Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / In 1843, an African-American woman known as Kitty Payne and her three children arrived in Adams County, Pennsylvania, newly manumitted by their mistress, Mary Maddox of Virginia. Two years later, in July of 1845, a gang of men burst into the Paynes’ home and kidnapped the family, dragging them back south to slavery. The story of Kitty Payne and her children echoed and replayed itself thousands of times in the years before the end of the Civil War. Between 1620 and 1860, a race-based system of slavery developed in America. Not all persons of African descent came to America as slaves, however, and slaves sometimes obtained freedom through manumission or escape. This created opportunities for corrupt individuals to kidnap free black Americans and sell them as slaves, regardless of their previous status. The abduction of free blacks into slavery is an extremely significant and far-reaching part of the antebellum African-American experience that many historians have previously overlooked.

The Book of Mormon, having long been a work of great interest to me, became a natural area of study for my Master's program. I was directed by Roy W. Doxey and Paul R. Chessman who brought to my attention several areas of the Book of Mormon which needed to be investigated for clarification and deeper understanding. The area which was settled on centered around a book which was written seven years prior to the publishing of the Book of Mormon. The controversy which surrounds the View of the Hebrews by Ethan Smith is similar to the "Spalding Manuscript" controversy which for many years plagued believers of the Book of Mormon. Similar in the sense that some are now claiming that Joseph Smith plagerized Ethan Smith when writing the Book of Mormon, this problem is different in that the Solomon Spalding controversy raged only while his manuscript was unavailable while the Ethan Smith controvery is warming as more people become aware of View of Hebrews.

Both of the Chopin concertos are the earliest of his works to be found in the ordinary piano repertoire, and they possess the direct influences and inherited traits of the composer. Since he did no more orchestral work after completing these two works, it is evident that he thought only in terms of pianistic expression. Probably one of the reasons for Chopin's ineffectiveness as an orchestral writer is due to his inability to conform to the classical form: sonata allegro. The e minor concerto is representative of his treatment of the larger forms. Analyzing the elements of an early work of the composer reveals the degree of maturity in individual traits. Elements of basic chord structure and use of harmony, melodic characteristics, and pianistic expression mark the style of a composer. This concerto demonstrates the beginning of chromatic harmony in his time and in his own writing; it contains melodic beauty and pianistic features which make it acceptable in standard concerto repertoire in spite of its many defects.

This dissertation unites two contrasting phenomena, musical theorizing as practiced on YouTube and dreamlike experiences involving music, under a single rubric: virtual space. While the two phenomena are disconnected in time, geography, and culture, they are nonetheless similar in that they are spatialized in ways that contravene how we typically experience physical space, So, I develop the concept of virtual space as a means of approaching the commonalities underlying these phenomena. Building on a definition of space as a medium in which entities are positionally related, I propose a framework for analyzing virtual spaces that emphasizes a phenomenon’s subjective immersivity and objective relationality. In order to bring out the human dimension of these virtual spaces, I concentrate on the discursive, instrumental, experiential, and generative aspects of embodied virtual spaces that are entangled in social, cultural, and political networks. To that end, in the first half of the dissertation, I discuss how a community of YouTube content creators has carved out a place for practicing, teaching, and learning music theory. I detail YouTube’s affordances as a space for theorizing music and a medium of communication, showing how content creators have leveraged these to great effect in their theorizing of game music. Flitting between the general and the particular, I balance case studies of content creators and close readings of audiovisual content with sociological approaches. In spite of the platform’s self-image and the community’s political positioning, I contend that YouTube’s egalitarian promise has been left unfulfilled in the English-language, Western-centric field of YouTube music theory, which replicates or even exacerbates some of the epistemological issues and unjust social structures that pervade academia and Western society more broadly. The other half of the dissertation concerns the analytical interpretation and precise differentiation of dreamlike experiences centered on music. I demonstrate that much of the discourse on this topic comes from close readings of music as dream. As this perspective locates dreaming in an object, I argue for counterbalancing this discourse towards a dreaming subject, and thus I propose a framework with three interrelated components. First, I carefully distinguish dreaming, as a virtual and spatialized experience, from standard waking consciousness through recourse to neuroscience and phenomenology. After that, I set forth a tripartite scheme that articulates the many permutations of how we might position ourselves, other subjects, and music in this non-dreamer–dreamer dynamic. Last, I classify the various interactions between music, dreamlike experience, and analytical interpretation. Using the music of Fryderyk Chopin as my example, I show that, though this music has accrued much historical and cultural meaning through being read as dreamlike, we have much to gain from the analytical insights unique to our subjective, dreamlike experiences with this music.

