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Rajkumar, Naganathy. "Novel algorithms for modern power systems." Thesis, City University London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390941.
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Dindar, Samima. "Alexandre goes south: A novel – and – An essay, ‘The modern adventure novel’." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2017. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2008.
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When asked what sort of novel I was writing, I always said ‘a modern adventure novel’. And then I began to question myself about the meaning of these three words together, the substance and the definition of a modern adventure novel. Does such a thing exist? In my novel ‘Alexandre Goes South’, Alexandre is a thirty-year-old Parisian from a family that enjoy wealth and privilege, facts that provide a setting but play only incidental roles in the events that unfold. Alexandre goes through a series of crises, which propel the journey that launches him onto the road to manhood. The novel begins at the exact moment of suffering, after a break-
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Imre, Kristin. "Monotonous Feeling: The Formal Everyday in Three Modern and Contemporary Novels." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107987.
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Thesis advisor: Laura TannerIn "Everyday Speech" Maurice Blanchot eloquently articulates the long held and often rehearsed notion that the everyday eludes representation. Yet, in recent years, literary and cultural studies scholars have begun to explore the limitations of this conception. Monotonous Feeling contributes to this burgeoning conversation by examining three Modern and Contemporary novels that take the everyday's resistance to representation not at a cue for aesthetic transformation but for formal innovation. It argues that Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans, Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and Marilynne Robinson's Home, which each define the everyday as a mode of taken-for-granted or distracted attention, use formal techniques to make manifest the monotonous attentions of the everyday in order to make us feel what in the formal and affective limitations of our aesthetic approaches we cannot know. In arousing and making use of feelings that we so often regard as signals of a fractured meaning making process, these novels invite, even push, us to consider the value of everyday felt states that might structure our narratives
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
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Wieland, Leanne R. "Sacred and regenerative space in the modern novel." Winston-Salem, NC : Wake Forest University, 2009. http://dspace.zsr.wfu.edu/jspui/handle/10339/44686.
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Jordan, Julia Emily. "Chance in the modern British novel, 1945-1978." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1444242/.
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Chance, and its representation in literature, has a long and problematic history. Our human instinct to rationalize chance, and thereby to impose order on the disorder of life, is threatened by the meaninglessness implied by pure randomness. And yet chance is also evocative of rationality: if we can order life into mathematical probabilities, then uncertainty itself becomes that which mediates experience, rationalizes it, and offers an explanation for events. In this sense, our distrust of randomness finds its best expression in the artistic impulse: the human need to impose order on disorder, and form on reality, thus always speaks of the desire to suppress contingency. This paradox, which lies at the heart of literary representations of chance, forms the basis of this study, which addresses questions of chance and the aleatory in novels by four mid-twentieth century writers: Samuel Beckett, Henry Green, B. S. Johnson and Iris Murdoch. I argue that chance's significance for the novel of this period (1945-1978) is closely connected with other developments in the culture of the time: existential philosophy's preoccupation with questions of chance and possibility, the avant-garde's increasing elision of chance and randomness with formal experimentation, and an increasing movement, amongst writers such as Samuel Beckett and Henry Green, away from authorial omniscience and omnipotence and towards an acceptance of the contingent and the partial. The growth of the aleatory technique in art in the sixties, influenced by the Dadaists, in part grew from this new idea of chance, and the way that writers reconfigured their engagement with related concepts. In this way, chance became allied with attempts to reinvigorate the novel form. Chance's representation in narrative manifests itself variously as a concern with causality, contingency, and as a formal engagement with randomness. Throughout the thesis I address the complex ways these ideas become encoded into the construction of texts. The saturation of the literary culture with depictions of, and anxieties about, chance at this time, eventually represents an age-old battle between freedom and determination, recast as a mid-twentieth century refiguring of the relationship between author and narrative.
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Duncan, Derek Egerton. "First person narration in the modern Italian novel." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/18848.
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Preston, A. "Violence and the modern novel : Coetzee and Sebald." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1415746/.
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Early in her long essay On Violence, Hannah Arendt says “no one engaged in thought about history and politics can remain unaware of the enormous role violence has played in human affairs, and it is at first glance rather surprising that violence has been singled out so seldom for special consideration.” In the more than four decades since the publication of her book, much has been done to remedy this omission. Violence is everywhere now. As, through the eyes of our novelists, philosophers and cultural theorists, we look back on the wreck of the twentieth century, we see it as Walter Benjamin’s Angel of History perceived it, as a constellation of violence piled upon violence, a chaotic record of man’s brutality against man. This thesis sets out to chart the presentation of violence in the modern novel, looking specifically at the work of JM Coetzee and WG Sebald, two writers who have not only given us detailed accounts of the operation of violence in their work, but whose novels perform the ethical uncertainties of writing within a tradition that has been tainted by that violence. Using theorists from Benjamin to Arendt to Giorgio Agamben, I will look at the ethical and aesthetic decisions that each writer has made and question how and with what success Coetzee and Sebald have managed to write within the wreckage of a tradition scarred by violence. In wrestling with the subject of violence, modern novelists have had to discard many of the formal certainties of previous ages, tainted as they are by historical violence. I will show how violence, and the need to shape a narrative mode with which to address a debased modern existence, has led to formal inventiveness, to generic hybrids, to complex philosophical performances wrapped within the covers of books calling themselves “novels.” I will look at Sebald and Coetzee’s use of silence, of history, of other writers’ work in their attempts to find a voice with which to narrate the violence of modernity.
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Cristante, Nevio 1959 Carleton University Dissertation Political Science. "Modernity in decline: politics and the modern novel." Ottawa.:, 1989.
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Kitamura, Katie. "The aesthetics of vulgarity and the modern American novel." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424932.
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Otten, Sooser G. "Existential presentation of the mythic in the modern novel." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376613.
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Pasupathipillai, Sivam. "Modern Anomaly Detection: Benchmarking, Scalability and a Novel Approach." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/281952.
