Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Trials (Treason) in literature'

Treason, in the romances of Chrdtien de Troyes and the lais of Marie de France, is explored more often as afin' amor problem than as a legal issue with its concomitant sociopolitical ramifications. It is precisely the historical function of literature within the ambit of court culture that appears to have shaped the legal context of the poems of Chrdtien de Troyes and the lais of Marie de France. Counterpoising the literary treatment of treason in Le Chevalier au Lion and Lanval with actions and definitions of treachery by contemporary, twelfth-century chronicle and customary law sources reveals that the conceptualized, fictional world of Chrdtien's Yvain closely reflects the workings of the Capetian society Chretien experienced. Marie's Lanval reflects as well the historical impressions of the Angevin court with which she had familiarity, a court whose concept of treason leaned more toward the maiestas concept found in Roman jurisprudence tradition.

This thesis is a political history of the trials of wartime collaborators in Norway after 1945. It offers a first scholarly investigation into the central actors behind these trials, looking at the ways in which Norwegian authorities planned, implemented and interpreted the 'reckoning' with wartime collaborators between 1941 and 1964. In doing so, it evaluates the broader political purposes the trials served, how these changed over time, and the mechanisms that brought about these changes. The analysis distinguishes between 'internal' and 'external' influences on the trials. 'Internal' influences are understood to be both the inherent doctrinal and institutional limitations of the law, as well as the personal and political convictions found within the authorities that governed the trials. 'External' influences meanwhile constitute the broader public attitudes and debates surrounding the trials in politics, the media and civil society. This thesis therefore seeks to deepen our understanding of the trials in two ways. Firstly, it goes beyond existing scholarship by focusing not on questions of 'morality' and 'justice', but instead on competing institutional dynamics and political representations of legitimacy and authority. Secondly, unlike most previous scholarship, it provides an encompassing account of the policy decisions underlying the trials by looking at the full timespan of the Norwegian authorities' administrative engagement with them, from their initial conceptualisation to the handling of their legacy. Thereby, individual decisions and events can be seen in relation to one another, allowing us to understand what purposes the trials served at different stages of their implementation, and how legal and administrative measures related to their political purposes. In response to previous scholarship on the trials, this thesis argues that the driving agent of the trials was not the static agenda of any one institution or group, but that their final shape was the result of the complex interaction of demands for legal consistency with a rapidly changing political and social context, both at the national and the international level.

This study argues that treason is understood as a breach of allegiance in medieval popular tradition as well as in legal definitions of the crime in Roman, Anglo-Saxon, military, and medieval French and English law. The scope of treason in Malory's Morte Darthur owes much to the crimes of treason in military, English, and archaic French law. But Malory also reflects extra-legal acts of treason such as adultery. He synthesises from these diverse laws and ideas a reasonably consistent body of pseudo-historical custom, which contributes to his Arthurian society's material plausibility and realism. Malory's treatment of the traitor is greatly indebted to extralegal thought, most notably in that his traitors are evaluated in terms of their motivations and ethical characters as well as their culpability of objective traitorous acts. Malice, mortal sin, unnatural tendencies and repeated treasons characterise the traitor as villain: the traitor as hero is depicted as fundamentally virtuous, non-malicious, and generally commits one treason only with the best of motivations. Treason, however, always involves sin, and in the last three tales Malory begins to acknowledge that treason therefore implies a crime against God as well as society. Infidelity to God in the last two tales is expressed through the coinciding treasons, disloyalties and overvalued worldly loyalties of Malory's characters, and these, regardless of the moral intentions of the perpetrators, bring about the downfall of the Arthurian kingdom. The fall of the nation can be interpreted as a retribution for the characters' sins against God which leads the surviving members to realign their allegiances and embrace heavenly chivalry and the religious life in recognition of and in penance for their previous misdeeds.

The thesis primarily examines the 1797 trial of David McLane in Quebec City for spying, the steps taken by the British authorities to ensure a conviction, and McLane's activities in 1796 and 1797 in Vermont and Lower Canada on behalf of the French Minister to the United States, Pierre Adet. McLane did not receive a fair trial because the colonial administration in Lower Canada so thoroughly manipulated the legal system that a guilty verdict was assured. But, ironically, McLane was a guilty man, having been hired by Adet to find sympathizers who would help instigate a rebellion in the colony; he was also employed to gather military intelligence and to help the French seize Lower Canada. The paper also looks at the attempts of the French between 1793 and 1797 to stir up unrest in the colony and their intentions to spark a rebellion and/or to invade Lower Canada. Furthermore, the work discusses the fear that the colony's English community felt due to their perception of the French threat and to their belief that the local Francophone population might rise en masse in an insurrection. Finally, the thesis examines the steps that the English took in response to those fears. The transcript of the McLane trial was found at the Willamette University College of Law Library and the pre-trial depositions of the prosecution's witnesses were located in the collection of the Oregon Historical Society. Many of the research materials were obtained from the libraries of Portland State University, Lewis and Clark College, Willamette University, Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, the University of New Brunswick, and the University of Western Ontario or were obtained through the interlibrary loan offices at Portland State University and the Salem Public Library. Materials were also obtained directly from Canadian historian F. Murray Greenwood, the editorial office of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, the National Archives of Canada, the City Archives of Providence, Rhode Island, and Dr. Claire Weidemier McKarns of Encinitas, California. Most of the early Lower Canadian statutes and other information concerning Lower Canadian and British legal history were found at the Oregon Supreme Court Library. Also, most of the biographical information concerning McLane's early years and his family was found at the Genealogical Section of the Oregon State Library and through the family history centers at the Corvallis (Oregon) and the South Salem {Oregon) Stakes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

