Esta dissertação aborda a questão da “inocência americana” em duas obras do escritor norte-americano Henry James, empregando conceitos da Literatura Comparada como base para a análise dos textos escolhidos: The American e Daisy Miller: A Study. Portanto, os conceitos de intertextualidade, influência e alteridade são fundamentais para o estabelecimento das confluências e divergências entre as duas obras. Este trabalho também apresenta uma análise, com base na teoria comparatista da interdisciplinaridade, entre a obra literária Daisy Miller: A Study e o filme Daisy Miller, dirigido por Peter Bogdanovich. O tema recorrente nas obras analisadas, o da “inocência americana”, foi abordado por Henry James em grande parte de sua produção literária, sendo um reflexo de sua própria experiência como o “outro”, bem como de suas observações sobre seus compatriotas, quando confrontados com os valores e tradições vigentes na Europa, no século XIX. James alcançou seu merecido lugar no cânone literário ocidental, graças ao seu estilo incomparável, o qual foi aperfeiçoando durante toda sua carreira e até hoje é parâmetro para escritores contemporâneos. / This thesis approaches the “American innocence” issue in two works of the North- American writer Henry James by using some concepts of Comparative Literature as base to the analysis of the chosen texts: The American and Daisy Miller: A Study. Therefore, the concepts of intertextuality, influence and alterity are vital to establish the confluences and divergences between the analyzed works. This work also presents an analysis, based on the interdisciplinary theory, between the literary work Daisy Miller: A Study and the film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, Daisy Miller. The recurrent theme in the analyzed works, the American innocence, was approached by Henry James in most part of his literary production, being a reflex of his own experience as the “other”, and his observations on his countrymen, when confronted with the values and traditions in vigor in the nineteenth-century Europe. Henry James has achieved his place on the Western literary canon, due to his incomparable writing style, which he had improved through his career and still today is a reference to contemporary writers.

Esta dissertação aborda a questão da “inocência americana” em duas obras do escritor norte-americano Henry James, empregando conceitos da Literatura Comparada como base para a análise dos textos escolhidos: The American e Daisy Miller: A Study. Portanto, os conceitos de intertextualidade, influência e alteridade são fundamentais para o estabelecimento das confluências e divergências entre as duas obras. Este trabalho também apresenta uma análise, com base na teoria comparatista da interdisciplinaridade, entre a obra literária Daisy Miller: A Study e o filme Daisy Miller, dirigido por Peter Bogdanovich. O tema recorrente nas obras analisadas, o da “inocência americana”, foi abordado por Henry James em grande parte de sua produção literária, sendo um reflexo de sua própria experiência como o “outro”, bem como de suas observações sobre seus compatriotas, quando confrontados com os valores e tradições vigentes na Europa, no século XIX. James alcançou seu merecido lugar no cânone literário ocidental, graças ao seu estilo incomparável, o qual foi aperfeiçoando durante toda sua carreira e até hoje é parâmetro para escritores contemporâneos. / This thesis approaches the “American innocence” issue in two works of the North- American writer Henry James by using some concepts of Comparative Literature as base to the analysis of the chosen texts: The American and Daisy Miller: A Study. Therefore, the concepts of intertextuality, influence and alterity are vital to establish the confluences and divergences between the analyzed works. This work also presents an analysis, based on the interdisciplinary theory, between the literary work Daisy Miller: A Study and the film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, Daisy Miller. The recurrent theme in the analyzed works, the American innocence, was approached by Henry James in most part of his literary production, being a reflex of his own experience as the “other”, and his observations on his countrymen, when confronted with the values and traditions in vigor in the nineteenth-century Europe. Henry James has achieved his place on the Western literary canon, due to his incomparable writing style, which he had improved through his career and still today is a reference to contemporary writers.

Only two percent of new books released in Germany are professionally edited for visually impaired people. However, more and more print publications are made available to the public in digital formats through online content delivery platforms like “libreka!”. The automatic conversion of such contents into DAISY would considerably increase the number of publications available in accessible formats. Still, most data available on “libreka!” is published as non-tagged PDF. In this paper, we examine the potential for automatic conversion of “libreka!”-based content into DAISY, while also analyzing the potentials and limitations of current conversion tools.