It is the purpose of this paper to try to show the various methods used by Poe for securing a single unified effect in each of his stories. To facilitate the work, I shall divide his short stories into four groups: stories of effect, stories or ratiocination, stories of pseudo-science, and stories of satire and humor. It is inevitable that the chapters overlap in many instances because some methods are used in more than one type of story. Often a story may be placed in more than one group, since the divisions are so broad. Notwithstanding these difficulties, it is possible to find many methods used by Poe to develop the narrative style, so peculiarly his own, by which he seldom failed to produce a compelling story.

The preludes as a whole do not conform to any specific formal mold, but offer a variety of form: binary, ternary, one-part, and five-part. As such, no new formal structures have been introduced by this "first" of the nineteenth century and twentieth century "disconnected" preludes. On the other hand, they are a heterogenous collection of styles, moods, and forms--a precedent that was followed by Debussy, Rachmoninoff, and various others. To determine the degree to which Chopin was harmonically advanced would require comparative analyses of works by his contemporaries and later nineteenth-century composers. Suffice it to say that one would be hard put to locate a collection of compositions of similar length and scope, written in the 1820's, that contains the wealth of harmonic innovations found within Opus 28.

My dissertation examines the roles of Emily and Anne Brontë as nineteenth-century women poets, composing in a literary form dominated by androcentric language and metaphor. The work of Mikhail Bakhtin, particularly concerning spoken and implied dialogue, and feminists who have pioneered an exploration of feminist dialogics provide crucial tools for examining the importance and uses of the dialogic form in the development of a powerful and creative feminine voice. As such, I propose to view Emily's Gondal poetry not as a series of loosely connected monologues, but as utterances in an inner dialogue between the dissenting and insistent female voice and the authoritative voice of the non-Gondal world. Emily's identification with her primary heroine, Augusta, enables her to challenge the controlling voice of the of the patriarchy that attempts to dictate and limit her creative and personal expression. The voice of Augusta in particular expresses the guilt, shame, and remorse that the woman-as-author must also experience when attempting to do battle with the patriarchy that attempts to restrict and reshape her utterances. While Anne was a part of the creation of Gondal, using it to mask her emotions through sustained dialogue with those who enabled and inspired such feelings, her interest in the mythical kingdom soon waned. However, it is in the dungeons and prisons of Gondal and within these early poems that Anne's distinct voice emerges and enters into a dialogue with her readers, her sister, and herself. The interior dialogues that her heroines engage in become explorations of the choices that Anne feels she must make as a woman within both society and the boundaries of her religious convictions. Through dialogue with the church, congregation, and religious doctrine, she attempts to relieve herself of the guilt of female creativity and justify herself and her creations through religious orthodoxy. Yet her seeming obedience belies the power of her voice that insists on being heard, even within the confines of androcentric social and religious power structures.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:34:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fabio.pdf: 801279 bytes, checksum: 3ae3c2a197e4c7797d01292372bda60f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-07-27 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This research focuses on Rui Barbosa´s participation in the educational debates during the last years of the Second Brazilian Empire (1840-1889), according to his counsels presented in 1882 about the public instruction reform established by Leôncio de Carvalho through the decree 7.247, from April 19, 1879. Although these counsels are related to all levels of education, this research analyses only the proposal to the secondary and professioal (technical, as it was called) levels. Having in mind some aspects of the current literature about the counsels and the propositions that guide the project Internacionalização Nacionalização de padrões pedagógicos e escolares do ensino secundário e profissional (Internationalization / Nationalization of scholar and pedagogical standards of the secondary and professional levels), this study intends to retake Rui Barbosa´s contribution to the configuration debate of the professional and secondary education under some aspects that have not been considered in the academic production that they were referred to. The main hypothesis goes against the idea that the counsels are a species of a pedagogical treaty , a copy of foreign ideas, without connection to the national reality. On the other hand they were presented as an illustrative text of the author´s idea of belonging to a certain political group, that was on a power dispute ahead of others, to talk and legislate about the public education in Brazil. Finally, it was noticed that the reform proposed by Rui Barbosa aimed at turning Pedro II school into a space of utilitary education for a society in a growing process of modernization. / Na presente pesquisa estuda-se a