Cette thèse vise à préciser en quoi réside l'originalité de la bande dessinée (BD) humoristique Achille Talon (AT) par rapport au système du français (code linguistique) et aux conventions de la BD (code iconique). Afin de définir le style d'AT, elle en explore diverses manifestations de créativité (talonnismes). Avec de nombreux exemples, la thèse s'attache à nommer et à décrire les moyens et les signes les plus "parlants" qui ont servi au bédéiste (Greg). Au lieu d'un seul cadre d'analyse général qui masquerait l'ampleur et la diversité de l'oeuvre, plusieurs sont proposés selon la nature des éléments à l'étude. Portant sur ce qui fait la singularité d'AX au regard des systèmes linguistiques (chap. 2 à 6) ou extra-linguistiques (chap. 1 et 7), la thèse touche à plusieurs domaines: sémiotique visuelle, linguistique (phonétique, morphologie, lexicologie, syntaxe), stylistique et rhétorique ("figures de style"). Le repérage des signes "marqués" ou imprévisibles qui génèrent le comique ainsi que la reconnaissance de leur articulation en un système cohérent servent de fil conducteur. Une approche sémiologique permet une vue globale de l'oeuvre. On observe que Greg exploite de manière systématique (et paroxysmique, pourrait-on dire) les possibilités ludiques offertes par deux vastes systèmes de communication ou langages (texte et image de BD) qui s'interpénètrent pour transcoder la langue "parlée" par ses personnages. L'auteur réalise ainsi une combinatoire insolite des signes qu'il choisit tant dans l'inventaire de la BD (idéogrammes, ballon, etc.) que dans celui de la langue (depuis ses plus petites unités, phonèmes et graphèmes, jusqu'aux unités phraséologiques et au discours). Les nombreux procédés constituent de véritables sous-systèmes, qui à leur tour forment un style véritablement propre à AT. Source inépuisable de comique, AT. va toutefois au-delà du divertissement; cette oeuvre, qui stimule notre conscience linguistique et fait appel au savoir partagé, nous entraîne à une réflexion sur le langage; elle constitue aussi un mode privilégié d'introduction à la linguistique. La thèse met en évidence la maîtrise de Greg sur le matériau, tant linguistique q u 'iconique, et sur ses règles d'assemblage; elle tente de présenter une vue d'ensemble cohérente qui puisse servir aux férus de BD et de linguistique. / Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2017

Worldwide, the risks from natural and technological hazards has been mounting at an accelerating rate, improvements in forecasting and warning systems have reduced deaths, however monetary losses from disasters are overwhelming (Burby, 2004). Pre event planning for recovery helps to resolve issues before a disaster so recovery is more efficient and effective. It also ensures that the window of opportunity can be used to implement hazard mitigation measures to reduce the vulnerability of the area with the aim of improving resilience for the next disaster. International case studies were examined, the Northridge earthquake being the most successful recovery while Hurricane Katrina the least. The recovery of the Napier 1931 earthquake was chosen as a New Zealand case study; to date this is the country's worst disaster. Overall the recovery of Napier was a success, shops were opened in temporary premises to keep the economy going and mitigation measures were included in the rebuilding. The earthquake has had important flow on effects on the way that disasters are managed in New Zealand. To create pre event plans in New Zealand legislation needs to be modified, including recovery plans and development of shortcuts to reduce some procedures which lengthen the recovery process. These plans need to take into account our national vulnerability as well as regional vulnerabilities.

This thesis deals with the problems of genre and narrative techniques in two novels by the Swedish author Hjalmar Bergman, 1883-1931. Although regarded as one of the foremost novelists in Swedish literature, with novels such as Markurells i Wadköping, 1919, and Farmor och vår Herre, 1921, Bergman's narrative techniques have not previously been systematically analyzed. Instead critics have focussed either on the biographical and philosophical aspects of his work, or on the meaning of his specific use of symbols and metaphorical language. Hjalmar Bergman wrote more than twenty novels, a large number of plays, short stories, fairy tales and screenplays. His most innovative period was in the 1910s, which is also the period focussed on here. The study begins with the reception of the seven novels written from 1912 to 1918. These novels were considerably different from what the critics at the time were wont to expect. Consequently they had trouble understanding not only the purpose of the narrative techniques in the novels, but also in determining their specific genre and subject matter. The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that by analyzing Hjalmar Bergman's narrative techniques, we can learn more about the genre of the novel, about its status in the Swedish literary institution of the 1910s, and about Hjalmar Bergman's contribution to its development in Sweden. For this purpose the methods of the Russian theorist of the novel, Mikhail Bakhtin, have proved to be useful. In the succeeding chapters two novels, Loewenhistorier, 1913 (Loewen Stories) and En döds memoarer, 1918 (The Memoirs of a Dead Man), are analyzed for a deeper understanding of Hjalmar Bergman's specific use of novelistic subgenres such as the adventure story, the picaresque, the Bildungsroman, the confession, the memoir etc. Hjalmar Bergmanhas been considered a 'pre-modernist' in Swedish prose fiction. If this is the case, it is not primarily because hetried to invent new ways of writing novels, but rather that he made use of seemingly well-defined genres, combining them in new and often surprising ways. He thereby investigates not only a subject matter or a protagonist, but also the relevance, with regard to the stories hesets out to tell, of the genre-bound plots and perspectives. The result is novels that are simultaneously highly structured and 'law-abiding', in accordance with their genre patterns, and characterized by a certain open-ended 'brokenness'. Nothing ever turns out as the reader might expect, judging from the genres used in the novels. / digitalisering@umu

