. I argue that a political economy of EU membership conditionality concerned with disharmony should investigate the ways that particular socio-cultural and subjective features of political-economic life are problematized in the discourse of conditionality and subsequently targeted for transformation through the work of instruments and agents of conditionality operating in a variety of institutional contexts. On this basis, I analyze conditionality as practice – tracing the emergence of instruments of conditionality currently at work in the Republic of Macedonia through official documents produced by the EU and the Republic of Macedonia from 2001-2011. I then examine the ambitions and limits of the Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007-2013 (OP-HRD) – a program tasked with translating the aims of conditionality on paper into concrete activities for implementation in the fields of employment, education and training, and social inclusion. I outline some limits to the program derived from personal interviews with officials of the EU and the Republic of Macedonia who work to implement the OP-HRD "on the ground." In reflecting on these limitations, I return to the political economy of disharmony, concluding that constraints on the operation of conditionality in practice are not merely the product of technical and political impediments but are also derived from inherent limits to the old dream of political-economic harmony to which the ambitions of conditionality are ultimately directed.Ph. D.
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Huguley, Piper Gian. "Why Tell the Truth When a Lie Will Do?: Re-Creations and Resistance in the Self-Authored Life Writing of Five American Women Fiction Writers." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04252006-174728/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2006.Title from title screen. Audrey Goodman, committee chair; Thomas L. McHaney, Elizabeth West, committee members. Electronic text (253 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May15, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (243-253).
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Holm, Cyril. "F. A. Hayek's Critique of Legislation." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-236890.
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The dissertation concerns F. A. Hayek’s (1899–1992) critique of legislation. The purpose of the investigation is to clarify and assess that critique. I argue that there is in Hayek’s work a critique of legislation that is distinct from his well-known critique of social planning. Further that the main claim of this critique is what I refer to as Hayek’s legislation tenet, namely that legislation that aims to achieve specific aggregate results in complex orders of society will decrease the welfare level. The legislation tenet gains support; (i) from the welfare claim – according to which there is a positive correlation between the utilization of knowledge and the welfare level in society; (ii) from the dispersal of knowledge thesis – according to which the total knowledge of society is dispersed and not available to any one agency; and (iii) from the cultural evolution thesis – according to which evolutionary rules are more favorable to the utilization of knowledge in social cooperation than are legislative rules. More specifically, I argue that these form two lines of argument in support of the legislation tenet. One line of argument is based on the conjunction of the welfare claim and the dispersal of knowledge thesis. I argue that this line of argument is true. The other line of argument is based on the conjunction of the welfare claim and the cultural evolution thesis. I argue that this line of argument is false, mainly because the empirical work of political scientist Elinor Ostrom refutes it. Because the two lines of argument support the legislation tenet independently of each other, I argue that Hayek’s critique of legislation is true. In this dissertation, I further develop a legislative policy tool as based on the welfare claim and Hayek’s conception of coercion. I also consider Hayek’s idea that rules and law are instrumental in forging rational individual action and rational social orders, and turn to review this idea in light of the work of experimental economist Vernon Smith and economic historian Avner Greif. I find that Smith and Greif support this idea of Hayek’s, and I conjecture that it contributes to our understanding of Adam Smith’s notion of the invisible hand: It is rules – not an invisible hand – that prompt subjects to align individual and aggregate rationality in social interaction. Finally, I argue that Hayek’s critique is essentially utilitarian, as it is concerned with the negative welfare consequences of certain forms of legislation. And although it may appear that the dispersal of knowledge thesis will undermine the possibility of carrying out the utilitarian calculus, due to the lack of knowledge of the consequences of one’s actions – and therefore undermine the legislation tenet itself – I argue that the distinction between utilitarianism conceived as a method of deliberation and utilitarianism conceived as a criterion of correctness may be used to save Hayek’s critique from this objection.
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Syme, Neil. "Uncanny modalities in post-1970s Scottish fiction : realism, disruption, tradition." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21768.
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This thesis addresses critical conceptions of Scottish literary development in the twentieth-century which inscribe realism as both the authenticating tradition and necessary telos of modern Scottish writing. To this end I identify and explore a Scottish ‘counter-tradition’ of modern uncanny fiction. Drawing critical attention to techniques of modal disruption in the works of a number of post-1970s Scottish writers gives cause to reconsider that realist teleology while positing a range of other continuities and tensions across modern Scottish literary history. The thesis initially defines the critical context for the project, considering how realism has come to be regarded as a medium of national literary representation. I go on to explore techniques of modal disruption and uncanny in texts by five Scottish writers, contesting ways in which habitual recourse to the realist tradition has obscured important aspects of their work. Chapter One investigates Ali Smith’s reimagining of ‘the uncanny guest’. While this trope has been employed by earlier Scottish writers, Smith redesigns it as part of a wider interrogation of the hyperreal twenty-first-century. Chapter Two considers two texts by James Robertson, each of which, I argue, invokes uncanny techniques familiar to readers of James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson in a way intended specifically to suggest concepts of national continuity and literary inheritance. Chapter Three argues that James Kelman’s political stance necessitates modal disruption as a means of relating intimate individual experience. Re-envisaging Kelman as a writer of the uncanny makes his central assimilation into the teleology of Scottish realism untenable, complicating the way his work has been positioned in the Scottish canon. Chapter Four analyses A.L. Kennedy’s So I Am Glad, delineating a similarity in the processes of repetition which result in both uncanny effects and the phenomenon of tradition, leading to Kennedy’s identification of an uncanny dimension in the concept of national tradition itself. Chapter Five considers the work of Alan Warner, in which the uncanny appears as an unsettling sense of significance embedded within the banal everyday, reflecting an existentialism which reaches beyond the national. In this way, I argue that habitual recourse to an inscribed realist tradition tends to obscure the range, complexity and instability of the realist techniques employed by the writers at issue, demonstrating how national continuities can be productively accommodated within wider, pluralistic analytical approaches.
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Costello, Eileen Elizabeth. "Beyond the easel : the dissolution of abstract expressionist painting into the realm of architecture." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/19840.
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A defining feature of American abstract expressionist painting is its enormous size and scale. Heroic ambition, the vast American landscape, and the sense of "something big" happening in American painting are often cited as determining factors in this phenomenon. This dissertation examines how Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko not only painted large-scale canvases but, following trends in modern architecture, shifted their painting towards the construction of architectural environments, thus promoting the transformation of painting from a window in the wall to a wall without a window. The artist and architect Tony Smith, a close friend and colleague of these painters, played an active role in encouraging their interest in modern architecture. As a result of their investigations into the physical, as well as conceptual, limits of the canvas, these artists shifted the viewer’s experience from a perceptual experience of pictorial space to a physical encounter with actual space. In contradiction to the notion of the purely optical, one could describe this as a somatic viewing experience, tactile and active, which anticipated specific concerns of 1960s minimalism. This achievement redefines Pollock's, Newman's, and Rothko's legacy to the subsequent generation of artists and places their production into a broader historical framework.text
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Schmid, Julie M. "Performance, poetics, and place public poetry as a community art /." 2000. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/189.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 2000.Supervisor: Adalaide Morris. Title-page, preliminaries, Certificate of approval, and Table of contents issued in paper (x, 6 leaves ; 28 cm.). Includes bibliographical references. Also issued on CD-ROM (35 files, 132 megabytes).
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Ellis, Christopher E. "The choral anthems of Alice Mary Smith : performance editions of three anthems by a woman composer in Victorian England." 2014. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1744491.
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Mendiola, Kelly Willis. "The hand of a woman four holiness-pentecostal evangelists and American culture, 1840-1930 /." Thesis, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3115502.
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