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Tiffin, Jessica. "Marvellous geometry : narrative and metafiction in modern fairy tale." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7963.
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Bibliography: leaves 190-201.Despite the age of the fairy-tale tradition, and its focus on fairly primitive aspects of human experience, fairy tale is able to adapt itself to a range of cultures and contexts, including numerous examples in the twentieth century. Various authors and film-makers are reasserting the power and value of the fairy tale as a response even to the uncertain and ironic experience of contemporary culture. The suitability of fairy tale to modern texts rests partially in its qualities of inherentmetafictionality, the extent to which it self-consciously denies mimesis. This gives it particular relevance to postmodernism, as does the structuredness which facilitates self-aware play with genre. At the same time, the status of oral fairy tale as a folk form connects interestingly with postmodernism's blurring of the boundaries between high and low culture. This has particular implications for the presence of fairy tale within texts traditionally considered as popular culture, herethe fantasy/science fiction ghetto, and the Hollywood film. This thesis chooses to focus on texts which attempt to write actual fairy tale, rather than those which use fairy-tale motifs thematically. In making this distinction, attention is paid to particular aspects of recognisable fairy-tale texture, that is, overall effect, which relies on elements of pattern, structure, simplification, symbolism, ahistorisicim, the construction of a removed and marvellous world, and a tone of certainty which necessitates a response of accepting wonder in the reader.
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Simoes, Nelly. "When combinatorics meets cryptography, a modern tale about Alice and Bob." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37631.pdf.
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Lee, Cheryl. "Fantasy Versus Fairy Tale: How Modern Fairy Tale Variants Measure up to One of the Greatest Literary Traditions of All Time." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/87.
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This thesis will examine both the history of the fairy tale and the modern adaptations of these popular stories in order to illustrate how fairy tales have evolved into their modern counterparts. The implications and circumstances of several recent variants are questioned and compared to a concise definition of the fairy tale. It is determined that, although the modern versions resemble classic fairy tales, they are not a detriment to the tradition of the tales, and may, in fact, begin their own literary tradition.
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Persson, Penzer Anna. "Modern Day Fairy Tales : A comparative study between Amy Plum's Die for Me and the Western Fairy Tale Tradition." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-24632.
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Quijada, Maria Alejandra. "The downfall of a team : a tale of the modern workplace and de-socialization." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40883.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-229).
My dissertation presents the results of a year long ethnographic study of software engineers. The study defines the process of de-socialization as the decay of the results of the socialization process. This process is triggered by changes in the organization that invalidate or limit the validity of the content of previous socialization efforts. Individuals encounter changes that alter the group identity and do not know how to behave in the new world. In its extreme de-socialization can produce a state akin to anomie. The theory is derived from the observed de-evolution of the studied group from what they recall as the good old days, days when they were central to the organization and perceived to be valued, to the sad new days, days when individuals cared little about their project and their firm and felt unappreciated by top management. The process had significant impact on turnover, productivity and organizational citizenship behaviors. Three events acted as triggers for the process of de-socialization. These events were a bout of reorganizations, the acquisition of a new firm, and the changes to the software global labor market. The process of de-socialization results in individuals that have little or no identification with the firm, their workgroup, or their jobs. A model is proposed along with research questions that might guide future research avenues. Proposed interventions to alleviate or stop the de-socialization process are also presented.
by Maria Alejandra Quijada.
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Kern, John Christopher. "Changing Perspectives on a Classic: Pre-Modern Commentaries on the First Chapter of the Tale of Genji." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1403945990.
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Rozell, Caroline. "Women and the framed-novelle sequence in eighteenth-century England : clothing instruction with delight." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b92d7d4f-5c93-4b16-bca5-80bfb6bc2827.
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English women writers of the eighteenth century manifested enthusiasm for a form best described as a framed-novelle sequence, that is, a form in which conversations between characters/narrators are interspersed with embedded narratives. This thesis argues that the framed-novelle, with its distinctive juxtaposition of narrative and critical conversation facilitated feminine intervention in the period’s political, social, and literary debates. It demonstrates that Delarivier Manley, Jane Barker, Eliza Haywood, Sarah Scott, Sarah Fielding and Jane Collier used the framed-novelle sequence to develop a feminine but nonetheless authoritative socio-critical voice which allowed them not only to intervene in contemporary literary debates about the risks and rewards of reading fictions (especially with regards to the wider significance of the feminocentric and apparently trivial matter of amatory, romantic tales)but also to construct timely argument about the effect of fictional exemplarity on readers. Consideration of the literary and cultural contexts of the framed-novelle’s production, specifically its relation to other forms of narrative sequences such as the oriental tale and the fairy tale collection and to the period’s ideals of sociable conversation and critical practice also allows this thesis to identify the framed-novelle’s importance within the larger field of eighteenth-century literary development. Through close readings in each main chapter of an earlier and later framed-novelle by each author, this thesis explores the distinctiveness and internal cohesion of the framed-novelle as a subgenre, while also recognizing the particularity of each writer’s protofeminist perspective on their accumulation of feminocentric tales.
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Williams, Lindsay. ""Their Mutuall Embracements": Discourses on Male-Female Connection in Early Modern England." Thesis, Boston College, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/543.
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Thesis advisor: Caroline BicksRoutinely recognized as deeply patriarchal, early modern England is an era in which men and characteristics of the male gender are assumed to have held unrelenting sway over their female counterparts. This description is largely justifiable, particularly given the era's legal codes. However, this thesis seeks to enrich discussions on early modern England by examining its male-female relationships through a markedly different lens. By highlighting the close relationships that existed alongside patriarchal mandates in the era - husband and wife, father and daughter, mother and son - a fuller portrait of the period is sketched. Through an examination of how a variety of genres - medical, religious, and dramatic - grappled with moments of union between the two sexes, particularly physical union and its concurrent or resultant emotional bonds, this thesis offers greater insight into how walls to male-female connection were both raised and bridged in the time period
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2008
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Collstedt, Christopher. "The morality tale of a duellist: narratives of duelling in early modern Swedish courts : the duel in Stralsund 1712." Universität Potsdam, 2008. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/2740/.
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Turek, Tyler John. "A Tale of Two Containments: The United States, Canada, and National Security during the Korean War, 1945--1951." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28694.
