Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / Includes t.p. and text of the 1689 edition of the Lettres. Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

The main objective of this thesis is to study the representation of the mother-daughter relationship in Rue Deschambault and La Route dAltamont, works of Gabrielle Roy. We will present, initially, an overview of the dominant ideological representation of women in the French-Canadian novel before 1945 and then study the manner in which Roy recounts and interprets the experiences of the women of her time. Thus, we will be led to indicate how the representation of Roys female figures reflects a certain transformation of the role of women in French-Canadian literature and society. In the first chapter we will analyze certain aspects of Roys first-person narrative. We will pay particular attention to aspects of the "autobiographical imagination," the representation of the maternal figure and the mother-daughter relationship, and the notion of being part of a "female genealogy". </p> In the second chapter we will reveal how the mother-daughter relationship contains a patriarchal message which encourages the daughter to embrace a certain role within her family. Moreover, we will study the process of awakening which brings the daughter as Roy constructs her to a desire for demarcation and emancipation from the maternal figure.</p>In the final chapter we will study the themes of travel, the mother, and writing in the novels we have been studying. These topics are studied in order to highlight how the themes of travel and writing are related to the theme of the desire to both draw closer to and move away from the mother. They highlight the daughters quest for space and identity of her own through expanding her horizons and affirming the legitimacy of her own imagination and creative processes.</p>We will conclude by affirming that Roy offers fresh perspectives on the representation of the maternal figure and mother-daughter relationships in French-Canadian literature.

The main objective of this thesis is to study the representation of the mother-daughter relationship in Rue Deschambault and La Route dAltamont, works of Gabrielle Roy. We will present, initially, an overview of the dominant ideological representation of women in the French-Canadian novel before 1945 and then study the manner in which Roy recounts and interprets the experiences of the women of her time. Thus, we will be led to indicate how the representation of Roys female figures reflects a certain transformation of the role of women in French-Canadian literature and society. In the first chapter we will analyze certain aspects of Roys first-person narrative. We will pay particular attention to aspects of the "autobiographical imagination," the representation of the maternal figure and the mother-daughter relationship, and the notion of being part of a "female genealogy". </p> In the second chapter we will reveal how the mother-daughter relationship contains a patriarchal message which encourages the daughter to embrace a certain role within her family. Moreover, we will study the process of awakening which brings the daughter as Roy constructs her to a desire for demarcation and emancipation from the maternal figure.</p>In the final chapter we will study the themes of travel, the mother, and writing in the novels we have been studying. These topics are studied in order to highlight how the themes of travel and writing are related to the theme of the desire to both draw closer to and move away from the mother. They highlight the daughters quest for space and identity of her own through expanding her horizons and affirming the legitimacy of her own imagination and creative processes.</p>We will conclude by affirming that Roy offers fresh perspectives on the representation of the maternal figure and mother-daughter relationships in French-Canadian literature.

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<p>This study was an attempt to replicate the positive results of a precognitive habituation (PH) experiment devised by Bem (2003). The procedure is based on the subliminal mere exposure (SME) design. In an SME procedure subjects are exposed to image-pairs in a preference task, after being exposed to one of those images (the target) subliminally. The target is preferred significantly more often due to the mere exposure effect. In the PH procedure the preference task precedes the exposure and images are of negative and erotic valence. It was hypothesized that due to exposure (in the future), subject preference will increase for negative and decrease for the erotic target images, especially for subjects classified erotically or negatively reactive (Bem, 2003). Also, that an overall (negative and erotic) effect would be shown. The results were not significantly above chance expectation for any of the hypotheses (50.0%; 47.2%, p = .149; 50.8%, p = .279).</p>

Babyschema är ett fysionomiskt fenomen som innefattar infantila särdrag såsom stor ögon- och huvudform i kombination med liten näsa och haka. Utseendet kan ses hos digitala karaktärer i moderna spel och filmer vilket kan ha en psykologisk effekt hos betraktaren då exponering bevisats influera preferenser. Studien ämnar att utreda uppfattningen av ansikten med babyschema och om visuell exponering kan påverka dessa uppfattningar. Undersökningen utfördes på 70 testdeltagare, där ansikten med varierande grader av babyschema presenterades före och efter exponering innehållande karaktärer med babyschema eller realistiska proportioner. Resultaten indikerar att exponering för babyschema i viss utsträckning resulterar i en positiv förskjutning hos deltagarnas uppfattningar däremot hade exponering ingen positiv inverkan på deltagarnas respons till extrem babyschema. Framtida arbeten skulle kunna undersöka babyschema applicerat på manliga och kvinnliga karaktärer i en spelmiljö. I en förlängning kan studier inom ämnet syfta till att upplysa kreatörer om karaktärsdesign och dess möjliga påverkan på samhället.

Diese Dissertation untersucht die Ausbildung motorischer Verarbeitungsflüssigkeit bei verbalen Stimuli, welche als Ursache für die Entstehung des Mere-Exposure Effekts angesehen wird. Ziel war es herauszufinden, ob eine Bewegung der Zunge, die external mittels Elektrostimulation verursacht wurde, Einfluss auf den Mere-Exposure Effekt ausübt. Des Weiteren wurde untersucht, ob der Effekt unter Elektrostimulation und gleichzeitiger Störung der Afferenz mittels Lokalanästhesie auftritt. Ergebnis dieser Studie war, dass der Mere-Exposure Effekt in der Gesamtstichprobe mit N = 68 Probanden nachzuweisen war. Eine bloße Motorinterferenz der Zunge ist demnach nicht der entscheidende Faktor für die Ausbildung von Fluency. Auch eine Ausschaltung der Afferenz mittels Anästhesie bei N = 37 Probanden konnte den Effekt nicht eliminieren und scheint somit keinen maßgeblichen Einfluss auf Fluency für verbale Stimuli zu haben. / This thesis investigates the occurrence of motor processing fluency in verbal stimuli, which is considered to be responsible for the development of the mere exposure effect. The target was to find out, if a movement of the tongue muscles, caused externally by electrostimulation, has an impact on the mere exposure effect. Furthermore, it was investigated whether the effect occurs during electrostimulation and concomitant interference of the afference by means of local anesthesia. The result of this study was that the mere exposure effect was to be detected in the total sample with N = 68 subjects. Thus, mere movement of the tongue muscles is not the deciding factor in the formation of fluency. Moreover, it was shown that the elimination of the afference by anesthesia in N = 37 subjects could not obliterate the effect and therefore does not seem to have a significant influence on fluency.

This study was an attempt to replicate the positive results of a precognitive habituation (PH) experiment devised by Bem (2003). The procedure is based on the subliminal mere exposure (SME) design. In an SME procedure subjects are exposed to image-pairs in a preference task, after being exposed to one of those images (the target) subliminally. The target is preferred significantly more often due to the mere exposure effect. In the PH procedure the preference task precedes the exposure and images are of negative and erotic valence. It was hypothesized that due to exposure (in the future), subject preference will increase for negative and decrease for the erotic target images, especially for subjects classified erotically or negatively reactive (Bem, 2003). Also, that an overall (negative and erotic) effect would be shown. The results were not significantly above chance expectation for any of the hypotheses (50.0%; 47.2%, p = .149; 50.8%, p = .279).

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