abstract: ABSTRACT Mexican Golden Age Cinema materialized the narratives of identity, unity and morality that became the obligated point of reference to understand social stability and mexicaness during the post-revolutionary period. Hence, film stars evolved into cultural icons that embodied the representation of patriarchal order as a synonym for nationalism. However, dissident depictions that challenged carefully tailored heteronormative roles were as much a part of the post-revolutionary reality as was the attempt to manufacture a utopic heterosexual family on screen, that functioned as a metaphor for national reunification under the law of the father/president of the Mexican Republic. Nonetheless, even when an distinguished member of the Mexican star system, Sara García´s queer performativity of her quintessential sainted mother and even more revered grandmother characters highlights fissures in the effort to naturalize sexual passivity and heterosexual motherhood as the core of Mexican women identity. Furthermore, García took advantage of her romanticized butch characters in order to revert lesbian invisibility in movies where she portrait roles that exemplified sapphic households. In most of García's films masculine presence became redundant, hence challenging male privilege. Not very far from her own reality, García's queer women of a certain age, involved in female marriages, contested the post-revolutionary discourse of stability and mexicaness even in the heteronormative realm of Golden Age Filmmaking. Regardless of her queerness, unlike any other transgressive figure, Sara García became a national icon in her time and her image continues to hold relevance in current Mexican popular culture. More than five decades after her death young generations are still familiar with her legacy and her image has evolved into the representation of the nostalgia for tradition and alleged "more simple" times. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Spanish 2014

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O presente trabalho visa delimitar quais os fatores os fatores constitutivos da peça El burlador de Sevilla, tanto do ponto de vista histórico -- isto é, os fatores sociais, políticos e religiosos --, quanto do ponto de vista da estrutura literária -- relacionados à forma artística em que os primeiros ganham forma --, e o modo como esses fatores se relacionam na composição do mito que sustenta o enredo da obra. / The present work intents to delimitate what are the containing factors from the play El burldor de Sevilla, by the historic view -- social, politics and religious facts -- as well as the literary structure view -- related to the artistc form in which the previuous ones gain shape --, and the way those factors associate to each other compounding the plot sustaining myth.

Submitted by isabela.moljf@hotmail.com (isabela.moljf@hotmail.com) on 2017-05-26T13:27:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigosallesdecarvalho.pdf: 3755534 bytes, checksum: 1bc9b732ab1b1a7ff6f830b8eafa2ab5 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-05-26T15:10:55Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigosallesdecarvalho.pdf: 3755534 bytes, checksum: 1bc9b732ab1b1a7ff6f830b8eafa2ab5 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-26T15:10:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigosallesdecarvalho.pdf: 3755534 bytes, checksum: 1bc9b732ab1b1a7ff6f830b8eafa2ab5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-04-19 / A presente Dissertação de Mestrado em Ecologia Aplicada ao Manejo e Conservação de Recursos Naturais tem por objetivo principal discutir as bases teóricas da ética ambiental relacionando-a à situação prática de conflito referente à presença de calitriquídeos (sagüis) introduzidos na área de Mata Atlântica do Estado do Rio de Janeiro reservada ao programa de conservação do mico-leão-dourado (outro calitriquídeo). Foi realizado um estudo extenso abordando o pressupostos dos princípios éticos e das correntes atuais da ética ambiental – antropocentrismo, sencientismo, biocentrismo e ecocentrismo – onde foram levantados seus aspectos característico e seus pontos convergentes e discrepantes. Os resultados deste estudo foram relacionados com uma pesquisa etnológica feita com os principais tomadores de decisão referente às opções de manejo dos sagüis, no sentido de revelar os possíveis pontos discordantes e facilitar um encaminhamento ético de questões valorativas originadas dentro do contexto da pesquisa científica. O contraste entre os valores morais encontrado nas respostas iluminados à luz das teorias abordadas mostra a importância de uma discussão aprofundada neste sentido e a relevância deste tipo de pesquisa dentro do contexto científico. / This study has as its main goal to explore the theoretical fundaments of the environmental ethics connecting it with the actual concern about two species of marmosets (Callithrix spp.) introduced in the Atlantic Rain Forest, a Golden lion tamarin’s (Leotopithecus rosalia) conservation area. A comprehensive research was made on the ethical principles of the main environmental ethics theories – anthropocentrism, sencientism, biocentrism and ecocentrism – highlighting their distinctive attributes as well as their convergent and divergent aspects. The results of this research were used as comparative ground to an ethnological research, made with the main stakeholders who are to decide which management attitude to take directed to the marmosets populations, and the major concern was to revel existing gaps, divergences and convergences in a way to increment this scientific research with an ethical support to its emerging value issues. Some discrepancies between the stakeholders’ moral considerations reveled through the light of the related ethical theories showed the necessity of a deeper discussion over this subject and the relevance of this kind of approach as a complement to technical issues on empirical science.