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In the first comparative study of Canadian and American foreign policy during the Korean War, this thesis argues that, while Canada and the U.S. shared some similar foreign policy goals and interpretations of the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1951, their national security policies were fundamentally distinct. In turn, these differing interpretations had a significant influence on each country's understanding of the Korean War. The United States believed that it had to uphold its international prestige by defending freedom everywhere in order to remain secure. Consequently, the Harry S. Truman administration pursued an aggressive campaign in Korea against the Soviet Union in order to safeguard its position as the leader of the free world. Conversely, Canada, which was preoccupied with its own sovereignty and content with a limited view of containment, had little interest in American objectives. Instead, Louis St. Laurent's government, influenced by past experiences with Great Power politics, sought to limit the excesses of the Truman administration in order to defend its autonomy. The consequence of this divergence forced officials in Ottawa and Washington to reconsider not only their national security strategies but also their relations with one another.
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Krohn, Sara. "Equality in Crime Fiction : A Modern, Female Literary Detective in Christopher Brookmyre's A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för humaniora (HUM), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-16267.
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Kuhns, Julia Sophie. "The pre-19th-century manuscript tradition and textual transmission of the Early Modern Irish tale Oidheadh Con Culainn : a preliminary study." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1236/.
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The Early Modern Irish recension of the tale relating Cú Chulainn’s death, Oidheadh Con Culainn, has received comparatively little scholarly attention, especially compared with its Early Irish counterpart, Aided Con Culainn. Consequently, little is known about the textual transmission and manuscript tradition of the Early Modern Irish tale. The present thesis seeks to rectify this and give a more accurate view and preliminary analysis of the extant manuscripts, concentrating on the manuscripts that date to before the 19th century. A core element of this thesis is a draft catalogue of these pre-19th-century manuscripts. Taking advantage of the tale’s prosimetric structure, it will be argued and demonstrated that it is possible to classify the manuscripts of Oidheadh Con Culainn into distinct groups. Within the extant manuscripts preserving the tale we can identify a number of versions of it, differing most notably in the poetry that they contain. The classification of the manuscripts into groups can be established on the basis of the poetry that a version of the tale contains; the emerging groups thus established can be used to comment on the transmission of the tale. In order to corroborate the argument for the manuscript groups, we will explore a number of aspects of the text and the manuscripts, such as textual comparisons on both intra- and inter-group levels, possible relations (e.g. geographical) of the scribes, linguistic and metrical variations, the ‘rhetorics’, and different versions of the tale written by the same scribe. The thesis will further investigate the most famous poem from the text, Laoidh na gCeann (‘The Lay of the Heads’), in order to establish to what extent the evidence from the poem can be used to add to our understanding of the transmission of the overall tale.
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Marsh, Clayton E. "Germany and Russia: A Tale of Two Identities: The Development of National Consciousness in the Napoleonic Era." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors161762574001347.
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Mirsadjadi, Tori Shereen. "Unbreakable Glass Slippers: Hegemony in Ella Enchanted." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/40.
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The way Gail Carson Levine’s Ella Enchanted simultaneously conforms to its late-20th-century American standards and rebels against its Cinderella origins is analyzed in this thesis. As an analysis of a piece of literature written for children, the thesis works to defend the notion that playful literature produces a serious dialogue with its readers, and that young female readers are a particularly apropos group for the dialogue about hegemony that Ella Enchanted allows.
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Yashkina, Svetlana. "Modern Fairy Tales: The New Existence of an Old Genre : Exemplified by the Books of Alan A. Milne, Tove Jansson and Eno Raud." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-151238.
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The aim of this study is to draw new perspectives to the theoretic approach towards the complex nature of the modern fairy tale genre and its transformation. The study is exemplified by two books by Alan A. Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh (1926-1928), Tove Jansson’s eight books about the Moomintrolls (1945-1970) and Eno Raud’s four books about three funny creatures called “Nakstitrallid” in Estonian (1972-1982). In this thesis, I examine the disputable problem of defining the fairy tale genre in modern literature and refer to the history of the genre and storytelling tradition that have indirectly inspired all three authors in their decision to turn for fairy tale as a genre. Applying the poetical analysis, I argue that these authors contributed to the continuity of fairy tales by creating the link between folkloric heritage, novelistic literary expression and children’s imagination. This study can therefore be considered as topological, however it does not pretend to introduce the complete systematic definition of the genre as the thesis’ format does not allow such in-depth investigation. In the first chapter, ‘Archaic world stimulation in modern fairy tale’, I examine the dominating literary categories that refer to the folk fairy tale intertext: Bakhtin’s concept of ‘chronotope’ – category of time and space, system of fictional allegoric characters and category of fantastic. In the second chapter, ‘Modern fairy tales from perspective of children’s literature’, I analyze the books of Milne, Jansson and Raud in the scope of narratological and aesthetic categories of children’s literature. The folkloric laughter intertextually reproduced by naïvism of the Moomins, the Naksitralls, and Winnie-the-Pooh’s friends, while folkloric collective hero is presented by universal harmony of a happy family and child-like protagonists. I came to the conclusion that poetics of folklore fairy tale still exists in these books through the intertextual dialogue. Modernism as literary method re-evaluates folkloric aspects such as nonlinear time, the blurred boarders between individual and cosmos, material and spirit, text and reality. Every new artistically unique fairy tale world resembles the new stage of the genre development. The more innovative is the story, the more sophisticated can be its poetics.
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Donnellan, Caroline. "Establishing Tate Modern : vision and patronage." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2013. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/712/.
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Tate Modern has attracted significant academic interest aimed at analysing its cultural and urban regeneration impact. Yet there exists no research which provides an in-depth and contextual framework examining how Tate Modern was established, nor is there a study which assesses critically the development of Tate’s collection of international modern and contemporary art. Why is this important? It is relevant because a historic conflict of interests developed within the Tate’s founding organisation which was reluctant to host it. The outcome was that gaps were created in the original National Modern Foreign Collection, which had to be later compensated for within the spaces of Tate Modern. Furthermore, Tate Modern was established by the Tate, in place of a London or national government. Manoeuvring to the position of civic patron was a long process for the Tate, which had been affected by changing political and cultural circumstances. From the organisation’s inception, a complex model of public and private vision and patronage emerged, which was impeded by conflicting national and international agendas. Modernisation and modernity impacted on the organisation through political and cultural necessity, forcing it to adjust to the new social climate. However, the underlying theme in the Tate’s development has been the relationship between culture and commerce. These are the reasons why this thesis examines how Tate Modern was established in the particular way that it was, and why it was re-imagined as a distinct kind of museum of modern art in London, and one that was relevant for the new millennium.
