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Taylor, David. "Vernon Lushington : practising positivism." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2010. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/Vernon-Lushington(d5ec7c59-aa01-41f9-b3e5-6893be72ed21).html.
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Vernon Lushington (1832-1912) was a leading Positivist and disciple of Comte's Religion of Humanity. In The Religion of Humanity: The Impact of Comtean Positivism on Victorian Britain T.R. Wright observed that "the inner struggles of many of [Comte's] English disciples, so amply documented in their note books, letters, and diaries, have not so far received the close sympathetic treatment they deserve". Material from a previously little known and un-researched archive of the Lushington family now makes possible such a study. After a childhood influenced by the values of the Clapham Sect, Lushington went to Cambridge where he came under the spell of Thomas Carlyle, for whom he worked for a period as an unpaid secretary, and then Auguste Comte whose Religion of Humanity finally replaced any lingering orthodox Christian faith. At Cambridge Lushington mixed with leading Christian Socialists and worked as a tutor at the Working Men's College alongside Ruskin and D.G. Rossetti. Other friends included William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones who Lushington later introduced to Rossetti, an event which triggered the second phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, The altruistic Lushington used his legal skills to assist struggling trade union leaders consolidate their cause and his concern for the working classes led him to co-operate with Elizabeth Gaskell in raising funds to assist the struggling Manchester cotton operatives. It was as a Positivist that Lushington wished to be remembered. This thesis considers the attraction of Positivism for Lushington and his place in its development and spread during the second half of the nineteenth century. Specific areas covered are Lushington's childhood influences, his university life, his relationship with Carlyle and his adoption of Positivism. The thesis then turns to consider how Lushington outworked his new beliefs first in his public life - especially in the area of the Arts, and in then in his domestic role where his enthusiastic embrace of the Religion of Humanity placed severe strains on his marriage.
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Duncan, J. Robert. "The textual context of the Vernon manuscript." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ63862.pdf.
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Woollam, Angela M. "The rhetorical art of some Vernon refrain lyrics." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6051.
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The dissertation considers how the anonymous authors of six moral and religious pseudo-ballade refrain poems first attested in the late fourteenth-century Vernon manuscript (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. poet.a.1) manipulate devices such as speaking persona, word-play, and allegory in ways that support rhetorical strategies hitherto unrecognized in Middle English lyric. The study begins with stemmatic analyses that identify, as far as is possible from the physical record, the archetypal text, or "work," of each poem. Chapter One then provides an overview of scholarship that has focussed on two important technical devices used in the Vernon refrain lyrics-the speaking voice and the refrain---and articulates how the lyrics use those devices in hitherto unrecognized ways. Chapter One concludes by considering the kinds of word-play found in other Middle English literature, in order to define that found in the Vernon lyrics. In the next six chapters, each of the six "works" is considered as a communicative event. Using mainly historicist, formalist, and reader-response methodologies, I explore, for each poem in turn, how the poet moulds language to signify indirectly so that the message is communicated figuratively, and how the implied audience is cast into a specific role vis-a-vis the communicative action in a way that inflects the message. I also explore how the rhetorical strategies of the poems are informed by various theories of signification, which are defined in relation to the socio-linguistic circumstances and philosophical currents of the time, and consider the poems in relation to other medieval, mostly earlier Middle English, lyrics. In the Conclusion, findings are assembled to indicate how the recovery of the Vernon refrain lyrics' rhetorical art expands the parameters that currently define Middle English lyric. I also turn from considering the implied audience of the "works" to considering the historical audience of the Vernon manuscript, and suggest that the recovery of the Vernon refrain lyrics' rhetorical art bolsters theories that maintain the Vernon manuscript was intended, at least in part, for an upper gentry or aristocratic audience, and that its thorough Englishness is more of a polemic assertion of the strength of the English language than a reflection of socio-linguistic conditions.
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Brown, Tyler. "Books Balls and Walls – Mt. Vernon Library and Recreation Center." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33331.
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"A significant work of architecture is never the product of a single individual. It is always a collaboration with history and tradition, with the silent wisdom of the discipline of architecture. An architect who understands the essence of his craft accepts his role as a builder of a tradition, and he places his work in the context of this continuum with combined humility and pride." Juhani Pallasmaa.Master of Architecture
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McGill, Keeley Aurelia. "The presentation of slavery at Mount Vernon power priviledge, and historical truth /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2561.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of Sociology. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Garza, Ana Alicia. ""Art for the sake of life" : the critical aesthetics of Vernon Lee." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2009. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/472.
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This thesis explores the critical aesthetics of Vernon Lee (Violet Paget 1856-1935) and the ways in which her theory of aesthetic harmony informed these studies. Arguing for a more inclusive view of her interest in aesthetics, this thesis takes as its focus the ways in which Lee applied her aesthetic methodologies to the questions of aesthetics with which she was concerned – What is the relationship between the artist and his or her art, and between the artist and the aesthetic critic? How do the various art forms differ and how do these differences impact on the aesthetic experience? How does the mind, the body, and the emotions work together in the aesthetic experience? And ultimately, what is the relationship between art and life, and between beauty and the ideal? This study argues that these questions are evident in essays that are not usually associated with aesthetics. Whilst studies on Lee tend to divide her varied interests into phases in her career, such as her fiction, literary criticism, historical writings, travel writings, and psychological aesthetics, the current study argues that an investigation into the ways in which these studies can be seen to interact leads to a more thorough and fulfilling engagement with her impressive body of work. This thesis fills a critical gap in Lee studies by approaching her writings through the lens of her interest in aesthetics and by suggesting a way of reading her work that takes into consideration the ways in which her aesthetic theories influenced the writing style through which she experimented with, expressed, and in some cases, performed her aesthetic theories.
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Meunier, Florian. "L’architecture flamboyante dans la vallée de la Seine, de Vernon à Harfleur." Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040070.
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La vallée de la Seine en Normandie est l’une des régions les plus riches en églises flamboyantes de grande ampleur. D’amont en aval, Vernon, Les Andelys, Louviers, Pont-de-l’Arche, Elbeuf, Caudebec-en-Caux, Saint-Wandrille, Lillebonne, Quillebeuf, Pont-Audemer, Montivilliers et Harfleur peuvent rivaliser avec les églises de Rouen. Les églises de la vallée de la Seine partagent des cadres institutionnels semblables et un même approvisionnement en pierre par le fleuve, mais aussi un héritage esthétique qui peut être formalisé en une typologie des élévations et des tours. Parmi les particularités propres à la vallée de la Seine, plusieurs édifices illustrent la spécificité de la Normandie dans l’architecture gothique de la guerre de Cent Ans, dans la première moitié et au milieu du XVe siècle. Enfin, un développement exceptionnel se remarque non seulement autour des façades sud et porches latéraux des églises en amont de Rouen vers 1500, mais surtout autour d’un nouveau foyer artistique entre Pont-Audemer, Caudebec-en-Caux et Le Havre mené par l’architecte Thomas Theroulde en lien avec les grands architectes rouennais et les premières manifestations de la Renaissance au début du XVIe siècleChurch-building was very bold and affluent during the Late Gothic age in the Seine Valley (Upper Normandy). Vernon, Les Andelys, Louviers, Pont-de-l’Arche, Elbeuf, Caudebec-en-Caux, Saint-Wandrille, Lillebonne, Quillebeuf, Pont-Audemer, Montivilliers and Harfleur can be compared with Rouen churches. The organization of the parish is very similar in those towns, as well as the structural aspects of the building ; the same stone quarries were used by all the masons. Campaigns of construction are very rare in France during the end of the Hundred Years’ War, but the Seine Valley offers testimony to some buildings (c. 1400 to 1450s), especially in Caudebec. The last decades of Gothic architecture (1490-1530s) were extremely productive. A new artistic area was set up near Pont-Audemer, Caudebec and Le Havre ; most of the great enterprises were led by the master mason Thomas Theroulde who was in link with the major master masons of Rouen and the first Renaissance creations in Normandy
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Martin, Kirsty. "Ideas of Sympathy in the Novels of Vernon Lee, Virginia Woolf and D.H.Lawrence." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.519801.
