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Rodriguez, Ana Carolina Vieira. "The uses of magic realism in Hollywood adaptations of Allende's The house of the spirits and Esquivel's Like water for chocolate." Florianópolis, SC, 2001. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/79605.
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O objetivo deste estudo é investigar como a estética do realismo mágico, que está diretamente ligada ao contexto sócio-político da América Latina, foi traduzida para uma narrativa Hollywoodiana. O trabalho realiza uma análise comparativa entre os romances do gênero realismo mágico A Casa dos Espíritos (1982), de Isabel Allende, e Como Água Para Chocolate (1989), de Laura Esquivel, e as adaptações dos livros ao cinema. Uma análise dos dois filmes, A Casa dos Espíritos (1993), de Bille August, e Como Água Para Chocolate (1993), dirigido por Alfonso Arau, em relação a elementos cinematográficos tais como mise-en-scene (cenário, iluminação, figurino e personagens), enredo, narrativa, motivação e linhas de ação nos leva à conclusão de que Arau obteve mais sucesso do que August ao transferir a estética do realismo mágico para o cinema.
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Miles, Geoffrey. "Untir'd spirits and formal constancy : Shakespeare's Roman plays and formal constancy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c5830cc5-e1a4-4efa-ae40-98dc4d7eb651.
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Critics who have noted the importance of Stoic constancy in Shakespeare 's Roman plays have failed to recognise the full complexity of the idea. It has two forms, both derived from the Stoic principle of homologia (consistency), and centred on the ideal of being always the same: Seneca's constantia sapientis, the rocklike or godlike virtue of the Stoic sage who is unmoved and unchanged by external circumstances; and Cicero's decorum (De officiis I), virtue as the consistent playing of an appropriate part. Seneca is more concerned with heroic self-sufficiency, Cicero with social virtue, but both forms of the ideal contain a tension between concern for inner truth and external appearances. In the late sixteenth century Stoic constancy becomes a subject of fierce debate as it is revived by the Neostoics, who stress the opposition of constancy and "opinion." Shakespeare's view of this debate may derive particularly from Montaigne, who moves from a Neostoic position to a sceptical critique of constancy as unattainable by inconstant man, and as less desirable than self-knowledge and flexibility. Reading North's Plutarch with these themes in mind, Shakespeare sees in the lives of Brutus, Antony, and Coriolanus an Aristotelian pattern of ideal, defective, and excessive constancy - a pattern which he modifies, in the light of his understanding of Seneca, Cicero, and Montaigne, in the three Roman plays. He explores the tension which exists between the Senecan and Ciceronian forms of constancy, and indeed within each of them: a tension between heroic Stoic virtue ("untir'd spirits") and public role-playing ("forrral constancy"). Julius Caesar shows Roman constancy as essentially "formal," resting on pretence and self-deception; in Rome, ironically, constancy depends on "opinion." Coriolanus, by taking constancy to an extreme, demonstrates the self-destructive contradictions within it. Antony and Cleopatra, by contrast, embrace a Montaigne-like ideal of "infinite variety" and inconsistent decorum; Antony fails, but Cleopatra achieves in death a paradoxical fusion of constancy and mutability.
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Le, Borgne Aude Marie. "Clootie wells and water-kelpies : an ethnological approach to the fresh water traditions of sacred wells and supernatural horses in Scotland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10540.
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This thesis examines different aspects of tradition relating to fresh water in Scotland. They include: the use of water from wells and springs for healing and divination purposes; the beliefs around the lin1inal quality of water, often considered as boundary, and around its magical association with the horse; and finally folktales featuring the water-horse, or kelpie, a supernatural creature which was said to inhabit lochs and rivers. In dealing with topics so different one from the other, within the larger field of Scottish customs and beliefs, it proved necessary to use a variety of sources and methods. Comparative study was often particularly illuminating. After presenting the history of visits to sacred wells, I deal with two main categories of customs associated with these pilgrimages, namely healing rituals and divination practices. While the former leads to the analysis of the different stages and implications of the ritual, the latter looks into the issues that were left to supernatural powers to decide upon, and examines how the questions asked of the oracle evolved with time. Consideration of these powers then leads on to further inquiry into the liminal function of fresh water in general, and its links with boundaries both spatial and temporal. That the horse, another element that is ascribed definite liminal qualities, was associated with water is therefore not fortuitous. If water provides an entry to an Other World, the horse can then take one through into this other land. Indeed, this is what is found in the corpus of tales centred on the figure of the waterhorse. As some of the tale-types are met in other geographical areas - Ireland and Scandinavia mainly - a discussion of these will provide a general background to the tales, which will result in a proposal for a revised tale-index. Two shared types -the work-horse and the abductor of children - will then be examined in the Scottish context. One type, however, - the seducer - seems to be unique to Scotland, and it will be dealt with last. The aim of this work is twofold: first, to provide an ethnological piece of research from a diachronic perspective on a subject outwith the usual themes generally chosen for studies of this nature; second, to present together, in their Scottish context, folktales that have been hitherto broken up and read in the light of their relationships to their foreign counterparts. Although recent academic studies on healing wells exist for Ireland and France, the Scottish material has never previously been treated in such a study. A number of sources available were secondary accounts, dating back mainly to the turn of the twentieth century, and part of my research involved finding the original documents used - sometimes misused - in order to present them in their original context. Similarly, part of the work on the kelpie stories involved gathering together tales kept in the Sound Archive of the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh that had never been collected into a single corpus. I hope in this thesis to provide a sound basis for further researches on these types of Scottish customs and beliefs.
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McElroy, Ruth Ann. "Spirits at the border : migration and identity in contemporary African - and Latin - American women's fiction." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246130.
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Wagner, Darren N. "Sex, spirits, and sensibility : human generation in British medicine, anatomy, and literature, 1660-1780." Thesis, University of York, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5574/.
