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Jonk, Gerarda Dorothea Mezina. "The maritime supernatural of Frederick Marryat, William Clark Russell and William Hope Hodgson." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2017. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/411253/.
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The ambition of this project is to demonstrate the cultural and literary importance of the maritime supernatural of nineteenth century literature. Addressing literary manifestations of the experience of being haunted at sea, I both expand and adjust the work of key scholars of maritime literature and history, who prioritize adventure narratives over the supernatural and focus on what they argue is the “real” experience and impetus of sea-faring, ranging from labour to adventure to empire-building. However, ghosts, legends and the supernatural are equally indispensable to the “real” experience of sea-faring. This thesis traces the maritime supernatural as a response to the anxieties arising from the imperial, religious and technological formations of the nineteenth century. Chapter one constructs a theoretical framework based on shipboard life and labour and the uncanny. Working within this frame, chapter two considers three key elements of the maritime supernatural – supernatural actor, haunted space and haunting environment – demonstrating the particular ways in which this literary genre overturns maritime lore and challenges norms and conventions. This leads to analyses of works of three popular sailor-authors, Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), William Clark Russell (1844-1911) and William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918). These three authors, well-known in their own time, are now often overlooked in studies of maritime literature, mostly because their narratives do not have the literary quality of canonical works. However, their contemporary popularity does not only indicate their writings resonated with their audiences; their apparent lack of literary quality highlights the immediacy of their concerns. Frederick Marryat’s The Phantom Ship, serialized between 1837 and 1839, seizes the supernatural element in order to interrogate Christianity. After a hiatus in the mid-nineteenth century when no new maritime supernatural narratives were published, William Clark Russell essentially revived the genre with The Death Ship in 1888. Russell’s nostalgic tale both expresses a longing for the past and anxiety for the future of shipboard labour. By the early 1900s, William Hope Hodgson’s early weird fiction gives a new spin to the genre, remythologising the sea into modern tales that reflect contemporary crises of maritime representation. This draws to a conclusion that complicates the notion of the maritime space as unproblematic site of nostalgia, modernity, religion or empire, and shows that a serious consideration of the maritime supernatural genre enriches the current discourse of maritime literature.
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Wilkinson, Melissa. "An exploration of the intellectual and spiritual development of Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683318.
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Vergne, François. "Frederick W. Rolfe, Baron Corvo : autobiographie et quête formelle." Paris 3, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA030102.
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L'oeuvre de frederick william rolfe, baron corvo (londres 1860-venise 1913) se caracterise par l'omnipresence du theme autobiographique tant dans le domaine litteraire que pictural. Du theme autobiographique central decoulent les motifs secondaires (figure du pretre, fascination du pouvoir pontifical, obsession pour la renaissance, amour de l'italie. . . ), sans cesse repris sous des formes toujours renouvelees (poemes, etudes et romans historiques, roman populaire, roman esoterique, roman autobiographique). Pareille approche revele un rapport a l'ecriture concue comme une recherche purement formelle incorporant toutes les formes d'expression artistique pratiquees pr rolfe (ecriture, peinture, photographie. . . ). L'oeuvre de rolfe incarne un moment-clef de la litterature en grande-bretagne au debut du 20eme siecle : des premiers contes fortement tributaires de l'esthetique decadente telle que l'incarnait le yellow book a son dernier roman the desire and pursuit of the whole, archetype de l'oeuvre ouverte, en passant par les recherches linguistiques de don renato, l'histoire de l'oeuvre venant peu a peu se substituer a celle de son auteur, c'est a la naissance de l'experimentalisme et de la modernite en ecriture que nous assistons<br>The literary and pictorial works of frederick william rolfe, baron corvo (london 1860-venice 1913) are characterized by an all-pervading autobiographical theme. All the secondary motifs present in the novels (whether it be rolfe's fascination for the priesthood and the power of the popes, his passion for italy and for the italian renaissance in particular) derive from this central theme. The elements of this deliberately restricted thematic field are treated under endlessly renewed forms that include poetry, historical studies and novels, popular, esoteric or openly autobiographical novels. Such an approach reveals a vision of writing as a purely formal research intent on incorporating all the artistic activities rolfe had practised in the course of his creative career (writing, painting, photography. . . ). Rolfe's literary work stands as a turning point in early twentieth century english literature. While following rolfe's evolution from his early short stories that rely heavily on decadent aesthetics as embodied by the yellow book to the linguistic experiments present in don renato and to his last novel the desire and pursuit of the whole, an archetypal "open" work, one is given to witness, together with the vanishing of the story of the author's life gradually replaced by the history of his literary creation, the birth of modern experimental writing
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Gothelf, Rodney Mische. "Absolutism in action : Frederick William I and the Government of East Prussia, 1709-1730." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14358.