The Rivonia treason trial started on October 9, 1963, the same day that former Cape Town coloured singer Danny Williams made front page headlines by marrying a white girl in London. Those were the days when apartheid, not as “reformed” as it is today, was rigorously applied by the National Party government. Love, sex and marriage across the colour line were forbidden. Crooner Williams, 31, then riding the crest of the pop wave with his ballad “Moon River”, took his vows with Bobbi Carole, who married him against the wishes of her parents. Williams, fearing persecution, told an interviewer he would not be welcome in South Africa again. But most prominent by far on the front page that day was the Rivonia treason trial. A report from Pretoria — following the style of the times — said: “Eleven men — four whites, one Indian and six Natives — went on trial in the Supreme Court here today before Mr Justice Quartus de Wet (Judge President of the Transvaal) on charges of sabotage and of offences under the Suppression of Communism Act and of contravening the Criminal Law Amendment Act.”
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This dissertation will apply the structure of a legal trial’s procedures to two Modernist novels: Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier (1915) and Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (1955). These novels position themselves as renderings of legal proceedings, the written memoriam of metaphorical trials conducted by first person narrators who alternatively and simultaneously function as Plaintiff’s counsel, Defense Counsel and finally as witnesses to the events of the story. All of these personae reveal evidence and testimony presented in the forum of a trial of the central characters who recollect legal events and whose narrations develop moral questions. Thus these narrations are the court record, from which there is no appeal, culminating in not only persuasive arguments about guilt and innocence of the central characters, but also demanding that a verdict or moral judgment be rendered by the reader of these behaviors and values of the individuals as well as the societies which these authors critique in their novels. Ford Madox Ford in The Good Soldier (1915) and Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita (1955) create fictional artifacts which instill impressions of human life and present specific revelations of human nature in their art. Their narratives explain certain events in a temporal order, which communicate to readers a fictional world, its participants, and especially their emotions. These particular novels are early and late examples of Modernism, and are very different from one another, yet both illustrate the characteristics that so clearly define the Modern novel: art’s ability to engage not just the mind but the senses; the reader does not just read, but rather becomes immersed in the feelings of the characters in the story. The reader feels the dynamics between the characters through the narrative presentation as closely as possible to his or her being actually present in the fictionally created world of the novel. Both novels present their stories in a thrice-told frame that allows the character/narrators to explore epistemology and justifications for their acts or inaction. These stories are recollections, so that each character/narrator is remembering his respective narrative after the facts; these novels are unique for this timing.

BACKGROUND:Anticoagulation with vitamin K antagonists such as warfarin has historically been used for the long term management of patients with thromboembolic disease. However, these agents have a slow onset of action which requires bridging therapy with heparin and its analogues, which are available only in parenteral route. To overcome these limitations, new oral anticoagulants such as factor Xa inhibitors and direct thrombin inhibitors have been developed. The aim of this article is to systematically review the phase 3 clinical trials of new oral anticoagulants in common medical conditions.METHODS:We searched PubMed (Medline) from January 2007 to February 2013 using "Oral anticoagulants", "New oral anticoagulants", "Randomized controlled trial", "Novel anticoagulants", "Apixaban", "Rivaroxaban", "Edoxaban", "Dabigatran etexilate", "Dabigatran" and a combination of the above terms. The available evidence from the phase 3 RCTs was summarized on the basis of individual drug and the medical conditions categorized into "atrial fibrillation", "acute coronary syndrome", "orthopedic surgery", "venous thromboembolism" and "medically ill patients".RESULTS:Apixaban, rivaroxaban and dabigatran have been found to be either non-inferior or superior to enoxaparin in prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism in knee and hip replacement with similar bleeding risk, superior to warfarin for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation with significant reduction in the risk of major bleeding, non-inferior to aspirin for reducing cardiovascular death and stroke in acute coronary syndrome with significant increase in the risk of major bleed. Rivaroxaban and dabigatran are also superior to the conventional agents in the management of symptomatic venous thromboembolism. However, compared to enoxaparin, apixaban and rivaroxaban use lead to significantly increased bleeding risk in medically ill patients. Additional studies evaluating the specific reversal agents of these new drugs for the management of life-threatening bleeding or other adverse effects are necessary.CONCLUSION:Considering their pharmacological properties, their efficacy and bleeding complications, the new oral agents offer a net favourable clinical profile in orthopedic surgery, atrial fibrillation, acute coronary syndrome and increase the risk of bleeding in critically ill patients. Further studies are necessary to determine the long term safety and to identify the specific reversal agents of these new drugs.