This dissertation investigates the visual and verbal representations of animals in a selection of commercial picture books for a young readership of preschool children. The picture books selected are part of the Little Golden Book series. The first twelve books in this series were published in the United States in 1942 and are still in print today, while new books are continually being published. Because these popular picture books have had a broad readership from their inception and the books in the series have a uniform aesthetics, a comparative analysis provides insight into mainstream human-animal relationships.  Children’s literature is never innocent, and fraught with power imbalances. Animals become political beings, not only in the sense that they convey a didactic message, but in the sense that each animal representation carries a host of ideas and assumptions about human-animal relations with it. Using a theoretical framework that is grounded in Human Animal Studies (HAS), and more specifically literary animal studies, this dissertation analyzes the representation of human-animal interactions and relationships in different contexts.  Before the advent of HAS, anthropocentric, humanist interpretations of animal presence in children’s literature used to be prevalent. Commercial picture books in particular could benefit from readings that investigate animal presence without immediately resorting to humanist interpretations. One way of doing that is to start by questioning how interspecies difference and hierarchy is constructed in these books, verbally, visually and in the interaction between words and images. Based on this, we can speculate about the consequences this may have for the reader’s conceptualization of human-animal relationships. In children’s literature speciesism and ageism often intersect, for example when young children are compared with (young) animals or when animals are presented as stand-ins for young children. This dissertation explores the mechanisms behind the representation of species difference in commercial picture books.  The aim of this study is to analyze how commercial picture books like the Little Golden Books harbor a potential to shape young readers’ ideas about humanity and animality, species difference and hierarchy and the possibilities of interspecies interactions. The socializing function that is an important component of all children’s books makes that these picture books can shape readers’ attitudes from an early age. When reading children’s books featuring animals, the particular way these animals are represented guides the reader towards an ideology – and in the West, this ideology is predominantly anthropocentric. In Western cultures, children and animals are commonly thought of as natural allies, and as such they are often depicted as opposed to adult culture.  This dissertation identifies the ways in which certain conservative tendencies are activated by these commercial picture books, but also emphasizes that they can be a subversive space where anthropocentrism can be challenged. The case studies developed in this dissertation demonstrate how even so-called ’unsophisticated’ picture books contain interesting strains of animal related ideology worthy of in-depth analysis. The visual and verbal dimensions of these picture books show that these stories are embedded in a cultural context that helps give meaning to the animals. A recurring concern is the function of anthropomorphism and the role it plays in how we value the animals in these books. I am particularly interested in how picture books depict various degrees of anthropomorphism, because it has the potential to challenge species boundaries and disrupt the human-animal dichotomy.

Many animals socially learn, but very few do so through teaching, where an individual modifies its behaviour in order to facilitate learning for another individual. Teaching behaviour is costly, but can confer numerous advantages, such as high fidelity transmission of information or an increase in the rate of social learning. In many putative cases of teaching, it is not known whether the pupil learns from the modified behaviour. This thesis addresses this issue in three cases of potential teaching behaviour. In particular, it investigates whether the role of food transfers in wild golden lion tamarins is to teach which foods are good to eat (Chapter 5). There was little evidence that novel foods were transferred more than familiar foods, and this was not due to the juveniles attempting to obtain novel foods more than familiar ones, or by adults discarding novel foods more than familiar ones. Transfers were however more successful when donors had previously ingested the food type transferred. Successful food transfers also had a positive correlation with foraging choices once juveniles were older, suggesting they learned from food transfers. In golden lion tamarins, this thesis also examined whether juveniles learned from food-offering calls which substrates were good to forage on (Chapter 6). Juveniles that experienced playback of food-offering calls ate more on a novel substrate, than juveniles that did not experience those playbacks, both immediately as the calls were being played, and in the long term, six months after the playbacks. This suggests that juveniles learned from the playbacks. Finally, this thesis attempted to replicate previous findings showing that hens modify their behaviour when chicks feed from seemingly unpalatable food, and explored whether chicks learned what food to eat based on the maternal display (Chapter 7). The experiment failed to find evidence for teaching behaviour, but results were not inconsistent with previous findings. Moreover, there was little evidence that chicks learned from their mother, quite to the contrary, hens seemed to acquire their foraging decisions based on their chicks' choices.

This master's thesis examines a criminal response to the sharp increase in the real gold price between the years 1998 and 2012. By using a regression analysis, I show that an increase in the real gold price does not have a significant impact on the number of golden crimes but the gold price significantly influences the stolen amount of gold with the elasticity of 2.2. In addition, an increase of lagged real wage and non-lagged real wage, and the number of prisoners significantly decreases golden crime whereas increased unemployment has a negative impact. Moreover, I find that in all types of a regression analysis (daily, monthly and quarterly) higher temperature and also lower cloudiness (as proxies for the good weather) significantly increase the golden crime rate. The daily model also revealed that during weekends and holidays there is significantly and markedly lower crime.