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Fournier, Michel Pierre. "La table mystique des guermantes." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/8602.
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L'itinéraire du héros de À la recherche du temps perdu , qui, au terme de son cheminement, le conduit à prendre conscience de sa vocation d'écrivain, correspond à une double évolution, à la fois artistique et sociale. Comment, sur le plan thématique, s'articulent précisément, dans l'oeuvre de Proust, les rapports entre l'initiation sociale de Marcel au monde aristocratique et son initiation à l'art? Telle est la question que pose cette étude et à laquelle elle s'efforce de répondre en montrant que le roman proustien laisse apparaître un complexe thématique à trois termes (art, religion et aristocratie), dont elle analyse les rapports.
Il paraît en effet fructueux, dès lors que Proust use d'une métaphore religieuse pour décrire l'une et l'autre de ces deux initiations, de chercher à éclaircir leurs rapports en s'appliquant successivement, pour chacune d'entre elles, à élucider la cation de cette figure de style. Le sens et le rôle que Proust attribue notamment à l'art en reçoit peut-être un éclaircissement supplémentaire, d'où il ressort, entre autres choses, que l'inspiration biblique et évangélique est particulièrement marquée dans l'oeuvre de Proust.
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Soshko, A. S. "Enable talk gloves." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/33837.
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Modern technologies play an important role in our modern live because they do it easier, more comfortable and interesting.
Every year more and more new gadgets are created but not all of them become popular and useful. Students from universities of different countries take part in development of modern technologies and very often their inventions are really brilliant.
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Brännström, Maya. "Den förvärvsarbetande modern : En studie av förändring över tre generationer." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-82990.
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Synen på föräldraskap i kombination med yrkesliv är till stor del styrt av yttre kontexter och välfärdsstatliga beslut. Jag har i min uppsats intervjuat tre mammor, från tre olika generationer, som alla har fått representera en speciell tidsepok och hur det var att vara förälder då. Intervjumetoden jag använt är semistrukturerade intervjuer, vilket innebär att jag haft ett färdigt frågeformulär, men att detta har varit öppet för att kunna lägga till följdfrågor om något har varit oklart eller extra intressant. Jag har analyserat deras svar mot en samhällelig kontext, i form av välfärdsstatliga åtgärder som kan ha påverkat deras liv som förälder i kombination med yrkesarbete. Som exempel relaterar jag till barnomsorgens uppbyggnad, föräldraförsäkringens utformning och vilka politiska debatter och sociala frågor som var aktuella under den tidsperiod då mina respondenter fick barn (60,80 och 00-talet). Jag har använt mig av Anthony Giddens teorier kring modernitet och Arlie Russel Hochschilds teorier kring emotionssociologi i analysen av intervjuerna.
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Hammargren, Erika. "Tate Modern in the Digital Age : A case study addressing the use of digital technology, audience interaction and participation at Tate Modern." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, JMK, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-144108.
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The previous Head of Digital at Tate, John Stack, argues that digital transformation and the audience’s increasing expectation of participation are the two major changes during the last ten years (Mitchell 2014). This thesis addresses Tate Modern’s use of digital technologies with focus on how audience interaction and participation is facilitated through the affordances of digital technology. Additionally, this thesis examines how Tate’s digital policies corresponds with Tate Modern’s actual practices, online and onsite, regarding audience participation and interaction. Discrepancies regarding Tate Modern’s practical approach to audience interaction and participation in relation to its policies were identified. The audience was not genuinely invited to participate through digital technologies during the examined period. Tate Modern, although being a leader in its field, still has some way to go in its digital development and its approach towards the audience before becoming a truly participatory museum.
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Lundmark, Rebecka. "Modern stoppning : En handbok i pocketspringteknik." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för design, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-36593.
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I denna uppsats kommer jag att fördjupa mig i en teknik som används inom möbeltapetsering och som kallas pocketspring. Inom detta område finns det väldigt lite litteratur och genom mitt arbete hoppas jag få fylla på med mera kunskap. Jag kommer att fördjupa mig i några av de frågor jag ställt mig under arbetets gång och eftersom jag känner väldigt positivt inför detta arbetssätt så vill jag försöka skapa en text som gör att fler skall våga testa på denna teknik. Det som intresserat mig är fördelarna kring en pocketspringmetod men även var jag anser att svårigheterna ligger samt funderingar kring hur eller om man kan skriva en manual som funkar att följa från början till slut.
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Hodby, Alexandra Jane. "Learning after 'new institutionalism' : democracy and Tate Modern Public Programme." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2018. http://research.gold.ac.uk/23685/.
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This thesis examines the failure of the curatorial discourse of ‘New Institutionalism’ in relation to the Public Programme at Tate Modern. It argues that New Institutionalism, despite being unable to describe the complexity of art organisations, nevertheless recognised the importance of the latter as an active part of democracy. In the course of its investigation, the thesis establishes a unique history of Public Programming at Tate Modern and shows how learning activities in Tate Modern continued to deploy the values of New Institutionalism (in particular, those of dialogue and participation) long after its failure and decline. By developing an understanding of Tate Modern's Public Programme beyond the oppositional politics of New Institutionalism, the thesis seeks also to develop a more complex analysis of democracy in relation to art museum politics. In so doing, it explores practices of power and authority in the art museum and considers the importance of the museum in relation to democratic citizenship and community, arguing that an art museum is the agent of a more complex learning about the nature and politicisation of ‘the democratic’. Similarly, by drawing attention to the public spaces of the art museum, and by engaging with urgent issues of openness and publicness, the thesis investigates the site-specificity of museum practices after New Institutionalism. Finally, the thesis argues that Tate Modern Public Programming performs a role in democratic society that moves beyond learning about art and towards a reimagining of democracy itself. Activities in an art museum, it claims, are not models for democratic society, but rather, they represent democracy in action, evidencing a complex and potent site where issues including politics, community, control and creativity are at stake.