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This dissertation examines the operation of Hohenzollern government in the distant but crucial territory of East Prussia during the reign of Frederick William I, 1713-40 to determine what impact the establishment of the General Directory in late 1722 and early 1723 had upon day-to-day administration within the Kingdom of East Prussia. Particular attention is given to the role and operation of provincial and local government in East Prussia during the decades before and after the setting up of the General Directory (General-Ober-Finanz-Kriegs-und Domänen-Direktorium). This study is part of a broader historiographical tendency which questions both the extent and success of Hohenzollern state building and calls into question the validity of the traditional view which gives most attention to the positive role of central state structures and considers the establishment of the General Directory as the apex of the much-admired and widely-emulated Prussian administrative system. This study demonstrates that further governmental modifications were needed in the Kingdom before and after the General Directory's successful operation in the Kingdom in the 1720s and 1730s. The territorial and local levels were where the Hohenzollern rulers would find it crucial to establish their absolutist power. One difficulty Frederick William I faced was that a large corps of loyal officials was lacking in the Kingdom which was only partially remedied by the end of his reign. In addition, critical administrative disputes continued and new ones arose between the King's administrative agencies. Moreover, the powerful native elites who lived in the Kingdom retained significant authority at the provincial and local levels and resisted many reform attempts by a king who they saw as foreign. Their enduring importance helps to explain the distinctive manner in which absolutism developed over these decades. As a result, authority in the Kingdom still was less than securely established by the final decade of Frederick William I's reign.
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Pack, Uraina N. "Afrointratextuality as a means of examining folklore in the emancipation narratives of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1997. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2650.
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This study examines the use and documentation of folklore within Emancipation narratives. This examination is predicated on the behavior of the trickster, Br’er Rabbit. Through analysis of Br’er Rabbit’s behavior, three survival techniques used by the authors in this study function as a means of determining his importance to African Americans.
Through research and comparison of narratives, examination of historical references, and critical analyses, the researcher evaluated the behavior and experiences of African Americans within captivity to establish the use of folklore as a survival mechanism. By application of a methodology which evaluates African American experience and culture, the researcher sought to reinforce the connection between literature and culture. The researcher determined that cultural retention was evident and necessary to African Americans regardless of their circumstances.
The conclusions of this analysis validate the importance of the narrative as a historical and cultural source for African American existence in America. The researcher’s methodology suggests that the use of folklore within the narrative is derivative of the imitation and revision of linguistic and physical motion specific to African American culture.
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Hurrell, Sheila Louise. "The narrative print in the works of John William North (1842-1924), George John Pinwell (1842-1875) and Frederick Walker (1840-1875)." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/813.
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The thesis explores the artistic production of three artists, John William North (1842-1924), George John Pinwell (1842-1875) and Frederick Walker (1840-1875). It is particularly concerned to look in detail at their wood engravings in connection with the 1860s periodical and Gift Book phenomenon which occurred a dozen years after the arrival of the Pre-Raphaelite artists in 1848 on the London art scene. The group awoke a regular critical response to Art in national newspapers, so that by the time that North, Pinwell and Walker were working in the graphic arena of wood engraving, they too fell under the scrutiny of critical observation which followed them particularly as they became artists. They were posthumously connected with Idyllism in a way that conflicts with their living reputation as realists and this thesis sets out to review their work and find explanations for this inconsistency. This thesis, in addition, provides as full a catalogue of the artists' illustration medium as can be assembled at this date. It contextualizes this catalogue with six chapters, beginning with an introduction that sets out the sources and reasons for their posthumous reputation as The Idyllists. Chapter 2 provides biographical and environmental information, followed by a chapter on the London wood engraving environment. Chapters 4 and 5 trace their work in magazines and then in books and finally, Chapter 6 uses the work they produced in Somerset as a focused examination of their differing responses to the same location. The thesis proposes that the graphic production of all three artists is no mere prelude to their work in watercolour and/or oils and needs to be examined in greater depth than has hitherto been the case.
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Huetter, Robert A. "A History of Fort Duchesne, Utah, and the Role of its First Commanding Officer, Frederick W. Benteen." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1990. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTGM,14001.
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Thompson, Scott Lesley. "The role of the engaging narrator in four nineteenth-century American slave narratives /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1995. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/9529032.
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Repshire, James Grant. "F.W. Harvey and the First World War : a biographical study of F.W. Harvey and his place in the First World War literary canon." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/21790.
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F.W. Harvey’s poetry was more popular during the First World War than many – if not most – of those whom we celebrate as ‘the war poets’ today. He is unique among the poets of that war for his insight into the life of the British POW in Germany, and for the influence of his work in the first of the British trench journals, the 5th Gloucester Gazette. Yet, he has received little national attention since his death in 1957, and scholarly work on his life is lacking, largely owing to a deficit of publicly-available primary sources and original material regarding his life and works. This has resulted in a failure to place him properly within the literary canon of the First World War. The recent discovery of Harvey’s papers allows us to examine his life and his contemporary cultural impact, and more fully to evaluate the value of his work and what it tells us about the First World War experience. Using Harvey’s papers, this biographical study will reconstruct the historical details of his life as they relate to the First World War. Concurrently, it will develop our understanding of his war-related work. This will demonstrate Harvey’s influence during the war, first as a trench poet, then as the poetic voice of the British POW. It will also examine how Harvey’s work continued to be affected by the war in the years after the armistice. The result will be a greater appreciation of the life and importance of a First World War poet whose voice was in danger of being lost to time.
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Broodryk, Frederik Willem Jacobus. "Die medewerkwoord in Afrikaans / Frederik Willem Jacobus Broodryk." Thesis, Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/3788.