The purpose of the present work is to analyze the function of three major conventional scenes, broadly termed topoi, in three pastoral plays: the Aminta of Tasso, Guarini's Pastor Fido and the Bergerie by Montchrestien. The initial part of this study presents the basic features of pastoral drama in the last quarter of the sixteenth century in both Italy and France. It is concerned especially with some of the theoretical dicta expressed at that time and with the manner in which they may have influenced the handling of major dramatic scenes by different playwrights. Particular attention is devoted to the acrimonious querelle that took place around the Pastor Fido. The successful defense of Guarini's tragicommedia pastorale was, in fact, of great significance in the development of the pastoral dramatic genre because it guaranteed the dignity of pastoral tragicomedy alongside the established forms of tragedy and comedy. The main part of the dissertation is a detailed textual study of three major recurring scenes in pastoral drama; namely, those involving Cupid, the Golden Age theme and the Satyr. The use of each of these famous topological structures reveals, of course, the dramatist's conception of them and, more importantly, his audience's expectations. Whether a particular topos is elaborated more decoratively than dramatically, it must have an integral function in the structure of the play. Contrary to the entrenched opinion on pastoral drama, these were plays that were written in order to be staged, an important fact which is too often forgotten and only recently, thanks to the work of such critics as Clubb, Igliozzi and Dalla Valle, has been given due emphasis. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

In spite of the enormous resurgence of critical interest in minor figures of the Victorian era over the last twenty years, almost no attention has been paid to Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897). In his own age, he was respected as a man of letters, educator, art critic, poet, friend of Alfred Tennyson, and editor of The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language, first published in 1861. This dissertation attempts to make good that neglect in two ways: firstly, through an analysis of his life and times, an assessment of his writings as an art and literary critic, an examination of his considerable corpus of original poetry, and the compilation of the first comprehensive bibliography of his own publications. This bibliography is accompanied by a checklist of manuscript sources and a listing of secondary materials about Palgrave himself. Secondly, the dissertation makes the first systematic examination of the Golden Treasury, its genesis and editing principles, its critical reception, and its publication history. This detailed study is accompanied by eight appendices giving bibliographical information about the form and contents of the four major editions of the Treasury published in Palgrave's lifetime, along with a listing of sources and a checklist of contemporary reviews. Throughout the dissertation, the intellectual concerns that led Palgrave to develop a set of fixed principles for judging all art and literature are examined in order to establish that, like his friend Matthew Arnold, he was a committed Hellenist, who insisted that all poetry conform to what he perceived as the "Homeric" ideals of simplicity and unadorned language. The Golden Treasury, in particular, is based on an ideal of "unity" which Palgrave used to justify the many editorial excisions and variant readings which are such a feature of the volume's texts. It is impossible to account fully for the unprecedented success of the Golden Treasury, which has continued to be reprinted in a variety of editions from the time of its first publication until the present, but one of its most important features is that it is the first anthology of English lyric poetry to declare itself complete: Palgrave insisted that the book contained all the best lyrics in the English language. Just as significant is the fact that it is the first anthology by a professional educator who refused to make his selections on the basis of their morally improving qualities, but relied instead on poetic excellence alone. "Francis Turner Palgrave and The Golden Treasury," therefore, attempts to account for the extraordinary success of the Golden Treasury and to examine one of the nineteenth-century's more interesting minor figures, one who was a friend of some of the most brilliant men of his day, including Jowett, Browning, Arnold, Clough, and Gladstone; a recognised minor poet of the "contemplative" school which included Arnold and Clough; and a well-known champion of the Pre-Raphaelite painters. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

Despite an IUCN conservation status of critically endangered, Juliana’s golden mole (Neamblysomus julianae) has received no ecological research attention to date. The species urgently requires conservation attention, but a poor understanding its biology, ecology and distribution makes effective conservation planning almost impossible. In light of this, a thorough understanding of the habitat requirements for this habitat specific species was needed. Additionally, the cryptic lifestyle of Juliana’s golden mole has resulted in very few distribution records for the species. Little was known about the animals’ daily and seasonal activity patterns or movement patterns. This study revealed that Juliana’s golden mole is range restricted on account of sandy soils that have a uniform particle size distribution. This feature limits substrate compaction, making tunnelling far easier for these small mammals. In comparison to uninhabited areas, occupied habitat had greater vegetation cover provided by trees and shrubs, and this would be expected to provide a cooler and moister microenvironment. The ecological parameters associated with the species presence were then used, in addition to existing GIS data, to predict regions of potentially suitable habitat. This process revealed large potentially inhabitable areas in the northern parts of South Africa. Preliminary ground-truthing has shown the model to be relatively accurate with three potentially new populations having been identified. Contrary to what has been reported in the literature, Juliana’s golden mole does not appear to be strictly nocturnal. Instead, an adaptive pattern of activity was observed, governed by soil temperature. Body temperature was found to fluctuate to some degree with that of the soil temperature, but fluctuations were regulated by behavioural thermoregulation. Seasonal activity is highly correlated with rainfall. Rain moistens the soil making it significantly softer and far easier to tunnel through. Using this and other information acquired through the course of the study, the thesis culminates with an evaluation of conservation concerns and proposed conservation management actions. Copyright / Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Zoology and Entomology / unrestricted