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Kim, Christine. "Munui (문의): Modern Adaptations of Korean Folk and Fairy Tales." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1911.
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Rodney, Seph. "Museums, discourse, and visitors : the case of London's Tate Modern." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2015. http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/165/.
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This thesis examines the conceptualization of the visitor within the discursive construction of the contemporary public art museum. It takes the rhetorical formulation of the interaction between the theorized visitor figure and the discursively rendered museum to constitute the ‘visit’. This work argues that the position of the visitor within museum discourse has radically shifted in the past generation; the primary claim being that the visit is reconceived as a personally customizable experience less oriented toward the transfer of information from the curator (regarded as expert and educator) to the visitor figure (regarded as ignorant pupil), and more oriented toward meeting the particular needs and preferences of the visitor. This conception currently appears in museum discourse and in the minds of influential actors who shape this discourse. To analyze this claim, this thesis draws on the institutionalization of the visit via a case study of the Tate Modern museum, which provides the primary empirical evidence demonstrating the above claim. The resulting study relates the questions, structure, and findings of a systematic investigation into the historical, social, and museological conditions necessary to an institutionally manifested personalized, visitor-centered visit. The conceptual development of the visitor figure is traced through implicit accounts of the visit within academic studies of the museum, institutional records, marketing reports, advertisements, and the public discourse convened around Tate Modern’s opening thematic displays that served as an extension of Tate’s marketing and audience development programs. This visitor figure is now coextensive with and conditioned by a neoliberal participatory agenda that trades on the notion of personal agency and enlightened cultural consumption, which is, in turn, undergirded and conditioned by the intertwined forces of consumerism, marketing, and branding.
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Quitter, Donald R. Jr. "Traditional Rhetoric in a Modern Chinese Talk Show: Metaphorical Devices in Chinese Media, Talk Show and Idiom." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1389353438.
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Kvetko, Alison G. "Tales of seduction and betrayal disputed marriage engagements in early modern France /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3167789.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2005.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1467. Adviser: James C. Riley. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Nov. 9, 2006)."
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Krueger, Britt. "Youth and Technology: The risks youth take when using modern Technology." UOIT, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10155/46.
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Rice, Jessica. "Women in Fairy Tales: The Pursuit of a Modern-Day Heroine." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/907.
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This thesis reexamines the purpose of fairy tales throughout history and explores the effectiveness of a modern alternative to classical methods of telling these stories. To increase interactivity as well as the agency of the female protagonist and players themselves, this thesis reimagines the popular classic, Cinderella, as a visual novel.
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Sprinkle, Matthew. "Design Considerations in a Modern Land Mobile Radio System." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33847.
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Modern Land Mobile Radio has the potential for large growth in the near future. Current regulations have set the stage for a required transition to more spectrally efficient
technologies. While several organizations are working to ease this transition, there still
remain many details and feature sets which the end user must decide amongst and often
there is no clear dividing line between these choices.
This thesis provides a high-level view of the distinguishing components in modern LMR
systems. Discussions related to trunked channel allocation, coverage, costs, security, and
other capabilities are given. The application to and effect on everyday users is also
considered. Several quantitative examples are provided to assist the end-user in
determining when a solution is viable. The discussion and analysis included reaffirm that
LMR design is complex and wide-ranging. Ultimately, the designer must evaluate needs
and technologies to provide a course of action which is optimum and justifiable.Master of Science
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Lima, Vera Ferreira 1967. "Espaços expositivos contemporâneos." [s.n.], 2015. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285317.
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Orientador: Mauricius Martins FarinaDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Esta dissertação de mestrado busca identificar a configuração ideal dos espaços expositivos contemporâneos, mais especificamente museus, para exibição das criações artísticas realizadas a partir dos anos 1950. Durante o processo investigativo constatou-se a necessidade de, preliminarmente, conceituar esta tipologia arquitetônica para, na sequência, apresentar suas transformações ao longo dos anos, fruto da constante busca por adequar o continente ao conteúdo e a sociedade. Enfatizando que as produções artísticas foram as causadoras das diversas necessidades de alterações espaciais também foi dedicada uma parte da monografia para apresentação do experimentalismo existente no período de reflexão. Cabe ressaltar que as variações nos suportes artísticos criaram novos desafios para os arquitetos no desenvolvimento dos projetos de museus, além da contaminação do seu imaginário com uma gama de infinitas possibilidades criativas. Para a criação destes espaços, por vezes, devem-se ponderar demandas antagônicas tais como: grandes ou pequenas áreas, claridade ou escuridão, silêncio ou ruído, cores ou neutralidade. Com o propósito de melhor entender estas edificações foram analisadas três instituições que apresentam condições específicas para a exibição de arte contemporânea, destacando-se duas distintas exposições em cada para melhor avaliarmos a conformação dos espaços às atuais demandas
Abstract: This dissertation aims to identify the ideal contemporary exhibition space, specifically museums, for showing contemporary art produced since the 1950s. In the research process, we primarily conceptualize this architectural typology and then presented its historical development related to its adequacy to social and artistic alterations. Considering that exhibition spaces must be adequate to show the wide range of artistic creations we also dedicated a chapter to understand and analyze all that happened in arts universe during the period. It¿s necessary to highlight that artistic developments in addition to being a big challenge to architects design are also a huge inspiration, mainly due to presenting infinity new possibilities. To design these spaces sometimes one must deal with antagonist forces like: amplitude or cosines, clarity or darkness, silence or noise, colorful or neutral. In this dissertation three reckon contemporary art institutions were analyzed highlighting two different shows in each one. The objective was to study the space adequacy to the art it contained
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Nurmikko, Terhi. "Telling ancient tales to modern machines : ontological representation of Sumerian literary narratives." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2015. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/377913/.
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This thesis examines the potential of semantic web technologies to support and complement scholarship in Assyriology. Building on prior research, it is unique in its assessment of the suitability of three existing OWL ontologies (CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, FRBRoo and Ontomedia) to adequately capture and represent the heterogeneous and incomplete narratives published as composites by the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. Its agenda sits firmly within the interdisciplinary context of the Digital Humanities and Web Science, and it describes a process centered on the development, implementation and valuation of an ontological representation system (mORSuL), designed to reflect the needs, desires, challenges and opportunities of Assyriological research paradigms. Underlying the process are two fundamental assumptions: firstly, that semantic technologies can be used to support academic endeavours in the Humanities, and secondly, that the benefits of doing so can be identified and evaluated. The thesis culminates in the conclusion that these existing ontologies are mostly suitable for the representation of the narrative content of these ancient texts, requiring only a few additions and changes.