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Knott, Cherry Ann. "George Vernon and the building of Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire : punching above his weight?" Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57063/.
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My case study of the building of Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, is a landmark volume within the fields of architectural and social history in the context of the development of houses of English landed gentry in the seventeenth century.
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Thue-Tun, Marie-Carmen. "Vernon Lee (Violet Paget,1856-1935) : une odyssée scripturale entre romantisme et modernité." Phd thesis, Université de la Réunion, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00671392.
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Vernon Lee est une femme de lettres d'origine britannique, dont l'œuvre éclectique est située dans le contexte historique et socio-culturel de l'Angleterre victorienne de la fin-de-siècle dite "décadente" (1880-1914). La problématique de cette thèse est axée autour de deux fils conducteurs : d'une part, le regard que Vernon Lee porte sur la société de son époque, et d'autre part, son intérêt pour les récentes découvertes dans le domaine des Sciences humaines. Les années 1890 représentent une ère de transition entre le Romantisme et le Modernisme. On peut donc parler d'héritage romantique en ce qui concerne l'inspiration et l'imaginaire des écrivains victoriens de la fin du XIXème siècle. La littérature de la Décadence privilégie les thèmes mythiques, en particulier le mythe de la Femme fatale. L'esthétisme et l'éthique sont au cœur de l'œuvre de Vernon Lee. Écrivain et témoin de son époque, elle utilise son écriture pour défendre la condition féminine. C'est avant tout une écriture avant-gardiste, orientée vers le Modernisme. En effet, les récentes découvertes scientifiques (notamment la linguistique, la psychologie et la psychanalyse) influencent son écriture, lui permettant d'accéder au mieux à l'intériorité de ses personnages.
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Pulham, Patricia Elizabeth. "Grown-up toys : aesthetic forms and transitional objects in Vernon Lee's supernatural tales." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2001. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1699.
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This thesis examines the fantastic tales of the marginalized writer Vernon Lee (Violet Paget 1856-1935), focusing on such confections as Hauntings: Fantastic Stories (1890), Pope Jacynth and Other Fantastic Stories (1904), and For Maurice: Five Unlikely Stories (1927). It traces the influence of European Romantics such as Hoffmann and Heine on her writings and juxtaposes Lee's work with that of fin-de-siecle contemporaries such as Walter Pater, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde. Her stories often depend on the supernatural properties of art objects for their uncanny effect, and this study traces the contradiction between Lee's concern with form in her aesthetic treatises, and the 'formless' and metamorphic qualities of the 'ghostly' objects that come to fife in her works. The resultant conflict is explored in the context of D. W. Winnicott's 'transitional object' theory which suggests that a child's subjectivity is formed in a 'potential space', a space existing in a developmental 'limbo' in which the child plays with items or toys while negotiating its separation from the mother, and recognizing its individuality. According to Winnicott, in adulthood, this childhood process is re-experienced in the illusory realm of art and cultural objects. With this premise in mind, this thesis argues that, in Lee's tales, the supernatural functions as a 'potential space" in which Lee 'plays' with the art object or 'toy' in order to explore alternative subjectivities that allow the expression of her lesbian subjectivity. Using an interdisciplinary approach which combines literature with psychology, aesthetics, mythology, religion, and social history, this thesis demonstrates the contemporary validity of Lee's tales, and its importance for the study of gender and sexuality in the nineteenth-century fin de siecle.
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Largent, Mark Aaron. ""These are times of scientific ideals" : Vernon Lyman Kellogg and scientific activism, 1890-1930 /." Diss., ON-CAMPUS Access For University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Click on "Connect to Digital Dissertations", 2000. http://www.lib.umn.edu/articles/proquest.phtml.
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Vernon, David Charles [Verfasser]. "Shakespeare and Religion: Capricious and Concealed Faith in Three Tragicomic Plays / David Charles Vernon." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1182990487/34.
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Parks, Elyse. "In the Event of a Crisis: Crisis Public Relations Plan for Mount Vernon Nazarene University." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1279675345.
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Rogina, Sergio A. (Sergio Armando). "Diplomacy Rhetoric and the Human Rights Appeals of Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and Vernon A. Walters." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc504209/.
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This thesis investigates the extent to which Ambassador Kirkpatrick's and Ambassador Walters' United Nations discourses on human rights reflects the rhetorical themes of "prophetic dualism" and "technocratic realism." A metaphoric analysis of six speeches reveals that both Kirkpatrick's and Walters' arguments were framed through an ideological division between Democracy and Communism. The presence of "prophetic dualism" in Kirkpatrick's and Walters' discourses is explained as an extension of President Reagan's bipolar rhetoric on world affairs. The presence of "technocratic realism" in Walters' discourse is described as resulting from a unique set of political and rhetorical factors. The exacting nature of "prophetic dualism" may make it ill suited as a method of argument in the realm of diplomacy.
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Hockman, Laura Mary. "A longer journey : an exploration of individuals' with disabilities experiences of employment programs in Vernon, B.C." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25800.
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Researching disability and employment is a daunting task due to the need to explore many societal systems and the historical evolution of policy. This thesis used qualitative description to document the experiences of 12 people with a variety of disabilities with results-based employment programs in Vernon, B.C. To provide a context within which to situate this research, a discussion of the evolution of Canadian Disability Social Policy from the federal to provincial level is provided. This is followed by an overview of disability and identity and the common discourses encountered by people with disabilities on their employment journey. A thematic analysis was used to identity two themes: connection and control. These themes are discussed in relation to their role in defining inclusion. The experiences detailed in this study illustrate the broad impact of results-based employment programs within the diverse contexts of the participants' lives, offering insights into the challenges these individuals face. The relevance of such insights should not be underestimated as they not only contribute to our understanding of an individual's experiences but suggest ways in which employment initiatives for people with disabilities might be improved.
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Permenter, Gary L. "Equipping selected youth leaders with basic youth ministry skills at Mount Vernon Baptist Church, Columbus, Mississippi." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Robbins, Catherine Ruth. "Decadence and sexual politics in three fin-de-siècle writers : Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons and Vernon Lee." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36344/.
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An understanding of the concept of decadence in the late nineteenth century is not dependent on a purely linguistic approach to the various forms of literary language in which it might be manifested. Rather, the label of decadence invokes (and deliberately flouts) perceptions of normality in a number of cultural spaces, not all of them strictly textual. Importantly, the personality of the artist figure is also a part of the definition of decadence. Decadence, that is, is not limited to a particular mode of textual performance; it is also a matter of how the artist's personality is interpreted through a critical assumption current throughout the nineteenth century, that the text acts as an index of the moral status of the writer. Decadence, then, is about reception, as well as conception. Given that meaning accrues to the figure of the artist in the definition of decadence, and given that the late nineteenth century was a period of conflicting discourses of sexual politics, the definition of decadence is bound up with the matrix of associations around such concepts as sex, gender and sexuality. The three writers at the centre of this study all demonstrate decadent potential in their refusals to respect the conventions of gender — both in terms of the subjects and forms they each chose for literary representation, and for the choices they made about the living of their lives. In his poetry Wilde took up a series of dramatic poses, inconsistent with each other, inconsistent even within single poems. In doing so, he called into question prevailing standards and ideals of masculinity — sincerity and purposiveness — and he was attacked for doing so even before he was tried for gross indecency in 1895. Symons's subject matter — the preponderance in his poetry of the liminal figures of the dancer and the actress, and the liminal spaces of the music-hall and deserted city streets at night — explicitly courted a decadent label, and, indeed, Symons helped to defme the term. Contemporary audiences read his poetic persona back onto his personality. And his decadence, like Wilde's, also came from his flouting of the rules of masculinity, in his case, his exposure of the gender and class ideology of the gentleman, by speaking aloud of its implications. That decadence has an importance for sexual politics is signalled by the fact that there are very few women writers who seem to 'suit' the label. Vernon Lee provides a test case here of the argument that decadence is to be defmed primarily as a falling away from an idealised standard of masculinity. Lee wrote impeccably decadent fiction, but is not generally thought of as a decadent writer, perhaps precisely because she was a woman writer for whom a term that resides in conventions of the masculine is inappropriate. Decadence is a notoriously difficult term to define, and this thesis attempts to show a range of definitions of the word in terms of its favoured themes, forms and and their relation to ideas of artistic personality; it shows that the label is inextricably bound up in the sexuality debtes of the 1890s.