RTFC is a multichannel publishing tool which has been designed to convert text documents into several accessible formats. You can produce books in common file formats like plain text, HTML and HTML Help as well as large print, Braille, web Braille and DAISY. It implements a standard for e-books which was created at German schools for the blind. This standard makes it possible to get the most out of DAISY even though desktop publishing software often has no capabilities to mark up optional content like annotations or sidebars. Therefore RTFC is especially suitable to convert school books and other non-fiction literature.

<p>This Thesis has been carried out in cooperation with To Me Group AB. To MeGroup AB is a company situated in Linköping working with innovative solutionsfor new media. They are the largest provider of audio guides in the NordicCountries, inter alia.</p><p>The objective of this thesis has been to develop a concept and a physical model of the “HybridRadio”. The “HybridRadio” is a consumer product which makes daily information e.g. news, personal information from for example the bank or pharmacy etc. available to all by spreading written information with sound. It was important that the “HybridRadio” should have an interface that simplifies the understanding of the product functions for the user. Part of the thesis has been to link audio navigation to the design of this product.</p><p>In the early phase of this thesis project, a market research was carried out, inwhich rival products were distinguished, and their properties compiled andanalyzed concerning design, function and technology. A radio and a DAISY-player was purchased and analyzed. This gave an indication of what the “HybridRadio” could be developed into. A study was later made of different varieties of audios which would work with the navigation. Among these audios there were voice synthesis, Earcon, Auditive Icons, Digitalized Audio, and Spearcons. Further on, a functional analysis and a specification of requirements was carried out, in order to determine which functions to use, and which not to.</p><p>With this Pre-Study in the baggage, the concept development could start. Anextensive set of sketches was made, from which a few were further developedinto a CAD program called Solid Works. Six of these concepts where assembledand then compared with each other in a Pugh-matrix in order to filter out whichof the concepts would best fit the “HybridRadio”. One winning concept was chosen and further investigated. Finally, a physical model was developed and amodel built.</p><p>This thesis is written in chronological order. So, the end result in the form of aproduct presentation with pictures of the final model and an analysis of theproduct design will be provided at the end of this thesis.</p> / <p>Detta examensarbete har utförts i samarbete med To Me Group AB. To Megroup AB är ett företag baserat i Linköping som arbetar med innovativa lösningar för nya medier. De är bland annat Nordens största leverantör av ljudguider.</p><p>Målet med arbetet var att ta fram ett koncept och en fysisk modell av enHybridRadio. HybridRadion är en konsumentprodukt som gör daglig information, som nyheter, personlig information från t.ex. bank, apotek mm, tillgänglig för alla genom att sprida skriven information med ljud. Det var viktigt att HybridRadion skulle ha en interaktion som förenklar förståelsen av produkten för användaren. En del av arbetet skulle även koppla samman ljudnavigering med utformningen av produkten.</p><p>I den inledande fasen av arbetet gjordes en marknadsundersökning därkonkurrenternas produkter insamlades, sammanställdes och analyseradesutifrån design, funktion och teknik. En radio och en DAISY-spelare köptes in och analyserades. Detta gav en känsla för hur HybridRadion skulle kunna utvecklas. Sedan utfördes en studie av olika ljudtyper som skulle passa till navigationen. Bland dessa fanns talsyntes, earcon, auditiva ikoner, digitaliserat ljud och spearcons med. Vidare utfördes en funktionsanalys och kravspecifikation för att ta reda på vilka funktioner som skulle tas med och vilka som skulle uteslutas.</p><p>Med denna förstudie i bagaget började konceptutvecklingsfasen. Där utfördesett omfattande skissarbete, varav ett urval av dessa utvecklades vidare i CADprogrammet Solid Works. Sex stycken koncept togs fram och jämfördes med varandra i en utvärderingsmatris för att utse vilket koncept som passarHybridRadion bäst. Det valda konceptet utvecklades sedan och en fysisk modell togs fram.</p><p>Eftersom rapporten är skriven i kronologisk ordning redovisas slutresultatet, enproduktpresentation med bilder på den framtagna produkten och en analys avresultatet längst bak i rapporten.</p>