Introduction: Myofascial release (MFR) is a form of manual therapy that involves the application of a low load, long duration stretch to the myofascial complex, intended to restore optimal length, decrease pain, and improve function. MFR is being used to treat patients with a wide variety of conditions, but there is a scarcity of evidence to support its efficacy. Studies are emerging in this field with varying results and conclusions. Analysis of the recent research trials and reviews will be a better way to appraise the quality and reliability of such works. Objective: This work attempts to analyse and summarise the evidence from three randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and one systematic review of the effectiveness of MFR on various neuromuscular conditions and pain. Methodology: Effectiveness of MFR on tension type headache, lateral epicondylitis and chronic low back pain were the RCTs identified for the analysis. The systematic review selected analysed the published RCTs on MFR till 2014. The methodological qualities of the studies were assessed using the PEDro, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine's (CEBM) Level of Evidence Scale, Risk of Bias (RoB) Analysis Tool and AMSTAR 2. Results: The RCTs analysed in this study were of moderate to high methodological quality (PEDro scale), with higher level of evidence (CEBM scale) and less bias (RoB). The effectiveness of MFR on tension type headache (TTH) was the first among the studies with a moderate methodological quality (6/10 in PEDro), with a 2b level of evidence on the CEBM scale. The study proved that direct technique or indirect technique MFR was more effective than the control intervention for TTH. The second RCT studied MFR for lateral epicondylitis (LE). The study was of a moderately high quality on the PEDro scale (7/10) with a 1b- level in CEBM. The MFR was found more effective than a control intervention for LE in computer professionals. The RCT on chronic low back pain (CLBP) also scored 7/10 in the PEDro scale and 1b in the CEBM scale. This study confirmed that MFR is a useful adjunct to specific back exercises and more helpful than a control intervention for CLBP. All three RCTs stated the usage of self-report measures and underpowered sample size as the major limitations along with a performance bias reported in the TTH trial. The systematic review demonstrated moderate methodological quality as per the AMSTAR 2 tool which analysed 19 RCTs for a result. The literature regarding the effectiveness of MFR was mixed in both quality and results. Omission of a risk of bias analysis was the major limitation of this review. The authors quoted that “MFR may be useful as either a unique therapy or as an adjunct therapy to other established therapies for a variety of conditions”. Conclusion: Critical appraisal is an important element of evidence-based medicine to carefully and systematically examine research to judge its trustworthiness, its value and relevance in a particular context. This review concludes that the three RCTs and the systematic review analysed were completed with moderate to good quality as per various quality measures, but with reported methodological flaws and interpretation biases. These studies with the critical appraisal can act as ‘pavements’ on which high quality future MFR trials and evidence can be built on.

