Dissertations / Theses: 'Romanies – Europe'

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FARKAS, Lilla. "Mobilising for racial equality in Europe : Roma rights and transnational justice." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/66916.

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Defence date: 20 April 2020 (Online)
Examining Board: Professor Claire Kilpatrick (EUI), Professor Bruno de Witte (EUI), Professor Colm O'Cinnedie (University College London), Professor Scott L. Cummings (University of California Los Angeles)
The thesis provides a transnational account of Roma rights activism over the last thirty years with a focus on five Central and Eastern European countries, where the majority of the European Union’s Roma live. It contributes to scholarly debate by (i) mapping ethnic/racial justice related legal opportunities; (ii) taking stock of legally focused non-governmental organisations; (iii) charting legal mobilisation in courts and enforcement agencies; (iv) presenting an alternative account of the transplantation of public interest litigation, and (v) ‘mapping the middle’ between dominant and critical narratives about the Open Society Foundations and white Europeans in the Roma rights field. Finding that international advocacy and litigation alone have been insufficient to generate social change, the thesis highlights the salience of indigenous practices. It points to the shortcomings of the elitist conception of legal mobilisation characterised by top-down, planned legal action and a focus of international NGOs. The thesis proposes to shift the limelight to the financial resources of strategic litigation, to a broad conception of collective legal action, and the necessity of investigating the role private individuals, NGOs, as well as public agencies play in promoting racial equality in general and Roma rights in particular in a transnational field. By scrutinising the ethno-political critique of Roma rights activism and pointing to its conflation with the critique of litigation - that resonates on both sides of the Atlantic - the thesis navigates between liberal internationalism and ethno-nationalism by acknowledging and celebrating organic cross-border cooperation, in other words “good transnationalism.”

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Gresham, David J. "Genetic variation and disease in the Roma (Gypsies)." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2001. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1516.

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The Roma (Gypsies) are a European people composed of a mosaic of culturally heterogeneous populations. Linguistic analyses point to their origins in the Indian subcontinent. Cultural diversity in extant Romani populations suggests that they are descended from a mixture of Indian populations. Previous population genetic studies of the Roma have supported this claim by demonstrating the genetic heterogeneity of Romani populations. More recently, medical genetic research has detected identical founder mutations in separated Romani populations, which provides evidence of their relatedness. In this thesis, the genetic heritage of the Roma and its significance for genetic disease and research is investigated. Male and female lineages were analysed in eight traditionally endogamous Romani populations. Asian specific Y chromosome haplogroup VI-68 and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup M were detected in all populations and accounted for 39% and 25% of all lineages respectively. Diversity within haplogroups was assessed by genotyping Y chromosome short tandem repeats (YSTRs) and sequencing the mtDNA hypervariable segment 1 (HVSl). Lineages within haplogroups VI-68 and M were found to be closely related suggesting that Romani populations are predominantly descended from a single Indian ethnic population. The differing historical legacies of Romani populations and adherence to endogamous practices have resulted in genetic substructure and limited diversity within populations. Thus, the Roma are shown to comprise a conglomerate of related admixed population isolates. The unique genetic heritage of the Roma provides a powerful tool for the positional cloning of monogenic disease genes. This is demonstrated through the reduction of the critical chromosomal region for a novel genetic disorder, hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy type Lom (HMSNL). In the initial report, the HMSNL disease locus was defined as a 3cM region on chromosome 8q24. In this study, refined genetic mapping utilising historical and parental recombinations observed in Romani individuals from different populations reduced the HMSNL critical interval to 202kb. Sequence analysis of two genes contained within this genomic interval found all affected individuals to be homozygous for a CT mutation in codon 148 of N-myc downstream regulated gene 1 (NDRGJ), resulting in a truncating Rl48X mutation. Investigation of the population distribution of the R148X disease allele shows that it occurs in six of eight separated Romani populations. Another founder mutation, C283Y in the y-sarcoglycan gene (SGCG), which causes limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2C (LGMD2C), was found in two of eight Romani populations. Profound founder effects are apparent within Romani populations with a carrier frequency of 19.5% determined for the R148X mutation in the Lom population, and 6.25% for the C283Y allele in the Turgovzi population. High carrier frequencies for autosomal recessive diseases can be expected to pose a significant health risk for these communities. Thus, community-wide carrier testing represents a potential means of addressing this health problem. A pilot community based carrier-testing program was implemented in a Romani community of north eastern Bulgaria and relevant attitudes assessed by means of a questionnaire. Community-based carrier screening was demonstrated to be an appropriate approach to improving health amongst the Roma.

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Cosma, Octavian Lazăr. "Romanian Music." Gudrun Schröder, 2004. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A21230.

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In a world of open boundaries where the free circulation of spiritual assets and the impetuous flood of information is assured, it appears natural to attempt to assume the clarification of fundamental concepts regarding the art of sounds such as it has been the case in European countries or, to be more specific, in music composed during the 20th century. This stage that was formerly a privilege of a few centres, later of countries, has now been replaced. The united effort of generations has built an impressive thesaurus, generating patterns taken over by still crystallizing cultures which are, in their turn, creating their own musical patrimony whose powerful propensity needs to be inventoried and made available to other people.

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Panaite, Cristian Petru. "The rise and fall of Voivode Peter Earring according to the stories and journals of his companion, Franco Sivori the making of a Romanian historical play /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1179942628.

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Sunday, Julie Rethmann Petra. "Expanding borders: creating latitude for Hungarian-minority autonomy within Transylvania, Romania, and a new Europe /." *McMaster only, 2005.

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Scarpitta, Lara. "Justice and home affairs and Romania's accession to the European Union." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2009. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/473/.

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When compared to the other candidate states of Central and Eastern Europe, Romania emerged as a laggard of transition. Its integration into the European Union has been marked by much uncertainty and setbacks, as well as profound delays in fulfilling the EU's entry conditions. As a difficult case, the dynamics of Romania's EU accession provide insight into the potential and limits of the EU's leverage, revealing how domestic factors can be decisive in constraining external influence. Focusing on the reform trajectory in the fields of judiciary reforms, anti-corruption and external border policies between 1989 and 2007, this study assesses the interaction between EU politics and domestic politics and the role of domestic factors in slowing down internal reforms. By identifying the domestic conditions under which conditionality is likely to more, or less, successful, this study contributes to the Europeanization and enlargement literature. By assessing the preparations for accession in the field of Justice and Home Affairs, this research also fills a major lacuna in the existing specialised literature.

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White, Miria Katherine. "Scholars say revolution sweeps across Eastern Europe, and misses Romania? everyday life says differently /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594498371&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Parau, Cristina Elena. "The interplay between domestic politics and Europe : how Romanian civil society and government contested Europe before EU accession." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2006. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2696/.

