Background: Very few studies have examined the demands of prolonged batting on physical, psychophysical and performance responses. Objective: The purpose of this study was therefore to determine the physiological and perceptual responses of batsmen scoring a simulated One Day International century. Furthermore, the impact that these responses had on batting performance were also measured. Methods: Seventeen male cricketers currently playing for Rhodes University or the country districts side, performed a simulated bating innings (BATEX©), typical of scoring a One Day international century. The BATEX© protocol consisted of six, five over stages (21 minutes each), with each stage matched to a specific phase of play where batsmen were encouraged to bat with the mindset of that phase. During stages one, three and five players ran at a “self-selected cruise pace” whereas during stages two, four and six players were required to run at maximum speed. At set intervals, selected physiological, perceptual and performance measures were recorded. Results: Most physiological responses increased and decreased accordingly with the low and high intensity stages with the exception of respiratory exchange ratio and core temperature responses. Mean physiological responses however, showed a progressive rise over time. Central ratings of perceived exertion increased as a function of intensity and duration. Sprint times got slower as the protocol progressed, while accuracy (impact accuracy) improved significantly (p<0.05) after stage one and then stabilised for the remainder of the protocol. Conclusion: The simulated batting protocol significantly impacted the physiological and perceptual responses over time. This was due to both the intensity and the duration of the work-bout. Furthermore, the increased physiological load placed on the batsmen significantly impacted the physical performance of the batsmen. An increase in sprint times (players getting slower) towards the end of the protocol may indicate the presence of physical fatigue. This physical fatigue did not however seem to impact the batsmen cognitively as accuracy improved after the first stage and then remained constant over time.

This thesis details the development of the full-length play, "The Curious Case of Agatha Christie." This hour-long comedic mystery was performed as part of the Big Muddy New Play Festival at the SIUC Department of Theater and Dance in February of 2022. In this comedic mystery, famous crime novelist Agatha Christie goes missing. Avid mystery novel fan and aspiring journalist at lady’s magazine Gentlewomen’s Gazette, Helen Casewell, sets out to uncover the truth behind Agatha Christie’s disappearance. The thesis begins in chapter 1 by discussing the origins for the script and the research process. Next, in chapter 2, the thesis details the writing and editing process which took place over the Fall 2021 semester in the New Play Development class. Chapter 3 of the thesis retells the pre-production process. The production is chronicled in chapter 4. Finally, chapter 5 contains an overview of my professional and creative development during my graduate studies at SIUC.