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Golightly, V. J. "Two on a tower : modernism and the influence of W.B. Yeats on Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins." Thesis, Swansea University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.637071.
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Late twentieth-century debates on post-modernism have led to a new understanding of the variegated and contestatory nature of modernism, favourable to historical materialist analysis. W.B. Yeats is now seen as a paleo-modernist, using old forms in new ways, and as a pre-cursor of post-colonial writing. He was thus an enabling example for Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins as belated Welsh modernists. Chapter One examines the Swansea origins of Thomas and Watkins, their meeting, the help Watkins gave Thomas with the revision of Twenty-five Poems, and the consequences for the work of each Chapter Two details Watkins’s meeting with Yeats, and his enthusiasm for Yeats’s mature modernist work, and shows how Thomas’s early interest in the same work is seen in the Notebook poems. Chapter Three examines the influence of Yeats in Watkins’s poetry, with a detailed consideration of the Watkins collection after Yeats’s death whose long poems are read as a memorial work, and the process of dialogue between Thomas and Watkins as writers of ‘ballads’. Chapter Four considers Thomas’s strategic use of influences as an outsider poet, and uses local archive material to establish the politicisation of his modernism, and adoption of a ‘dialectical method’, thanks to Swansea Marxist Bert Trick. The chapter looks closely at the deliberate, complex and dignified allusions to Yeats in Thomas’s late poems. In conclusion the thesis examines Watkins’s emergence as a prose writer after Thomas’s death in 1953, and the poetry of grief and preoccupation with Thomas that continued until his own death in 1967. This thesis draws, for the first time, on the substantial holdings of Watkins papers at the National Library of Wales.
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Hawkey, Rachael M. "Vernon Griffiths (1894-1985): His life and philosophy of music education as demonstrated in his collected papers." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Music, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4886.
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[Thomas] Vernon Griffiths (1894-1985) was one of five Englishmen appointed to influential positions in New Zealand music education during the 1920s. As Britons, Griffiths and his colleagues believed it to be appropriate to preach and practise the ideas and methods in which they themselves had been schooled, given that New Zealand was, until post-1945, firmly aligned to the “mother country”, Britain. Indeed, Britain was the prototype of the parental model in all aspects of life, including music education, as systems of thought and actual customs were transported to New Zealand and were reinforced within the Dominion.
During his working life in New Zealand (1927-1961), Vernon Griffiths was appointed to positions of importance in New Zealand music education. What, then, were the actual ideas and beliefs that he expressed? How did they emerge in practical form? In what ways did he address the specific needs of the Dominion which he viewed as a culturally-developing country?
Questions such as these lie behind this study of Vernon Griffiths' philosophies, using the materials preserved by Griffiths in his collected papers to determine the ideas and beliefs he held as essential in his personal philosophy during the thirty-five years of his career. Vernon Griffiths' own writings and appropriate materials from his papers are evaluated within three broad themes - music in life, music in education and music in New Zealand.
To provide background and context, the opening chapters commence with a review of the literature pertaining to Griffiths, including assessments of his character, attitudes and contribution to music education, and brief descriptions of the journal Music in New Zealand, his book An experiment in school music-making, recorded sound archives and the primary source material - the Vernon Griffiths Papers. This is followed by a biographical account which furnishes details of his life, from his birth in England in 1894 and his arrival in the Dominion in February 1927, to his eventual retirement in 1961. The various sources of his "inspiration" are examined, and the educational contexts from which he emerged and into which he entered and to which he contributed are outlined in order to place him and his work as a music educator into context.
While the focus of this study is an attempt to construct Vernon Griffiths' own philosophy based on his own writings and statements, the concluding chapter compares his philosophy to a model of the universals of music education and highlights the points of concurrence between the two systems. A postscript provides a summary of views of a sample of Vernon Griffiths' former students and practitioners as to his influence on their work in music and music education.
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Kalongo, Teddy. "Pursuing Vernon Robbin's methodology on the Jericho Road : a socio-rhetorical analysis of Luke 10:25-37." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16128.
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Bibliography: pages 136-147.This study analyses the nature and basis of Vernon Robbins' socio-rhetorical criticism and its applicability to Luke 10:25-37. The main purpose of the study is to highlight the usefulness of socio-rhetorical criticism to parabolic interpretation through an assessment of its implications for the analysis of Luke 10:25-37. A comprehensive study of Robbins' approach and its applicability to the parable of the Good Samaritan (10:25-37) is conducted in three parts, in an attempt to derive a more precise understanding of the nature of the approach, and the manner in which Robbins grounds his thought in this interpretative process. Part I elucidates the theoretical basis of the study and its assumptions. Also included is a discussion of previous major trends in parabolic interpretation. This survey is important because it is not possible to commence a study of a parabolic text without presenting a brief chronological orientation of methodological approaches employed by scholars over the years. This section concludes with a consideration of Robbins' socio-rhetorical criticism as a significant innovation by moving boundaries and calling for dialogue among diverse disciplines. Part II gives a demonstration of socio-rhetorical criticism as it explores Luke 10:25- 37. Using tools of analysis from different disciplines as suggested in socio-rhetorical criticism, this study attempts to detect and emphasise a relationship between various approaches that have been applied to the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25- 37) in an interdisciplinary manner. In the first section, attention is drawn to the relationship of various segments of Luke 10:25-37 to other texts, culture and history. It has been concluded that Luke set out to write his own version of a story which is not found elsewhere in the Synoptic Gospels, though a possible relationship exists between Luke 10:25-28 and Mark 12:28-34 (parallel Matthew 22:34-40) and parts of the Old Testament. In the second section, the language in Luke 10:25-37 is described covering the frequency of items, characterisation and voices, structure of the passage, and argumentation. The language employed contrasts the care of the needy and oppressed shown by the Samaritan with the negligence of the leaders of Israel. In the third section, the question of ideology as portrayed in Luke 10:25-37 is discussed in order to understand the political forces, personalities and institutions that shaped the lives and common destiny of the people in the first-century. In the fourth section, Luke 10:25-37 is analysed in the light of eastern Mediterranean cultural values by highlighting the concept of 'hospitality' which is closely related to the social value of 'honour-shame.' It is argued that Luke underscores the honourable position of Jesus as against that of the lawyer and the Temple hierarchy who are depicted as people who possessed great honour but lacked compassion. In the fifth and final section, the concept of the sacred in Luke 10:25-37 is discussed in order to explain the manner in which readers employ texts to convey the relationship between the sacred and the human. Thus, by exploring different methods of reading Luke 10:25-37, this study is concerned with the challenge of developing an integrated, relevant approach towards the understanding of Gospel texts in general and parables in particular. Part III covers the evaluation of the approach and the conclusions that can be drawn. The issues discussed in the evaluation include a critique of socio-rhetorical analysis in the context of its application to Luke 10:25-37, showing its strengths and weaknesses. On the basis of these findings, it has been concluded that, while some weaknesses may be detected in the approach, on the whole the useful insights it provides may be of great value in the understanding of Gospels in general and parables in particular. A final chapter draws some of the themes together from the three parts in formulating a conclusion.
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Persson, Elsa. "Littérature engagée ? Une étude sur la critique de la société contemporaine dans Vernon Subutex par Virginie Despentes." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-185679.