A traição é um tema que temos estudado já faz algum tempo, utilizando como fontes as Canções de Gesta, um gênero literário poético corrente nas regiões que compunham o reino da França, entre o século XI e o século XV. O período áureo dessa poesia coincidiu com o governo da dinastia conhecida como dos Capetos diretos, cujo reinado e sucessão de pai para filho persistiu sem interrupção de 987 até 1328. Criadas e difundidas nos diversos senhorios territoriais da França, em especial no norte do reino, as Canções de Gesta tratavam em seus enredos de vários problemas de ordem moral e política vigentes na época. Em uma sociedade cuja coesão, ao menos na sua camada governante, era baseada na fidelidade e na criação de laços vassálicos, a traição constituía uma grave ameaça à estabilidade e à paz. Tanto a moral cristã quanto a moral cavaleiresca condenavam quem a praticasse, mas isso não evitou a sua constante ocorrência. Estudamos cinco poemas épicos: a Chanson de Roland (c. 1100), o Girart de Vienne (1180-1185), o Renaut de Montauban (início do século XIII), o Gaydon (1230- 1240) e o Jehan de Lançon (metade do século XIII). O Roland, sendo o mais antigo desses poemas, apresenta um monarca respeitado e difere dos poemas posteriores, cujos enredos valorizam os personagens conhecidos desde o século XIX como Vassalos Rebeldes. Da análise da traição nessa poesia e da relação entre vassalos e o rei pudemos extrair alguns pontos importantes. De início o ligado à questão vocabular, pois traïson / traïtre / traïr designam um dos mais graves crimes ali descritos, graças a sua ligação com a tradição neotestamentária da entrega de Jesus por Judas Iscariotis, suplantando outros termos de origem latina ou não (proditio, felonie). Nas Canções, a traição é dirigida primeiramente contra os barões e cavaleiros sendo os seus executores da mesma condição social de suas vítimas. Só tardiamente ela denomina um atentado contra o monarca. Outro ponto é a defesa, nos poemas, do direito à guerra ao senhor caso este não cumprisse suas obrigações de justiça para com seu vassalo. Assim, os heróis em luta contra Carlos Magno não eram mostrados pelo poeta como traidores e sim como vítimas de uma perseguição. Esses cavaleiros conservavam o respeito pelo seu senhor e aspiravam ser perdoados e reintegrados à corte régia. A responsabilidade pelas traições era direcionada para uma linhagem específica, a de Ganelon, responsável pelo desastre de Roncesvales na Chanson de Roland. Mas se aqui a traição fora um crime individual, desde fim do século XII há um trabalho de readaptação no qual o fato de se pertencer a essa família já tornava o personagem passível de ser um traidor. As suas traições podiam ir da falsa acusação até ao envenenamento de outros personagens. A prova da traição se dava frequentemente através do duelo judicial e os culpados, além de condenados à morte, podiam ter os corpos destruídos para evitar a ressurreição no final dos tempos.
Treason is a theme that we have been studying for some time, using as sources the Songs of Geste, a poetic genre current in the regions that made up the Frances kingdom, between the eleventh and the fifteenth centuries. That poetrys golden period coincided as the dynasty of government known as the \"direct Capetian\" which reign and father to son succession persisted without interruption from 987 to 1328. Created and disseminated in the various Frances territorial manorials, especially in the northern kingdom, the Songs of Geste treated in their plots of various problems of moral and political force at that time. In a society whose cohesion, at least in its ruling layer, was based on loyalty and creating vassalian ties, treason constituted a serious threat to stability and peace. Both Christian morality as the moral chivalry condemned those who practiced it, but that did not stop their constant occurrence. We studied five epic poems: the Chanson de Roland (C1100), the Girart de Vienne (1180-1185), the Renaut de Montauban (early thirteenth century), the Gaydon (1230-1240) and Jehan de Lançon (half of the century XIII). Roland, is the oldest of those poems, has a respected monarch, and differs from the later poems whose plots value the characters known since the nineteenth century as \"Vassals Rebels\". From the analysis of treason in this poetry and the relationship between vassals and the king, we could draw some important points. Initially the connected to the vocabulary question because traïson / traître / traïr designate one of the most serious crimes described there, thanks to its connection with the neo testamentary tradition of Jesus delivery by Judas Iscariot, supplanting other terms Latin or not (proditio, felonie). In Chansons, the treason is primarily directed against the barons and knights and the executors are of the same social condition of their victims. Only belatedly it calls an attack against the monarch. Another point is the defense, in the poems, from the right to the war to the lord if he does not achieve his justices obligations to his vassal. Thus, the heroes in the fight against Charlemagne were not shown by the poet as traitors but as victims of persecution. Those knights keep respect for their master and aspire to be forgiven and reintegrated to the royal court. Responsibility for treason is directed to a specific lineage, that of Ganelon, responsible for Roncesvales disaster in the Chanson de Roland. But if here the treason was an individual crime, since the end of the twelfth century there is a readjustment work in which the fact of belonging to that family already makes the character capable of being a traitor. Their treasons can go from false accusation to the poisoning of other characters. The proof of treason is often done through the judicial duel and the guilty, beyond sentenced to death, they might have their bodies destroyed to prevent the resurrection at the end of time.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley and the characters within, tell a prominent story of the posthuman condition in a society where humanist thought is the only conception of subjectivity. The use of not only posthuman studies, but more specifically studies including subjectivity was needed, in order to analyse the relationship between the humanist and the posthuman subjects. Theories of posthuman subjectivity and subjectivity by Rosi Braidotti and Michel Foucault were used in order to examine the posthuman condition of “Frankenstein’s monster” and the role of humanist vs. posthuman subjectivity between Victor Frankenstein and the monster. The tension between Victor and the monster was analysed in order to investigate the monster’s struggle at acquiring subjectivity in a posthuman state, which revealed why it is impossible for the humanist and posthuman subject to peacefully coexist.

