Thesis (MA (Afrikaans and Dutch))—University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / This study explores the manner in which the incomprehensibility of people’s lives and the relativity of history are portrayed in Sleuteloog by Hella Haasse. The expansion of these two themes focuses on the roles of perspective and focalisation and their connection to the identity of the self and the “other” against the backdrop of Dutch India /Indonesia and the Netherlands.

Thesis (MA (Afrikaans and Dutch))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die wyse waarop die ruimtebeelding in Joe Speedboot deur Tommy Wieringa in wisselwerking tree met die identiteitsontwikkeling in die roman. Aan die hand van teoretisering deur onder andere Henri Lefebvre word die uitbeelding van die sosiale ruimte in die roman aan die orde gestel. Die klassifikasie van Joe Speedboot as ‟n ontwikkelingsroman is hierby ‟n noemenswaardige uitgangspunt, omdat Wieringa die sentrale karakters se adolessensie, oftewel vormingsjare, in die roman uitbeeld. Die identiteitskonstruksie wat in die roman voorgestel word, strook met teoretiese beskouings van identiteit as ‟n dinamiese en gekonstrueerde konsep wat deur sosiale en kulturele oorwegings beïnvloed word. ‟n Ondersoek na die gesimuleerde werklikheid waarin Wieringa sy hooffigure situeer, dui aan dat die parogiale ruimte in die roman as stagnerend en voorspelbaar uitgebeeld word. In teenstelling tot die stilstand wat die ruimte kenmerk, word ‟n preokkupasie met beweging en vooruitgang aan die sentrale karakters toegeskryf. Beide die fisiese én eksistensïele dimensies van beweging en beweeglikheid figureer prominent in die roman. Dit word nóú verweef met die liminale posisie wat die karakters as adolessente in die gemeenskap beklee. Daar word geponeer dat die opposisie tussen stilstand en beweging nie net ingespan word by die ruimtebeelding en strukturele samestelling van die roman nie, maar ook ten grondslag lê aan die uitbeelding van die hoofkarakters se ontwikkelende identiteite. Die outeur kies in Joe Speedboot ‟n hoofkarakter met beperkte opsies en demonstreer hoe sy fisieke belemmeringe onafwendbaar op ‟n slot afstuur wat negatief óf positief geïnterpreteer kan word. In die lig van die hoë lof wat hierdie roman toegeswaai is, val dit vreemd op dat so min navorsing tot dusver oor Joe Speedboot onderneem is. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the way in which the construction of space interacts with the development of identity in Joe Speedboot by Tommy Wieringa. On the basis of theoretical perspectives of, inter alia, Henri Lefebvre attention is given to the construction of the social space in the novel. The classification of Joe Speedboot as a Bildungsroman is an important point of departure in this regard, due to the fact that Wieringa depicts the central characters‟ adolescence in the novel. The portrayal of the construction of identity in the text corresponds with theoretical thoughts on identity as a dynamic and constructed concept that is affected by social and cultural considerations. An exploration of the simulated reality in which Wieringa situates his characters, indicates that the parochial space in Joe Speedboot is sketched as being stagnant and predictable. In contrast to the standstill which characterizes the social space, a preoccupation with movement and progress is ascribed to the central characters. Both the physical and existential dimensions of movement and mobility figure prominently in the novel. It is also interwoven with the liminal position the characters occupy in the community due to their adolescence. It is postulated that the opposition between stagnation and movement is not only exerted in the construction of space and the structural composition of the text, but is also presented as playing a determinative role in the development of the characters‟ identities. The author chooses for a main character with limited prospects and demonstrates how his physical handicap necessarily leads to a conclusion that allows for both positive and negative interpretations. Given the critical acclaim that the novel has received, it seems strange indeed that Joe Speedboot has thusfar not been the subject of analytical research.

Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the Epistulae Morales Seneca presents his moral philosophy. Scholars such as Hadot, Mans and Smuts have studied Seneca's moral philosophy in the Epistulae Morales. The question is, how does Seneca present and develop his moral philosophy in the Epistulae Morales, i.e. what literary technique does he use? Scholars have pointed out that Seneca's use of the epistolary form is an integral part of this literary technique. The epistolary form was an ideal medium for conveying his moral philosophy: "[Seneca] presented himself as a spiritual guide, and for that purpose he made use of the literary form of letters ... In this form Seneca was able to give a detailed presentation of the course of moral education" (Misch 1950:419). The more specific question is thus: how does Seneca use the epistolary form to present and develop his moral philosophy in the Epistulae Morales? In order to answer how Seneca employs the epistolary form, it is necessary to understand what Seneca's goal was with the Epistulae Morales. I suggest that the goal of Seneca's moral philosophy in the Epistulae Morales is the development of a practical moral identity. Seneca's choice of the letter as the form of his philosophical discussion enabled him to create certain fictional personae. The three main personae of the Epistulae Morales are the Ideal Persona (the embodiment of Seneca's moral philosophy), the persona Seneca and the persona Lucilius. These personae demonstrate the phases of moral progress. The Ideal Persona is the ideal, which the personae Seneca and Lucilius must strive towards becoming. The persona Seneca acts in the role of the mentor, advising the persona Lucilius on how to achieve this ideal, but he is himself still struggling towards it. The persona Lucilius is just beginning to walk the road of moral progress at the beginning of the Epistulae Morales. The phases of moral progress, which are enacted by the three personae, are also the phases of the development of a practical moral identity. The practical moral identity should thus be viewed both as a goal and as a process in the letters. Epistulae Morales 1-29 form a separate whole, as scholars have pointed out. These letters also supply sufficient evidence of Seneca's literary technique of developing a practical moral identity in the Epistulae Morales. A close reading of Epistulae Morales 1-29 in Chapter 2 analyses this literary technique. Chapter 3 involves a systematic exposition of the practical moral identity in terms of certain themes. The themes represent the main aspects of moral development, i.e. the main aspects of the development of a practical moral identity in Epistulae Morales 1-29. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In die Epistulae Morales bied Seneca sy morele filosofie aan. Vakkundiges soos Hadot, Mans en Smuts het Seneca se morele filosofie in die Epistulae Morales bestudeer. Die vraag is egter, hoe ontwikkel Seneca sy morele filosofie in die Epistulae Morales, m.a.w watter literêre tegniek gebruik hy? Vakkundiges het daarop gedui dat Seneca se gebruik van die briefvorm 'n integrale deel van hierdie literêre tegniek uitmaak. Die briefvorm was 'n ideale medium om sy morele filosofie weer te gee: "[Seneca] presented himself as a spiritual guide, and for that purpose he made use of the literary form of letters ... In this form Seneca was able to give a detailed presentation of the course of moral education" (Misch 1950:419). Die meer spesifieke vraag is dus: hoe gebruik Seneca die briefvorm om sy morele filosofie in die Epistulae Morales te ontwikkel? Om hierdie vraag te beantwoord, is dit nodig om te verstaan wat Seneca se doel met die Epistulae Morales was. Ek stel voor dat Seneca die ontwikkeling van 'n praktiese morele identiteit ten doel gehad het. Seneca se gebruik van die briefvorm het hom in staat gestel om sekere fiktiewe personae te skep. Die drie hoof personae van die Epistulae Morales is die Ideale Persona (die verpersoonliking van Seneca se morele filosofie), die persona Seneca en die persona Lucilius. Hierdie personae verteenwoordig die fases van morele ontwikkeling. Die Ideale Persona is die ideaal, wat Seneca en Lucilius moet nastreef. Seneca speel die rol van mentor. Hy gee Lucilius raad oor hoe om hierdie ideaal te verwesenlik, maar hyself streef ook daarna. Die Epistulae Morales open met Lucilius aan die begin van sy morele ontwikkeling. Die fases van morele ontwikkeling wat deur die drie personae opgevoer word is ook die fases van die ontwikkeling van 'n praktiese morele identiteit. Die praktiese morele identiteit moet gesien word as beide 'n doel en 'n proses in die briewe. Epistulae Morales 1-29 vorm 'n afsonderlike geheel, soos deur vakkundiges uitgewys is. Hierdie briewe verskaf voldoende bewys vir die literêre tegniek waarmee die praktiese morele identiteit in die Epistulae Morales geskep word. 'n Gedetailleerde analise van Epistulae Morales 1-29 in Hoofstuk 2 analiseer hierdie literêre tegniek. Hoofstuk 3 gee 'n sistematiese uiteensetting van die praktiese morele identiteit in terme van sekere temas. Die temas verteenwoordig die hoof aspekte van morele ontwikkeling, m.a.w. die hoof aspekte van die ontwikkeling van 'n praktiese morele identiteit in Epistulae Morales 1-29.

