ABSTRACT The largest part of this thesis is a novel called Still Life, which explores the mourning process of a mother who loses her baby, and the effect it has on her life and her marriage. The novel alternates between the present and the past (which is 23 years before) so that it illustrates the mother’s reaction to the death of her baby at the time of the death, and her personal development (or lack thereof) many years on.The second part of the thesis is an essay, which reflects on grieving in general and the expression of grief through literature, as well as some of the aspects of the writing process, with particular consideration given to the development of plot,the choice of point-of-view, symbolism, the ending and the choice of writing in a second language.

O presente trabalho é uma proposição sobre as possibilidades cênicas das quatro peças que compõe o último ciclo da obra de Henrik Ibsen (Solness, o Cons-trutor, John Gabriel Borkman, O Pequeno Eyolf e Quando nós, os mortos, desper-tarmos) para além dos limites normalmente estabelecidos pelo Realismo. A questão da fidelidade ao texto é relativizada pela noção de ponto de vista que estabelece o diálogo com referências de outros criadores, circunscritos por um campo de coerência. / The present work is a proposition on the scenic possibilities of the four plays that make up the last cycle of the work of Henrik Ibsen (Solness the Builder, John Gabriel Borkman, Little Eyolf and When we dead awaken) beyond the limits normally set by Realism. The issue of fidelity to the text is relativized by the notion of a point of view es-tablishing dialogue with references from other breeders, circumscribed by a field of coherence.

Esta pesquisa pode ser considerada um ensaio analítico a partir de questões de cunho filosófico que transbordam no documentário contemporâneo e encontram um diálogo muito fértil com a obra de Joel Pizzini. A nossa proposta é abordar a obra deste cineasta, especificamente o filme 500 Almas (2004) como inspiração para repensar o real, no documentário, enquanto uma questão de ponto de vista. Para tanto, torna-se necessário entender tal questão como um gesto de implicações mais profundas, comparativamente às teorizações cinematográficas e literárias acerca deste elemento. Trata-se, quiçá, de outra forma de conceber o ponto de vista no cinema, orientada pelo perspectivismo filosófico - pensamento presente nas reflexões de Leibniz, Nietsche, Deleuze e posteriormente assimilado pelo perspectivismo ameríndio com Viveiros de Castro - que amplia e reverbera o seu significado não se limitando à expressão ou fixação do ponto de vista de um sujeito autor. Trata-se da possibilidade acarretada pelo documentário, uma forma que é por pressuposto híbrida, de questionar, de produzir verdades, de repensar a distinção entre essência e aparência, entre real e invenção. Estas questões são problematizadas a partir de autores como Comolli e Guy Gauthier que pensam o documentário contemporâneo e as implicações de outros sujeitos e elementos envolvidos no filme que se faz em fricção com o real: a mise-en-scène dos sujeitos filmados, os sujeitos espectadores, a montagem criativa. Ao analisar o filme 500 Almas, observamos de que forma esses e outros elementos são engendrados para constituir o ponto de vista do real. / This research can be considered as an analytical essay from matter of philosophical that abound in contemporary documentary and find a very fruitful dialogue with the work of Joel Pizzini. Our proposal is to address the work of this director, specifically the film 500 Almas (2004) as inspiration for rethinking the real as a matter of the point of view. Therefore, it is necessary to understand this issue as a gesture of deeper implications, compared to cinematographic and literary theorizing about this element. It is, perhaps, another way of conceiving the point of view in cinema, guided by philosophical perspectivism - present thought the reflections of Leibniz, Nietzsche, Deleuze and subsequently assimilated by amerindian perspectivism with Viveiros de Castro - which expands and reverberates your meaning not limited to the expression or fastening point of view of an individual author. It brought about the possibility for the documentary, which is a form of hybrid assumption, to question, to produce truths, to rethink the distinction between essence and appearance, between real and invention. These questions are problematized from authors such as Comolli and Guy Gauthier who think contemporary documentary and implications for other subjects and elements involved in the film that is in friction with the real: the mise-en-scène of the subjects filmed, the subjects spectators, the creative mounting. When analyzing the film 500 Almas, we observe how these and other elements are interwoven to build the point of view of the real.

<p>Date: 2008‐05‐26</p><p>Program: International Marketing Course: Master Thesis</p><p>Authors: Qian Chen & Lanjunzi Chen</p><p>Title: What is wrong with Motorola?</p><p>Problem: What are the shortcomings of its mobile phones of Motorola from</p><p>consumers’ perspectives in Chinese market?</p><p>Purpose: This study aims to find out different factors of Motorola’s mobile phone</p><p>which may hamper consumers’ interest and possibility of purchasing when Motorola</p><p>experience the declining sales of mobile phone in Chinese market.</p><p>Method: The researchers apply marketing mix to investigate the shortcoming of</p><p>Motorola’s handset to achieve the research purpose. The researchers choose</p><p>questionnaires and interviews to collect information from consumers in order to</p><p>gather information for this research.</p><p>Target Group: This paper might be useful for Motorola Company to find their</p><p>problems and some companies also produce cellphone avoid coming out similar</p><p>problems.</p><p>Conclusions: Based on our research Motorola’s handsets certainly have many</p><p>shortcomings in marketing mix that is product, price, place and promotion from</p><p>consumers’ point view</p><p>Recommendations: There are a lot of aspects for Motorola to improve from product,</p><p>price, place and promotion in the long run in order to recover its reputation in</p><p>consumers’ mind.</p><p>Key Words: Motorola handset, consumers’ point of view, shortcomings, China,</p><p>product, price, place, promotion</p>

This thesis analyses techniques employed by Jane Austen in Emma and Sense &amp / Sensibility to control the readers when they make judgements about characters and events.The thesis will argue that the point of view used in these two novels to present events and characters has great influence upon readers. In addition, the role of skilful use of irony by Austen, and witholding of information by characters and author in keeping readers alert will be analysed.

