Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of English, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

This text is a written articulation of my M.F.A. Thesis show titled, The Newlywed wherein description of the work produced and my artistic process is present. This body of work is explored through a fictional character, a newlywed, who acts as an outlet for my recent experiences living in western Massachusetts. The sculptures are made up of collections of the everyday, mundane objects that surround me and that propel me to contemplate where they came from, and what their histories were. The objects then become instruments for the creation of new stories.

Jag har i mitt projekt jobbat med mönsterformgivning och produktion av vävda möbeltyger, digitaltryckta tapeter- och textilier för en fiktiv hemmiljö. Mina designbeslut grundar sig på en fiktiv karaktär, Mr Chester Jester, hans estetiska preferenser och behov i samrådan med mina egna. Arbetets resultat är en gestaltning av världen han lever i, komprimerad till ett hemma hos reportage på gränsen mellan verklighet och illusion. Jag har jobbat med dubbelhet och speglingar - av mönster, av rummet, av tekniker och mig själv. Jag har undersökt illusionens verklighet och verklighetens illusion.My bachelor project is a work of pattern design and production of woven upholstery fabrics, digital prints on textile materials and wallpaper, made for a fictional home environment. The desicions for the designs are based on a fictional character, named Mr Chester Jester. His preferences and needs combined with my omn are the result of this project. The outcome of the work is a formation of his world, made into a study of his home on the edge of reality and illusions. It is a work of duplicities -of pattern, room, technique and of an alternate side of myself.I have investigated the illusion of reality, and the reality of illusions. / Program: Textildesignutbildningen

Virtual influencer is a new phenomenon operating on social networks. Since this is new, there is not a lot of research about that field. Therefor the purpose of this study is to get a better understanding about virtual influencers and how they operate on instagram. Which will be done by identifying which key factors that needs to be considered in the process of creation and management of a virtual influencer. Experiment has been used as a method. A virtual character has been created as well as its account on instagram. During 2 months, data has been collected and has revealed that there are different factors that can impact the creation and management of a virtual influencers account. The key factors that have been identified are the realism of the character, the changing algorithm of instagram as well as the accounts content itself. Firstly, the character should be realistic but the fictional part of it should be at least noticeable in order to generate curiosity. Secondly, the instagram algorithm makes a difference if it is managed right. The last key factor is the content of the account itself; it needs to be adapted to the audience and the content in the posts as well as the overall aesthetic of the feed need to be visually appealing in order to raise interest.

The thesis being presented aims to stress the differences between characters in fictional worlds and characters in storyworlds by means of question of possibilities and limits of reader's inferences. The aims of this thesis is to prove that storyworld construed as a mental model manages to avoid some problems that relate to fictional worlds theories. First chapter provides an insight into the issue of definitions and theories of character and places cognitive approaches to character within it. Since a concept of fictional world and a concept of storyworld are often construed as very alike, in the second chapter, there are two opposed opinions concerning reader's activity during a construction of fictional world; that is theories of Lubomír Doležel and Marie-Laure Ryan. By means of their mutual comparision, the distinctive status of fictional character concerning reader's inferences is being emphasized that further bears a decisive role within theory of Umberto Eco of which a core is presented in chapter three. The link between story comprehension and construction of fictional character is a centre of interest of chapter four, where cognitive approaches are represented by theories by Alan Palmer and David Herman. This chapter presents storyworld and character within it as open and fluid flexible....

