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This thesis attempts to establish that Ford Madox Ford's tetralogy Parade's End is in structure and essence a comic novel. The first chapter deals briefly with the fourth novel, The Last Post. The suggestion is made that it provides a comic conclusion to the tetralogy. Its vision is positive and promises a better world for mankind. Chapter Two follows the suggestion that Parade's End is comic with a theoretical analysis of the nature and form of comedy. The theory is taken largely from Northrop Frye's work Anatomy of Criticism. The central point made is that in comic action there is a motion from one type of society to another. In the new society, which is more humane than the old, the romantic hero and heroine are finally able to achieve happiness. There is a freeing of artificial bonds imposed by the old society, which is characterized in the tetralogy by the term "parade". When the old society has finally been defeated, a comic saturnalia breaks out in A Man Could Stand Up. That Parade's End so closely follows a comic pattern suggests that Ford was using the pattern very consciously. Chapter Three deals with Ford's technique of impressionism and discusses the relation of this technique to the mode of irony as defined by Frye. Ford's ironic vision is discussed with reference to his dual view of Tietjens' character as both heroic and "villainous". "Parade" is also to be considered ironically in Ford's work. The old code has produced a system which is apparently very beautiful and very virtuous but all systems are found to be inhibiting and deleterious. Using the concept of the dual vision, the rest of the thesis discusses some of the characters in the comic action. They are seen to be suffering from a bondage to a social code which represses man's instinctual nature. The code of repression leads to comic scenes such as the one in which Duchemin disrupts the elaborate breakfast party with his obscenities. Tietjens is the main concern and he is considered as an inhibitor of festivity who gradually, through the experience of war, is born into the comic hero, breaks with society and sets out to establish a new society in the pastoral world of the fourth novel. The war itself is seen as an extension of the nature and activities of society. A society which has imprisoned intimacy, communication, sexuality, love, explodes into war because it has an inadequate vision of the necessities of human existence. The novel, Parade's End, is, in part, an argument against rigid social institutions. The comic action moves away from rigidity towards a sense of flux. The old order decays, falls, but this fall is not tragic nor epic; it is found to be salubrious and comic. Tietjens sloughs off his old skin, his old principles, and frees his instinctual nature to become more human. What was feared is not to be feared; the passing of generations is one of the things that is. The other thing that is is Tietjens' character. His system goes but he himself does not. In contrast, his brother Mark, totally identified with the system, dies. The romantic hero and heroine, however, are saved, as they always are in a world of comic fiction. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

With the increasingly stringent regulations and laws being put in place worldwide with regards to a cleaner and a safer environment, the modern diesel engine has scope to be improved upon to help meet these new standards set for the betterment of our cities. There are many current modes of alternative transport, with diesel-hydrogen combustion being a transitional solution from fossil fuels to hydrogen powered vehicles. The main objective of this research effort was to investigate the effects of intake air enrichment with hydrogen on the performance, combustion, and emissions of a diesel engine. The secondary aim was to design and optimise accurate engine models which can replicate real world experiments and conditions. This becomes increasingly useful in the modern era of engine testing and development as it allows for more manufacturers to test and optimise new combustion methods, without the need for a physical engine, to meet the ever-tightening emissions legislations. Therefore, the accuracy of the models produced could pave the way for more simulations to be carried out via manufacturers with more confidence. The experimental tests were carried out on a 2.0 litre Ford High Speed Direct Injection (HSDI) diesel engine. the engine was tested at various conditions mimicking light- and medium-duty diesel engines. Hydrogen was used via a bottle with the composition of the gas replicating exhaust gas reformed intake air. The percentage of the hydrogen and the start of injection for diesel were altered for the tests. The simulations were carried out on a replicated four-cylinder 2.0 litre Ford HSDI diesel engine on Ricardo Wave® and a single-cylinder DI diesel engine modelled based on a small Yanmar L70N diesel engine. The experimental operating parameters were used in the simulations to measure the level of accuracy achieved with the models on the software. The experimental results showed that with hydrogen enrichment of the intake air, the CO and smoke emissions were reduced significantly, however NOx emissions were found to have increased at certain conditions. The simulations for the multi-cylinder diesel engine showed great promise with an average of 95% accuracy across the operating conditions and emissions measured. The single-cylinder diesel engine displayed low levels of Total Hydrocarbons (THC), Carbon Monoxide (CO), with a slight increase in Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx) emissions but did show high levels of accuracy against literature and other experimental work based on similar operating conditions. Although there is an abundance of literature currently investigating the effects of hydrogen enrichment of the intake air, the new contributions to knowledge of this research is the comparison between simulated and experimental work of transitional combustion methods such as this. This research is believed to help aid the industry in testing and optimising of simulated engine models for a more reliable manufacturing process.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 1975. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 627-631).

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Sydney, 2007. / Title from title screen (viewed 2 May 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Research) to the Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts. Bibliography: leaves 81-86. Also available in print form.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 1975. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 627-631). Also issued in print.

Thesis--Montpellier III. / Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-285).

Inaug.-diss.--Münster i.W. / Lebenslauf. "Verzeichnis der benutzten literatur": p. [5]-9.

Thesis--Montpellier III. / Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-285).