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Howard, Barbara C. "Modern designs of women's apparel based upon Russian fairy tales and the art work by various Russian illustrators depicting Pre-Empire style of garments." Online version, 1998. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1998/1998howardb.pdf.
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Shamoto, Yota. "Hodge-Tate conditions for Landau-Ginzburg models." Kyoto University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/232220.
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Carney, Jason R. "The Shadow Modernism of Weird Tales: Experimental Pulp Fiction in the Age of Modernist Reflection." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1396650887.
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Barga, Rachel M. "Sex Theory: Theology of the Body as Literary Criticism." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1304527876.
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Tesch, Aaron Daniel Kuechler. "A TALE OF TWO SYSTEMS: EXECUTIVE FUNCTION IN ULTIMATUM GAME DECISIONS." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194942.
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Theories that formally describe decision-making have traditionally posited that decisions are made by rational actors. However, it is generally accepted that humans often make irrational decisions because of quick emotional judgements. In order to reconcile these two inconsistent ideas psychologists have developed two-system theories that hypothesize decisions are made by two opposing cognitive systems, representing the rational and emotional processing of decisions. Evidence for a two-system model of decision-making can be observed in ultimatum game responder decisions. It is thought that rational processing of these choices will produce acceptance of unfair offers and emotional processing will encourage rejection of unfair offers. Emotional priming has been shown to decrease ultimatum game acceptances and trans-cranial magnetic stimulation of rational brain areas, i.e. DLPFC, show increases in ultimatum game acceptances. This study investigated the possibility of using behavioral tasks that are known to activate rational brain areas to promote/disrupt ultimatum game acceptances. The possible relationship between ultimatum game acceptances and executive functions was also examined. Although there were promising indications that working memory loading may increase ultimatum game acceptances in between-subject experiments, a within-subject investigation found little support for this method of promoting/disrupting rational ultimatum game decisions. There were also no relationships found between switching or inhibition executive functions and ultimatum game responder decisions. A moderate positive relationship was found between updating executive function and ultimatum game acceptance rates but this relationship was dependent on working memory task feedback, a within-subject design and active loading of the working memory system. However, its possible that these findings only apply to within-subject paradigms and future between-subject studies are advised.
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Macedo, Tatiana Bugada. "Corpos (Dócies)." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/7678.
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Trabalho de Projecto apresentado para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários
à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Antropologia, Especialização em Culturas
VisuaisDa neo-clássica Tate Britain para a pós-moderna Tate Modern, poderia fazer-se uma analogia com o desenvolvimento do museu de arte contemporânea no Ocidente, cujo presente é caracterizado pela coexistência de vários modelos arquitectónicos e linhas programáticas. O Assistente de Galeria num museu ou galeria de arte é uma peça fundamental da sua mise en scène espectacular. Um sentido de autoridade é projectado sobre ele e o seu principal papel é o de ver e ser visto. Durante três meses conheci e filmei uma série de pessoas que exercem funções de Visitor Assistant em ambas as Tates de Londres. Uma inversão de papéis ocorre quando olho atentamente para eles. Mas assim que me posiciono com a minha câmara, também eu me torno alvo de escrutínio, o meu corpo torna-se tão presente quanto o deles; as minhas ideias, ansiedades, desejos e impulsos emergem. O processo de tentar libertar-me da minha consciência começa, como diz David MacDougall em The Corporeal Image, para então aprender a ser o que vejo. (2006:7) Ao recusar-me a dar um contra-campo ao espectador, o espaço é percebido como se olhasse para si mesmo, num círculo fechado. A galeria torna-se simultaneamente observador e observado, um corpo simultaneamente mecânico e orgânico, “palco” de numerosas encenações e relações de poder. Esta cadeia de olhares existe dentro de um fluxo contínuo de produção de corpos dóceis que, segundo Foucault, servem a sociedade disciplinar na construção de uma massa de corpos controlados e funcionais. Mas as pessoas têm e são simultaneamente, corpos. São objecto e sujeito - seres híbridos que executam várias funções e papéis nas suas vidas quotidianas. Os grandes planos permitem-me captar o corpo em repouso, tentando adaptar-se a um determinado espaço e intervalo de tempo, os seus movimentos mais pequenos, espasmódicos, e os seus pensamentos evasivos ganham relevância. A respiração é ampliada e prolongada ao seu limite, como a sustentação de uma nota. O tempo fica suspenso até que tudo começa de novo, os movimentos repetitivos, as patrulhas mecanizadas, as posições rotativas, as suas rotinas e as dos visitantes, até que tudo pare e recomece novamente. Esta é uma peça transdisciplinar que cruza os campos da arte, do cinema e da antropologia visual. Durante este processo tive que assumir os papéis de artista, investigadora, realizadora e produtora - funções conflituosas entre si - tendo que negociar constantemente os níveis artístico, antropológico, sociológico e filosófico do projecto, enquanto trabalhava com afinco dentro e fora do "campo" para a sua concretização. As entrevistas semi-dirigidas e as conversas informais com os Visitor Assistants foram essenciais para conhecer a sua história pessoal e a forma como se relacionam com a actividade antes de iniciar a fase de filmagem. O resultado final é um filme de 90 minutos, que aqui apresento juntamente com o presente relatório onde exponho a metodologia, observações e dados recolhidos, fundamentação teórica, problematização, contextualização e justificação das opções tomadas.
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Jakobsson, Hjalmar, and Kasper Karlgren. "Traditional Table vs. Modern Flow Map : A quantitative comparison between two information visualizations." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-209662.