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The purpose of this essay is to examine how a critical view of contemporary France is transmitted in the best-selling novel in three parts, Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes. The theoretical base will be the notion ”littérature engagée”, made famous by Jean-Paul Sartre in the 1940s, but re-interpreted in several steps since then. Although Sartre’s definition of ”engagement” is considered outdated and too dogmatic, many researchers argue that there are reasons to redefine the meaning of ”engagement littéraire” to analyse contemporary fiction writing with an interest in human and social issues. This study will examine how the notion ”engagement” can be applied on Vernon Subutex as regards the description of characters and the depiction of a neoliberal society, and its effects on human beings.
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Green, Sarah. "Sexual continence in the late nineteenth-century aesthetic tradition : Walter Pater, Lionel Johnson, Vernon Lee, George Moore." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:52bd3fc9-9ebd-4b59-bba2-31019f923106.
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This thesis contends that the idea of productive sexual continence - that is, abstinence from sexual activity understood as a constructive practice - significantly shaped a branch of thought within and around the British Aesthetic Movement of the late nineteenth century. Recent critical work has stressed sexual liberation or permissiveness as among the values of Aestheticism, and has read Aesthetic representations of continent states as indications of repressed, sublimated, or coded sexuality. Reading these representations through period-specific sexual discourses, I reveal an alternative discursive tradition within Aestheticism, in which the idea of productive sexual continence formed an important part of thinking about the 'aesthetic life', or the life lived according to aesthetic principles. The enquiry privileges the place of sexual ideas and values in the context of the intellectual culture of the Aesthetic Movement, and of the late-Victorian period generally, rather than focusing (as much scholarship has done) upon the writers' 'real-life' sexual behaviour, desires or identities. Sexual continence was often understood in the period as conducive both to individual health and happiness, and to one's relationship with society. At a time when Aesthetic writers were often accused of endorsing excessive individualism and excessive sensuality, this idea facilitated the elaboration of an aesthetic ethic that could incorporate intense sensuous (but not sensual) pleasure and also responsible sociability. After an Introduction that outlines the scope and method of the thesis, Chapter One illustrates the ubiquity of this idea in medical writing (professional and popular) about the sexual body in the period, and within Classical and Christian intellectual discourses commonly drawn upon by Aesthetic authors. Four chapters follow in which roughly the same idea is shown to take a central role in representations of the 'aesthetic life' in the work of four major writers. Chapter Two posits that there were broadly two traditions of reading Walter Pater in the late nineteenth century: one in which he was taken as an apologist for a radical sensual individualism, and another that emphasized his advocacy of restraint and reserve as both stylistic and ethical principles. Informed by early readings in this latter tradition, I demonstrate the plausibility of an interpretation of Pater as carefully distinguishing between aesthetic sensuousness and sensuality. Pater also, I argue, can viably be read as assessing the ideal aesthetic life in terms of health and love, and representing sexual continence as compatible with both. Chapter Three looks at Lionel Johnson's incorporation of this continent ideal into his Christianized cultural humanism, evolved in his letters, poetry, and criticism. In the poetry resistance to temptation is described as a process by which potentially sensual experience is made safely sensuous, while in the letters and criticism can be found admiration for various continent states that reconcile individual aesthetic experience with social responsibility. In Chapter Four, the pre-1900 essays of Vernon Lee are shown to be consistently anti-sensual, while distinguishing this sensuality from a kind of continent sense experience identified as aesthetic, and associated with Pater. Lee also uses this aesthetic sensuousness as a model for ideal - i.e. disinterested and respectful - relations between people, and between people and things. Chapter Five examines the co-existence of this discourse with other, contradictory models of aesthetic living in the work of George Moore. Moore was generally pro-sensual, and considered 'sex' (in the abstract) to be integral to art; but he also associated the production of art with continent states. An alternative, sexually continent Paterian tradition can, I argue, help to account for these discordant moments. A Conclusion briefly indicates the further relevance of such thinking beyond the bounds of the Aesthetic Movement.
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McDaniel, Elizabeth Bleecker. "A History of Music in Old Mount Vernon with Particular Attention to Woodward Hall and the Nineteenth-Century American Opera House." The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1043091567.
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Downer, Joseph A. "Hallowed Ground, Sacred Place| The Slave Cemetery At George Washington's Mount Vernon And the Cultural Landscapes of the Enslaved." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1582972.
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Cemeteries of the enslaved on many plantations in the 18th and 19th centuries were places where communities could practice forms of resistance, and develop distinct African-American traditions. These spaces often went unrecorded by elites, whose constructed landscapes were designed to convey messages of their own status and authority. In their oversight of these spaces, however, elites failed to notice the nuanced meanings the slaves themselves instilled in the landscapes they were forced to live and work in. These separate meanings enabled enslaved African Americans to maintain both human and cultural identities that subverted the slave system and the messages of inferiority that constantly bombarded them.
This thesis focuses on the archaeological study of the Slave Cemetery at George Washington's Mount Vernon. Here, methodological and theoretical principles are utilized to study the area that many enslaved workers call their final resting place. Through the use of this space, it is hypothesized that Mount Vernon's enslaved community practiced distinct traditions, instilling in that spot a sense of place, and reinforcing their individual and communal human identities. This thesis will also investigate the cemetery within its broader regional and cultural contexts, to attain a better understanding of the death rituals and culturally resistant activates that slaves at Mount Vernon used in their day-to-day battle against the system that held them in bondage.
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Watson, Michele Caroline. "'Ancient Springs'? A Study of Kathleen Raine's retrospective assembling of Edwin Muir, David Jones, David Gascoyne and Vernon Watkins." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.485869.
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This thesis reads Kathleen Raine's retrospectively assembled representation of Edwin Muir, David Jones, David Gascoyne and Vernon Watkins in the light of the mode of' ...the learning of the Imagination' I, an alternative ca!l0n to Auden, Larkin etc., of which Raine is the high priest. Raine developed her canonical redress in her studies of William Blake and W.B.Yeats, which culminated in her establishing the Temenos Academy and the Temenos Academy Review. Raine is right. She is right at least that these pocts follow something ofthe same creed and practice and they do constitute an alternative to the more accepted canon of Auden, MacNeice, and Larkin. This is the main concern ofmy thesis. Whether Kathleen Raine is right in thinking that they should replace the established canon is for the reader to decide. I do not come to a decision, but the thesis may help to settle the matter. Chapters One, Two, Three and Four follow the lives of Edwin Muir, David Jones, David Gascoyne and Vernon Watkins,with individual readings of their poetry. adopting a Rainean approach, and also broader soundings in critical responses to their works both past and prcsent. The use of Platonic concepts and Christian patterning to anchor poetry is linked to Raine's critique of what constitutes the imaginative tradition, and her search for true poets perPetuating the tradition. Close consideration is given to the biographical context of each poet, and the conccpts and priorities expressed in the accompanying critical assessments of each poet. I argue then that Raine's assembling of the four poets is valid. She prompts us to appreciate a rich gathering in of conceptual, aesthetic and religious strands, a resonant binding ofthose poets isolated by plural specialisations.
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Benhardus, Nellene. "British literary decadence and religion." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6055.
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Throughout British decadent literature, authors creatively experiment with religion. While part of this experimentation is a matter of how authors represent religious subjects or syncretized religious traditions, a much more foundational level of this experimentation seeks to redefine “the religious” altogether. Collectively, the authors in this study seek to redefine “religion” as focused around community, ritual, and aestheticism over creed or dogma. This new definition resonates with the way many twentieth-century sociologist, theologians, and psychoanalytic theorists have discussed the nature and role of religion in Western society, and I rely on these thinkers throughout my methodology.
Also central to my methodology is my suggestion that the primary lens through which critics often read British decadence is the lens of experimentation and redefinition. It has been well established that British decadents creatively experimented with their representations of gender and sexuality, their use of genre, and their incorporation of Western philosophy, yet their treatment of religion—specifically the Western religious traditions which appear in their works—has been largely unexamined. This project argues that the British decadent authors’ creative treatment of religion is central to their works and to their broader experimental project.