Objetivo: Avaliar os efeitos da suplementação de vitamina A em lactantes, por intermédio de uma revisão sistemática. Métodos: Realizou-se buscas por ensaios aleatorizados controlados em bases de dados bibliográficos. Localizou-se 2.547 resumos que foram lidos e selecionados por dois examinadores, segundo critérios de elegibilidade e qualidade. Foram considerados elegíveis e apresentando qualidade 16 estudos, cujos dados foram extraídos e armazenados no Excel. Para os desfechos clínicos efeitos adversos e morbi-mortalidade materna e infantil, não foi possível realizar metanálise. Para os desfechos concentração de retinol sérico e no leite, realizou-se metanálise. Resultados: Não foram descritas diferenças estatisticamente significativas na ocorrência de diarréia, infecção respiratória e pneumonia entre crianças dos grupos com e sem suplementação. Observou-se menores prevalências de evacuações aquosas e cegueira noturna em lactantes suplementadas, porém sem proteção em relação à mortalidade. Observou-se menor ocorrência de níveis de retinol no leite <0,28μmol/g de lipídio no grupo suplementado aos seis meses (OR=0,73; IC95%: 0,54 – 0,99), mas não aos nove meses pós-parto (0,82; IC95%:0,59 – 1,14). Para os níveis de retinol sérico infantis e maternos, obteve-se diferença de médias sumária de 0,25μmol/L (IC95%: 0,16 – 0,34) e 0,14μmol/L (IC95%: 0,02 – 0,26) aos três meses pós-parto. Conclusões: Não há evidências de benefícios da suplementação em relação à morbi-mortalidade infantil e mortalidade materna. Há indicação de que a suplementação seja protetora em relação à morbidade materna, esteja relacionada à manutenção de teor adequado de retinol no leite humano até o sexto mês e à maior concentração sérica de retinol materno e infantil no terceiro mês pós-parto.
Objective: To assess the effects of vitamin A supplementation for breastfeeding mothers through a systematic review. Methods: Searches for randomized controlled trials were performed in bibliographic databases. The searches resulted in 2,547 summaries that were read and selected by two raters, by eligibility and quality criteria. Data from 16 quality studies were extracted and stored in Excel. It was not possible to carry out the meta-analysis for the clinical outcomes of adverse effects and maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. The meta-analysis was performed for retinol concentration in the serum and human milk. Results: No statistically significant differences were observed for diarrhea, respiratory infection or pneumonia between supplemented and non-supplemented infant groups. Reduced prevalences of loose stools and night blindness were observed in supplemented lactating women, but without protection for mortality. Lower occurrences of milk retinol concentration were observed <0.28μmol/g of lipid in the supplemented group at six months (OR=0.73; IC95%: 0.54 – 0.99), but not at nine months postpartum (0.82; IC95%:0.59 – 1.14). For infant and maternal serum retinol, the average difference in means was 0.25μmol/L (IC95%: 0.16 – 0.34) and 0.14μmol/L (IC95%: 0.02 – 0.26) at three months postpartum. Conclusions: There is no evidence of the benefit of supplementation for infant morbidity and mortality or for maternal mortality. There is an indication that the protection given by supplementation for maternal morbidity is related to suitable retinol levels in human milk until the sixth month postpartum and to the higher retinol concentration in maternal and infant serum in the third month postpartum.

This study examines Canadian works of fiction that contain historical trial narratives and that enact an adversarial trial of their own for an implied reader who acts as 'appellate judge.'' Included are four Canadian novels published after 1970 that fictionalize the circumstances leading to notorious criminal trials: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace (1996), Lynn Crosbie's Paul's Case: The Kingston Letters (1997), and Rudy Wiebe's The Temptations of Big Bear (1973) and The Scorched-Wood People (1977). They represent commentaries on the justice or injustice done to convicted murderer Grace Marks (whose trial took place in 1843), to rebel Cree chief Big Bear and Metis leader Louis Riel (1885), and to serial rapists and killers Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo (1993, 1995).
Each work reproduces excerpts from the original trial yet also represents a response to the historical trial's unfolding. This adversarial response takes the form of a trial-like narrative (or counternarrative) that engages with the original trial. Consequently each of these works is what I call a 'trial novel' that raises fundamental questions about justice and citizenship.
Chapter One analyzes Atwood's Alias Grace and lays bare the fictional constructs included in a trial narrative. Chapter Two looks at Crosbie's Paul's Case and pits the judicial system's claim to sober neutrality against a more populist version of justice based on affect and revenge. Finally, Chapter Three, which is devoted to Wiebe's novels, studies the conflict of normative universes implicit in trials for treason and posits that rebel nomoi are as coherent as the dominant ones that quash them.
Three communities are implicit in these novels and enter into a debate with one another: at the core of each work is a historical community of persons (the accused, attorneys, the judge, jurors, and members of the Canadian public) mobilized around an actual crime. This original community and its judgment provide the inspiration for the fictional community of the novel, which grapples with its own version of the crime and trial. Finally, an imaginative community of readers deliberates upon the questions raised both by the original trial and by the 'trial novel'.