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Anomaly detection consists in automatically detecting the most unusual elements in a data set. Anomaly detection applications emerge in domains such as computer security, system monitoring, fault detection, and wireless sensor networks. The strategic importance of detecting anomalies in these domains makes anomaly detection a critical data analysis task. Moreover, the contextual nature of anomalies, among other issues, makes anomaly detection a particularly challenging problem. Anomaly detection has received significant research attention in the last two decades. Much effort has been invested in the development of novel algorithms for anomaly detection. However, several open challenges still exist in the field.This thesis presents our contributions toward solving these challenges. These contributions include: a methodological survey of the recent literature, a novel benchmarking framework for anomaly detection algorithms, an approach for scaling anomaly detection techniques to massive data sets, and a novel anomaly detection algorithm inspired by the law of universal gravitation. Our methodological survey highlights open challenges in the field, and it provides some motivation for our other contributions. Our benchmarking framework, named BAD, tackles the problem of reliably assess the accuracy of unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms. BAD leverages parallel and distributed computing to enable massive comparison studies and hyperparameter tuning tasks. The challenge of scaling unsupervised anomaly detection techniques to massive data sets is well-known in the literature. In this context, our contributions are twofold: we investigate the trade-offs between a single-threaded implementation and a distributed approach considering price-performance metrics, and we propose a scalable approach for anomaly detection algorithms to arbitrary data volumes. Our results show that, when high scalability is required, our approach can handle arbitrarily large data sets without significantly compromising detection accuracy. We conclude our contributions by proposing a novel algorithm for anomaly detection, named Gravity. Gravity identifies anomalies by considering the attraction forces among massive data elements. Our evaluation shows that Gravity is competitive with other popular anomaly detection techniques on several benchmark data sets. Additionally, the properties of Gravity makes it preferable in cases where hyperparameter tuning is challenging or unfeasible.
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Fabrizio, Alexis Marie. "Dark Ride: A Novel in Verse." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1363789108.
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Bertrand, Ellen. "Commented translation of excerpts from the novel "Cher Hugo, chère Catherine"." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6923.
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This thesis is divided into two parts, the first consisting of a French to English translation of excerpts from the novel Cher Hugo, chere Catherine. The second part comprises a commentary of the difficulties encountered in the translation. Although the novel is a record of correspondence between four characters over a 43-year period, this work deals only with the letters exchanged between father and daughter, Hugo and Catherine. Literary translation is often a very difficult endeavour and we discuss the challenging task of translating a rich literary text by studying the concrete textual features in which are rooted the themes of the source text. The textual features also contribute to the text's impact on the reader. The problems involved in rendering these textual features are in turn discussed. Throughout this work, the issue of acquiring additional information from the author of the novel is addressed in relation to its effect on the translation; in order to emphasize the need for a carefully balanced translation, this thesis closes by examining the repercussions of abusing this "privileged" information. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Thalassis, George. "Logos and negation in the modern Greek novel after 1974." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314970.
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Burton, Marianne. "'Our modern delicacy' : sexual euphemism in the nineteenth-century novel." Thesis, University of London, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.603490.
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This thesis considers how nineteenthwcentury novelists employed sexual euphemism to avoid the constraints placed on them by editors and publishers, circulating libraries, and by the ' informal censorship which English readers imposed on their respectable fiction' (Ruth Bernard YeazeIl1982:340). It suggests a move occurred from simple linguistic euphemism in the early years of the century to contextual euphemism later in the century. and that this played a key role in innovation in the British novel, aiding rather than hindering ' British realism' by introducing uncertainty into sexual narrative which reflected, and reflects, social realities within our ' unknowable communities'. The introductory chapter gives an overview of the trope, and suggests that sexual reticence was regarded in the nineteenth century as representative of an advanced state of civilization rather than prudery. The second chapter examines Charlotte Turner Smith's The Wanderings of Warwick (1794) and Sophia Lee's 71,e Life of A Lover (1804), with additional reference to Smith's first novel Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle (1788). It considers these novels' transparent approach to sexual themes, using stable linguistic euphemism as a decorous but unambiguous method of narration. Chapter 3 considers George Eliot's treatment of the child as sexual referent, including pregnancy, miscarriage, and childlessness. Chapter 4 presents an examination of how the ubiquity of the social kiss in the narrative ofWilkie Collins enabled him to include kisses recording extreme physical sensation, with particular attention to his last completed novel The Legacy of Cain. Chapter 5 considers Henry James' examination of the influence of socio~ moral sexual euphemism on the cognition and behaviour of his protagonists in Dai.5Y Miller and The Ambassadors in proleptic illustrations of the Sapir~ Whorf hypothesis.
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Dunlap, Sarah Elizabeth. "Novel Ecologies: The New Science of Life in Modern Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1494318892609889.
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Fucile, Frank Anthony. "Terra Sacra: Lethal Environments and the Modern American War Novel." W&M ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550153886.
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This dissertation uses the military, technological, and environmental context of the Civil War, the First World War, and the Second World War to explain the evolution of American literature in the era of total war through eight key novels and related visual media. Because industrial weapons and massive draft armies had the capacity to destroy whole landscapes, visual and material artifacts of these wars emphasized the relationship between humans and the wastelands of war. When official rhetoric after each war emphasized regrowth and rebirth, redefining battlefields as sacred ground, the war novels of this period questioned heroism, idealism, and even humanism. Considering these novels as environmental texts reveals that they are not abstract political arguments but material correctives to the state's claim to speak for the dead. They must be read in terms of the technologies and landscapes to which they refer, necessitating a historical engagement with battlefields and artifacts as well as a critical engagement with theories of material ecocriticism and biopolitics. This framework of study reveals the ways that changing ideas about the environment shaped the modern American war novel and the ways that the material politics that these novels expressed also changed the representation of war in popular culture.
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Gallick, Steven. "The changing depiction of jealousy in the Victorian and modern novel." Connect to resource, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37223.
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Kollm, Stephanie. "Divorce and the American novel the shifting definition of modern marriage /." Click here for download, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1827193691&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Mavromatidou, Eleni. "The Role Of The (Postcolonial) Intellectual/Critic: Textualization Of History As Trauma: The African American And Modern Greek Paradigm." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1213616340.
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Bezerra, Viviane Santos [UNESP]. "Uma leitura de La disubbidienza de Alberto Moravia como romance de formação." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/150436.
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Próximo de completar setenta anos de sua publicação, La disubbidienza, sexto romance dos mais de trinta livros publicados ao longo da carreira do escritor italiano Alberto Moravia, continua a ser uma obra um tanto ofuscada pelo sucesso de outros livros consagrados do autor: Gli Indifferenti (1929) obteve reconhecimento e repercussão sem precedentes; La romana (1947), Il conformista (1951), Il disprezzo (1954), La ciociara (1957), La noia (1960), entre outros, são incansavelmente citados como obras representativas e que despertam interesse da pesquisa acadêmica. Entretanto, buscaremos aqui instaurar uma reflexão sobre a importância do romance de 1948, uma vez que o próprio Moravia, em uma entrevista concedida a Alain Elkann, que compõe a biografia La vita di Moravia, declara que, como crítico de si mesmo, considerava La disubbidienza uma de suas melhores obras (ELKANN, 1990, p. 176). Dito isto, buscaremos contextualizar esse romance, além de oferecer uma leitura interpretativa do mesmo, a partir da análise de suas veredas, principalmente destacando as características que inserem a obra no gênero literário Romance de Formação, o Bildungsroman.
