Inaug.-Diss.--Halle-Wittenberg. / Lebenslauf. "Zitierte Literatur": p. 97-98.

Th. 3e cycle--Hist. du monde contemp.--Grenoble 2, 1986.

Thèse--Lettres--Paris, 1928. / L'éd. de 1928 a paru dans la "Bibliothèque de la Revue de de littérature comparée" Bibliogr. p. 177-181. Index.

Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät I--Universität Zürich, 1989.

It is the purpose of this thesis to trace the influence on the development of Tolstoy as a literary genius of several women with whom he came in close contact during his long life. The first woman considered is Countess Mary Tolstoy, the saintly mother who died when her son was less than two years old. All that he knew of her, he learned indirectly from her letters and diary, from old servants, friends, and relatives, and more especially from "Aunt" Tatyana Yergolskaya. However, her influence was so great, inspite of the fact that he never remembered her personally, that she must occupy a prominent place in this work. She became for her famous son an ideal, a seeker for truth, a mother-image and a standard of self-sacrificing womanhood against which, throughout his life all women were measured and fell short. Another woman whose influence on Tolstoy was somewhat indirect was his "Aunt" Alexandra Andreievna Tolstoy, to whom he wrote and in whom he confided from his early manhood till her death in 1903, but whom he rarely met. His correspondence with her has been used in this thesis. The woman who had the most direct influence on Tolstoy during his early formative years was Tatyana Yergolskaya. It was she who not only kept always before him the image of his saintly mother, but who herself became its reflection. It was she who created the warm nest, protecting him from the cold realities of life and making his future adjustment so difficult; who through, her loving self-sacrifice developed his egoism; and who first inspired him to write. Amongst the women with whom Tolstoy fell in love, Valeria Arseniev held a unique position. It was not that she influenced him directly, but indirectly she contributed to his development, in that during his courtship, while weighing the advisability of marriage, Tolstoy crystalized his ideas of what a wife should be, and what role she should play in his life. Valeria fell short of his ideal of womanhood and his conception of a help-mate. He searched elsewhere. The greatest influence on his genius was undoubtedly his wife, Sophia. Having found the woman who, he felt, measured up as closely as possible to his requirements of a self-sacrificing worker, an intellectual companion and literary helper, a loyal, dedicated loving mother, he married in haste. Prom 1862-1877 Sophia's influence was paramount. Believing in her mission, to.be nurse to his genius, she created the atmosphere conducive to his writing; she gave him the stable home life with a large family that he wanted and needed as anchor; she encouraged him to write by her unflagging belief in his talent and her adroit use of flattery, cajolery, and gentle prodding; she made it possible for him to devote all his powers to purely creative work by tirelessly transcribing and intelligently criticizing his work; and she cared for his physical and mental wellbeing by taking off his shoulders, as far as she was able, the weight of mundane matters to do with family, estate, business, and publishing. But even she fell short of the mother-image. In later life the moralist and the seeker transcended the creative artist. Here, Sophia would not, and indeed could not, follow her husband. She could not see the god for the feet of clay. With his last artistic work, Resurrection, her influence ceased and her work ended. She who had been his help-mate in his literary work became his cross in his moral labour. Tolstoy owed a tremendous debt to the women who had influenced his life, but for once, the seer was blind — he could not see the forest for the trees. At seventy-one he said that his opinion of women had been falling for seventy years — this enigmatic statement can be explained. Each woman in his life fell short of his ideal mother-image. / Arts, Faculty of / Central Eastern Northern European Studies, Department of / Graduate

Vortices interacting with the solid surface of aerodynamic bodies are prevalent across a broad range of geometries and applications, such as dynamic stall on wind turbine and helicopter rotors, the separated flows over flapping wings of insects, birds, formation of the vortex wakes of bluff bodies, and the lift-producing vortices formed by aircraft leading-edge extensions and delta wings. This study provides fundamental insights into the formation and evolution of such vortices by considering the leading-edge vortices formed in variations of a canonical flapping wing problem. Specifically, the vorticity transport for three distinct maneuvers are examined, a purely rolling wing, a purely pitching wing and a rolling and pitching wing, of aspect-ratio two. Once the maneuvers are characterized, a passive bleed hole will be introduced to a purely rolling wing, to alter flow topology and vorticity transport governing the circulation on the wing. Three-dimensional representations of the velocity and vorticity fields were obtained via plenoptic particle image velocimetry (PPIV) measurements are used to perform a vorticity flux analysis that serves to identify the sources and sinks of vorticity within the flow. Time-resolved pressure measurements were obtained from the surface of the airfoil, and used to characterize the flux of vorticity diffusing from the solid surface. Upon characterizing all of the sources and sinks of vorticity, the circulation budget was found to be fully accounted for. Interpretation of the individual vorticity balance contributions demonstrated the Coriolis acceleration did not contribute to vorticity generation and was a correction term for the apparent vorticity. The transport characteristics varied among the three cases that were investigated. The spanwise convective contribution was signification over various spanwise locations for the pure roll case. For the pure pitch the shear layer contribution and the diffusive contribution. The circulation was dependent the pitch rate, which was evident only at the beginning of the motion, and circulation growth at later times depended only on the pitch angle.The combined pitch roll cases, the transport behavior strongly resembled that of pitch, with little evidence of roll influence, despite that the flow structure and circulation distribution on the inboard part of the wing exhibited roll-like behaviors. In the final case where the wing is pitching and rolling , the shear layer contribution was balanced by the diffusive contribution, similar to that of the pure pitch case. By adding a passive bleed hole to the purely rolling cases, it was found to alter the both the flow topology and vorticity transport.

Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Études romanes--Paris 4, 2002. / Bibliogr. p. 137-150. Index. PUPS = Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne.

In this paper, I am suggesting that instead of using a traditional definition of cosmopolitanism, such as “thinking and feeling beyond the nation” (Cheah and Robbins) or “pluralism” plus “fallibilism” (Appiah), we consider instead Yale theologian Miroslav Volf’s term “embrace” as the framework for expanding our understanding of cosmopolitanism. This term is linked to standard interpretations of cosmopolitanism through its emphasis on hybridity and openness, but it differs in its undeniably religious implications. By applying Volf’s theoretical framework to concrete literary examples – namely, Lev Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Il’ich and Flannery O’Connor’s “Greenleaf” – it becomes clear that Ivan Il'ich’s and Mrs. May’s identity-shaping (religious) encounters with the “Other” are an opening up – or hybridizing – of their identities. This paper concludes that in Volf’s view, and Tolstoy’s and O’Connor’s as well, religious affinity is an impetus and not a hindrance to cosmopolitanism. / text

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1994. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 174-178).

Diss. : Neuphilologische Fakultät : Heidelberg : 1981, soutenue sous le titre Das bürokratische, labyrinth in Tolstojs "Auferstehung" und Kafkas "Schloss". - Bibliogr. p. 211-220. Index. -