Thesis (M.A.)--Southwest Texas State University, 1940. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 65-67).

My dissertation is a historicist examination of the circulatory relationship among popular fiction, theatre, and related non–fiction texts in mid–nineteenth–century America. Though previous critics have acknowledged interactions between mid–century theatre and print, none have fully fleshed out the performative contexts or social consequences of this interplay. In contrast, I contend that the narrative and visual exchanges between theatre and literature are crucial to deciphering how different social classes formed and distinguished themselves. My central claim is that cultural arbiters from the print world (including activist authors and advice–text writers) and from the public amusement realm (entrepreneurial theatre producers and melodrama playwrights) poached each other's work in order to capitalize on preexisting consumer communities. By cultivating socially homogenous audiences, these arbiters became vital contributors to the consolidation of self–conscious, class–based identities in nineteenth–century America. Chapter One examines George Lippard's urban–crime novel The Quaker City; or The Monks of Monk Hall (1844). In it, I argue that Lippard reproduces apocalyptic scenes of disaster familiar to readers from spectacle–centric theatrical melodramas in order to unify a diverse working class. Chapter Two contends that W.H. Smith's temperance melodrama The Drunkard (1844) co–opts the real–life speeches of working–class temperance lecturers and reframes them as a middle–class landlord's story of redemption; through featuring this popular show at their curiosity museum theatres, proprietors Moses Kimball and P.T. Barnum established the nation's first theatrical spaces solely for middle–class audiences. Chapter Three claims that the 1860s proliferation of home theatrical guidebooks—which detailed how to construct makeshift stages, simulate special effects, and adapt well–known stage dramas—offered the emergent middle classes a viable substitute for commercial theatergoing and a key outlet to reinforce their social status. My final chapter studies Louisa May Alcott's sensation novella Behind a Mask; or, A Woman's Power (1866), a work which engages the dissertation's collective themes of theatricality, social class, and private space. By depicting a professional actress utilizing her theatrical skills to infiltrate an aristocratic family, Alcott presents the private estate as the ideal venue to gain social status and reveals performance as a critical means for upward mobility.

Applying a historical approach which contextualizes ethnic and gender perspectives, this thesis investigates the obstacles that second-generation Chinese American women encountered as they moved into the public sphere. This included sexual restraints at home and racial harassment outside. This study examines, as well, the opportunities that stimulated these women to break from their confinements. Anna May Wong and Hazel Ying Lee will serve as two role models among this second generation of women who successfully combined their cultural heritage with their education in the U.S. Their contributions inspired a whole generation of young bi-cultural women of their time. I will argue that, although the second generation had gone through cultural acculturation and resistance toward American mainstream culture, they constructed their new Chinese American identity during World War II through a synthesis of their contribution to the gender relations and ethnic identification in nationalist project.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta tese tem como objetivo descrever o desenvolvimento da crítica da vida cotidiana elaborada pelo filósofo francês Henri Lefebvre. Analisamos os fundamentos teóricos e o contexto histórico no qual foi formulada a teoria crítica do cotidiano e seu contato com as experiências estéticas e políticas da primeira metade do século XX. Também analisamos a maneira pela qual, a partir da apreciação do tema da cotidianidade, Lefebvre faz uma crítica das leituras dogmáticas do marxismo, apreendendo o movimento de reestruturação da sociedade capitalista depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial e formulando, juntamente com as novas vanguardas do pós-guerra, um conjunto de idéias sobre a experiência social moderna que antecipa aspectos importantes dos eventos de 1968. / This thesis has as objective to describe the development of the critique of everyday life, elaborated by the French philosopher Henri Lefebvre. We analyze the theoretical beddings and the historical context in which the critical theory of the everyday life was formulated and its contact with the aesthetic and politics experiences of the first half of century XX. We also analyze the way, from the view of the dailyness", Lefebvre criticizes the dogmatic readings of marxism, apprehending the reorganization of the capitalist society after World War II and formulating, together with the new postwar vanguards of the period, a set of ideas on the modern social experience that anticipates important aspects of the 1968 events.