Close to the seventy-year anniversary of its publication, La Disubbidienza, the sixth novel out of more than thirty books published throughout his career, Italian writer Alberto Moravia, remains somewhat overshadowed by the success of other successful books: Gli Indifferenti (1929) obtained unprecedented recognition and repercussion; La romana (1947), Il conformista (1951), Il disprezzo (1954), La ciociara (1957), La noia (1960), among others, are tirelessly cited as representative works that raise interest in academic research. However, we will try to do some thinking about the importance of the 1948 novel, since Moravia himself, on an interview with Alain Elkann, who writes the biography La vita di Moravia, states that, as a critic of himself, considered La Disubbidienza one of his best works (ELKANN, 1990, p.176). Thus, we will attempt to contextualize this novel, besides offering a comprehensive reading analyzing its paths, mainly highlighting features that place this work in the literary genre Novel of Formation, the Bildungsroman.
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Aribi, Fallia. "Development and biological evaluation of novel fluorinated ingredients for modern crop protection." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAF020.
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Ce doctorat a permis la conception de nouvelles molécules destinées aux développements de futurs produits phytosanitaires. Tout d’abord, la synthèse d’alpha,alpha-difluoro-beta-hydroxy cétones a été réalisée. Motif déjà reconnu dans le domaine pharmaceutique, nous voulions étendre son champ d’application à l’agrochimie. Une série de composés possédant une activité biologique en tant qu’agonistes des récepteurs GABA a été synthétisée. Ils ont été obtenus à l’issu d’une synthèse convergente nécessitant une réaction de couplage entre un aldéhyde aromatique et un intermédiaire alpha,alpha-difluoro-beta-trifluoromethyldihydroxy cétone. L’analyse biologique de nos produits a fait ressortir un type de famille spécifique. Une approche prodrug a débuté afin d’en affiner la structure et d’en faire ressortir un hit. Dans un second temps, le développement d’une série de quinoléines substituées par des groupements fluorés en position 2 et 4 a été conduit. Ces molécules peu décrites dans la littérature fûrent synthétisées dans des conditions douces avec de bons rendements et une complète régiosélectivité, inspirée par les réactions de Combes et de Meth-Cohn utilisant un Réactif Fluoroalkyl Amine (FARs). La post-fonctionnalisation en position 3 et 8 a permis l’exemplification de ces composés. Une étude physico-chimique réalisée sur une série homogène a apporté des informations complémentaires sur leurs propriétés électroniques. Bien qu’aucune molécule n’ait montré d’activité biologique, nous avons pu lors de ce projet réaliser la synthèse de nouvelles quinoléines et évaluer des FARs dans la synthèse de molécules inconnues de la littérature jusqu’à ce jourThis PhD thesis allowed the conception of new molecules for the development of novel phytosanitary ingredients. First, the synthesis of alpha,alpha-difluoro-betahydroxy ketones was performed. Since this motif is already known in the pharmaceutical field, we decided to extend their application to the agrochemical field. A series of compounds with biological activities as GABA agonist receptors was synthesized. They were obtained by a convergent method after a coupling reaction between benzaldehydes and alpha,alpha-difluoro-beta-trifluoromethyldihydroxy ketone intermediates. Biological analysis highlighted a specific family of compounds. A prodrug approach was applied to tune the structure and allowed the discovery of a hit. Second, the development of a series of 2,4-(fluoroalkyl)-substituted quinoline derivatives was conducted. Scarcely described in literature, these molecules were obtained under smooth conditions, with good yields and a complete regioselectivity, inspired by Combes and Meth- Cohn reactions using Fluoroalkyl Amino Reagents (FARs). Post-functionalization in position 3 and 8 allowed us to increase the scope of the reaction. A physico-chemical study gave complementary informations on their electronical properties. Although none of these molecules have shown biological activity, we have during this project realized the synthesis of new quinolines and evaluated the use of FARs in the synthesis of unknown fluorinated molecules
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Shephard, Marion. "Mummy's boy : Don Juan in the modern Spanish and Spanish-American novel." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271032.
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The four main thesis novels are Alas's La Regenta (1884), Gald6s's Fortunata y Jacinta (1886-7), Puig's Boquitas pintadas (1969) and Cabrera Infante 's La Habana para un infante difill1to (1979). Specific criteria for the Don Juan novel are drawn up and seducers not fulfilling the prerequisites of the attractive, vain, sexually potent, deceitful and diabolically impious Don Juan rejected. Classical literature ( myths of Zeus, satyr stories, Ovid's AI'S AlI1atoria) and early Spanish ballads concerning irreverent gallants are posited as influences on the Don Juan legend. The two key plays are Tirso de Molina's EI bur/adOJ' de Sevilla (1630) and Zorrilla's Don Juan Tenorio (1844). Other sources include Don Juan works by Zamora, Espronceda, Moliere, Shadwell, Byron, Lenau, Shaw, Mozart and Sh'auss and the memoirs of Casanova. The progression is h'aced from the early Don Juan plays, in which the seducer's father is the sole parental presence, to the novel, in which Don Juan's domineering and adoring mother exercises a powerful influence on her son. Early classical mother figures such as Venus (Cupid), Liriope (Narcissus) and Jocasta (Oedipus) are analysed as her predecessors. The three main psychologists consulted regarding the seducer's umesolved Oedipus complex are Freud, Jung and Otto Rank. Other theorists include Maraft6n, Kierkegaard, Lafora, Brachfeld, Weinstein, Miller, Aramoni, Mandrell, Smeed and Kristeva. The thesis counterbalances the views of those who see Don Juan as immature, effeminate, melancholic or hysterical with others who consider him to be powerful, masculine, confident and eloquent, revealing the modern Don Juan to be a complex and multifaceted figure. The importance of the novels' musical themes is considered together with the different ways in which Don Juan is made to suffer in variations ofTirso's hellfire, The thesis demonstrates that, in spite of being metamorphosed into a mother's boy, Don Juan continues to wreak his infernal charm over author and audience alike.
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Godfrey, Amy Ruth. "Investigation of biological matrices for novel biomarkers by modern mass spectrometric methods." Thesis, Swansea University, 2008. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa42718.
