Using an analysis of the creation of the character Dan Kelly in my play, risk, I argue that fairytale characters work as more than personage representations. They function on a big canvas for the audience; they carry large chains of association. Given this, I then propose that the human response is to infer additional meaning, meaning beyond the scope of plot and immediate character interaction - the audience infers symbolic meaning, ‘amplifying’ what is there into more. They enter a ‘generative empty space’ within the play where they infer or ‘unfold’ more meaning. In creating this ‘greater tale’, they are engaged beyond their personal ‘horizon of understanding’, and so, ‘take in’ the work through a heightened perceptual acuity. Therefore, I pursued the idea of making space for the operation of this process, of leveraging the creation of meaning around a character. My inquiry led me to believe that a powerful way to do this was through absence rather than presence and silence rather than sound; and this had a profound impact on my choice of form for Dan Kelly: he progressed, through a number of stages, from reportage to a digital representation.

The intention of this thesis is to create a collection of illustrations to fantasy stories Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman. File also includes book cover and flyleaf. The theoretical part focuses on the current trends in book design. First chapter explains concept, importance and historical context of illustration; the next chapter describes present illustration´s technologies. Next part focuses on Neil Gaiman, the author of the book, and his leading illustrator Dave McKean. Last chapter of the theoretical part compares covers and illustrations of foreign copies of book Smoke and Mirrors. The practical part includes detailed notes about working procedure and technologies used. Finally an interpretation to the individual illustrations is given.

Name: Cooperation of family and school at the beginning of schooling Author: Dušková, T. Supervisor: Mgr. Kargerová, J., Ph.D. The diploma thesis is focused on the cooperation of family and school at the beginning of schooling. The theoretical part describes the school and the family as the institutions that have an irreplaceable position in a life of child. It offers a view into the history and its forms of cooperation and aims which were reached in compare with today's understanding of the child and childhood. It deals with 1989 and its events which influenced the politic, economic and pedagogic situation - the child is in the middle of the family a school attention. The education is innovated, reformatted and new laws together with some new school programmes are issued. The theoretical background is finished by a description of Začít spolu program, its brief characteristic and concrete forms of cooperation with families. The empiric part surveys the situation in an ordinary school and the school worked according to the Začít spolu program. It compares their elementary and secondary levels and it offers some recommendations for better family-school cooperation.

In recent years, old-hand development scholars, in the category of Dan Brockington, have expressed their concern over academia’s neglect of the significance of celebrities in the field. As has been the case of an outturn hereof, namely beauty pageants. In the last six decades, Venezuela has positioned itself not only as one of the world's largest exporters of oil but also as one of the leading engenderers of titleholders in international pageantry. The latter, which has resulted in Venezuelans regarding the pageant as a fundamental cultural undercurrent in their collective identity, seems to be a ceaseless manifestation in spite of the country’s worrisome current socio-economic status. Rather than adopting a condescending paradigm towards the Miss Venezuela pageant, it is precisely this vertex of ambiguity that opens the avenue for an interesting development question. After all, if celebrity beauty queens from Venezuela are deemed as part of the nation’s identity, could the pageant, in the same breath, be deemed as a contributor to communication for development? While espousing historical context as an analysing method and in pursuit of David Hulme’s Celebrity-Development nexus and Elizabeth McCall’s four strands of communication for development, this paper presents a qualitative study in which hands-on experts are given a platform. The findings show the evolution of a beauty pageant from a, nearly, nationalist device into a system that is grounded in the Millennium Development Goals and that aims to forge socially responsible beauty representatives that are competent enough to herald purposeful messages.

The Concerto for Bassoon by Andrzej Panufnik is a valuable addition to bassoon literature. It provides a rare opportunity for the bassoon soloist to perform a piece which is strongly programmatic. The purpose of this document is to examine the historical and theoretical context of the Concerto for Bassoon with special emphasis drawn to Panufnik's understanding of religion in connection with Polish national identity and the national struggle for democratic independence galvanized by the murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko in 1984. Panufnik's relationship with the Polish communist regime, both prior to and after his 1954 defection to England, is explored at length. Each of these aspects informed Panufnik's compositional approach and the expressive qualities inherent in the Concerto for Bassoon. The Concerto for Bassoon was commissioned by the Polanki Society of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was premiered by the Milwaukee Chamber Players, with Robert Thompson as the soloist. While Panufnik intended the piece to serve as a protest against the repression of the Soviet government in Poland, the U. S. context of the commission and premiere is also examined. Additionally, the original manuscript and subsequent piano reduction are compared. Although the Concerto for Bassoon has been subject to formal analysis by several scholars, discussion of the piece is generally contained within a larger discussion of several other compositions, and a comprehensive analysis of the piece has not yet been presented. This document contains a thorough formal analysis of all movements, as well as analysis of Panufnik's compositional style within the context of serialism, postmodernism, and the new Polish school of composition. The Concerto fro Bassoon features several devices common to Panufnik's larger opus, including the se of a common three-note cell, strong contrasts between section and movements, and symmetrical patterns of transposition, metric alteration, dynamic alteration, and registral expansion.