A collection of three, interwoven short stories set in Japantown, San Francisco and the Topaz Internment Camp in central Utah during World War II. The pieces in this collection feature themes of cultural identity and the reconstruction of personal identity in times of change and crisis. Collection includes the stories "Moving Sale," "Evacuation," and "Resettlement."

Voices are used as a vehicle for language, and variation in the acoustic properties of voices also contains information about the speaker. Listeners use measurable qualities, such as pitch and formant traits, as cues to a speaker’s physical stature and attractiveness. Emotional states and personality characteristics are also judged from vocal stimuli. The research contained in this thesis examines vocal masculinity, aesthetics and personality, with an emphasis on the perception of prosocial traits including trustworthiness and cooperativeness. I will also explore themes which are more cognitive in nature, testing aspects of vocal stimuli which may affect trait attribution, memory and the ascription of identity. Chapters 2 and 3 explore systematic differences across vocal utterances, both in types of utterance using different classes of stimuli and across the time course of perception of the auditory signal. These chapters examine variation in acoustic measurements in addition to variation in listener attributions of commonly-judged speaker traits. The most important result from this work was that evaluations of attractiveness made using spontaneous speech correlated with those made using scripted speech recordings, but did not correlate with those made of the same persons using vowel stimuli. This calls into question the use of sustained vowel sounds for the attainment of ratings of subjective characteristics. Vowel and single-word stimuli are also quite short – while I found that attributions of masculinity were reliable at very short exposure times, more subjective traits like attractiveness and trustworthiness require a longer exposure time to elicit reliable attributions. I conclude with recommending an exposure time of at least 5 seconds in duration for such traits to be reliably assessed. Chapter 4 examines what vocal traits affect perceptions of pro-social qualities using both natural and manipulated variation in voices. While feminine pitch traits (F0 and F0-SD) were linked to cooperativeness ratings, masculine formant traits (Df and Pf) were also associated with cooperativeness. The relative importance of these traits as social signals is discussed. Chapter 5 questions what makes a voice memorable, and helps to differentiate between memory for individual voice identities and for the content which was spoken by administering recognition tests both within and across sensory modalities. While the data suggest that experimental manipulation of voice pitch did not influence memory for vocalised stimuli, attractive male voices were better remembered than unattractive voices, independent of pitch manipulation. Memory for cross-modal (textual) content was enhanced by raising the voice pitch of both male and female speakers. I link this pattern of results to the perceived dominance of voices which have been raised and lowered in pitch, and how this might impact how memories are formed and retained. Chapter 6 examines masculinity across visual and auditory sensory modalities using a cross-modal matching task. While participants were able to match voices to muted videos of both male and female speakers at rates above chance, and to static face images of men (but not women), differences in masculinity did not influence observers in their judgements, and voice and face masculinity were not correlated. These results are discussed in terms of the generally-accepted theory that masculinity and femininity in faces and voices communicate the same underlying genetic quality. The biological mechanisms by which vocal and facial masculinity could develop independently are speculated.