This Thesis has been carried out in cooperation with To Me Group AB. To MeGroup AB is a company situated in Linköping working with innovative solutionsfor new media. They are the largest provider of audio guides in the NordicCountries, inter alia. The objective of this thesis has been to develop a concept and a physical model of the “HybridRadio”. The “HybridRadio” is a consumer product which makes daily information e.g. news, personal information from for example the bank or pharmacy etc. available to all by spreading written information with sound. It was important that the “HybridRadio” should have an interface that simplifies the understanding of the product functions for the user. Part of the thesis has been to link audio navigation to the design of this product. In the early phase of this thesis project, a market research was carried out, inwhich rival products were distinguished, and their properties compiled andanalyzed concerning design, function and technology. A radio and a DAISY-player was purchased and analyzed. This gave an indication of what the “HybridRadio” could be developed into. A study was later made of different varieties of audios which would work with the navigation. Among these audios there were voice synthesis, Earcon, Auditive Icons, Digitalized Audio, and Spearcons. Further on, a functional analysis and a specification of requirements was carried out, in order to determine which functions to use, and which not to. With this Pre-Study in the baggage, the concept development could start. Anextensive set of sketches was made, from which a few were further developedinto a CAD program called Solid Works. Six of these concepts where assembledand then compared with each other in a Pugh-matrix in order to filter out whichof the concepts would best fit the “HybridRadio”. One winning concept was chosen and further investigated. Finally, a physical model was developed and amodel built. This thesis is written in chronological order. So, the end result in the form of aproduct presentation with pictures of the final model and an analysis of theproduct design will be provided at the end of this thesis. / Detta examensarbete har utförts i samarbete med To Me Group AB. To Megroup AB är ett företag baserat i Linköping som arbetar med innovativa lösningar för nya medier. De är bland annat Nordens största leverantör av ljudguider. Målet med arbetet var att ta fram ett koncept och en fysisk modell av enHybridRadio. HybridRadion är en konsumentprodukt som gör daglig information, som nyheter, personlig information från t.ex. bank, apotek mm, tillgänglig för alla genom att sprida skriven information med ljud. Det var viktigt att HybridRadion skulle ha en interaktion som förenklar förståelsen av produkten för användaren. En del av arbetet skulle även koppla samman ljudnavigering med utformningen av produkten. I den inledande fasen av arbetet gjordes en marknadsundersökning därkonkurrenternas produkter insamlades, sammanställdes och analyseradesutifrån design, funktion och teknik. En radio och en DAISY-spelare köptes in och analyserades. Detta gav en känsla för hur HybridRadion skulle kunna utvecklas. Sedan utfördes en studie av olika ljudtyper som skulle passa till navigationen. Bland dessa fanns talsyntes, earcon, auditiva ikoner, digitaliserat ljud och spearcons med. Vidare utfördes en funktionsanalys och kravspecifikation för att ta reda på vilka funktioner som skulle tas med och vilka som skulle uteslutas. Med denna förstudie i bagaget började konceptutvecklingsfasen. Där utfördesett omfattande skissarbete, varav ett urval av dessa utvecklades vidare i CADprogrammet Solid Works. Sex stycken koncept togs fram och jämfördes med varandra i en utvärderingsmatris för att utse vilket koncept som passarHybridRadion bäst. Det valda konceptet utvecklades sedan och en fysisk modell togs fram. Eftersom rapporten är skriven i kronologisk ordning redovisas slutresultatet, enproduktpresentation med bilder på den framtagna produkten och en analys avresultatet längst bak i rapporten.

This Master’s Thesis seeks to explain the process of initiation undergone by Henry James’s characters. Characters are chosen for initiation into forbidden knowledge, and, like the Biblical Adam and Eve, are exiled as a result. Though initiation is erotic, it is not sexual, and society falsely perceives a sexually charged relationship between the initiator and the initiate, also called the complementary pair. The initiate faces exile and death because of his forbidden knowledge. He no longer has a place in his society, which leads to his social death and eventually physical death. James’s reader is initiated along with the characters, becoming a critical reader who no longer sees reading as a passive activity but brings his own judgment to the text. The Jamesian Reader does not face the same fate as the initiate, but he does change substantively as a result of his new perspective on the text.

Thesis (M.A.)--Bowling Green State University, 2007. / Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 71 p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 298-312). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

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