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Bigdely, Patricia. "L’implication de Bettina von Arnim dans les débats politiques et sociaux au travers de ses correspondances (1838-1849)." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013TOU20106/document.
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Ce travail de recherche aborde les stratégies épistolaires et communicationnelles de Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859), femme de lettres allemande, pour prendre part aux débats politiques et sociaux pendant la période du Vormärz. Transgressant les frontières sociales, idéologiques, rhétoriques et celles des genres littéraires, Bettina von Arnim a tenté d’influer sur le roi de Prusse, Frédéric Guillaume IV, au moyen de ses correspondances, de ses ouvrages et de son réseau. Bettina von Arnim a élaboré des stratégies de communication et de persuasion pour secouer un système ministériel rigide et réactionnaire, obtenir des réformes politiques et sociales et modeler le souverain selon son idéal du Volkskönig. Cette étude va s’attacher à montrer les mécanismes employés par Bettina von Arnim pour s’immiscer dans un domaine exclusivement masculin, la politique<br>This research project explores the activities and works of Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859), a German literary scholar, taking part in the political and social debates of the period ‘Vormarz’. Covering all social boundaries, ideologies, rhetoric and literary styles, Bettina attempted to influence the King of Prussia, Frederick William IV, with her letters, writings and network. Bettina von Arnim fabricated a persuasive communication strategy to disrupt a rigid ministerial system, get political and social reforms, and influence the Sovereign according to her model of the ‘Volkskönig’. This study attempts to show the tactics employed by Bettina von Arnim to infiltrate an exclusively male political structure<br>Diese Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit den Brief- und Kommunikationsstrategien von Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859), die vor allem durch ihre Korrespondenz an den politischen und sozialen Debatten im Vormärz teilgenommen hatte. Unter häufiger Missachtung der sozialen, ideologischen und rhetorischen Gewohnheiten sowie der traditionellen Literaturgattungen war Bettina von Arnim bestrebt, dem preußischen König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Ratschläge zu erteilen. Bettina von Arnim hat Überzeugungsstrategien entworfen, um einen starren und reaktionären Beamtenapparat zu umgehen und wachzurütteln, politische und soziale Reformen zu erzielen sowie das Staatsoberhaupt in Richtung auf ihr Ideal eines Volkskönigs zu beeinflussen. In dieser Arbeit sollen die von Bettina von Arnim verwendeten Mechanismen untersucht werden, wodurch sie sich in die Politik, eine den Männern vorbehaltene Domäne, einzumischen versuchte
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Whitaker, Jay Ernest. "Aesthetic representations of history : the question of the national allegory /." Electronic version (PDF), 2006. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2006/whitakerj/jaywhitaker.pdf.
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GRANDI, ROBERTA. "Tragicommedia, Melodramma e Burlesque: Metamorfosi del King Lear in Inghilterra dalla Restaurazione all'Ottocento." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/511.
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Questa tesi si occupa di percorrere il percorso di evoluzione del King Lear attraverso due secoli e mezzo di adattamenti teatrali e riscritture. Prende in esame gli adattamenti di Nahum Tate, David Garrick, George Colman, John Philip Kemble, Edmund Kean e William Charles Macready. La tesi propone anche l’analisi del melodramma di W.T. Moncrieff nonché i burlesques di John Chalmers, Joseph Halford e C.J. Collins, e Frederick Marchant.<br>This doctoral thesis focuses on the evolution of the story of King Lear through two centuries and a half of theatrical history. The research is concentrated on the adaptations proposed by Nahum Tate, David Garrick, George Colman, John Philip Kemble, Edmund Kean and William Charles Macready. The analysis also takes into considerations some rewritings such as the melodrama written by W.T. Moncrieff and the burlesques produced by John Chalmers, Joseph Halford and C.J. Collins, and Frederick Marchant.
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Saunders, Anthony James. "A muse of fire : British trench warfare munitions, their invention, manufacture and tactical employment on the Western Front, 1914-18." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/69476.
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The emergence of static warfare on the Western Front in late 1914, encouraged the reinvention of devices associated with siege warfare and the invention of hitherto unknown munitions. These munitions included hand and rifle grenades and trench mortars and their ammunition. At the outbreak of war, the British effectively possessed none of these devices and lacked an infrastructure by which they could be quickly designed, manufactured and supplied to the BEF. The British met this challenge with considerable success and the subsequent proliferation of trench warfare munitions had profound consequences for the evolution of British tactics on the Western Front. This thesis examines the processes by which these devices were invented, developed into manufacturable devices and supplied to the BEF. It considers their novelty in respect to similar devices from the American Civil War and the Russo-Japanese War. It looks at how their technical evolution affected tactical developments. The thesis discusses the relationship between the technical characteristics of these devices and the evolution of their tactical employment on the Western Front. It also considers how the characteristics of certain munitions, such as the Stokes mortar and the Mills grenade, directly effected tactics. It argues that the tactical employment of these munitions was dependent upon their functionality, utility and reliability. The present thesis provides a different model of trench warfare conducted by the British during the First World War and thereby demonstrates the significance of the novel munitions under discussion and the role they played in changing infantry warfare. This thesis also provides a different view of the Ministry of Munitions from that usually offered and argues that certain aspects of the Ministry’s role in providing the BEF with munitions has been overstated by virtue of its having underplayed the work of the War Office, while overlooking that conducted by the Royal Engineers in France.