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The primary objective was to introduce novel or develop existing techniques for the identification of new biomarkers within a range of biological matrices by modem mass spectrometric methods. Samples interrogated were hemodialysis concentrate, whole tissue sections and whole blood, with each having inherent challenges for use with mass spectrometry. Hence, published research has focused on other biological matrices or modes of detection for achieving the relevant aim. This current work overcame these issues by improving sample preparation including, the use of existing protocols for completely novel applications. Haemodialysate solution has proved most fruitful for identifying new candidate biomarkers. We have reproducibly detected 15 known and 6 novel uremic solutes within hemodialysate, a biological matrix previously deemed unsuitable for liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation-mass spectrometry (LC/ESI-MS). This work included a validation of the novel methodology with stability and reproducibility investigations to test robustness. This highlighted a previously unrecorded thermally labile nature of some uremic solutes within the dialysate solution. A putative structural assignment has been made for 4 novel uremic solutes named, 5-(amino-1,2,-dihydroxy-ethyl)-3-nitrosooxy-[ 1,2,4]trioxine-3,6-diol, 2-(5,6-diamino-6-diazenyl-cyclohex-l-enyl)-2-hydroxy-acetimidic acid, N-[2-(7-hydroxy-3-methyl-ocatahydro-imidazo[ 1,5-alpha]pyridine-6-yl)-2-oxo-acetyl]-guanidine, and 3-(6-hydroxy-cyclohexa- 1,3-dienyl)-2-imino-3-oxopropionaldehyde. We have also identified that the chemical nature of solutes will dictate their removal during dialysis treatment and highly polar conventional biomarkers, urea and creatinine, are not representative of non-polar analyte excretion. This allows us to knowledgably suggest recommendations to improve future treatment modalities. The mass spectrometric analysis of whole tissue sections, in particular those that are paraffin embedded, pose a new range of challenges. Current MALDI matrices are unable to penetrate deep within tissue limiting their use to the tissue surface only. We have evaluated a range of novel dansylated MALDI matrices for this purpose that is detectable by fluorescence spectroscopy to aid in locating the matrix compound following application. Each dansylated MALDI matrix showed better penetration into the tissue sections, yet maintaining fluorescence detection, when compared to standard matrices CHCA, sinapinic acid and DHB. Of these novel matrices dansylhydrazine proved most successful in ionising proteins and peptides by forming a protonated molecule and related adducts. These additional mass shifted peaks, when included in a tryptic peptide database search, can improve the probability of the original protein/peptide identification. We now have the potential to obtain a total image of frozen tissue by using CHCA and dansylhydrazine in combination to ionise proteins/peptides at the surface or at depth, respectively. Further work is required for the preparation protocols with paraffin embedded sections for this total imaging principle to be applied. Finally we have illustrated the advantages of discovering novel haemoglobin variants in blood with a new ion mobility time-of-flight mass spectrometer, the Synapt HDMS system (Waters, MA, USA). We have identified a new variant that co-elutes with glycated haemoglobin peaks present in chromatograms used for conventional blood screening. Ion mobility technology and data extraction enhances the clarity of the results regarding multiple charging and variant characteristics. This enabled the exact determination of the amino acid substitution or mutation for the variant, with its assignment to a haemoglobin chain and the specific location within the chain.
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Massie, Eric. "Stevenson, Conrad and the proto-modernist novel." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21610.
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This thesis argues that Robert Louis Stevenson's South Seas writings locate him alongside Joseph Conrad on the 'strategic fault line' described by the Marxist critic Fredric Jameson that delineates the interstitial area between nineteenth-century adventure fiction and early Modernism. Stevenson, like Conrad, mounts an attack on the assumptions of the grand narrative of imperialism and, in texts such as 'The Beach of Falesa' and The Ebb Tide, offers late-Victorian readers a critical view of the workings of Empire. The present study seeks to analyse the common interests of two important writers as they adopt innovative literary methodologies within, and in response to, the context of changing perceptions of the effects of European influence upon the colonial subject.
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Nogueira, Gustavo de Almeida. "Em terras alheias, escavando: questões do romance modernista segundo o jovem Samuel Beckett." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-20032019-122647/.
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O objetivo dessa dissertação é a análise da produção ensaística e do conteúdo das aulas ministradas pelo jovem Samuel Beckett no final dos anos 1920 e início dos anos 1930, focando-se nas considerações do irlandês a respeito do romance modernista. O material analisado compreende essencialmente o ensaio Dante...Bruno.Vico..Joyce (1929), a monografia Proust (1931) e as anotações da aluna Rachel Burrows tomadas das aulas ministradas por Beckett na Trinity College de Dublin nos anos 1930 e 1931, compiladas e comentadas no volume crítico Beckett before Beckett (2008) de Brigitte Le Juez. Intentamos enfatizar o que há de particular e de interessado nas leituras do jovem em seu início de carreira literária, buscando dar relevo às tomadas de posições estéticas, explícitas ou implícitas, em suas críticas e em suas aulas. Da influência marcante de seu conterrâneo James Joyce, comentamos o procedimento modernista de adicionar notas intertextuais às obras literárias e a busca por uma linguagem na qual forma e conteúdo encontre máxima fusão. De Proust, realçamos a veia estrategicamente pessimista da leitura beckettiana, analisando sua exposição do conceito de Hábito, as problemáticas da percepção distorcida do objeto pelo sujeito, e a complexidade da construção da personagem literária em constante mutação. Visando ilustrar de que modo tais tomadas de posições estéticas se desenvolveram na prática de sua produção ficcional, lançamos mão também da análise de determinados aspectos de seu primeiro romance, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, escrito em 1932, mas publicado apenas postumamente em 1992. De suas aulas, debatemos a impessoalidade do narrador e a exposição da complexidade incoerente da sucessão de eventos e personagens como critérios que orientam a defesa de Stendhal e Flaubert como precursores do romance modernista e a escolha de Balzac como alvo central de suas críticas à artificialidade da concatenação plausível de eventos do romance e da coerência lógica das personagens. Por fim, debatemos as razões da escolha beckettiana de André Gide como escritor exemplar do romance modernista francês em suas aulas, levando em conta o interesse do irlandês pelas considerações de Gide sobre a obra de Dostoievsky. Concluímos indicando a importância conferida por Beckett à incorporação da crítica e à exposição da incoerência dos elementos do romance como sinais de uma afinidade a uma estética do fracasso.The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the critical writings and the content of the lectures ministered by the young Samuel Beckett in the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s, focusing on the considerations of the Irishman on the modern novel. The material analyzed comprehends essentially the essay Dante...Bruno.Vico..Joyce (1929), the monograph Proust (1931) and the notes taken by Rachel Burrows on Becketts lectures at the Trinity College of Dublin in the years of 1930 and 1931, as compiled and commented by Brigitte Le Juez in her critical volume Beckett before Beckett (2008). We intended to emphasize the particularities and the interests of the young man at the beginning of his literary carrier, stressing the aesthetics positions taken, explicitly as implicitly, on his criticism and his lectures. On the notable influence of his countryman James Joyce, we commented the modernist procedure of the note snatching incorporated on the literary works and the search for a language in which form and content could find its maximum fusion. On Proust, we highlighted the strategic pessimism of Becketts rendering by analyzing his exposure on the concept of Habit, the problematic of the distortive perception of the object by the subject, and the constructions complexity of the literary character constantly evolving. In order to illustrate the way in which the aesthetics positions taken developed in the practice of his fictional work, we also analyzed some aspects of his first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, written in 1932, but only published posthumously. On the subject of his lectures, we discussed the narrators impersonality and the explanation on the incoherent complexity of the chain of events and characters as parameters that orientate the defense of Stendhal and Flaubert as the precursors of the modern novel and the designation of Balzac as the central target of his critics about the artificiality of the plausible concatenation of events and the logical coherence of fictional characters. Finally, we discuss the reasons of Becketts choice of André Gide as the exemplar writer of the French modern novel in his lectures, taking on account the Irishman interest in Gides considerations about Dostoevskys oeuvre. We conclude by indicating the importance conferred by Beckett on the critical incorporation and the exposure of the elements incoherence in the novel as signs of an affinity to an aesthetic of failure.