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In today’s world we have access to endless amounts of data of varying kind. We would like to be able to display data in a way that actually feels intuitive and not intimidating. The field of information visualization and data visualization has been around for about 40 years attempting to overcome this very problem, and we are still learning more and more about how to visualize different types of data today. One major problem is that there are so many types of data that it is very difficult to make generalizations about how to display certain types of data. In our study we are comparing two specific visualizations with the purpose of wanting to find out if we can draw any types of general rules or guidelines from doing so. The two visualizations we are comparing are a flow map and a tabular visualization depicting interstate migration between US states. Both visualizations show the exact same data but the flow map is a more graphically pleasing representation of the data whilst the tabular visualization looking more like a classic spreadsheet. We have done this by letting 48 people fill in a webform with multiple choice questions. Each participant was randomly assigned either the flow map visualization or the tabular visualization as their aid in filling out the form. Our participants were mainly KTH students and also students that found our study on facebook and deciding to participate. In the past a few qualitative studies have been conducted researching effective methods for visualizing information. However, there is a clear lack in quantitative studies made as far as we know. Therefore we decided to conduct this study attempting to measure the two visualizations performance and compare them against each other. A qualitative part was also included in the web form where we asked our subjects about their experience filling out the form. Our results shows that the flow map outperforms the tabular visualization with regards to both accuracy, efficiency, and perceived difficulty. In a case similar to our study we can conclude that a flow map seems to be the right choice over a traditional tabular visualization. However, one has to bear in mind the context of the study is rather specific. A context where the visualization has other purposes than finding specific answers to simple questions might yield other results. Our main contribution is in methodology, in that we define and implement a low footprint study of interactive data visualisation.Idag har vi tillgång till massvis av data i olika form och vi skulle vilja kunna vissa denna data på ett sätt så att den känns intuitiv och inte skrämmande. Fältet informationsvisualisering har under de senaste 40 åren försökt sig på uppgiften att ta itu med det här problemet, och vi lär oss fortfarande mer och mer om hur vi kan visualisera olika data. Ett huvudproblem är att det finns så många olika typer av data att det är svårt att göra några riktiga generaliseringar om hur data ska visas. I våran studie jämför vi två typer av visualiseringar is syfte att ta reda på om vi kan dra några generaliserade slutsatser eller riktlinjer. De två visualiseringar vi jämför är av typen flödesmapp och klassisk tabulär visualisering skilldrandes migration intärnt mellan olika stater i landet USA. Båda visualiseringarna visar exakt samma data men flödesmappen är mycket mer grafiskt tillfredsställande och den tabulära visualiseringen tenderar att se ut mer som att klassiskt excel-ark. Studien är utförd genom att låta 48 respondenter fylla i en webbenkät med flervalsfrågor som vi har byggt. Varje deltagare har randomt blivit tilldelad en av de två visualiseringarna som hjälpmedel för att kunna svara på frågorna. Deltagarna var till majoriteten KTH-studenter men även andra människor vilka funnit våran studie på facebook. Tidigare har ett antal kvalitativa studier gjorts undersökandes effektiviteten i olika metoder inom informationsvisualisering. Däremot har väldigt få kvantitativa studier gjorts i detta syfte — rättare sagt inga studier så vitt vi kan veta. Därför bestämde vi oss för att göra den studie i vilken vi försöker mäta och ställa de båda visualiseringarna mot varandra. Vi valde att även inkludera en kvalitativ del i studien i vilken våra deltagare kunde beskriva hur de upplevede att fylla i våran webbenkätt. Våra resultat tyder på att flödesmappen är effektivare än den tabulära visualiseringen över lag med hänsyn till både svaren, tiden det tagit att svara, och även den upplevda svårigheten att svara på frågor. I ett liknande fall till vårat skulle vi alltså kunna konstatera att en flödesmapp verkar vara det korrekta valet. Emellertid måsta man ha i åtanke att våran kontext är väldigt specifik. I en annorlunda kontext är sannolikheten stor att resultaten skulle kunna se annorlunda ut. Vårat huvudbidrag med denna studie ligger i metodologin på så vis att vi har definierat och implementerat en slags basal studie i interaktiv datavisualisering.
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Lester, Amanda Jeanne. "The Impact of Traditional and Modern Fairy Tales on Society and Its Individuals." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579255.
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The genre of fairy tales lacks a concrete confinement, allowing its stories to span across age, asserting a variety of themes and captivating a wide range of audience members. The familiarity of such traditional stories, however, sets a precedent for the genre - an ability to assert a lesson and an element of escaped reality. Fairy tales exist even in modern times and reappear in existing and novel ways. Both traditional and modern fairy tales possess an extremely important role in societal expectations, disturbances in human desire, and the ideals/behaviors of individuals, regardless of age. With the use of both traditional and modern day texts, it becomes evident that fairy tales have an overwhelming impact on readers. Their themes, settings, characters, and plots promote relevant expectations and ideals society expects individuals to maintain throughout their life. More importantly, it reveals the innate attraction that readers have toward these works and what that says about humanity. Details from selected works demonstrate these prominent fairy-tale characteristics across mediums (text, film, and life-size attractions) and provide evidence affirming the assertion that fairy tales have an impactful power on the actions and thoughts of individuals and the important themes of society.
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Nicolescu, Gabriela. "Art, politics and the museum : tales of continuity and rupture in modern Romania." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2015. http://research.gold.ac.uk/12491/.
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This thesis provides an exploration of moments of abrupt political change in modern Romania through an analysis of the multiple transformations that have occurred in the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant (NMRP). It traces the paradoxical process by which a museum, perceived as an ‘immutable institution’ not only reflected, but also became a stage for supporting the shift from monarchy to communism and the ensuing of the post-communist order. It reveals how the present-day NMRP is a mixture of institutions, fragments and deletions, a problematic assemblage of people and practices. This mix has resulted in the formation of conflicting and often contradictory views on representation: be they views of the peasant, the past, or the aesthetics of display. Such conflicts in turn exemplify tensions about Romanian identity and modernity more generally. The thesis is based on an analysis of a broad range of contemporary and archival material, such as photography relating to exhibitions and events, films, descriptions of museum displays, labels, and artefacts themselves. This analysis works in combination with ethnography and with reflection on the experience of curating a contemporary exhibition within the museum. In this exhibition, objects and words were used to explore the juxtaposition of concurrent views about the past and the co-existence of different pasts in the present. It is suggested that an understanding of how oppositions work together in the confined space of the museum enables clearer perceptions of social and political tensions within contemporary Romanian society.
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Estrada, Bryan G. "Take Me Back: A Study of the Back Button in the Modern Internet." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2011. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/553.
