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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
101

Ishmael: The Dissolution of a Romantic and the Emergence of a Poet.

Pepper, Allison M. 16 August 2002 (has links) (PDF)
Although Ishmael does not appear to be a main character in Moby Dick, his narration is integral to the text. Only through telling the story is Ishmael able to give himself a concrete identity, which is reflected not only through himself, but through the thoughts, speeches, and actions of the other characters, specifically Ahab and the shipmates. Ishmael represents the fragmented Romantic of nineteenth century American society. He is bound by a traditional patriarchal world where he must break away from the father to establish his own identity. He has lost his connection to nature, the primal source of his beginningsùthe womb of the mother. Through his hermetic voyage into nature and back to the unconscious, he is able to reconnect to his origins. No longer is he the alienated wanderer, but recreated as the artist, able to create his own myth and identity.
102

Archetype identification in Urban Building Energy Modeling : Research gaps and method development

Dahlström, Lukas January 2023 (has links)
Buildings and the built environment account for a significant portion of the global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, and reducing the energy demand in this sector is crucial for a sustainable energy transition. This highlights the need for accurate and large-scale estimations and predictions of the future energy demand in buildings. Urban building energy modeling (UBEM) is an analytical tool for precise and high-quality energy modelling of city-scale building stocks, which is growing in interest as a useful tool for researchers and decision-makers worldwide. This thesis contributes to the understanding and future development in the field of UBEM and multi-variate cluster analysis. Based on a review of contemporary literature, possible improvements and knowledge gaps regarding UBEM are identified. The majority of UBEM studies are developed for similar applications, and some challenges are close to universal. Difficulties in data acquisition and the identification and characterisation of building archetypes are frequently addressed. Drawing on conclusions from the review, a clustering methodology for identifying building archetypes for hybrid UBEM was developed. The methodology utilised the k-means cluster analysis algorithm for multiple diverse parameters, including socio-economic indicators, and is based on open data sets which eliminates data acquisition issues and allows for easy adaptation. Building archetypes were successfully identified for two large data sets, and proved to be representative of the sample building stock. The results of the analysis also show that the error metric values diverge after a certain number of clusters, for multiple runs of the algorithm. This property of the algorithm in combination with the use of both existing and novel error metrics provide a reliable method for determining the optimal number of clusters. The methodology developed in this thesis enables for an improved modelling process, as a part of a complete UBEM.
103

The Femme Fatale: An Analysis of the Archetype’s Remediation From Visual Arts to TikTok

Wilmenius Hillman, Elias, Linde Wåhlberg, Rebecka January 2023 (has links)
The purpose of this essay is to investigate how cultural symbols are influenced during their remediation to social media platforms. As a case to explore this, this study delves into an examination of the remediation of the Femme Fatale archetype from the visual art tradition to the social media platform TikTok. This thesis aims to explore the remediation of the Femme Fatale archetype from the visual arts tradition to the social media platform TikTok. TikTok has rapidly increased in popularity in recent years, boasting over one billion international users. TikTok's short-form video-sharing platform allows users to sample content from various mediums (such as art and film) and adapt it to the platform. This relationship between content curation and user engagement highlights the importance of exploring Femme Fatale's remediation process on TikTok, mainly how content from the visual arts tradition is portrayed on the platform. This will be achieved by utilizing a feminist perspective, exploring how the remediation process impacts gender role stereotypes and power dynamics within the Femme Fatale archetype. The study will employ remediation as a theoretical and analytical framework. Furthermore, to incorporate the feminist perspective, the concepts of male gaze and performativity will be embedded in the analysis. Thirty TikToks were sourced for analysis and explored through the framework of remediation, the concept of male gaze, and the concept of performativity. The study concludes that the remediation of the Femme Fatale results in a loss of original narrative. The research highlights how TikTok’s participatory culture enables the ongoing performance of the Femme Fatale. Moreover, the majority of the content on the platform reveals a narrative of the Femme Fatale through surface-level aesthetics, allowing for its commodification, which emphasizes visual appeal over in-depth narrative, aligning with traditional tropes found in previous mediums. The study contributes to a further understanding of how the remediation process can influence cultural symbols previously embedded in the tradition of visual arts through social media platforms' medium-specific demands on content creation.
104

Characterization, Subjectivity, and Intersectional Considerations in Heathers the Musical

Korpi, Carmen 06 October 2023 (has links)
This thesis examines the multifaceted and interdisciplinary means through which the “rebel” trope is used as a groundwork for complex characterization in Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy’s Heathers the Musical (2018). Using Jamie Muscato’s performance as Jason Dean (“JD”) as an exemplar, I employ a three-stage analytic process through which nuanced, embodied subjectivity is realized, and the performer is highlighted as a vector for intersectional interpretation. The first stage examines the narrative impacts of the text and music written for JD and explores how they serve to individualize him. The second considers the musical mechanics and rock informed stylization of the character using an analytic model for embodied subjectivity, which I extend to account for theatrical elements of performance. The third considers the analytic findings of the first two chapters through an intersectional lens, highlighting the musical and theatrical interpretation of the text posited by the performer as being the main vehicle through which the “rebel” trope is expanded upon.
105

The Hero’s Journey: A Musical Depiction of Archetypal Protagonists Based on the Work of Joseph Campbell

Smith, Philip Marvin 27 July 2010 (has links)
No description available.
106

Hunter, Adult Adolescent, and Wounded Warlock: Images of Men in English-Canadian Women's Fiction (1960-93)