梁志華. / 論文 (哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 1999. / 參考文獻 (leaves 265-293). / 附中英文摘要. / Liang Zhihua. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)-- Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 1999. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 265-293). / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Chapter 第一章 --- 引言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一節： --- 研究動機、方法與範圍 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二節： --- 也斯簡介 --- p.4 / Chapter 第三節： --- 也斯詩文評論中的都市 --- p.6 / Chapter 第四節： --- 也斯小說中的都市 --- p.17 / Chapter 第五節： --- 小結 --- p.23 / Chapter 第二章 --- 研究綜述 --- p.24 / Chapter 第一節： --- 也斯小說研究綜述 --- p.24 / Chapter 第二節： --- 《剪紙》研究综述 --- p.29 / Chapter 第三節： --- 《煩惱娃娃的旅程》研究综述 --- p.34 / Chapter 第四節： --- 小結：以「都市」為中心的研究角度 --- p.43 / Chapter 第三章 --- 都市生活與文化空間理論概述 --- p.44 / Chapter 第一節： --- 小引 --- p.44 / Chapter 第二節： --- 都市生活形態簡釋 --- p.45 / Chapter 一、 --- 社會學和文學中的「都市」形象 / Chapter 二、 --- 現代都市生活形態特色 / Chapter 三、 --- 後現代社會中的都市文化 / Chapter 第三節： --- 「文化空間」概述 --- p.60 / Chapter 一、 --- 「文化空間」簡釋 / Chapter 二、 --- 學者對香港「都市」和「文化空間」的看法 / Chapter 三、 --- 也斯對香港「都市」、「都市文化」與「文化空間」的意見 / Chapter 第四節： --- 小結 --- p.71 / Chapter 第四章 --- 《剪紙》：對都市生活幻象的質疑 --- p.72 / Chapter 第一節： --- 小引 --- p.72 / Chapter 第二節： --- 都市西化生活的幻象 --- p.77 / Chapter 一、 --- 西化生活的表象 / Chapter 二、 --- 都市西化生活背後的空虛和孤獨 / Chapter 三、 --- 都市人際關係疏離，溝通的嘗試與失落 / Chapter 第三節： --- 對「虛擬傳統」的追尋 --- p.86 / Chapter 一、 --- 對「傳統」追尋的嘗試 / Chapter 二、 --- 「傳統」的虛幻與真實 / Chapter 第四節： --- 對香港文化身份的思考 --- p.94 / Chapter 一、 --- 對身份的懷疑與否認 / Chapter 二、 --- 角色的扮演與身份的尋找 / Chapter 三、 --- 重像與香港文化身份的追尋 / Chapter 第五節： --- 傳播媒介的虛妄與真實 --- p.103 / Chapter 一、 --- 對傳播媒介的質疑 / Chapter 二、 --- 對報刊專欄文字的懷疑與肯定 / Chapter 第六節： --- 都市生活的幻象與魔幻手法的借用 --- p.110 / Chapter 一、 --- 也斯對魔幻現實主義的譯介 / Chapter 二、 --- 《剪紙》中魔幻現實主義的應用 / Chapter 第七節： --- 小結 --- p.119 / Chapter 第五章 --- 《煩惱娃娃的旅程》：都市文化空間的追尋 --- p.120 / Chapter 第一節： --- 小引 --- p.120 / Chapter 第二節： --- 「現實的旅程」：「我」所走過的都市 --- p.123 / Chapter 一、 --- 繁華都市中的孤獨 / Chapter 二、 --- 從外國都市回到香港經驗 / Chapter 第三節： --- 「記憶的旅程」：「我」所經歷的香港 --- p.130 / Chapter 一、 --- 受到壓抑的香港歷史 / Chapter 二、 --- 個人成長過程的回溯 / Chapter 第四節： --- 「內心的旅程」：「我」對都市「文化空間」的尋找 --- p.138 / Chapter 一、 --- 打破外國都市的「刻板印象」 / Chapter 二、 --- 對「後現代」都市文化形態的反省 / Chapter 三、 --- 對外國「文化空間」的關注和思考 / Chapter 四、 --- 都市理想文化空間的尋覓 / Chapter 第五節： --- 「文字的旅程」：「我」對香港「文化空間」的反省 --- p.154 / Chapter 一、 --- 打破香港的「刻板印象」 / Chapter 二、 --- 開放而包容的文化空間 / Chapter 三、 --- 封閉而排他的文化空間 / Chapter 第六節： --- 「旅程」與「都市」的交錯與重疊 --- p.168 / Chapter 一、 --- 意象交疊 / Chapter 二、 --- 受敘者身份的游移 / Chapter 第七節： --- 小結 --- p.175 / Chapter 第六章 --- 餘論及結語 --- p.176 / Chapter 第一節： --- 小引 --- p.176 / Chapter 第二節： --- 《剪紙》、《煩惱娃娃的旅程》與香港、 都市與文化的對話 --- p.177 / Chapter 第三節： --- 《剪紙》、《煩惱娃娃的旅程》與其他作品的對話 --- p.181 / Chapter 一、 --- 《剪紙》與魔幻現實主義的對話 / Chapter 二、 --- 《煩惱娃娃的旅程》與《看（不）見的城市》的對話 / Chapter 第四節： --- 結語 --- p.185 / 附錄 / 附錄（一）：《煩惱娃娃的旅程》統計表十二個 --- p.187 / 附錄（二）：也斯小說編年表 --- p.259 / 參考書目 --- p.265

Ngai Sek Yum, Steven. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 306-314). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.

Thesis (doctoral)--Göteborgs universitet, 2002. / Added t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-223).

Thesis supervisor: Alvin Snider. Includes bibliographic references (p. 214-227).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online (fee-based); online preview of the thesis is also available at no cost.