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The key research questions of this dissertation are: 'How do domestic actors construct Europe.' and 'How do they utilise it in seeking to empower themselves against other actors.' The questions of construction and utilisation of Europe are some of the most topical questions in Europeanization. The first question addresses constructivist/sociological concerns. The second addresses the issue of winners and losers (differential empowerment). Both are key issues in the literature of Europeanization and yet have been little addressed in the context of post-communist EU accession countries. This dissertation aims to bridge this gap by focusing on the post-communist country of Romania, a soon to be EU member-State. The actors under investigation are civil society, which emerged in Romania for the first time ever after 1989 and the central government Executive. The study covers the period during which the EU acquis negotiations were negotiated under the Social Democratic government led by Prime Minister Adrian Nastase (2000-2004). The data was gathered through in-depth case study and process-tracing, the methods found best able to disentangle a complex causal nexus. The Europeanization literature is contradictory with regard to which domestic actors are constrained and which empowered: some scholars theorise that it empowers civil society (Diffusion); others that it empowers the Executive (Executive Empowerment); still others that it promotes co-operation between them (Network Governance). The empirical evidence so far has been inconclusive. This dissertation shows that only a small elite made of civil society entrepreneurs and government Executives constructed and utilised Europe in the pre-membership phase, to empower themselves relative to other actors, particularly opponents. The empirical data support two of the classical Europeanization theses in the literature: the Diffusion and the Executive Empowerment Theses. The Diffusion Thesis better explains civil society empowerment near the beginning and at the peak of acquis negotiations, although some evidence also favours Executive Empowerment. This latter thesis better explains the powerlessness of civil society at the close of negotiations, although some evidence for Diffusion was also found. No evidence was found supporting Network Governance. Instead evidence was found in favour of its critics, namely support for the claim that the EU (or Europe) empowers an elite in both civil society and the State.

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Szilvási, Marek. "Roma and the contradictions of European inclusion policies : citizens associated with European societies." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2015. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=227610.

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The research addresses the relevant contradictions of European Roma inclusion policy-making. The situation which many Roma in European societies experience nowadays combines deprivation and exclusion on the grounds of civil and political recognition, cultural identity and minority rights, and socio-economic justice in (re-)distributing resources. The recent European call for specific Roma-targeted policies is also articulated in these three discourses of inclusion, whether these policies should be based on their distinctive ethnic identity to be emancipated, legally- and politically-defined citizenship to be enforced, or socio-economic precariousness to be improved. Each of these three discourses addresses different type of inequalities; sometimes they can complement each other in promoting substantial equality, whereas at other times one politics of inclusion can reinforce the existing inequalities of another type. These domains are closely connected with and burden one another reciprocally – in the sense that better solutions of the problems of one domain can increase the problems in another and well-intended policies can thus turn into new forms of exclusion. The research confirmed the uncertainty among international policy-makers regarding what should serve as a conceptual base for European Roma inclusion policies. It furthermore traced a lack of attempts to reconcile the identities of passive service recipients and those of actively claiming citizens. It also revealed that most of the policies are designed within patron-client relationship where the benefits of patrons exceed the benefits of activated Roma. Finally, it proposes to recalibrate inclusion policies towards accentuating socio-economic rights and concludes that integration through-and-to low-skilled job does not meet the objective of inclusion.

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Crowder, Ashby B. "Legacies of 1968: Autonomy and Repression in Ceausescu’s Romania, 1965-1989." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1186838492.

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Simhandl, Katrin. "Der Diskurs der EU-Institutionen über die Kategorien "Zigeuner" und "Roma" die Erschliessung eines politischen Raumes über die Konzepte von "Antidiskriminierung" und "sozialem Einschluss" /." Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2007. http://books.google.com/books?id=qI90AAAAMAAJ.

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Passuello, Angelo <1986&gt. "Il cantiere di San Lorenzo a Verona nel contesto del Romanico europeo." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/11977.

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La ricerca ha permesso di acquisire dati inediti circa la struttura architettonica di San Lorenzo a Verona, che attendeva da tempo uno studio scientifico condotto secondo metodologie aggiornate. L’obiettivo è stato quello di riproporre, col massimo rigore filologico, il possibile aspetto del complesso romanico per rintracciare le relazioni culturali che lo pongono nel più ampio contesto delle contemporanee manifestazioni cittadine, peninsulari e finanche europee. La complessa diacronia del costruito, determinata perlopiù da estensive campagne di restauro ottocentesche e novecentesche, ha reso indispensabile l’adozione di una prospettiva d’osservazione espansa, sia dal punto di vista cronologico che metodologico. Al necessario approccio autoptico con il documento materiale e con i dati oggettivi che esso esprime, si sono pertanto affiancati altri mezzi d’indagine (rilievo 3D laser-scanning, stratigrafia degli elevati interni ed esterni, campionamento delle trame murarie e delle tecniche costruttive, caratterizzazione a livello morfologico e chimico dei giunti di malta, esplorazione a mezzo georadar delle pavimentazioni) senza trascurare lo spoglio capillare dei fondi archivistici e il costante raffronto stilistico con gli esempi coevi. L’incrocio dei dati ottenuti ha permesso di restituire un più che plausibile modello stereoscopico del complesso romanico e delle evoluzioni architettoniche successive secondo le correlazioni stratigrafiche individuate nei prospetti murari.

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Dobreva, Nikolina Ivantcheva. "The curse of the traveling dancer Romani representation from 19th-century European literature to Hollywood film and beyond /." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3379952/.

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Brage, Mattias. "EU, "Unity in diversity" eller en klubb för privilegierade medlemmar?" Thesis, Växjö University, School of Social Sciences, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-6400.

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The primary purpose of this thesis is to investigate the operation of membership criteria, which are applied against countries that wish to join the European Union (EU). More specifically, the importance of some criteria in comparison to others is considered. To answer this proposal, three questions are posed: What are the EU membership criteria? Are some criteria more important than other criteria? Does the EU treat candidate countries differently in applying the membership criteria? Three countries are used in this analysis, each country representing one recent enlargement round: Poland (2004), Romania (2007), and current candidate country Turkey. Both official documents, such as EU treaties, and unofficial documents such as statements from EU leaders are used to analyze the application of membership criteria. The method that is used in this thesis is idea analysis. The EU has both official criteria, which are found in the foundation treaties, and unofficial criteria, which are the public and political opinions among the candidate countries and current EU member states. It is suggested that none of the criteria are more important than others; a candidate country must fulfill virtually all the official and unofficial criteria in order to gain EU membership. Although all criteria must be met, the application of the criteria is uneven between candidate countries. The EU does not treat countries differently when it comes to the official criteria. However, when it comes to the unofficial criteria, Turkey is treated differently from Romania and Poland. There is greater resistance to Turkey’s future membership, making it much more difficult for Turkey to reach the stage of full EU membership.

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Marchis, Vasile. "A theology of mission for Romanian Pentecostals in a post-dictatorial context : an integrative approach." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5478/.

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This thesis studies the ecclesiological development of Romanian Pentecostalism from its inception until after the fall of communism as well as analysing the contemporary situation and practice of the Romanian Pentecostal churches in context, both to diagnose the most important problems and to draw attention to and explain promising experiments and signs of hope. It reveals that due to external factors such as socio-political and economic constraints and internal factors such as lack of resources, lack of vision, past traditional theological inheritances, Romanian Pentecostal Churches have not always been able to engage with their context in a missionary way, and their missiological praxis has not always been contextual. The thesis aims to suggest that Romanian Pentecostal Churches produce a contextual theology that, in addition to being rooted in the Scriptures, is sensitive to the needs, struggles, and aspirations of the churches and the peoples of Romania today. The thesis concludes by affirming that the churches need to be themselves missionary alternative communities embodying the values of God's Kingdom in their essence, structures and outlook.

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Ivanova, Mina. "Victims, enemies, a nation the rhetorical constitution of Roma's contested collective identities in the context of an expanding European Union /." Click here for download, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1629573871&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Surubaru, Neculai-Cristian. "Governing EU Cohesion Policy in Central and Eastern Europe : the interplay between administrative capacity and political factors : the case of Structural Funds absorption in Bulgaria and Romania (2007-2013)." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2017. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/31876.