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Neste sentido, é indispensável que se explorem os mais diversos gêneros textuais, independentemente de que tipologia textual nele predomine. Contudo, pelo menos na minha prática, percebo uma tendência em se privilegiar, sobretudo com o trabalho de escrita, quando focamos texto de opinião, diálogo argumentativo, resenha crítica, dentre outros que têm o tipo textual predominantemente dissertativo-argumentativo. Outro fato que sempre me chamou atenção enquanto professora do Ensino Fundamental II, é que as narrativas que envolvem a perspectiva investigativa, tais como as narrativas policiais, agradam aos alunos bastante. Em geral, eles vivenciam essas narrativas em filmes e, em sua grande maioria, em séries, como Dexter e 24 horas, por exemplo. Nesse sentido, concebemos a seguinte hipótese investigativa: tendo em vista que uma das principais características das narrativas policiais é a sustentação do raciocínio lógico o qual implica, justamente, a ordenação do pensamento sequenciado (em variações conforme o autor), em que sentido um trabalho sistematizado de leitura e escrita dentro desse gênero narrativo implicaria a ampliação de repertório de alunos, ou seja, permitiria a eles se apropriarem de aspectos dessa leitura e, sobretudo, escrita? Partindo da prática de leitura em suspense1, a pesquisa desse projeto centrou-se, principalmente, em tentar conceber uma estratégia de escrita que permitisse não somente aos alunos experimentarem o processo de escrita com menos rejeição (como ocorre comumente) como também, ampliarem seu repertório no que diz respeito ao gênero estudado, sobretudo porque essa a questão do raciocínio lógico perpassa vários outros gêneros textuais. Trabalhamos com uma turma de 9o ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública no município de Volta Redonda, no Estado do Rio de Janeiro, que permita aos alunos ampliarem seu repertório no que concerne à leitura de narrativa policial. Elegemos como autor literário para a pesquisa a escritora Agatha Christie, particularmente com um conto em que o investigador é o clássico detetive Hercule Poirot. Apoiamo-nos, teoricamente, nas teorias do letramento (SOARES), particularmente do letramento literário (AGUIAR e COSSON), na teoria do efeito estético (ISER), de leitura compartilhada (COLOMER), mediação (PETIT) e nas concepções de narrativas policiais de Todorov. Temos como metodologia a pesquisa-ação, visto não somente o caráter interventivo da pesquisa como também a participação efetiva do professor pesquisador em sala de aula. / It’s ordinary to listen today, when debating issues of reading and text production in the classroom of Elementary School, that student should contact with a wide range of texts, for that you can expand knowledge of the language, using in it in order to achieve the desired goals. In this way, It’s essential that explore the most diverse text genres, regardless of that textual typology it predominates. However, at least in my practice, I see a tendency to favour, especially with the work of writing when we focus opinion text, argumentative dialogue, critical review, among others who have predominantly argumentative text-type. Another fact that always caught my attention, while elementary school teacher, is that the narratives, that involve the investigative perspective, such as the police narratives, like them enough. In general, they experience these narratives in film, and, in your vast majority, in TV series like Dexter and 24 Horas. In this way, we have formulated the following investigative hypothesis: considering that one of the main features of narratives cops is the logical-rational support, which implies the ordering of thought sequenced (in variations as the author), in that way a systematic work of reading and writing in this narrative genre, would change the expansion of repertoire of students, in other words, would allow them to take ownership of aspects of that reading and writing? Starting from the reading practice in suspense1 , the research of this project focused in trying to devise a strategy of writing that allowed not only to students try the writing process with less rejection as also, extend your repertoire with regard to genre studied especially because the point of logical reasoning pervades several other genres. We work with a class of ninth grade of Elementary School of public school in the municipality of Volta Redonda in the state of Rio de Janeiro, that allow students to extend your repertoire with regard to police narrative reading. We elect as literary author for research the writer Agatha Christie, particularly with the tales in which the investigator is the classic detective Hercule Poirot. We support, theoretically, in the theories of Literacy (SOARES), particularly the Literary Literacy (COSSON), in the theory of Aesthetic Effect (ISER), shared reading (COLOMER), mediation (PETIT), and on the conceptions of narratives of Todorov. We have how action research methodology seen not only the character of intervention research as well as the effective participation of the teacher in the classroom.

The purpose of the essay is to investigate how the media portrays victims of deadly violence and the perpetrators who committed these acts. A particular emphasis on fatal partner and family violence is taken into account for a narrower but more precise focus. The study is characterized by a qualitative investigation with a thematic analysis as a method. The thematization of the analysis is also gradually worked through due to the application of the theory of the ideal victim to the study. The main recurring themes found are descriptions of victims and perpetrators' gender and abuses in connection with the deadly violence they endured or inflicted. In this study it becomes clear that there are clear differences between victims and perpetrators depending on if they are male or female. Women are often described as victims even if they are the perpetrator in question, the males are described as perpetrators even if they themselves are victims. / Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka hur media porträtterar offer för dödligt våld samt de gärningspersoner som begått dessa handlingar. En särskild betoning av dödligt partner- och familjevåld tas i beaktning för ett snävare men mer preciserat fokus. Studien genomsyras av en kvalitativ undersökning med en tematisk analys som metod. Analysens tematisering arbetas även successivt in med anledning av teorin om det ideala offrets applicering på studien. De främst återkommande temana som återfunnits är beskrivningar av offer och gärningspersoners kön och missförhållanden i samband med det dödliga våld de utstått eller utfärdat. I denna studie framkommer det att det finns tydliga skillnader gällande gärningspersoner och brottsoffer beroende på om de är män eller kvinnor. Kvinnor beskrivs ofta som offer även om de själva varit gärningspersonen i fråga, männen beskrivs som gärningspersoner även om de själva varit brottsoffer. / <p>2023-04-13</p>