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This thesis explores the physiological idea of animal spirits in relation to nerves, sex, and reproduction in the culture of sensibility. That physiology held the sex organs of both females and males to be exceptionally sensitive parts of the body that profoundly affected individuals’ constitutions and minds. Sexual sensations, desires, volition, and behaviour depended upon animal spirits and nerves. A central concern in this perception of the body and mind was the conflict between rationality from the intellectual will and sexual feelings from the genitalia. The idea that the body and mind interacted through animal spirits became influential in Georgian culture through anatomical and medical writings, teachings, and visual displays, but also through its resonance in literature about sensibility. This research predominantly draws upon material and print cultures of medicine, anatomy, and literature from 1660-1780. The analysis highlights the roles of gender, markets, literary modes, scientific practices, visual demonstrations, medical vocations, and broader social and political discourses in conceptions of the body and mind in relation to sex and reproduction. Ultimately, this study fleshes out the sensible and sexual body, which cultural and literary historians have frequently referred to, and emphasizes how the organs of generation commanded particular attention and exercised special influence.
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Stadler, Spencer Richard Gerd. "Christ's proclamation to the spirits in 1. Peter 3:19 in light of apocalyptic literature." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
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Duncan, Rebecca. "Dark mirrors and disembodied spirits : gender, sexuality and incest in selected fiction by Daphne du Maurier." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14269.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 69-70).Daphne du Maurier has long been considered chiefly as a writer of popular fiction. She is celebrated as a masterful constructor of plot and acclaimed for her ability to infuse novelistic narrative with a nameless and pervasive frisson of unease, but it is only recently that critics have begun seriously to investigate the shadowy complexities of her widely-read novels. In this thesis, three of du Maurier's best-known works 'Jamaica Inn', 'Rebecca' and 'My Cousin Rachel' are examined using psychoanalytic theory and close textual analysis together with autobiographical information. Each novel reveals an informing concern with the stability of identity, and the psychological perils by which the self is both shaped and haunted. In my discussion of Jamaica Inn, Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection elucidates Mary Yellan's confinement within the rigid boundaries of a violently imposed gender role, and her dangerous quest to transgress these limits. In the case of Rebecca, Nancy Chodorow's version of the female Oedipus complex illuminates the bisexual triangle in which du Maurier's nameless heroine finds herself trapped at Manderley, and brings into focus the anxiety which haunts her in her pursuit of maturity. Finally, in the chapter on My Cousin Rachel Jean Baudrillard's work on seduction and Gilles Deleuze's account of masochism help to explain Philip's compulsion to rid himself of his wealth, his land and the house in which he grew up, so that he might live like a servant with his cousin's maternal and alluring widow. In my reading of each of these novels, analysis uncovers a preoccupation with varying combinations of gender, sexuality and incest, a trinity of issues which beset the author in her own life, and which, in her fiction, inflect the protagonists' quest towards or away from a coherent identity. In conclusion it will be suggested that du Maurier's narratives are written with a double-edged pen: at once widely read, popular fiction, and darkly psychological, subvertive literature, in which deep-rooted social and cultural boundaries are destabilized.
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Wright, Archie T. "The origin of evil spirits : the reception of Genesis 6, 1-4 in early Jewish literature /." Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40089131v.
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Texte remanié de: Doctoral thesis--Faculty of theology--Durham--University, 2004. Titre de soutenance : Breaching the cosmic order : the Biblical tradition of Genesis 6, 1-4 and its reception in early Enochic and Philonic Judaism.Bibliogr. p. 224-240.
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Nicol, Timothy Keith. "Shaping Spirits, or, Imagination and "Abstruse Research": the perils of metaphysics and Coleridge's loss of form in the years of his philosophical accomplishment." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12392.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-81).The mystical nature of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poems, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Christabel' and 'Kubla Khan' has intrigued readers for over two centuries. Of these full poems only the "Rime" is complete and yet they all still enjoy the scrutiny of a wide audience. This thesis examines the circumstances surrounding Coleridge's inability to continue writing such poems of imaginative force.
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Binti, Mohd Amin Hasyimah. "Spirits, the Conjurer, and the ‘Living-Dead’ Ancestor: Aspects of African Traditional Religion in Recent African American women’s fiction." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21755.
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African American women writers in the post-civil rights era, such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, and Toni Cade Bambara, have demonstrated that the use of African spiritual traditions is a means to address black women’s struggles with violent oppression on race and gender in the United States. These works set the precedent for many more African American women writers of the late twentieth century to incorporate this spiritual tradition in their works. Literary critics have highlighted the aspects of this tradition in the works by these important writers. However, scholars have not examined a number of recent novels by African American women writers that also employ aspects of West African spiritual traditions - Bernice L. McFadden’s Gathering of Waters (2012), Dolen Perkins-Valdez’ Balm (2015), and Tiya Miles’ The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens & Ghosts (2015). Thus, this thesis examines the integration of the concepts of the avenging spirit, the conjurer, and the ‘living-dead’ ancestor of African spiritual traditions in the novels mentioned above. Overall, I argue that African spiritual traditions in the selected works enhance major concerns of the black female’s voice against sexist ideology, negative stereotypes of Black women, and the search for healing. Firstly, I examine the role of the avenging spirit or ngozi in McFadden’s Gathering of Waters to emphasize the voice of African American women against racialized sexual violence. Then, I argue that inspecting the conjure woman in Dolen Perkins-Valdez’ Balm reveals that her quest to find the meaning of life through conjuring practice challenges the negative stereotypes of black woman conjurers. Finally, I argue that the revelation of the overlooked history of the ancestor in The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens & Ghosts exemplifies how the connection to African spiritual traditions helps in the process of restoring race-relations and the healing of trauma that emerge from the systemic oppression of race and gender. This thesis illustrates how these recent writers weave some aspects of West African spirituality through their arts to remind readers about the survival of their African heritage through the trans-Atlantic slave trade. These elements of African spirituality are circulated in cultural memory to enable African American women’s struggles to continue to be expressed through literature.
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Skrove, Katie Suzanne. "The power of voice: Cultural silencing and the supernatural in women's stories: Allende's The House of the Spirits, Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and Morrison's Beloved." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2382.
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This thesis focuses on a study of the female voice and silencing as well as on the use of the supernatural in selected works of literature from three different cultures: Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits, Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and Toni Morrison's Beloved.
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Foreman, Chelsea. "Speaking With Our Spirits : A Character Analysis of Eugene Achike in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-65249.