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This dissertation examines how new European Union (EU) member states manage and implement European Cohesion Policy (CP). It assess the administrative and political factors that might explain the variation in the financial absorption of Structural Funds (SF), with a specific focus on two homogeneous cases from Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs). Whilst there is a dense literature on the potential socio-economic impact of CP in the EU, less attention has been paid to the factors affecting CP and SF governance at the national domestic level. Questions of financial absorption, delivery effectiveness and quality of the spending remain open and are puzzling for both academics and practitioners. Subsequently, one of the main aims of this thesis has been to provide an in-depth investigation of, on the one hand, the structural administrative capacity employed by states to manage this policy and, on the on the other hand, the political factors and dynamics that influence its delivery of SF in new member states. The study carries out an archaeology of the capacity of the specialised institutions involved in the different stages of the absorption process with the general aim of explaining some of the determinants of absorption performance, particularly in the countries assessed. It proposes an absorption capacity model in order to assess these claims and the original empirical evidence collected. The thesis fills in several empirical and theoretical lacunae in knowledge. Empirically, the study draws on multiple comparative case studies from Bulgaria and Romania, two problematic yet diverging cases in terms of absorption performance, during the 2007-2013 implementation period. These countries first experience in managing and implementing SF provides empirically rich insights. Theoretically, this thesis offers a more nuanced account of the governance of CP and SF in CEECs. It builds and refines the concept of administrative capacity as well as several political factors (stability, support and clientelism) in order to examine the complexity and problematic issues surrounding SF absorption. Insights on CP governance, administrative capacity-building and the impact of politicisation at the national and local level are outlined and discussed. The main argument put forward in this thesis is that the variation in absorption performance is generated by the interplay between administrative and political conditions. In other words, the way in which administrative and political factors have interacted has shaped the ability of the two countries to govern EU Cohesion Policy and influenced their performance in absorbing EU funding. This argument is developed in line with several key findings. First, administrative capacity is a necessary but not sufficient condition for countries to deliver effectively CP. Second, political conditions can facilitate or hinder the development of national administrative capacities and have often influenced the different stages of the absorption policy process. The thesis highlights the need to critically reflect on the overall dynamics between structural administrative arrangements and domestic political conditions, in order to advance our understanding of how EU policies are governed and implemented at the national level. Finally, the thesis formulates several recommendations, for the different stakeholders involved, on how to facilitate the delivery of SF in order to improve cohesion and development in Europe.

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Potter, Alina Roxana. "The reorientation of Romania's foreign trade towards the European Union after 1989." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/1106.

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Seagle, Adriana. "How Romanian Governmental Elites Conceptualize The European Union As an International Society." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77078.

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This study makes a contribution to the distinction between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft models of society at the regional level by investigating the understanding of the Romanian governmental elites with respect to the EU and the EU's Second Pillar. The findings of the study suggest that the conscious recognition of common culture and common values help distinguish between system and society at the regional level because they imply adherence to a common political identity. It is widely agreed in the ES that an international system develops an international society and when states engage in mutual recognition of "sovereign equality" an international society exists. The case of Romania shows that the EU is a pluralistic international society divided in decision-making between the core and the periphery in which political criteria serves for mutual recognition. Political criteria defined by the application of the rule of law and anti-corruption measures as well as by the common understanding of Western democratic culture and Western political values seem to hinder Romania from acquiring a distinctive voice in EU decision-making. Political instability continues to be a perennial concern for Romania despite EU membership. This study highlights that political instability results from an inadequate understanding of EU common political values underpinning the principles of western style democracy. The findings also indicate that before 2007 Romanians described the connection with the EU in sentimental, common historical ties in contrast to after 2007, when Romania's Accession Treaty and the Treaty of Lisbon were increasingly invoked in context of equal recognition status hence highlighting contractual ties with the EU. The study is framed by the international society and uses an interpretive methodology associated with international society to highlight that at the regional level culture and values give meaning to society and help the common understanding of members of international society to pursue common interests. Adherence to common EU political culture and values are imperative for political stability in Romania and for harmonizing Romanian elites' mentalities in political and security practices with those of other EU members. A useful recommendation emerging from the findings is that international society should be examined further in context of power and prudence in order to understand how the existence of common interests, rules, norms, and values of the Union members influence the distinction between the international system and international society.
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Muth, Miriam Anna. "Adapting late Arthurian romance collections : Malory and his European contemporaries." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610481.

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Carter, Elizabeth Lee. "Taming the Gypsy: How French Romantics Recaptured a Past." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:13064929.

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In this dissertation, I examine the evolution of the Gypsy trope in Romantic French literature at a time when nostalgia became a powerful aesthetic and political tool used by varying sides of an ideological war. Long considered a transient outsider who did not view time or privilege the past in the same way Europeans did, the Gypsy, I argue, became a useful way for France's writers to contain and tame the transience they felt interrupted nostalgia's attempt to recapture a lost past. My work specifically looks at the development of this trope within a thirty-year period that begins in 1823, just before Charles X became France's last Bourbon king, and ends just after Louis-Napoleon declared himself Emperor of France in 1852. Beginning with Quentin Durward (1823), Walter Scott's first historical novel about France, and the French novel that looked to it for inspiration, Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), I show how the Gypsy became a character that communicated a fear that France was recklessly forgetting and destroying the monuments and narratives that had long preserved its pre-revolutionary past. While these novels became models in how nostalgia could be deployed to seduce France back into a relationship with a particular past, I also look at how the Gypsy trope is transformed some fifteen years later when nostalgia for Napoleon nearly leads France into two international conflicts and eventually traps the French into what George Sand called a dangerous "bail avec le passé." In new readings of Prosper Mérimée's Carmen (1845) and George Sand's La Filleule (1853), I argue that both authors personify the dangers of recapturing the past, albeit in two very different ways. While Mérimée makes nostalgia and the Gypsy accomplices, George Sand gives France an admirable Gypsy heroine, a young woman who offers readers a way out of nostalgia's viscous circle. I conclude by arguing that nostalgia and this Romantic trope found their way back into France at the dawn of a new millennium, and the Gypsy has once again been typecast in art and politics as deviant for refusing to dwell in or on the past.
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Rodda, Ruth. "The 1989 revolutions in East-Central Europe : a comparative analysis." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/372.

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There is a substantial amount of existing literature that focuses on the revolutionary events of 1989 in East-Central Europe. Yet, there are few comparisons which apply a comparative-historical approach to a small set of cases. A large body of existing literature provides the ideal situation for a comparative-historical study. This thesis will test the utility of applying a comparative-historical methodological approach to the events of 1989 in four countries in East-Central Europe. The four countries are paired into two cases. The case of Poland and Hungary is compared with the case of Bulgaria and Romania. A theoretical frame of reference is developed from previous comparative-historical studies of revolutionary events, criticisms of them, and the general theoretical debates which they generate. This frame of reference incorporates a broad range of variables, and is used to inform the application of the method. Differences (and similarities) between the cases are then investigated, and the utility of the method assessed. Additionally, the application of the method allows some current theoretical and conceptual debates concerning the East- Central European events to be confronted. Part 1 of the thesis applies a comparative-historical method of analysis to the cases up to, and including some aspects of the 1989 events. In Part 2, patterns of difference between the cases are identified in terms of revolutionary forms and outcomes. Following the logic of the method common factors are identified as potential contributing factors to the collapse of communism, while patterns of difference suggest that the political, economic and social 'nature' of the communist systems had an impact on the forms of change and their outcomes. It is recognised that the comparative-historical approach utilised in this thesis has limitations. However, the method is shown to be useful for identifying common factors across cases, and significant variations between cases, which can generate potential explanation, and provide better understanding of such revolutionary phenomena as that which occurred in East-Central Europe in 1989.

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Ionescu, Daniela. "The Romanian Blouse| From Matisse to Queen Marie of Romania and Yves Saint Laurent." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10979593.