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Janssen, Geert Herman. "Creaturen van de macht : Cliëntelisme bij Willem Frederik van Nassau (1613-1664) /." [S.l. : s.n], 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb401296497.
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Roy, Michaël. "« My Narrative is just published » : publication, circulation et réception des récits d'esclaves africains-américains, 1825-1861." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCD080.
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Cette thèse entreprend l’étude du corpus des récits d’esclaves africains-américains publiés entre 1825 et 1861 au prisme de l’histoire du livre et de l’édition. À partir de recherches sur archives, elle met au jour les modes de publication, de circulation et de réception de récits emblématiques – ceux de Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, ou encore Harriet Jacobs – et de récits moins connus. Partant, elle remet en cause certaines idées reçues sur ces récits de la période antebellum, dont la critique considère généralement qu’ils furent publiés grâce à l’aide des sociétés antiesclavagistes, qu’ils rencontrèrent un succès considérable auprès de la classe moyenne blanche du Nord et furent tirés à des milliers d’exemplaires, et qu’ils constituèrent rapidement un genre à part dans la production littéraire de l’époque. Il s’agit dans ce travail de montrer la diversité des dispositifs éditoriaux au sein desquels les récits d’esclaves virent le jour, en même temps que de s’interroger sur le rapport des Africains-Américains au livre et à l’imprimé et sur leurs pratiques en matière de publication, à un moment où l’industrie éditoriale est encore en cours d’émergence et où les acteurs du livre ne publient guère d’ouvrages ayant trait à l’abolitionnisme (au moins jusqu’à la parution d’Uncle Tom’s Cabin de Harriet Beecher Stowe en 1852). En réinscrivant les récits d’esclaves dans le réseau de pratiques et de discours qui ont permis leur essor, et en les considérant dans leur dimension matérielle, cette thèse entend montrer la nature hétérogène et fluide d’un objet littéraire souvent perçu par la critique comme formant un tout cohérent et strictement codifié<br>This dissertation is at the crossroads of two distinct disciplinary fields : African American studies and the history of the book. More specifically, it examines the publication, circulation, and reception of antebellum slave narratives—the narratives of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs, as well as a number of lesser-known works. The story of the slave narrative is well rehearsed : narratives of ex-slaves, critics say, were usually written in collaboration with white abolitionists, with antislavery societies subsidizing publication ; they met with considerable success, going through multiple editions and selling in the tens of thousands ; they were largely directed toward a northern white audience ; and they soon emerged as a distinct genre in antebellum America. None of these statements is fundamentally untrue. The overall picture they paint of antebellum slave narratives is, however, a distorted one. Slave narratives were produced through a variety of authorial economies. Investigating these economies allows to shed new light not only on the slave narrative as a genre, but also on African Americans’ print practices at a time when the publishing industry was still emerging and when book people were reluctant to publish and distribute antislavery literature—at least before Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin came out in 1852. Acknowledging the heterogeneous and fluid nature of what is often perceived as a homogeneous and strictly codified genre gives us a better sense of how slave narratives might have been variously received and consumed in the decades preceding the Civil War
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Greer, Elena J. "Sir Frederic William Burton and the Rosebery Minute : the directorship of the National Gallery, London, in the late nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48057/.
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This thesis examines for the first time the role of Sir Frederic William Burton (1816-1900) as director of the National Gallery, London, during the period 1874 to 1894. I argue that his directorship is important because it was followed by the second major administrative re-organisation in the Gallery’s history, namely the Rosebery Minute of 1894, which significantly reduced the authority of the director in making acquisitions. This power had been bestowed upon the director in 1855 after an in-depth parliamentary Select Committee examining the running of the Gallery, which had established the post for the first time. My thesis seeks to determine to what extent and how Burton’s tenure prompted this major reassessment of the Gallery’s management structure. The enquiry addresses the question from a variety of perspectives including Burton’s acquisitions, the display of the collection, his attitude to the social function of the Gallery and the relationship of the Gallery authorities with government departments and individuals. These topics are informed by a methodological approach that takes as its starting point the large volume of archival material and correspondence both at the National Gallery and in other gallery archives and libraries relating mainly to Burton and his trustees, chiefly Sir Austen Henry Layard and Sir William Gregory. Using these sources my thesis examines the background, interests, motivations and personal relationships of key individuals, assessing the impact of personal biography upon institutional history. The thesis also sets these case studies within the broader cultural context of the development of the discipline of the history of art and the challenges this posed to the identity of the Gallery. The final chapter reassesses the Rosebery Minute of 1894 in the light of this research, highlighting the importance of both a detailed ‘micro-historical’ approach and a broad contextualisation of developments at the National Gallery at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Blin, Marie-Christine. "Art et écologie dans l'Amérique du dix-neuvième siècle, 1820-1890 : artistes pionniers et exploration visuelle." Le Havre, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LEHA0013.