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The purpose of this essay is to conduct a character analysis on Eugene Achike from Chimamana Ngozi Adichie’s novel Purple Hibiscus, to see whether or not the character is used by Adichie as a portrayal of colonial Nigeria and its values. I have done this by looking at the themes of violence and hypocrisy in relation to Eugene’s language usage, religious attitude, and behaviour towards others, and comparing these aspects of his personality with the attitudes shown by colonialists in colonial Nigeria. The more important issues that prove Eugene’s character is a portrayal of colonial Nigeria are: his utter disregard for his heritage and background, including the physical disregard of his father; his absolute control over his family members, both physically and mentally, which leads to violent outbursts if he is disobeyed; the fact that he is shown in the novel to be a direct product of the missionaries and colonial structure that was present in Nigeria when he grew up. These things, together with the subtle connections in Adichie’s writing that connect her novel to Things Fall Apart, firmly place Purple Hibiscus in the postcolonial category. Thus, I concluded that Eugene’s character is a portrayal of Colonial Nigeria.Syftet med denna upsats är att genomföra en karaktärsanalys på karaktären Eugene Achike i Chimamanda Ngozi Adichis roman Purple Hibiscus, för att se ifall karaktären används av Adichie som en skildring av koloniala Nigeria och dess värderingar. Jag har gjort detta genom att undersöka två teman – våld och hyckleri – i samband med Eugenes användning av språk, religös attityd, och beteende mot andra, för att då jämföra dessa aspekter av hans personlighet med attityderna kolonisatörer hade i koloniala Nigeria. De viktigaste sakerna som bevisar att Eugenes karaktär är en skildring av koloniala Nigeria är: hans fullständiga ignoreing av sin bakgrund, inklusive den fysiska ignorering av hans pappa; hans absoluta kontroll över sin familj, både fysiskt och mentalt, vilket leder till våldsamma utbrott om han inte blir åtlydd; det faktum att han beskrivs som en produkt av missionärerna och koloniala samhället vid flera tillfällen i boken. Detta tillsammans med romanens subtila kopplingar till Achebes Things Fall Apart, placerar tveklöst Purple Hibiscus i den postkoloniala kategorin. Därmed drar jag slutsatsen att Eugene’s karaktär är en skildring av koloniala Nigeria.
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Carey, Peter. "Life in Water." TopSCHOLAR®, 2002. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/645.
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Weiss, Katherine. "Water, Waste, and Words in Beckett’s Plays." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2251.
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Boast, Hannah. "Hydrofictions : water, power and politics in Israeli and Palestinian literature." Thesis, University of York, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12508/.
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This thesis examines the representation of water in Israeli and Palestinian literature, from the early years of Zionist settlement at the start of the twentieth century, to the daily violence of today’s ongoing occupation. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on disciplines including cultural geography, science and technology studies, and, inevitably, politics. At the same time, it situates these explorations in the context of the increasingly fevered contemporary debates on ‘water wars’, global water crisis, and the Anthropocene. In doing so, it demonstrates the many ways in which water intersects with Israeli and Palestinian cultures, at the same time as indicating the potential for literary approaches to deepen and critique existing political, scientific and corporate discourse on the future of the world’s water. Literary critics have so far had little to say about water. Land has always seemed more politically important and cultural meaningful. The significance of land appears dramatically amplified in the context of Israel/Palestine, where issues of land, borders and sovereignty remain painful and unresolved. This neglect of water exists in spite of a growing trend towards reading literature for its representations of resources, most prominently in the subject of ‘petrofiction’. No resource, however, is more fundamental than water. In bringing water to the forefront, this thesis has significant implications for future research in Israeli and Palestinian literary studies, postcolonial ecocriticism, and the environmental humanities. It demonstrates the potential for a focus on water to open up an array of new texts for exploration, and for literary research to productively complicate and enrich our understanding of, as well as our relationship with, the ubiquitous, and far more than merely ‘natural’ substance of water.
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Dean, Andrew. "Foes, ghosts, and faces in the water : self-reflexivity in postwar fiction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4c2e3b07-2454-457a-bf9f-a3f0734c89ba.
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This thesis examines the nature and value of metafictional practices in the careers of postwar novelists. Discussions of metafiction have been central to accounts of postwar literature. Where debates in the 1980s and 1990s about metafiction tended to make claims about its distinctive political and theoretical power, recent work in the study of institutions has folded metafiction into the routine operation of the literary field, and attacked previous claims to distinctive value. In this thesis I both historicize self-reflexive literary practices in the literary field, an element largely absent from the earlier scholarship, and present historically determinate claims about the value of these practices, an element I suggest is missing from the more recent work. To do so, I turn to the study of autobiography, specifically Philippe Lejeune's concept of 'autobiographical space.' In the first chapter, I explore how J. M. Coetzee develops academic literary criticism in his fiction. In the second chapter, I examine how Janet Frame responds to both the demands of a national literature and biographical inquiry into her life. In the third chapter, I address how Philip Roth handles the relationship between the politics of identity and the postwar novel. Self-reflexive practices, I show throughout, are ways of writing that were encouraged by particular formations in the literary field and were handled by writers through more or less explicit treatments of autobiographical space. I argue, though, that while these practices can be remarkably inventive, they carry no guarantees for political, theoretical, or aesthetic value.
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Burchfield, Monica R. "Fish from Deep Water." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/100.
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These poems are lyrical narratives dealing primarily with the joys and sufferings of familial relationships in present and past generations, and how one is influenced and haunted by these interactions. There is a particular emphasis placed on the relationship between parent and child. Other poems deal with passion, both in the tangible and spiritual realms. The poems aim to use vivid figurative language to explore complex and sometimes distressing situations and emotions.
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Yu, Hongyuan. "Shuihu Zhuan (water margin) as elite cultural discourse : reading, writing and the making of meaning /." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488193272069805.
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Nelson, Max. "The magical Narcissus, a study of the water-gazing motif in the Narcissus myth." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq27071.pdf.
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Weber, Marie-Christin. "How do water companies adapt to climate change impacts?: A literature review." Technische Universität Dresden, 2011. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A27688.