Hornosty, Camille Janina 05 1900 (has links)
<p>Although the fiction written by women in English-Canada since the 1960's has experimented widely with literary form, a remarkably consistent set of - literary archetypes of masculinity emerges from their work. I have named the three particularly vivid and pervasive images of men on which I focus, the Hunter, the Adult Adolescent, and the Wounded Warlock. My project is essentially a sketching out of these beings, a contouring of their recurring literary reality.</p> <p>Toril Moi rightly criticizes the project of evaluating literary images of women in terms of their true or false relation to 'real life' as one that "resolutely refuses to consider textual production as a highly complex, 'overdetermined' process with many different and conflicting literary and nonliterary determinants" (Moi 45). In looking at the images of men that dominate Canadian women's writing, I do not wish to claim that these images are 'true' or 'false', but simply that they exist in the literature.</p> <p>My critical approach here is essentially one of description. My descriptions are original in that they are not applications of previously-defined archetypes of personality as in, for example, the work of Carl Jung. No description is, however, free of context, and in describing the images of men that emerge from this fiction, I draw repeatedly upon several feminist and philosophical texts for inspiration and clarification. Susan Griffin's exploration of the 'pornographic mind', Martin Buber's religious ontology of the "I-Thou", JeanPaul Sartre's articulation of the meaning of the Look, and Christopher Lasch's discussion of narcissism, have been particularly useful.</p> <p>Although my dissertation does not attempt to engage directly the large question of the relation of the artistic image to life, I do suggest indirectly, by drawing upon thinkers whose subject is not primarily literature, but indeed 'the real world', that the images of men I define have some connection with that real world. My conclusion briefly raises, therefore, some ethical as well as aesthetic questions about the implications of their existence.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
107

Performing Satyabhāmā : text, context, memory and mimesis in Telugu-speaking South India

Soneji, Davesh January 2004 (has links)
No description available.
108

Ethical Framework for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies

Ashok, M., Madan, R., Joha, A., Sivarajah, Uthayasankar 02 October 2021 (has links)
Yes / The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Digital technologies (DT) is proliferating a profound socio-technical transformation. Governments and AI scholarship have endorsed key AI principles but lack direction at the implementation level. Through a systematic literature review of 59 papers, this paper contributes to the critical debate on the ethical use of AI in DTs beyond high-level AI principles. To our knowledge, this is the first paper that identifies 14 digital ethics implications for the use of AI in seven DT archetypes using a novel ontological framework (physical, cognitive, information, and governance). The paper presents key findings of the review and a conceptual model with twelve propositions highlighting the impact of digital ethics implications on societal impact, as moderated by DT archetypes and mediated by organisational impact. The implications of intelligibility, accountability, fairness, and autonomy (under the cognitive domain), and privacy (under the information domain) are the most widely discussed in our sample. Furthermore, ethical implications related to the governance domain are shown to be generally applicable for most DT archetypes. Implications under the physical domain are less prominent when it comes to AI diffusion with one exception (safety). The key findings and resulting conceptual model have academic and professional implications.
109

The Paragon Corporation : Exploring Corporate Responsibility and Shared Value for Profitability

Paulsson, John January 2013 (has links)
This thesis is a two-part exploratory inquiry into how actions of Corporate Responsibility (CR) create economic value for the company performing them, in addition to social/environmental value. The purpose of the thesis is to describe the CR initiatives of a theoretical “paragon corporation”: a corporation that excels in its CR initiatives and sees financial gain in it. The report starts by going over literature, describing the CR context that companies operate in today, and similar work. A model for describing CR activities as business activities is drawn from Nancy Bocken’s concept Business Model Archetypes, and it is proposed as a possible tool for describing economic value creation from CR activities. The first part of the study is a word frequency analysis of the annual financial reports of the companies listed on the FTSE 100, where words connected to CR are counted. The sustainability reports of the five companies that have mentioned CR terminology most in the first study are analyzed in detail during the second study, and are characterized using Bocken’s archetypes. Findings show that the paragon corporation should have CR initiatives that can be modeled after the archetypes, enabling the CR initiatives to create direct economic value for the company. The archetypes can be used when formulating a CR strategy from the ground up, or evaluating existing CR strategy. The thesis ends with suggestions for how this can be explored further.
110

Televisiekykers se ervaring van die uitbeelding van Anima en Animus in televisieadvertensies

Krause, George Frederick 30 June 2006 (has links)
OPSOMMING Heteroseksuele interaksie word deur adverteerders in televisieadvertensies aangewend en die doel van die studie was om te bepaal hoe kykers dit ervaar. Data is ingesamel deur `n aantal advertensies aan skoolkinders te vertoon waarna onderhoude gevoer is om vas te stel hoe die kinders die advertensies ervaar het. Daar is van konsepte vanuit die analitiese sielkunde gebruik gemaak om kodes te identifiseer. Die navorser het deur die tegniek van inhoudsontleding die voorkoms van manifestasies van die kontraseksuele komplekse in die onderhoude bestudeer. Daar is bevind dat die erotiese aspekte van die konraseksuele komplekse by voorkeur in die bestudeerde advertensies aangewend is en dat deelnemers daarop gelet het. SUMMARY The purpose of this study was to investigate a style of advertising from the perspective of the Analytical Psychology. The style involves the depiction of a young man and woman in a state of interaction with one another. In an attempt to understand how the viewer experiences this, concepts from the Analytical Psychology of C.G. Jung were used. Jung claimed that the psyche contains constructs which he termed archetypes. Archetypes are ideas and predispositions, organisms are born possessing these. If the theory is correct, it can be assumed that these constructs will influence human behaviour. The archetypes responsible for initiating heterosexual interest are called the anima and the animus. The prevalence of different aspects of these in four television commercials as experienced by participants during interviews was studied by means of content analysis. Sexual manifestations were found to be the most prominently used aspects of the anima and the animus to market the advertised products. / PSYCHOLOGY / MA(SS) (PSYCHOLOGY)

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