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Between 1937 and 1943 the Romanian blouse plays a more pivotal role than previously acknowledged in Matisse's development of a pictorial sign language. Its embroidered oak leaf motif eventually evolves into an abstract symbol of élan vital that animates the artist's late cutouts. By tracking the Romanian blouse, this thesis offers a counter-narrative to the standard monographic study or formal reading of Matisse’s work. We learn the back story of how the blouse becomes a fashion trend set by Queen Marie of Romania who used her celebrity and national dress to promote the welfare of the Romanian people following WWI. We also see how appropriation turns into misappropriation when fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent’s 1981 collection inspired by Matisse’s images of the blouse introduce a broadly defined ethnic fashion into haute couture.

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Smith-Laing, Tim. "Variorum vitae : Theseus and the arts of mythography in Medieval and early modern Europe." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:0f4305c6-3c62-4f89-a3b2-d8204893fdfb.

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This thesis offers an approach to the history of mythographical discourse through the figure of Theseus and his appearances in texts from England, Italy and France. Analysing a range of poetic, historical, and allegorical works that feature Theseus alongside their classical and contemporary intertexts, it is a study of the conceptions of Greco-Roman mythology prevalent in European literature from 1300-1600. Focusing on mythology’s pervasive presence as a background to medieval and early modern literary and intellectual culture, it draws attention to the fragmentary, fluid and polymorphous nature of mythology in relation to its use for different purposes in a wide range of texts. The first impact of this study is to draw attention to the distinction between mythology and mythography, as a means of focusing on the full range of interpretative processes associated with the ancient myths in their textual forms. Returning attention to the processes by which writers and readers came to know the Greco-Roman myths, it widens the commonly accepted critical definition of ‘mythography’ to include any writing of or on mythology, while restricting ‘mythology’ to its abstract sense, meaning a traditional collection of tales that exceeds any one text. This distinction allows the analyses of the study’s primary texts to display the full range of interpretative processes and possibilities involved in rewriting mythology, and to outline a spectrum of linked but distinctive mythographical genres that define those possibilities. Breaking down into two parts of three chapters each, the thesis examines Theseus’ appearances across these mythographical genres, first in the period from 1300 to the birth of print, and then from the birth of print up to 1600. Taking as its primary texts works by Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Lydgate and William Shakespeare along with their classical intertexts, it situates each of them in regard to their multiple defining contexts. Paying close attention to the European traditions of commentary, translation and response to classical sources, it shows mythographical discourse as a vibrant aspect of medieval and early modern literary culture, equally embedded in classical traditions and contemporary traditions that transcended national and linguistic boundaries.

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Villas, Serge. "Situation actuelle et perspectives d'évolution de la latinité dans les onze pays de la communauté de développement d'Afrique australe (SADC) : étude des espaces linguistiques, culturels, politico-économiques des cinq langues latines (espagnol, français, italien, portugais, roumain)." Perpignan, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1995PERP0211.

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Bratu, Roxana. "Actors, practices and networks of corruption : the case of Romania's accession to European Union funding." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/891/.

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This thesis offers new insights into the challenges and opportunities brought by European Union (EU) integration policies by taking as a case study the process of accessing EU funding in Romania and its impact on the performance and reproduction of contemporary entrepreneurial identities. It is based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Romania between June 2007 and September 2008. The thesis argues that EU funding - as an economic process shaped by EU anticorruption practices, policies and assumptions – configures new political and economic subjects through intertwined vocabularies of corruption and crime, a mix of formal and informal entrepreneurial practices and the commodification of finance. This dynamic process concomitantly enables Romania’s top-down integration into the EU through the adoption of transnational regulations, institutions and anxieties and Romania’s bottom-up integration into the EU through the assimilation of the EU funding regulations into the vernacular practices of doing business.

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Joseph, Nicholas. "The formation and use ot Romanitas in a Saxon empire : Ottonian solutions to the challenges of rule in early medieval Europe." Thesis, Keele University, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522668.

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Prestia, Joseph David. ""The most momentous choice of all ..." the Romanian decision to enter the Great War, 1914-1916 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3386711.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2009.
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Ryder, Emily Jennifer Hana. "Memory, perception, reception : following the fate of the victims of Italy's anni di piombo through the writing of their children." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7056/.

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This thesis considers some of those who were killed in politically-motivated attacks, often referred to as ‘terrorism’, which took place during Italy’s anni di piombo. Six works written by victims’ children will be used as a lens through which to examine the collective memory and the victims’ place therein. In recent years, there has been a shift in the way that this period of Italian history - the anni di piombo – has been remembered. Where previously the perpetrators of the violence of those years dominated public discourse, in the last decade the principal narrative has become more victim-centred. The biographical works written by victims’ children have inevitably contributed to this change in the memory narrative. The techniques employed in their writing in order to change the existing public image of their fathers will be analysed in this thesis, along with certain themes that recur throughout the six works and broader victim-centred discussion of this period. Analysis begins with a thorough outline of the political and historical context of the anni di piombo, including case studies of two of the most famous victims of this period and a consideration of the written works of some of the former terrorists. Following this preliminary contextualisation, each of the six books and their authors will be studied in detail to provide a foundation for the analysis contained in the final three chapters. The themes examined in the second half of the thesis are second-generation writing, forgiveness and commemoration. Using these themes as a framework, a rigorous investigation of the place that the victims hold in collective memory; the role their children’s writing has played in shaping and maintaining their public image and the longer-term impact that these changes can be seen to have had within a broader societal and political perspective is undertaken. On the basis of this study, it is evident that the victims’ place in the collective memory of the anni di piombo has changed dramatically since that period of violence concluded. The victims’ children have been very significant in enacting this change and their writing has placed them in a position from which they can continue to exert influence and promote a victim-centred approach to history.

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Goodman, Jessica Mary. "La gloire et le malentendu : Goldoni and the Comédie-Italienne, 1760-93." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ec5ab3e3-812e-49f7-92e6-b1eea488cad5.

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Eighteenth-century Paris was the cultural capital of Europe and home to a vibrant network of theatres, not all of which are equally present in modern scholarship. The Comédie-Italienne in particular has frequently been downplayed in historical accounts, and there is no existing work outlining its relationship with its authors. This thesis aims to address this gap through a case study of the Italian author Carlo Goldoni, who began work for the Comédie-Italienne in 1762. His thirty years in Paris hold an ambiguous place in his career: the preface to his autobiography draws attention to France as the site of his authorial glory, but his work for the Comédie-Italienne is dismissed as a failure; a view echoed by many modern critics. This study therefore also sets out to explore this apparent contradiction. Substantial original work on the Comédie-Italienne archives sheds new light on the administration of this theatre, building up the most comprehensive existing account of its finances, audiences and author relations in the 1760s, and situating it in the contemporary cultural field. Dramatic authors are revealed to be at the heart of tensions between symbolic and financial concerns across eighteenth-century theatrical Paris. This re-evaluation also provides a new context for understanding Goldoni’s equivocal account of his Parisian career. He desired a glorious image in posterity, yet the Comédie-Italienne’s collaborative production and lack of publication thwarted the reputation-shaping tactics he had developed in Italy. The only weapon that remained was his French Mémoires (1787), in which he consciously constructed his image and the claim of Parisian glory. Goldoni’s case also raises broader questions about the creation of literary gloire, and the fate of the cosmopolitan artist in a strange land. In modern France, Goldoni is remembered as a famous foreigner, not the Frenchman he believed he had become. The thesis concludes that this failure in posterity stems from his misunderstanding of how to achieve gloire in his French context: to rely on artificially created image alone is not enough, and yet Goldoni had no choice.

