Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2004. / Adviser: Roger I. Simon.

Thesis (M.A.I.S.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-112). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Queensland, 2003. / Includes bibliography.

xiii, 119 p. : ill. (some col.) / Airstream brand travel trailers from the 1950s and 60s have developed a subculture dedicated to their preservation and use. This subculture serves as a case study for how nostalgia, defined in a postmodern context, may promote preservation and creative communion with the past. After examining criticisms of preservation’s focus on material integrity, the discussion focuses on the need to factor user-based relationships into historic preservation. A postmodern reexamination of nostalgia defines it not merely as a longing for the past but also as a form of social critique which seeks to mitigate modernity with the past. Mid-century Airstream preservation reflects a desire to revive specific, positive values of the past in order to ameliorate the future and form temporal continuity. For the mid-century Airstream subculture, nostalgia fosters both restoration and recreation, allowing for an iconic emblem of the past to function in the present rather than fade into obsolescence. / Committee in charge: Dr. Leland Roth, Chairperson; Elizabeth Carter, Member

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, 2016. / Submitted by Albânia Cézar de Melo (albania@bce.unb.br) on 2016-06-20T14:00:25Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_LudimilaMoreiraMenezes.PDF: 1496991 bytes, checksum: 4b17a3aee1c37ebd1aa7227ac2b35f10 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marília Freitas(marilia@bce.unb.br) on 2016-07-30T11:48:44Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_LudimilaMoreiraMenezes.PDF: 1496991 bytes, checksum: 4b17a3aee1c37ebd1aa7227ac2b35f10 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-30T11:48:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_LudimilaMoreiraMenezes.PDF: 1496991 bytes, checksum: 4b17a3aee1c37ebd1aa7227ac2b35f10 (MD5) / Ao narrar os infortúnios de uma família acossada pela decadência, Lúcio Cardoso em Crônica da casa assassinada alcança o que nesse estudo se qualifica como textopensamento, grandeza artística em que o escritor alcança capacidade de revelação equivalente ou superior ao que é considerado como exclusivo da seara da filosofia. Perfazendo-se sob o signo de Lázaro, em tempos de miasmas, Crônica da casa assassinada, em sua estrutura e plasticidade, composto em linguagem incansável de longos apelos, traz em suas potências anti-humanistas e malditas uma força outra que a da literatura brasileira consagrada em compêndios escolares e cânones que almejam a redenção do humano. _________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / As it narrates the misfortunes of a family hounded by decadence, Lúcio Cardoso, in Crônica da casa assassinada, reaches what this study qualifies as thought-text, an artistic greatness in which the writer reaches the capacity of revelation equivalent or superior to what is considered exclusive to philosophy. Through the sign of Lazarus, in times of miasmas, Crônica da casa assassinada, in its structure and plasticity, composed in indefatigable language of long appeals, brings in its anti-humanist and damned powers a strength that is different from most of the canonical texts of Brazilian literature, transmitted in the schoolbooks, which aim at the redemption of the human being. _________________________________________________________________________________________ RÉSUMÉ / À travers de la narration des malheurs d‘une famille frappée par la déchéance, Lúcio Cardoso atteint ce que dans cette étude se qualifie comme texte-pensée, grandeur artistique par laquelle l'auteur se montre capable d‘un niveau de révélation équivalente ou supérieure à ce que l‘on considère le champ exclusive de la philosophie. En se constituant sous le signe de Lázaro, en temps de miasmes, Crônica da casa assassinada, en termes de sa structure et plasticité, écrit en langage inépuisable de longs appels, montre à travers de ses pouvoirs anti-humanistes et maudits une force autre que celle de la littérature brésilienne consacrée dans les compendiums scolaires et canons qui ont pour but la rédemption de l'humain.