This thesis reconsiders in detail the connections between a selection of innovative female modernist writers who experimented variously with stream-of-consciousness techniques, May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf. It describes in this context the impact of the philosophy and thoughts of both William James and Henri Bergson upon these women writers’ literary work. It also argues for a fundamental revision of existing understandings of this interconnection by considering the feminist context of such work and recognising that the work of these four female writers in effect incorporates a ‘gendered’ reading of James and Bergson (encountered both directly and indirectly through the cultural and intellectual zeitgeist). In establishing a feminist perspective as key elements of their aesthetic the thesis explores the vital influence of existing tradition of female autobiography upon their reception and usage of both James and Bergson. The latter’s impact on such women writers were so distinctive and powerful as the work of these philosophers seemed to speak directly to contemporary feminist concerns and in that context to represent a way of thinking about society and culture. This echoes and has parallels with existing attempts at revisions of patriarchal society and creating new spaces for female independence. In the above context the thesis reviews existing research on the impact of James and Bergson on these four writers and offers new insights into how each of them made use of these two seminal thinkers by analysing the relationship between theories, selected literary and philosophical texts. Stream-of-consciousness ought to be seen as a distinctive, specific tradition connected with feminist concerns and as a way of writing the inner and hidden self, rather than just a narrow formal feature of literary texts; it offers women a continuing, creative exploration of its possibilities as fictional practice. The female modernists included in this account represent the celebrated: Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, together with writers largely and unjustly forgotten in subsequent periods: Dorothy Richardson and May Sinclair. However, the thesis demonstrates that such female modernist writers gained much from being part of a range of informal networks, being almost within a tradition in which they learnt, borrowed and reacted to each other; an interconnection that requires new critical recognition.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta tese tem como objetivo descrever o desenvolvimento da crítica da vida cotidiana elaborada pelo filósofo francês Henri Lefebvre. Analisamos os fundamentos teóricos e o contexto histórico no qual foi formulada a teoria crítica do cotidiano e seu contato com as experiências estéticas e políticas da primeira metade do século XX. Também analisamos a maneira pela qual, a partir da apreciação do tema da cotidianidade, Lefebvre faz uma crítica das leituras dogmáticas do marxismo, apreendendo o movimento de reestruturação da sociedade capitalista depois da Segunda Guerra Mundial e formulando, juntamente com as novas vanguardas do pós-guerra, um conjunto de idéias sobre a experiência social moderna que antecipa aspectos importantes dos eventos de 1968. / This thesis has as objective to describe the development of the critique of everyday life, elaborated by the French philosopher Henri Lefebvre. We analyze the theoretical beddings and the historical context in which the critical theory of the everyday life was formulated and its contact with the aesthetic and politics experiences of the first half of century XX. We also analyze the way, from the view of the dailyness", Lefebvre criticizes the dogmatic readings of marxism, apprehending the reorganization of the capitalist society after World War II and formulating, together with the new postwar vanguards of the period, a set of ideas on the modern social experience that anticipates important aspects of the 1968 events.

Le mémoire suivant compare les cités d’habitations de Weissenhof à Stuttgart et de Römerstadt à Francfort-sur-le-Main. Toutes deux projets pilotes du mouvement moderne et de l’École Bauhaus, ces cités démontrent le lien entre le passé traumatique de l’Allemagne wilhelmienne et l’utopie démocratique de la République de Weimar. L’équipe de Ludwig Mies van der Rohe et la brigade d’Ernst May tentent de réformer la famille ouvrière allemande à partir de l’espace qu’elle habite, c’est-à-dire le logement. S’élabore donc une nouvelle grammaire architecturale qui détonne dans le paysage urbain allemand. Cette réforme s’intéresse au remaniement de l’espace privé ; la pièce a un rôle exclusif, comme ses locataires. Par extension, la femme est alors au-devant des changements avec la systématisation scientifique de son travail. L’architecture moderne vacille sans cesse entre un laisser-aller et un contrôle calculé des corps par l’espace qu’ils occupent. Mies et May n’ont pas su adapter les logements qu’ils offraient aux besoins des ouvriers auxquels ils s’adressaient. Réfractaires aux changements, les Allemands ont d’abord rejeté les deux projets alors qu’en Amérique du Nord, le style est déjà enseigné dans les écoles d’architecture. Lentement mais sûrement, les cités d’habitations sont apprivoisées par les générations suivantes. De Frédéric le Grand à aujourd’hui, elles font parties du paysage architectural allemand et certaines d’entre-elles, comme Weissenhof et Römerstadt sont inscrites à l’UNESCO.

