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11	A história da origem da curva normal Caire, Elaine [UNESP] 19 September 2012 (has links) (PDF) Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-09-19Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:31:57Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 caire_e_me_rcla.pdf: 1389119 bytes, checksum: ea2e9b574c106bff7f9cf806fe23534b (MD5) / Esta investigação tem como objetivo a história da origem da curva normal identificando a contribuição de Abraham de Moivre na dedução da fórmula para a função densidade de distribuição normal. Serão analisados trechos de obras originais de Abraham de Moivre, Jacob Bernoulli, James Stirling / This research aims at the history of the origin of the normal curve identifying the contribution of Abraham de Moivre in deducing the formula for the density function of normal distribution. Parts of original works of Abraham de Moivre, Jacob Bernoulli, James Stirling will be analysed Mathematics - History Matemática - História Curvas Distribuição binomial Moivre, Abraham de, 1667-1754 Bernoulli, Jakob, 1654-1705 Stirling, James, 1692-1770
12	An Annotated Bibliography of Lee, Otway, and Rowe, 1900-1974 Sherman, Margaret Christina 12 1900 (has links) To provide an annotated bibliography of criticism on the writings of Nathaniel Lee, Thomas Otway and Nicholas Rowe from 1900 to 1974 for students and scholars is the purpose of this study. The bibliography contains brief evaluations of each of the works, which are divided into the following categories: articles, books and chapters in books, and dissertations. An additional chapter includes those works which deal with two or more of the authors. The appendix contains a selected list of foreign language publications that concern the three playwrights. Bibliographies Annotated bibliographies literary criticism Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692 Otway, Thomas, 1652-1685 Rowe, Nicholas, 1674-1718
13	American identity at a crossroads : Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World Evans, Laura A. (Laura Ann) 09 May 2012 (has links) Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World (1692) has traditionally been dismissed as a failed missive attempting to defend the controversial Salem Witch Trials. What is missing from this characterization is an analysis of the degree to which the text, written at a moment of crisis in Puritan culture, actually looks forward to the emergence of a democratic polity. By tracing the topical disarray and the instability of audience that Wonders presents, the beginnings of this shift--which culminate in the American Revolution eighty years later--becomes apparent. Wonders demonstrates the quiet emerging of a distinct American mindset amidst social and political upheaval in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Although Cotton Mather's book did fail to unite his community in 1692, the flexible metaphors he borrowed, shaped, and refined in Wonders helped to define the nation of America. / Graduation date: 2012 Cotton Mather Wonders of the Invisible World exceptionalism 1692 colonial America Puritan American identity
14	John Neal, une écriture-frontière / John Neal's Frontier-Writing Liagre, Sebastien 04 December 2015 (has links) Cette thèse se propose d’étudier comment, à travers sa singulière écriture, John Neal, prenant son contemporain James Fenimore Cooper pour anti-modèle, ambitionne de réformer la littérature américaine, afin de satisfaire au besoin naissant d’indépendance et de renouveau national. Dans une certaine tradition américaine, la frontière est moins une limite territoriale qu’un seuil dynamique, un locus americanus, lieu de tous les possibles. Et c’est bien en ce sens que le romancier du Maine, homme des transgressions, homme de l’entre-deux, écrit «à la frontière» : entre littérature et engagement, entre la scène et la chaire, le masculin et le féminin, l’Indien et le Blanc, sa prose hésite, souvent. Il conviendra en somme d’analyser au plus près cette fabrique alternative de littérarité qu’est l’écriture nealienne, dans l’incertitude des commencements, lorsque l’expression du «génie national» prétend s’instaurer en critère de jugement et faire table rase des modèles d’importation. / This thesis explores how, through his singular writing style, John Neal, using fellow-writer James Fenimore Cooper as an anti-model, sets out to pioneer a thorough reformation of the so-called American literature, in an attempt to satisfy the ever-increasing need for independence and national renewal. In a certain American tradition, the frontier is less a territorial boundary than a « dynamic threshold », a locus americanus where wishful thinking comes true. Thus it is that this transgressive Maine author, a man of the neutral ground, or, rather, of the middle ground, writes «at the frontier»: between literature and committed literature, between the stage and the pulpit, the masculine and the feminine, or the Indian and the white man, his prose often wavers. Hence, our focus will be on the alternative literary vision for « the great Republic of Letters », encapsulated within Neal’s own writing, shaped as it was by the uncertainties of a nation in the making. Those were the days when «national genius» had an edge on European models. Those were John Neal’s days. Read more John Neal Frontière Etats-Unis Littérature américaine XIXe siècle 1776 1692 Salem Sorcière Yankee Brother Jonathan Rachel Dyer Révolution Indépendance Bible Mensonge Nature Indien Rêveur Utilitarisme Cheveux John Neal Frontier United States American literature Nineteenth century 1776 1692 Salem Witch Yankee Brother Jonathan Rachel Dyer Independence Bible Lie Nature Indian Dreamer Utilitarianism Hair
15	Structure and technique of the variation genre in selected violin sonatas of Corelli, Locatelli and Tartini Kwon, Yongsun, 1974- 10 August 2011 (has links) Not available Variations--History and criticism
16	Structure and technique of the variation genre in selected violin sonatas of Corelli, Locatelli and Tartini Kwon, Yongsun 28 August 2008 (has links) Not available / text Variations--History and criticism
17	Nation and church: a synthesis in the fight of the Romanian Bishop Inocențiu Micu McCormick, Timothy Thomas, 1948- January 1977 (has links) No description available. Church and state -- Romania. Transylvania (Romania) -- History. Romania -- History -- 1711-1821. Romania -- Foreign relations -- Austria. Austria -- Foreign relations -- Romania.