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Takakjian, Cara Elizabeth. "The Italian Graphic Novel: Reading Ourselves, Reading History." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11002.
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This study seeks to unravel the intricate connection between a selection of graphic novels, the moments in which they were created, and the process of weaving an Italian cultural history. It analyzes graphic novels and comics from three periods in Italian contemporary history – 1968, 1977 and 2001 – and asks how the hybrid image-text language of graphic novels might provide a unique insight into the relationship between the individual and history in contemporary Italy. More specifically, it looks at how the comic medium not only reflects or represents historical events, but effectively re-writes and re-traces them, allowing us to re-think History. Ultimately, this work reveals how the graphic novel medium has been used as an instrument in the process of weaving an Italian cultural history since 1968. Comics not only reflect the time in which they are created, either explicitly or implicitly, but also work as cultural agents in the formation and re-telling of history. Whether they attempt to speak to and for a generation seeking change and a new reality of freedom, are a means of aggressive socio- political criticism in a moment of apathy and disillusion, or a space to reflect on and work through personal and historical trauma, graphic novels are shaped by, and help to shape, our vision of ourselves and our society.Romance Languages and Literatures
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Dodson, Sandra. "Towards a modernist aesthetic : dialectical modes of representation in the early modern novel." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21943.
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Bibliography: pages 156-163.This thesis contests the widely-held view that literary modernism is a late manifestation of the romantic-symbolist tradition, arguing that the modern novel's self-reflexive preoccupation with the materiality of language is incompatible with the essentialist premises of romantic-symbolist aesthetics. It also takes issue with the critical argument that modernism is the product of a conflict between the logocentric modes of symbolism and literary realism. Its central contention is that in its early stages modernism is defined by a deconstructive dialectic between a logocentric symbolist mode which gestures to a realm of meaning beyond language, and an ex-centric allegorical mode, which has its home in differential structures of representation. Chapter one discusses the origin of the symbol-allegory dialectic in the domain of romantic aesthetics; distinguishes modernist allegory from romantic and pre-romantic allegorical modes; and transposes the symbol-allegory dialectic into a post- structuralist theoretical framework. It demonstrates the affinity of symbol with the philosophical paradigms of Hegelian Erinnerung, the Lacanian Imaginary, and the presencing mode of the sign in Western metaphysics; and the affinity of allegory with the paradigms of Hegelian Gedachtnis (de Man's disjunctive "thinking memory"), the Lacanian Symbolic, and Derridean archi-ecriture. Building upon this theoretical ground, the next three chapters examine the representational features of three seminal early modern novels: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, Marcel Proust's Swann's Way and James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, demonstrating in each case how a discursive allegorical mode implicitly demystifies a symbolist rhetoric of "pure figuration" supposedly divested of referential function. Each chapter also represents a variation on the symbol- allegory problematic. Chapter two explores the relation of Conrad's early work to the aesthetic tradition of the sublime, arguing that in Lord Jim Conrad moves beyond a traditional literary sublime predicated on an elusive realm of meaning beyond language to an infinitely textual modernist sublime which exposes the discursive status of meaning and subjectivity. Chapter three demonstrates the affinity of Proustian voluntary and involuntary memory with the Hegelian categories of Gedachtnis and Erinnerung, and further, with the Lacanian concepts of Eros (Imaginary) and Law (Symbolic). It shows that involuntary memory is always already inhabited by the differential structures of voluntary memory, always already caught in the temporal predicament that is for Lacan and Derrida the definitive condition of desire and writing. Chapter four focuses on the relation between allegory, irony and authorial subjectivity in A Portrait. It demonstrates that the allegorisation of the· autobiographical subject in A Portrait crucially affects the modality of irony in the text, rendering obsolete conventional rhetoric of irony predicated on a coherent, non-discursive authorial subjectivity. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the representational issues involved in the shift from early to high modernist aesthetics. It cites Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake as exemplary high modernist texts, and demonstrates that in both novels the dialectic between symbol and allegory falls away, and the sublime, intertextual form of allegory predominates.
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Voyiatzaki, Evangelina. "The body in the text : James Joyce's Ulysses and the modern Greek novel." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4380/.