This thesis deals with current amendment of the International Financial Reporting Standards Conceptual Framework. This Amendment is one of the most awaited projects of the International Accounting Standards Board for the year 2017. Conceptual Framework serves as a basic ideological basis and theoretical premise for the creation of the accounting standards. Consistence between Conceptual Framework and IFRS and being up to date are the key factors for the whole system to work properly. This thesis deals with the Conceptual Frameworks development from its beginnings in the USA to the current amendment made by IASB and the thesis is trying to analyse the whole concept of the Conceptual Framework, its importance and its contained information which are under a strong pressure to be perfect. This thesis primary goal is to analyse the current amendment of the Conceptual Framework, which is being evaluated and commented with help of the comment letters received to the Exposure Draft 2015. There are also suggested some recommendations, that should be considered before finalizing the new Conceptual Framework.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-26T18:56:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao.pdf: 2476092 bytes, checksum: 34129c8ce2ecd1471192207a3b2af400 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-30 / There is now a global concern with the agroecosystem sustainability, competitiveness and exonomic viability of agricultural activities. Intercropping of winter maize with forage grasses have been studied because of its benefits in relation to biomass production per area. Objective of this study was to evaluate the interference of density Brachiaria ruziziensis cv. Common intercropped with the winter maize in grain yield, in dry mass and nutrients of forage. The experiment was conducted in soil characterized and Oxiol under conditions of degraded pasture in the Technical School Prof. Luíz Pires Barbosa Cândido Mota city (SP). The experimental desing was randomized blocks with five treatments and four replications. The treatments consisted of the population of B. ruziziensis 2.5; 5,0; 10,0; e 20,0 plants per linear meter and simultaneously sown between the lines of winter maize (0,90m). It was concluded that the values of agronomic evaluation of maize analyzed showed no interference of the treatments, only the height of attachment of spikes was affected by populations of B. ruziziensis; the intercropped presented B. Ruziziensis winter maize with increased grain yeld cereal with a population up to 9,5 plants per linear meter of forage; the total production of dry B. ruziziensis showed higher response to the population at the expense of desiccation in their time of physiological maturity of maize; the accumulation of macro and micronutrients in B. ruziziensis increased as function of the populations with the exception of potassium and iron. / Existe atualmente uma preocupação mundial com a sustentabilidade do agroecossistema, competitividade e viabilidade econômica das atividades agropecuárias. A consorciação do milho safrinha com gramíneas forrageiras tem sido objeto de estudos em decorrência de seus benefícios com relação à produção de fitomassa por área. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a interferência da densidade de plantas de Brachiaria ruziziensis cv. Comum em consórcio com o milho safrinha na produtividade de grãos, no acúmulo de massa seca e nutrientes dessa forrageira. O experimento foi conduzido em solo caracterizado como Latossolo vermelho eutroférrico em condições de pastagem degradada na Escola Técnica Prof. Luiz Pires Barbosa no município de Cândido Mota (SP). O delineamento experimental utilizado foi o de blocos ao acaso com cinco tratamentos e quatro repetições. Os tratamentos foram constituídos das populações de plantas de B. ruziziensis (2,5; 5,0; 10; e 20) plantas por metro linear semeadas simultaneamente e na entrelinha do milho safrinha (0,90 m). Conclui-se que os valores das avaliações agronômicas analisadas do milho não evidenciaram interferência dos tratamentos, somente a altura da inserção de espigas foi afetada pelas populações de B.ruziziensis; o consórcio de milho safrinha com B.ruziziensis apresentou incremento de produtividade de grãos do cereal com população até 9,5 plantas da forrageira por metro linear; a produção total de massa seca da B. ruziziensis apresentou maior resposta às populações por ocasião da sua dessecação em detrimento da época da maturidade fisiológica do milho; o acúmulo de macro e micronutrientes na B.ruziziensis aumentou em função das populações com exceção do potássio e ferro.