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On attribue souvent aux œuvres des peintres Albert Bierstadt et Thomas Moran et des photographes Carleton Watkins et William H. Jackson un impact certain sur la création des parcs nationaux de Yosemite et Yellowstone. Plutôt que de rechercher des preuves de leur influence sur les hommes politiques – preuves qui se révèlent ténues et appartiennent plus à la légende qu’à la réalité – cette thèse se propose d’étudier comment la représentation du paysage a pu progressivement, au cours de la période 1820-1890, façonner les esprits américains au point qu’ils puissent admirer cette nature sauvage qu’ils redoutaient depuis longtemps et en venir à prôner ou à accepter qu’on la préserve. Dans une première partie, nous aborderons l’évolution de l’image de la nature et de l’art depuis l’arrivée des premiers colons et leurs destins croisés. Dans la seconde partie, nous nous intéresserons aux facteurs qui firent des artistes des pionniers de l’esthétique et de la préservation, les envoyant en mission d’exploration pour étudier les éléments naturels et recréer les scènes observées. Puis nous analyserons les écrits de certains artistes où transparaît une sensibilité écologique précoce et les actions concrètes de ceux qui luttèrent pour préserver certains sites. Enfin, dans la troisième partie, nous examinerons les innovations technologiques ou artistiques et l’adaptation des traditions picturales européennes qui favorisèrent l’appropriation visuelle de la nature : panorama et stéréographie, alliance de la vision de loin et de haut et de la précision télescopique ou pastoralisation par une présence humaine, animale ou par l’alliance du sublime et du beau<br>The works of painters Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran and photographers Carleton Watkins and William H. Jackson are often credited with having been instrumental in the creation of the Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks. Rather than look for evidence of their influence on politicians – evidence which turns out to be flimsy and the stuff of legend more than reality –this dissertation aims to study how landscape representation between 1820 and 1890 progressively shaped American mentalities so that people came to admire the wilderness they had dreaded for a long time and to advocate or accept its preservation. In the first part we will deal with the evolution of the image of nature and art since the arrival of the first settlers and their shared destinies. In the second part, we will look at how artists were made into aesthetic and environmental pioneers, sent on a mission of exploration to study the elements of nature thoroughly and recreate the scenes they had observed. Then we will analyze the writings of some artists which show a precocious ecological sensitivity and the concrete actions of those who fought for the preservation of certain sites. Finally, in the third part, we will examine the technological or artistic innovations and the adaptation of European pictorial conventions that favored the visual appropriation of nature : the panorama and the stereography, elevated vision from a distance and telescopic precision, as well as its pastoralization by human, animal presence or by the union of the sublime and the beautiful
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Dentello, Frederico. "Análise do conceito de eu em James e Skinner." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47132/tde-30112009-155650/.
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Realizamos um estudo comparativo entre os conceitos de eu tal como formulados pelos psicólogos William James (1842-1910) e B. F. Skinner (1904-1990). No caso de James, a fonte foi o capítulo A consciência do eu de sua obra Os princípios de psicologia, a partir do qual relatamos os constituintes do eu empírico, a reflexão do autor sobre o ego puro e a descrição dos sentimentos, emoções e ações do eu. No caso de Skinner, as fontes foram a seção O indivíduo como um todo da obra Ciência e comportamento humano e o capítulo Pensamento da obra Comportamento verbal, além de alguns outros artigos; discutimos os conceitos de autocontrole e de pensamento conforme o behaviorismo radical, para em seguida definir o eu como um sistema organizado de respostas. Então traduzimos o conceito de eu de James em referências a contingências de reforço: o eu material em termos de filogênese e ontogênese, o eu social em termos de controle de estímulo, o eu espiritual como repertório modelado pela comunidade verbal e o ego puro no contexto dos três níveis de seleção do comportamento humano. Discutimos possíveis influências de James sobre Skinner a partir de relações entre suas teorias psicológicas: a conceituação de eus múltiplos, a rejeição da consciência como substância, a afinidade do empirismo radical com o behaviorismo radical e a ideia de evolução da cultura. Refletimos sobre a atitude de James e Skinner quanto a relacionar dados empíricos a princípios gerais, sobre ambos classificarem a psicologia no conjunto das ciências naturais e sobre as razões de uma suposta morte da psicologia jamesiana e do behaviorismo radical. Finalmente, sugerimos questões para pesquisas posteriores.<br>This is a comparative study of the concepts of self as formulated by the psychologists William James (1842-1910) and B. F. Skinner (1904-1990). The source for James concept was the chapter The consciousness of self of his book The principles of psychology, from which I described the constituents of the empirical self, the authors reflection on the pure ego, and the feelings, emotions and actions of the self. In Skinners case, the sources were the section The individual as a whole of the book Science and human behavior, the chapter Thinking of the book Verbal behavior, and a few other articles; I discussed the concepts of self-control and thinking according to radical behaviorism in order to define the self as an organized system of responses. Then I translated James concept of self into references to contingencies of reinforcement: the material self in terms of phylogenesis and ontogenesis, the social self in terms of stimulus control, the spiritual self in terms of a repertoire shaped by the verbal community, and the pure ego in terms of the three levels of selection of human behavior. I proposed possible influences of James on Skinner, based on relations between their psychological theories: the conception of multiple selves, the rejection of the conscience as a substance, the affinity of radical empiricism and radical behaviorism, and the idea of evolution of culture. I reflected on the attitude of James and Skinner towards relating empirical data to general principles, on their classification of psychology among the natural sciences, and on the reasons for a supposed death of Jamesian psychology and radical behaviorism. Finally, I suggested some questions to further investigations.