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:06:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LanaizaNSA_DISSERT.pdf: 975619 bytes, checksum: 109c837ebb52dc1c1163d733e3efa2ba (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05-04 / It is possible to notice that the modern narrative increasingly seeks to invest its characters with a broad and complex nature, away from the well-defined beings of the traditional narrative. Through this work, we aim to make a study of Marcela, a character of the novel A ostra e o vento, by Moacir Costa Lopes, taking into account the way the complexity of the fictitious being is constituted through an analysis of structural, semantic, and thematic elements. We first will bring up a brief theoretical discussion about the character in a novel, and we also will carefully analyze the diagetic universe, presenting the complex path of the character further. Subsequently, we will focus on the structure of the narrative which creates a complex picture of the character, using the technique of crossed points of view as well as the technique of temporal fragmentation. Finally, we will investigate conflicting social relations that portray Marcela s disturbed inner side, as well as the metaphoric symbolic language, which furnishes a number of different representation of this character, impeding the creation of a well-structured coherent character. Studies of scholars such as Antonio Candido, Anatol Rosenfeld, Vitor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva, Fernando Segolin, Gerard Genette, Michel Z?raffa, among others, will guide our analysis / Observa-se na narrativa moderna uma busca cada vez mais frequente por atribuir ?s personagens uma natureza ampla, complexa, distanciada dos seres definidos e bem delimitados da narrativa tradicional. Com este trabalho, objetivamos desenvolver um estudo em torno da personagem Marcela no romance A ostra e o vento (1964), do escritor Moacir Costa Lopes, considerando a constitui??o da complexidade do ser fict?cio por meio da an?lise de elementos estruturais, sem?nticos e tem?ticos. Em um primeiro momento, apresentamos uma breve discuss?o te?rica em torno da categoria personagem romanesca, partindo, em seguida, para uma an?lise detida do universo dieg?tico da obra, apresentando a trajet?ria complicada de Marcela. Posteriormente, concentramos nosso olhar no exame da estrutura??o da narrativa que edifica a imagem complexa da personagem, por meio da t?cnica dos pontos de vista cruzados e da fragmenta??o temporal. Por fim, analisamos as rela??es sociais conflitantes que caracterizam o interior conturbado de Marcela e a linguagem simb?lica e metaf?rica que oferecem um grande n?mero de representa??es distintas da personagem, impossibilitando a constru??o de uma imagem coerente e bem estruturada. Para tanto, partimos de estudos de te?ricos como Antonio Candido, Anatol Rosenfeld, Vitor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva, Fernando Segolin, G?rard Genette, Michel Z?raffa, entre outros autores pertinentes

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Ystad har under lång tid varit en populär turistdestination för svenska och utländska besökare. Staden med dess omnejd har genom den fina miljön och dess historiska byggnader goda förutsättningar att attrahera turister till regionen. Efter filmatiseringarna av Henning Mankells romaner om kriminalkommissarie Kurt Wallander, som utspelas i Ystad, har antalet turister ökat än mer till regionen. Förhållandet mellan böcker och filmer är en väsentlig del av den turism som uppstår efter en berättelse om en fiktiv karaktär i en existerande miljö. Vi ville följaktligen undersöka film- litteraturturism och dess påverkan på en plats. För att genomföra studien tillämpades en kvalitativ metod med kvalitativa intervjuer. Film- och litteraturturism ökar i omfattning inom turismindustrin och det är därav relevant att studera dess existens och betydelse för en plats. Resultaten i studien visar att effekterna på en destination vid film- och litteraturturism är många. När en plats skildras i en berättelse genom filmer eller böcker får platsen en "helig" betydelse för dess största entusiaster. Platsen som skildras kan även använda filmerna och böckerna som marknadsföringsmetod och genom den stärka sitt varumärke. Dock bör samarbeten mellan offentliga och privata aktörer fungera väl för att kunna utnyttja fördelarna med platsbunden film- och litteraturturism på bästa möjliga vis. / Ystad is a popular tourist destination for Swedish and foreign visitors, and has been for a long time. The city with its nice environment and its historic buildings attract tourists to the region. After filming Henning Mankell's novels about criminal inspector Kurt Wallander, set in Ystad, the number of tourists has increased even more to the region. The relationship between books and movies is an essential part of the tourism that occurs after a story about a fictional character in an existing environment. We would therefore consider movie and literary tourism and its impact on a location interesting to examine. To conduct the study a qualitative approach with qualitative interviews. was applied. Film and literature tourism is increasing in the tourism industry and it is hence relevant to study its existence and significance of a place. The results of the study show that the effects of a destination in film and literature tourism are numerous. When a place is illustrated through movies or books it may get a "sacred" aspect for its biggest enthusiasts. The location depicted may also use the films and the books as a marketingiimethod and through the strengthening of its brand. However, collaboration between public and private actors works well in order to take advantage of location-based film and literary tourism in the best possible way.

本論文欲研究虛擬角色於既有智慧財產權法制下的保護途徑，並以商標法與著作權法為核心，探討與虛擬角色保護相關之智慧財產權議題；以及著作權與商標法併用於保護虛擬角色的趨勢之下，對公共領域可能造成的影響，並由此進一步討論利用人地位之保護。 漫畫、卡通等文化創意產業的繁榮，進一步帶動了消費者對於角色相關商品的喜愛與需求，近來隨著網路、智慧型手機的發展，不僅提升了角色人物的普及率，也使得角色的呈現方式更加多元，角色經濟所帶來經濟效益與日俱增，且儼然成為文創產業未來的產品競爭力來源。然而，諸如角色造型與其背景故事，這些藝術創作的心血結晶應如何透過既有智慧財產權法律體系加以保護? 又創作人在尋求智慧財產權保護的過程中會遭遇何等障礙?目前我國學界尚未有深入之研究探討，故為本論文所欲研究之重點。 本論文將以虛擬角色著作權保障之議題為始，從比較法角度探討虛擬角色著作權保護之不同判斷標準，以及各判斷標準下所衍生之問題；再探討虛擬角色取得商標權保護之可能性，以及權利人在取得商標保護過程中所可能面臨之阻礙，並進一步論述虛擬角色商標權保護範圍之問題。 此外，在探討如何以智慧財產權法保護角色之餘，如何平衡保護利用人的權益，更是智慧財產權法一個恆久而困難的問題。由於虛擬角色對其他創作人而言，亦是一個具有發展性的創作素材；如果過度保護虛擬角色，則可能對其他利用人的創作構成阻礙，造成創作火花熄滅的負面效應 。因此，本論文亦將虛擬角色保護的主題與思想表達合併原則的運用、保護商標戲謔仿作等議題相互結合，探討擴大角色智慧財產權保護的趨勢下，如何對利用人地位給予應有的保護。 最後，則冀望透過本論文所提出的歸納結果與淺見，能夠提供相關文創產業工作者參考，進而使國內文創產業重視虛擬角色相關智慧財產權的策略佈局，從而引領我國文化創意產業拓展商機。