The purpose of this study was threefold in nature. The first purpose was to study the life and educational background of Frederick Gordon Bonser in order to gain an understanding of the man and his educational purposes and objectives. A second purpose was to gain an insight into Bonser's philosophy of education; and the third purpose was to examine the available writings of Bonser in an attempt to analyze his philosophy of industrial arts as a phase of general education.

Shelby Hearon's eight novels--Armadillo in the Grass, The Second Dune, Hannah's House, Now and Another Time, A Prince of a Fellow, Painted Dresses, Afternoon of a Faun, and Group Therapy- -are unified by the theme of the fairy-tale princess and her quest to assert her autonomy and gain self-fulfillment while struggling with marriage, family, and the mother-daughter relationship. This study traces the development of Hearon' s feminist convictions in each of her novels by focusing on the changing quests of her heroines. This analysis of Hearon's novels attests to their lasting literary significance.

Memoria (licenciado en ciencias jurídicas y sociales) / No autorizado por el autor para ser publicada a texto completo en portal tesis electrónicas de la Universidad de Chile / Esta compilación de ensayos reúne la mayoría de mis escritos sobre derecho y teoría contractual que han sido publicados en revistas académicas a lo largo de un período de casi 20 años. Reunir estas piezas me ha permitido ver muchas relaciones que antes se me habían escapado e incluso si hoy tengo menos seguridad de algunas de las respuestas que antes, tengo (creo) mayores certezas acerca de la naturaleza de algunas de las preguntas fundamentales. Todos los ensayos han sido actualizados y revisados, algunos muy sustancialmente, y existen varias secciones completamente nuevas.

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Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-05-19T11:59:12Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Douglas Aparecido Bueno.pdf: 1459681 bytes, checksum: 0e3879644ba3b9b628d1ff856626c91c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-19T11:59:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Douglas Aparecido Bueno.pdf: 1459681 bytes, checksum: 0e3879644ba3b9b628d1ff856626c91c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The thesis deals with the spectacle of Guy Debord theory under the aegis of its artistic, political and philosophical influences, putting in relief their main contributions to the analysis and overcoming of the spectacle. The spectacle, to Debord, is a relationship alienated for social and historical construction, which overcomes the media criticism, as is commonly assumed. The thesis reveals that the theory of the spectacle, in its origin, is a philosophical reflection on the story time, and in the light of hermeneutics interprets own theory on that basis. Analyze the theory of the spectacle, from the standpoint of time and story ideas, it offers a way to resolve the hegelian marxism of Guy Debord. The hegelian marxism Debord connects, in theory, its theoretical and philosophical interests in the concepts of strategy, chance and play, from the existential principles and based on these issues, investigates and theorizes the practice, political action in time and social history as a means to overcome the spectacle, or give you a new phase. Furthermore, to the extent that delimits the theory of this epistemological framework, it is apparent deficiencies. The theory of the spectacle is based on the unified separation of the actions of the subject (historical and social) and social interpretation under the same heading, which in turn replaces the Marxian analysis of capital as an antagonistic social relationship rather than the abstract opposition between homogenized and alienated consciousness of history and the world. Although this aspect apparently theoretical problem is, the notions of subjectivity, time and history significant role for social analysis. Putting in relief the Guy Debord’s position that all social action and every theory must be considered as strategic interventions, and that every theory must be an invitation to overcome them, the thesis takes up the hegelian marxism Debord to suggest spectacle that the theory is a sui generis moment within a historical action design. This means that all Debord’s theory provides a collective political will model and suggests a reflection on the possibility of this hermeneutic be developed / A tese analisa a teoria do espetáculo de Guy Debord sob a égide de suas influências filosóficas, colocando em relevo as suas principais contribuições para a análise e superação do espetáculo. O espetáculo, para Debord, é uma relação alienada para a construção social e histórica, que sobrepuja a crítica da mídia, tal como é comumente assumido. A tese revela que a teoria do espetáculo, em sua origem, é uma reflexão filosófica sobre o tempo da história, e à luz dessa hermenêutica, interpreta a própria teoria nessa base. Analisar a teoria do espetáculo, sob o foco das ideias de tempo e história, oferece um caminho para se estudar o marxismo hegeliano de Guy Debord. O marxismo hegeliano de Debord se conecta, na tese, aos seus interesses teórico-filosoficos nos conceitos de estratégia e jogo, a partir dos princípios existênciais e com fundamento nestes temas, investiga e teoriza a práxis, a ação política no tempo e na história social como meios para se superar o espetáculo. Por outro lado, na medida em que se delimita a teoria sobre esse recorte epistemológico, ficam aparentes suas deficiências. A teoria do espetáculo está baseada na separação unificada das ações do sujeito histórico-social e na interpretação social sob a mesma rubrica, que por sua vez, substitui a análise marxiana do capital como uma relação social antagonica, em detrimento da oposição abstrata entre a consciência homogeneizada e alienada da história e do mundo. Muito embora essa vertente teorica, aparentemente, seja problemática, as noções de subjetividade, tempo e história assumem papel relevante para a análise social. Colocando em relevo as posições de Guy Debord de que toda ação social, bem como toda teoria devem ser analisadas como intervenções estratégicas, além de que toda teoria deve ser um convite à sua superação, a tese reveste-se do marxismo hegeliano de Debord para sugerir que a teoria do espetáculo é um momento sui generis dentro de uma concepção de ação histórica. Isso quer dizer que toda a teoria de Debord proporciona um modelo de vontade política coletiva, e sugere uma reflexão sobre a possibilidade dessa hermenêutica ser desenvolvida

Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a construção da identidade nacional a partir da obra de Graça Aranha no período de 1921 a 1931. No ano de 1921, Aranha se estabeleceu no Brasil depois de realizar alguns trabalhos na Europa, participando dos debates no âmbito artístico e literário nacional. Nesse período publicou livros, conferências, ensaios e artigos defendendo sua visão do que constituiria a identidade nacional. Para delimitar essas características, o autor propõe inserir o Brasil na modernidade. Aranha elaborou uma definição para o significado de moderno, estudado nesta pesquisa em relação às ideias divulgadas a partir de 1870 e a delimitação entre o antigo e o moderno. A nacionalidade era buscada para definir a singularidade do Brasil e, a partir dessa, poder inserir-se em uma ordem universal. Assim, na década de 1920, formou-se um debate sobre o que significava ser moderno. Alguns pensadores propunham diferentes noções de modernidade, ocorrendo uma disputa também em torno desse termo. As fontes principais desta pesquisa são os textos escritos por Aranha, mais especificamente o conjunto de ensaios A Estética da Vida (1921), um estudo das correspondências entre Machado de Assis e Joaquim Nabuco (1923), o conjunto de conferências e ensaios Espírito Moderno (1924) e a autobiografia Meu próprio romance (1931). Entendendo que a identidade nacional não é uma essência, mas um discurso através do qual se representa essa nação, discurso que inclui, exclui e estabelece práticas sociais, será utilizado o conceito de representação1 como abordado por Chartier (1990) e Bourdieu (1989). As disputas que surgem em torno dessas delimitações serão trabalhadas a partir do viés das lutas de representações. / This work aims to analyze the construction of national identity in the work of Graça Aranha between the period of 1921 to 1931. In the year 1921 Aranha is established in Brazil after performing some work in Europe, participating in debates in the national, artistic and literary sphere. In this period he published books, lectures, essays and articles defending his vision of what constitutes the national identity. To define these characteristics he proposes to insert Brazil in modernity. Aranha elaborated a definition for the meaning of modern, studied in this research in relation to the ideas spread from 1870 and the delimitation between the old and the modern. The nationality was sought to define the uniqueness of Brazil and, from this singularity, it could be inserted into a universal order. Thus, it formed a debate about what it meant to be modern. Some thinkers proposed different notions of modernity, occurring a dispute also around this term. The main texts analyzed will be the entirety of essays A estética da vida (1921), a study of correspondences between Machado de Assis e Joaquim Nabuco (1923), the set of essays and lectures Espírito moderno (1924), and the autobiography Meu próprio romance (1931). Understanding that national identity is not an essence, but a discourse through which represents this nation, a discourse that includes, excludes and establishes social practices, we will use the concept of representation as defined by Chartier (1990) and Bourdieu (1989). Disputes that arise around these boundaries will be studied from the concept of struggle of representations.