Lucy Snowe, the heroine of <i>Villette</i>, Charlotte Brontës final novel, is in constant conflict with the dichotomies of patriarchal culture. As she is perpetually torn between the opposing forces of patriarchy, Lucy Snowe inhabits what she calls her own <i>still shadow-world</i> (Brontë164). This thesis explains the nature of the intermediate space Lucy Snowe occupies and examines its repercussions on her mental state. Chapter One theorizes the effect of patriarchal dichotomies on Lucy Snowe to demonstrate that her mental conflict has its roots in the female experience of the opposition between nature and culture. Chapter Twos analysis of the nineteenth-century medical understanding of madness shows that Lucy Snowes melancholy is a symptom of the intermediacy created by conflicting patriarchal expectations. Chapter Three compares Lucy Snowe to the female figure in patriarchal master narratives, which draws attention to the serious consequences of patriarchal culture on women and demonstrates that Lucy is representative of women in conflict with patriarchal expectations. Ultimately, as part of Charlotte Brontës endeavor to represent truth rather than reality, Villette challenges patriarchal expectations of women and presents a different vision of womanhood.

L'expérience ALICE au LHC va étudier dès 2010 le plasma de quarks et de gluons (QGP), état de la matière dans lequel les quarks et les gluons sont déconfinés. Le travail présenté ici a été effectué au sein de la collaboration ALICE, dans le but de préparer l'analyse des futures données expérimentales. Outre une approche théorique du QGP et de la symétrie chirale, nous y développons trois aspects expérimentaux : le sous-détecteur V0, l'étude des mésons de basses masses et la déconvolution. Tout d'abord, nous détaillons les mesures de luminosité et de multiplicité réalisables avec le V0. Ensuite, nous développons l'étude des dimuons dans le spectromètre à muons. Nous nous concentrons en particulier sur les mésons de basses masses : le rho, le omega et le phi. Enfin, nous présentons une façon d'améliorer les données du spectromètre : la déconvolution de Richardson-Lucy.

This essay discusses rape and silence in J.M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace, with focus on how and why the characters Melanie and Lucy are silenced after being raped. Paying special attention to gender and race, as well as the novel’s South African context, an attempt is made to consider how rape is represented in Disgrace, and how this representation is related to the silence of Melanie and Lucy. The discussion’s theoretical framework is based on feminist theories on sexual violence and rape, as well as theory on cultural scripts, sexual scripts, and rape myths. This essay finds that the rapes in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace are representations of South Africa’s inverted racial power structures, and its traditional gender structures; structures that contribute to silencing Melanie and Lucy. This essay argues that Coetzee has deliberately activated South African cultural scripts in the text in an attempt to expose problematic viewpoints regarding gender and race in society, as well as in the reader.

Lucy Snowe, the heroine of <i>Villette</i>, Charlotte Brontës final novel, is in constant conflict with the dichotomies of patriarchal culture. As she is perpetually torn between the opposing forces of patriarchy, Lucy Snowe inhabits what she calls her own <i>still shadow-world</i> (Brontë164). This thesis explains the nature of the intermediate space Lucy Snowe occupies and examines its repercussions on her mental state. Chapter One theorizes the effect of patriarchal dichotomies on Lucy Snowe to demonstrate that her mental conflict has its roots in the female experience of the opposition between nature and culture. Chapter Twos analysis of the nineteenth-century medical understanding of madness shows that Lucy Snowes melancholy is a symptom of the intermediacy created by conflicting patriarchal expectations. Chapter Three compares Lucy Snowe to the female figure in patriarchal master narratives, which draws attention to the serious consequences of patriarchal culture on women and demonstrates that Lucy is representative of women in conflict with patriarchal expectations. Ultimately, as part of Charlotte Brontës endeavor to represent truth rather than reality, Villette challenges patriarchal expectations of women and presents a different vision of womanhood.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2003. / Bibliography: leaves 226-236.

L'expérience ALICE au LHC va étudier dès 2010 le plasma de quarks et de gluons (QGP), état de la matière dans lequel les quarks et les gluons sont déconfinés. Le travail présenté ici a été effectué au sein de la collaboration ALICE, dans le but de préparer l'analyse des futures données expérimentales. Outre une approche théorique du QGP et de la symétrie chirale, nous y développons trois aspects expérimentaux : le sous-détecteur V0, l'étude des mésons de basses masses et la déconvolution. Tout d'abord, nous détaillons les mesures de luminosité et de multiplicité réalisables avec le V0. Ensuite, nous développons l'étude des dimuons dans le spectromètre à muons. Nous nous concentrons en particulier sur les mésons de basses masses : le rho, le omega et le phi. Enfin, nous présentons une façon d'améliorer les données du spectromètre : la déconvolution de Richardson-Lucy. / The ALICE experiment at LHC will study from 2010 the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), phase of the matter in which quarks and gluons are deconfined. The work presented here was done within the ALICE collaboration, for preparing the analysis of the incoming experimental data. Besides a theoretical approach of the QGP and of the chiral symmetry, we develop three experimental aspects: the V0 sub-detector, the study of the low mass mesons and the deconvolution. First, we detail the measures of luminosity and multiplicity that can be done with the V0. We then develop the study of the dimuons in the muon spectometer. We concentrate on the low masses mesons: the rho, the omega and the phi. Finally, we present a method for improving the spectrometer data: the Richardson-Lucy deconvolution.

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