This dissertation for the M.A. in Creative Writing consists of a full-length play, titled Last Laugh and a mini-dissertation. The mini-dissertation explores the phenomenon of Theatre-for-Development, which differs significantly from the performance tradition of classical African drama. The study identifies ways in which Theatre-for-Development practitioners, animators or catalysts, (interchangeable names given to agents who teach target community members theatre-for-development skills) abandon the conventions of classical African drama performances, in terms of the form of plays, stage management and costumes. They find different and less formal ways to tackle the social problems which the target communities experience. The origins of Classical African drama are traced from the western tradition, from which it borrows heavily, and there is some discussion of the socio-historical conditions that prevailed during the time when African playwrights performed those plays, and the rise of nationalism in colonised African states, which in part influenced their production. This study then examines how the socio-political dynamics in the Zimbabwean post-farm-invasions era gave rise to Theatre-for-Development projects in the newly resettled farming communities that faced social development challenges. Despite the land gains peasants enjoyed, the resettled communities found themselves in places far away from schools, hospitals, shops and social service centres. That was the source of their problems. It will be shown how government sponsored Theatre-for-Development groups to mobilise the people, through theatre, to initiate home-groomed solutions to their social and economic problems during a time when the government was bankrupt and the country’s economy was shattered by the destruction of the agricultural and mining sectors, triggered by the invasions of the white commercial farms. The Ziya Community Theatre’s production of Sunrise is analysed in the light of these considerations. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / English / unrestricted

The Master's thesis comes with an idea of general renovation of the building and its surroundings of Elementary art school in Valašské Klobouky. To expand the insufficient and inappropriate space, the new building will be added to present monumental art nouveau Bratmann's villa which will be completely restored to its former appearance from year 1896. The thesis contains widespread analytic part aimed on theoretical preparation for restoration. The plan was to create harmonious changeover between the old building used for musical education and the new building used for the rest of the art education.

Theme of my work is arguable for the cities which are situated near the river. Riverbanks are really nice public space but a lot of them are not "designed for people". Before I started do this work I was thinking about places which are ignored or overlooked in Znojmo town. Yes, town has a lot of places which are interesting and need "new face". There are brownfiels but problems of these localities was designed many times. And I wanted to find some new way, try restore and improve public space in connecting by the river. I chose locality which connect two important buildings – Znojmo castle and Louka monastery. There is needed to improve connection this locality to town centre.

XIMENES, Expedito Eloísio. Estudo filológico e linguístico das unidades fraseológicas do judiciário colonial brasileiro. 2009. 414f. Tese (Doutorado em Linguística) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Departamento de Letras Vernáculas, Programa de Pós-graduação em Linguística, Fortaleza-CE, 2009. / Submitted by nazareno mesquita (nazagon36@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-08-14T14:14:09Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_tese_EEXimenes.pdf: 2947649 bytes, checksum: 9b7fa77c59e2582b38f85f8ee9ec6dc2 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2013-11-14T14:03:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_tese_EEXimenes.pdf: 2947649 bytes, checksum: 9b7fa77c59e2582b38f85f8ee9ec6dc2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-11-14T14:03:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2009_tese_EEXimenes.pdf: 2947649 bytes, checksum: 9b7fa77c59e2582b38f85f8ee9ec6dc2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / This research aims at a philological and linguistic study of the phraseologic units (PU’s) related to the specialised language used in Brazilian colonial judicial system, relative to XVIII and XIX centuries. The study comprises the semi-diplomatic edition of the documents that compose the analysis corpus, composed of 133 Autos de Querela (registers of conflicts) written between 1779 and 1829. It also comprises the structural description of the documents, the historical contextualization of the state of Ceara, the analysis and interpretation of social-historical data related to parties served and to the types of crimes perpetrated. It also includes a glossary of the PU’s used in law processes. For the selection of the PU’s we used the WordSmith Tools software, an electronic tool of Corpus Linguistics, which enabled us to establish occurrence frequencies for the classification of a PU. The research contributes to the philological studies, in the interdisciplinary perspective, whose object is the written text, analysed under different dimensions, be them linguistic or extralinguistic, by considering the cultural and socio-historical realities which reflect the tradition of a people / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo o estudo filológico e linguístico das unidades fraseológicas (UFs) da linguagem especializada do judiciário colonial brasileiro, referente aos séculos XVIII e XIX. O estudo consta da edição semidiplomática dos documentos que compõem o corpus de análise, que é constituído por 133 Autos de Querela escritos entre 1779 e 1829. Consta, também, da descrição estrutural dos documentos, da contextualização histórica do Ceará, da análise e interpretação dos dados histórico-sociais relativos aos sujeitos citados e aos tipos de crimes praticados. Inclui ainda o glossário das UFs usadas nos processos jurídicos. Para a seleção das UFs utilizamos o programa WordSmith Tools, instrumento eletrônico da Linguística de Corpus que nos possibilitou estabelecer as frequências de ocorrência para a classificação de uma UF. A partir dos dados, organizamos o glossário seguindo os padrões estabelecidos para a organização da microestrutura dos verbetes. Estes são constituídos de entradas, definições, contextos de ocorrência e sistema de notas acompanhadas de várias explicações que ajudam a compreender melhor o sentido e o uso das UFs. A pesquisa contribui para os estudos filológicos cujo objeto é o texto escrito, analisado sob diferentes dimensões, tanto linguística quanto extralinguística, quando consideramos as realidades sócio-históricas e culturais que refletem as tradições de um povo

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