In my first chapter, I suggest that the experimental work that Pater does with philosophy, art theory, and genre has its roots in the experimental work he does with religion. Pater espouses a syncretic approach to religion which sees Christianity as the most recent, and most evolved, link in a series of conversant religious and philosophical traditions. At the same time, he opposes the institutionalization of religion as well as any violence that might take place in its name. In my second chapter, I claim that Oscar Wilde’s destabilization of language—separating words from their denotative meanings—lays the groundwork for his separation of religious ideology from the aesthetic and communal elements of religion. My third chapter argues that decadent religion, as imagined by Pater and Wilde, was not always easily integrated into religious life. I suggest that the sadomasochistic imagery seen throughout some of Francis Thompson’s works signifies a larger conflict between his attraction to decadence and his devotion to Catholicism. In the final chapter, I consider Vernon Lee, a woman writer who spent much of her life in Continental Europe. I claim that her position on the fringes of British, male, decadent society allowed her a unique vantage point, from which she repeatedly examined the decadent religious project even as she valued a secular, moral humanism over that project.
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Traynor, Janice Mae. "The use of fluorescent dye and site characteristics to evaluate surface erosion on harvested areas in the Vernon Forest District, B.C." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26094.
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Surface erosion on forest lands can cause stream sedimentation and reduce site productivity. In the North Okanagan downstream irrigation and municipal demand require low sediment levels in their water. Higher elevation forest lands have shallow soils developed from nutrient-poor glacial till. To evaluate erosion occurrence on forest lands a research project was initiated in the summer of 1984 on 10 sites in mid-elevation, recently harvested cutblocks in the Vernon Forest Region.
The objective of the study was to evaluate surface erosion and relate erosion intensity to site characteristics. Two separate methods were used to accomplish this. Line transects sampled soil disturbance and examined causal factors for erosion occurrence. Fluorescent dye plots, established on four of the 10 sites, examined rate, distance and patterns of downslope soil particle movement.
Transects were surveyed in a grid pattern across the cutblock and results indicated areal distribution of disturbance. Soil disturbance at the sample point was recorded using 10 classes ranging from bare soil and litter disturbance to deep gouges and deep deposits of soil. Assessment of care-in-logging and identification of existing and potential erosion sites completed the site evaluation. Day-Glo fluorescent pigment was used to tag soil in situ. Dye was applied in August, 1984, in one metre strips across the slope on plots varying in aspect, slope and disturbance. Field measurement of soil movement was completed in the spring of 1985, shortly after snowmelt. Tagged particles were located and illuminated at night by ultraviolet light. A hand held mineral lamp provided sufficient illumination and fluorescence was recorded on color film. Soil-movement ratings, based on visual perception of particle movement, were assigned to each plot. These ratings were compared to plot and site characteristics to identify possible erosion trends.
The results of this study support the consensus of research results reported in the literature. The major sites of erosion are skid trails and the road system. Steep slopes, fine' soil, north aspects and compaction increase potential erosion. Fluorescent dye is an effective soil particle tag allowing distance and pathways of movement to be identified. Day-Glo fluorescent pigment in a solution of acetone was fully satisfactory in adherence to the particle and in persistence under prevailing climatic conditions.Forestry, Faculty of
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McCarthy, Justine Scott. "Edges of the mind : psychic margins and the modernist aesthetic in Vernon Lee, Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, Dion Fortune and Jane Harrison." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2000. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1661.
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The question 'Where does she begin and I end, asked in Virginia Woolf's The Years, voices a modernist concern with the limits of self-identity and related questions of egoism and altruism. In this thesis I argue that this concern is informed by a pre-history of thinking about selfhood, psychic boundaries and the spiritual mainly ignored by readings of modernism which map the psyche via psychoanalysis, or Freud's 'discovery of the unconscious'. Our thinking about the self has become colonised by the literary doctrines of better known canonical figures of the modernist period, generating a way of thinking about the limits of the psyche which is both literally and metaphorically circumscribed. A reading of more eccentric discourses explicitly engaged in negotiating the boundaries of individuality can provide a history of the psychic underpinnings to the modernist conception of the self. The representation of marginal states of consciousness, or epiphanic moments, is crucial to the literature of modernism: interpretation of these altered states, or edges, can be refigured through readings of Vernon Lee, Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, Dion Fortune and Jane Harrison: five women writing between 1880-1930 for whom pre-Freudian forms of dissolution and challenge to self-unity are palpably present in the form of telepathy, subliminal selves, oceanic consciousness and internal multiplicity. In addition to writing non-fictional texts which variously explore the psychological, philosophical, ethical, spiritual and occult implications of the modernist position, each of these women, excepting the classical scholar Jane Harrison, also wrote fiction. The aesthetic questions of modernism dovetail into the theoretical arguments of the writers in this thesis, inviting a different reading of its psychological sub-text and to suggest that where 'stream-of-consciousness' is stylistically indispensable, the 'oceanic', as counterpart, thematically haunts the modernist aesthetic
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Boudjaaba, Fabrice. "La circulation des biens-fonds dans la région de Vernon (1750-1830) : le patrimoine des familles entre logiques du marché et contraintes du cycle de vie." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040119.
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Les mécanismes de circulation des biens-fonds dans cette vallée agricole et viticole obéissent à des règles assez complexes qui sont le résultat à la fois de l'activité marchande, de processus successoraux et des alliances matrimoniales ; ils sont aussi étroitement liés aux structures de la petite propriété, aux fluctuations économiques et à l'état des autres marchés, c'est-à-dire des autres circuits de l'échange. Le marché connaît un net développement durant la période et joue un rôle non négligeable en comparaison de l'héritage dans les mouvements fonciers. Bien que le système égalitaire de succession semble vouer les patrimoines à l'émiettement à chaque génération, les Normands ne font rien pour contourner une égalité renforcée par le Code civil et ne mettent pas en place de stratégies familiales pour tenter de maintenir leurs patrimoines intacts. La logique de leurs actions doit s'analyser au niveau du ménage et non de la parenté : l'adaptation du patrimoine aux capacités de la famille nucléaire – mode d'organisation familiale déterminant en terme de comportements patrimoniaux – et l'anticipation des faiblesses de la vieillesse sont les ressorts principaux des transformations patrimoniales. L'attachement à la terre est donc très relatif dans cette société ruraleMechanisms of the land market, in this rural valley where main activities are agriculture and wine growing, obey rather complex rules which result, in the same time, from trade, some inheritance processes, and wedding alliances; these mechanisms are also strongly linked to small estate structures, economic fluctuation, and the level of other markets, i. E. Other trade circuits. The market strongly develops between 1750 and 1830, and plays a significant part, if compared to inheritance, in land trade. Although the equal inheritance system seems to leave patrimonies, one generation after another, in a fated crumbling state, Normans don't try to bypass equality, as it is reinforced by the Code civil, and don't create family strategies in order to keep patrimonies untouched. That behaviour's logic must be analysed at the married couple's level, not in terms of kinship: patrimony adapts to the basic family cell's needs (which appear to be an extremely important organisation scheme in terms of land trading), and people anticipate the various weaknesses of the old age: these are the main processes which explain land market changes. It seems the attachment to land is quite a relative phenomenon in this rural society
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Smith, Charlotte H. F., and n/a. "The house enshrined: the great man and social history house museums in the United States and Australia." University of Canberra. Resource, Environment & Heritage Sciences, 2002. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050701.140057.
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This thesis is a study of the origins and rationale of two categories of house
museum - here named "Great Man" and "Social History" - in the United States
and Australia. An examination of cultural, social and historical change provides
the context for the genres' evolution.
The Great Man genre was born in mid nineteenth-century America when two
houses associated with George Washington - Hasbrouck House and Mount
Vernon - were preserved and translated to museum status. Mount Vernon quickly
became the exemplar for house museums.