participação de Rui Barbosa nos debates educacionais nos últimos anos do Segundo Império brasileiro (1840-1889), mediante a análise dos pareceres que ele apresentou em 1882 sobre a reforma da instrução pública implantada por Leôncio de Carvalho através do Decreto 7.247, de 19 de abril de 1879. Embora os pareceres tratem de todos os níveis de ensino, esta pesquisa teve por objetivo analisar tão só a proposta para os ensinos secundário e profissional ou técnico, como chamado à época. Tendo-se em vista os aspectos da literatura corrente acerca dos pareceres e as proposições que norteiam o projeto Internacionalização-Nacionalização de padrões pedagógicos e escolares do ensino secundário e profissional, este estudo pretende retomar a contribuição de Rui Barbosa ao debate da conformação do ensino secundário e do profissional sob aspectos que não têm sido considerados na produção acadêmica que a eles fazem referência. A hipótese central aqui trabalhada investe contra a idéia de que os pareceres configurem uma espécie de tratado pedagógico, cópia de idéias estrangeiras, sem nexos com a realidade nacional. Diferentemente, buscou-se apresentá-los como um texto ilustrativo do pertencimento do autor a um determinado agrupamento político, que disputava frente a outros o poder de falar e legislar sobre a instrução pública no país. Ao final, percebeu-se que a reforma proposta por Rui Barbosa visava tornar o Colégio de Pedro II um espaço de formação utilitária para uma sociedade em crescente processo de modernização.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-05-12T13:15:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Cibele Pereira Agibert.pdf: 1679691 bytes, checksum: 58ba05c0ad24187b3939012c3d0ddedb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-12T13:15:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cibele Pereira Agibert.pdf: 1679691 bytes, checksum: 58ba05c0ad24187b3939012c3d0ddedb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Fundação São Paulo - FUNDASP / This thesis deals with an analysis of tales “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” (1845), “Mesmeric Revelation,” (1844) and “A Tale of the Ragged Mountains” (1844) written by Edgar Allan Poe ( 1809-1849), mainly some related to the mesmerism between 18th and 19th centuries. This thesis contains of an introduction and three chapters. Chapter 1 presents Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) and a therapeutic procedures on mesmerism as well as passes, magnets, wands, baquet, magnetized water, and magnetization of animals, trees, objects are used for treatment of diseases. As well as, the followers of Mesmer, as, A.M.J.C.Puységur (1751-1825), J.P.F.Deleuze (1755-1835), Du Potet (1796-1881). Chapter 2 is based on mesmerism, and trance, induced somnambulism, as methods and experiments adopted by magnetists Charles Poyen (?-1844), John Elliotson (1791-1868), James Esdaile (1808-1859), Robert H. Collyer (1814-1891) that used these resources for surgical procedures, mesmeric analgesia. Chapter 3 presents the author Edgar Allan Poe through of mesmeric tales, in view of dialogues of characters Valdemar and Vankirk have suffered from tuberculosis, and Bedloe is subject to severe bouts of neuralgia, and submitted to mesmeric sleep, by physicians Dr. Templeton Dr. P., Dr. D. e Dr. F. e M. P, e Mr. Theodore L., to meet these practices. Likewise, there were authors have used this therapeutic as, Dumas, Balzac, Victor Hugo, Thomas de Quincey, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in the sense, scholars such as, Harriet Martineau, Chauncy Hare Townshend. Therefore, final remarks on the mesmeric tales related to the medicine. These short stories display a focus of scientific subjects, as mesmerism, diseases, somnambulism, and passes / Esta tese analisa os contos “O Caso do Sr. Valdemar” (1845), “Revelação Mesmeriana” (1844), e “Uma Estória das Montanhas Ragged” (1844) de Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), abordando aspectos do mesmerismo entre os séculos XVIII e XIX. Esta tese é constituída de uma introdução e mais três capítulos. O Capítulo 1 apresenta um contexto acerca da terapêutica do mesmerismo por Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), as técnicas utilizadas, como passes magnetos, varinhas, baquet, água magnetizada para o tratamento de doenças, e a magnetização de animais, árvores e objetos. E os seguidores da sua doutrina, como, A.M.J.C.Puységur (1751-1825), J.P.F.Deleuze (1755-1835), Du Potet (1796-1881). O Capítulo 2 está embasado nos desdobramentos do mesmerismo em função do sonambulismo induzido, analgeisa mesmérica, sendo adotados por alguns magnetizadores da época, como Charles Poyen (?-1844), John Elliotson (1791-1868), James Esdaile (1808-1859), Robert H. Collyer (1814-1891) que empregavam esses recursos para intervenções cirúrgicas. O Capítulo 3 apresenta o autor, Edgar Allan Poe, por meio dos contos mesméricos, tendo em vista os relatos dos personagens Valdemar, Vankirk, que padeciam de tuberculose, e Bedloe, que sofria de nevralgia, sendo submetidos ao estado de transe pelos médicos Templeton, Dr. P., Dr. D., Dr. F., M. P. e Theodore L., que vão ao encontro dessas práticas. Além disso, algumas pessoas influentes que fizeram uso dessa terapêutica, no caso, Dumas, Balzac, Victor Hugo, Thomas de Quincey, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Harriet Martineau, e Chauncy Hare Townshend. Finalmente, as considerações finais acerca do mesmerismo, e dos contos mesméricos que abordam em face da medicina, as doenças, o sonambulismo, e os passes

