Thèse : Filos. : Stockholm : 1993. / Bibliogr. p. 223-232.

Memoria (licenciado en ciencias jurídicas y sociales) / No autorizada por el autor para ser publicada a texto completo / Sentencias emanadas de la Corte Suprema, Cortes de Apelaciones y Tribunales Especiales comprendidas en la Revista de Derecho y Jurisprudencia, Tomo XCIII, Números 1, 2 y 3, año 1996

This thesis is a study of the growth and development of an important contemporary Canadian poet, Dorothy Livesay. I attempt to show that common to her personal, lyrical poems and her social documentaries is a democratic and humanist sensibility. Her purpose as a writer is to communicate with Canadians her responses to contemporary life as she experiences and feels it. Her perspective is that of a sensitive and critical mind, conscious of injustice and the difficult striving of people for happiness and fulfillment in what she feels to be a restricting, often violent society. She has always been a rebel; and it is her rebellious, unquiet spirit which drives her to express both her communal concerns as a political poet, and her innermost personal feelings as a woman. Chapter one shows her early concern with the problem women have in finding fulfillment in a male-dominated world. Her intimate knowledge of and fondness for women Imagist poets finds reflection in Green Pitcher and Signpost. Also evident is her realistic response to her environment, and the influence of Raymond Knister. During this apprenticeship period in her life she mastered the Imagist technique, and indicated competence at treating larger social questions. Chapter two explores the impact the 1930s and upsurge of revolutionary ideas had on her writing. She accepted Marxism as the only perspective which could rationally explain the social evils caused by the depression. Her life as a social worker led her to see the worst aspects of industrial society. She channelled her political activism into revolutionary poetry after she became aware of the lyrical writings of Auden, Spender, Day-Lewis and others. In this chapter I also show her commitment to peace and the Loyalist cause in Spain. Much of her finest lyrical and social poetry in this period is her response to the ugliness of war against which she has campaigned all her life. Chapter three extends my analysis of her social poetry into the area of national themes. I investigate the important question of national identity in Canada. I also indicate that Dorothy Livesay is a patriot but not a jingoist. As such she has made an important contribution in making her compatriots aware of the real essence of their nation which is the people who live and work within an expansive landscape. Chapter four describes the difficult decade of the 1950s. Dorothy Livesay responded to the atomic age and problems of raising a family by a sharp reduction in the quantity and quality of her poetry. I then show how her return from Africa to Vancouver in 1963 led her to re-explore the lyrical point of view of a woman in love. Chapter five concludes the thesis with an examination of her latest social poems, re-emphasizing the continuity of her democratic, humanist perspective, I show how her interest in new techniques and her raporte with young writers enables her to continue exploring themes of love, war, art and politics in modes that communicate clearly and effectively her progressive, critical attitudes to contemporary life in Canada. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

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This dissertation presents a new software environment for performing design activities utilizing numerical optimization algorithms. Specifically, the research focuses on new techniques for interacting with optimization software, unique methods for handling design information, and creative methods for visualizing optimization results. The application of computer aided optimization algorithms in the engineering design process is hindered by a lack of software methodology and subsequent tools that give the designer adequate control of the process. This process includes setting up the problem, executing the problem with proper key feedback, and extracting the pertinent information from the results to make sound engineering decisions. Elements of data management and visualization are critical to supporting this decision making process. Numerical optimization can be a powerful tool for the design engineer. If applied properly, vast savings in time and analysis effort can be realized. All too often, however, optimization is under-utilized because of lack of trust for the methods, or, more commonly, a lack of understanding for why the design arrived at the final result. The optimization approach and supporting software tools developed in this research provide a system that offers the design engineer insight through visualization into the complete history of the optimization problem. For the designer to understand the results from the optimization process, he must be presented with a traceable path of changes to the design and what the influences were at each change. Considerable time is spent disseminating the results of a problem after the optimization algorithms are utilized. Results are scrutinized and histories are examined in great detail to understand why the process arrived at the resulting design. In addition to presenting comprehensible results of the optimization routines, sophisticated software control of the optimization of complex engineering systems is necessary. The algorithms as well as the actual problem formulation must be accessible and controllable for the design engineer to fully realize the capability of numerical optimization. The base treatise proposed herein is divided into three distinct areas: • Software tools for improving process interaction and feedback • A mathematical strategy for gaining insight from process information • Illustrative examples of how the developed methods are employed / Ph. D.

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