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Ciornei, Irina. "European citizenship and political incorporation. Pathways to power of British and Romanian residents in Spain." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/133265.

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La presente tesis doctoral se enfoca en la dimensión política de la ciudadanía europea. La investigación pretende entender y explicar cómo los ciudadanos europeos que viven en otro país están incorporados en la política local de sus lugares de residencia. El análisis discute el caso de los residentes rumanos y británicos en España, dos grupos de europeos que ilustran el diverso paisaje de la movilidad europea en término de recursos socio-económicos, tipología migratoria y percepción y recepción en sus países de acogida. Desde una perspectiva teórica, propongo un nuevo marco analítico sobre la incorporación política. Dicha propuesta va más allá de la dicotomía agencia/estructura de oportunidades y plantea introducir una perspectiva transnacional en el análisis. El estudio se enfoca en cómo las organizaciones y los emprendedores políticos (candidatos y concejales locales) por parte de los dos grupos están incluidos en los procesos políticos de sus lugares de residencia. Desde una perspectiva metodológica utilizo un enfoque multi-metódo que me permite tener tanto una visión de conjunto como una mirada en profundidad de los fenómenos de incorporación política. El análisis plantea dos argumentos generales. En primer lugar, demuestro cómo los procesos de incorporación de los dos grupos están condicionados por su recepción y percepción en la sociedad receptora. Más allá del estatus común de ciudadanos europeos y diferencias de recursos, las instituciones políticas españolas se acercan a las organizaciones y emprendedores políticos de los dos grupos de una manera diferenciada, que, a su vez, generas trayectorias distintas de incorporación. En segundo lugar, enseño cómo los vínculos transnacionales son un factor positivo en los procesos de incorporación. La tesis embarca un concepto amplio de transnacionalismo, refiriéndose a derechos de ciudadanía en el país de origen y en la UE y a interacciones transfronterizas. Los derechos de voto del exterior y la representación política en el país de origen y en el parlamento europeo son unos de los recursos transnacionales discutidos en la tesis. Más específicamente, los ciudadanos británicos residentes en España tienen un nivel relativamente alto de movilización política y una trayectoria independiente hacia la política local. Dichas características determinan que los residentes ingleses sean independientes de los recursos ofrecidos por las administraciones y partidos políticos. Los residentes rumanos, en cambio, tienen menos recursos cívicos y políticos. La lealtad partidista y el liderazgo organizativo son dos de los factores que promueven su incorporación. El uso estratégico de la ciudadanía europea por los residentes británicos y el apoyo recibido por parte de las instituciones políticas del país de origen en el caso rumano son dos recursos transnacionales que empoderan los grupos estudiados para ganar influencia y visibilidad en la política local española.
The doctoral thesis focuses on the political dimension of EU citizenship and seeks to explain and understand how the Europeans who make use of the right of free movement are incorporated politically in the member states of residence. I discuss the case of Romanian and British residents in Spain, two groups which are illustrative of the diverse landscape of European mobility in terms of socio-economic resources, migration typology and perception and reception in the host societies. From a theoretical perspective I propose a revised framework of political incorporation that goes beyond the agency/structure approach and incorporates the transnational perspective into the analysis. I study how organizations and political entrepreneurs (candidates and local councillors) of Romanian and British origin are included in the political arena of their contexts of residents. From a methodological perspective, I follow a mixed-methods approach that allows me to have both a broad, quantitative perspective and an in-depth qualitative understanding of the processes of political incorporation. The theoretical and empirical analyses of the dissertation support two general arguments. I show that Romanians’ and Britons’ processes of incorporation are contingent upon their reception and self-perception in the host society. Beyond a common status as European citizens and inherent differences in group resources, Spanish institutions and political actors approach organizations and political entrepreneurs from the two groups differently. This differentiated approach shapes their diverse trajectories to local power. Second, I demonstrate that transnational links and membership resources can constitute an asset in gaining visibility and incorporation outcomes in the host society. The thesis embraces a broad concept of transnationalism that refers to EU and country-of-origin citizenship entitlements and to other forms of cross-border interactions. External voting rights and special representation in the country of origin as well as political representation in the European Parliament are some of the transnational membership resources I take into consideration in the dissertation. More specifically, the British in Spain display a high level of civic and political mobilization and a contentious-mobilizer trajectory to politics. This fact makes them relatively independent of material support from administrations and Spanish mainstream parties. As a consequence, the British enter politics ‘on their own’ and manage to have influence over the local political agenda. For their part, Romanian political entrepreneurs rely on low levels of group resources in terms of civic and political mobilization. To that extent, party loyalism and organizational leadership open the pathway to the local political arena. The strategic use of European citizenship by Britons and home country citizenship entitlements by Romanians empower immigrant political entrepreneurs to gain visibility and influence vis-à-vis Spanish political actors.

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Septar, Leila. "An Analysis Of The Romanian Public Affairs Management In The Accession Process." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607374/index.pdf.

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This thesis analyzes the lobbying process taking place within the comitology committees of the European Union responsible with the the implementation process of the employment policy. It presents a critical view on the EU decision-making and implementation processes by studing the way these could be influenced by using public affairs management instruments. The European Union accession negotiations of the Romanian case is taken as a case study to exemplify on the professionalism of a lobby group in formation and assess the chances that a new member state has in order to effectively influence the policy formulation and implementation process at the European level.

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Phelps, Paul Chandler. "'Wounded Harts' : metaphor and desire in the epic-romances of Tasso, Sidney, and Spenser." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6314229f-2797-4727-91c8-64265a16f6b3.

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If we consider the representation of the body in the epic-romances of Torquato Tasso, Philip Sidney, and Edmund Spenser, certain instances of wounding and laceration emerge as crucial turning points in the development of their respective narratives: Clorinda’s redemptive mutilation, Parthenia’s blood-drenched pallor, Amavia’s disquieting suicide, Venus’s insatiable orifice, Amoret’s “perfect hole.” This thesis affords a detailed comparative study of such passages, contending that the wound assumed a critical metaphoric dimension in sixteenth-century epic-romance literature, particularly in relation to the perceived association between body condition and erotic desire. Along with its function as a marker of martial valor and somatic sacredness, the wound, I argue, increasingly is designated in these epic-romances as an interiorizing apparatus, one liable to accrue at any instance into a surplus of unanticipated meaning. As such, the wound becomes an emblem in these texts of what I call the phenomenology of desire—the equation of consummation and loss—as well as the aesthetic and metaphoric mechanism by which these writers seek to overcome it. The four chapters of this thesis constitute individual but cumulative points of response to the problem of thinking about desire as a type of wound. For Tasso, a wound poses a challenge to physical, psychological, and spiritual integrity, but its remarkable capacity for aestheticization also allows Tasso to envision it as a synthesizer of sacred and erotic affects. For Sidney, the prospect that a wound could define a body as courageous or pathetic, as sacred or corrupt, became both politically and socially troubling, and the New Arcadia, I argue, proleptically attempts to defend Sidney against interpretations of wounds that register them as manifestations of corrupt desire. For Spenser, body fracture and erotic wounding are analogic (indeed, almost indistinguishable), and The Faerie Queene investigates the prospect that confusing these analogies can become an empowering, even revelatory experience. In each of these epic-romances, a wound serves both a literal and a figurative function and, in this way, is established as the foremost image by which these writers imagine strength and mutilation, affect and heroism, epic and romance as being inextricably bound.

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Ivan, Oana. "The European Union, sheep and Transylvanians." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1313910491&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Norberg, Marie, and Emma Norgren. "Romer & tiggeri : En mediestudie och intervjuer med romer i Umeå." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-98082.