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The primary objective of this work was to analyse how water companies are affected by climate change and how they try to adapt to it. Therefore, a systematic literature review was being accomplished.
The work is being divided into a theoretical and a methodological part. First of all an overview of the climatic changes that are projected to occur during the next years is being given. Then, resulting impacts on the water cycle are being pointed out. Furthermore, raw water sources, water companies obtain water from are being defined as well as the treatment process. Within the methodological part the approach of a systematic literature review is being applied, which includes the selection of references as well as their evaluation.
The results of the literature review are that concerning the effects of climate change on water companies, the risks water providers might face, clearly predominate possible opportunities. Especially the deterioration of the raw water quality caused by increasing temperatures, floods as well as heavy rainfalls can be seen as a serious problem. Moreover, the most often mentioned adaptation strategies are dealing with quantitative water problems such as measures to increase storage as well as treatment capacity or leakage reductions.
All in all it can be stated that there is still uncertainty about how climate change is going to effect water companies, especially concerning water quality changes and the treatment process.
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Swisher, Michael James. "Wood and water terminology in Old High German literature : a contribution to the study of Old High German nature vocabulary /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487329662148213.
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Wriglesworth, Chad Duane. "Geographies of reclamation: writing and water in the Columbia River Basin, 1855-2009." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/761.
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Generations of literary critics have claimed that geography plays a prominent role in the production of Pacific Northwest literature; however, no one has meaningfully interpreted the literary and cultural history of the region in relation to United States water policy and the Bureau of Reclamation's transformation of the Columbia River Basin. This dissertation argues that the literary and cultural history of the Pacific Northwest becomes coherent only when the environmental, cultural, socio-economic and generational histories of this watershed are placed at the center of scholarly inquiry.
The project maps and traces ways that local and national narratives from the late- nineteenth and early-twentieth century worked alongside the federal government to transform the Columbia River Basin into an awaiting "Promised Land" of socio-economic progress, while writers and activists since the 1960s have used bioregional prose and poetry to spark a revival of localized counter-reclamation that stresses the importance of social activism and the attempt to find more sustainable methods of inhabiting the Pacific Northwest. The role that literature has played in the federal claiming and local reclaiming of the Columbia River Basin is argued and illustrated through an interdisciplinary and site based approach to literary studies that draws from conversations in environmental history, religious studies, cultural geography, visual arts, and Native American studies.
The chapters investigate canonical and virtually unknown sources of regional literature, while offering historically and geographically informed investigations of key sites within the Columbia River Basin that were transformed by the federal government over a one hundred and fifty year span of time: the Yakima Valley (1855-1920s), Grand Coulee Dam and Hanford Engineer Works (1930s-1940s), and The Dalles Dam and Celilo Falls (1950s-1960s). The project concludes by revisiting these sites through recent prose and poetry (1970s-2009), tracing how the poetic line, in particular, has been used by regional writers to document the socio-economic, environmental, local and international consequences of the federal reclamation process. After mapping historical and geographical links between selected poems and places throughout the watershed, I explore how site specific installations of poetry as public art on the Methow and Spokane rivers have been used by local community groups to transform and re-create stretches of water in large tributaries of the Columbia River Basin.
By putting the environmental, cultural, socio-economic and generational histories of the Columbia River Basin at the center of my investigation of Pacific Northwest literature, this dissertation ultimately invites readers to actively reclaim and transform the Columbia River Basin on intellectual, local, and practical levels, not only for a more complex understanding of the Pacific Northwest's literary and cultural history, but in order to find more localized and sustainable methods of inhabiting western watersheds.
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Hammock, Andrea Marie. "We should be like water: Choosing the lowest place which all others avoid: John Steinbeck as a modern messenger of Taoism." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2757.
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This thesis explores John Steinbeck's Cannery Row as a taoist text. It furthers this investigation by examining Cannery Row's recently discovered precursor, The God in the Pipes; examining the question of whether or not both novels were inspired by the ancient eastern philosophy of Taoism. The thesis uses clues from The God in the Pipes to determine which version of the Tao Teh Ching Steinbeck used to compose these novels.
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Ball, Charlotte Elizabeth. "Grendel’s Mother in the context of the myth of the Woman in the Water." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1522/.
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This thesis proposes that the character of Grendel’s mother in Beowulf is a manifestation of a mythic type, derived from studies of European goddess figures and named here as the Woman in the Water. This myth takes the form of an inherent association between femininity and water, and connotes the binary oppositions of birth and death, creativity and destruction, and the overarching themes of chaos and transience. By examining the imagery in Beowulf and its contemporary literature, this thesis studies the figure of Grendel’s mother in the context of this myth, looking at how the nature of motherhood and the element of water combine to form a powerful symbolic image emblematising the transience of life. These images are interpreted within a psychoanalytical framework as well as a mythic contextual one, providing the myth with an analogue in the human subconscious; that of the abject mother, a figure which represents the inevitable return of life to the void of the womb. The thesis concludes by demonstrating how the entire poem can be read with the character of Grendel’s mother and the battle against transience in mind, and how it complements the poem’s overall theme and structure.
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Kostetskaya, Anastasia G. "The Water of Life and the Life of Water: the Metaphor of World Liquescence in Russian Symbolist Poetry, Art and Film." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1367511847.
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Randell, Kelly Ann. "Kings over the water : narrative structure in some Middle Welsh prose tales." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610265.
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Sinche, Bryan Charles Gura Philip F. ""The test of salt water" literature of the sea and social class in antebellum America /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,400.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English." Discipline: English; Department/School: English.
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Wilson, Lakeitha Shana. "The perfect mask: examining the diligence in masking in Daniel black's perfect peace and Obery Hendricks's living water." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2011. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/236.
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This thesis examines the efforts necessary to mask and the aftermath in
doing so as illustrated in Daniel Black’s Perfect Peace and Obery Hendricks’s
Living Water. The focus of this study is to explore how Black and Hendricks
demonstration of Dunbar’s concept of masking evolves from societal
oppression. The environment and social constructions within the two novels
centralizes the cause to wear the mask. The female characters discussed in this
paper tacitly agree with their oppressors to at least pretend to submit to their
own oppression. Black and Hendricks develop female characters that emerge
from their oppression and achieve self-assertion. The female characters
redefine and redeem themselves through unconventional concepts of heroism.