This thesis seeks to place drama of the Caroline commercial theatre in its contemporary political and legal context; particularly, it addresses the ways in which the struggle for supremacy between the royal prerogative, common law and local custom is constructed and negotiated in plays of the period. It argues that as the reign of Charles I progresses, the divine right and absolute power of the monarchy on stage begins to lose its authority, as playwrights, particularly Massinger and Brome, present a decline from divinity into the presentation of an arbitrary man who seeks to impose and increase his authority by enforcing obedience to selfish and wilful actions and demands. This decline from divinity, I argue, allows for the rise of a competing legitimate legal authority in the form of common law. Engaging with the contemporary discourse of custom, reason and law which pervades legal tracts of the period such as Coke’s Institutes and Reports and Davies’ ‘Preface Dedicatory’ to Le Primer Report des Cases & Matters en Ley resolues & adiudges en les Courts del Roy en Ireland, drama by Brome, Jonson, Massinger and Shirley presents arbitrary absolutism as madness, and adherence to customary common law as reason which restores order. In this climate, the drama suggests, royal manipulation of the law for personal ends, of which Charles I was often accused, destabilises law and legal authority. This destabilisation of legal authority is examined in a broader context in plays set in areas outwith London, geographically distant from central authority. The thesis places these plays in the context of Charles I’s attempts to centralise local law enforcement through such publications as the Book of Orders. When maintaining order in the provinces came into conflict with central legislation, the local officials exercised what Keith Wrightson describes as ‘two concepts of order’, turning a blind eye to certain activities when strict enforcement of law would create rather than dissolve local tensions. In both attempting to insist on unity between the centre and the provinces through tighter control of local officials, and dividing the centre from the provinces in the dissolution of Parliament, Charles’s government was, the plays suggest, in danger not only of destabilising and decentralising legal authority but of fragmenting it. This thesis argues that drama provides a medium whereby the politico-legal debates of the period may be presented to, and debated by, a wider audience than the more technical contemporary legal arguments, and, during Charles I’s personal rule, the theatre became a public forum for debate when Parliament was unavailable.

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淡江大學
資訊與圖書館學系
91
The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics of literature on the randomized controlled trials (RCTs), based on bibliometric techniques. Through the MEDLINE database, the study searched for articles indexed under “RCTs” by “publication type”. Based on 160,213 pieces of data published from 1965 to 2001, this study analyzes the chronological distribution and the development patterns of these literatures. The study also analyzes 103,792 RCTs articles retrieved from 1999 to 2001 by their publication type, language, country of publication, and research subject. The study uses Bradford’s Law to examine the productivity of journals. In respect of the authors, the study use Lotka’s Law and Price’s Law of Square Root as well as 80/20 Rule to calculate and examine their productivity. In particular, the study compared 870 pieces of RCTs literature created by authors in Taiwan with those 1990-2001 medical literatures on RCTs from MEDLINE database. The research results reveal that: The growth rate of RCTs literature is in a steadily up-growing trend. The growth follows an exponential model and can be divided into four stages. 1965-1974 is the initial stage; 1975-1984 the developing stage, 1985-1994 the fast growing stage and 1995-2001 the plateaus stage.Journal article accounts for 98%, and the remaining 2% is subject to letter, editorial, newspaper article, news, congress and others. Most of the RCTs literature is written in English (92.94%). German ranked number two (2.10%) and French the third (1.05). It is because those data collected by MEDLINE are mainly in English. There are totally 74 countries that have publications about RCTs. United States contributes most of the RCTs literature (50.58%). The most popular research subject is cardiovascular disease. Such a finding corresponds with the ten leading causes of death in the high-income countries published by 2002 WHO. The distribution of journal literature on RCTs is inapplicable to Bradford Law. While examining the above finding by Journal Citation Report® on the Web (JCR), it reveals that the journals with high productivity will attain more influence (high impact factors). According to Bradford’s Zone analysis, there are approximate 42 core journals, in which 32 of them are published in the United States. Lotka’s Law is found to be inapplicable to the distribution of author productivity (n＝－3.167, c＝85.32%). K-S test proves the above conclusion. The distribution of author productivity is inconsistent with Price’s Square Root Law and 80/20 Rule. An analysis of medical literature on RCTs in Taiwan found that: (1) the total 870 pieces of records created by Taiwanese authors are Journal articles. Most of the articles were written in English; the others are in Chinese and Japanese; (2) anesthesiology is the most popular research topic in Taiwan. The second is gastroenterology; (3) most of the journals publish small number of literatures. Authors in Taiwan prefer to contribute articles to domestic journals; (4) most of the articles are co-authored. There are even 16 co-authors for a single article. On average, an article is co-authored by 5.09 researchers; (5) there are nearly half of the institutes (42.68%) that published only one article. The most productive institute is Taipei Veterans General Hospital. There are total 104 authors contribute to 172 pieces of articles from Taipei Veterans General Hospital, which accounts for 18.01%. The research results of this study suggest that: (1) the producer of database should maintain the completeness of each record. It is recommended to increase a field of corresponding authors; (2) libraries or information service institutions may establish the list of core journals based on Bradford’s law and provide effective informational services; (3) chronic liver disease and cirrhosis are of high mortality in Taiwan. Domestic medical institutes need to pay much more attention to related topics in this field.

