This study proposes to demonstrate that the Platonic doctrine of the ennobling power of love is of paramount importance in a number of Shakespeare's plays. This study has been limited to the three love tragedies because in them the ennobling power of love is a major theme, affecting both the characters and the plot structure. The plays to be studied are Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, and Antony and Cleopatra.

Adèle Hugo est née entre deux révolutions, l’une littéraire, l’autre politique. La dernière-née Hugo a été annoncée par son père comme « un ouvrage promettant de vivre ». Nous nous sommes laissés enseigner par la position subjective de la jeune femme et nous avons pu repérer comment à partir de cette inscription, assignation en tant qu’objet, Adèle s’estconstruite. Sa vie fut marquée de ruptures, la première se fit à sa naissance, la séparation de ses parents ; puis ce fut le mariage et le décès de sa soeur ; et enfin l’exil, celui imposé par son père, puis les siens. Adèle qui n’était pas la préférée d’aucun de ses parents a tout mis en oeuvre pour devenir, elle aussi « la fille exceptionnelle » de cet homme hors ducommun. En vain. C’est en écrivant, dans une « langue nouvelle » qu’elle confie ses états d’âme. Son écrit, travail de la lettre lui permet de maintenir une existence presque normale, jusqu’au jour où elle a rencontré le lieutenant Pinson et que sa soeur par la pratique spirite lui dicta sa conduite : « ma soeur, aime-le ! » / Adèle Hugo was born between two revolutions : the literary one and the political one known as The French Revolution. The last-born, she has been introduced by her father as « a work promising to live ». We learnt thanks to Adèle how a fore-written inscription, this ascription as an object, determined the young woman’s subjective position; therefore,we have been able to see her psychic construction. Her life had been marked by many breaks. The first one, at birth, her parents get assunder ; the second was the mariage and the death of her sister, then the imposed exile by her father, and at last her own exiles. Adèle who was not the favorite daugther, made all her best to become « the exceptional daugther » of this extraordinary man. To no avail. Writing in « a new langage », she consignes her spirit. Her writing, work of the letter, allowed her to have a nearly normal life, till the day she met Leutenant Pinson ; her sister, through spiritism told her « mysister, love him ! »

Magíster en Ciencias, Mención Geofísica / En el presente trabajo se estudia la estimación de estructuras de velocidad unidimensionales de onda de corte mediante el análisis de ondas internas SH refractadas e independientemente de ondas super ciales Love, ambas, muchas veces presentes en un mismo registro sísmico multicanal. El método de ondas super ciales Love permite determinar un modelo de velocidad mediante la modelación de curvas de dispersión, mientras que el método de refracción sísmica SH se basa en la modelación de las primeras llegadas de las ondas SH, correspondientes a las ondas de cuerpo refractadas en cada una de las capas del medio. Se desarrolló la metodología completa para obtener un modelo de velocidad desde el registro de ondas super ciales Love. Este proceso incluye el cálculo de curvas de dispersión teóricas desde un modelo de velocidad; el cálculo de curvas de dispersión empíricas desde registros sísmicos reales o sintéticos; y fi nalmente la modelación de estas curvas por prueba y error para la determinación de la estructura de velocidad de onda de corte en profundidad. El objetivo final es comparar la metodología desarrollada con el método de refracción sísmica aplicado a ondas de cuerpo SH, discutiendo las ventajas y desventajas de cada uno con respecto a la estimación de velocidades. Si bien estos métodos se basan en el análisis de distintas porciones del mismo registro sísmico, ambos buscan el mismo resultado, y es por lo tanto natural compararlos. La aplicación de los dos métodos mencionados se desarrolló sobre datos sísmicos reales correspondientes a ondas SH generadas y registradas mediante una fuente y receptores horizontales. La modelación de las curvas de dispersión teóricas versus experimentales indicó gran sensibilidad de estas a las propiedades del medio en las capas super ciales (primeros metros) y una sensibilidad descendiente en profundidad, probablemente debido a la ausencia de datos en bajas frecuencias (< 10 Hz). Por otra parte, el método de refracción sísmica muestra resultados consistentes con los del método de ondas super ciales Love, pero alcanzando mayores profundidades con mayor certeza. La utilización de los métodos mencionados puede llevarse a cabo complementariamente, aprovechando las ventajas de cada uno para disminuir las incertezas en los modelos de velocidad resultantes. Además, ambos métodos podrían ser empleados adicionalmente a estudios sísmicos enfocados a conocer la estructura de la velocidad compresional P en profundidad, obteniendo una estructura de velocidades bien determinada.

THE BLIND ARCADE is a collection of poems chronicling several of the pressing conditions of contemporary American life: poverty and class, sex, violence, hunger, longing and mourning, and the inverse of the latter, requited love and emotional ecstasy. The poems are set in crowded markets, on trains and in apartment bedrooms, city squares and campus quads, dentist chairs, bridges, riverbanks, and kitchens. This contemporary and familiar backdrop dictates the form of most of these poems to be free verse, although terza rima, ekphrastic, haiku, and prose forms are also utilized. The book presents its poems in three sections. As if a series of decorative arches in a blind arcade, they are not broken down into themes. Rather, they are each utilized and are ordered around the weight of their individual topics to demonstrate the capriciousness of life.