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Goss, Kelly Sands. "The Other Shore: Stories." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1342189596.
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Mridha, Shibaji. "Ecocinema, Slow Violence, and Environmental Ethics: Tales of Water." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1555608601107401.
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Karlberg, Anna. "Swedish hydropower : A literature study about Swedish hydropower, environmental impact and EU: s Water Framework Directive." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för bygg- energi- och miljöteknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-20301.
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In Sweden, EU: s Water Framework Directive led to an investigation that started in April 2012 by the Swedish government, called Vattenverksamhetsutredningen freely translated to "Water Activities Survey", with the purpose to investigate the Environmental Code’s rules concerning water activities and water plants. The survey is divided into 3 reports, two sub-reports and a final report. One of the sub-report is focused on Swedish hydropower and the investigators found that many hydropower plants have old permits. One suggestion in the survey was to reconsider old permits so they would become consistence with today’s Environmental Code. There have been discussions regarding whether Sweden will lose much of its electricity production from hydropower as an outcome if the survey’s suggestions becomes reality. The aim with this literature study is to investigate how the EU: s Water Framework Directive and the Water Activities Survey will affect Swedish hydropower and if there will be a decrease in electricity production as an outcome if the suggestions made in the survey becomes reality. The results in this literature study shows that there will probably be a decrease in production for Swedish hydropower, but with how much is hard to say because the Swedish government has not yet decided what they will do with the suggested actions in the Water Activities Survey. A comparison is done with Sweden’s import and export statistics between the years 2001-2014 with a predicted loss of 13 TWh per year, which is a number taken from a survey made by Vattenfall. A comparison with a loss of half of 13 TWh per year is also done. Between the years 2001 and 2014 Sweden imported electricity 6 out of 14 years and exported electricity 8 out of 14 years. If adding the predicted loss of 13 TWh per year to the import and export statistics, Sweden would have had to import electricity 12 years and export 2 years. If adding a loss of 6.5 TWh per year Sweden would have had to import electricity 8 years and export 6 years. The conclusions is that Sweden will have to import a lot more electricity if only looking at import and export statistic if the loss of electricity is between 6.5-13 TWh per year.
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Fiorini, Mara <1993>. "Petrofiction: Oil and Literature in Oil on Water by Helon Habila and 419 by Will Ferguson." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16519.
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Amitav Ghosh’s coined word “Petrofiction” denotes the interplay between oil and literature, not only in terms of content but also in terms of the economic, social, and cultural systems to which this interaction refers. With regard to this literary genre, this work analyses the environmental and social consequences that the oil business is having on the Niger Delta, and investigates how this situation is covered within two novels. Firstly, it takes into consideration Oil on Water by Helon Habila and considers the two main aspects that surface in this work, namely the human aspect of native communities endangered by this situation, and the environmental aspect of the Niger Delta degradation. Secondly, it proceeds with the analysis of 419 by Will Ferguson which, while presenting the devastation of the Niger Delta (like Habila), adds a far-reaching plot which uses oil as a link between the Delta, Nigeria at large, and Alberta (Canada), indirectly referring to the entire world. As a result, this Master’s thesis underlines the fact that even though oil becomes overtly visible in some extraction sites, it tends to hide its negative impact on the physical world as a whole, thus contributing to the perpetuation of a system of injustice, which forms an integral part of neo-colonial discourses and is linked to issues surrounding climate change, human and non-human rights, and corporate responsibilities. Consequently, this work considers the examined novels as important evidence, which supports the case against fossil fuels and the need for a transition towards renewable and less damaging forms of energy, a transition that seems impossible yet necessary.
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Price, Kenneth Robert 1962. ""Nobody knows, so still it flows"—The Discourse of Water in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277904/.
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Emily Dickinson's use of water as a dominant poetic trope differs from typical religious archetypal associations with baptism, cleansing, and rebirth. Dickinson transforms rather than recapitulates established theological concepts, borrowing and adapting Biblical themes to suit her artistic purposes.
Dickinson's water poems are the poet's means of initiating a discourse with God. Dickinson's poems, however, portray the poet's seeking communion and finding only a silent response to her attempts to initiate an exchange with God. Unable to find requital to her needs for discourse, Dickinson uses Biblical imagery to vindicate ultimately abandoning the orthodox tenets of Calvinism.
Resenting the unresponsiveness of God, particularly if the solitude she experiences has been imposed through His will rather than her own, Dickinson poetically reverses roles with God to establish her autonomy, looking instead to the reader of her poetry to requite her need for discourse. And as interaction is seen as a need that Dickinson must have realized, poetry may then be understood as the poet's invitation of the reader into the discourse she finds lacking in God.
Refuting Calvinist doctrines allows the poet to validate her autonomy as well. Instead of following a course of life prescribed by God, Dickinson demonstrates her resistance to suppliance through water. Dickinson refuses to follow God's guidance unquestioningly because merely being part of a collective who follow an indifferent god provides no lasting distinction for a poet seeking immortality.
Having broken the union with God and established her god-like identity as a poet, Dickinson turns to the similar use of Biblical language in her poetry to establish the communion with her reader that she finds lacking in her relationship with God. Dickinson then strengthens this bond with the reader by asserting that divinity is present in every individual not suppressed by the restraining presence of God.
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Wang, Yang. "The Presence of Weather in Wallace Stevens' "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven": Image of Water, Air, and Light, and a "Poem of Pure Reality"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1985. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625308.
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Vatanen, V. (Varpu). "”She waited and breathed, and the water didn’t come. The ice bore her.”:Satumaisen maaginen selviytymistarina: Eowyn Iveyn romaani The Snow Child lapsettomuuden kriisin ja surutyön prosessin allegorisena kuvauksena." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201811293148.