Cotutelle de thèse entre l'Université de Montréal et l'Université Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle / Parallèlement à la construction progressive du concept d’« adolescence » par certaines disciplines telles la sociologie et la psychologie, la catégorie de la jeune fille prend une importance de plus en plus marquée dans la réalité sociale et la littérature française des années 1880-1914. Et pourtant : malgré son importance tant quantitative que « qualitative » dans le roman tournant-de-siècle, force est de constater que le personnage-personne de la jeune fille n’a reçu que très peu d’attention critique au cours des dernières décennies. C’est encore plus vrai du personnage de la jeune personne tel qu’il est représenté dans le « roman catholique » des années 1880-1914, cette étiquette de même que l’immense espace d’hétérogénéité générique constitutive qu’il représente ayant somme toute fait l’objet de peu de travaux. L’objectif de cette thèse consiste donc à préciser les caractéristiques que revêt la jeune fille de papier en régime catholique d’écriture ainsi que l’utilisation à des fins politiques, socioéducatives et idéologiques qui est faite d’elle par les romanciers catholiques de l’ère 1900 – autrement dit par les différents pôles d’un sous-champ littéraire catholique en construction et en mouvement. Pour ce faire, et au croisement de l’histoire littéraire, de l’histoire culturelle et de la sociologie de la littérature, il convient d’abord de définir les exigences, normes et valeurs diffusées au sein du sous-champ, toutes liées à la jeune fille historique et sociale et qui conditionnent les postures et les pratiques d’écriture de l’ensemble des agents. Seulement après analyserons-nous les représentations de la « jeune fille » inscrites dans les principaux sous-genres investis par les romanciers catholiques du temps – le roman d’amour, le roman traditionaliste et le roman de vocation spirituelle. On verra alors qu’en plus de rendre visible un conflit de représentations fictionnelles qui réfracte les débats sociaux entre laïcs-républicains et catholiques, les personnages de jeunes filles mis en récit par le roman catholique révèlent les conflits qui opposent différents acteurs à l’intérieur même du sous-champ et, plus largement, du monde catholique de la période 1880-1914. C’est poser que la « jeune fille » est à la fois l’un des enjeux et l’un des instruments fondamentaux du sous-champ des romanciers catholiques tournant-de-siècle : sa représentation littéraire permet en effet aux écrivains catholiques d’alors, en fonction de leur position (dominante-orthodoxe ou dominée-hérétique) dans le sous-champ et des intérêts qui y sont associés, de prendre position dans le sous-champ littéraire catholique, autrement dit de conserver telle quelle ou de subvertir profondément la structure du sous-champ, et donc par extension la structure du champ des formes et des contenus romanesques. / The girl is more important than ever in Fin-de-Siècle France : the rising conflict between the Third Republic and the Church puts the spotlight on this now unavoidable fictional character. And yet, very few studies have focused on her. The same could be said of the Catholic Novel, which has not received much critical attention over the last decades. This study thus aims at describing the features of the girl in French turn-of-the-century Catholic literature, and the ways she is used by Catholic writers to undermine the basis of the new (anticlerical) Republic. But Catholic writers are far from agreeing on the ways the girl should be depicted : some believe that her fictional representation should have moral and ideological effects on the readers (romance and traditionalist writers such as M. Maryan, Henry Bordeaux, René Bazin and Paul Bourget), while others think it should inspire in them the love of the Passion of Jesus (spiritual writers like Barbey d’Aurevilly, Léon Bloy and Émile Baumann). In short, this study shows how, in Fin-de-Siècle French literature, the girl becomes one of the major instruments of the conflicts between Catholics and Republicans, but also between Catholics.