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This dissertation provides a comparative study of letters and digital media as infrastructures of modern Chinese romance. It examines young Chinese lovers’ experiences with digital media in comparison with their forebears’ experiences with love letters in order to understand how the increased ease of communication shapes Chinese romantic relating. Based on historical documents and in-depth interviews, this dissertation argues that the Internet and mobile technology augment Chinese lovers’ capacities to contact each other over distance, to express emotions that are restrained by conventions, and to create private alcoves in public places. These augmented capacities alter various boundaries in and around romantic relationship and intensify Chinese lovers’ negotiation between individuality and relationship, between disclosure and concealment, and between the public and private realms of life. Specifically, young Chinese lovers are better able to maintain a continual sense of togetherness but have more difficulty protecting personal boundaries and being alone. They find it easier to articulate feelings that are untoward in face-to-face speech, but they also find it harder to prove the sincerity of love in text and to avoid confrontation in impulsive message exchange. They have more access to a private space, albeit virtual, and more chances to publicize their romantic lives, but by doing so they also contribute to diminished sociality in offline public spaces and have to rely on the kindness of strangers for privacy more than ever before. For young Chinese lovers, digital media promise the freedoms that are regulated and controlled by social institutions in their offline worlds, but seeking these freedoms via digital media poses chges to their relationships with themselves, with each other, and with the larger social and public worlds they live in. These chges for romantic relating, as this dissertation argues, manifest the problems of the physical and the material while digital media facilitate spiritual contact over distance. The boundaries of personal accessibility are rooted in the limitation of human attention and ultimately in human mortality; the problem of sincerity in verbalized love lies in the difficulty of invoking deeds as the culturally preferred signifier of love; private nooks in public spaces are problematic both because bodily presence in physical locales entails expectations of sociality and because information storage in virtual venues requires a material apparatus that is beyond the control of individuals. As digital media reduce physical distance as the obstacle to lovers’ spiritual contact, they also intensify the tension between the spiritual and the physical aspects of communication and relationships. Overall, this dissertation provides a tripartite approach to the study of mediation and sociality based on three dimensions of communication: contact, content, and context. It emphasizes the importance of examining the ways in which communication media enable individuals to connect with each other, to express themselves, and to privatize or publicize their relationships. This approach provides a holistic understanding of how media shape modern sociality and how that mediation contributes to the shift of social boundaries and changes in social etiquette. In addition, this study enriches the current understanding of emerging media, particularly personal communication technologies (PCTs), as a social-technological combination, and proposes the study of the combination in plural and contradictory forms. Methodologically, it suggests the significance of studying both the symbolic and material aspects of mediated communication and of examining various modes, modalities, and genres of mediated communication as the locale where the material channels of media and the symbolic meanings of interaction intersect.

by Isabel Landreth Perkins / Typescript / M.A. Florida State College for Women 1935 / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-138)

abstract: Moral philosophy should create concepts and formulate arguments to articulate and assess the statements and behaviors of the morally devoted and the traditions (such as religious and ethical systems) founded by the morally devoted. Many moral devotees and their traditions advocate love as the ideal to live by. Therefore, moral philosophy needs an account of love as an ideal. I define an ideal as an instrument for organizing a life and show that this definition is more adequate than previous definitions. Ideals can be founded on virtues, and I show that love is a virtue. I define love as a composite attitude whose elements are benevolence, consideration, perception of moment (importance or significance), and receptivity. I define receptivity as the ability to be with someone without imposing careless or compulsive expectations. I argue that receptivity curbs the excesses and supplements the defects of the other elements. Love as an ideal is often understood as universal love. However, there are three problems with universal love: it could be too demanding, it could prevent intimacy and special relationships, and it could require a person to love their abuser. I argue that love can be extended to all human beings without posing unacceptable risks, once love is correctly defined and the ideal correctly understood. Because of the revelations of ecology and the ongoing transformation of sensibilities about the value of the nonhuman, love should be extended to the nonhuman. I argue that love can be given to the nonhuman in the same way it is to the human, with appropriate variations. But how much of the nonhuman would an ideal direct one to love? I argue for two limits to universal love: it does not make sense to extend it to nonliving things, and it can be extended to all living things. I show that loving all living things does not depend on whether they can reciprocate, and I argue that it would not prevent one from living a recognizably human life. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Philosophy 2020

The purpose of this essay is to investigate the protagonist and narrator in Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyre, it explores how Jane to a certain extent both represents and challenges the norms set by the Victorian society since it was during this time that the novel was published. By taking a closer look at the novel in relation to Victorian society’s norms and ideals the essay will show that the conflict that Jane faces in the novel is between love, feeling and passion versus religious norms and principles. By highlighting these conflicts, the essay presents evidence that the protagonist Jane often shows a feminist sentiment. However, her actions often contradict these sentiments which creates a complexity that I hope this essay will explore.

This study aims to better understand tough love as a communication interaction, specifically focusing on defining and understand tough love from a receiver’s perspective. Thirteen respondents between the ages of 18-28 were recruited from a mid-sized Midwestern university. Flexible in-depth interviews were conducted given the exploratory nature of this study. Lazarus’ Appraisal Theory was used as a lens to better understand tough love as a process. Analysis of the data found that emotions in the primary appraisal phase are often negative, with codes such as hurt, angry, and embarrassed arising in the data. The secondary phase demonstrated the intentionality of this message, with respondents understanding the purpose of tough love as encouraging resilience or teaching a lesson. Reappraisals often occurred when respondents realized the message was tough love. Relational factors such as closeness and authority were determinants in whether this message was received positively or negatively.