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Tutkielmani aiheena on alaskalaisen Eowyn Iveyn esikoisromaani The Snow Child (2012) lapsettomuuden kriisin ja surutyön prosessin allegorisena kuvauksena. Teos käsittelee raskaita asioita ihmeellisen herkällä tavalla: Ivey kuvaa masennusta, surua ja lapsettomuuden kriisiä osin realistisesti, osin maagisen realismin, sadun ja fantastisen keinoin. Runsas symboliikka ja maagiset elementit realistisen masennus- ja selviytymiskertomuksen rinnalla tarjoavat mahdollisuuden koko teoksen allegoriseen lukemiseen. Tutkielmassani keskityn lapsettomuuden kriisiin ja surutyön prosessiin lähinnä naishahmo Mabelin kautta. Miehiset hahmot jäävät sivummalle johtuen feministisen ja ekofeministisen tutkimusotteen merkityksestä tutkielmassani. Tutkielmani nimessä esiintyvä lainaus teoksesta on allegorinen viitaten melankolisen Mabelin tilaan ja Mabelin ja talvisin ilmestyvän lumityttö Fainan suhteeseen: jää kantaa masentunutta Mabelia sittenkin, eikä hän huku. Lainauksen allegorisuus selittyy tulkinnallani Fainasta Mabelin pelastajana, keinona, jolla Mabel selviytyy surustaan. Faina, Mabelin lisäksi teoksen toinen merkittävä naishahmo, on maaginen mysteeri ja sellaiseksi myös jää teoksen lopussa. Fainan alkuperästä, olemuksesta ja sen merkityksestä teoksessa esitän pohdintoja ja hypoteeseja useassa luvussa. Pyrin perustelemaan päätelmiäni tutkimalla teoksessa esiintyviä eri genrejä ja niiden suhdetta allegoriaan, osoittamalla teoksen intertekstuaalisia yhteyksiä eri hypoteksteihin, erityisesti satuihin, ja ennen kaikkea analysoimalla löytämiäni allegorisia piirteitä lähemmin sekä viittaamalla psykologisiin tutkimuksiin. Teos sijoittuu Alaskaan, ja luonnon kuvaus on siinä oleellista. Käsittelenkin melko laajasti teoksen luontosymboliikkaa allegorisuuden tuottajana ja merkittävänä osana tulkintaa. Teoksen suhde luontoon perustelee myös ekofeministisen lähestymistavan feministisen ja psykologisen tutkimusotteeni ohessa. Ekofeminismi liittyy ajatukseeni käsittää Faina paitsi liminaalitilassa olevaksi tytöksi ja osin Mabelin psyyken luomaksi fantasiaksi, myös Alaskan ja Toiseuden symboliksi. Osoitan Iveyn teosta analysoimalla myös sen kantaaottavuuden äitiyden rooliin ja sen ongelmiin. Psykologista tutkimusotetta edustavat äitiyden kriisien tutkimukseen keskittyneet psykoanalyyttiset ja psykologiset tutkimukset, joita käytän Mabelin tilan selittämisessä. Mabelin masennuksen ja surutyön kaaren tarkastelun yhteydessä käytän myös lääketieteellisiä lähteitä havainnollistamaan ja perustelemaan Mabelin toimintaa. Jo mainitsemani liminaalisuus on työssäni olennaista, ja pyrin lääketieteellisin ja psykologisin lähtein täsmentämään tutkielmassa esittämiäni ajatuksia masennuksesta liminaalitilana. Haluan myös nostaa esille uutta alaskalaista naiskirjallisuutta, sillä Iveystä ei ole juuri tehty tutkimuksia. Tutkimukseni perusteella koko teoksen voi lukea surutyön allegoriana, jossa on elementtejä maagisesta realismista ja fantastisesta. Teoksessa kuvattujen lapsettomuuden surun ja masennuksen ollessa fiktion ulkopuolellakin olemassa olevia ongelmia esitän, että teosta voisi hyvin käyttää myös kirjallisuusterapiassa. Allegorisen tulkinnan kautta teoksen voi käsittää melankolisuudestaan huolimatta viestivän toivosta ja elämän hyvyydestä.
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Sheaffer, Lucas. "Damming the American Imagination." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/562228.
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This work intervenes in the complex relationship between the large-scale management and exploitation of water in the United States and its impact on the bioregional literary imagination in the Tennessee Valley between 1933-1963. It shows through site-based environmental criticism and literary analysis that the “dam” becomes a material and symbolic place of convergence where one can examine the relationship between humans and their biospheres. As interdisciplinary rhetorical, literary, historical, archival and cultural analysis, this work engages writers such as David E. Lilienthal, William Bradford Huie, Robert Penn Warren, and Madison Jones in order to reveal the inherently conflicted realities of environmental conservation, individual identity, and displaced regional imaginations in American literature.
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Coffelt, J. Roberta. "She "Too much of water hast": Drownings and Near-Drownings in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Women." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3059/.
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Drowning is a frequent mode of death for female literary characters because of the strong symbolic relationship between female sexuality and water. Drowning has long been a punishment for sexually transgressive women in literature. In the introduction, Chapter 1, I describe the drowning paradigm and analyze drowning scenes in several pre-twentieth century works to establish the tradition which twentieth-century women writers begin to transcend. In Chapter 2, I discuss three of Kate Chopin's works which include drownings, demonstrating her transition from traditional drowning themes in At Fault and “Desiree's Baby” to the drowning in The Awakening, which prefigures the survival of protagonists in later works. I discuss one of these in Chapter 3: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. Although Janie must rely on her husband to save her from the flood, she survives, though her husband does not. In Chapter 4, I discuss two stories by Eudora Welty, “Moon Lake” and “The Wide Net.” In “Moon Lake,” Easter nearly drowns as a corollary to her adolescent sexual awakening. Although her resuscitation is a brutal simulation of a rape, Easter survives. “The Wide Net” is a comic story that winks at the drowning woman tradition, showing a young bride who pretends to drown in order to recapture the affections of her husband. Chapter 5 analyzes a set of works by Margaret Atwood. Lady Oracle includes another faked drowning, while “The Whirlpool Rapids” and “Walking on Water” feature a protagonist who feels invulnerable after her near-drowning. The Blind Assassin includes substantial drowning imagery. Chapter 6 discusses current trends in near-drowning fiction, focusing on the river rafting adventure stories of Pam Houston.