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Under 2013 och 2014 har det skett en ökning av antalet EU-medborgare som tigger i Sverige. Det har varit ett hett ämne för offentlig debatt och åsikterna har varit många och delade. Det finns flera obesvarade frågor och situationen är komplex. Behovet av kunskap i ämnet ses därför som stort. Syftet med denna uppsats var att studera medias framställning av tiggeri och romer, samt att genom intervjuer ge en bild av den verklighet som romerna i Umeå upplever. Dessa framställningar jämfördes sedan mot varandra. För att göra detta har en mediestudie gjorts där 49 tidningsartiklar från dagstidningarna Dagens Nyheter och Västerbottens Kuriren granskats. Det har gjorts tre intervjuer med romer. En kvalitativ innehållsanalys har använts för att analysera samtligt material. Mediestudien visade att tidningarnas framställning av romer och tiggeri främst handlar om romernas utsatta situation, samt diskussioner rörande ansvarsfrågan. Intervjuerna visade att det som främst präglar romernas verklighet är utsattheten, samt att familjen har stor betydelse.

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Morgan, Rebecca. "Enlargement 2007 : Romania, Bulgaria and the path to the European Union : a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in European Studies in the University of Canterbury /." Thesis, University of Canterbury. National Centre for Research on Europe, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3219.

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With the enlargement of the EU to 27 member states in 2007, this thesis considers the transition process of Romania and Bulgaria from the fall of communism in 1989 to accession to the European Union in 2007. The research focuses on the political and economic reforms of Romania and Bulgaria, using a chronological approach, to explore the concept of EU impact on countries in transition. The thesis focuses specifically on the ideas of European conditionality and leverage, in order to answer questions on the importance of the EU’s external influence on these two countries, as well as discussing future implications for candidate countries in transition.

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Little, Christopher. "Beyond England's "Green and Pleasant Land": English Romantics Outside the Musical Renaissance." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/68.

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England experienced a resurgence of musical talent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries known as the "English Musical Renaissance." This rebirth spanned the years 1880 – 1945 and is credited to the work of Edward Elgar, Frederick Delius, Gustav Holst, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Their break with Continental compositional models and the subsequent rediscovery of Tudor music and English folk song eventually created a "pastoral" musical style, heard as the authentically English musical voice. A strain of English musical Romanticism continued parallel to the Renaissance, however, represented by Granville Bantock, Joseph Holbrooke, Rutland Boughton, Arnold Bax, and Havergal Brian. These composers retained Continental, specifically Wagnerian, Romantic techniques, including chromatic harmony, leitmotifs, virtuosic use of enormous performing forces, and an emphasis on programmatic music. Their inspiration was drawn from exotic sources and Nature's mystical, dangerous, and beguiling qualities instead of any "pastoral" traits. Each wrote emotionally extravagant music at a time when such was considered foreign to the English character. This dissertation demonstrates the Wagnerian character of these “English Romantics” through examination of stylistic features in representative scores. Further, by presenting scores, criticism, and monographs, it affirms their sustained compositional presence through the twentieth century though English cultural tastes had turned from Germany to France, Russia, and the United States after the First World War. Finally, in challenging the standard narrative of British musical history this study broadens the concept of authentically English music to include a great deal more music “made in England.”

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Cucu, Dan. "Romanian Special Forces : identifying appropriate missions and organizational structure /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Dec%5FCucu.pdf.

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Smith, Jennifer. "Mysticism as an escape from scientific discourse eluding female subjectivity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3204287.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2006.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0203. Adviser: Maryellen Bieder. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Dec. 12, 2006)."

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Panaite, Cristian P. "The Rise and Fall of Peter Earring... The Making of a Romanian Historical Play." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1179942628.

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Murphree, Patrick D. "Crisis and continuity comedy during the French Revolution /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3337264.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Theatre and Drama, 2008.
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Coelho, Isabel Lopes. "A representação da infância na literatura infantojuvenil europeia a partir da segunda metade do século XIX: estudos sobre os romances Sans famille, As aventuras de Pinóquio e Peter e Wendy." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-22032019-101536/.

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Este trabalho visa estudar a representação da infância e da criança em romances europeus escritos entre 1850 e a primeira década do século XX. O corpus analisado compõe-se de três obras que se inserem na chamada literatura infantojuvenil. A primeira intitula-se Sans famille, escrita pelo francês Hector Malot e publicada em 1878. A segunda, de autoria do italiano Carlo Collodi, é o clássico As aventuras de Pinóquio, publicado entre 1881 e 1883. E, finalmente, a terceira obra, Peter e Wendy, foi escrita por J. M. Barrie e publicada em 1911. A pesquisa leva em conta alguns fatores decisivos para o desenvolvimento da literatura infantojuvenil europeia. Um deles é a percepção de que a infância constitui, de fato, uma fase de desenvolvimento marcadamente distinta da adulta. O mercado editorial, atento às percepções de sua época, passa a produzir uma quantidade de obras destinadas ao público jovem, algo até então sem precedente. Tais obras se diferenciam das antecessoras em especial pela linguagem e pelos temas de interesse específico deste público. Além disso, a própria literatura irá incorporar em sua narrativa a criança e o jovem como protagonistas, reforçando ainda mais o contato com esse novo público leitor. Sob a inspiração dos ensaios de Erich Auerbach em sua obra Mimesis, também neste trabalho foram selecionadas três obras de culturas diferentes e que pudessem trazer informações sobre a representação ficcional da infância. A narrativa francesa Sans famille, imbuída dos movimentos sociais do século XIX, traça um retrato da criança abandonada (enfant trouvé), estigmatizada desde seu nascimento, um fenômeno presente em toda a Europa. Em As aventuras de Pinóquio, o tema é outro: em uma Itália recém-unificada pela força, o romance de Pinóquio problematiza a questão educacional, que será a bandeira do novo governo. Por fim, Peter e Wendy representa crianças autônomas representando a crise de valores entre as expectativas dos adultos e os desejos das crianças e, assim, acena para a moderna literatura do século XX. Esta tese defende que tais obras são capitais para o surgimento de uma nova narrativa destinada ao público infantojuvenil e que seus protagonistas iniciaram uma nova representação de personagem criança na literatura, especialmente Pinóquio e Peter Pan. Ao final, o leitor encontra uma entrevista com o pesquisador inglês Peter Hunt, realizada exclusivamente para este trabalho.
This work aims to study the representation of childhood and child in European novels written between 1850 and the first decade of the twentieth century. The corpus analyzed is composed of three works that belong to the so-called children\'s literature. The first is entitled Sans famille, written by the Frenchman Hector Malot and published in 1878. The second, by the Italian Carlo Collodi, is the classic The Adventures of Pinocchio, published between 1881 and 1883. And finally, the third work, Peter and Wendy, was written by J.M. Barrie and published in 1911. The research takes into account some decisive factors for the development of European children\'s literature. One is the perception that childhood is, in fact, a phase of development markedly different from that of adulthood. The publishing market, attentive to the perceptions of its time, begins to produce a quantity of works destined to the young public, something hitherto unprecedented. Such works differ from the predecessors, especially in the language and themes of specific interest of this public. In addition, the literature itself will incorporate the child and the young person as protagonists in their narrative, reinforcing even more the contact with this new readership. Under the inspiration of Erich Auerbach\'s essays in his work Mimesis, in this work three books of different cultures were also selected bringing information about the fictional representation of childhood. The French narrative Sans famille, imbued with the social movements of the nineteenth century, traces a portrait of the abandoned child (\"enfant trouvé\"), stigmatized since its birth, a phenomenon present throughout Europe. In The Adventures of Pinocchio, the theme is different: in a newly unified Italy by force, the novel problematizes the educational system, which will be the banner of the new government. Finally, Peter and Wendy depicting autonomous children representing the crisis of values between the expectations of the adults and the desires of the children and, thus, nods to the modern literature of the twentieth century. This thesis argues that such works are important for the emergence of a new narrative aimed at children and young people and that their protagonists started a new representation of child character in literature, especially Pinocchio and Peter Pan. At the end, the reader finds an interview with the English researcher Peter Hunt, made exclusively for this work.