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國立政治大學
圖書資訊與檔案學研究所
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This study used the bibliometrics to characterize the medical literature of randomized controlled trials. Analyze the medical literature of randomized controlled trials in MEDLINE database. In order to continue Yen-Hsu Yang’s research from 1965to 2001and understand the growth model of literature, this study collected 316,432 RCT’s bibliographies from 2001 to 2017 for analysis and analysis of data types, languages, publishing countries and research subjects. The study uses Bradford’s Law and Bradford-Zif’s Law to examine the productivity of journal, and uses Loka’s Law, 80/20 Rule and Price’s Law for the correlation analysis of the first author’s productivity. The results of this study are as follows: The literature of the medical literature of randomized controlled trial has gradually grown from 2001 to 2017, and the cumulative growth distribution curve is linear growth. There are 99% of the literature types belong to the journal literature. The rest of the literature types are letters, editorial, report articles, news, conference articles and others. Subdivided the journal types into 7 types, most of the journal types literature are clinical trial, with a total of 229,940 data. The literature consists of 31 languages, most of literature is written by English (95.5%), which is the main language, Chinese is the second most widely used. The United States is the country which published maximum literature of 144,953 as 45.8% of the total literature, United Kingdom ranked number two (28.7%). The most research subject is dietary supplement. Analysis 313,594 journal articles with Bradford’s law, the medical literature of randomized controlled trial was inapplicable. According to the Bradford’s law the literature could be divided into four regions. There are 83 core journals, and the overall literature is consistent with Bradford-Zif’s law. In the author productivity section, this study only analyzes the first author, the most co-authors up to 518, and 3 to 7 people are the most common co-authors. Giuseppe Derosa is the most published first author, which published 102 Article. Loka’s law is found to be inapplicable to the distribution of first author productivity (n=-3.2412, c=86.179%). K-S test proves that this study is inapplicable to Loka’s law. The productivity of the first author is also inconsistent with Price’s law and the 80/20 rule. This study makes the following recommendations for the results of the study: In the literature section, the database should be maintained for the integrity of the literature, the author’s name and contact address should be fully published to reflect the author’s productivity. In the book information service section, provide the major book information units, use the core journals defined by the Bradford’s Law to establish a collection development and procurement list. In the clinical staff and future research sections, if you want to conduct related research in this field in the future, should improve your language skills and conduct research on core journals.

This dissertation explores the ethical and aesthetic stakes of readers’ judgments by analyzing mock trials of literary characters that were performed in Soviet Russia and abroad in the 1920s and 1930s. Literary trials were part of a larger craze for public mock trials in the decades after the Russian Revolution. Mock trials functioned as a participatory and educational form of entertainment. Fictional defendants included Lenin, invented characters accused of drunkenness and hooliganism, and the Bible. At the same time as increasingly propagandistic mock trials were being performed, intellectuals staged trials of characters from nineteenth-century and contemporary Russian literature. In émigré communities such as Berlin, Paris, and Prague, literary trials were popular as entertainment and fundraisers through the 1920s and 1930s. My analysis focuses on mock trials of characters from works by Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, whose novels proved especially popular for mock trial adaptations in the 1920 and 1930s. I also consider Nabokov’s participation in a mock trial based on The Kreutzer Sonata as a bridge between Tolstoy’s novella and Nabokov’s later novel Lolita. I read back and forth between the literary works and their mock trial adaptations in order to explore both how trial participants interpreted the texts and how the texts respond to the kinds of judgment at work in the trials. The challenges that Dostoevsky and Tolstoy’s fiction pose to readers became the central questions of mock trial adaptations: What is the relationship between interpretation and truth? Do we have the right to judge others? Does narrative have the power to redeem? I argue that while Soviet and émigré literary trials offer selective, politically motivated readings of the original works, they also enter into dialogue with the works’ major ethical questions and offer new ways of thinking about how truth, judgment, and redemption operate in them. As a result, the mock trials bring together two approaches to literature: a reader-centric approach that interprets the text in order to reveal something about the reader’s current reality, and a text-centric approach that aims to uncover the original meaning. While some of the literary trial interpretations and judgments appear to be misreadings, or bad readings, of the original works, I argue that this kind of reading, which closely attends to textual details while asking the text to speak to the readers’ present, offers a model for an ethically engaged approach to literature.

This dissertation studies the interchange between political theatre and postwar political trials. I argue that to an extraordinary extent, theatre history in this period is inextricable from trial history. Through close archival study of mid-century theatre productions including Bertolt Brecht's 1954 production of "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" and the fifteen simultaneous premiere productions of Peter Weiss's "The Investigation" in 1965, I show how directors and playwrights looked to legal trials in order to develop and articulate theories of epic and documentary theatre, and how this new theatre in turn sought to effect justice in ways that trials alone could not.