18	Libertines Real and Fictional in Rochester, Shadwell, Wycherley, and Boswell Smith, Victoria 05 1900 (has links) Libertines Real and Fictional in Rochester, Shadwell, Wycherley, and Boswell examines the Restoration and eighteenth-century libertine figure as it appears in John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester's Satyr against Mankind, "The Maim'd Debauchee," and "Upon His Drinking a Bowl," Thomas Shadwell's The Libertine, William Wycherley's The Country Wife, and James Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763. I argue that the limitations and self-contradictions of standard definitions of libertinism and the ways in which libertine protagonists and libertinism in general function as critiques of libertinism. Moreover, libertine protagonists and poetic personae reinterpret libertinism to accommodate their personal agendas and in doing so, satirize the idea of libertinism itself and identify the problematization of "libertinism" as a category of gender and social identity. That is, these libertines misinterpret-often deliberately-Hobbes to justify their opposition and refusal to obey social institutions-e.g., eventually marrying and engaging in a monogamous relationship with one's wife-as well as their endorsement of obedience to nature or sense, which can include embracing a libertine lifestyle in which one engages in sexual encounters with multiple partners, refuses marriage, and questions the existence of God or at least distrusts any sort of organized religion. Since any attempts to define the word "libertinism"-or at least any attempts to provide a standard definition of the word-are tenuous at best, it is equally tenuous to suggest that any libertines conform to conventional or standard libertinism. In fact, the literary and "real life" libertines in this study not only fail to conform to such definitions of libertinism, but also reinterpret libertinism. While all these libertines do possess similar characteristics-namely affluence, insatiable sexual appetites, and a rebellion against institutional authorities (the Church, reason, government, family, and marriage)-they often misinterpret libertinism, reason, and Hobbesian philosophy. Furthermore, they all choose different, unique ways to oppose patriarchal, social authorities. These aberrant ways of rebelling against social institutions and their redefinitions of libertinism, I argue, make them self-satirists and self-conscious critics of libertinism as a concept. Read more libertinism Libertine Hobbes Rochester Shadwell Wycherley Boswell Libertines in literature. Shadwell, Thomas, 1642?-1692. Libertine.
19	Samuel Parris: minister at Salem Village Baker, Melinda Marie January 2013 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In mid-January of 1691/2 two young girls in the household of Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village, Massachusetts, began exhibiting strange behavior. "It began in obscurity, with cautious experiments in fortune telling. Books on the subject had 'stolen' into the land; and all over New England, late in 1691, young people were being 'led away with little sorceries.'" The young girls of Salem Village had devised their own creation of a crystal ball using "the white of an egg suspended in a glass" and "in the glass there floated 'a specter in the likeness of a coffin.'" Samuel Parris Salem Witch Trials Salem Village 1692 Parris, Samuel, 1653-1720 -- Biography Parris, Samuel, 1653-1720 -- Sermons Salem (Mass.) -- Church history Salem (Mass.) -- Social conditions Puritans -- New England
20	Remarks and Reflections on French Recitative: Ban Inquiry into Performance Practice Based on the Observations of Bénigne de Bacilly, Jean-Léonor de Grimarest, and Jean-Baptiste Dubos Reid, Michael A. (Michael Alan) 08 1900 (has links) This study concerns the declaimed performance of recitative in early French opera. Because the dramatic use of the voice was crucial to the opera genre, this investigation begins with a survey of historical definitions of declamation. Once the topic has been described, the thesis proceeds to thoroughly study three treatises dealing with sung recitation: Bacilly's Remarques curieuses, Grimarest's Traité de recitatif, and Dubos' Reflexions critiques. Principles from these sources are then applied to representative scenes from the literature. The paper closes with a commentary on the relationship between spoken and sung delivery and on the development of different declamatory styles. Jean Baptiste Dubos opera performance practice singing Singing.

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