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Höcker, Frederic-Willem Verfasser], and Peter [Akademischer Betreuer] [Welzel. "Die Erstellung von Regionenrankings unter Verwendung der Data Envelopment Analyse / Frederic-Willem Höcker ; Betreuer: Peter Welzel." Augsburg : Universität Augsburg, 2018. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-382479.
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Höcker, Frederic-Willem [Verfasser], and Peter [Akademischer Betreuer] Welzel. "Die Erstellung von Regionenrankings unter Verwendung der Data Envelopment Analyse / Frederic-Willem Höcker ; Betreuer: Peter Welzel." Augsburg : Universität Augsburg, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1163534544/34.
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Louw, Willem Frederik Breedt. "Single and binary gas transport of H2, CO and CO2 through a NaA-centrifugally casted alumina composite membrane / Willem Frederik Breedt Louw." Thesis, North-West University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1104.
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NaA (or Linde Type A: [Na+12 (H20)27]8 [Al12Si12O48]8 -LTA) membranes were
prepared on centrifugally casted alumina supports and tested for its permeation and
separation properties using single gasses and binary mixtures of H2, CO, CO2. 2
membranes were prepared: one with a double and one with a triple NaA layer. From
single permeation experiments it was concluded that the triple coated NaA membrane
gave better selectivities than the double coating one, but the selectivities were still in
the range of Knudsen selectivities. Significant permeation of SF6 was also observed,
which indicated that intracrystalline diffusion could not be neglected.
From the single gas permeation experiments, using the triple coated membrane, the
important transport mechanisms were determined and it was shown that the resistance
in the support can be as high as 60%. depending on the applied pressure difference
and temperature. The resistance in the support itself is predominant Knudsen
diffusion, due to the relative small average pore radius of the support.
The permeability of the NaA layer was higher than NaA membranes presented in the
open literature, which were tested under similar conditions, which could also be
attributed to the occurrence of intracrystalline diffusion.
The selectivity of the membranes in binary mixtures of CO2/H2, CO/H2 and C02/CO
were very close to unity, showing that the used triple coated NaA membrane was not
suited for the separation of any of the studied gases.
A reason for the bad performance of the membrane could be the relative short time
used for the growth of the NaA crystals. Microscopic inspection showed that the
crystal growth was not complete. and together with the hydrophilic character of the
NaA zeolite this was probably the main reason for the occurrence of intracrystalline
diffusion. A longer synthesis time was therefore also recommended.<br>Thesis (M.Ing. (Chemical Engineering))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.
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Huston-Findley, Shirley A. "Subverting the dramatic text : folklore, feminism, and the images of women in three canonical American plays /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9901243.
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Grit, Diederik Christoph. "Driewerf zalig Noorden over literaire betrekkingen tussen de Nederlanden en Scandinavië /." Maastricht : Maastricht : Universitaire Pers Maastricht ; University Library, Maastricht University [Host], 1994. http://arno.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=6618.
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Antonio, Matthew. "The Pragmatist and the Aesthete: Late Nineteenth-Century Religion and Theology in Harold Frederic’s The Damnation of Theron Ware and Ellen Glasgow’s Phases of an Inferior Planet." Scholar Commons, 2007. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/606.
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A comparison between Ware, Forbes, and Soulsby from The Damnation of Theron Ware provides a glimpse into one aspect of the theological upheaval of the time. A comparison between Ware, Forbes, and Algarcife, from Phases of an Inferior Planet, however, hearkens forward to the alienation and questioning of identity so much a part of the Twentieth Century. By viewing Ware as a foil for Forbes and Soulsby in tandem with Algarcife, a more complete picture of the transition between nineteenth and twentieth-century religion and theology may be found.
Understanding the encounter between the traditional and the liberal clergy requires a close examination of the way Ware, Forbes, Soulsby, and Algarcife interact with religions and theologies and adjust their actions in order to maintain the balance between the two, and how each character's interaction with the figure of the aesthete aids in the negotiation.
Ware cannot aspire to the erudition of scholars like Forbes and Algarcife, nor is he able to understand the aestheticism, the "art for art," of Madden, from Damnation, and Musin, from Phases. He is unable to maintain a dogmatic theology in the service of religion like Soulsby. He is an anachronism, caught between centuries, caught between two religious, theological, and aesthetic historical moments.
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Pos, Sonja. "Dorbeck is alles! thema's, motieven en compositie in enkele romans en verhalen van W.F. Hermans, bezien vanuit de theorie van René Girard over navolging, rivaliteit en zondebokmechanisme /." [S.l. : Amsterdam : s.n.] ; Universiteit van Amsterdam [Host], 2007. http://dare.uva.nl/document/45383.
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Burr, Benjamin J. "Intertextuality in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1374.pdf.
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Quillay, Angélique. "A reverse Image : la culture visuelle du Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane sous la direction de Thomas Kirkbride (1840-1883)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCC244.