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Matejic, Predrag. "Manuscript attribution through paper analysis : Hilandar Monastery in the fourteenth century (a case study) /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487327695624318.
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Thuruthy, Nisha. "Condition Assessment Technologies for Drinking Water and Wastewater Pipelines: State-of-the-Art Literature and Practice Review." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76758.
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Aging and deteriorating drinking water and wastewater pipelines have become a major problem in the United States, warranting significant federal attention and regulation. Many utilities have begun or improved programs to manage the renewal of their water and wastewater pipes and are proactively managing their pipeline assets rather than reactively fixing them. However, the extensive size of drinking water and wastewater systems and the severity of the deterioration problem are such that it is important to prioritize renewal, by assessing the condition of the pipelines and resolving the most severe situations first.
There is a variety of condition assessment technologies and methodologies available and in current use. This research incorporates an extensive literature review on actual cases of use of these various condition assessment technologies and techniques. This research also compiles information gathered through interviews and data mining work with utilities across the United States. The combination of case studies collected through literature review and case studies collected directly from utility sources about actual application of drinking water and wastewater pipeline condition assessment practices used have made it possible to synthesize the current practices and trends regarding pipeline condition assessment in the United States. The synthesis also allows for the identification of key lessons learned that should be considered by utilities when implementing condition assessment of pipelines. Recommendations have also been made for research priorities for filling utility needs.Master of Science
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Marquez, Melanie Lucia. "Multiple Layers and Flavors: The “Death of the Author” in Like Water for Chocolate." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1433.
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First published in 1989 in Spanish and then in 1992 in English, Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate is one of the best known Mexican literary works in the United States. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, Esquivel's novel has inspired great diversity of critical analysis among critics and scholars. Based on the author's comment regarding her intention to tell entertaining stories, critic Jay Corwin warns against the search for hidden layers to her work. Using as a framework Barthes's notion of the "death of the author" as well as cultural theory's argument that "discourse writes through the author", this work unfolds a diverse array of discourses, such as that of feminism, patriarchy, and parody, that liberate Like Water for Chocolate from the despotism of a single authority controlling the truth of the text and show that the readers are capable of intervening in the work's meaning.
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Smith, Kristine. "Sacrifice and the other, oppression, torture and death in Alias grace, Green grass, running water, and News from a foreign country came." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ40017.pdf.
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Scholles, Carlos Eduardo Meneghetti. "Discursive and mediatic battles in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/28206.
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O objetivo desta dissertação é o de investigar as disputas pelo poder subjacentes no texto literário do autor cherokee/canadense Thomas King, mais especificamente em seu romance publicado em 1993 intitulado Green Grass, Running Water. Serão destacadas as estratégias performáticas empregadas na desconstrução de representações opressivas de nativo-americanos por discursos ocidentais que compõem um complexo campo de batalha onde vozes em conflito disputam por direitos discursivos nas relações de poder. Se por um lado temos a tradição epistemológica positivista/cartesiana que trabalha há cinco séculos no sentido de exercer controle sobre as representações simbólicas dos nativo-americanos, a fim de que poder executivo e discursivo possa ser exercido sobre eles, por outro lado temos que Thomas King proporciona ao leitor o acesso a uma estrutura cíclica, não hierarquizada da narrativa e do epistêmio nativo-americanos. Esta investigação irá apontar os momentos de conflito entre essas vozes e analisará uma potencial interpretação democrática, de terceira via para esses encontros aparentemente binários. Espera-se ser possível indicar que Green Grass, Running Water propicia um privilegiado campo simbólico para que conflitos culturais e epistemológicos possam ocorrer e ser resolvidos com alguma espécie de resolução positiva em relação ao aspecto frequentemente belicoso dos engajamentos nativos e ocidentais. Para tanto, investigaremos a tradição bíblica e judaico-cristã de hierarquização e como o processo de nomeação de indivíduos e categorias permite que ocorra uma relação de dominação. Discutiremos a estrutura organizacional das comunidades, baseando-nos nas proposições de Zygmunt Bauman, com o intuito de averiguar de que forma o texto literário lida com questões como o pertencimento a grupos que possuem critérios subjetivos de aceitação, permitindo-nos responder se tais critérios permitem uma opção de filiação ou se representam uma demanda coletiva opressiva sobre o indivíduo. Uma análise dos discursos científicos de verdade também será feita, contrastando-os com a construção mítica coletiva das narrativas nativo-americanas como construções alternativas de verdade. Finalmente, teremos um capítulo sobre o poder narrativo da fotografia (mídia presente no romance em diversos momentos), no qual os usos da câmera serão descritos e analisados em seus potenciais de malícia e de narração distorcida.The aim of this paper is to investigate the power struggles underlying the literary text of Canadian/Cherokee author Thomas King in the novel Green Grass, Running Water, published in 1993. We will highlight the performative strategies employed in the deconstruction of oppressive representations of the Native American by Western discursive and mediatic voices. The novel offers an interweaved narrative of Native and Western cultural materials that, together, will compose a complex battlefield of contentious voices that, ultimately, weigh on the balance of power relations to claim discursive rights. On the one hand, we have the epistemological tradition of a Positivist/Cartesian logic that has been working for five centuries to hold sway over the symbolic representations of the Native Americans in order to exert executive and discursive power over them; on the other hand, Thomas King provides the reader a glimpse of the cyclical, non-hierarchized structure of Native narrative and episteme. This investigation will point out the moments of conflict between these two voices and attempt to elaborate on the potential democratic/third-way interpretation of these seemingly binary encounters. We hope to be able to indicate that Green Grass, Running Water provides a privileged symbolic battleground for cultural and epistemological clashes to occur and be settled with some sort of positive resolution to the long-lasting contentious nature of Native and Western engagements. In order to accomplish that, we will delve into the biblical and Judeo-Christian tradition of hierachization and how the process of naming of individuals and categories allows for domination to occur. We will elaborate on the structural organization of communities, based on the propositions of Zygmunt Bauman, in order to assess how the literary text handles issues such as belonging to groups that have subjective criteria for acceptance, aiming at answering whether these criteria allow for an option of membership or if they pose as oppressive collective demands over the individual. An analysis of the scientific discourses of truth will also be provided, contrasting them with the collective mythmaking of Native American narratives as alternative constructors of truths. Finally, we will have a chapter on the narrative power of photography (a medium present in the novel at various moments), in which the uses of the camera are described and analyzed in their guileful and (mis)narrating potentials.