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Le présent mémoire propose une analyse de la représentation du personnage du détective dans le roman policier. À l'aide de quatre protagonistes issus de la littérature anglaise, cette recherche traite principalement des différences entre les détectives féminins et masculins. Un panorama des différentes théories relatives au personnage et au roman policier est le point d'ancrage de ce présent projet. Les travaux de Vincent Jouve, Umberto Eco, Jacques Dubois et Yves Reuter sont résumés afin de bien comprendre les concepts qui sont utilisés dans les pages suivantes. L'étude débute avec l'analyse des représentations masculines du détective. Grâce aux personnages de Hercule Poirot et Adam Dalgliesh nous examinons les différents aspects qui les unissent et les séparent. Cette prospection se fait à trois niveaux soit autour de la première description (ou mise en texte) du protagoniste, les réactions et perceptions des autres habitants du roman et, finalement, le point de vue extérieur du lecteur. Les informations recueillies permettent de dresser un portrait sommaire de la représentation masculine du détective. Ensuite, l'analyse des représentations féminines est effectuée. Les personnages de Miss Jane Marple et Cordelia Gray permettent de faire ressortir les ressemblances et les différences existantes entre ces deux héroïnes anglaises. Tout comme pour leurs homonymes masculins, l'analyse des deux détectives se fait sur les trois mêmes niveaux de recherche. Toutefois, l'étude de la confrontation entre Dalgliesh et Gray vient compléter ce qui constitue le troisième chapitre de ce mémoire. En troisième lieu, une réévaluation de l'essai Les femmes et le roman policier d'Anne Lemonde s'impose. A la lumière des informations données dans les chapitres précédents, la désuétude de cet essai québécois sera démontrée. Finalement, une comparaison entre les quatre personnages constitue la conclusion de ce mémoire. Un portrait sommaire est alors esquissé afin de comprendre les ressemblances et les dissemblances entre les deux genres de détectives. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Roman policier, Personnage, Détective, Agatha Christie, P.D. James.

This thesis uses the popular genre of detective fiction to explore the context of the heyday of the crime genre: the Golden Age. This sub-genre, best known for producing Agatha Christie, spanned the complicated history of Britain involving the Great Depression, two World Wars and huge changes to class structure. It is for these reasons that the Golden Age is such a pivotal period for changing notions of British identity. Through the very British Christie and the less well known New Zealander, Ngaio Marsh, expressions of national identity are explored as well as how the colonial fits in. Focusing heavily on the authors and their own personal experiences and views, this thesis is divided into four chapters to further break down how the Golden Age period affected its citizens and why this detective fiction held such a wide appeal. Chapter one explores gender roles and how Golden Age authors both conformed to them through their choice in detectives, yet also how they naturally resisted some through their own public image. Chapter two then examines the issue of class and how Golden Age detective fiction portrayed the changes. Contrary to popular criticism, Christie and Marsh were surprisingly progressive and forward thinking on this subject. Chapter three considers how both authors employed setting to emphasise these changes. Both Christie and Marsh used foreign settings to highlight British society and its flaws, and Marsh used her New Zealand settings to consider the relationship between Britain and her home. The final chapter will consider why Golden Age detective fiction was so popular: what was the appeal? For a period of violence and uncertainty, why were people drawn to crime fiction involving sometimes gruesome death? The appeal lay, and still does, in the puzzle: the game that diverted readers from their own problems. Golden Age fiction may have been highly formulaic and predictable, but it was also highly artificial and self-referential. This was a clever and diverting fiction that has been constantly underestimated by critics and deserves further study.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, June, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 338-348)

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This thesis provides the first extensive queer reading of a 'Golden Age' British detective fiction writer. The aim of this thesis is to assess queer potential in texts published by Agatha Christie between 1920 and 1952. Human identity can be read as self-consciously constructed in Christie's novels, which were written in a context of two world wars, advances in technology and communication, and what Michel Foucault called the 'medicalization' of Western culture. The self-conscious stereotyping in Christie's prose undermines her texts' conservative appeal to the status quo. Chapter One justifies this project's critique of identity essentialism in the texts by considering the manufacturing of 'Agatha Christie' as a widely-read celebrity author. Reading Christie's authorial identity as something established and refined through a market-driven response to readers' expectations and a conscious engagement with earlier forms of detective fiction provides space for reading identity itself as a stylized, performative, and sometimes parodic theme within the texts. In subsequent chapters, employing theoretical insights from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, and Lee Edelman, I explore Christie's participation in contemporary debates surrounding masculinity, femininity, and the importance of the family in shaping individual identity. Finally, I consider Christie's reputation in the twenty-first century by exploring nostalgic television adaptations of her work. Comparing the presentation of 'queer' characters in the literary texts to the adaptations' use of explicit homosexual themes and characters, I conclude that there is a stronger potential for 'queering' identity in the former. As the first full queer reading of a 'Golden Age' detective novelist, this thesis expands queer notions of archive and canonicity: few scholars to date have considered mainstream literary texts without overt LGBTQ+ themes or characters from a queer perspective. Given Christie's global reach and appeal, locating queerness in her texts means understanding queerness as fundamental to everyday culture. This means engaging with a subversive potential in twentieth century middlebrow conservatism.