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Pionnier dans sa façon d’approcher la prise en charge des malades, le Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, construit à la fin des années 1830 dans la campagne proche de Philadelphie, fut dirigé de 1840 à 1883 par Thomas Kirkbride. A travers la culture visuelle de l’établissement, et tout particulièrement l’usage systématique qui y fut fait des spectacles de projection à la lanterne magique, cette thèse propose de relier l’entreprise thérapeutique du Dr. Kirkbride à la riche tradition artistique et photographique de Philadelphie. Dans cette tradition nous retiendrons en particulier les frères Frederick et William Langenheim, pionniers des procédés négatif-positif aux Etats-Unis. A travers l’analyse d’un tableau commandé au peintre Benjamin West, la première partie s’ouvre sur le Pennsylvania Hospital, situé au cœur de Philadelphie, et pose les éléments de la préhistoire de l’image au Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. La deuxième partie met en avant différentes facettes de « l’image renversée » présentée par le nouvel établissement et s’appuie notamment sur le projet culturel développé au cours de la période 1841-1859. La troisième partie s’attache plus particulièrement à l’évolution des espaces verts proposés aux patients. La collection de plaques de lanterne magique, telle une fenêtre ouverte sur l’extérieur, est au cœur de cette partie. Cette collection d’objets constitue non seulement un ensemble exceptionnel par son ampleur, la diversité des techniques d’images sur verre utilisées, et la longue période de sa constitution, mais témoigne aussi de pratiques culturelles novatrices<br>The Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane was built in the late 1830's in the countryside near Philadelphia. It was directed from 1840 to1883 by Thomas Kirkbride, who made ita pioneer in the humane treatment of the mentally ill. This thesis connects thetherapeutic work of Dr. Kirkbride to the rich artistic and photographic traditions of Philadelphia by examining the visual culture of the institution, with special attention to the systematic use of magic lantern shows. Frederick and William Langenheim,innovators in the negative-positive process in the United States, are especially important to this history. By focusing on a painting that was commissioned from Benjamin West, the first part opens the thesis in the heart of Philadelphia, at the Pennsylvania Hospital,and explores the background period leading up to the use of images at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. The second part details various aspects of the "reverse image"presented by the new hospital in the country and focuses on the cultural projectdeveloped during the period from 1841 to 1859. The third part looks closely at the development of outdoor spaces for the use of the patients. The collection of magic lantern slides, like a window open to the outside, is at the heart of this section. This collection of objects is exceptional due to its large scale, to the variety of techniques used in making the glass slides, and to the long period of its creation. It also bears witness to the innovative cultural practices which it records
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Nyhuis, Jeremiah E. ""A field lately ploughed" : the expressive landscapes of gender and race in the antebellum slave narratives of Frederick Douglass and William Grimes." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3628.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>The complicated state wherein ex-slaves found themselves, as depicted in the narratives of Bibb, Jacobs, and others, problematizes the dualistic relationship between North and South that the genre’s structural components work to enforce, forging an odyssey that, although sometimes still spiritual in nature, does not offer the type of resolutions that might easily persuade fellow slaves to abandon their masters and seek a similarly ambiguous identity in the so-called “free” land of the North. For blacks and especially fugitive slaves, such restrictive legal provisions provided an “uncertain status” where, writes William Andrews, “the definition of freedom for black people remained open.” In those slave narratives that dare to depict the limits of liberty in the North, this “open” status is particularly reflected in the texts’ discursive terrain itself, which portends a series of candid observations and brutal details that actively work to deconstruct any sort of mythological pattern associated with the slave narrative genre, thereby offering a more expansive view of the experience for most fugitive slaves.
The Life of William Grimes, a particularly frank and brutal diary of a man’s trials within and without slavery, is one such slave narrative, depicting a journey that, while more consistent with the general experience of ex-slaves in the antebellum U.S., often works outside the parameters of traditional, straight-forward slave narratives like Douglass’s. “I often was obliged to go off the road,” Grimes admits at one point in his autobiography, and although his remark refers to the cautious path he must tread as a fugitive slave, it might just as well describe the thematic and structural characteristics of his open-ended autobiography. Reputedly the first fugitive slave narrative, the publication of Grimes’s Life in 1825 initiated the beginning of a genre whose path had not yet been forged, which likely contributed to its fluid nature. At the time of his narrative’s publication, Grimes’s self-expressed testimony of injustice under slavery was about five years ahead of its time; it wouldn’t be until the 1830s that the U.S. antislavery movement would begin to consciously seek out ex-slaves to testify to their experience in bondage. Once this literary door was open, however, antislavery sentiment became for many early African American authors “a ready forum” for self-expression. Whereas in twenty years’ time Douglass would take full advantage of this opportunity by drawing inspiration from a number of already established narratives, Grimes as an author found himself singularly “off the road” and essentially alone in new literary territory, uncannily reflecting his sense of alienation and helplessness in the North after escaping from slavery aboard a cargo ship in 1815.
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Gousmett, Michael. "The charitable purposes exemption from income tax : Pitt to Pemsel 1798-1891 : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Canterbury /." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3448.
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"Republicanism and progressive historical interpretations of American democracy in the works of F.J. Turner, C.A. Beard and W.A. Williams." 1998. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896281.
