Debussy composed a piano work Préludes Book I in 1909. By Symbolism and Impressionism in French, Debussy was induced to write twelve pieces in Préludes Book I. His composes not only reveal variety but also involve the actuality, tales, antique and modern cultures in his creations. The thesis first investigates the relation in Debussy, Symbolism, and Impressionism. The second work is description of the composed background of Préludes Book I. Finally, we discuss the performance interpretation in Debussy Préludes Book I according to the statements of historians with Léon Vallas, Paul Roberts, E. Robert Schmitz, R. Myers, and pianists Marguertite Long, Alfred Cortot and Debussy¡¦s friends Lousia Liebich, Robert Godet. In this thesis, the historical viewpoints would be adopted to research the performance of expression for Préludes Book I. And, we expect each player who is able to explicitly understand the expression of this piece when he or she possesses an excellent skill in the future.

Advances in 3D computer technology have led to aesthetic experimentation within the comics medium. Comic creators have produced comic books done entirely with 3D models that are then assembled digitally for the printed page. However, in using these 3D objects in a comic format, the creators have developed art styles that do not adhere to the paradigms established by this traditionally 2D medium. More successful results can be achieved by integrating 3D computer generated imagery with traditional 2D imagery, rather than replacing it. This thesis develops a method of combining rendered 3D models with 2D vector graphics to create a comic book art style that is consistent with the traditional medium, while still taking advantage of the new technology.

This study maps the facies architecture and geometry of stratigraphic surfaces within the tide-influenced upper Sego Sandstone exposed in the Book Cliffs between Crescent Junction and Thompson Springs, Utah. A bedding diagram was constructed by correlating 32 measured stratigraphic logs across this 8.5 kilometer strike-oblique outcrop to interpret depositional environments and the sequence stratigraphic setting of this tidally-influenced sandstone. Five facies associations are defined: marine shale, lower shoreface, tidally-influenced bedsets, heterolithic tidal bedsets, and tidal flat deposits. Vertical facies trends define two sandy intervals separated by a marine shale, that are interpreted to record episodic progradation of deltaic shorelines. Erosion surfaces at the base of these intervals are interrupted to record tidal scouring of the sea floor during falling stage regression. Sandstone-bodies within these intervals shingle westward recording delta lobes that thinned and became more heterolithic. Although sandstone intervals are interpreted to record progradation, internal cross stratification is dominantly tidal-flood oriented. This is interpreted to record preferential preservation of bedload transported by flood tidal currents onshore, even though net sediment was directed offshore in a suspended ebb-oriented hypopycnal plume and as fluid mud during uncommon river floods. Deposits above high-relief erosion surfaces observed to cut down into the upper Sego Sandstone do not meet the criteria for incised valley fills. These surfaces are interpreted to record tidal current enlargement of distributary channels after abandonment. Such incisions thus do not necessarily record changes in sea level.

Inaug.-diss.--München. / Lebenslauf. "Literaturverzeichnis": p. vii-xiv.

Thesis--University of Michigan. / "A chronological listing of general publication of the Book Concern": leaves 306-318. "Bibliography": leaves 319-324.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 278-300).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

The Book of Odes carries specific classical aesthetic, political, social and literature value. How it was reflected by traditional scholar Chŏng Yak-yong in monarch Chosŏn dynasty within the rhetoric end? Between the conflict within text knowledge of traditional classics and practical knowledge of western learning, how Chŏng Yak-yong balanced and combined them with rhetorical discourses of fengci(풍자,讽刺)? And what Chŏng Yak-yong understood the rhetoric of fengci offered the open end for the future development of understanding the tradition. Chŏng Yak-yong was one of Korean traditional scholars in late Chosŏn dynasty and through his commitments the fengci in the Book of Odes, I tried to dignify Chŏng Yak-yong’s assumption to image of Korean state confronting the influence of western practical learning and western Catholic religion. Chŏng Yak-yong through his commitments rhetoric of fengci in the Book of Odes rebirthed the traditional thoughts with new contents under the influence of western practical learning. His ideology of state of Korea was based on the traditional text knowledge, meanwhile combined western practical knowledge to build Korean new specific knowledge essence of morality, value and the emotion of public of Koreans, revealing and realizing the power of the state. Even more, his understanding of the fengci in the Book of Odes was based on fengci’s social critical function, associating with Korean traditional ethic value of humanism, rebuilding the essential nature of ruler and noble to the public, which was proper to the current political domination of monarch system. Additionally, the discourse of fengci contained in the Book of Odes would have its literature meaning as poems to the society and political domination. This thesis would find the way that fengci as the rhetoric that how its discourse related the society, politics and literature as an integrated system in monarch late Chosŏn period. / text

Syftet med denna studie är att se hur några bilderböcker utmanar de stereotypa könsrollerna. Jag kommer att granska hur pojkar och flickor framställs ur ett genusperspektiv och även titta på hur text och bild kompletterar varandra, med hjälp av Nikolajevas (2000) analysmodell för bilderböcker. Jag har valt att analysera tre stycken böcker och två av dessa har pojkar som huvudkaraktärer och en har en flicka som huvudkaraktär. Med den medvetenhet man har idag kring genus så kan dessa böcker vara ett bra material och verktyg i förskolan för att kunna visa att man får vara precis den man vill vara och det är inget som är konstigt med det. / The purpose of this study is to see how some picture books challenge gender stereotypes. I will review how boys and girls are portrayed from a gender perspective and also look at how text and image complement each other, with the help of Nikolajeva’s (2000) analysis model for picture books. I have chosen to analyze three books and two of these have boys as the main characters and one has a girl as the main character. With the awareness we have today on gender are these books a good material and a tool that can be useful in the preschool, in order to show that you can be just the one you want to be and there is nothing strange about it.

The final paper is devoted to the rather new phenomenon in the world of books – to the artist’s copyright book. It is thirty years old only, however, already three exhibitions of “artist’s” book were arranged. Objective of the final paper is to show historical development of the book origin and finishing with modern book and book’s form, destination, material changes are considered here. These are Sumerian clay tables and Egyptian papyrus and the Middle Ages’ manuscripts and the book which today we cal call classic with its canons and standards. Simultaneously, development of post services is analysed also as it was an integral part of the book. Analysis of book development is the context in which today “artist’s” book forms. This is like a new phenomenon, deliberately denying traditions, both of form and material, and finally of function of the book in all world of art, in which attention is drawn to the concept, individuality, where traditions are deliberately avoided and the escape from traditions also becomes a tradition.