Date: 2008‐05‐26 Program: International Marketing Course: Master Thesis Authors: Qian Chen &amp; Lanjunzi Chen Title: What is wrong with Motorola? Problem: What are the shortcomings of its mobile phones of Motorola from consumers’ perspectives in Chinese market? Purpose: This study aims to find out different factors of Motorola’s mobile phone which may hamper consumers’ interest and possibility of purchasing when Motorola experience the declining sales of mobile phone in Chinese market. Method: The researchers apply marketing mix to investigate the shortcoming of Motorola’s handset to achieve the research purpose. The researchers choose questionnaires and interviews to collect information from consumers in order to gather information for this research. Target Group: This paper might be useful for Motorola Company to find their problems and some companies also produce cellphone avoid coming out similar problems. Conclusions: Based on our research Motorola’s handsets certainly have many shortcomings in marketing mix that is product, price, place and promotion from consumers’ point view Recommendations: There are a lot of aspects for Motorola to improve from product, price, place and promotion in the long run in order to recover its reputation in consumers’ mind. Key Words: Motorola handset, consumers’ point of view, shortcomings, China, product, price, place, promotion

This project examines Cather’s experimentation with conflicting voices of narrative authority in the presentation of four central female characters in The Professor’s House, using St. Peter and an entity termed the implied narrator as lenses through which we view other characters. The project is broken down into four chapters, each dealing one addressing the central issues involving that specific female character.

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In the last two decades, emotion has emerged as an important theme in discussions of design. However, there is no framework to date that encompasses both emotion and information design in a single theory. This dissertation was motivated by a lack of substantive theory that would allow design researchers and educators to model the relationships among information artifacts, audiences, and designers in specific contexts. This demand for work in this area also calls for a reconsideration of the current scholarship of information design by shifting its focus from objects to people, from technical rationality to value-laden human communication, from efficiency to holistic experience and effectiveness. Through examination of existing views about information design and the nature of information, this work advances the idea that information can be better conceptualized as a medium in which designers have the ability to influence situated and value-laden human actions, as well as a medium in which designers can be influenced by situated human actions. This conceptualization of information as twoway mediation between designer and audience allows us to reconsider information design as a meaningful social activity, of which designers are an integral part. This research consists of two parts. First, it proposes a framework called Modes of Wonder that allows designers to model an audience's emotional experience in relation to information artifacts. Through examination of four thematic variations of wonder (wonder, astonishment, amazement, and sublimity), Modes of Wonder provides a meta-language that is able to model one's emotional experience in relation to information artifacts. Furthermore, it may be used by designers in the planning process when solving a design problem, and by educators as a tool for critique. Second, this research presents a Point of View framework, which allows us to describe design strategies used for creating information artifacts. While Modes of Wonder, in Chapter 3, focuses on the relationship between information artifacts and audiences, the Point of View framework in Chapter 4 – which includes person, perspective, mode, and principle as the primary frames – illustrates the relationship between information artifacts and the designer who has created a specific response to a particular design problem. In order to demonstrate how these two frameworks can help us uncover plausible design strategies in a particular context of information ii design, I examine three cases of information artifacts that respond to specific design problems through use of the thematic variations of Point of View and Modes of Wonder as conceptual tools for analysis. This research makes the following contributions: it provides a theoretical framework that models the relationship among information artifacts, audiences, and designers in specific contexts. Specifically, Modes of Wonder allows design researchers and educators to articulate the relationships between information artifacts and audiences. In turn, the Point of View framework provides an approach for modeling design strategies that are often implicitly used by designers to create information artifacts aimed at producing a particular emotional effect for an audience.

This thesis explores the search for core meaning and authentic experience in the poetry of John Ashbery. Building from a close reading of A Worldly Country, it examines the way Ashbery's use of narrative fragments and shifting points of view establish poetry as an encounter with otherness that is dependent on accidents of meaning for its sense of authenticity. Comparisons with the poetry of Ashbery's most important precursor, W. H. Auden, reveal how the influence of German Romanticism emerges with different points of emphasis; Auden's richly ambiguous dualities eventually gave way to a more didactic poetry as he shifted his faith from art to religion, while Ashbery's poetry embodies the fragmented and inconclusive approach of the German poet Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), who developed, through his philosophical writings and the tales embedded in his novels, a double orientation toward the real and the ideal. Novalis confirmed the Märchen, or fairy tale, as a genre of primary importance whose capacity for imaginative excess invites accidental encounters with otherness. Analyses of fairy tales and fairy tale fragments in the work of these poets reveal how mysticism and play can inject into everyday moments feelings of self-transcendence that enable poetry to summon an authentic sense of being in the world. / Graduate