Civil religion, a secular nationalism that adopted the forms and rituals of church
religion, focusing on hero worship, pilgrimage and contemplation of transcendent
collective purpose, provided the ideology that sustained the new museum type.
Great Man house museums became the shrines at which such rituals could be
practiced.
In the early twentieth-century the specialization of heritage organizations
encouraged a new breed of heritage professional. Largely fabric focused, these
"new museum men" influenced philosophy, management and conservation
practice at house museums throughout the century.
Social history made its impact upon house museums in the latter decades of the
twentieth century. The paradigm encouraged the creation of a new category of
house museum. Existing Great Man house museums adopted some of its
characteristics though never lost their hero worship foundations. In fact, I posit
that the idea of hero worship was transferred to the new genre.
The birth and evolution of the two categories of house museum is demonstrated
through four biographical studies: Vaucluse House in Sydney; Monticello in
Charlottesville VA; the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City;
and Susannah Place Museum in Sydney. I believe the findings demonstrate an
argument that applies at hundreds of house museums in the United States and
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Roberts, John Frederick. "Closing the back door developing a strategic model of identification for preventing church dropouts /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1993. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p050-0052.
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Crockford, Alison Nicole. "Undead children : reconsidering death and the child figure in late nineteenth-century fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7883.
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The Victorian obsession with the child is also often, in the world of literary criticism at least, an obsession with death, whether the death of the child itself or simply the inevitable death of childhood as a seemingly Edenic state of being. This study seeks to consider the way in which the child figure, in texts by four authors published at the end of the nineteenth century, is aligned with an inversion of this relationship. For Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, George MacDonald, and Henry James, the child is bound up instead with un-death, with a construction of death which seeks to remove the finitude, even the mortality, of death itself, or else a death which is expected or anticipated, yet always deferred. While in “The Child in the House” (1878) and “Emerald Uthwart” (1892), Pater places the child at the nexus of his construction of a death which is, rather than a finite ending, a return or a re-beginning, Lee's interest in the child figure's unique access to a world of art, explored in “The Child in the Vatican” (1883) and “Christkindchen” (1897) culminates in a dazzling vision of aesthetic transcendence with “Sister Benvenuta and the Christ Child” (1906). MacDonald, for whom death is already never really death, uses the never-dead child figure in At The Back of the North Wind (1871) and Lilith (1895) as an embodiment of his own distinct engagement with aestheticism, as well as a means by which to express the simultaneous anticipation and depression he experienced in contemplation of death. Finally James, in What Maisie Knew (1897), explores the child's inherent monstrosity as he crafts the possibility of a childhood which consciously refuses to die. This study explores a trajectory in which the child’s place within such reconsiderations of death grows increasingly intense, reaching an apex with MacDonald’s fantastic worlds, before considering James’s problematisation of the concept of the un-dead child in What Maisie Knew.
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Cooney, Edward B., and Steven M. Steinberg. "The implementation of the constructivist needs research paradigm in inner city community needs assessment: A case report." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/995.
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Gracia, Dominique. "Encounters with art-objects in discourse network 1890." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/27787.
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What can the study of Victorian literature gain from approaching primary texts explicitly as processing, storing, and transmitting data? I suggest that, by applying tools and methodologies from German media history that are usually reserved for technical and digital media, we can illuminate how individual texts operate and better understand Victorian texts as media, which remains an underdeveloped aspect of materialist literary study. In analysing how Victorian texts depict encounters with traditional plastic art-objects, I develop new applications of Friedrich Kittler’s ideas of recursion and transposition, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s method of reading for Stimmung, and the theory of cultural techniques (Kulturtechniken). I also propose new concepts to further our understanding of how encounters with art-objects function, such as the observer effect: the simultaneous perception of past and future meanings of an art-object. Close readings of Michael Field’s Sight and Song and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Ballads and Sonnets suggest that both volumes acknowledge encounter as a cultural technique, rather than a spontaneous, independent action by the subject. Yet they propose different roles for themselves within that technique. Michael Field’s poems purport to halt the process of recursion, but Rossetti’s demand that readers experience their own observer effects. Meanwhile, Vernon Lee’s Hauntings: Fantastic Stories and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray demonstrate the agency of art-objects vis-à-vis the cultural technique of encounter. Lee’s stories reveal the threat to an individual subject’s production of future meanings that art-objects pose, in particular through their effects of presence. In Dorian Gray, the art-object’s own data processing circumscribes the subject’s observer effect. Each text thus evidences its operations as a medium and its complicated relationships with other media in the form of art-objects. Each processes data; recurs to art-objects, tropes, or themes and transmits future meanings thereof; and participates in the cultural technique of encounter. In so doing, these texts resisted the threats of marginalisation that faced ‘old media’ from the rise of photography and the incipient development of film at the fin de siècle.
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Cupido, Conroy Alan. "Significant influences in the composition of Hendrik Hofmeyr's song cycle, Alleenstryd." Thesis, connect to online resource, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12110.
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Moody, Kathryn Irene. "Lexicons in Lace: The Language of Dress in the New Woman Novel." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1311020951.
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Whitt, Jerry W. "A Study of College Selection Criteria as Applied to Three Small Rural Community Colleges in North Texas." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332106/.
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The purposes of this study were to identify criteria which influence students' decisions to attend specific colleges and to determine whether different groups of students use similar criteria. The following groups were compared: white students and minority students, males and females, older students and younger students, university-bound students and vocational students, and full-time students and part-time students.
The sample used for this study was taken from the students enrolled in freshman English classes at Vernon Regional Junior College, Clarendon College, and Grayson County College. Approximately 100 students at each college were selected to participate in the study. Each student in the study received instruction, provided demographic information, and completed a two-part survey.
The survey asked respondents to evaluate each of twenty items on a Likert-type scale. The data provided were compiled and organized into groups by a data base computer program. Data obtained from specific groups of respondents were compared, first through an examination of means, then through a chi-square test of independence.
It was determined that the most important college selection criteria to these respondents were the cost of attendance, the availability of specific programs, the size of the college, the size of individual classes, the location of the school, and the availability of financial aid. Further, the research revealed that two comparison groups differed significantly in their choices of important college selection criteria. Younger students appeared to use different selection criteria than their older counterparts, and vocational students differed from university-bound students in their choice of criteria.
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Lamine, Brahim. "Effets physiques des fonds d'ondes gravitationnelles : décohérence intrinsèque dans les interféromètres." Phd thesis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, 2004. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00006936.
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La détection directe des ondes gravitationnelles par de grands détecteurs interférométriquesfait l'objet d'un effort international très intense. Au delà des signaux recherchés par ces détecteurs, l'existence
de fonds d'ondes gravitationnelles s'étalant sur une large plage de fréquences est prédite par les modèles
astrophysiques et cosmologiques décrivant l'Univers. Ces fonds d'ondes gravitationnelles sont un élément important
de notre environnement gravitationnel. Dans cette thèse, on étudie leur effet sur les propriétés de cohérence des
systèmes physiques. Cette interaction est à l'origine d'une décohérence que l'on étudie théoriquement à l'aide de
la fonctionnelle d'influence de Feynman-Vernon. L'effet est petit pour des systèmes microscopiques comme des atomes
ou des photons circulant dans des interféromètres, mais il devient dominant pour les systèmes macroscopiques comme
par exemple le mouvement du centre de masse de la Lune. Au vu de ces résultats, il est important de se demander si
cette décohérence gravitationnelle pourrait être mise en évidence expérimentalement à l'aide par exemple d'un
système mésoscopique dont on pourrait suivre la perte de cohérence. Cette question correspond à un modèle
complètement calculable de transition classique-quantique induite par les fluctuations intrinsèques de
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Luoto, M. (Markus). "Managing control information in autonomic wireless networking." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2017. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526216454.