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Albala, Pelegrin Marta. "De la peninsula Iberica a Italia| Concepcion y practica teatral de las primeras comedias castellanas." Thesis, City University of New York, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3601853.

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In my dissertation, De la península Ibérica a Italia: concepción y práctica teatral de las primeras comedias castellanas , I analyze the formation of early modern Spanish comedia, in the context of Italo-Iberian cultural exchanges. My aim is to incorporate the most popular Spanish plays of the first half of the sixteenth century into the larger scenario in which they belong: one that we could name the "formation of the genre of comedy". Works such as Juan del Encina's Eclogues , La Celestina (The Spanish Bawd), and Torres Naharro's Tinellaria and Soldadesca are seen in this light as milestones in a complex thread of contributions leading to the development in the seventeenth century of a Spanish Golden Age "national theater", and specifically in Lope de Vega comedia nueva, as well as to the Italian commedia erudita. Such a reconstruction has long been neglected due to the constitution of the Hispanic and the Italian literary studies, and the asymmetry between the Spanish and the Italian literary traditions, especially regarding the primacy of Italian "comedies" and "authors" in the constitution of a history of "western comedy".

The formation of the genre of comedy it is seen in a new light within a textual and bibliographical history, grounded in the relationships among authors, printers, and readers. Cultural and merchant networks established between the Iberian and Italian Peninsulas helped to widespread not only books as commodities, but ideas and forms (genres) contained within them that would appeal to new audiences and readers. In my second chapter, I have reconstructed the possible ways in which these plays could have been represented, in contexts such as Alba de Tormes and Rome, by means of the analysis of internal text evidence (prompts, or configuration of the different scenes) and the extant records, both about its actual performances, and other contemporary spectacles. In order to make sense of the scarce available data, I have delved into architectural treatises (Vitruvio, Alberti, Peruzzi, Serlio), woodcuts, and extant Roman documents on contemporary theatrical performances. As a result of this reconstruction, Encina's latest plays, as well as Naharro's Soldadesca and Tinellaria, appear as deeply rooted in the avant-garde conception of the urban Roman scene, they share both techniques, and scene conceptions with avant-garde Italian authors. In my third chapter, I studied the function that comedies, such as Naharro's Tinellaria and Soldadesca, had at the time, insisting on the religious and political denunciations contained in them, as well as in their relationship with some discourses originating in the Lateran council. As a result of that, I have been able to delimit the circles, critical with the papacy of Julius II, in which these ideas originated, together with the political interests of those that voiced them.

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Rideout, Judith. "Women's writing networks in Spanish magazines around 1900." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7859/.

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As an output of the HERA Travelling Texts project, created with the aim of uncovering the realities of women’s literary culture on the fringes of Europe during the long nineteenth century, this study was conceptualised to find out more about the networks of women writers in Spain around 1900, using the digitised corpuses of contemporaneous periodicals as the primary source material. Each chapter of the study centres on a particular periodical, which is used as the starting point for the community of writers and readers, both real and imagined. This thesis looks at the realities of the literary culture for creative women in the late nineteenth century-early twentieth century, exploring the strategies used by women (and men) to support each other in their literary endeavours, how they took inspiration and courage from each other, how they promoted their own names, and how they were received by wider society. The study will also focus on the transnational nature of this literary culture, looking at how women of different nations influenced each other’s work, with a view to understanding more about how cultural change takes place. Finally, this thesis hopes to persuade the reader that the periodical is a rich and under-utilised resource for discovering more about the lives of women writers and their network of relationships.

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Veleanu, Corina. "Deux siècles d'influence juridique française en Europe : Roumanie, Portugal, Union européenne : La "Romania" entre Orient et Occident." Lyon 3, 2007. https://scd-resnum.univ-lyon3.fr/out/theses/2007_out_veleanu_c.pdf.

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Mes recherches constituent la continuation de mon mémoire de Master de recherche «Influences françaises dans l'Europe juridique du XIXe siècle: les Principautés roumaines entre Orient et Occident» et s'inscrivent dans la perspective pluridisciplinaire ouverte par mes premières investigations. Se situant également dans un contexte comparatif, mon analyse essaie de rendre compte du rayonnement du français en dehors des frontières de la France, et plus précisément en trois points de l'Europe: en Roumanie et au Portugal, les deux extrémités, orientale et occidentale, de la Romania, ainsi qu'a sein des institutions qui assurent le fonctionnement de l'Union européenne. La période qui fait l'objet de mes recherches commence au XVIIIe siècle et se poursuit jusqu'au XXe , prenant en compte principalement des textes de lois français, roumains, portugais et européens, des traités, ainsi que des textes de correspondance diplomatique et autres. Le domaine de mon analyse linguistique est celui de la langue juridique du droit public et de la terminologie des institutions et des fonctions publiques. J'ai tenté ainsi de déceler, telle qu'elle est reflétée par la langue, l'œuvre de modernisation juridique et linguistique réalisée par la France à l'Est, à l'Ouest et au Centre du continent européen
The present research constitutes the continuation of my report of Research Master's degree in "French Legal Influences in Europe of the 19th century: the Rumanian Principalities between the Eastern and the Western civilizations”. Situated in a comparative context, my analysis tries to account for the influence of the French legal language and culture outside the borders of France, and more precisely in three points of Europe: Romania and Portugal, Eastern and Western borders of the Romania, and also within the institutions which ensure the functioning of the European Union. The period of my research starts with the 18th century and continues until the 20th century, being based mainly on legal texts in French, Rumanian and Portuguese, as well as on European texts and treaties, and also on diplomatic correspondence and other literary texts. The field of my linguistic analysis is the legal language of the public law and the terminology of the European institutions and of the public office. I thus tried to detect, as reflected by language, the legal and linguistic modernization carried out by France in the East part, the West part and at the centre of the European continent

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Sandra, Saied. ""EU-kommissionen är inte FBI. Vad vill du att vi ska göra? Ska vi skicka en armé till Rumänien eller vad?"." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-28364.

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The purpose of this essay is to do a case specific examination of the EU level implementation of the integration of Romanian Roma. The essay is divided into two parts. The first part of the essay constitutes a description of relevant European Union policy instruments and the current ambition to integrate the Romanian Roma. The second part of the essay is a qualitative text analysis based on debate articles published in the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. The articles are systematically categorized by different themes in order to try to analyze the reasoning and argumentation in this area. The aim of the qualitative analysis is to find the core of the debate and then try to compare it with the EU’s ambitions to integrate Romanian Roma. The essay concludes that there are problematic aspects to the implementation of Romanian Roma integration. This essay shows one of these problematic aspects. It is a complicated problem without a single, given solution. Rather, there are a number of factors that contributes to the problem. The essay also offers some new facts that can constitute a basis for further research.

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Nitoiu, Cristian. "The media and democratic legitimacy in EU foreign policy : the role of transnational, British and Romanian media in the EU's approach to climate change and its policy towards Russia." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2013. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/14034.