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The web browser has become one of the most recognizable software applications on consumer desktops. Yet its utilization and capabilities are often misunderstood. Recent innovations in the web have evolved the Internet into a network of sophisticated applications that defy historical uses of the “browser”; a term that itself has become somewhat of a misnomer. This research studies the evolving set of user expectations for the browser as an application platform and challenges certain anachronistic features, specifically the “back” button, that are unnecessary and confusing given the new environment that browsers are used in. Because of this shift, implicit new user requirements arise around the browser’s user interface. The back button, like other elements in the browser have already demonstrated, should be de-emphasized in modern iterations of web browsers. The study is qualified by an analysis of user behavior within a popular, modern, web application.
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Kinnear, Virginia A. "Young children's statistical reasoning : a tale of two contexts." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/63496/1/Virginia_KINNEAR_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis explored the knowledge and reasoning of young children in solving novel statistical problems, and the influence of problem context and design on their solutions. It found that young children's statistical competencies are underestimated, and that problem design and context facilitated children's application of a wide range of knowledge and reasoning skills, none of which had been taught. A qualitative design-based research method, informed by the Models and Modeling perspective (Lesh & Doerr, 2003) underpinned the study. Data modelling activities incorporating picture story books were used to contextualise the problems. Children applied real-world understanding to problem solving, including attribute identification, categorisation and classification skills. Intuitive and metarepresentational knowledge together with inductive and probabilistic reasoning was used to make sense of data, and beginning awareness of statistical variation and informal inference was visible.
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Crichton, Hazel. "It's good to talk : an investigation into target language use in the modern languages classroom." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5857.
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Although there is a considerable body of research into various aspects of the teaching and learning of English as a foreign language, there appear to be few studies into the teaching of modern foreign languages (ML) to adolescents in the context of a secondary school setting. This thesis reports the findings of research aimed at identifying the strategies that ML teachers, considered examples of good practice, used to engage secondary school learners in interaction in the target language (TL) with the objective of developing their communicative competence. Four teachers’ lessons with their pupils aged 14-15, in their third year of learning a foreign language at secondary school, were observed and audio-recorded. Three of each of the teachers’ observed lessons were subjected to fine grained analysis with the aim of delineating their TL moves which appeared to influence pupils so that they used the TL themselves readily to communicate meaning ‘naturally’ as well as to practise structures in more controlled exercises. The teachers and a sample of their pupils were subsequently interviewed to provide confirmation or disconfirmation of initial patterns arising from examination of the observational data set. Although the data were analysed predominantly qualitatively, quantitative methods were also employed to provide a clear picture of the teachers’ TL use and the way it was deployed to assist learners in developing effective communicative skills. Goffman’s (1981) production and Wadensjö’s (1998) reception formats, not normally associated with the classroom, were considered appropriate to describe the participation frameworks within which the development of the learners’ communicative proficiency was supported. The findings display ways in which the TL used by the teachers helped to create a secure collaborative atmosphere where pupils were disposed to respond in the TL. The teachers’ use of different ‘types’ of TL, depending on the focus in the lesson, was viewed as supporting learners in preparation for communicating their own meaning in exchanges in ‘real world’ interaction outside the classroom. A particularly successful scaffolding strategy employed by the teachers was the provision of TL cues offered to the learners before they responded to initiations which enabled them to express their meaning in the TL. Revoicing of learners’ incomplete TL utterances also appeared successful in supporting learners to use their limited language resource effectively. Through its close analysis of classroom talk, this thesis offers an important contribution to the understanding of the complex nature of interaction in the ML classroom and the role that teachers’ use of TL plays in assisting adolescent learners to develop TL communication skills in interaction. Beginning teachers, as well as those more experienced practitioners, should benefit from the strategies identified, which appear to highlight the importance of establishing a collaborative classroom ethos which supports the learners, allowing them to contribute in the TL successfully.
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Ekström, Moa. "Från Hasse och Tage till Ebba Grön : Kulturskildringar av svenska förorten mellan 1954-1984." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Historia, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-46362.
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In the year of 1933, a large housing survey was carried out in Sweden, which was carried out against the background of the large housing shortage in the country, but most of all in the big cities such as Stockholm and Gothenburg. The results of the survey showed that the country needed housebuilding but foremost modern new houses and apartments which suited a modern lifestyle. In the song Rågsved (1963) the main protagonist is telling a story about the nice life in the new modern Swedish suburbs. Despite the optimism of the modern Swedish welfare state there are still those how oppose it as an example in the song Lyckliga Gatan (1967) by singer Anna-Lena Löfgren. One of the new housing projects that were introduced was the upbringing of the so-called ABC-town. In the novel City in the World (1968) the Swedish author Per Anders Fogelström describes through the eyes of the character Erik Karge how Stockholm has grown and how Eriks family are moving into Vällingby as a way of living the dream of the modern lifestyle. In the same spirit as Fogelströms Erik in the author Lena Anderssons novel Sveas son (2018) we get to know the modern practical family man in Ragnar Johansson. First Ragnar builds his own house in which he and the family lives until he divorces his wife and moves to Vällingby with his new girlfriend Ingrid. In 1964, the government of Sweden despite the success of the ABC-town decides to build a million new homes for families in a period of 10 years. In the documentary Children of Jordbro (1975) the director Rainer Hartleb follows a group of young children living their ordinary lives in the suburbs. In the following film Living in Jordbro (1981) the children are young adults who discusses the future in the suburbs at the same time as the world are in the middle of the big oil crises. In the town of Rågsved, the punk group Ebba Grön released their single Were only in it for the drugs no. 1 (1979) as a protest of the city in Vantör which has decided to move the culture association of Oasen from the public building. A year prior to Ebba Gröns hit single the progressive rock and theater group Nationalteatern released their hit Barn av vår tid (Children of our time) as a way of protest the lack of activities for young adults in the suburbs of Gothenburg. The essays focus on how Sweden went from a land in crisis to a welfare state despite the growing segregation of the suburbs and how that was reflected through cultural expressions.
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Dean, Corinna. "Establishing the Tate Modern Cultural Quarter : social and cultural regeneration through art and architecture." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/983/.