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Abstract As mobile Internet access traffic continues to grow at an explosive rate and wireless networks continue to diverge into multiple access technologies with partly overlapping sets of features, new solutions for efficient use of these networks are vital. Cognitive network management provides tools to tackle this challenge by automatically learning from past experience the characteristics and usage patterns of the connected devices, thus enabling autonomic optimization of those connections. Cognitive network management requires a vast amount of information in order to function effectively, making collaboration of the networked devices essential as the best sources of information are scattered throughout the network. This makes efficient information dissemination one of the key enablers for autonomic networking. This dissertation studies managing control information related to autonomic selection of access networks and adapting services in a heterogeneous wireless network environment. It presents a solution to simple and efficient information dissemination in the form of Distributed Decision Engine— a CEP-like system enabling the building of a highly scalable and dynamic messaging system enabling dissemination, analysis and control of the complex series of interrelated events in the network. The dissertation also presents results showing a clear benefit in using cross-layer and cross-domain information in a modern wireless environment and validates the final prototype implementation of DDE with laboratory measurements. Effective use of disseminated cross-layer information is another key element in autonomic wireless networking. This dissertation also focuses on intelligent decision-making based on cross-layer information by presenting test results which attest that the performance of an autonomic wireless networking system can be improved by using cognitive techniques in its management algorithms, and that hierarchy and coordination can be utilized to minimize the effect of conflicting decisions of the systemTiivistelmä Mobiilin Internet-liikenteen räjähdysmäinen kasvu ja langattomien verkkojen jatkuva jakautuminen useisiin tekniikoihin vaativat uusia ratkaisuja näiden verkkojen tehokkaaseen käyttöön. Kognitiivinen verkon hallinta mahdollistaa oppimisen, minkä avulla laitteiden yhteyksiä voidaan optimoida autonomisesti aiemman kokemuksen perusteella. Tällainen optimointi vaatii kuitenkin valtavan määrän verkosta ja laitteista kerättyä tietoa, mikä tekee tehokkaasta tiedonjakelusta keskeisen elementin autonomisessa verkon hallinnassa. Tässä väitöskirjassa tutkitaan verkon valintaan ja palveluiden sopeuttamiseen vaadittavan tiedon välittämistä ja hallintaa autonomisissa langattomissa verkoissa. Ratkaisuna yksinkertaiseen ja tehokkaaseen tiedonvälitykseen esitellään hajautettu Distributed Decision Engine -komponentti, joka mahdollistaa skaalautuvan tiedon jakelu-, analysointi- ja hallintajärjestelmän rakentamisen. Lisäksi väitöskirjassa kuvataan myös tuloksia, jotka osoittavat, että verkkokerrosten välisen tiedon käyttämisellä voidaan saavuttaa selvää etua, sekä tuloksia, jotka vahvistavat DDE-prototyyppitoteutuksen toimivuuden laboratoriomittauksin. Verkkokerrosten välisen tiedon tehokas hyödyntäminen on toinen keskeinen tekijä autonomisessa langattomien verkkojen hallinnassa. Väitöskirjassa käsitellään myös älykästä päätöksentekoa kyseisen informaation pohjalta sekä esitellään tuloksia, jotka osoittavat, että päätöksentekoa autonomisessa langattomien verkkojen hallinnassa voidaan parantaa kognitiivisilla tekniikoilla. Lisäksi esitetyt tulokset osoittavat, että hierarkialla sekä koordinoinnilla voidaan minimoida ristiriitaisten päätösten vaikutukset järjestelmään
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Miettinen, M. (Mauri). "Itsemonitoroiva verkon pääsynohjaus attribuuttipohjaisilla allekirjoituksilla." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201804261540.
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Verkon monitorointi tarjoaa metodeja vihamielisten käyttöyritysten havaitsemiseen. Tyypillinen monitorointijärjestelmä käyttää Man-in-the-middle -tyyppisiä ratkaisuja, jotka vaativat laajamittaisia järjestelmiä pakettien salauksen purkamiseen ja avainten hallintaan. Tämä luo järjestelmään mahdollisen hyökkäyspisteen ja loukkaa käyttäjien yksityisyydensuojaa. Tämä tutkielma esittelee viitekehyksen ei-intrusiiviselle itsemonitoroivalle pääsynohjausjärjestelmälle, jossa attribuuttipohjainen kryptografia tarjoaa metodeja pääsylinjausten toimeenpanoon ilman syvää paketintarkastelua. Palvelinprosessi sallii yhteyksiä vaatimalla käyttäjää allekirjoittamaan haasteen attribuuttipohjaisella avaimellaan. Tutkielma tarjoaa myös esimerkin salaamattomassa HTTP-kontekstissa, jossa käyttäjän ominaisuudet määritellään heidän selainlisäosiensa yhdistelmän perusteellaNetwork monitoring provides methods for detecting malicious use attempts and packets. Typical monitoring systems use Man-in-the-middle based solutions, which require extensive monitoring and packet decryption systems with key management. This produces a possible attack point on the system and violates the privacy of the users. This paper introduces a framework for a non-intrusive self-monitoring access control system, in which attribute-based cryptography provides methods for policy enforcement without deep packet inspection. The server process allows connections by requiring the client process so sign a nonce with their attribute-basedd keys. The paper also provides an example in non-encrypted HTTP context in which the users’ attributes are defined by their browser plugin combination
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Hook, Sarah. "Reading the gallery : portraits and texts in the mid- to late nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:87ad5989-055a-4777-9418-5f636afd6f96.
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The Victorians saw more portraits than any generation before them. While the eighteenth century has been named 'the age of portraiture', portraits pervaded nineteenth-century society like never before. With the invention of photography, coupled with technological advancements in low-cost printing methods, the medium in which faces could be recorded was revolutionised, the classes of society that could afford to be immortalised expanded, and the spaces in which portraits were seen proliferated. These spaces included the public gallery, photography studio shop windows, and personal photograph albums. They also included the art periodical, biography, fiction, and poetry as the experience of portraiture became distinctly textual as well as visual. This thesis draws upon art history alongside literary, museum, and material studies to explore the creative exchange that developed between portrait viewership and reading practices in the mid- to late nineteenth century. Taking the establishment of the National Portrait Gallery in 1856 as its starting point, the thesis tracks the changing idea of the portrait gallery through its literary reception. It takes the portrait gallery to mean the physical space in which portraits were exhibited, and the conceptual idea of collecting, arranging, and interacting with portraits that permeated into the literary world. By focussing on the work of Edmund Gosse, Walter Pater, Thomas Hardy, and Vernon Lee, the thesis forms a 'gallery' of nineteenth-century tastemakers, each of whom looked to the democratic art of portraiture to reflect upon their literary art. How did portraits and texts interact in the mid- to late nineteenth century? In what ways did writers adapt the conventions of portraiture and the portrait gallery for the written text? This thesis seeks to answer these questions and provide new narratives about the complex relationship between the visual and the verbal in nineteenth-century culture. It observes the Victorian 'culture of art' with a more focussed eye to illuminate how the conditions of viewing, circulating, and collecting portraits specific to the period allowed the portrait gallery to serve as a particularly compelling arena for the literary imagination. Gosse, Pater, Hardy, and Lee tested the inherent limitations of portraiture as an art of imitation to realise its imaginative capacity for communicating with close and distant, contemporary and historic figures. They recognised that writing offered a valuable way of constructing the affective conversations that could be had with - and the stories that could be told about - portraits and portrait collections. With the proliferation of portraits came the problem and the opportunity of organising them.
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Moore, Conner Furie. "Antinatalist Sexual Dissidence in Decadent Literature." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1626867836253464.
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Quezada, Plana Francisco Ignacio, and Arancibia Joakín Mateo Díaz. "En Verano." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2017. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/153001.