M.A. / New job and study opportunities were created for many people because of political changes in South Africa. This implied that many people left their homes and moved to new areas. Research indicated that 60% to 70% of first year students suffered from homesickness during their first semester at university. For some of them it was only a light experience; for others it was an intense negative experience with serious social-, academic-, and financial implications which could result in illness or even death. The role of salutogenic factors (factors that contribute to health) in the occurrence of homesickness, experienced by Afrikaans- and English speaking male and female first year students at the Rand Afrikaans Universiy, was investigated. It was found that the experience of homesickness was diminished by the salutogenic factors "sense of coherence", "self-efficacy", learned resourcefulness" and social support. These factors thus contributed to health. The factor "hardiness" did not play a salutogenic role in this study. Although the multicultural context of South Africa was not taken into account, the study should be useful in identifying students who would be prone to homesickness and illness during their first year at university.

Artificiality, as a manifestation of the pursuit of escape, saturates the city and landscapes of Johannesburg. It is the narrative from which the city spawned, constructs and relentlessly perpetuates itself. This first artificial landscape is the materialization of escape, the synthetic, nostalgic reproduction of the known. Brixton cemetery is nostalgic remnant existing in Johannesburg. Looming in a state suspended animation, it is an embodiment of the amnesic material and urban blight which pervades the city, created from desire to escape. The nostalgic artificiality inherent in this cemetery (produced by the desire to escape), in dire need of intervention, holds the material which unlocks the method for its reanimation. The project investigates how architecture, as a second artificial landscape, can occupy the amnesic gap inherent in the nostalgic remnant to reanimate the conditions present in the cemetery and the nostalgic forest. This is accomplished through an architectural insertion which appropriates the physical, nostalgic, metaphysical and mythological layers of escape embodied in the cemetery as the strategy for intervention. The project further investigates a new burial typology which functions by either the prevention or acceptance of the inevitable amnesic condition caused by memorialization. A Bioluminescent Conservatory is proposed to reanimate the forest through the artificiality of escape, while the addition of a columbarium serves to expand and reoccupy the cemetery. Conceptually, the projects investigates how the narrative of escape can further be absorbed into the architecture through the artificiality inherent in the cemetery’s material. The idea of negative as an artificial reproduction is adopted as a conceptual strategy for intervention and articulation of the architecture. The negative as conceptual framework is explored through the artistic work of Christian Boltanski who’s work painfully reveals the treachery of memory and memorialization, but also finally signifies the potentiality inherent in this amnesic inevitability to redeem, reoccupy and recreate from this gap. The cemetery and forest are reanimated by disconfiguring the mechanism of escape and the conditions which it instilled in the cemetery. / Mini Dissertation MArch (Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2018. / Architecture / MArch (Prof) / Unrestricted

<p> Studies of children in Canadian fiction have tended to be very general, and often label the individual characters as certain "types" of literary children, already familiar to the reader. By far the most popular and common type of child in twentieth-century Canadian fiction is the pastoral child, who plays an integral role in the literature's nostalgic focus on memory, the past and a Romantic communion with nature. The treatment of the use and effect of this pastoral child, however, has been superficial and tentative. Numerous articles on the individual characters exist, but an attempt to tie together these· pastoral children in an extended and detailed study is lacking. </p> <p> The Romantic child, as established by Wordsworth, provides a logical and effective source and focus for a study of this group of pastoral children in Canadian fiction. The pastoral or Romantic child in Canadian fiction is a descendant of the Wordsworthian child, and enjoys an active and participatory relationship with nature. The relationship epitomizes the imagination and vision which are lacking in the child's society. This child is not merely "pastoral" in a nostalgic sense, but plays a role as society's critic, opponent and mitigator. The large gulf between the sublime nature and the insular society of twentieth-century Canada is bridged to some extent and in some fashion by this Romantic child. The onus on the Canadian Romantic child is to invest society with the imagination and vision he or she derives from nature. </p> <p> The development of the Romantic child in Canadian fiction stresses the Wordsworthian concept of the imagination transforming the common and concrete object. Such an approach refutes accusations of sentimentality and false nostalgia which often surround the pastoral child. A close examination of the actual process involved in the child's Wordsworthian communion with the natural world reveals and accentuates the importance of the child's vision and imagination in a society which seldom values such qualities. Such an examination also ties together these various characters, providing a means by which to define and study the uniquely Canadian Romantic child.</p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Literary and Cultural Studies / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / English Studies / Master / Master of Arts