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The focus of my PhD is to examine the role of cultural regeneration through arts and architecture using Tate Modern as the principal case study. My analysis questions the role of culture in acting as an urban regeneration tool in north Southwark and in London more widely and how cultural output connects with those who influence the urban environment of Tate Modern. I begin by examining the ways in which the establishment of Tate Modern as an internationally acclaimed gallery of art has influenced the cultural regeneration of Bankside and London more broadly. I discuss local planning policy in which the former Power Station was situated, in order to understand the impact of the subsequent gallery of art socially and economically. I then discuss the wider ramifications of the establishment of Tate Modern by examining the recent history of developments around Tate Modern, in relation to the changing urban environment, as well as the jostling for urban ʻimaginariesʼ that potentially prioritises one direction of urban growth over another. In discussing how the regeneration affected the social conditions and concepts of community I consider how the institution adopted and implemented a strategy of inclusion towards the local community prior to its opening in 2000. Through my research I embedded myself within key grass roots organisations working directly or alongside Tate Modern (Better Bankside and Bankside Open Space Trust) and the local community in order to gain close access and observation of and into the field. Key to this project is identifying how the public interact with the gallery, and the ability of the building to act as a key urban element by knitting the hitherto underused North Southwark site into the surrounding urban fabric, whilst at the same time enabling key connections through and across the site. The focus of my research narrows from a micro to the macro-analysis in which, central to resolving the debate about the unique urban potential of the site and the building and institutionʼs ability to extend a definition of public within the urban environment, I focus on the spatial condition of the Turbine Hall. My analysis of the Turbine Hall as a public space, mediated through a major arts institution, enables me to arrive at a definition of public, which transgresses the urban and art sphere. This research is supported by an architectural theoretical analysis combined with art theory, and examines primary research material made up of photographic images posted on the social networking site Flickr as well as my own photographic images of the area.
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Power, Matthew R. "Models for the genesis of industrial minerals in mafic and ultramafic rocks." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245925.
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Liliequist, Jonas. "Brott, synd och straff : tidelagsbrottet i Sverige under 1600- och 1700-talet." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, 1992. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-62940.
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Bestiality was one of the most severely-punished crimes in 17th and 18th century Sweden. More individuals have been executed for bestiality in Sweden than for witchcraft. The sentence for bestiality was decapitation and being burnt at the stake. Even the animals with which the sodomist had had intercourse were slaughtered and burned publicly at the place of execution. An even greater number of people were sentenced to corporal punishment and forced labour in iron collars for attempting to commit bestiality. Despite the severe penalty the number of trials increased dramatically during the first half of the 18th century, culminating sometime mid-century. Bestiality, together with infanticide, stood out as the most serious of contemporary Swedish social problems. The numerous trials and executions for bestiality seem to have had few if any parallels in contemporary Europe! The purpose of this dissertation is to reconstruct, with the aid of trial records, the various cultural and symbolic significations which acts of bestiality conjured up for the society of the day, as well as to provide an explanation for the increase in the number of trials and its geographic distribution. The first section of this research assignment is inspired by the research traditions which fall under the headings of historical anthropolgy and history of mentalities. The second section is of a more traditional social- historical nature. The conflict and interaction between an elite culture in the service of authority and a folk culture with its roots in traditional customs and ways of thinking comprise a unifying and comprehensive theme in the present dissertation. The source material is composed of judgements and hearing reports from a total of 1,510 trials conducted during the period 1635- 1754, equivalent to the greater percentage of all the trials concerning bestiality dealt with by the district courts in Sweden at that time. By the middle of the 18th century the population living within the area under investigation was something more than one and one-half million souls. The present study shows that the bestiality trials in 17th and 18th century Sweden can be explained neither as the result of a one-sided campaign on behalf of the authorities, nor as a way in which local communities tried to get rid of inconvenient and marginalized individuals. Instead, the numerous denunciations and confessions must be seen as the result of an interaction between the desire of the authorities to exercise control and to legitimize its power, and a popular problemization of the act of bestiality itself. Three areas for problematizing have been pointed out, all of whom contributed to an increased willingness to accuse and confess: the merging of sin and crime within a framework of a justice system featuring public punishment and atonement rituals; transgression of the border between man and beast and conceptions of that which is physically impure; and a traditional job delegation between the sexes and between boys and men which led to different roles in relation to the animals. In a European perspective, the latter was perhaps the most specific to Sweden.digitalisering@umu
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Andersson, Antonia. "Kvinnan: moder eller sexobjekt? : En studie om hur kvinnor framställs i svensk komedifilm under 1970-talet och 1990-talet." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-34767.
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Sandy-Smith, Kathryn L. "Early Modern Women Writers and Humility as Rhetoric: Aemilia Lanyer's Table-Turning Use of Modesty." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1375221341.
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Salgado, Dora Isabel Toscano Ferreira. "Fairy tales, or unfair tails?! : breaking the glass slipper and the need for modern retelings." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/2824.
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Mestrado em Estudos InglesesCinderella was told a whole pea pot full of lies in those days… about Prince Charming and living happily ever after. ~ Thelly Reahm Cinderella é um dos contos de fadas mais célebres de todos os tempos. Mas, até que ponto é que esta personagem é tratada com justiça na terra do muito muito longe?... E quão longe da verdade estão os valores exercidos por estes habitantes sonhadores? O objectivo deste estudo é examinar os retratos injustos realçados no reino do mundo encantado, nomeadamente no tão conhecido conto do sapato perdido – Cinderella. Ao incorporar componentes literárias e práticas, este estudo não só alerta pais e educadores para mensagens prejudiciais presentes neste tipo de contos, como também reforça a necessidade de existência de versões contemporâneas que permitam que esta forma de arte popular permaneça e continue a encantar as crianças, eliminando, ao mesmo tempo, as mensagens injustas que no fundo propaga. ABSTRACT: Cinderella was told a whole pea pot full of lies in those days… about Prince Charming and living happily ever after. ~ Thelly Reahm Cinderella is one of the most renowned fairy tales of all time, but exactly how fair is this maiden portrayed in the land of far away?!…and how far away from the truth are the morals really conveyed by these dreamlike inhabitants? The purpose of this study is to examine the unfair portrayals depicted in the fairy tale realm, especially in the tale of the glass slipper. By incorporating literary and practical components not only does it forewarn parents and educators of the harmful messages it delivers to children, but also highlights the need for contemporary rewritings that allow for this popular art form to thrive and enchant children, while eliminating the unfair messages it ultimately propagates.