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Obra audiovisual para optar al título de realizador de cien y televisiónLa muerte del padre es un hito en la vida de las personas. Ante la ausencia, el padecer de no volver a ver a un ser amado se manifiesta de diferentes formas y muy pocas de ellas aparecen como la solución al sufrimiento interno. Amparo, una joven de diecisiete años, protagoniza nuestro cortometraje de titulación. Su vida y la de su familia se desmoronan cuando su padre de improviso muere. Aunque el dolor y el llanto son contenidos, Amparo sólo encuentra una forma de enfrentar la pérdida: escapar. Cachivache es la historia del paso de una cómoda e inocente adolescencia a la solitaria adultez
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Ahmad, I. (Ijaz). "Improving software defined cognitive and secure networking." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2018. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526219516.
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Abstract Traditional communication networks consist of large sets of vendor-specific manually configurable devices. These devices are hardwired with specific control logic or algorithms used for different network functions. The resulting networks comprise distributed control plane architectures that are complex in nature, difficult to integrate and operate, and are least efficient in terms of resource usage. However, the rapid increase in data traffic requires the integrated use of diverse access technologies and autonomic network operations with increased resource efficiency. Therefore, the concepts of Software Defined Networking (SDN) are proposed that decouple the network control plane from the data-forwarding plane and logically centralize the control plane. The SDN control plane can integrate a diverse set of devices, and tune them at run-time through vendor-agnostic programmable Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This thesis proposes software defined cognitive networking to enable intelligent use of network resources. Different radio access technologies, including cognitive radios, are integrated through a common control platform to increase the overall network performance. The architectural framework of software defined cognitive networking is presented alongside the experimental performance evaluation. Since SDN enables applications to change the network behavior and centralizes the network control plane to oversee the whole network, it is highly important to investigate SDN in terms of security. Therefore, this thesis finds the potential security vulnerabilities in SDN, studies the proposed security platforms and architectures for those vulnerabilities, and presents future directions for unresolved security vulnerabilities. Furthermore, this thesis also investigates the potential security challenges and their solutions for the enabling technologies of 5G, such as SDN, cloud technologies, and virtual network functions, and provides key insights into increasing the security of 5G networksTiivistelmä Perinteiset tietoliikenneverkot pohjautuvat usein laajoille manuaalisesti konfiguroitaville valmistajakohtaisille ratkaisuille. Niissä käytetään laitekohtaista kontrollilogiikkaa tai verkon eri toiminnallisuuksien algoritmeja. Tämän johdosta verkon hajautettu kontrollitaso muodostuu monimutkaiseksi, jota on vaikea integroida ja operoida, eikä se ole kovin joustava resurssien käytön suhteen. Tietoliikenteen määrän kasvaessa tulee entistä tärkeämmäksi integroida useita verkkoteknologioita ja autonomisia verkon toiminnallisuuksia tehokkaan resurssinhallinnan saavuttamiseksi. Ohjelmisto-ohjatut verkkoratkaisut (SDN, Software Defined Networking) tarjoavat keinon hallita erikseen verkon kontrolliliikennettä eroteltuna dataliikenteestä keskitetysti. Tämä kontrollitaso voi integroida erilaisia verkkolaitteita ja ohjata niitä ajonaikaisesti valmistajariippumattoman sovellusohjelmointirajapinnan kautta. Tässä työssä on tutkittu älykästä ohjelmisto-ohjattavaa verkkoratkaisua, jonka avulla eri radioverkkoteknologiat (mukaan lukien konginitiiviradio) voidaan integroida yhteisen kontrollialustan kautta lisäämään verkon kokonaissuorituskykyä. Työssä esitetään kognitiivinen ohjelmisto-ohjattu verkon arkkitehtuuriratkaisu sekä sen suorituskyvyn arviointi mittauksiin pohjautuen. Koska ohjelmisto-ohjattu verkko pohjautuu koko verkon keskitettyyn kontrollilogiikkaan, on tietoturvan merkitys korostunut entisestään. Tässä työssä on sen vuoksi tutkittu juuri tällaisen verkkoratkaisun mahdollisia tietoturvauhkia sekä niiden torjumiseen soveltuvia ratkaisuvaihtoehtoja sekä esitetään tulevaisuuden kehityssuuntia vielä ratkaisemattomille uhkille. Lisäksi työssä on tutkittu laajemmin tulevien 5G verkkojen tietoturvauhkia ja niiden ratkaisuja, liittyen ohjelmisto-ohjattuihin verkkoratkaisuin, pilviteknologioihin ja virtualisoiduille verkkotoiminnallisuuksille. Työ tarjoaa myös näkemyksen siitä, miten verkon tietoturvaa voidaan kokonaisuudessaan lisätä 5G verkoissa
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Worman, Sarah E. Ms. ""Mirror With a Memory": Photography as Metaphor and Material Object in Victorian Culture." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu149151628521588.
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Bonte, Achim. "Goobi wird Verein." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-101855.
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Mit der Gründung des Vereins „Goobi. Digitalisieren im Verein“ am 17. September 2012 hat das Wort „Goobi“ eine weitere Bedeutung erhalten. Goobi ist die verbreitetste Open Source-Software zur Produktion und Präsentation von Digitalisaten. Sie ist Markenzeichen für Plattformunabhängigkeit, Modularität, Mandantenfähigkeit, offene Schnittstellen und internationale Standards. Sie steht für umfassende Lösungen zur Boutique- und Massendigitalisierung sowie skalierbare Unterstützungsleistungen durch namhafte Firmen; und seit einigen Wochen ist Goobi nun also auch ein eingetragener Verein mit anerkannter Gemeinnützigkeit.
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Schöpflin, Martin. "Der nichtrechtsfähige Verein /." Köln [u.a.] : Heymann, 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/356674754.pdf.
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Dahlqvist, Pierre. "Kollektivavtalets normerande verkan." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-95834.
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Laurila, J. (Johanna). "Vetää-verbin semantiikkaa." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201706012314.
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Pro gradu-tutkielmassani tutkin vetää-verbin monimerkityksisyyttä ja idiomaattisuutta. Kartoitan vetää-verbin erilaisia esiintymisympäristöjä ja sitä, millaisia objekteja, täydennyksiä ja merkityksiä se voi saada. Tärkeä tutkimuskysymys on myös se, millaista liikettä ja millaisia liikeprosesseja vetää-verbin avulla on mahdollista kuvata. Käytän tutkimuksessani kognitiivisen semantiikan käsitteitä ja metodeja. Tutkin tapausten aspektivaihtelua sekä liikeprosesseja ja lisäksi hyödynnän aikaisempaa idiomi- ja metaforatutkimusta. Tutkimukseni aineistona on 500 vetää-verbin sisältämää tapausta Suomi24- ja demi.fi -keskustelufoorumeilta. Lisäksi mukana on esimerkkejä puhekielestä ja laululyriikoista. Analysoin 177 näistä tapauksista. Tutkimuksessani selviää, että vetää-verbiä käytetään kuvaamaan prototyyppisten, ensimmäisten sanakirjamerkityksiensä tapaisen liikkeen (’vetää perässä’, ’vetää jotain kohti’, ’vetää ylös jostain’) lisäksi esimerkiksi laulamista, soittamista, ulos päin suuntautuvaa liikettä, tunteiden muutosta, tanssimista tai jopa paikallaan oloa. Luonnehdin vetämistä ja sen moninaista liikettä ”epämääräisyysjatkumon” käsitteen avulla. Epämääräisyysjatkumon epämääräiseen päätyyn sijoittuu liike, jota ei spesifioida; sen intensiteettiä, tapaa, nopeutta, lähtö- tai kohdelokaatiota ei kerrota. Jatkumon toisessa päädyssä on tarkasti määritelty liike, jolloin tapa, nopeus, intensiteetti ja lähtö- tai kohdelokaatio (tai molemmat) on spesifioitu ja eksplikoitu. Vetää-verbin valinta predikaatiksi mahdollistaa myös sen ajoittaisen toimimisen kevytverbinä; varsinainen toiminta muutetaan deverbaalinominiksi ja objektiksi kun predikaatiksi valitaan vetää. Aineistoni näyttää myös, että vetää-verbin sisältämät idiomikonstruktiot varioivat hyvin mielikuvituksellisesti ja rikkaasti.