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Embertsén, Maria. "Sustainable Stormwater Handling and Water System Urban Design. : A literature review and a case study in Nacka, Sweden." Thesis, KTH, Mark- och vattenteknik (flyttat 20130630), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-171815.
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Climate change presents us with greater and greater challenges and stormwater is an important part of our future water problems. In some parts of the world the increase and intensification in precipitation causes strain on existing infrastructure while, in others, draughts are becoming more and more severe. Handling stormwater sustainably does not only gain the environment by controlling pollutant spreading, helping with flooding control and water reuse but can also have added values in urban areas if included in urban planning. Implementing green infrastructure and sustainable stormwater solutions creates jobs and are in many countries seen as the future way of handling stormwater. There are many different techniques and ways of adopting sustainable stormwater handling depending on the local problem and physical as well as economic conditions. Together they all have in common of creating added values when implemented. Increased biodiversity, improved air quality, reduced noise, improved growing conditions for urban trees and aesthetical values that have a positive effect on human health are just some of the positive added values of sustainable stormwater handling. The case study in this report concerns a new development on a peninsula in the municipality on Nacka, Stockholm. The recommendation is to adopt the approach of many small solutions that combines to a sustainable way of handling stormwater that not only solves the problem but creates added values in the living and working area. Stormwater is a resource that should be used as one in order to have sustainable urban planning.
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Mulligan, Abigail Rosemary. "Naming as Survival: Law, Water and Settler Colonialism in Palestine." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1618943892479408.
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Weber, Marie-Christin. "How do water companies adapt to climate change impacts?" Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-135903.
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The primary objective of this work was to analyse how water companies are affected by climate change and how they try to adapt to it. Therefore, a systematic literature review was being accomplished.
The work is being divided into a theoretical and a methodological part. First of all an overview of the climatic changes that are projected to occur during the next years is being given. Then, resulting impacts on the water cycle are being pointed out. Furthermore, raw water sources, water companies obtain water from are being defined as well as the treatment process. Within the methodological part the approach of a systematic literature review is being applied, which includes the selection of references as well as their evaluation.
The results of the literature review are that concerning the effects of climate change on water companies, the risks water providers might face, clearly predominate possible opportunities. Especially the deterioration of the raw water quality caused by increasing temperatures, floods as well as heavy rainfalls can be seen as a serious problem. Moreover, the most often mentioned adaptation strategies are dealing with quantitative water problems such as measures to increase storage as well as treatment capacity or leakage reductions.
All in all it can be stated that there is still uncertainty about how climate change is going to effect water companies, especially concerning water quality changes and the treatment process.
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Steiner, Kristi Kalei. "Renewal Engineering Technologies for Drinking Water and Wastewater Pipeline Systems - A State of the Art Literature and Practice Review." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/76763.
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Over the last few years, several advancements have been made in water and wastewater pipe renewal technologies that have allowed utilities to utilize innovative renewal techniques that decrease project costs, the impact of the project on the surrounding citizens and environment, and allow for expedited pipeline renewals compared to traditional open trench methods. The challenge now is in getting utilities to implement new innovative technologies within their system. This thesis provides background information on a number of the technologies available for the renewal of water and wastewater system pipelines. It then provides State of the Art Literature and State of the Art Practice Reviews based on technology use trends in literature and technology use trends in utility practice. The information from both reviews is then synthesized to provide a clear view of the state of the water and wastewater pipeline renewal technology industry, including the trends by pipe material, drivers for renewal, and technology type.Master of Science
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Baugher, James L. "Celtic Water Hags, Violent Children, and Wild Men: Reexamining the Syncretic Nature of Beowulf." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3186.
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This thesis reaffirms the Celtic influence on Beowulf. The first chapter reevaluates past attempts to demonstrate a Celtic connection with particular emphasis on the work of Martin Puhvel and R. Mark Scowcroft. The second chapter compares Grendel’s Mother to the Lady of the Lake, from the Prose Lancelot, using the Celtic water hag motif. The third chapter analyzes how Grendel exemplifies the Celtic motifs of the violent child and the wild man by comparing him with Cu Chulainn, from the Táin Bó Cúailnge, Lancelot, from the Prose Lancelot, and the Celtic wild man tales surrounding Suibhne, Myrddin, and Lailoken. The final chapter uses Michael D. C. Drout’s Lexomic analysis and a network analysis by Pádraig Mac Carron and Ralph Kenna to problematize the assumed unity of the text. Therefore, this thesis provides both narrative and textual evidence to validate the Celtic influence on Beowulf.
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Holoch, Adele Johnsen. "Beyond the bon sauvage : questioning Canada's postcoloniality in Nancy Huston's Plainsong and Thomas King's Green grass, running water." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98542.
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This thesis approaches the question of Canada's postcoloniality through two novels, Nancy Huston's Plainsong and Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water. Published in 1993, both novels problematize a postcolonial articulation of marginality in Canada, suggesting that it reduces the complexities of otherness to binary divisions of center and margin, colonizer and colonized. While Plainsong imagines the restrictive consequences such a reading may have on the others with which it engages, Green Grass, Running Water pushes past those boundaries to affirm the complex nature of alterity in contemporary Canada. Through King's novel in particular, we are provided a new model for approaching and understanding the nuances of difference in a changing literary and political landscape.
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Sennett, Evan James. "Sky Water: The Intentional Eye and the Intertextual Conversation between Henry David Thoreau and Harlan Hubbard." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1544635048555133.
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Niousha, Eslahchi. "BEYOND THE WATER: HOW PRONUNCIATION AFFECTS MELODY IN THE ZOROASTRIAN HYMN " THE WATER'S BIRTHDAY" IN AHMAD-ABAD, IRAN." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1595845477078896.
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