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This thesis examines the body's thematization in narrative, and as part of the aesthetic consciousness of the modernist novel. Its starting point is Joyce's pioneering association of Ulysses with the functions of a live body, and the interdisciplinary rationale that his Thomist aesthetics of wholeness enact. Joyce's view of his text as a multi-levelled, reciprocally interdependent hierarchy of various fields, including art and science, as developed in the Linati and Gilbert Schemes, sheds light on the polyphonic and polyglottic narratorial tactics of U. Joyce's enterprise is compared to the Greek modernist novel which developed its innovative techniques in accordance with the general demand for a reorientation of Greek literature toward introspection. The reception of U in Greece coincided with the heyday of this attempt which was characterized by experimentation and was influenced by psychoanalysis, phenomenology and anthropological studies. The three Greek authors in this study, Stelios Xefloudas, Nikos Gavriil Pentzikis, Giorgos Cheimonas, each of them representing a different period in the development of the modem novel, were variously influenced by Joyce's work. The argument particularly focuses on their use of the body in the text in the light of Joyce's work. The foreword, a theoretical introduction, sets forth the terms of the argument. The first chapter is a brief survey of Us reception in Greece. It discusses the quest for the renewal of Greek literature which started around the thirties. Tracing the links of this renewal With Joyce's work, it particularly focuses on the techniques of introspection and their association with the body, as part of the aesthetic consciousness of the inner-orientated or 'introverted' novel. The second chapter is an analysis of Joyce's paradigmatic use of the body in the text. Focusing on the act of creation in comedy, scientific discovery and aesthetic rapture, it discusses the psycho-physiological processes and the cultural psycho-dynamics which are compressed within Q, and support its multi-perspectival and multi-interpretative orientation. Joyce's mock-heroic, his anti-theology, the aesthetics of the androgynous artist, desire in language and bodily interference in the act of writing are seen in relation to the body and in the light of Joyce's explanatory schemes. Chapter three examines Xefloudas's attempted assimilation of Joyce's introspective techniques, in the use of myth, in the questing voyager archetype, and in desire in language through the myth of eternal return. The fourth chapter discusses N. G. Pentzikis's Christian-Freudian-Jungian perspective on Joyce's work and his reworking of Us motifs in a surrealist mode (dream, metamorphosis, free association). His endeavour to subvert his own literary past takes place through the re-writing of Drosmiis's novel, To Mythistorema fis Kytlas Ersis. In this book all elements of Greek modernism are welded together. Pentzikis undoes and redoes the Parnassian novel, drawing heavily upon Q, and the Hellenic and Byzantine legacies which he semi-parodically incorporates into his art. His use of the Rabelaislan body and the grotesque, which reflects his language games, also emulates Joyce's. The fifth chapter deals with Cheimonas, as a successor of the previous authors. Cheimonas revisits all the thematic motifs of Joyce and of the aforementioned Greek authors in the light of contemporary phenomenology, psychoanalysis, psycho-linguistics and deconstruction. In an attempted assimilation of the language of FW and Joyce's preoccupation with the sound of the word, he writes an elliptical prose violated in its syntax, grammar and word-formation. His texts are a journey to the origins of language. Through violent dramatizations of psycho-linguistic theories, these texts aim at revealing the body's voice.
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Forbes, Shannon. "Women's transition from Victorian to contemporary identity as portrayed in the modern novel /." Lewiston : the E. Mellen press, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40213429k.
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Staveley, Alice Elizabeth. "Reconfiguring 'Kew Gardens' : Virginia Woolf's 'Monday or Tuesday' years." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365488.
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Edel-Roy, Agnès. "Une « démocratie magique » : politique et littérature dans les romans de Vladimir Nabokov." Thesis, Paris Est, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PESC0080/document.
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Écrite d’abord en russe puis en anglo-américain, l’œuvre romanesque de Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), écrivain américain d’origine russe, fascine ses lecteurs, mais leur participation à l’achèvement de cette œuvre artistique a été singulièrement restreinte par sa réception. La publication de Lolita (1955) le transforme en précurseur du postmodernisme américain. Aboutissement de la quête moderne de l’autonomie de l’art et triomphe de l’autotélisme artistique, sa création se trouve alors interprétée en poétique « tyrannique » sur laquelle règne l’auteur en « dictateur absolu ». Vladimir Nabokov, pourtant, n’a cessé d’identifier dans l’Histoire et de combattre dans son œuvre deux questions politiques du vingtième siècle : celle de la soumission de l’art à l’idéologie (quelle qu’en soit le nom) et celle de la tyrannie (actualisée par les régimes politiques nazi et soviétique). Dès l’origine, sa création de langue russe, puis anglo-américaine, est synchronisée avec les conséquences, tant en Russie qu’en Occident, de la Révolution bolchevique, l’événement historique qui change le « partage du sensible » (Jacques Rancière) vingtiémiste. La nature autotélique de sa création, dont les caractéristiques sont à redéfinir en opposition aux formes artistiques prônant l’engagement de l’art, indique en réalité que Nabokov propose une nouvelle « politique de la littérature » (Jacques Rancière) de l’émancipation qu’il a lui-même appelée du nom de « démocratie magique » et fait d’elle un « art critique » dont l’effet politique passe par sa distance esthétique, incluant « dans la forme de l’œuvre la confrontation de ce que le monde est avec ce que le monde pourrait être » (Jacques Rancière)Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), American writer of Russian origin, was the author of fiction written first in Russian and then in American English. His work has been a constant source of fascination for his readers, but their interpretation has been limited by its reception. Upon the publication of Lolita (1955), Nabokov is seen as a precursor of American postmodernism. His writings are interpreted as the climax of the modernist quest for artistic autonomy and a triumph of autotelic creation, and a poetic of “tyranny” is identified in his work, with the author reigning supreme as an “absolute dictator.”However, Nabokov had never ceased to be preoccupied with two political issues in 20th century History, which he continuously denounced in his writings: the issue of the submission of art to any kind of ideology and that of tyranny illustrated by the Nazi and Soviet political regimes. From the very beginning of his career, in his Russian texts and later in his American texts, Nabokov’s work examines the consequences of the Bolshevik Revolution, seen as the historical event that changes the “distribution of the sensible” (J. Rancière) in the 20th century. The autotelic nature of his work, whose features should be defined in opposition to aesthetic forms that celebrate the commitment of art, actually indicates that Nabokov defines a new “politics of literature” (J. Rancière) based on emancipation, which Nabokov calls “a magic democracy” and considers to be a “critical art” whose aesthetic effect is predicated on its distance, thus including “in the form of the work the confrontation between what the world is and what the world may become” (J. Rancière)
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Backman, Rebecka. "The Awakening of a Modern Self : Self-Discovery in Kate Chopin’s Novel The Awakening." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-66965.