This thesis examines the legal case of Inouye Kanao, a second-generation Japanese Canadian who was executed for high treason in August 1947 in Hong Kong. In this thesis, I trace not only Inouye's legal case, but also his early life, the broader political context, diplomatic correspondence, and other war crimes cases. By employing race-thinking and Critical Race Theory as theoretical frameworks, I consider the role of race and racism and aim to better understand its influence on Inouye's legal case. In doing so, this thesis challenges previous narratives and misinformation about Inouye. I conclude that racism was a significant factor that affected all aspects of Inouye's case, resulting in an unjust execution that did not reflect the crimes. Ultimately, Inouye was executed not because of his actions but because he was racialized as a treacherous and cruel Japanese Canadian.
Graduate

In Be Good, Sweet Maid: The Trials of Dorothy Joudrie (1999), Audrey Andrews recounts the life and trial of Dorothy Joudrie, a so-called wealthy socialite who was arrested in Calgary in 1995 for attempting to murder her estranged husband after decades of domestic abuse. Andrews tells Joudrie’s story in the form of a semi-auto/biographical text that quotes other scholarly and creative literary works in an intertextual dialogue about violence against women, post-World War II gender socialization, and the “battered women syndrome” defence. This thesis takes this highly referential dialogue as its starting point, and then extends Andrews’ cultural work by tracing a genealogy of colonialism in Canadian domestic violence laws with the help of selected intertexts – including Yvonne Johnson’s Stolen Life: Journey of a Cree Woman (1998), the trial of Angelique Lavallee, and Lorena Bobbitt’s infamous case. First, I source the epigraphs that Andrews strategically places at the start of each chapter and discern the layer of meaning that these external texts bring to Joudrie’s story in order to raise questions about how Andrews rearticulates the work of others and the politics of such a rearticulation. Second, I similarly frame Joudrie’s 1995 trial as a referential and intertextual discourse based in precedent established by the Supreme Court in 1990 when it ruled that expert testimony on the “battered woman syndrome” was admissible in the R. v. Lavallee case (Shaffer 1). This allows me to consider a consequence of the ruling often overlooked in feminist literature: due to the fact that the original defendant, Angelique Lavallee, was a Métis woman whose identity was erased in the courtroom and in case law, subsequent trials employing the “battered woman syndrome” defence repeat settler relations entrenched in colonial violence. Third, I expose how representations can fail by thinking through what Stephen Couser calls the auto/bio/ethics of life writing, which reveals the limits of Canadian laws and literatures. Ultimately, this discussion generates questions about who is considered human under the law and how life writing might re-imagine the “reasonable” human in more just and compassionate ways.
Thesis (Master, Gender Studies) -- Queen's University, 2012-07-28 10:28:24.988

Summaries in Afrikaans and English
In hierdie navorsingsverslag word die representasie van die reg en die verskynsel van die verhoor as romangegewe in enkele tekste van André P. Brink ondersoek. Die studie vind plaas binne die interdissiplinêre konteks van die reg en die letterkunde. Die studie: (i) fokus op die rol wat die reg in die literêre teks vervul; (ii) ondersoek uitbeeldings van die verhoor soos wat dit in Brink se romankuns aangetref word; en (iii) ondersoek die fiksionalisering van historiese en dokumentêre regsbronne met spesifieke verwysing na sekere eksemplariese Brink-­‐romans.
In this research report, representations of the law and of the trial, as embedded in certain novels by André P. Brink, are explored. The study is structured within the interdisciplinary field of law and literature. This study: (i) focuses on the role of law within the literary text; (ii) explores the legal delineation of a trial in novels by Brink; and (iii) explores the fictionalisation of historic and documentary judicatory resources with specific reference to exemplary texts by Brink.
Afrikaans & Theory of Literature
M.A. (Afrikaans)

This diploma thesis deals with the political trials of 1950s in Czechoslovakia. It describes specific cases of poets Václav Renč and Jan Zahradníček who were accused of espionage and high treason. The group of accused were based on unfounded evidence, treated as part of an international organization called Green International. Relating with the political trials and imprisonment these thesis focuses on analyzing the prison poetry of these two catholic authors.

The central focus of this Master's thesis was to provide a concise overview of the academic work of the contemporary Spanish interpreter and interpreting historian, Jesús Baigorri Jalón. We carried out an in-depth analysis of his work, accompanied by the critical reception of his two key publications. In the introductory part of our thesis, we focused on the author's methodology and placement in Spanish and Czech academic contexts. Then, we elaborated a comprehensive, chronological overview of the author's two main monographs and outlined the main topics discussed in Baigorri's studies. We also focused on the author's contribution to the translation and interpreting studies, his research methodology and its potential to serve as an inspiration to Czech researchers.