O presente trabalho se propõe a estudar as ideias de Rui Barbosa acerca da anistia, em quatro oportunidades onde a medida foi decretada durante o período da Primeira República (1892, 1895, 1905 e 1910), a partir de sua argumentação jurídica e política produzida em cada um destes contextos. Buscaremos, em nossa análise, compreender as especificidades do pensamento do senador e advogado baiano acerca deste tema nos momentos abordados e, a partir disso, identificar se seu pensamento e suas posições acerca desta medida são coerentes ou se oscilam de acordo com as circunstâncias de cada contexto. Para atingir este objetivo, abordaremos outras questões adjacentes tais como os diferentes projetos políticos e modelos de República que estavam em disputa no período, como se sucedeu o processo de decretação das quatro anistias e quais suas especificidades, e como se deu a ação política e/ou jurídica de Rui Barbosa no contexto de decretação das quatro anistias, levando em conta os diferentes momentos de sua biografia e as mudanças conjunturais em cada acontecimento. Nosso referencial teórico tem como eixo principal as contribuições do autor inglês Quentin Skinner e seu método contextualista de abordagem da história das ideias, assim como os pressupostos da história conceitual de Reinhart Koselleck. / The present work proposes to study Rui Barbosa's ideas about amnesty, in four opportunities where the measure was decreed during the period of the First Republic (1892, 1895, 1905 and 1910), based on his legal and political argumentation produced in each context. In our analysis, we will try to understand the specificities of what the senator and lawyer from Bahia thouhgt about this theme in the moments approached and, from this, to identify if his thought has a coherence and cohesion or oscillates according to the circumstances of each context. In order to achieve this objective, we will approach other adjacent issues such as the different political projects and models of the Republic that were in dispute, how was the process of decree of the four amnesties and what their specificities, and how the political and/or legal action of Rui Barbosa took place in the context of the decree of the four amnesties, taking into account the different moments of his biography and the conjunctural changes in each event. Our main theoretical reference is the contributions of the English author Quentin Skinner and his contextualist approach to the history of ideas, as well as the assumptions of the conceptual history of Reinhart Koselleck.