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This essay argues that The Awakening treats the 1890s “modern woman” that arose from feminist ideas and the women’s movement, challenging patriarchal society with an independent lifestyle. Following Ringe, this essay suggests that the novel has a purpose of showing the process and the development of the protagonist’s individual self. But rather than connect this theme to the transcendentalist notion of the self, as Ringe does, this essay looks at this theme in the light of the notion of the “modern woman”. By arguing that Edna develops into a modern woman during this process, the essay finds that she moves from the traditional position as a “patriarchal woman” towards the role of an “emancipated woman”. Further, the essay shows that Edna’s development and thereby her attempt to change her position fails as the process of self-discovery is conflicted, resulting in Edna’s suicide. Finally, by also arguing that the novel treats a woman’s self and the process of a development, the essay visualizes that the novel is built-up by seven steps that together constitute the process from “patriarchal woman” to “emancipated woman”. This process awakens a self-awareness and self-image within Edna that are strengthened with each of these step as she becomes a “modern woman”.Denna uppsats argumenterar för att The Awakening skildrar 1890-talets “moderna kvinna” som uppstod från feministiska idéer samt kvinnorörelsen och utmanade det patriarkaliska samhället med en självständig livsstil. Då jag följer Ringe påvisar den här uppsatsen att romanen har ett syfte att visa processen och utvecklingen av huvudpersonens individuella jag. Men istället för att koppla detta till den transcendentalistiska uppfattningen av jaget som Ringe gör, så kopplar denna uppsats detta till begreppet den “moderna kvinnan”. Genom att argumentera för att Edna utvecklas till en modern kvinna under denna process finner uppsatsen att hon flyttar från den traditionella rollen som en “patriarkalisk kvinna” mot rollen som en “emanciperad kvinna”. Uppsatsen visar vidare att Ednas utveckling och således hennes försök att ändra sin roll misslyckas då självupptäcktsprocessen står under konflikt, vilket resulterar i att Edna tar självmord. Genom att också argumentera för att romanen skildrar en kvinnas jag och processen av en utveckling visar slutligen uppsatsen att romanen är uppbyggd av sju olika steg som tillsammans utgör processen från ”patriarkalisk kvinna” till ”emanciperad kvinna”. Denna process väcker en självmedvetenhet samt en självbild inom Edna som förstärks med varje steg medan hon blir en “modern kvinna”.
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Alkan, Burcu. "The representation of the intellectual in the modern Turkish novel of the 1970'S." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496695.
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This thesis investigates the representation of intellectuality in Turkish novels of the 1970s, focusing on Adalet Agaoglu's Olmeye Yatmak (1973), Attila llhan's Bicagin Ucu,(1973) and Yaraya Tuz Basmak (1978), and Furuzan's Kirk Yedilliler (1974). The interrelations among the intelligentsia, the state and the public are central to these novels. The thesis examines the intellectuals' disengagement from the state, their failure to relate with the people and the consequences of such disconnections.
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Huber, Sarah. "Method-Specific Barriers and Facilitators: A Novel Evaluation of Modern Contraception in Rural Malawi." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1519854553749177.
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Saugestad, Frode. "Individuation and the shaping of personal identity a comparative study of the modern novel." Wiesbaden Reichert, 2009. http://d-nb.info/995606749/04.
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Magreb, Alzahrani. "Continuity of traditional literary features in the modern Arabic novel : a study in intertextuality." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2007. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605812.
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Saugestad, Frode. "Individuation and the shaping of personal identity : a comparative study of the modern novel." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2006. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28948/.
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This study endeavours to contribute to the sociology of literature through its analysis of the process of individuation in three distinct literatures, one western and two Arabic. The overarching aim of this thesis is to link the process of individuation to the literary genre of the novel, and demonstrate how one can probe certain aspects of individuation through the study of the novel. This particular approach facilitates a significant dialogical interaction between the process of individuation and the genre of the novel. By contextualising each writer in his specific literary field of production one is able to identify the specificity of his literary contribution, in the process of shaping personal identity. The introduction outlines the theoretical framework and argues that literary texts are immersed in a complex social network of power relations relevant to perceptions of identity, the process of individuation and the psychology of the individual, by linking them to the complex process of modernity. The study grounds its investigation in the most sophisticated theories in the sociology of cultures, identity and literary theory through the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Stuart Hall, Anthony Giddens, Rene Girard, and Mikhail Bakhtin. By doing so it avoids the normative and simplistic understanding of the process of individuation, and the genre of the novel. It views the modem novel as immersed in a complex social network of power relations (Bourdieu), relevant to perceptions of identity (Hall), and the process of individuation and the psychology of the individual (Girard), interwoven into the fabric of the complex process of modernity (Giddens) and articulated in the modem novel due to its polyphony of voices (Bakhtin).
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Ericksen, Nicole. "Reveille and Retreat: A Middle Grade Novel." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu15960239133245.
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Rice, Jessica. "Women in Fairy Tales: The Pursuit of a Modern-Day Heroine." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/907.
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This thesis reexamines the purpose of fairy tales throughout history and explores the effectiveness of a modern alternative to classical methods of telling these stories. To increase interactivity as well as the agency of the female protagonist and players themselves, this thesis reimagines the popular classic, Cinderella, as a visual novel.
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Hall, Grant. "Holey Umbrella an exegesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Creative Writing (MCW), 2008 ; Fissure (an extract), 2009 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/803.
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The creative outcome of my Masters Degree is an extract of my manuscript for a novel. The extract is 40,000 words in length and represents approximately one half of the completed novel. Fissure is the title of the novel. It is a novel which is unconventional in relation to the mainstream understanding of what a traditional novel is. Fissure aims to position itself within a post modern framework. It consists of two primary narratives set apart in time.
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Vachon, Lauren Marie. "Glow: A Novel." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1374695902.
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Fitzpatrick, Tony A. "Analysis of Secular Change and a Novel Method of Stature Estimation Utilizing Modern Skeletal Collections." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/anthro_theses/63.
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Reconstructing stature is at the core of providing information on unidentified human remains. This research shows that there are significant differences between modern populations and those used to create the most common stature estimation formulae. New formulae for the femur and fibula in males and females were created to provide accurate estimates for modern forensic cases. Additionally, a novel measurement of the femur is shown to be moderately correlated with stature and stature estimation formulae for this measurement are included.
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Hurcombe, Martin John. "Forming the modern mind : a reappraisal of the French combat novel of World War One." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/bbf9a8b4-fc54-474e-b46e-d07f4d269586.
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Costa, Villaverde Elisa I. "A cultural approach to the adaptation from novel to film : a study of adaptation with special reference to the transmission of cultural codes and values." Thesis, University of Hull, 2001. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:11545.
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Uhrig, Reinhard Mathias. "First-person narration in the early modern novel with special reference to Sorel's Francion, Grimmelshausen's Courasche, and Defoe's Moll Flanders." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325410.
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Martins, Renata de Freitas. "A experiência do estranho no romance Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge, de Rainer Maria Rilke." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8144/tde-03122012-123751/.