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The issue of democratic deficit and crisis of legitimacy has been at the forefront of the development of the European project in the last twenty years. However, little attention has been directed towards analysing the way in which democratic legitimacy underlines the construction of the EU s foreign policy. This thesis draws on a broad understanding of democratic legitimacy which is seen to encompass various aspects: transparency, accountability, responsiveness and openness to public debate. It shows that the media had a positive effect (although in contrasting degrees) on the democratic legitimacy of the EU s foreign policy in two issue areas, highlighting the ways in which it achieved this. Drawing on insights from political theory, it argues that the European public sphere has the potential to foster the four characteristics highlighted above through the ability of the media to politicise foreign policy issues, which are commonly closed off from democratic scrutiny. Three types of interaction effects between the media and policymakers within the European public sphere are identified: indexing, bounding and agenda setting. Firstly, indexing captures the ability of policymakers to influence and shape media discourse in order to aid their interests and goals by communicating in a favourable manner their policies to the general public. Secondly, through bounding the media can have a constraining or limiting effect on the range of policies and their effectiveness that policymakers can pursue, even if the latter are not aware of or willing to engage with the frames constructed by journalists. Finally, agenda setting captures the ability of the media to purposively influence decision-making processes through its discourse. Empirically two distinct areas of EU foreign policy are explored: the EU s approach to global climate change and its policy towards Russia. Hence, the study makes a significant contribution to the understanding of EU foreign policy and to its international actorness. Secondly, it extends in a comprehensive manner the debate regarding the crisis of legitimacy and democratic deficit in the EU to the realm of foreign policy. Finally, it also contributes to the literature on Foreign Policy Analysis which engages with the issue of democratic legitimacy.

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Bush, Ruth. "Publishing sub-Saharan Africa in Paris 1945-67." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d293db11-2afe-4103-b54a-9279d3d3f9a6.

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This thesis is an investigation of literary institutions and print culture in France during the two decades following the Second World War. It demonstrates how the changing metropolitan literary marketplace, driven by new methods of book production and bookselling; the rise of internationalism and tiers-mondisme; and a nascent notion of francophonie, accommodated writing of and on sub-Saharan Africa. The first half of the thesis focuses on three institutions of particular significance: the publishing houses of Le Seuil and Présence Africaine, and the Association nationale des écrivains de la mer et de l’outre-mer, known for the literary prizes it administered. Diverse strategies for evaluating representations of sub-Saharan Africa are explored through new research in the archives of these institutions. The tensions between specialist and more commercially orientated publishing, between anti-colonial and exotic representations of sub-Saharan Africa do not map cleanly onto separate institutional contexts in this period. These tensions are underpinned by shared political and aesthetic debates, technological resources, and social contexts. The second half of the thesis analyses in greater detail the publishing process of selection, production and distribution in seven individual case-studies of novels by Christine Garnier, Abdoulaye Sadji, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Malick Fall, Amos Tutuola, Chinua Achebe and Peter Abrahams. Aspects considered include: readers’ reports and editorial revision; the use of pseudonyms; the development of named collections; the role of literary translators. My methodological approach works with, and at times against, a Bourdieusian framework, to describe the literary field in this period. More specifically, Pascale Casanova’s depiction of Paris as capital of the “World Republic of Letters” is tested and nuanced through the historical focus on the period 1945 – 67. Rather than a passive annexation to the colonial centre, African literary production is shown to be intrinsic to and constitutive of the restless political and aesthetic landscape of post-war reconstruction and decolonisation in the French-speaking world.

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Palewska, Marie. "Un romancier d'aventures à la Belle Epoque : paul d'Ivoi (1856-1915) et ses "Voyages excentriques"." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030013.

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Publiés en volumes chez l’ancienne librairie Furne entre 1894 et 1917, les « Voyages excentriques » de Paul d’Ivoi constituent une collection prisée par la jeunesse à la Belle Epoque. Ces romans d’aventures inscrits dans la lignée de Jules Verne sont très représentatifs de leur temps, avec des intrigues enracinées dans un contexte politique proche du moment de leur écriture. Soucieux de contribuer à la formation patriotique et morale de leurs lecteurs, ils s’appliquent à soutenir l’œuvre coloniale de la France, à promouvoir les valeurs de la République française et à célébrer le rayonnement du pays à travers le monde. L’action, qui présente souvent un enjeu diplomatique international, suscite le voyage en terre étrangère et la rencontre avec d’autres nationalités dont la vision est le reflet des relations amicales ou conflictuelles que la France entretient avec elles. Mais de la réalité, les « Voyages excentriques » basculent dans la fiction en usant des diverses ressources que leur offre le genre du roman d’aventures alors à son apogée. L’exotisme et la fantaisie scientifique sont les deux thèmes les plus représentés, parfois agrémentés d’une touche policière ou d’espionnage. Dans sa pratique du roman d’aventures, Paul d’Ivoi cultive l’art de la variation par rapport à ses prédécesseurs, affirmant sa propre manière dans l’inventivité de ses gadgets scientifiques merveilleux ou la place prépondérante qu’il donne aux femmes. Il connut un grand succès au début du XXème siècle comme cadeau d’étrennes, livre de prix, fascicule populaire, feuilleton de quotidien à un sou, adapté au théâtre et même au cinéma. Son originalité réside surtout dans la notion d’excentrique qui fédère sa collection de romans Belle Epoque
Published in volumes between 1894 and 1917 by the former bookshop Furne, Paul d’Ivoi’s "Voyages Excentriques" made up a collection which was very much valued by the youth of the Edwardian Era.These adventure novels, in the tradition of Jules Verne, were highly representative of their time with plots deeply rooted in the political ideas pervading then. They were anxious to contribute to the patriotic and moral moulding of their readers and applied to support the colonial work of France while promoting the values of the French Republic and celebrating its influence all over the world. The action, which often deals with international diplomatic stakes, sends the characters abroad to meet other nationalities whose visions reflect their relationships with France, whether friendly or of conflict.However the "Voyages Excentriques" swing from reality into fiction using the various means that adventure novels, then at their peak, offered them. Exotism and scientific extravagance are the main themes, often accompanied with detective stories or spy fiction as secondary sorts. When writing his adventure novels, Paul d’Ivoi carefully paid attention to differentiating himself from his predecessors, asserting his own manner by inventing wonderful scientific gadgets or giving a preponderant role to women. His books were a great success at the turn of the 20th century as New Year’s gifts, school prizes, popular manuals or cheap serials which were adapted on stage or even in movies.He is most original in his dealing with eccentricity which is to be found all through his collection of Belle Epoque novels

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Baciu, Virginia, Isabelle Cielens, Andor Horváth, Eugène Kouchkine, Aleksandra Machowska, Jana Patočková, Brigitte Sändig, and Lada V. Syrovatko. "Camus im Osten : Zeugnisse der Wirkung Camus' zu Zeiten der Teilung Europas. - 2. Auflage." Universität Potsdam, 2009. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/2950/.

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Albert Camus' 40. Todestag ist Anlaß, die literarische, kulturelle und politisch-soziale Bedeutung des Autors für die ehemals sozialistischen Länder zu dokumentieren. Camus' Interesse für diese Länder und die Unbestechlichkeit seines Urteils konnten von den oppositionellen Kräften als wirksame Unterstützung wahrgenommen werden; das belegen die Beiträge von acht LiteraturwissenschaftlerInnen, ÜbersetzerInnen und Kulturschaffenden, die an der Rezeption Camus' maßgeblich beteiligt waren und sind. Dabei wird deutlich, daß sich in der Auseinandersetzung mit Camus' Werk eine politische Haltung kundtat, die nicht selten eine Lebenshaltung und -entscheidung war.

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