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submitted by Suen Bing.<br>Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998.<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-90).<br>Abstract also in Chinese.<br>Abstract --- p.i<br>Introduction --- p.1<br>Chapter Chapter One: --- Republicanism and Progressive Historical Interpretations<br>What is Republicanism? --- p.7<br>Republicanism as a Guiding Philosophy in Progressive Historical Scholarship --- p.16<br>Chapter Chapter Two: --- Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Democracy: A Republican Way of Thinking<br>How Turner's thesis related frontier conditions with democracy? --- p.20<br>In what way is Turner's thesis affected by republicanism? --- p.24<br>A trace of republican idealism in Turner's later articles --- p.26<br>The safety valve hypothesis: A supplement to Turner's free land ´ؤ democracy relationship --- p.31<br>Free land - democracy vs. Education - democracy --- p.35<br>Chapter Chapter Three: --- Industrial Democracy and American Civilization: The Two Sides of Charles A. Beard's Republican Thinking<br>The Industrial Society (1901) --- p.42<br>An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1913) --- p.46<br>"Contemporary American History, 1877-1913 (1914)" --- p.51<br>The Rise of American Civilization (1927) --- p.54<br>The American Spirit (1942) --- p.58<br>Chapter Chapter Four: --- William Appleman Williams' Inheritance of Progressive Historians' Republican Tradition<br>American Russian Relations: 1871 ´ؤ1947 and The Tragedy of American Diplomacy --- p.64<br>The Contours of American History --- p.72<br>Great Evasion and Empire as a Way of Life --- p.77<br>Conclusion --- p.83<br>Bibliography --- p.87
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Tomory, Leslie. "Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry 1780–1820." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/17837.
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Gaslight, an Industrial Revolution technology, developed in the period 1780–1820. The foundations for the technology are partly found in the pneumatic chemistry of the eighteenth century, both in terms of the knowledge of gases and their properties, and the instruments used to manipulate them, such as the gasometer, making gaslight one of the earliest instances of a technology heavily based on science. Although many people experimented with lighting with gases in the late eighteenth century, the move to a commercial technology began with Philippe Lebon and William Murdock who had a clear commercial purpose in mind. The technology in its early phases was found everywhere in Europe, but it was at Boulton & Watt in Birmingham that it was first successfully applied. As Boulton & Watt developed the technology they identified many and solved some of the problems associated with scaling up the technology. They were not, however, very interested in gaslight and only sporadically gave attention to it, before effectively abandoning it around 1812. They nevertheless had an important role to play in its development not only because if their technical work, but also because they demonstrated the technology’s viability to the broad public, and by giving people experience in gas engineering. The technology's final form as a network utility was partly as a result of a battle fought between Boulton & Watt and Frederick Winsor's Gas Light and Coke Company in London during 1807–1810. Boutlon & Watt did not want a large limited-liability corporation as a competitor, and the contest in Parliament between the two groups resulted in a negotiated compromise where the Gas Light and Coke Company gave up all rights to manufacture apparatus, and focused exclusively on gas provision, effectively making it a utility. The years from 1812–1820 saw the technology mature into a large network which included not only technical development, such as the pressure balancing with valves and regulators, but also political and social elements, such as the control of user expectations through education and usage enforcement through inspectors. By 1820, the technology was sufficiently developed to be transferred to the Continent.
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Kelley, Elleza. "Sites of Inscription: Writing In and Against Post-Plantation Geographies." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-5wad-te79.
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“Sites of Inscription” argues that creative works allow us to trace black epistemologies of space and time in the United States. Reading works of literature and art from the 19th century to the present, I trace how black people have creatively mis-used, reimagined, and transformed the spatial technologies of the plantation and its geographic afterlife. My project specifically asks how the “literary” in black literary geographies reveals and preserves black spatial praxes in ways that exceed the capacities of dominant modes of Western spatial representation such as conventional maps, blueprints or land surveys. Each chapter considers literary form in particular to be intimately related to the production and representation of space by black people—both as ways of expressing the experience of living under spatial technologies of racialized management, enclosure and exploitation, and as ways of expressing resistance to these technologies and the underwriting epistemologies they reproduce.
Employing a palimpsestic practice of reading, I gather texts written across periods but which cohere around a single spatial formation that stages the tensions of (post)plantation geographies—fences, city blocks, apartments, and rooftops. Reading works by W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, and Zora Neale Hurston, I consider the relationship between writing and enclosure in the South during and immediately after slavery. Moving North and into the 20th century, I consider representations of the city block in work by Romare Bearden, Tonya Foster, and Langston Hughes. The art of apartment living in Chicago is explored through readings of Kerry James Marshall and Gwendolyn Brooks. I conclude on the rooftop, where Claude Brown, Piri Thomas, and Faith Ringgold document its creative re-production. All four chapters explore the impact of these radical acts of counter-planning, and efforts to represent them, on literary form and genre—concluding that formal experimentations are precisely what allow literature and visual art to archive these fugitive and fleeting engagements with space.
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Coleman, Kent Stephen. "Halsey at Leyte Gulf : command decision and disunity of effort /." 2006. http://stinet.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA463797.
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Davis, Scott C. "Telling tales ideology and the American observer, 1890-1896 /." Diss., 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/46895331.html.
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