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Inserida nos estudos da Germanística Interdisciplinar no Brasil, a presente dissertação, A experiência do estranho no romance Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge, de Rainer Maria Rilke, tem como objetivo analisar na mencionada obra literária, considerada o primeiro romance moderno em língua alemã do século XX, o conceito do estranho. Os diversos elementos ficcionais que compõem cada um de seus setenta e um fragmentos permitem ao protagonista-narrador, Malte Laurids Brigge, ter acesso à abrangente configuração da semântica do estranho que se apresenta aqui por meio de três vertentes: a experiência de vida em uma metrópole estrangeira com a qual ele não se identifica, mas que, dialeticamente, lhe serve como uma ponte para a descoberta de seu mundo interior; a revelação de recordações de sua infância, até então não manifestadas, e regidas por acontecimentos particulares que reconstituem a busca precoce por sua identidade; e a afirmação de seu Eu através de leituras de narrativas alheias que projetam camufladamente sua identidade. Com esse conjunto semântico multifacetário, Rilke logra articular com a experiência do estranho diversas possibilidades e tentativas de Malte Laurids Brigge em buscar e redefinir sua identidade.Inscribed within Interdisciplinary Germanic Studies in Brazil, the objective of this thesis, The Foreigners/Stranger´s Experience in Rainer Maria Rilkes Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge, is to analyze the concept of the foreigner/stranger in said text, considered to be the German languages first 20th Century modern novel. The diverse fictional elements comprising each one of the seventy one fragments of the work grant the central character/narrator access to the configuration of the semantics of the foreigner, presented in three strains: the experience of living in a foreign metropolis with which he does not identify yet serves him as a bridge to discovering an inner world in dialectic terms; the revelation of memories not manifested during his childhood and governed by particular occurrences that reconstruct his search for identity; and the projection of his ego through readings of narratives by others. With this group of elements and by way of the foreigners experience, Rilke manages to articulate the most diverse possibilities of Malte Laurids Grigges search for identity.
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Katsan, Gerasimus Michael. "Unmaking history: postmodernist technique and national identity in the contemporary greek novel." The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1062992115.
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Rius, Rueda Armand. "A novel optimization methodology of modular wiring harnesses in modern vehicles : weight reduction and safe operation." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/404413.
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The weight of electric and electronic components of cars has been uninterruptedly increasing through the last decades, and thus the weight of their wiring harnesses. This fact has awakened the interest of car manufacturers on the weight and cost optimization of automotive wiring harnesses . For this reason, this dissertation discusses and develops approaches to reduce the amount of copper for the purpose of current conduction, i.e. the cross-sections of all of the wires of the car, without endangering safety.
On the one hand, harnesses must withstand continuous operation currents. On account of this, it is necessary to know the characteristic flow of current of the in-vehicle electrical network. Nevertheless. the huge quantity of available combinations of equipment of the car produces a proportional variety of customer-specific wiring hamesses, and makes it unfeasible to simulate all of them. This thesis points attention on specific segments of the wiring harnesses. Sorne of them can have many possible compositions, which are related to the customer's car settings. Since computation time is a limiting factor here, it is proposed to predict the bundle heating behaviors by means of response surfaces, obtained from a set of finite element simulation results and the least squares method.
On the other hand, the correct wire sizes must ensure that they are protected by their associated melting fuses, so that their maximum acceptable temperature is not exceeded after short circuits. Since many wires in cars are connected to other wires with splices, or may suffer short-circuits in their electric loads, these short-circuits can flow across different wires. In modular wiring harnesses, each of the wires can have different lengths and different installation ratios, their cross-section affects the cost of the wire harness with different importance, as well as the short circuit and the final temperature of the wire. The finite volume method is used to simulate the short circuit of series-connected wires. Finally, non-linear optimization is used to find the mínimum cross sections of wires respecting the constraints of maximum temperature and mínimum short-circuit current.
Finally, these two different criteria for optima! wire dimensioning are combined in the analysis of the on-board network of the vehicle in order to make a complete weight and cost minimization of the cable harnesses in a particular vehicle, considering also its modularity of loads.El pes dels components elèctrics i electrònics deis automòbils ha crescut ininterrompudament al llarg de les darreres dècades, i conseqüentment ho han fet també els seus feixos de cables. Aquest fet ha despertat entre els fabricants de turismes un elevat interès en la minimització del pes i dels costos del cablejat del vehicle. Per aquest motiu, aquesta tesi desenvolupa mètodes per reduir la quantitat de coure destinat a la conducció de corrent, és a dir, les seccions de tots els fils elèctrics dins el cotxe, sense posar en risc la seguretat. Per una banda, els feixos han de resistir els corrents d'operació continuada. Per a aquest propòsit, cal conèixer el flux de corrents característic de la xarxa de bord del vehicle. No obstant, la immensa quantitat de combinacions de diferents equipaments del vehicle produeix proporcionalment una enorme varietat de feixos personalitzats per als clients, fet que fa inviable simular totes aquestes combinacions . El primer dels mètodes d'optimització que es proposen en aquesta tesi estudia segments dels feixos de cables per separat un a un. Alguns d'ells poden tenir diferents composicions de fils en funció de la configuració aplicada pel client. Com que el temps de calcul és un factor limitant, es proposa predir el comportament tèrmic dels segments per mitja de superfícies resposta, que s'obtenen a través del mètode deis mínims quadrats i un conjunt de resultats de simulació de feixos pel mètode dels elements finits. Per altra banda, les correctes seccions dels fils han de ser tals que els curtcircuits i les sobrecarregues no puguin malmetre'ls, gracies a la correcta coordinació amb els fusibles destinats a protegir-los. Atès que molts fils estan connectats amb altres fils per mitja d'unions soldades i que molts curtcircuits són provocats directament en bornes de les carregues elèctriques, els curtcircuits poden fluir a través de fils diferenciats connectats en serie. Als feixos modulars, cadascun deis fils té diferents longituds i ratis d'instal·lació. És per aquest darrer motiu que llur secció afecta de diferent manera al cost total del conjunt deis feixos de cables deis cotxes venuts . De la mateixa manera, les seves longituds diferents fan que les variacions en les seccions alterin els curtcircuits resultants amb diferent sensibilitat. És per això que es fa servir optimització no lineal per trobar les seccions separades de cadascun dels fils connectats en serie a través dels quals poden passar curtcircuits. Per a aquesta fi es fan simulacions en volums finits i models energètics dels fusibles integrades dins de l'optimització no lineal. Finalment, aquestes dues vies de dimensionament es combinen dins una anàlisi íntegra de la xarxa de bord per dimensionar de forma òptima cadascun dels fils del vehicle, tenint en compte les interconnexions entre feixos i totes les combinacions d'equipament.
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